Brydon

BSU alum. Alt high school English teacher. Freelance writer. formerly @arbiteronline @rgsun @idahocapitalsun views do not represent that of my employer etc

[Brydon @BrydonBlack]

Recently wrote about the US Army falling short on their 2022 recruiting goals. I spoke with a spokesperson for Army recruitment as well as retired LTC for the US Army Special Forces, Jason Amerine. Check it out:

https://t.co/4RuUFF92R9

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

Netanyahu in English: We are at war with Hezbollah, we are not at war with the Lebanese people.

His National Security Minister in Hebrew:

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

I can't wait for the world to realize that stadiums in the USA are called like the Doritos CryptoScam Raytheon Thunderdome

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze dies at Winn. Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested.

https://t.co/ei9rrqoeFK

[Reuters @Reuters]

Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. Some now carry weapons and live in constant fear https://t.co/nYQ8PA2yRW @specialreports

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

$824 million of Florida taxpayer funding spent to run Alligator Alcatraz for a year before shutting it down, a price more than Florida spent on three hurricanes from 2022-2024.

The per-person cost appears to have been dramatically more than ICE itself spends on detention.

[Guy Oron @GuyOron]

BREAKING: Cuban immigrant and hunger strike leader Rogelio Bolufé has been deported by ICE to Ecuador. He was a key organizer of hunger strikes at detention centers in Torrance County, NM and Tacoma, WA, and helped found the group Unión de Secuestrados por ICE.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️CBS News has fired veteran journalist Scott Pelley, one of the network’s most prominent reporters and a longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, according to The New York Times.

Pelley was terminated a day after a tense staff meeting in which he accused CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of “murdering ‘60 Minutes’” following the removal of the program’s leadership and multiple on-air correspondents. Pelley had worked at CBS since 1989.

[Nicholas M. Kimani @SankarasLawyer]

Incase people don’t connect the dots, he’s talking about helping Angola fight Apartheid South Africa.

[Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek]

the washington post cut hundreds of reporters so that it could instead invest in the worst video podcast you've ever seen https://t.co/GqpQVYP4eB

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Patriotic factions within Bolivia's military have confirmed:

- US Embassy has ordered Bolivian govt to declare martial law to break the strikes

- Embassy has told President Paz: "We can't lose Bolivia"

- Bolivia's cabinet is divided, some don't want to implement the US orders

[Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled]

If Bolivia was still run by socialists targeted by Langley and Foggy Bottom for regime-change, the usual western media-NGO-human rights networks would activate to flood our brains with “Save the Bolivian People!” But since this is capitalism doing its usual repression—crickets

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is amazing: “According to public statements, it's believed that delegation members stayed at a hotel the U.S. State Department has put on a "Cuba Restricted List," as businesses directly tied to the communist government of Cuba, designated a state sponsor of terrorism.”

We stayed at a legal hotel. This whole thing seems to stem from an erroneous viral tweet.

Know who did actually stay at a sanctioned hotel? Nick Shirley.

We know because he broadcast from it and told everyone he stayed there.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Independent journalist Ed Augustin reports from Havana and describes the "harrowing" humanitarian crisis gripping Cuba amid the intensified U.S. blockade. "Many people now are just eating one meal a day," says @EdAugReporter.

[ProPublica @propublica]

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.

In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.

This is how he did it (published 2021):
https://t.co/ebyZZXlM3j

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — released in full by Drop Site.

The classified document, known as a cypher, shows that State Department diplomats had threatened in 2022 that Pakistan would suffer greatly if Khan remained in office, but that “all would be forgiven” if he were removed in a no-confidence vote.

The Biden administration was infuriated over Khan’s refusal to grant rights for U.S. drone bases in Pakistan, as well as his neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine war.

@MazMHussain | @ryangrim | @worqas

🔗 Read the full story at Drop Site News

[Financial Times @FT]

US tax authorities will be barred from pursuing claims against the president, his eldest sons and the Trump Organization under a deal to halt a $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. https://t.co/UTiZF44UqA

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

Thomas Massie was the only member of the House to vote against a resolution affirming Israel’s right to exist and declaring that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. (AOC voted yes)

[Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand]

Exclusive: Earlier this spring, a mysterious explosion blew up a car carrying an alleged cartel operative in broad daylight, on one of Mexico’s busiest highways, just outside of its capital city.

It was a targeted assassination facilitated by CIA ops officers on the ground.

Since last year, CIA operatives inside Mexico have directly participated in deadly attacks on several, mostly mid-level cartel members—a lethal campaign that's gone largely unnoticed.

Me with @ZcohenCNN @evanperez and Mauricio Torres:

https://t.co/tRd27b5JJE

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴President Trump threatens Iran with a nuclear holocaust: “If there’s no ceasefire… you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran. They better sign the agreement fast… If they don’t sign, they’re going to have a lot of pain.”