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Matt Browner Hamlin

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Director of Strategy, Systems & Insights for Greenpeace International // Arsenal fan & creator of the Arsenal+ & #Arsenal on BlueSky feeds

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · Nov 9

I am still withholding making big conclusions about the election losses this week. As I process, I’m finding some articles resonating with me more than others. While I’m not I’m not sold on 100% of everything here, I wanted to share some pieces I’ve found compelling. 🧵

@ositanwanevu.bsky.social

The long Obama era is over | Osita Nwanevu

The Democrats must learn to speak to voters who don’t believe in the politics of old and aren’t interested in returning to it

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 10h

Which one?

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 10h

Better yet

A pin with the text “every man a king - share our wealth society”

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 10h

Worse Sorkin: Aaron or Aaron Ross?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h

I think Zohran is great and inspiring and much needed right now, but all he's doing is like the job as it's supposed to be. Starts with a set of principles and advocates for them. It's like how everyone goes crazy for Chotiner for just doing the job. Not an indictment on either of them but the rest.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 12h

Not sure how they could pick anyone else when he had “Mowed the White House lawn” on his CV

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Single issue voter who’s issue is the aggressive criminal prosecution of crimes done by Trump admin officials from 2025-2028

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Don’t tell him about the orcs Jon!

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Source

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

This is it right here:

Think about it this way. Either what Trump is doing is legal, or it is illegal.
If it is legal, then Trumpism must be defeated and there then must be a concerted effort to reform the law-and possibly even the Constitution-to prevent the next authoritarian attempt.
If it is illegal, then eventually, someone has to go to jail for what this
administration is doing to the country.
If this story doesn't end with one of those two outcomes, then we will see it replayed again. And again.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

Project 2029:

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

One thing is clear - no elected Democrat is going to be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize for their protection of democracy in this country any time soon

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

boy it would be nice to have an opposition party reacting to this in a way that suggests there’s going to be justice for it someday

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Glad to see Russ Vought is setting himself up to go to jail when accountability starts.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

I'm so old, I remember when rightwing militias fed on conspiracy theories of the US Government ceding federal lands to the UN all over the west.

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

schmucks really is the perfect word for them

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

So you're saying at this rate, Arsenal could end up conceding about 15 goals this season?

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

DOGE is now running CBS News

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Travis Waldron @traviswaldron.bsky.social · 1d

For Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right.

The problem is that in Argentina -- a nation with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts -- those things have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bessent’s Big Gamble on Argentina Has a Narrow Road to Pay Off

For Scott Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right – things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

I thought VAR was brought in by Norway to deal with situations like this - a President aggressively trying to start a hot civil war in his own country *not* getting the Nobel Peace Prize. How can the on-field decision stand??

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

A democracy activist in a repressive regime is more worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize than the man responsible for taking away lifesaving medicine that will lead to the death of millions of people? Not for me, Clive.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

The guy starving millions of children across the majority world didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize? Woke nonsense.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

The guy blowing up speed boats in the Caribbean didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize? Game’s gone.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

It’s sad I’m only able to cancel my subscription once and that happened long ago