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Matt Browner Hamlin

@mattbh.com

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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 · 8h

It’s been a shortcut on my phone/computer for years

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 13h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 9h

Holy shit that cast

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 13h

I am once again asking news outlets to remind Turning Point “USA” that Puerto Rico is part of the United States

Turning Point USA will host rival to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show

One of its music genre choices was "anything in English."

www.axios.com

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 16h

A friend of mine in college went to work for API straight out of school & he was always preaching back then that oil & gas companies would be the first in line to push renewables, so they could continue to hold the energy markets. Boy, did that not happen!

Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy

Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...

www.nature.com

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 16h

The CEO of Turning Point USA said she "forgave" her husband's alleged killer, but now TPUSA is literally hounding @mark-bray.bsky.social out of the country for being opposed to fascism & conducting academic research on anti-fascist movements

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 18h

If we flirted with a relegation scrap, they were engaged to one last year

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

What explanation did the airline give???

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

This is insane.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Basically yes

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 2d

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

www.cnn.com

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

But…the future

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Whatever happened to Apple Vision Pros? Did people get tired of being made fun of or what?

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Massive appreciation for @theoatmeal.bsky.social's take on AI "art."

My only quibble is that I don't think we have to accept job losses to AI as inevitable.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

This is excellent from @brianbeutler.bsky.social & captures a lot of what I'm sensing in the first year of Trump's second term

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

open.substack.com

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

It’s 2025 & change dot org is still happy to be a tool for the right. Wild.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

I’m sorry, a what now?

A Change.org petition calling for the termination of Bray's employment at Rutgers came Thursday, several weeks after Kirk - the founder of Turning Point USA - was shot to death by a sniper on 10 September.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

On the farewell tour that is

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

I saw it in a random town in suburban CT, which was still cool!

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

It’s mostly media!

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

Murder By Death

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 2d

This is so good from @lopatto.bsky.social

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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