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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 · 46m

But…the future

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1h

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 · 3h

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.

theoatmeal.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 5h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 22h

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 · 20h

On the farewell tour that is

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 20h

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

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 21h

It’s mostly media!

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 21h

Murder By Death

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

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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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Building an addition on it, per reporting today

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

There is going to have to be an accounting of the damage Aaron Sorkin has done to peoples' brains if we're ever going to turn this country around

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

If people are starting to complain about the atmosphere at Arsenal’s stadium now, a season or two at Wembley would be a disaster.

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Just have Arteta say, “We can’t build a bigger stadium today, because of woke,” & within hours Starmer will role out an anti-woke Labour programme that allows Arsenal to build as big as they want.

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Really makes you wonder how Yaya Sanogo - chaotic, dynamic & ineffective - would have fit into this Arteta squad.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

I’m gonna go soon for sure

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Buzzfeed is back as a feed with buzz

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That’s it right there.

Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

Trump & Miller aren’t trying to precipitate a national divorce.

They’re trying to precipitate a natural violent reaction to their proactive violence. And it isn’t working.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

The most amazing thing in America right now is the continued peaceful resistance by attacked communities in the face of violent fascism.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.

This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 1d

You don’t get to weed surpassing alcohol in daily consumption in America without soccer moms

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Musk is betting on Zeno’s Paradox

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

earthsky.org

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