Matthew Hawn

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Lula's Army in Brazil, the student-led protests in Serbia. We are seeing the glimmers of the younger generations rejecting authoritarianism and the cruelty of the right. Hope is stronger than hate.

This one hits hard.

If you don' t think the run-off election matters much...

"It's unkillable, undead, and it's the first female Prime Minister..." In the current timeline we're on, this could actually happen. youtu.be/vu5QQ3szgDA?...

Fully expecting both Open AI and Anthropic to announce a stock split immediately. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

This week's listening

He couldn't run a casino without bankrupting it. How did you think he was going to run a country and the world's most complicated economy?

The rising political resistance to data centre construction in the US was described by an @economist.com writer as "Sand in the wheels of the Industry". (5 Sept issue) But it's really closer to brakes on a car. You really shouldn't be driving one without them.

Without a doubt, the only way to properly cover the Trump presidency is via late night comedians because we have already gone so far past credulity that there is no coming back www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtA...

Even Tucker Fucking Carlson is railing against this deal x.com/TuckerCarlso...

October 2024 Economist cover:

Four Tet’s Boomtown 2026 set is now available to listen back to via BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix 🔉 djmag.com/news/listen-...

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u... Hegseth... winning hearts and minds

Olivia Rodrigo brought out Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette, and Sarah McLachlan at her Daisy Chain Fields festival. Sharing a video of Rodrigo and Nicks singing “Landslide,” Sandra Bullock teased the pair’s “angel voices” for the soundtrack of ‘Practical Magic 2.’ 👉 stereogum.com/2509799/oliv...

All the Massive Public Health Failures Under RFK’s HHS, Ranked talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

This was the paper that went to the wall to tell truth to power when the presidency was corrupted and degraded. Now it's the mouthpiece of a tech oligarch protecting that power. Absolutely shameful.

its got to be this time

This is why events unnerve me They find it all, a different story Notice whom for wheels are turning Turn again and turn towards this time All she asks the strength to hold me Then again the same old story

Video interview: FOLKULAKA talk Ukrainian traditions, songwriting and horror LOUD WOMEN’s Anastasiia Starkova catches up with Ukrainian "folk witch" band FOLKULAKA ahead of their performance at LOUD WOMEN Fest London. They chat about their music, inspirations, Ukrainian traditions, and their plans…

BBC lawyers are moving to subpoena Don Jr., Ivanka, and Jared Kushner in Trump’s $10B defamation case, arguing the trio can speak to what Trump really intended when he addressed the crowd at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021

listening this week

Would love to see the @economist.com 's data viz team take this on. So much of the scare-mongering rhetoric from the GOP has been aimed at cities like Chicago and Baltimore.

A stupid war, started by stupid people.

"As of Friday, the aircraft carrier had been on deployment for 259 days ... The ship has only stopped twice, once in Guam in December and then July 7, when it briefly pulled into Oman — keeping the crew at sea for 208 continuous days. " Hegseth: "Don't skip leg day!"

BREAKING: Bill Cassidy says he’s a YES on Todd Blanche, solidifying his legacy as the man who enabled RFK Jr. to wreak havoc on Americans’ health, and now the man who will let Blanche weaponize the DOJ like never before seen in history and cover up for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

You must be somewhere in London You must be loving your life in the rain

If the banking industry doesn't trust him and his family to handle money, why should US citizens trust him with ours?

File under "Still don't like the look of this" (Posted one week on) climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

I still love this one... 😄

A great feature on trailblazing sportswriter Melissa Ludtke from Alex Coffey and Heather Cox Richardson for #250to250! For more on the story of how Ludtke fought MLB for equal access—and won—check out her book LOCKER ROOM TALK @melissaludtke73.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Make this happen, please.

last week

We knew more than a decade ago that these devices broke the social contract irrevocably and that people hate them. Remember "glassholes"? The push behind this tech ignores all the social evidence and it's just blind greed from Meta and anyone following them down this creepy garden path.

All of this because the GOP allowed an narcissistic idiot conman to appoint a drunken frat boy to run the world's most powerful military. And then let his ego run roughshod over already fragile geopolitics.

I can't be the only one who saw the new Moon Buggy prototype from Venturi Astrolab and thought... There is a really good upgrade for this thing.

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

The war in Vietnam took six years to become as hated by Americans as the Iran war has become in six months. Gift link. The Iran war is America’s least popular since polls began www.economist.com/united-state...

Remember this when you hear Vance making excuses for Nixon and trying to rewrite history to soften the administration's crimes by comparison.

Remember him as the boot licker and sycophant that he was. He was no statesman or patriot. He was smart enough to know better and craven not to act on his principles. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I did not have Zombie Mitch McConnell on my 2026 Apocalypse Bingo Card but here we are

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

A very clear data visualisation of why we shouldn't believe BigOil's promises for how they are dealing with their mess. Governments should stop investment and time supporting their oil industries and put their money and focus into what actually works. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...