Matthew Hay Brown
@matthewhaybrown
International assignment editor, Washington Post Journalism instructor, Harvard New Englander. Potential Ukrainian. Literally Irish. Now more Canadian!™
Zelensky taunts Putin in open letter: "We receive support. You receive sanctions" "You are the first ruler of Russia to turn to Pyongyang for assistance. And today you are fully dependent on China — also for the first time in Russia’s history" Full text: bit.ly/4uSLYSX
My phone opening Bluesky, choosing a post, clicking reply and transcribing a conversation between Mrs. Brown, our neighbor David and me with ~80 percent accuracy
“The Iran war isn’t entertainment. The White House should stop treating it as such” More from Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The United States of America is the first country where Trump attempted regime change
"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store" Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago bit.ly/4bxp5ND
MATA, the slogan for Brandon “the AK guy” Herrera’s run for Congress from Texas, is the Spanish command “kill”
At our 16-year-old’s mock trial and seeing disappointingly little mockery
American NHLers are second only to MLBers in Republican registration among players in the five major sports, according to a VoteHub analysis of voter registration records votehub.com/2026/01/20/t...
How The Times’ story on the Georgia election interference grand jury ends www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
No one asked me, but this 2X Mayflower/2X Bunker Hill descendant would prefer honoring these American heroes to any boat or enslaver
Looking forward to showing out-of-town guests the Trump-Lincoln Memorial, the Trump-Washington Monument, the Trump-Jefferson Memorial
Email this morning from our kids' doctors: "Your pediatricians have an important message"
Coast Guard seizes record 24+ tons of cocaine, worth $362 million, without killing anyone www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...
Fifty years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald, laden with 26,000 tons of iron ore, sank in an unseasonably early storm on Lake Superior (Gitche Gumee, in Chippewa). All 29 men on board were lost. Two weeks later, Gordon Lightfoot read a Newsweek article about the disaster
Elvis Costello’s walk-on music tonight in D.C.: Heaven 17’s (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." wapo.st/3I6wiZr
WATCH As Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro warns of an impending U.S. invasion, his government is sharing AI-generated videos resurrecting national heroes to urge civilians to join militias. Notably absent from the pantheon: Maduro’s predecessor mentor, Hugo Chavéz www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...