Megan Browne

Expert Manager in Biz & Arts | Dual National: USA/IRL | Trilingual: EN FR ES | Mother of Twins | Firmly Feminist | Avid Supporter of Artists & Musicians

[Megan Browne @mmbrowne]

OH!!! As a proud former resident of Oakland I MUST have this!!

[Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf]

A few of these spotted around Oakland today.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Tomorrow, Ukraine and Moldova will take a major step on their EU journey.

The first Intergovernmental Conference will take place in Luxembourg.

We will begin work on the Fundamentals cluster, which deals with values, democracy and the rule of law.

The foundation of our Union.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Joe Rogan went dead silent when NASA astrophysicist Michelle Thaller explained this to him.

Quantum entanglement lets things be connected across the entire universe — instantly. No distance matters. No time lag. And advanced aliens might be using it to travel without spaceships at all.

Two electrons can be entangled so deeply that if you flip one’s spin on one side of the galaxy, the other flips instantly — no signal, no delay, nothing.

Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance” and hated it… but experiments proved it’s real.

Then it got insane. If the Big Bang started with everything crammed together, are we all still quantum-entangled with stuff across the cosmos? Parts of you in Andromeda right now? Inside black holes?

Michelle and Joe start wondering out loud — could hyper-advanced civilizations completely skip rockets and just use entanglement to move through the universe instantaneously?

They tie in Three-Body Problem sophons and Interstellar-level ideas. By the end Joe’s mind is blown and you will be too.

This might be one of the wildest physics conversations he’s ever had.

[Sport News Africa @snewsafrica]

Coupe du Monde 2026 : le calendrier complet est là. 48 équipes, 12 groupes, 104 matchs. 10 nations africaines au rendez-vous du 11 juin au 19 juillet. Dates, groupes, équipes, scores live - tout sur SNA.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A new novel by best-selling author Dave Eggers tells the story of two art-obsessed friends over many decades.

"Contrapposto" centers on a young, would-be artist in the Midwest named Cricket, his childhood friend and love interest, Olympia, and their adventures together and apart in the art world over decades.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown has more on the novel and the author's own story for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Megan Browne @mmbrowne]

@Scobleizer @mrdj1968 @AnthropicAI @mrdj1968 Look to the European way…and, Scobes, my friend, let’s not forget that ‘smart’ people tend to make things over-complicated; really intelligent and wise people…simplify things. #FoodForThought

[Bri Gillis @Bgilly13]

Dems have been looking for their message for years, and @AnnieAndrewsMD just did it (in under two minutes). Take note 📝

[Megan Browne @mmbrowne]

#Partnership
#Humility
@MichelleObama

[Ross @ross64x]

A Gaudí siempre le preguntaban cuando acabarían lss obras, y el siempre respondía que su cliente no tiene prisa.

Para Antoni Gaudí, que murió tal día como hoy, hace 100 años, ingresado en un hospicio porque lo tomaron por un mendigo tras ser atropellado por un tranvía, habría sido un sueño saber que el Papa, los Reyes de España, el presidente del Gobierno y de la Generalitat, el alcalde de Barcelona y una larga lista de autoridades estarían, un siglo después, rindiéndole homenaje y mirando al cielo para ver cómo se iluminaba la torre de la iglesia más alta del mundo.

La epopeya de la Sagrada Familia, 144 años en construcción, y que aún no ha acabado, ha tenido uno de sus días para la historia con la solemne ceremonia religiosa que ha culminado con la bendición del Papa a la Torre de Jesucristo.

Otro momento que hará que la imagen de Barcelona dé la vuelta mundo, con 9.000 personas dentro del templo y 130.000 en el exterior

Y lo de los drones eso ya no se como expresarlo, mejor verlo.

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Megan Browne @mmbrowne]

Maybe 🤔 @villebruxelles could get some pointers, tips & tricks from the @sagradafamilia …to finally finish #palaisdujustice! 😇
@visitbrussels @brusselstourism
@brusselstourism

[Megan Browne @mmbrowne]

First Love 💕, then Technique. - A. Gaudi
140 years of waiting…Finally finished. Beautifully celebrated.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Donald Trump wishes he was received like this when he enters a stadium. ✨

[(((Simon Hardy Butler)))🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 @SimonHButler]

@NYCMayor @nyctourism Your video stands out for 3 reasons:

1. It demonstrates the ceremonial role you have as the Big Apple's chief tourism officer;
2. It broadcasts behavioral recommendations that would be obvious to all but the common tegu; &
3. It has a highly relevant Midnight Cowboy reference.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Welcome to the greatest city on Earth.

Here are some tips and tricks for how to get around and make the most of your time here.

Learn more at https://t.co/mki8gOyIED.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Pope Leo XIV said that a "truly just society" recognizes the dignity of every human life, as he made calls for peace in a wide-ranging address to the Spanish parliament on Monday.

"The defense of human life is neither a partisan issue nor a confessional interest: it is a goal of civilization," he said. "Every human life must be recognized and safeguarded from conception to its natural end, in every circumstance of its existence."

Leo added that "when this certainty is obscured" and the law fails to serve and protect everyone, society's most vulnerable people "are the first victims."

"For this reason, the moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to accompany, protect and love those lives that are most fragile," he said.

During the speech, the first by a pope to Spain's parliament, the pontiff urged global leaders to help migrants, calling on them to create "safe and legal pathways."

Leo also repeated his call for using dialogue instead of weapons to resolve disputes, saying "peace demands diplomatic courage." His comments came hours after Israel and Iran traded fire, threatening to upend peace efforts in the Middle East.

His address, which received a seven-minute standing ovation from Spanish lawmakers, was part of Leo's ongoing weeklong visit to Spain that included visits with migrants and victims of sexual abuse.

Photo by Yara Nardi/Pool via Reuters

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

📺El Papa: "La tentación de ganar popularidad, avivando el fuego de las polarizaciones, parece crecer en lugar de disminuir. La dignidad humana no deja de ser violada (...) Por eso necesitamos cultura, interioridad, una educación libre y de calidad" https://t.co/VrZO3teV5N