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Brendan Keefe
Born at 317 ppm
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"Whenever one person stands up and says, 'Wait a minute, this is wrong,' it helps other people to do the same."

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bjkeefe.bsky.social
Thanks for the link, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Now, can the rest of us please stop doing posts that are nothing but a screenshot of a headline?

And no, "mOsT PeOpLe OnLy ReAd tHe hEadLiNe" won't cut it as a response. Posting the screenshot, and worse, no link, is just compounding that very problem.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
I know it's been said a million times, but still. Can you imagine any other president coming within a light-year of saying something like this?

Not only the ugliness (cf. Nixon). The pettiness and insecurity and the need to lie about everything he's done.

Also, "I one our Nation's Districts". :D
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again. I won the 2024 Presidential Election in a Landslide, winning all Seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and the Electoral College by a lot. I one our Nation’s Districts by 2750 to 550, a complete wipeout. I settled 8 Wars, have 48 New Stock Market Highs, our Economy is Great, and our Country is RESPECTED AGAIN all over the World, respected like never before. The last Administration had the Highest Inflation in history - I have already brought that down to normal, and prices, including groceries, are coming down. To do this requires a lot of Work and Energy, and I have never worked so hard in my life. Yet despite all of this the Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite. They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE. This cheap “RAG” is truly an “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.” The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out. Despite all of this, I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, and with record setting investment being made in America, they should only go up. There will be a day when I run low on Energy, it happens to everyone, but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now! GOD BLESS AMERICA & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Opposition Flyer of the Day
A flyer about Mike Lawler (R-NY) that is cleverly against him. Begins "Congressman Lawler does not 'Love Hitler' or joke about gas chambers." Goes on to assert that he does not say or endorse many other horrible things that were said by NY's Young Republicans in their group chat from a short while ago.
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Out of character thread. Recommended.
nytpitchbot.bsky.social NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h
(1/X) Quick thing on the shutdown....yes Dems shouldn't have caved when they did but they won the shutdown politically: they killed in the elections and are soaring in the generic ballot.

There's a lesson.The ABC's of dealing with narcissists.

Always
Be
Confronting

Do I have your attention now?
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
"Trump’s drive to padlock the Republicans’ House majority may be backfiring, and it could be Democrats who emerge from the gerrymandering war with more seats. As the administration’s bravado has turned to desperation and anger, Trump has put even more pressure on Indiana Republicans to deliver."
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
This is really good.

I wish all people with power and/or influence would read it, and reflect on how there aren't many easy answers, and how their facile hand-waving is really not helping at all.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Ain't that the sad fucking truth.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 4h
the decline and fall of the american republic in two headlines
judge dismisses georgia election interference case against trump bolsonaro ordered to begin serving 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Okay, time to cross the streams:

Is AI left-coded or right-coded?
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Great artwork to lead off the article

slate.com/news-and-pol...

h/t @driftglass.bsky.social's blog
It Turns Out Lindsey Halligan Was a Fake Prosecutor All Along
This fight is not over.
slate.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
A brief excerpt for Don's very fine post:
A key claim behind Trump’s firing of public officials is that he needs flexibility to remove poor performers. FBI Director Patel has justified the removal of 50 senior FBI officials under Article II of the constitution, the standard Trump administration claim that the President has some vast and previously unknown right to fire any federal employee for whatever reason he sees fit. So why are people really being fired? • Worked on the January 6 investigations • Investigated Trump for his connection to January 6th, or corrupt practices. Some agents working on corruption investigations were fired, rehired, and then fired again. • Having a rainbow flag on their desk during the Biden administration. • Taking a knee during a 2020 George Floyd protest • Enforcement of FBI Covid policies • Refusing to illegally fire other FBI employees • Being in charge of the FBI jet after people figured out Patel was using it to see his girlfriend.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
One of those things I know, and know that I'm supposed to be better than that about it, but.
November 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Swiped from @mmasnick.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/mmas...
Comic by John Jonik showing Uncle Sam and someone dressed in a suit labeled as "Corporate Media" talking about how they should wrap a present that is labeled "control of internet speech." The Corporate Media guy says "How would you like this wrapped" and behind him are two rolls of wrapping paper. One (with American flags and stars) is labeled "anti-terrorism" and the other with flowers, suns, bunnies, and cats is labeled "Protect Kids"
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Post a famous bathroom scene.
John Travolta as Vincent Vega, reading a work of pulp fiction on the toilet in the movie ... yeah, you guessed it.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Won't shock you, but as I always say, it's good to document the atrocities. Short thread.

h/t @muellershewrote.com
jasonleopold.bsky.social Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 23h
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Email says We are prepared to receive boxes tomorrow, as NY agents are travelling to WFO in the morning, and vill arrive to Winchester where they will start photographing and we will start scanning and processing the physical files. Once I see the volume, I'|l have a better estimate of processing times, although 1 suggest we do a rolling delivery to further demonstrate the FBIls commitment to delivery and transparency.
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
One thing to notice among all of the #pie #discourse:

No one, but no one, is claiming to like mince pie. Even the trolls know they can't make that one fly.

The ones I like most, if you care, no particular order: apple, pumpkin, lemon meringue, chocolate cream, Boston cream, chicken pot.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Wordplay of the Day
jas.ong Jason Geffner @jas.ong · 23h
Oh how the terns have tied...
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Promises Made, Promises Kept™

The bad news is it's no longer being "Made in the USA."

The worse news is that it is not even being made. Yet. Ahem.

Our sympathies lol to those MAGA suckers who sent in a $100 deposit in June.

h/t Occupy Democrats on FB

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
From the middle of a short thread.

I will go to my grave mystified by how scared supposedly powerful people are of Donald Trump.

h/t @tomlevenson.bsky.social
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Being reminded that you are not Candace Owen could fix you.

Laughing and point are good things!

Thanks, @robynelyse.bsky.social.

www.wonkette.com/p/zut-alors-...
Zut Alors! Are The French Going To Assassinate Candace Owens Like They Assassinated You-Know-Who?
Obviously not, but it does seem like she might be having a full-on nervous breakdown.
www.wonkette.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Much love to Randall Munroe and his partner.

xkcd.com/3172/

(I suppressed the preview image b/c it's a spoiler.)
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse!

Link repeated, to save you a click:

paulnoth.substack.com/p/shhhhhh
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
I have said repeatedly (as many of you also have) what a shame it is that Trump just will never admit to being wrong, because it just keeps making things worse, in particular, in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Great article here, both as to the specifics and as a symbol of the regime writ large.
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
Interestingly enough, the first headline of this, judging from the URL that archive[.]is picked up, was "The Conservative Movement's Brain Death."

archive.is/yDkeD

Anyway, it's tempting to snicker "you're just now figuring this out?" but the article is a pretty good piece of recent history review.
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
bjkeefe.bsky.social
You've probably heard that Trump is down a billion or so since September, due almost entirely to the #crypto crash. His sons are down hundreds of millions, too.

Here are some entertaining details, via @carlquintanilla.bsky.social:

archive link: archive.is/gFiCa

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers
In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital cu...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM