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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.

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{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info

Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26

High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · Sep 2

ICYMI, I’m on sabbatical this AY at @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social:

popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/directo...

I’ll be working on a STS-flavored book project about ecofascist data science that combines critical demography and data studies.

Let me know if you’re in Boston this year and want to meet up!

Brian Keegan – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

A Harvard University cross-school, interfaculty initiative administered by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

popcenter.harvard.edu

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 2h

The entire political economy of techbro-mediated AI deserves to be launched into the sun

AND

too much of AI criticism has the flavor of “electronic toys need to be banned because they give toddlers a false sense of mastery”

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 10h

Fascinated by retweet numbers for @yearprogress.bsky.social

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.

A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires

An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.

wapo.st

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h

Whether it's Hillary Clinton making $100,000 in cattle futures 14 years before she became First Lady or Donald Trump making $1.7 billion from his DJT meme stock while serving as president, both sides have made money in controversial ways.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 22h

This guy? www.thecrimson.com/article/1991...

But members of the class continued to express concern over comments made by Associate Professor of History James Hankins during his
History 10a lecture on Tuesday.
During the lecture, which centered on the age of chivalry and courtly love, Hankins allegedly said
"'Feminists have invented sexual harassment and date rape in order to gain dominance in our society,'' according to an unidentified member of the class.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...

Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado

President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.

www.9news.com

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 1d

Jeffries is too busy doing press spots praising Trump for his immigration policy and thanking him for pardoning corrupt colleagues. newrepublic.com/post/203931/...

Hakeem Jeffries Seriously Says Trump Deserves Some Credit

More proof that Jeffries is not equipped to lead Democrats in this moment.

newrepublic.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

24 seconds of the late Isiah Whitlock Jr saying shit on The Wire

youtu.be/5mgCoesUZwI

Best "Shiiiits" from The Wire

YouTube video by Nhan Do

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 1d

Ezra Yglesaidt

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Your Last Merry Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

How the Washington Post began the year.

How Democracy Docket is ending it.

Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best to ever do it

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."

idea of impeachment.
But let us abandon impeachment.
Another way of putting all of this is
Why Not Censure?
that Earl Warren has sinned too grandly for that. He has defiled our
Or—if the objection is that a dif- jurisprudence and made war against ferent approach is needed to drama-
the public order. He has not stolen
tize the issue-why not take a page chickens.
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Jonathan Gitlin @drgitlin.bsky.social · 1d

No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.

Alexis Ohanian
176-@alexiso...• 8h
We're absolutely going to have to figure out how our society adapts to a rapidly increasing wealth gap, it'll be required to preserve our republic, but the answer is definitely not taxing unrealized gains.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 2d

It definitely won’t be this Democratic Party that is allergic to supporting popular policies.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?

Party insiders are divided on how to channel Americans’ growing fear of AI.

Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?

Party insiders are divided on how to channel Americans’ growing fear of AI.

www.politico.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

It makes perfect sense that the idea of the Crusades appeals today to the exact kind of loud, adolescent-brained, self-aggrandizing, just-rich-enough-to-cause-problems idiot that the actual Crusades were designed to siphon out of the body politic like the snake venom they were, and are.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 2d

"If something was going on, it'd have been leaked already"

I'm sorry, do you understand how the beltway press works? The entire DC press corps will hold an open secret for years, they're all shopping their book deals and we'll get to hear about all the juicy stuff "everyone knew" in March 2029.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things

they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 3d

Another example of how the U.S. political right appropriates digital tools, platforms, and data to create, (re)frame, and remix data visualizations to spread anti-immigrant propaganda. If you're interested in learning more, here's a paper from my research team: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!

So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Given how aggressively "the left" is trying to use the media & the educational system to brainwash American youth into Communism, the leader of the America First Party and the Christian Nationalist Crusade is creating Christian Youth for America. The year is 1943. The only problem is...antisemitism

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?

Party insiders are divided on how to channel Americans’ growing fear of AI.

Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit?

Party insiders are divided on how to channel Americans’ growing fear of AI.

www.politico.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 3d

The popular idea is that removing a president to replace him with a non-criminal president from his party, and usually elected on his ticket, is a coup.

Do governors/mayors get replaced by number 2s all the time? Yes. There's poli sci work on this, the power of the presidency blinds people.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Exclusive images of Mamdani’s luxury mansion

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

Guys no billionaire is "leaving California," they're at best gonna leave California for exactly 185 days a year and domicile at some mansion resort in Utah or Montana or USVI but still be in California a lot (but also this will be too big of a hassle for many and they'll just pay the tax)

Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 4d

Elders requiring care voted +10 in 2024 for the mass deportations of their caretakers.

Harris' advantage among voters born in the 1990s and 2000s was far smaller than both Biden's and Clinton's
% of validated voters who reported voting for each candidate

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.