Brad Keefe
@brokendiscourse.bsky.social
Ex-journalist/film critic. Biden/Harris Democrat. Pragmatic progressive. Taylor Swift/NIN.
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Brad Keefe
@brokendiscourse.bsky.social
· Jan 25
I don’t think we’re ready for just how dumb things will get.
Truly this is the dumbest night I’ve ever seen on Bluesky so I just want to time-stamp some thoughts. 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Truly this is the dumbest night I’ve ever seen on Bluesky so I just want to time-stamp some thoughts. 🧵
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they were willing to keep the government shut down forever, starve people on SNAP, crash all air travel, to make people pay more, focus, they want to make people pay more, Republicans, focus, tell people that.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
they were willing to keep the government shut down forever, starve people on SNAP, crash all air travel, to make people pay more, focus, they want to make people pay more, Republicans, focus, tell people that.
Moderate Dems are under extraordinary pressure from constituents to end the shutdown over immediate needs like SNAP.
And the founder of Indivisible thinks we should primary Ossoff in 2026. This is the dumbest night and reveals a lot about people.
And the founder of Indivisible thinks we should primary Ossoff in 2026. This is the dumbest night and reveals a lot about people.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Moderate Dems are under extraordinary pressure from constituents to end the shutdown over immediate needs like SNAP.
And the founder of Indivisible thinks we should primary Ossoff in 2026. This is the dumbest night and reveals a lot about people.
And the founder of Indivisible thinks we should primary Ossoff in 2026. This is the dumbest night and reveals a lot about people.
The most important thing in 2026 is to regain majorities. This makes that both harder and more expensive.
We are doing the “primary them all” thing again, and I want to remind you that Republicans would love that. Truly just collective stupidly here tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The most important thing in 2026 is to regain majorities. This makes that both harder and more expensive.
We are doing the “primary them all” thing again, and I want to remind you that Republicans would love that. Truly just collective stupidly here tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
We are doing the “primary them all” thing again, and I want to remind you that Republicans would love that. Truly just collective stupidly here tonight.
It’s apparent that the actual effects of the longest government shutdown — like SNAP benefits being withheld or reduced and federal workers not being paid — are just abstracts for too many people.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It’s apparent that the actual effects of the longest government shutdown — like SNAP benefits being withheld or reduced and federal workers not being paid — are just abstracts for too many people.
One thing that’s clear to me right now is that Bluesky remains an incredibly hostile place for Democrats, and most big accounts here are happy to say anything that will get them engagement. It’s a game to many of them under the guise of helping.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
One thing that’s clear to me right now is that Bluesky remains an incredibly hostile place for Democrats, and most big accounts here are happy to say anything that will get them engagement. It’s a game to many of them under the guise of helping.
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Pointing out an obvious thing here but "yes I voted to let your healthcare costs skyrocket" is actually gonna be a pretty big anchor for Susan Collins, John Husted, Dan Sullivan, & John Cornyn next year. Like, Rs are quite literally fighting to take an L rn. And they might get their wish!
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pointing out an obvious thing here but "yes I voted to let your healthcare costs skyrocket" is actually gonna be a pretty big anchor for Susan Collins, John Husted, Dan Sullivan, & John Cornyn next year. Like, Rs are quite literally fighting to take an L rn. And they might get their wish!
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On the off chance that this is "real" in some way:
1) Let's actually look at what passes before we scream and howl about caving and betrayal and giving away the entire Republic for free.
2) This shutdown has had a real cost in human lives and that cost is growing exponentially worse by the day.
1) Let's actually look at what passes before we scream and howl about caving and betrayal and giving away the entire Republic for free.
2) This shutdown has had a real cost in human lives and that cost is growing exponentially worse by the day.
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
On the off chance that this is "real" in some way:
1) Let's actually look at what passes before we scream and howl about caving and betrayal and giving away the entire Republic for free.
2) This shutdown has had a real cost in human lives and that cost is growing exponentially worse by the day.
1) Let's actually look at what passes before we scream and howl about caving and betrayal and giving away the entire Republic for free.
2) This shutdown has had a real cost in human lives and that cost is growing exponentially worse by the day.
If you’re a SNAP household, you are wondering more about whether you will get full or partial or any benefits for the month of November. That’s the grocery budget, not the food in the pantry.
Referring the admin’s emergency petition to the whole court would have slowed down getting the payments out. We expect a First Circuit decision within the next day, day and a half. Monday a.m. tops. Stay tuned.
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If you’re a SNAP household, you are wondering more about whether you will get full or partial or any benefits for the month of November. That’s the grocery budget, not the food in the pantry.
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one thing I hate about the modern world is how much attention random people get in the political economy, its so tiring that we spend more time talking about Ezra Klein or MattY who don't matter, who have no power and no following, than we do at least 49 of the 50 state Governors for example.
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
one thing I hate about the modern world is how much attention random people get in the political economy, its so tiring that we spend more time talking about Ezra Klein or MattY who don't matter, who have no power and no following, than we do at least 49 of the 50 state Governors for example.
Government shutdowns don’t usually go on this long because Republicans don’t want their voters to know what is and isn’t “government.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Government shutdowns don’t usually go on this long because Republicans don’t want their voters to know what is and isn’t “government.”
I don’t even need to look at the comments to know what they are like, but I have friends currently on ACA plans who are expressing what a relief this would be to them personally to know what’s ahead.
Today on the Senate floor:
Democrats made an offer to Republicans to re-open the government and extend the ACA tax credits for one year.
We’re calling their bluff.
The ball is in their court.
Democrats made an offer to Republicans to re-open the government and extend the ACA tax credits for one year.
We’re calling their bluff.
The ball is in their court.
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I don’t even need to look at the comments to know what they are like, but I have friends currently on ACA plans who are expressing what a relief this would be to them personally to know what’s ahead.
Important update to my 372 followers: I have changed my handle and will be changing my username but I assure you I am a real human living in Ohio.
*I know that’s something a bot would say, and I hate in principle not using a real name. I do not intend to go unhinged or anything.
*I know that’s something a bot would say, and I hate in principle not using a real name. I do not intend to go unhinged or anything.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Important update to my 372 followers: I have changed my handle and will be changing my username but I assure you I am a real human living in Ohio.
*I know that’s something a bot would say, and I hate in principle not using a real name. I do not intend to go unhinged or anything.
*I know that’s something a bot would say, and I hate in principle not using a real name. I do not intend to go unhinged or anything.
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It's already been rejected but it's genuinely wild to see people calling a proposed deal that consisted of DEMOCRATS GETTING THE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DEMANDING a cave.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care
"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It's already been rejected but it's genuinely wild to see people calling a proposed deal that consisted of DEMOCRATS GETTING THE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DEMANDING a cave.
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Brother Warnock lays it plain.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Brother Warnock lays it plain.
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Sherrod Brown is 72, Janet Mills is 77, both have experience winning statewide elections in a tough Senate election next year. Both represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party
both are running in a primary against people with no experience
Brown is treated as the de facto nominee, Mills is not
both are running in a primary against people with no experience
Brown is treated as the de facto nominee, Mills is not
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sherrod Brown is 72, Janet Mills is 77, both have experience winning statewide elections in a tough Senate election next year. Both represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party
both are running in a primary against people with no experience
Brown is treated as the de facto nominee, Mills is not
both are running in a primary against people with no experience
Brown is treated as the de facto nominee, Mills is not
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For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act.
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act.
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Like so many Americans, I am grateful for Speaker Pelosi’s decades of service and leadership.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Like so many Americans, I am grateful for Speaker Pelosi’s decades of service and leadership.
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Nancy Pelosi’s career has been a masterclass on leadership. The first woman to ever hold the Speaker’s gavel—and she did it better than most who came before her. From passing the Affordable Care Act to standing up to Trump, she never flinched.
Madam Speaker, we salute you.
Madam Speaker, we salute you.
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Nancy Pelosi’s career has been a masterclass on leadership. The first woman to ever hold the Speaker’s gavel—and she did it better than most who came before her. From passing the Affordable Care Act to standing up to Trump, she never flinched.
Madam Speaker, we salute you.
Madam Speaker, we salute you.
The lesson from Mamdani edging over 50 percent in one of the most liberal cities in the nation is that you don’t win back majorities like that, and yet I see people saying we should get behind DSA in Ohio.
Btw, the press obsessing about Mamdani seems weird. He seriously underperformed the Democratic vote in NYC compared to recent elections, barely scraping 50%. Moderate Democrats in VA and NJ dramatically overperformed. That seems the real story
November 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The lesson from Mamdani edging over 50 percent in one of the most liberal cities in the nation is that you don’t win back majorities like that, and yet I see people saying we should get behind DSA in Ohio.
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I generally think that Trump having a major loss at SCOTUS is actually really important because it punctures a lot of what he's trying to do with railroading the courts.
On one hand I'm glad because the tariffs are objectively bad but on the other hand we need the economy to be as bad as possible and this could be the justices doing real politic and saving Trump from himself
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I generally think that Trump having a major loss at SCOTUS is actually really important because it punctures a lot of what he's trying to do with railroading the courts.
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Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
I get a lot of online gambling ads that are also push-polling unregulated political ads so this tracks.
Yet another resounding victory for the accuracy of prediction markets
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I get a lot of online gambling ads that are also push-polling unregulated political ads so this tracks.
I get a lot of online gambling ads that are also push-poll style unregulated political ads so this tracks.
Yet another resounding victory for the accuracy of prediction markets
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I get a lot of online gambling ads that are also push-poll style unregulated political ads so this tracks.