Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 2hoh no, hitching your campaign to the sundowning malignant narcissist felon might have some electoral downsides 2786
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 19hThe You Can Just Do Things™ agenda, Seattle edition 0133
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 10hThey will not be content until their warmed over eugenics is treated seriously and they are allowed to drive women and non-white people out of the universities, elected office, voter rolls, and the nation. Elite media: “but we need to take their views seriously because they dress nicely.” 000
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 10hThese racist reactionaries axiomatically believe brown kids attending a football game in Texas deprived some white failson of their birthright admission to the college of their choice. And the people running the NYTimes and Atlantic relish the chance to publish their thoughts. 120
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 10hThese gutter racists are still given platforms by elite media as some kind interlocutors of MAGA grievance and then they run off to their podcasts and giggle about brown people never being true Americans. 130
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 20hThe Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now 422739
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 21hDemocrats will continue to be defied until they sack up and commit to investigating, prosecuting, and dismantling the people and organizations that applaud all this. 040
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On @pivotpod.bsky.social, Kara talked about the 2024 Cornell rape case, mentioning she was thinking a lot about the 2020 movie “Promising Young Woman.” Scott chimed in. I didn't know it and watched it last night. Wow! Disturbing, insightful, and thought provoking. (Here: youtu.be/t3Attm52b20?...)youtube.comPROMISING YOUNG WOMAN - Official Trailer [HD] - This ChristmasYouTube video by Focus Features 153
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 01/10/2026Good thing our university is renewing its contract and encouraging faculty, staff, and students to build courses and infrastructure around a company that may not exist in 2028. 271
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.MuckRock @muckrock.com · 01/10/2026We’re making this powerful data available to journalists and grassroots investigators so they can help patients understand how our health care system can harm them and take action to avoid it.muckrock.comWe got data on thousands of patients harmed at hospitals. We need you to analyze it and help gather more data.This week, MuckRock’s Data Liberation Project is publishing data on thousands of incidents where patients were harmed in four states so that journalists and grassroots investigators can continue to il... 011
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...startribune.comPerry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic... 16753289
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026I wholeheartedly support this I think he should show up and campaign personally with every republican senate candidate, make it really clear that there’s no daylight between them he can start with susan collins 351858192
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 30/09/2026The Jonathan Chatterton Friedersdorfs will be so very upset at this latest assault on American higher education. Hegseth is completely unprepared for the thousands of long-form words and high-profile declarations from these extremely good faith defenders of free speech. 2548
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Boulder Progressives @boulderprogressives.org · 30/09/2026"Join the Boulder Progressives Pre-Election Social" #boulderblog.boulderprogressives.orgJoin the Boulder Progressives Pre-Election SocialJoin us this Sunday October 4th 1-4PM at Avanti in Boulder! 011
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026The kool kaliper krew is going to use very objective and accurate AI to justify turning your community back into a sundown town 053
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026I unapologetically use AI for all the TPS report audit culture nonsense 110
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026counterpoint: this strategy does not allow beltway political consultants to recommend their evergreen strategy of "Dems must pivot to the center" 1130
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason) 311059157
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give up. I’m moving into a cave. 743485677
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026“If politicians and corporations and journalists won’t take my worries seriously, maybe this pollster will.” 110
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026legalize it, reparations for everyone imprisoned, and also 25mg of THC is roughly triple what normies should take 051
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The option to do this, all day, every day, has been readily available for every media outlet in the country since 2015. Including & especially just using the word "lies." 36914
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 29/09/2026they’re really gonna try to run the “Dems are for they/them” playbook after doubling the price of gasoline. 152
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/202635 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok" 1329084
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s not difficult to see that Chris Rufo is laundering white identity politics/white nationalism while proclaiming his supposed color blindness. Here’s a screenshot of the thumbnail for an episode of his podcast - the “great replacement” conspiracy theory is a racist trope. 619047
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 28/09/2026The Democratic Party’s centrist consultant machine needs to be completely rejected and dismantled if this country is ever going to embrace the future and put this fascist nightmare behind us. The time for half measures is long past. 515032
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...sfchronicle.comEndorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choiceOPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes. 1530577
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026These boys have a very promising future waiting for them headlining Turning Point USA conferences and writing in the NYTimes and Atlantic about campus cancel culture run amok. 1439059
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet 252744494
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026and then there are kids like me who get into MIT, quickly realize they’ll never be in the top 50% of its absurd curve, and fill the void by taking up other debilitating hobbies like student journalism 1100
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real 68129597
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 27/09/2026but no so vast as to scare the corporate donor class 040
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27574943148
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 25/09/2026independent who voted three times for trump because of his business acumen and support for crypto and peptides 020
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 25/09/2026someone is breaking the law so just start charging people instead of shrugging like “whatcha gonna do?” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comTrump’s Public Service Announcement: ‘Love Me’Taxpayers are funding a campaign-style ad for the president. 151
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026Voters with one functioning braincell remaining: "but international students are taking limited admissions seats away from our more deserving failsons." 051
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh. 322235587
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026static.klipy.comIt's Happening Isn't It? MemeALT: It's Happening Isn't It? Meme 140
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 18/09/2026Today I'm starting as the new Editor-in-Chief of @joss-openjournals.bsky.social. blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/09/dani... I can only do this because of the journal's incredible community and the work we've collectively done over our first 10 years. 🧵blog.joss.theoj.orgDaniel S. Katz is the new Editor-in-Chief of JOSS | Journal of Open Source Software BlogAfter ten years, founding Editor-in-Chief Arfon Smith is handing over to Daniel S. Katz, effective 18 September 2026. 1328
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026Yet another issue like Flock cameras and data centers that Democrats could pick up an enormous amount of popular support for if they cared about winning elections more than paying beltway political consultants to pivot to the center. 072
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 24/09/2026can we spend 200 million tokens and get a humane version of LaTeX 150
Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’ 212242