Bradley Keith
@bradleykeith.bsky.social
American by way of Canadian
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“Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations. It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled.”
ily Becca Rothfeld
ily Becca Rothfeld
The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.
www.newyorker.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:25 PM
“Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations. It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled.”
ily Becca Rothfeld
ily Becca Rothfeld
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Jesse Jackson was a champion for civil rights, economic justice, and world peace.
I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.
I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Jesse Jackson was a champion for civil rights, economic justice, and world peace.
I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.
I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.
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But I didn’t think the bullshit machine would ever bullshit *me*
February 15, 2026 at 12:34 AM
But I didn’t think the bullshit machine would ever bullshit *me*
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They made the sport from Heated Rivalry into a real thing.
February 13, 2026 at 11:27 AM
They made the sport from Heated Rivalry into a real thing.
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Obviously false…I think he meant to say we’re the only country in the world with daily mass shootings and widespread medical bankruptcies.
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Obviously false…I think he meant to say we’re the only country in the world with daily mass shootings and widespread medical bankruptcies.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.
February 8, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.
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This strike is also central to my entire thesis of the American labor movement--the American state almost always allies with business to crush unions. Unions only win when they can neutralize that alliance and pull the state toward at least neutrality. The evidence is overwhelming to demonstrate it.
February 7, 2026 at 1:27 PM
This strike is also central to my entire thesis of the American labor movement--the American state almost always allies with business to crush unions. Unions only win when they can neutralize that alliance and pull the state toward at least neutrality. The evidence is overwhelming to demonstrate it.
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
First Trump took aim at the guns rights movement and now he's taking concrete steps to promote intercity rail.
Woke Trump is going to take some getting used to.
Woke Trump is going to take some getting used to.
CRJs are legacy and E-jets are the future........but there's still a ton of CRJs out there, and apparently (?) we just yanked all CRJ type certificates (???)
January 30, 2026 at 2:03 AM
First Trump took aim at the guns rights movement and now he's taking concrete steps to promote intercity rail.
Woke Trump is going to take some getting used to.
Woke Trump is going to take some getting used to.
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Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.
News Movement posted this video of Alex Pretti on Jan 13, showing him spitting at ICE agents and kicking their taillight.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
Now conservatives are suggesting this changes things.
That would mean they are suggesting he deserved to be target of an extrajudicial execution.
The video changes nothing.
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.
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Come out, ye Black and Tans,
Slip on ice and do a dance,
Show your wife how you won medals for Blackwater
Tell her how suburban moms
Have you barely hanging on
While she says you're not allowed to see your daughter
Slip on ice and do a dance,
Show your wife how you won medals for Blackwater
Tell her how suburban moms
Have you barely hanging on
While she says you're not allowed to see your daughter
January 28, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Come out, ye Black and Tans,
Slip on ice and do a dance,
Show your wife how you won medals for Blackwater
Tell her how suburban moms
Have you barely hanging on
While she says you're not allowed to see your daughter
Slip on ice and do a dance,
Show your wife how you won medals for Blackwater
Tell her how suburban moms
Have you barely hanging on
While she says you're not allowed to see your daughter
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A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record:
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
wooooow
January 28, 2026 at 10:56 PM
A federal judge, in a published order, so very much on the record:
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
“ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
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Renée Good: It's okay dude, I'm not mad at you.
Alex Pretti: Are you okay?
Alex Pretti: Are you okay?
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Renée Good: It's okay dude, I'm not mad at you.
Alex Pretti: Are you okay?
Alex Pretti: Are you okay?
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public swimming pool'd the whole country
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 PM
public swimming pool'd the whole country
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Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
![DECLARATION
In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
ROBERT LANSING
New YorK, August 4, 1916.
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January 19, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916.
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
history.state.gov/historicaldo...
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Threatening to blow up a Burger King because the manager refused to bring back the McRib.
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Threatening to blow up a Burger King because the manager refused to bring back the McRib.
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This is something acutely aware of as a think tank guy. We aren't generally cooking up new stuff in the lab (except rube-goldberg devices to get around our 1000 veto points). We already know what we need to do and have the resources to do. These really aren't policy problems
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This is something acutely aware of as a think tank guy. We aren't generally cooking up new stuff in the lab (except rube-goldberg devices to get around our 1000 veto points). We already know what we need to do and have the resources to do. These really aren't policy problems
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Q: There's about $17 billion of oil reserves in Venezuela
TRUMP: You mean trillion. Did you say billion or trillion?
Q: I said billion
TRUMP: It's much more than that
Q: So what is going to happen to those reserves?
TRUMP: We're going to run everything
TRUMP: You mean trillion. Did you say billion or trillion?
Q: I said billion
TRUMP: It's much more than that
Q: So what is going to happen to those reserves?
TRUMP: We're going to run everything
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Q: There's about $17 billion of oil reserves in Venezuela
TRUMP: You mean trillion. Did you say billion or trillion?
Q: I said billion
TRUMP: It's much more than that
Q: So what is going to happen to those reserves?
TRUMP: We're going to run everything
TRUMP: You mean trillion. Did you say billion or trillion?
Q: I said billion
TRUMP: It's much more than that
Q: So what is going to happen to those reserves?
TRUMP: We're going to run everything
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with:
1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.
2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.
3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.
1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.
2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.
3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.
May 5, 2023 at 1:45 PM
I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with:
1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.
2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.
3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.
1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable.
2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable.
3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.
The eternal conflict between marketing and legal.
December 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The eternal conflict between marketing and legal.
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
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This is an expert takedown by @acollierastro.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzE...
dyson spheres are a joke
YouTube video by Angela Collier
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is an expert takedown by @acollierastro.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzE...