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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

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 7h
These farm workers are preparing for the strawberry harvest. They're weeding & removing the runners (leafless stems) that can steal nutrients from the plants. This step will also make it easier for workers to move efficiently and harvest more during the harvest season. #WeFeedYou

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 7h
RIP Chip Berlet, a legend on this beat, who provided a blueprint for how to do anti-fascist research idavox.com/index.php/20...
Chip Berlet (1949-2026)
When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 19h
Is the Seahawks kicker gonna be MVP?

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 20h
You can actually just leave all the racists crashing out where you found them.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h
i would not recommend reading trump’s unhinged post because all he knows how to do is diminish joy, and bad bunny just created so much of it.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 20h
In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference

www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...
Why It's So Hard To Turn The Lights Back On In Puerto Rico
Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, almost 80 percent of the territory is still without power. While nobody expected a quick…
www.wgbh.org

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 21h
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 1d
One thing that has helped me a lot to improve the internet: paying for Kagi as a web search and switching away from Google. Not dealing with all the ads when searching has been a bit QoL improvement
ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 1d
We Didn’t Ask for This Internet.

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Nick Calder @nick-calder.bsky.social · 2d
This chart from @wsj.com does a great job of undercutting the narrative that private markets are a more efficient allocator of capital than the public sector.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d
It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all
Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
www.theguardian.com

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 2d
In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history:

“On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d
like, this story is insane—letting a 92-year-old obviously incapable of driving keep his license while leaving pedestrians/cyclists with no protection from cars has killed more people than every waymo crash ever. It will be forgotten next week.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Three dead and six hurt after driver hits cyclist and crashes car into LA store
Car, being driven by 92-year-old driver, crashed at 99 Ranch Market and victims, trapped under vehicle, died at scene
www.theguardian.com

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 3d
boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/05/c...

Shout to Brooke Stephenson @ Boulder Reporting Lab for the excellent reporting on this.
CU Regents face calls to support collective bargaining, end Key Lime Air contract tied to ICE flights
Labor advocates and community members dominated public comment, urging regents to reconsider both labor policy and an airline contract tied to ICE activity.
boulderreportinglab.org

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 3d
Big week around here at CU with my @ucwcolorado.bsky.social siblings!

boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/03/c...
CU regents plan union rights proposal for faculty, staff and student workers
Union advocates will speak at the CU Board of Regents’ Feb. 5 meeting in Boulder, as a months-long debate over collective bargaining begins.
boulderreportinglab.org

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arxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 3d
Wikipedia and Grokipedia: A Comparison of Human and Generative Encyclopedias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05519

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 3d
“wHy cAnT wOkE LiBeRaLs tAkE a JoKe?!”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3d
All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 3d
The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
To: Jeffrey Epstein[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: Sent: Wed 7/15/2009 1:56:13 AM Subject: Re: florida visit? good typing! oh well, looks like it's a long flight anyhow... edmonton is so far away from EVERYTHING. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: i am tied up until aug On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:41 PM, wrote: You planted a seed with your invite today. I have next Wed thru Sunday off (July 22-26), my last vacation for months. I was going to take polo lessons in Calgary but I (DON'T) think my body can handle it! I pull a muscle every time, and I'm starting to realize my budding polo career might have to take a back seat to my actual job. think What are you doing next week?

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 4d
I'm no economist, but I thought currencies were supposed to be a store of value
line chart of Bitcoin crashing 13% to $63840.70

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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 4d
DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.

For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was…
DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet.
For years, we've been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration's supposed "censorship industrial complex." We were told, over and over again, that the government was weaponizing its power to silence conservative speech. The evidence for this? Some angry emails from White House staffers that Facebook ignored. That was basically it. The Supreme Court looked at it and said there was no standing because there was&hellip;
www.techdirt.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
Screenshot of the article that includes a quote from the professor's explanation to the dean: “I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like. When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind,” Gelernter wrote in the email to his colleagues, seemingly referring to Epstein. “This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave.)”

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 4d
Charles Murray, famous racist, is very mad that Lupita Nyong’o is going to play Helen of Troy.

www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
Charles Murray, the infamous author of The Bell Curve and its noxious theories about race and IQ, declared that "Christopher Nolan casting a black woman as Helen of Troy in The Odyssey causes me to feel hostility. It is a deliberate assault on a treasure of Western Civilization." Elon Musk posted, "Chris Nolan has lost his integrity."

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 4d
NYTimes after using Chris Rufo as an assignment editor for a decade

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 4d
Musk is going to make your retirement fund underwrite his CSAM machine without ceding any voting control—and there’s nothing you can do about it, suckers.
annmlipton.bsky.social Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 4d
The point for SpaceX is once it's in mainstream indexes, index investors functionally are forced to buy. They cannot sell. And since Musk will control voting, they will have no rights at all. Functionally forced to supply capital.

www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Exclusive | SpaceX Seeks Early Index Entry as It Prepares Massive IPO
Advisers to company CEO Elon Musk have reached out to major index providers seeking ways to secure earlier inclusion in market benchmarks to lift shares
www.wsj.com

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 4d
to understand why donald trump is having a statue of christopher columbus installed at the White House, you must understand that what we call "the White House" is actually an experimental memory care unit staffed entirely by all of nick fuentes' biggest fans

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4d
Brad Karp, the chairman of the Paul Weiss law firm who brokered that deal with Trump last year & agreed to provide $40 million of pro bono services for Trump's causes, resigns due to fallout over his emails with Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Brad Karp Resigns as Paul Weiss Chairman Amid Epstein Fallout
www.nytimes.com

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 4d
The point for SpaceX is once it's in mainstream indexes, index investors functionally are forced to buy. They cannot sell. And since Musk will control voting, they will have no rights at all. Functionally forced to supply capital.

www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Exclusive | SpaceX Seeks Early Index Entry as It Prepares Massive IPO
Advisers to company CEO Elon Musk have reached out to major index providers seeking ways to secure earlier inclusion in market benchmarks to lift shares
www.wsj.com