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brooke baldeschwiler
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here ‘til you make me do the videos
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I still hate it here, but "Soy Right" is just 😙👌
maxread.info Max Read @maxread.info · Feb 12
this week's newsletter: the soy right

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We’re now three weeks into the second Trump administration, and it seems clear that something has changed from the first go-round. The MAGA populist fraction of the Trumpist coalition has been relatively marginalized in favor of the austerian-accelerationist Silicon Valley right. The archetypal article about Trump voters in rural diners replaced with magazine stories about obnoxious arrivistes comparing Trump to Beyoncé and the inauguration to Comic-Con. Even Trump himself seems oddly sidelined, his threats about tariffs and treasuries effectively ignored by both heads of state and the stock market, his striking and creative Truth social postings left mostly unread--while Elon Musk attracts all resistance energy simply by tweeting “🤣” at some of the worst jokes on the planet. The end beneficiaries of Trumpist upward redistribution haven’t changed much. But the affect of the second Trump administration is, so far, wholly different. Gone is the apocalyptic malevolence of “American carnage,” supplanted by the unctuous corniness of “DOGE.” Gone is the sense of a lasting political realignment, succeeded by an inescapable minoritarian whine. Gone are Steve Bannon, the alt-right, and the “forgotten man and woman” Trump celebrated in his 2016 victory speech. In their place: Elon Musk and the Soy Right. To me the other key aspect of the Soy Right psychological profile, beyond its desperate need for approval and respect, is a childlike refusal of agency and responsibility, even while in power. A 20-something with access to Treasury Department systems is a “kid” whose racism shouldn’t be disqualifying. The South African billionaire throwing Nazi salutes is a enthusiastic neuroatyptical man who needs our sympathy. The Vice President of the United States would never have attracted the attention of the Pope if it weren’t for “hysteric progressives,” the real villains. Silicon Valley oligarchs were “driven into Trump’s arms” by the perfidy of Democrats. No one in the Soy Right makes affirmative choices; they’re smol beans who need protection and care. This insistence on one’s own weakness a contemptible way to live in the world. But the style of the Soy Right is as important, and in some ways even more depressing, than its animating resentments. If the online right of the first Trump administration was an unstable blend of Facebook credulity and 4chan nihilism, the Soy Right is an unbearable mix of Reddit corniness and Twitter self-satisfaction. We can look at some examples. Renaming a government agency after a decade-old memecoin and making the website an A.I.-generated cartoon--that’s Soy Right
February 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Calling all New Yorkers, @brooklynmuseum.org is the only NYC museum nominated on this year's Best Art Museums thing. Vote for your favorite hometown museum through February 17 (and you can vote multiple times, once a day).
What is the Best Art Museum for 2025?
Voting for the Best Art Museum is open! Cast your vote daily to help pick the 2025 10Best Readers' Choice Award for Best Art Museum.
10best.usatoday.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🎤 ← is this thing on?

In honor of joining Bluesky and connecting with followers (familiar and new), allow us to re-introduce ourselves…🧵 (1/8)

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE9v...
⚫ THIS IS THE SPOT ⚫ | Brooklyn Museum
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January 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Shout out to Ireland for selling me paperback versions of All Fours and Intermezzo months earlier than U.S. publishers will allow. Justice for hardback haters.
December 19, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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a little ode to brooklyn—brooklyn as muse, brooklyn as a home for creatives—with two of our ever inspiring artist-trustees, mickalene thomas, jeffrey gibson <3

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Brooklyn Inspires | Mickalene Thomas and Jeffrey Gibson Discuss The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition
YouTube video by Brooklyn Museum
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December 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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90s kids—did anyone else make vhs mix tapes of your favorite MTV music videos? Still holding out hope my mom didn’t actually throw them and they’re around in a dusty box somewhere.
December 16, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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For my Brooklyn/NYC peeps who want to feel something this holiday season—there are three days left of @brooklynmuseum.org's annual toy drive. We have bins set up in our lobby you can easily pop in and drop off new, unwrapped toys (for ages 0–14). I promise you'll feel real good after <3
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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debuting calvin, my favorite soft/sharpboi on the occasion of his 8th birthday. sound off in the replies how much you love him. or don’t. he’s a cat. he couldn’t care less.
a softboi (cat) thinking hard thing, upside down on a couch. He is mostly white with tiger markings, with STUNNING green eyes. softboi (cat) sitting on one of the two fucking places in apartment that we constantly ask him not to—our brick wall mounted bookshelves. Alas, he’s cute and has big dumb ears. a softboi (cat) lying in a window dramatically looking out, is it a bird? No, probably just noticed his reflection. He may have a walnut brain but he sure is handsie sofiboi (cat) yet again, in a perfect shrimp pose on the couch. His cutie harm covers his face, revealing a little flirty eye 👁️ 🍤
December 11, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Still monitoring what the appetite is for art content here, but dropping this lovely new series we @brooklynmuseum.org are trying out—an advice column for art lovers. 💌

Hope to hear from some of you 🥰
Dear Ms. Lonely Arts
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection...
www.brooklynmuseum.org
December 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Ken Burns' doc reminds me how much I loved da Vinci as an art history bebe. Imagine being a low-born genius, working your ass off since childhood to achieve success, and your flex is to buy all the birds at markets just to let them out of their cages. What a gentle little punk.
December 7, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Thinking about what kind of personality we’ll assume on Bluesky… 🧵

Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894–1978). Portrait of a Woman. www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti...
December 3, 2024 at 9:30 PM
baddieschwiler.bsky.social
Y'all are sleeping on the real cinema doubleheader, Queerstance. I may never sleep again but nobody cared if I sang along to the Queer's soundtrack, and fight scenes in The Substance are my Roman Empire.
December 1, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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All I want for Christmas is a way to block these engagement-thirsty generic MSNBC lib resistance memes from my feed. Appreciate the sentiment, Nancy, but I'm not on Facebook for a reason.
lame, overused meme that says "there is no plan to fix anything because the plan was to destroy everything" that I wish would stop being delivered to me. lame, overused meme of uncle same that says "I want you to keep punching nazis" that I wish would stop being delivered to me.
November 29, 2024 at 2:01 PM
baddieschwiler.bsky.social
I will never complain about my job again.
jbillinson.bsky.social Josh Billinson @jbillinson.bsky.social · Nov 25
“She has no official title, but during the campaign, colleagues referred to her as the “human printer” because she followed Mr. Trump around with a portable printer and a battery pack to charge it, so she could hand him information in hard copy, as he prefers.”
Devoted Aide Who Keeps Good News Flowing Will Follow Trump to the White House
Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the primary conveyor belt for information to and from the president.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 9:35 PM
baddieschwiler.bsky.social
These times are not unprecedented. It would do us all some good to look back on history right now.
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Nov 22
This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...
Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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November 24, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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Everything you need to know about City of Yes — the massive attempt to address the housing shortage and end parking minimums — if you haven't been paying attention nygroove.nyc/everything-t...
Everything to know about City of Yes if you haven’t been paying attention
The mayor's signature policy plan is up for a major vote today — here's your crib sheet if you're just catching up on the whole thing now.
nygroove.nyc
November 24, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Did we elect @aoc.bsky.social to be our president (and a Takei VP)?! Really loving this simulation.
November 23, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Alright, @bsky.app. If you can successfully feed me a steady stream of film content that is only new releases and reviews of independent and international cinema without all the generic film bot noise and industry news, I'll be yours forever. Any tips, feeds, or packs out there I'm not seeing? 📽️
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Evergreen reminder to check in on your social media staff (and pay them what they are worth).
mgoldstein.nyc Mitch Goldstein @mgoldstein.nyc · Nov 19
Your social media team is tiiiiired. So much so that half of them are thinking about changing jobs entirely. This and other findings in part two of our results from the Link in Bio Social Media Compensation Survey. www.milkkarten.net/p/half-of-so...
Half of Social Media Managers Want to Change Jobs
Part two of the 2024 Social Media Compensation Survey results.
www.milkkarten.net
November 20, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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IDGAF about Trump appointments or post-debate think pieces. Just give me post-rock / experimental music beef updates starring my favorite ice queen until I decide to quit my current dissociative state.
Martha Stewart Reportedly Attends Godspeed You! Black Emperor Show, Disses Colin Stetson
It would appear that extremely famous lady Martha Stewart has mixed feelings about the intense instrumental artists on the Constellation Records roster. This past weekend, Stewart was in Charleston, S...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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POV: you hop on yet another platform and agonize for hours about what your first post should be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub1Y...
High Dive | Mr. Bean Official
YouTube video by Mr Bean
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November 16, 2024 at 6:41 PM