Keith Harris
@usefulnoise.bsky.social
Creeping socialist. Premature anti-rockist. Oldest living Racket editor. Saving my labor for insane reading. Subscribe to Racket, or at least read it. https://racketmn.com/author/keith-harris
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Keith Harris
@usefulnoise.bsky.social
· Dec 20
The Year In Music 2024: Accepting Sadness as a Gift in the Age of the Oligarchs - Racket
In 2024, my favorite music didn't always prepare me for the fight ahead, but it always reminded me what was at stake.
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Please forgive me, I have committed a "year in music" essay.
Baby Keith (& Friends): The College Years
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Baby Keith (& Friends): The College Years
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"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"Starting this year the so-called 'media traffic apocalypse' caused by Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Prior to that, Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview."
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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Evergreen message from Joyce Carol Oates about Curtis Yarvin...
October 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Evergreen message from Joyce Carol Oates about Curtis Yarvin...
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Movie critics on TV discuss the relative grosses of the new releases; the grosses at this point relative to previous hits; which pictures will pass the others in a few weeks. It’s like the Olympics—which will be the winners? (1980)
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Movie critics on TV discuss the relative grosses of the new releases; the grosses at this point relative to previous hits; which pictures will pass the others in a few weeks. It’s like the Olympics—which will be the winners? (1980)
Listening to Rumours for the first time in ages and I hate to say it but the rock critics were right all along: the rhythm section really is what makes it work.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Listening to Rumours for the first time in ages and I hate to say it but the rock critics were right all along: the rhythm section really is what makes it work.
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oh what’s that? i wrote about all this last year for Defector and made quite a few people mad?
Good, Bad, Or Invisible, CGI Makes Movies Unreal | Defector
In one of cinema’s earliest recordings, Auguste Lumière and his wife Marguerite are seen feeding their baby daughter Andrée. The footage, shot by Louis Lumiére, lasts only about 40 seconds or so. Pres...
defector.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
oh what’s that? i wrote about all this last year for Defector and made quite a few people mad?
OutKast? The rappers the Bush twins namedropped at the 2004 RNC?
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
OutKast? The rappers the Bush twins namedropped at the 2004 RNC?
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I left the Orpheum elated. What was not to love? But as my serotonin inevitably dipped over the following few days, I asked myself instead, “What was so great about it?”
David Byrne Documents Our Lives During Wartime at the Orpheum - Racket
The erstwhile Talking Head's latest pop-art pageant celebrated community, choreography, and connection.
racketmn.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I left the Orpheum elated. What was not to love? But as my serotonin inevitably dipped over the following few days, I asked myself instead, “What was so great about it?”
A House Made of Dynamite is as bad and dull as everyone says, but I did lol hysterically when the Secretary of Defense [SPOILER REDACTED].
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
A House Made of Dynamite is as bad and dull as everyone says, but I did lol hysterically when the Secretary of Defense [SPOILER REDACTED].
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November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Saw David Byrne this week, and of course I had thoughts.
David Byrne Documents Our Lives During Wartime at the Orpheum - Racket
The erstwhile Talking Head's latest pop-art pageant celebrated community, choreography, and connection.
racketmn.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Saw David Byrne this week, and of course I had thoughts.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is on🔥: "Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant ... I want to suggest a different mental model of politics: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing."
Do What You Believe In
How to navigate a complex political world.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social is on🔥: "Engaging with politics, to many voters, means stepping into the mind state of a political consultant ... I want to suggest a different mental model of politics: Think about what you want to happen. Then fight for that thing."
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doing my regular check of Baseballs Signed By Celebrities On eBay and i gotta say this feels like a great deal
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
doing my regular check of Baseballs Signed By Celebrities On eBay and i gotta say this feels like a great deal
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Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.
Predator: Days of Heaven
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Predator: Days of Heaven
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06 Nov 2025
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
06 Nov 2025
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After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
After reading Carl Sandburg's "Chicago' poem in full in open court this morning, Federal Judge Sarah Ellis says this about our city:
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
It should go without saying that is she correct & Donald Trump is lying. #chicago
Not to be constantly "ugh twitter" but I was there just long enough this morning to see people who don't even live in MN claiming to Understand Minneapolis Politics and jesus please shut up.
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Not to be constantly "ugh twitter" but I was there just long enough this morning to see people who don't even live in MN claiming to Understand Minneapolis Politics and jesus please shut up.
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I don’t want to memory-hole Betsy Hodges’ 2013 win. It definitely wasn’t DSA but it was last successful center-left alliance. Folks should re-read this September Racket piece, where she describes the alliance but — I know this will chafe — the need to appeal to SW. racketmn.com/minneapolis-...
![Hodges: The average call on the Hodges campaign in 2013 was nine minutes long. That is outrageously long. And we had tens of thousands of those conversations. That's what my campaign was, all based on this message [of belonging and racial equity]. And the activist left was a huge part of that. They brought volunteers, they brought resources, people doorknocked, they did all the
stuff. And then we won.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2yhglxsi2owchryafic2gmr3/bafkreiffduqnf3ewgipwnug5atnki6ftecgsazqo2hhwiqicxf67dw64de@jpeg)
![Hodges: I think the lesson that the old guard learned from 2013 was they needed to be more organized, they needed to have a stronger message-they generally choose the message of fear-and that they needed to pour a lot of money into the mayor's race in order to win. Those were the lessons they learned, and that
has been their gameplan ever since, in 2017, in 2021, and, I assume, in 2025. I think the conclusion [the activist left] drew was, "We have cracked the code. We know how to win citywide. If we come together and we organize in this way, we're the ones who did it. Betsy Hodges won because of us." And it is true that they were necessary, but they were not sufficient. Because what I brought to the table was years and years and years of loving and building relationships with and leading white people in southwest Minneapolis in a way that meant they would follow me. In Minneapolis, if you do not have a message and if you do not have a relationship with the white voters of southwest Minneapolis, you just don't win
citywide.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2yhglxsi2owchryafic2gmr3/bafkreida3opuibehgn2pymfwazeg5bsj5uy7whppsqrjr5fsgy7rcy3gfm@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I don’t want to memory-hole Betsy Hodges’ 2013 win. It definitely wasn’t DSA but it was last successful center-left alliance. Folks should re-read this September Racket piece, where she describes the alliance but — I know this will chafe — the need to appeal to SW. racketmn.com/minneapolis-...