bradkeefe.bsky.social
Ex-journalist/film critic. Biden/Harris Democrat. Pragmatic progressive. Taylor Swift/NIN.
Big fan of serious people.
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This also feels like the plot of Midsommar
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it's so wild how all the warnings (the press downplayed or ignored) were not only true, the reality was much, much, much worse
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A lot of very serious pundits pushed ditching the filibuster to expand the Supreme Court as if that would be a one-time fix and not end with it happening every time there was a new majority and 256 justices.
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I’m really over the breathless dramatic doom posting as if it’s anything but engagement farming.
“This is fascism. Full stop.”
<hits send>
<checks notifications for three hours>
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A narrative you are helping push for … reasons?
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They were vetted. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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50501 actually aligned almost immediately with a subreddit of Bernie revolutionary folks.
The idea that we don’t want people hearing “liberal propaganda” is a pretty good sign that this movement is worth scrutiny.
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Republican rule is just a naturally occurring phenomenon in this analogy. Apparently no way we could have predicted or prevented it!
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* fourth estate. I’m angry right now.
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Can just we start calling them feckless journalists? Just this whole generation destroying the third estate to get some social media engagement.
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There’s a whole lane of the online left that almost exclusively functions as useful idiots and rubes for the right. This week is really amplifying that.
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I hate this particular talking point. Universal healthcare is popular as a concept. Eliminating private insurance and raising middle-class taxes is hugely unpopular. In fact, a majority of those who support it don’t understand that part.
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It’s an issue that the younger staffers of “leftist” candidates are so online they know what gets numbers here and aren’t really prepared to go outside those bubbles. It’s why they’re historically bad at persuasion and coalition-building.
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Oh less of both are good! I’m just saying at least a cheeseburger fills you up. 😂 This is some dumb spin from Bloomberg meant to deflect one of the lesser criticisms of AI.
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I think food is also probably still more important than training a LLM for free as a use of resources.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer now may be the best newspaper in journalistic standards now.
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I canceled both and I desperately want them to give me a reason to come back. WaPo’s got great journalists but Bezos is now interfering editorially in ways he wasn’t. The Times is just failing the moment. It’s an own goal when they should be stepping up.
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I don’t think the “Dems could have codified Roe” crowd ever understood what the Biden administration did within its power after the Dobbs decision and how that shielded some of the worst consequences.
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You can actually skim the headlines from the AP News and have a decent understanding of events. NYT and really most other outlets fail at this now.
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As someone who wrote headlines in both print and internet days, there’s been a shift towards spinning, obfuscating or teasing content in headlines vs. making them as clear and informative as possible on their own. And that clickbait approach fails us now.
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Their headline for this same event: “Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading effort to slash federal government”
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And in comparison, the Associated Press still passes the standards I learned in j-school and never makes me want to throw my phone across the room.
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I canceled my NYT subscription after 9 years in mid-2024, but I do check it frequently to see story placement and framing. It is no closer to getting me back.
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In 2020, the Sanders campaign had universal name recognition, a massive donor contact list (that he never shared to help elect Dems downballot), raised a ton of money and … lost about a third of their 2016 vote share. One of the bigger campaign flops I can remember.
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I remember at one point she tweeted a very alarming article about Covid and when people were pointing out the article was two years old, she was like, so what?
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Pretty sure she was making a reference to musician Lucy Dacus who responded to being on one of Obama’s music lists with that in a quote tweet. She got zero backlash and a lot of praise for that.
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I’m not sure there’s a single journalist who has been more cooked by the internet and is less self-aware of it.