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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
@brianckeegan.com

{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info

Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26

High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science

https://www.brianckeegan.com/

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Computer science 36%
Communication & Media Studies 30%
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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

Got some good stuff cooking about the afterlives of reactionary knowledge.

Did you know that artifacts have politics?!
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

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lmao Epstein was banned on Xbox Live

"But the donors and consultants keep saying we need to pivot to the center!"

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Not really sure what’s to be done about it. But it’s kind of a big problem that Senate Republicans have ZERO reason to believe a Democratic president would ever lay paramilitary siege to red America for any reason or on any pretext.
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
Tillis:
Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com

The 2x Scalia clerk is further to the left than Schumer and Jeffries.
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

“The President is immune from prosecution and has unchecked pardon powers, but he can also sue himself for $10 billion?”

SCOTUS: “But only when the President is a Republican.”
*TRUMP SUES IRS, TREASURY FOR $10 BILLION OVER TAX-RETURN LEAKS
*TRUMP SUES IRS, TREASURY FOR $10 BILLION OVER TAX-RETURN LEAKS

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Most media headlines right now are like "We are laying off 2/3 of our staff and also the president is our ombudsman now" but somehow David Brooks got two new jobs in one day

Gonna be huge news when Congressional Democrats hear about this in a few years.
Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And:

"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans."

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans
Only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump's policies – down since last year, with the change coming entirely among Republicans.
www.pewresearch.org
Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And:

"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans."

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans
Only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump's policies – down since last year, with the change coming entirely among Republicans.
www.pewresearch.org

Surely the board of directors has some fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders instead of rubber-stamping whatever their very special boy said from his k-hole.

Aww, the malignant narcissist child molesting mobster isn't returning your calls after you gave him your Nobel Peace Price as a reward for invading your country?
🚨 New Study 🚨

@arxiv.bsky.social has recently decided to prohibit any 'position' paper from being submitted to its CS servers.
Why? Because of the "AI slop", and allegedly higher ratios of LLM-generated content in review papers, compared to non-review papers.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."

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“We live in a moment where many on the right don’t shy away from announcing their most heinous viewpoints. But it is sometimes still necessary to sift through the stinking muck of their rhetoric and find what’s lurking within it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/after-alex-p...
After Alex Pretti’s Murder, it’s Clear That MAGA Media Views White Liberals as Race Traitors
MAGA is committed to the belief that the people ICE is pursuing are inherently bad and that therefore opposing ICE is standing with criminals and rapists against the American people.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

She was probably in elementary school when the Access Hollywood tape dropped.
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder

The 11% of Democrats who think ICE deportations are “about right” or “not aggressive enough” are well represented by @schumer.senate.gov
Fox News Poll: 59% of voters say ICE is too aggressive, up 10 points since July
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

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Fox News Poll: 59% of voters say ICE is too aggressive, up 10 points since July
www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder