Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Patrick O’Keefe

@patrickokeefe.bsky.social

520 followers 600 following 1.2K posts

💼 Online community management, content moderation, trust and safety, policy, product 🏗️ Built: D2C, membership, streaming products 🏢 Past: CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery 📚 Author: Managing Online Forums 🎙️ Host: @communitysignal.bsky.social 📍 Hollywood

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · Jun 9

Quick word on the "LA Riots"...

1. I was at Disneyland on Saturday, went out for bagels in Burbank on Sunday, and walked Sunset in Hollywood today. Drove the 101 (main road that goes through DTLA) multiple times. LA is fine. Actually, it's not fine, but "riots" aren't the reason.

3 14 56

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 4h

A CNN paid streaming tier was always inevitable, was always going to happen, and was always a worthy idea. I hope they get the runway to see it through because it absolutely can be successful. CNN has never suffered for talented people - they have many - they just need commitment from leadership.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 4h

Worth noting that it really has little to do with the CNN folks (then or now) or the old WarnerMedia folks. The decision to cut CNN+ so short (and on my first day of parental leave, ha) was a Discovery takeover thing that they own fully.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 4h

I think the worst part was them tossing out 150,000 paying subscribers (150,000 credit cards on file!), accumulated in just a few weeks. That was a lot of people. More than I was expecting.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 4h

It's not even just the reported $300 million sunk cost into the product. By my own rough estimate, you can add another $40 million in severance payments that would have simply been salaries to employees for nine months. Only for them to rehire the same product head to lead a similar strategy.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 4h

An incredible amount of capital was wasted to essentially end up in the same, inevitable place. Whether it was vengeance or a lack of foresight, it stands out as pretty silly.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 4h

I don't think David Zaslav and the Discovery folks will ever get enough criticism for how they handled CNN+ in the early days of their takeover of WarnerMedia.

CNN to Launch Streaming Subscription Tier for $6.99 Per Month

CNN To Launch Streaming Subscription Tier for $6.99 Per Month

variety.com

Reposted by Patrick O’Keefe

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 13h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

250 1.2K 6.6K

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 1d

A split image showing Patrick on the left and Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley from the movie Beverly Hills Cop on the right. Patrick is smiling and wearing a black and white varsity jacket, blue jeans, and white sneakers, standing in what appears to be Super Nintendo World. Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley is wearing a similar black and white varsity jacket, blue jeans, and white sneakers, holding a gun, against an orange and black background with "BEVERLY HILLS" visible at the top.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 1d

"Netflix announced on Tuesday that Being Eddie, a new documentary on iconic comedian and actor Eddie Murphy, is set to begin streaming on the platform on Wednesday, November 12."

Super excited for this, from the Netflix doc team, including @blammoair.bsky.social.

Netflix Sets Premiere Date For Eddie Murphy Doc ‘Being Eddie’

Eddie Murphy Doc 'Being Eddie' has locked in a fall launch on Netflix, the streamer announced on Tuesday.

deadline.com

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson: "No one has ever deserved [the Nobel Peace] Prize more and that is an objective fact."

😆😆😆

Imagine winning a Nobel Peace Prize while deploying the military against your own citizens.

Reposted by Patrick O’Keefe

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

130 290 1.7K

Reposted by Patrick O’Keefe

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

300 1.9K 4.7K

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 6d

"She thought her dad was an unassuming family man — until the FBI knocked on her door. The daughter of the BTK serial killer shares her shocking story."

My Father, the BTK Killer is out today on Netflix, care of the doc team @blammoair.bsky.social is on.

A promotional poster for the Netflix documentary "My Father the BTK Killer." The poster features the dark silhouette of a person, seen from the side, against a blurry, muted-toned background of what looks like a sunset or sunrise over a field. The person's face is obscured, and their hair is pulled back. The title MY FATHER THE BTK KILLER is prominently displayed in large, white, distressed letters below the silhouette. The top of the poster reads A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY in a smaller font. At the bottom, it says ONLY ON NETFLIX | OCTOBER 10 in red and white text. The image has a distorted, glitched effect near the top, where a faint, shadowy face is barely visible in the background.

2 1

Reposted by Patrick O’Keefe

Community Signal @communitysignal.bsky.social · 6d

Today marks 10 years since Karn Broad started working on Community Signal as the show's producer. I've actually worked with Karn for roughly 14 years in total, going back to a previous show that I hosted.

1 1 1

Reposted by Patrick O’Keefe

Katie Sharp @sharpstats.bsky.social · 8d

Most HR in Potential Elimination Games in Postseason History:

Aaron Judge 6
David Ortiz 6

7 25

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 8d

People are weird about music and forget that the most popular things in the world are often things that you personally don't like. 🙂

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 8d

LEE GREENWOOD. I audibly chuckled.

Bad Bunny is the #1 global artist on Spotify this week.

First week of July? #1.
First week of March? #1.
First week of January? #1.

Not sure you can find a more indicative metric of "broader appeal."

House Speaker Johnson Calls Bad Bunny at Super Bowl ‘a Terrible Decision,’ Says It Should’ve Been Someone With ‘a Broader Audience’ — Like Lee Greenwood

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is 'a terrible decision' to book Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl, saying Lee Greenwood would have been a better pick.

variety.com

1 2

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 8d

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley is out now. Love the reporting @jacobsilverman.com has been doing, so had to pick up a copy.

www.jacobsilverman.com/p/preorder-g...

A top-down shot of a book titled "Gilded Rage" by Jacob Silverman, resting on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star, which is a reddish-pink color with a brass rim, has the name SILVERMAN inscribed in brass letters. The star also has a brass television icon in a black circle, indicating a contribution to television. The book's cover is black with an orange crown. The bottom of the book's cover reads, "Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley." The star's background is a speckled black and gray.

3 12

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 9d

Going to go ahead and bump this moment I had with John Fetterman for no apparent reason.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · Jun 17

I saw John Fetterman in Beverly Hills on Saturday (No Kings Day), sitting under a tree in a garden, drinking Starbucks.

I'm posting this because he's mentioned the California protests twice on Twitter. Both times, it was to say they were violent and destructive. So what are you doing here?

John Fetterman sitting in Beverly Hills on Saturday, June 14.

A Twitter post from John Fetterman, made on June 9, 2025. It features a photo of Waymos on fire, and a person standing on one of them, waiving a Mexican flag. It reads:

"I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that.

This is anarchy and true chaos.

My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement."

A Twitter post from John Fetterman, made on June 11, 2025. It features a photo of Waymos on fire, and reads:

"WIN THE ARGUMENT

DO NOT
- loot
- set shit on fire
- assault law enforcement

DO
- protest peacefully
- organize to win elections
- call out destructive behavior like this"

Reposted by Patrick O’Keefe

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 10d

Rebecca is a legend and needs some help. Consider donating if you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...?

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

www.gofundme.com

1 180 160

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 10d

From the doc team that @blammoair.bsky.social is on.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 10d

"One woman. Dozens of 911 calls. And a close-knit neighborhood caught in a nightmare. What begins as one woman’s relentless harassment of children spirals into a shocking act of violence."

The Perfect Neighbor. Netflix. October 17.

The Perfect Neighbor | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

www.youtube.com

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 10d

Love to see solid homeschool representation. Congrats @mychal3ts.bsky.social!

The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 12d

Reading Rainbow Is Back With a New Host -- @mychal3ts.bsky.social -- And The Same Mission

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/s...

‘Reading Rainbow’ Comes Back With a New Host, but the Same Mission

www.nytimes.com

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 10d

You're telling me that Trump and co. want to take California National Guard troops and send them to *Portland, Oregon* to provide physical backup for unskilled worked that are beating up on Portlanders?

I can't vote YES on 50 fast enough.

Patrick O’Keefe @patrickokeefe.bsky.social · 13d

What a legend. Hyacinth Bucket was an all-time great character. Rest in peace.

Patricia Routledge, Hoity-Toity Housewife of ‘Keeping Up Appearances,’ Dies at 96

www.nytimes.com

1 2