John Castiglione
@johncastiglione.bsky.social
Ma said, “Tom, they’ll drive you, an’ cut you down like they done to young Floyd.”
“They gonna drive me anyways. They drivin’ all our people.”
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Gardens. Libraries. I write about John Steinbeck in my spare time.
“They gonna drive me anyways. They drivin’ all our people.”
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Gardens. Libraries. I write about John Steinbeck in my spare time.
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I disagree these are inherently untruthful professions. The problem is Dems often pretend to be something they’re not. When you watch a Democrat you’re usually keenly aware you’re watching someone perform a personality they think you’ll like better than their actual selves bsky.app/profile/redb...
I think it's telling that the most likely career paths are the Armed Forces, Private Law, and Business which are all profoundly untruthful career paths - being an earnest hard-working person who speaks plainly is simply not a common way to legislature.
Opinion | Paths to Power: How Every Member Got to Congress (Published 2019)
Most members of the House, even the new ones, made it to Washington by way of institutions and professions that are out of reach for most Americans.
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I disagree these are inherently untruthful professions. The problem is Dems often pretend to be something they’re not. When you watch a Democrat you’re usually keenly aware you’re watching someone perform a personality they think you’ll like better than their actual selves bsky.app/profile/redb...
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i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
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Miller obviously fantasizes about himself as Goebbels, clearly practices speeches in the mirror where he gets to order the end of democracy and the roundup of minorities. He’s a warped bigot who is totally unfit to exist in society, much less run the government. Get rid of him, end the crisis.
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Miller obviously fantasizes about himself as Goebbels, clearly practices speeches in the mirror where he gets to order the end of democracy and the roundup of minorities. He’s a warped bigot who is totally unfit to exist in society, much less run the government. Get rid of him, end the crisis.
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
I think it’s important to be clear who made this argument, though, it wasn’t a tech bro, it was the lawyers. It’s the BigLaw lawyers who have absolutely no morals that wrote something like this.
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I think it’s important to be clear who made this argument, though, it wasn’t a tech bro, it was the lawyers. It’s the BigLaw lawyers who have absolutely no morals that wrote something like this.
Yet another government that ignored the obvious threat of Trump to its own (likely) demise
Seems clear now that as soon as it became plausible that Trump might run and win again, a main war aim of Ukraine should have been preventing that at any cost. Because the alternative was always losing US as an ally, and probably it becoming an active belligerent for Russia.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Yet another government that ignored the obvious threat of Trump to its own (likely) demise
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Modern Dems: "I heard it's cool to swear now in media hits. Donald Trump is bullshit, bro."
Eleanor: I will write a column, daily, for 25 straight years about my travels, my meals, visitors, horseback riding. I will help lead the most successful political, social, and military project of all time.
Eleanor: I will write a column, daily, for 25 straight years about my travels, my meals, visitors, horseback riding. I will help lead the most successful political, social, and military project of all time.
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Modern Dems: "I heard it's cool to swear now in media hits. Donald Trump is bullshit, bro."
Eleanor: I will write a column, daily, for 25 straight years about my travels, my meals, visitors, horseback riding. I will help lead the most successful political, social, and military project of all time.
Eleanor: I will write a column, daily, for 25 straight years about my travels, my meals, visitors, horseback riding. I will help lead the most successful political, social, and military project of all time.
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Modern Dems: "Americans are lumpen consumers who care only about cost of living. vote for me, I know what I am doing"
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Modern Dems: "Americans are lumpen consumers who care only about cost of living. vote for me, I know what I am doing"
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
Ain’t no sometimes
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Ain’t no sometimes
Modern Dems: "Americans are lumpen consumers who care only about cost of living. vote for me, I know what I am doing"
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Modern Dems: "Americans are lumpen consumers who care only about cost of living. vote for me, I know what I am doing"
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
Eleanor: "[It is] the individual's duty to understand the agencies for public service in his community so that he may perform the responsibilities of citizenship." May 25, 1938.
I mean, I guess we are going to find out if it is.
Again, every elected Democrat needs to put out a video stating exactly what Kelly and the others said. If ever there were a line to draw in the sand, it’s here. The military is not the president’s Praetorian Guard.
“Within the White House, Trump and his lieutenants aren’t planning on letting up…Trump has told some advisers that he wants RICO prosecutions and conspiracy charges leveled against the six Democrats, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells Zeteo…
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
zeteo.com/p/how-we-gre...
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I mean, I guess we are going to find out if it is.
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this is exactly why it sat funny with me; i do appreciate them rousing from their slumber to make some attempt at commanding attention, but fuck if this isn't "someone else besides me must fix this!" pt. 6,407
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
this is exactly why it sat funny with me; i do appreciate them rousing from their slumber to make some attempt at commanding attention, but fuck if this isn't "someone else besides me must fix this!" pt. 6,407
@davidgerard.co.uk I told ya. MST3K is SO not of the 1980s. Because they ended. In mid-1988.
Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
@davidgerard.co.uk I told ya. MST3K is SO not of the 1980s. Because they ended. In mid-1988.
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Alongside a lot of gross stuff post 9/11 about Islam, this might be the single most sacrilegious thing I've ever seen in a major publication.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
@usccbofficial.bsky.social care to comment?
Alongside a lot of gross stuff post 9/11 about Islam, this might be the single most sacrilegious thing I've ever seen in a major publication.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Alongside a lot of gross stuff post 9/11 about Islam, this might be the single most sacrilegious thing I've ever seen in a major publication.
Take a moment to contemplate how scummy this is: every single person that works at the Atlantic will get their child vaccinated, exactly on schedule, and yet they have no problem fluffing a degenerate monster who literally wants other people’s children dead of preventable disease.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Take a moment to contemplate how scummy this is: every single person that works at the Atlantic will get their child vaccinated, exactly on schedule, and yet they have no problem fluffing a degenerate monster who literally wants other people’s children dead of preventable disease.
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Jared Kushner is another person who must be prosecuted and jailed if we want to have a functional democracy going forward.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Jared Kushner is another person who must be prosecuted and jailed if we want to have a functional democracy going forward.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
And his money must be taken and used for pro-democracy purposes.
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Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent.
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent.
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...
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The 1980s ended in mid-1988, and the 1990s didn’t start until 1992. The time in between is a magical liminal space. I’m actually very serious about this.
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The 1980s ended in mid-1988, and the 1990s didn’t start until 1992. The time in between is a magical liminal space. I’m actually very serious about this.
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This is the only correct answer. Do whichever you will do consistently. At prior times in my life, I went to the gym. Now I’ve got a home set up, which is obviously FAR cheaper… You can get literally everything you need with a simple bench, handful of dumbbells, and if you really want, a bench rack
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is the only correct answer. Do whichever you will do consistently. At prior times in my life, I went to the gym. Now I’ve got a home set up, which is obviously FAR cheaper… You can get literally everything you need with a simple bench, handful of dumbbells, and if you really want, a bench rack
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Even the claim that crypto is needed as a hedge against a possible collapse of the dollar is dubious - gold & other precious metals & commodities work quite well.
Crypto serves fascism & transnational crime.
Crypto serves fascism & transnational crime.
Peter Thiel is obsessed with the Antichrist — but what does he actually mean when he talks about it?
This week @gilduran.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Thiel casts his enemies as the Antichrist to distract from Silicon Valley’s anti-human project.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/303_...
This week @gilduran.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Thiel casts his enemies as the Antichrist to distract from Silicon Valley’s anti-human project.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/303_...
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Even the claim that crypto is needed as a hedge against a possible collapse of the dollar is dubious - gold & other precious metals & commodities work quite well.
Crypto serves fascism & transnational crime.
Crypto serves fascism & transnational crime.
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.