John Michael Castagna
@leadersjohn.bsky.social
Need a job. DM me. Lost college teaching job via MAGA teenagers complaint. College strategic comm's/speech&writing prof in PA. Past speaker in nat'l major media. Photographer, guitarist, former journalist. Leadership guidance speaker. Writer.
Of course, pandering to a Nazi-sympathizing administration, white is the only choice.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Of course, pandering to a Nazi-sympathizing administration, white is the only choice.
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For the past few years, American politics have been organized around a simple, unnerving feeling: Life is getting too expensive, and no one seems to know what to do about it.
The Case for Growth
Why the American dream stalled — and how to restart it.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
For the past few years, American politics have been organized around a simple, unnerving feeling: Life is getting too expensive, and no one seems to know what to do about it.
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Actually, there's a grain of legislative idea-making here. What if companies had to contribute to permanent unemployment insurance and social security funds for every job their robots have replaced?
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Actually, there's a grain of legislative idea-making here. What if companies had to contribute to permanent unemployment insurance and social security funds for every job their robots have replaced?
Anyone want to tell him that Ukraine is the largest country IN Europe?
⁉️ Putin says Russia can put in writing it will not attack Europe
Putin says Russia can put in writing it will not attack Europe
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has been ready to state in writing that it does not intend to attack Europe.
www.pravda.com.ua
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Anyone want to tell him that Ukraine is the largest country IN Europe?
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Can I give you a blow job dear leader.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Can I give you a blow job dear leader.
Community colleges used to be the first step to being more wholly educated. Now schools like the one I once went to, Luzerne County Comm College in NE PA denigrate thinking and whole-life learning. They have become trade schools. Learn a physical skill and get out. Low info voters coming.
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Community colleges used to be the first step to being more wholly educated. Now schools like the one I once went to, Luzerne County Comm College in NE PA denigrate thinking and whole-life learning. They have become trade schools. Learn a physical skill and get out. Low info voters coming.
RFK JR has had CDC website connecting vaccination to autism. One more trusted institution polluted by misinformation. We need another government, or another country.
a red flag with a hammer and sickle and a star on it .
ALT: a red flag with a hammer and sickle and a star on it .
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
RFK JR has had CDC website connecting vaccination to autism. One more trusted institution polluted by misinformation. We need another government, or another country.
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🚨BREAKING: In a burst of posts, Trump endorsed imprisoning, and even executing, Democratic lawmakers he accuses of “seditious behavior.”
Their offense? reminding U.S. troops to defend the Constitution.
https://bit.ly/4o6lJnQ
Their offense? reminding U.S. troops to defend the Constitution.
https://bit.ly/4o6lJnQ
Trump Calls for Executing Democrats Over Message to Military
Read more here.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a burst of posts, Trump endorsed imprisoning, and even executing, Democratic lawmakers he accuses of “seditious behavior.”
Their offense? reminding U.S. troops to defend the Constitution.
https://bit.ly/4o6lJnQ
Their offense? reminding U.S. troops to defend the Constitution.
https://bit.ly/4o6lJnQ
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Marjorie Taylor Greene said the growing animosity between her and Donald Trump “has all come down to the Epstein files.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene says fallout with Trump 'has all come down to the Epstein files'
The Georgia Republican said the president’s recent attacks on her could put her life in danger.
www.politico.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene said the growing animosity between her and Donald Trump “has all come down to the Epstein files.”
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The American penny is history. The nickel might be next.
With the end of the penny, is the clock ticking for the nickel? | CNN Business
The American penny is history. The nickel might be next.
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The American penny is history. The nickel might be next.
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NPR has aired a story about turmoil regarding Indiana University's treatment of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, and the lawsuit its adult advisor filed after the school fired him. The story on preserving free speech for student journalists spreads. https://loom.ly/Q_eRgcg
Indiana University facing lawsuit after claims it tried to censor student newspaper
Indiana University's student newspaper is at the center of a lawsuit by its former advisor who says he was fired by the administration because he stood up against censorship.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
NPR has aired a story about turmoil regarding Indiana University's treatment of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, and the lawsuit its adult advisor filed after the school fired him. The story on preserving free speech for student journalists spreads. https://loom.ly/Q_eRgcg
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
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"Eight Senators who caucus with the Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, not in victory, not to secure healthcare for millions, but to hand President Donald Trump and his morbidly rich cronies a gift-wrapped political win."
#Pinks
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#Pinks
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Schumer Has Betrayed Us for the Last Time; We Need New Leadership | Common Dreams
If Democrats are going to really confront Trump’s authoritarianism and the corporate corruption that fuels it—which is absolutely necessary now to rescue and sustain American democracy—we need a Senat...
www.commondreams.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"Eight Senators who caucus with the Democrats joined Republicans to end the government shutdown, not in victory, not to secure healthcare for millions, but to hand President Donald Trump and his morbidly rich cronies a gift-wrapped political win."
#Pinks
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#Pinks
www.commondreams.org/opinion/schu...
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Republicans consider public initiatives dangerous flirtations with socialism. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy reviving the concept of public ownership by having government agencies take stakes in a variety of companies.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/37Vplp
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/37Vplp
Socialism, But Make It Trump
After Zohran Mamdani’s victory, Republicans are fearmongering about Democrats turning socialist. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy taking stakes in private companies and ordering them around.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Republicans consider public initiatives dangerous flirtations with socialism. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is busy reviving the concept of public ownership by having government agencies take stakes in a variety of companies.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/37Vplp
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/37Vplp
I love Penn State. It's why I hate what you (PSU leadership) do to us.
There may be cosmic message in losing a 6th in a row. Maybe you deserve it.
You pay brand-name coaches tens of millions and millions of dollars, ignoring the continuity that rewards perennial champions.
There may be cosmic message in losing a 6th in a row. Maybe you deserve it.
You pay brand-name coaches tens of millions and millions of dollars, ignoring the continuity that rewards perennial champions.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I love Penn State. It's why I hate what you (PSU leadership) do to us.
There may be cosmic message in losing a 6th in a row. Maybe you deserve it.
You pay brand-name coaches tens of millions and millions of dollars, ignoring the continuity that rewards perennial champions.
There may be cosmic message in losing a 6th in a row. Maybe you deserve it.
You pay brand-name coaches tens of millions and millions of dollars, ignoring the continuity that rewards perennial champions.
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Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."
Pope Leo XIV asks the AI industry to 'cultivate moral discernment'
Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."
www.businessinsider.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Pope Leo XIV addressed AI developers in an X post on Friday, about six months after he said the tech poses "new challenges" to "human dignity."
Outrageous that no national reporting was done on protests at 100 [email protected] @cbsnews.com @msnbc.com @cnn.com @newsweek.com @washingtonpost.com @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social @facethenation.bsky.social @meetthepress.com @stephanopoulos.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
Student, national and local groups across US organized day of action to condemn Trump’s assault on academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Outrageous that no national reporting was done on protests at 100 [email protected] @cbsnews.com @msnbc.com @cnn.com @newsweek.com @washingtonpost.com @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social @facethenation.bsky.social @meetthepress.com @stephanopoulos.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Academics: I need to compile whatever I can find on college and university instructors who have been slapped down by their institutions or others in teaching media and/or information literacy. Me: fired for doing so. DMs welcome.
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Academics: I need to compile whatever I can find on college and university instructors who have been slapped down by their institutions or others in teaching media and/or information literacy. Me: fired for doing so. DMs welcome.
Actually, there's a grain of legislative idea-making here. What if companies had to contribute to permanent unemployment insurance and social security funds for every job their robots have replaced?
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Actually, there's a grain of legislative idea-making here. What if companies had to contribute to permanent unemployment insurance and social security funds for every job their robots have replaced?
Always have been an optimist. Even a little naive. but I'm not blind. Everything dies. Even nations. I think that, with decades of undermining in play: GOP power thirst, the worst of Capitalism, racism, cultural arrogance, religious delusion, economic slavery- -
America is broken china.
America is broken china.
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Always have been an optimist. Even a little naive. but I'm not blind. Everything dies. Even nations. I think that, with decades of undermining in play: GOP power thirst, the worst of Capitalism, racism, cultural arrogance, religious delusion, economic slavery- -
America is broken china.
America is broken china.
Jeez. Just when you'd given up the dream of investing in a personal transponder.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/f...
From cradle to grave: There was something for everyone alive and otherwise at the Chicago funeral directors convention
You can learn a lot about your options for the afterlife at the annual trade show, which recently ended at McCormick Place. It was not a solemn gathering.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Jeez. Just when you'd given up the dream of investing in a personal transponder.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/f...
@cbsnews.com @norahodonnell.bsky.social Norah ODonnell has become an embarrassment to what journalism is supposed to be. To ignore Trump's continuous gaslighting and lies and then this morning give him a pat on the back deserves two words: Sell-out. Norah is a the equivalent of North Korean news.
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@cbsnews.com @norahodonnell.bsky.social Norah ODonnell has become an embarrassment to what journalism is supposed to be. To ignore Trump's continuous gaslighting and lies and then this morning give him a pat on the back deserves two words: Sell-out. Norah is a the equivalent of North Korean news.