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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.” https://tinyurl.com/58k3zv97 Lawyer. Gardens. Libraries. Writes about John Steinbeck in my spare time.

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · Nov 16

John Steinbeck Was Right

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John Steinbeck Was Right

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 23m

Dolan looking up whether he can convert to a southern megachurch while still being cardinal

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 41m

Nothing a toasted sub can’t cure

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, we all saw this coming eventually but this has to be the biggest and fastest coaching flame-out of all time, right?

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

basically

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

So THIS is such a good example of Arendt's banality of evil. This roundtable is all about (ostensibly) discussing their ideas, their ideology, etc. but none of them really care about any of it or think about it deeply, there's nothing really to discuss. It's just contentless noise. It's somnambulant

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

Banality of evil isn't "evil is boring things" or "evil is hiding under boring things" or whatever. It's the fact that the fascist/Nazi mind is contentless, full of platitudes and meaningless tripe. Trump is right to fall asleep to it.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 1h

Topic of the week is "What is the armed goon situation" and Zohran needs to pay attention to his personal armed goon situation right now. Like, right now.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2h

100,000 things will happen between now and then, but at some point some other Dem will have to work VERY hard to establish bona fides that they will oppose this Administration and its underlying malignancy more than JB.

(it's a good thing if several try, btw)

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2h

a close up of a man 's face with the words " you okay " below him

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words " you okay " below him

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2h

JB learning that the only way out is through, and if he's going to arrest you eventually, and he will, best to have it done on your terms.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 2h

wasn't just talking about law schools

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think this is true, at all.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, standard attorney ethics classes are like "Don't steal your client's money, and don't do (too many) drugs, b/c that makes it more like you'll steal your client's money," and while ok fine, not really the ethics problem plaguing the legal field at the moment.

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 5h

“Didn’t clutch my pearls” dude if they found AOC they would have murdered her.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 5h

Closest I've gotten to a fist fight in my adult life was in the parent drop off line; if you aren't ready to throw down when some asshole is being an asshole with his 5 ton truck around elementary schoolers, you need to be.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 6h

My kids would have had 3X the freedom (at least) if not for cars

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 7h

That wellspring of charisma, Megan McArdle.

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 7h

Wandering the quiet sections of the parks at night, alone, off the paths away from the lights, just to make sure nothing is going down.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 7h

The final state of the post-9/11 military and "law enforcement" deification, funding of domestic police militarization, and 150 years of highly racialized policing. Very grim, and the last two Democratic administrations did less than nothing to reverse the trend.

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 7h

Private equity/founder/investment banker

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 21h

Outside counsel / in-house counsel / sales rep

Screenshot of an ESPN Monday Night Football interview, with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes seated left to right. Reid is wearing a light gray suit, light-colored dress shirt, and red tie that makes him look like he's sitting in an unpleasant deposition. Kelce is wearing a relaxed short-sleeved button-up shirt with a whimsical pattern and a brown newsboy cap that makes him look like he's in organized crime. Mahomes is in a pink dress shirt, slightly darker pink tie, and dark-pink-and-white checkered vest that makes him look like a dandy.

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 8h

"The Problem," in one screen shot.

At what point can we just admit to ourselves that Schumer is a collaborator?

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 8h

The reference is to Biden

John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 8h

There are like several thousand FBI agents and various other fired fed employees on the streets at the moment.

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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 8h

You understand they don’t really think of Catholics as Christian, right?

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