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.
Pinned
She will probably get smoked, but this is absolutely the right strategy. In red states, Dems need to be running high variance strategy candidates.
It's official: Rep. Jasmine Crockett has announced she's running for U.S. Senate in Texas.
December 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
She will probably get smoked, but this is absolutely the right strategy. In red states, Dems need to be running high variance strategy candidates.
People look at me crazy when I say that the moral and legal collapse of America was sealed in January 2009 when Barack Obama just decided that torturers and murderers could go free because it would be inconvenient to have to do anything about them.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
People look at me crazy when I say that the moral and legal collapse of America was sealed in January 2009 when Barack Obama just decided that torturers and murderers could go free because it would be inconvenient to have to do anything about them.
Either one would be a complete rejection of those obscure writings, The Federalist Papers
So yeah sauer just said that we have two choices:
1 all agencies are au fond unconstitutional because they excercise legislative and judicial functions or
2 the prez must have unrestrained control over every aspect of them because their powers are (in a formal legal sense) executive
1 all agencies are au fond unconstitutional because they excercise legislative and judicial functions or
2 the prez must have unrestrained control over every aspect of them because their powers are (in a formal legal sense) executive
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Either one would be a complete rejection of those obscure writings, The Federalist Papers
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Trump isn’t some conservative superstar, he’s a barely literate mafioso who couldn’t pass a sixth-grade civics test whose entire administration has consisted of pardoning outright fraudsters, race war rhetoric, and looting the public and private sectors while naming stuff for himself.
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Trump isn’t some conservative superstar, he’s a barely literate mafioso who couldn’t pass a sixth-grade civics test whose entire administration has consisted of pardoning outright fraudsters, race war rhetoric, and looting the public and private sectors while naming stuff for himself.
Every SCOTUS justice will get themselves and their children fully vaccinated; they don't want yours to be vaccinated because they are fully prepared, and some of them eager, to watch your children die.
The Supreme Court just set aside a 2nd Circuit decision upholding New York's requirement that all school students, public and private, obtain certain vaccinations, without any religious exemptions. It orders the 2nd Circuit to reconsider the ruling in light of SCOTUS' LGBTQ school books decision.
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Every SCOTUS justice will get themselves and their children fully vaccinated; they don't want yours to be vaccinated because they are fully prepared, and some of them eager, to watch your children die.
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the “unitary executive” theory is incompatible with successful science.
We get to choose: the current Supreme Court and its views on executive power, or America’s science superpower. We can’t have both
We get to choose: the current Supreme Court and its views on executive power, or America’s science superpower. We can’t have both
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
the “unitary executive” theory is incompatible with successful science.
We get to choose: the current Supreme Court and its views on executive power, or America’s science superpower. We can’t have both
We get to choose: the current Supreme Court and its views on executive power, or America’s science superpower. We can’t have both
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If I attempted an insurrection & the administration after me not only failed to enact consequences but also allowed me the opportunity to come into power again I would also learn the lesson that I can do whatever the fuck I want and nobody with power will ever try to stop me.
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
If I attempted an insurrection & the administration after me not only failed to enact consequences but also allowed me the opportunity to come into power again I would also learn the lesson that I can do whatever the fuck I want and nobody with power will ever try to stop me.
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Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.
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Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies
It’s just an objective state of fact that these people want more children to die. Or to suffer lifelong pain.
And yet, even the most left leaning people in your personal life probably would find that statement.l shocking. We have a lot of work to do.
And yet, even the most left leaning people in your personal life probably would find that statement.l shocking. We have a lot of work to do.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
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An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s just an objective state of fact that these people want more children to die. Or to suffer lifelong pain.
And yet, even the most left leaning people in your personal life probably would find that statement.l shocking. We have a lot of work to do.
And yet, even the most left leaning people in your personal life probably would find that statement.l shocking. We have a lot of work to do.
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there is no response to Tom Cotton other than “you are a fascist and war criminal and we are going to dedicate our lives to punishing you for that”
There is no need to argue facts with him. he’s a liar
There is no need to argue facts with him. he’s a liar
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
there is no response to Tom Cotton other than “you are a fascist and war criminal and we are going to dedicate our lives to punishing you for that”
There is no need to argue facts with him. he’s a liar
There is no need to argue facts with him. he’s a liar
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This is a big story.
Ravid Yosef, who faces 60 years in prison for committing bank fraud and taking $800 million from Bitfinex, has created a new identity and is leading her best, normal life.
She was able to secure investments and support from Google and Microsoft for her IVF startup in Israel.
Ravid Yosef, who faces 60 years in prison for committing bank fraud and taking $800 million from Bitfinex, has created a new identity and is leading her best, normal life.
She was able to secure investments and support from Google and Microsoft for her IVF startup in Israel.
🚨SCOOP: $800M crypto fugitive Ravid Yosef working at UK startup under new name protos.com/800m-crypto-...
$800M crypto fugitive Ravid Yosef working at UK startup under new name
Ravid Yosef, the alleged fraudster who fled to Israel six years ago, is currently working at a London-based startup under an assumed name.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is a big story.
Ravid Yosef, who faces 60 years in prison for committing bank fraud and taking $800 million from Bitfinex, has created a new identity and is leading her best, normal life.
She was able to secure investments and support from Google and Microsoft for her IVF startup in Israel.
Ravid Yosef, who faces 60 years in prison for committing bank fraud and taking $800 million from Bitfinex, has created a new identity and is leading her best, normal life.
She was able to secure investments and support from Google and Microsoft for her IVF startup in Israel.
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"But libraries are essential — to learning, to community, to democracy, and to any hope we have of building a society organized around education and collective care, rather than control."
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"But libraries are essential — to learning, to community, to democracy, and to any hope we have of building a society organized around education and collective care, rather than control."
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Would sure love a Democratic Party that stood up full throated with all their chest to say that immigrants are good, and valuable, and we'll defend them at all costs.
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Would sure love a Democratic Party that stood up full throated with all their chest to say that immigrants are good, and valuable, and we'll defend them at all costs.
Collaborator
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Collaborator
It’s not that these people talk like they’ll never be out of power, it’s that they talk like they don’t believe a Democrat will ever prosecute them.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s not that these people talk like they’ll never be out of power, it’s that they talk like they don’t believe a Democrat will ever prosecute them.
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Looks like the bromance is over.
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Looks like the bromance is over.
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Find someone who looks at you like Hakeem Jeffries looks at ACA tax credits (i.e. dead-eyed and slowly tilting his head like a stalker who can't think of anything else even if the cuffs are being slapped on his wrists while sirens wail).
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Find someone who looks at you like Hakeem Jeffries looks at ACA tax credits (i.e. dead-eyed and slowly tilting his head like a stalker who can't think of anything else even if the cuffs are being slapped on his wrists while sirens wail).
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December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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