Sean Casten
@seancasten.bsky.social
U.S. Representative, IL-06. Personal account. Dad. Husband. Trained as an engineer, 16 years as a clean energy CEO, now in middle management. For official stuff see @casten.house.gov
A sundowning old man in Washington DC is blasting show tunes and typing unintelligible garbage on the internet. Make of that what you will.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
A sundowning old man in Washington DC is blasting show tunes and typing unintelligible garbage on the internet. Make of that what you will.
You can see this in state level data as well. The best predictor that you're going to get shot is that you live in a state with a lot of guns.
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
You can see this in state level data as well. The best predictor that you're going to get shot is that you live in a state with a lot of guns.
And unfortunately the best law enforcement officer we have available to lead this case has a conflict of interest.
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And unfortunately the best law enforcement officer we have available to lead this case has a conflict of interest.
2. There's not much to it. The FBI performed "preliminary toll analysis" on 8 Senators and 1 Representative (Kelly)
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
2. There's not much to it. The FBI performed "preliminary toll analysis" on 8 Senators and 1 Representative (Kelly)
…that is exactly what Exxon Mobil is arguing as they ask the SEC to grant their board the power to vote on behalf of all of their other shareholders. www.sec.gov/files/corpfi...
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
…that is exactly what Exxon Mobil is arguing as they ask the SEC to grant their board the power to vote on behalf of all of their other shareholders. www.sec.gov/files/corpfi...
Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Trump spent his first Thanksgiving after getting elected President with Jeffrey Epstein. 2017.
This is performative BS, as the Senate has no obligation to take it up. The leverage was to strip this bill in the underlying text last night at rules but Republicans refused to do so. Johnson is trying to do some CYA but he isn't fooling anyone.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is performative BS, as the Senate has no obligation to take it up. The leverage was to strip this bill in the underlying text last night at rules but Republicans refused to do so. Johnson is trying to do some CYA but he isn't fooling anyone.
1. Trump is in the files.
2. Trump spent time with the victims and understood their relationship to Epstein & Co.
3. Epstein and Maxwell couldn't understand why Trump wasn't "barking" about what he knew, and wanted to keep it that way.
2. Trump spent time with the victims and understood their relationship to Epstein & Co.
3. Epstein and Maxwell couldn't understand why Trump wasn't "barking" about what he knew, and wanted to keep it that way.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
1. Trump is in the files.
2. Trump spent time with the victims and understood their relationship to Epstein & Co.
3. Epstein and Maxwell couldn't understand why Trump wasn't "barking" about what he knew, and wanted to keep it that way.
2. Trump spent time with the victims and understood their relationship to Epstein & Co.
3. Epstein and Maxwell couldn't understand why Trump wasn't "barking" about what he knew, and wanted to keep it that way.
That said, per math I did back in 2023, while there is a correlation between the redness of your state and your likelihood of being a victim of violent gun crime, the rate of gun ownership is the causal factor. (I'll leave the chicken/egg red state / gun ownership debate to others.)
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
That said, per math I did back in 2023, while there is a correlation between the redness of your state and your likelihood of being a victim of violent gun crime, the rate of gun ownership is the causal factor. (I'll leave the chicken/egg red state / gun ownership debate to others.)
Other than the risks that Bessent and Trump have created, that is.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Other than the risks that Bessent and Trump have created, that is.
There is a good primer on this history of the ESF here - on the Treasury department website, no less! Note that early on, it was used to accumulate foreign currency balances on the US balance sheet but hasn't since 1994. home.treasury.gov/policy-issue...
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
There is a good primer on this history of the ESF here - on the Treasury department website, no less! Note that early on, it was used to accumulate foreign currency balances on the US balance sheet but hasn't since 1994. home.treasury.gov/policy-issue...
The term of art for this in a bankruptcy court is "fraudulent conveyance". Stealing money that isn't yours and then transferring it to a third party to defraud creditors is also a crime. It doesn't eliminate the possibility for judgment on the first charge.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The term of art for this in a bankruptcy court is "fraudulent conveyance". Stealing money that isn't yours and then transferring it to a third party to defraud creditors is also a crime. It doesn't eliminate the possibility for judgment on the first charge.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
Our founders also knew this. Like any contract, you can tell what the negotiators (our founders) knew wouldn't stand close future scrutiny by what they prohibited any future party from amending. I present Article V:
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Our founders also knew this. Like any contract, you can tell what the negotiators (our founders) knew wouldn't stand close future scrutiny by what they prohibited any future party from amending. I present Article V:
According to White House spokesman Taylor Rogers Trump was merely pining for the fjords. www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
According to White House spokesman Taylor Rogers Trump was merely pining for the fjords. www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
It would appear that at some point in the last 6 months Helen Reddy did something that made Nancy Mace very mad.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It would appear that at some point in the last 6 months Helen Reddy did something that made Nancy Mace very mad.
In the same way that the nutritional value of sawdust is in question.
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In the same way that the nutritional value of sawdust is in question.
Perfectly captures Trump’s empathy for his fellow man.
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Perfectly captures Trump’s empathy for his fellow man.
The Emperor has no clothes. The first high profile congressional R to recognize that and stand up to him will be branded as brave and courageous. They won't be - they'll just be blowing in the political wind. But that option now exists.
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Emperor has no clothes. The first high profile congressional R to recognize that and stand up to him will be branded as brave and courageous. They won't be - they'll just be blowing in the political wind. But that option now exists.
And there it is. Huge congratulations to my friend and fellow 2018 seat flipper Mikie Sherrill - the next Governor of NJ!
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
And there it is. Huge congratulations to my friend and fellow 2018 seat flipper Mikie Sherrill - the next Governor of NJ!
So proud of my friend Abigail. So happy for our country and for Virginians. Getting weepy.
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
So proud of my friend Abigail. So happy for our country and for Virginians. Getting weepy.
This is fascinating, for a whole lot of reasons. And a good reminder that - notwithstanding what you might hear elsewhere - most Americans are good people who think our Constitutional democracy is worth defending.
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is fascinating, for a whole lot of reasons. And a good reminder that - notwithstanding what you might hear elsewhere - most Americans are good people who think our Constitutional democracy is worth defending.
7. But that means a lot of needless redundancy, and is a part of the reason why pictures of cities from the 1890s / 1900s look like spiderwebs in the sky. Lots of economically independent actors, making independently rational decisions creating deeply suboptimal outcomes.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
7. But that means a lot of needless redundancy, and is a part of the reason why pictures of cities from the 1890s / 1900s look like spiderwebs in the sky. Lots of economically independent actors, making independently rational decisions creating deeply suboptimal outcomes.