Victor Caston
@vcaston.bsky.social
Philosophy & Classical Studies, University of Michigan. In case anyone was in doubt, my opinions are my own.
How convenient
Alan Dershowitz: Ghislaine Maxwell Deserves a Pardon: ‘Age of Consent Must Be Lowered to 14’ - VT Foreign Policy
Dershowitz was a member of the team that got convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a plea deal that sent him to prison for 18 months in 2007, a sentence that was described as “the deal of the century...
vtforeignpolicy.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
How convenient
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On one hand polygraphs are pseudoscientific BS. On the other hand these guys believe they work so they're definitely hiding something.
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On one hand polygraphs are pseudoscientific BS. On the other hand these guys believe they work so they're definitely hiding something.
Illuminating
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Illuminating
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"The worship of the Golden Calf of old has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose." #PopeFrancis #RememberThePoor
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"The worship of the Golden Calf of old has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose." #PopeFrancis #RememberThePoor
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Everyone should read this and share it.
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Everyone should read this and share it.
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"I was trying to get them, with little
success, to appreciate the value of the principles at stake and the cost of sacrificing them"-- as has every faculty member who has spoken with any member of any university board over the course of the last two years.
success, to appreciate the value of the principles at stake and the cost of sacrificing them"-- as has every faculty member who has spoken with any member of any university board over the course of the last two years.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"I was trying to get them, with little
success, to appreciate the value of the principles at stake and the cost of sacrificing them"-- as has every faculty member who has spoken with any member of any university board over the course of the last two years.
success, to appreciate the value of the principles at stake and the cost of sacrificing them"-- as has every faculty member who has spoken with any member of any university board over the course of the last two years.
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Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
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What was it ever the case? Unless you mean "America First" entirely in the whites first Lindbergh Nazi-sympathizing sense.
Wouldn't a more accurate way to phrase "fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances" be "finally realized he is lying"?
Wouldn't a more accurate way to phrase "fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances" be "finally realized he is lying"?
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What was it ever the case? Unless you mean "America First" entirely in the whites first Lindbergh Nazi-sympathizing sense.
Wouldn't a more accurate way to phrase "fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances" be "finally realized he is lying"?
Wouldn't a more accurate way to phrase "fears that he is drifting away from his more populist stances" be "finally realized he is lying"?
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"It is also fair to say that simply because
someone in power does not like a policy, that does not automatically make the policy illegal." Who knew.
someone in power does not like a policy, that does not automatically make the policy illegal." Who knew.
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"It is also fair to say that simply because
someone in power does not like a policy, that does not automatically make the policy illegal." Who knew.
someone in power does not like a policy, that does not automatically make the policy illegal." Who knew.
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This is a good question. Reuters reports Trump admin has hired 50,000 workers, primarily in immigration enforcement.
For context, that's equivalent to the total number of job losses in Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, USAID and Interior COMBINED, per the Partnership for Public Service
For context, that's equivalent to the total number of job losses in Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, USAID and Interior COMBINED, per the Partnership for Public Service
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is a good question. Reuters reports Trump admin has hired 50,000 workers, primarily in immigration enforcement.
For context, that's equivalent to the total number of job losses in Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, USAID and Interior COMBINED, per the Partnership for Public Service
For context, that's equivalent to the total number of job losses in Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, USAID and Interior COMBINED, per the Partnership for Public Service
Aristotle quote at the end: once oligarchy is established, the only two options will be either tyranny or revolution.
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Aristotle quote at the end: once oligarchy is established, the only two options will be either tyranny or revolution.
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ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
ICE abducted a 57 year old US Citizen and Veteran along with 11 others, outside of the Portland ICE Detention Center.
11/11/25
11/11/25
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The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gender.
dailynous.com/2025/11/14/a...
dailynous.com/2025/11/14/a...
A Mess at Texas A&M - Daily Nous
The Texas A&M University System's Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gen...
dailynous.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The Texas A&M University System’s Board of Regents took steps yesterday to impose its conservative ideology on college students by prohibiting professors from teaching certain ideas about race and gender.
dailynous.com/2025/11/14/a...
dailynous.com/2025/11/14/a...
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NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
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The sick fuck is going to go to war as a distraction, isn’t he?
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The sick fuck is going to go to war as a distraction, isn’t he?
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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Notice how nobody in the Trump regime ever asks, “But how will we pay for it?” when it comes to priorities that benefit them?
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Notice how nobody in the Trump regime ever asks, “But how will we pay for it?” when it comes to priorities that benefit them?
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The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The unspoken assumption behind “raping 15 year olds is different than raping 8 year olds” is that teenage girls are legitimate targets of desire on account of (sometimes) being adult shaped. But if the adult shape was the source of attraction, and not the vulnerability, these men would date women.
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How your email finds me
August 11, 2024 at 4:10 AM
How your email finds me
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
Very true indeed
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Very true indeed
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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great point. Dems have a lot more wiggle room on this stuff than the “popularist” people say
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
great point. Dems have a lot more wiggle room on this stuff than the “popularist” people say
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app