Victor Caston
@vcaston.eurosky.social
Philosophy & Classical Studies, University of Michigan. In case anyone was in doubt, my opinions are my own.
Regents wrote another bonkers presidential contract -- if Raver gets fired, she gets nothing. If she quits, she gets 6M and a faculty appointment. In other words, at the first hint of conflict, it's in her financial interest to bail rather than to see if they can iron things out.
ICE officer charged with shooting man and lying about it arrested by Minnesota authorities Source: Los Angeles Times share.newsbreak.com/jm9oar2k?s=i16
ICE officer charged with shooting man and lying about it arrested by Minnesota authorities - NewsBreak
A federal immigration officer charged with shooting a Venezuelan man last winter and lying about the circumstances to investigators is scheduled to appear
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A federal judge says Todd Blanche isn't sufficiently following the court's orders in a case concerning the Epstein files and gave Blanche a deadline to comply or face the possibility of contempt charges. The order stems from the lawsuit brought by Katie Phang.
Judge Warns Blanche of Possible Contempt Charges Over Epstein Files
The Justice Department hasn’t sufficiently followed a court order to produce documents, the federal judge said.
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🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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NEW POLL: 53% of Americans support expanding the Supreme Court, including majorities of both Democrats and independents. Two weeks ago, House Dems stood united to keep that option on the table. Happy Constitution Day! law.marquette.edu/poll/
An accurate headline would read: The GOP has a Neo-Nazi problem. Literally.
Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End
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Including an important article by Justin Winzenrieth with a new and well-founded assessment of the supposed double recension of Aristotle's On the Soul, book 2, in its oldest MS E (Paris, BNF, gr. 1853). #philsky doi.org/10.1017/S000...
ARISTOTLE, DE ANIMA ΒΟΟΚ 2: A DOUBLE RECENSION? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
ARISTOTLE, DE ANIMA ΒΟΟΚ 2: A DOUBLE RECENSION? - Volume 75 Issue 2
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Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 20h agoThe Classical Quarterly Vol. 75 , No. 2 (2026) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @classicalassociation.org @isaactsoon.bsky.social @josephscales.bsky.social @cmart05.bsky.social
Small 1,700-year-old fragment of Odyssey found tucked in Dutch library book | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Small 1,700-year-old fragment of Odyssey found tucked in library book
Parchment describes the exact moment Helios finds out Odysseus’s men ate his ‘immortal’ cow
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according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)
How Billionaires Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
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Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
Names and receipts, and from Erick Erickson of all people too. Worth a read.
Walter Olson@walterolson.bsky.social · yesterdayNever thought I'd be sharing an Erick Erickson post, but he sure does name names about some of the most noxious authoritarians and white supremacists on the Right, how Claremont has helped spread their influence, and how their trail leads into GOP politics. Bonus: a bouquet for Luigi Mangione.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Watchdog sues USPS over records from plan to restrict mail ballots
USPS is violating open records laws by refusing to provide documents on its plan to screen mail ballots as part of Trump’s anti-voting executive order, a nonpartisan government watchdog alleged in a n...
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Ottavio Grimani in 1541. He founded an exclusive club JUST to be able to wear A+slashed outfit w/ bi-color codpiece! Excellent fellow., here immortalized by Bernardino Licinio, whose day is today.
Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
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Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
I hate to be a buzzkill, but this good news only matters if we show up. PLEASE double-check your voter registration status, and do it often. iwillvote.com If you have even the slightest doubt that you can make it to the polls, request a mail-in ballot.
I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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@aaup.org @biblioracle.bsky.social & Katie Rainwater nails what everyone misses. Heritage Foundation hates college full stop. They bash DEI to get in the door, but the point is to close the door on everyone. That's why they want to own accreditation. Say no today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
With Proposed Federal Rules, Heritage Foundation Upends Higher Education
Who is up for a little Christian Nationalism embedded into our higher education system?
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
Link to the scientific paper ("The Illusion of Illusions") inside story and below. #philsky #philtwit
UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions
Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines
theguardian.com
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.
FINALLY someone gets angry and talks back to these clowns (and Old Geezer Grassley, a complete tool)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoBooker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."
I had trouble understanding how disqualifying Johns from applying to the FBI "punishes the victims of trafficking" but it sounds like it wasn't a slip. Sheep are welcome to apply to the FBI.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoKash Patel: "We did not want to punish victims of beastiality"
This started as a sports story and is huge on sports feeds on Twitter. A racist tweet about a UT football game is giving Texas Rs and leaners a permission structure to vote Dem. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/14/b...
Karl Rove will vote for Democrat over Bo French
Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, made the comments at a private lunch in Austin, according to attendees.
texastribune.org
Mind and Language has published a symposium on my book Deflating Mental Representation (MIT Press, open access) with excellent commentary by Ken Aizawa kenaizawa.bsky.social, Angela Mendelovici braininavat4eva.bsky.social, and Adam Toon adamtoonphilos.bsky.social, and a reply by me, all open access.
Mind & Language
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