Sean Casten
Sean CastenOK, so this is objectively racist in the purest sense. The ONLY reason to do this is to penalize black and brown people for being black and brown. Replace "race" with any other measure of diversity on a college campus to see why. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/us/politics/trump-schools-race-data.html
Sean CastenThe purpose of energy policy is not to consume energy, any more than the purpose of ag policy is to grow corn. It's to make sure consumers have access to affordable, reliable energy. The Trump WH focuses on fossil fuel consumption because they put consumers last. https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-team-pushes-for-ouster-of-top-iea-official/
Sean CastenThis is really bad. It will cripple not only the near term path to peace, but will also inflame the already-existing sense of hopelessness in the West Bank that only leads to more violence. And Speaker Johnson's comments this week do nothing to make it better. https://x.com/DanielSeidemann/status/1952976961179140221
Sean CastenJohnson believes in some really weird, millenarian stuff, specifically that once all the Jews move to historical Israel he will be raptured along with all the other Christians. It is a bonkers world view. But it allows him to get played by the Israeli far right. https://www.jns.org/johnson-judea-samaria-belong-to-israel-by-right/
Sean CastenThis is really bad. It will cripple not only the near term path to peace, but will also inflame the already-existing sense of hopelessness in the West Bank that only leads to more violence. And Speaker Johnson's comments this week do nothing to make it better. https://x.com/DanielSeidemann/status/1952976961179140221
Sean CastenI wonder if they'll consider not elevating adjudicated rapists who brag about sexual assault and ogling teenage girls at beauty pageants to be the leader of their party? https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/politics/trump-blanche-epstein-maxwell-vance-bondi-patel-meeting
Sean CastenProfiles in Sycophancy, Chapter 8 (3-way tie). Congratulations to 2-time awardee Brandon Gill.