Brian Castner

Writer and researcher. Current: Crisis Team at Amnesty, Conv Defense NRF at Stimson. Formers: EOD, OIF/OEF x 3. Author of STAMPEDE, THE LONG WALK, etc.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

"Growth and death, gravity and decay, [this] is the chief work of the world." - Wendell Berry

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

Obviously should have included “worry”
as well.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I have found it, the Platonic form of every New York Times op-ed.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

Obviously should have had “worry” on the list.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

I have found it, the Platonic form of every New York Times op-ed.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@AdrianBonenber1 @EvansRyan202 In retrospect, Star Trek should have run on PBS between Sesame Street and Mr Rodgers, same aspirational but deeply unrealistic world view.

[CAR @conflictarm]

Looking to be part of a dynamic field team, deploying to conflict locations to document illicit weapons?

CAR is currently recruiting a new Field Investigator role to support its Middle East operations. Deadline to apply is 30 May 2026. https://t.co/3uKsF27JZw

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
https://t.co/xSMUDOrHcC

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@MattZeitlin My sons are tougher, have more friends, more confidence than other kids I see. There are other ways to gain this, sure, but many schools don't have quality programs, so you go to private clubs outside. For character formation, my sons learned more in sports than the classroom.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@MattZeitlin My sons played expensive youth sports at a high level. State championships, one played in college. Yes, it's expensive and time consuming. 2 ACL surgeries and a broken leg. But schools no longer provide physical activity, competition, and other opportunities to learn resilience.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@Jacob__Siegel My 20 year son has one. So do all his jock friends. They just call it a mullet, or modern mullet. He goes to college in MN and def not a queer thing.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

Confusing Urgent With Important: A Memoir

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@HeyRaChaCha I haven’t but it sold very well and people love it.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@MattGallagher0 Physically is the new literally

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

But Fahrenheit 451 incorrectly predicted the cause and effect. First people stopped reading, then newspapers and humanities departments closed in response.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Haunted by this passage from Fahrenheit 451 in which a retired professor describes how the abolition of reading began with the shuttering of newspapers and the closing of college humanities departments.

[Matt Higgins @ByMattHiggins]

RIP to Philip Caputo, author of Vietnam War memoir, A Rumor of War.

I met him promoting Ghosts of Tsavo, his ‘02 nonfiction account of man-eating lions in E. Africa.

Stalked by lions & Vietcong , he commented: ��Man is by far the most dangerous animal.”

https://t.co/RAKp8lkWJ9

[Rawya Rageh @RawyaRageh]

Note there is no reference to the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province (ISCAP), aka #ADF, which is waging a brutal campaign agnst civilians in the #DRC.

The reference to #Congo is in the context of the #M23 conflict solely. @amnestyusa

See our latest https://t.co/Nk7QXAApDy

[Meghan Ottolini @Meghan_Ottolini]

This is the beginning of a Meg Ryan movie

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

@BenSasse @QuilLawrence The original post is AI.

(I live in Buffalo, that we don’t have malls with fountains was one give away. WXYZ too.)

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Twenty-three years ago the US said it was going to Americanize Iraq. Instead we got something closer to the Saddam-ification of the US.

[Brian Castner @Brian_Castner]

This is what it means to be a sports fan. Proud of my city.

[Kristen Shilton @kristen_shilton]

#sabres fan in my hotel carrying a 24-pack of trulys describing the vibes -

"i'm nervous, i'm excited, i've got the chills, i've got the runs, i think they'll win but they might lose so i want to run through a wall and hide in a corner"

the passion.

[The Name of War @TheNameofWar]

A Mosin–Nagant rifle and an anti-drone gun found in a Russian trench in Ukraine. There is around 120 years between these two weapons.

[Haley Byrd Wilt @byrdinator]

Hilarious, perfect little essay on AI sunglasses in the NYT today: https://t.co/gusnSG0pJL