Joey Anton

It was a tweet, actually, but mine is “Midwest cold is a special kind of cold that actually hurts your feelings”.

acab and also ameromaidan doesn't happen without security forces on our side

The urbanist Chuck Marohn has been banging this exact drum for about a year in his writing and podcasting.

Probably not. But I do wonder.

I wonder if it means anything that the two darkest Internet crime stories of this year are both French.

www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

It’s not destiny by a long shot, but my devout evangelical, white, early-60s, dyed-in-the-wool-Reaganite Dad has been liking some very interesting posts on LinkedIn lately.

My thing is, what does Trump do if and when they lose big in 2026?

Would’ve been nice to get a push notif when 911 came back online is all I’m saying.

It is unconscionable that American taxpayers are paying for these killings. Shame, shame on Donald Trump and the complicity of everyone who continues to look the other way. apnews.com/article/pale...

I wish I could believe this but history says there’s a good chance that Amero-maidan involves at least one American city getting Aleppo-ed.

All I keep thinking about is how Mamdani ran on a broad and populist message about affordability and when centrists hyperfocused on identity to try and divide his coalition, he took it as an opportunity to not only defend his values but persuade new voters

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

If he wins in November, he's going to need many competent progressive people who wouldn't touch city government with a ten foot poll to join city government. A long bench is needed. that's a lesson from Chicago.

They really just did the 2020 Bloomberg campaign over again, didn’t they?

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

The same is true in how local elections work.

—0 article in the New York Times this spring about the reelection of Philadelphia's reform DA (and arguably the most famous reform DA in the country), Larry Krasner.
—Quite different last fall when LA's reform DA lost.

One thing I have not seen much grappling with: the Trump Administration has acted illegally with respect to the National Guard & Marines in LA plus the whole parade nonsense is a federal show of power, but cops ostensibly controlled by local governments in blue cities attacked protestors yesterday.

voting for the first democrat that promises tribunals

Probably just because Bukele is just so virtuous. I’m just that’s all it is.

Small country with a weak government get absolutely run by organized crime, a new administration gets installed and suddenly the gang violence disappears and the state triumphs, HMM I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED

Called it called it CALLLLLLLED IT

Oil prices spiked due to more aggression from a country currently committing genocide.

Renewable energy prices were unaffected.

Do you like entrusting your country's economy to the whims of genocidal maniacs?

If not, you have options.

A lot of people who want to govern NYC think it would be great if you got rid of 2/3 of the inhabitants. They come with gentrifier energy.

It’s actually quite dismaying how many supposed left-wingers on this website are shitting on No Kings / discouraging protesting this weekend because… *checks notes* *checks notes again, disbelievingly* “people who might be cringe might also show up”

the obvious one is anti-corruption imo. pick overtly nasty fights with unpopular members of your party over their stock portfolios and business interests and family connections.

The corruption here is obvious and right on the surface, as always, but honestly this helps al-Sharaa way more than it helps Trump so screw it, it’s fine.

Sen. John Fetterman raises alarms with outburst at meeting with union officials, AP sources say Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolved.

Today would be a fine day for @johnfetterman.com to get some professional help and resign from office. This is my view and not that of my employer. apnews.com/article/john...

This is really good.

I live in Tennessee, and this is the first I’m hearing about this.

I second that Hilary said — journalists need to be publishing articles like this! It helps give folks the courage to stand up to all the madness.