Joey Anton
@pascalssquare.bsky.social
Lover of interesting people, literature, rap music and chess. Asymptomatic carrier of the woke mind virus. Chemist by training. Posts about climate change, US politics, and more-or-less obscure sports. The future's up for grabs. He/him
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We are over $45,000. 👊
If we can reach $70,000 by midnight, we will completely fulfill a $35,000 match and then be 20% of the way to the goal and a transformative result: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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If we can reach $70,000 by midnight, we will completely fulfill a $35,000 match and then be 20% of the way to the goal and a transformative result: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We are over $45,000. 👊
If we can reach $70,000 by midnight, we will completely fulfill a $35,000 match and then be 20% of the way to the goal and a transformative result: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
How do we feel? It's time—you knew this was coming—drop a GIF showing your mood in the replies
If we can reach $70,000 by midnight, we will completely fulfill a $35,000 match and then be 20% of the way to the goal and a transformative result: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
How do we feel? It's time—you knew this was coming—drop a GIF showing your mood in the replies
I would like to see somebody elaborate a bit on the connection between the emptying of rural areas in the early-mid 2010s and the housing affordability situation in popular urban areas now. I can’t say for sure whether there’s something there but IIRC it seems like there should be.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I would like to see somebody elaborate a bit on the connection between the emptying of rural areas in the early-mid 2010s and the housing affordability situation in popular urban areas now. I can’t say for sure whether there’s something there but IIRC it seems like there should be.
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
I’m someone who kinda floats back and forth between left and lib spaces, but I’m nevertheless convinced that a vigorous liberal media wing will be essential to the continued work of fixing this country. If you agree: gofund.me/e6cf26a98
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November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I’m someone who kinda floats back and forth between left and lib spaces, but I’m nevertheless convinced that a vigorous liberal media wing will be essential to the continued work of fixing this country. If you agree: gofund.me/e6cf26a98
I’m sympathetic to this but on a certain level it’s just “why don’t they ever protest Trump rallies” with lib/left roles reversed.
There’s no enemy like someone you think should be an ally.
There’s no enemy like someone you think should be an ally.
it’s definitely something how curtis sliwa and donald trump have been more normal towards zohran mamdani than cuomo or adams ever could try to fake being
i think it would be cool for the libs/dems to perhaps reflect on that but i know they won’t due to willfully not having the capacity to do so
i think it would be cool for the libs/dems to perhaps reflect on that but i know they won’t due to willfully not having the capacity to do so
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I’m sympathetic to this but on a certain level it’s just “why don’t they ever protest Trump rallies” with lib/left roles reversed.
There’s no enemy like someone you think should be an ally.
There’s no enemy like someone you think should be an ally.
One little way I’m going to remember 2025 is as the year that 9/11 jokes became mainstream humor. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten such a precise calibration of how much time it takes for tragedy to become comedy before. Apparently the answer is 23-24 years.
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
One little way I’m going to remember 2025 is as the year that 9/11 jokes became mainstream humor. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten such a precise calibration of how much time it takes for tragedy to become comedy before. Apparently the answer is 23-24 years.
This is a good point. Murkowski was too fringe and Alaska is too weird to get this job done, but MTG might just able to break the dam.
I think you do have to root for MTG here because the sooner a high-profile R actually in the government gets this treatment and survives the sooner the whole thing falls apart
Trump digs in deeper on Marjorie Taylor Greene, calls her a "Traitor to our Country."
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This is a good point. Murkowski was too fringe and Alaska is too weird to get this job done, but MTG might just able to break the dam.
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every guy who has ever taken a nice little walk with his wife and seen her look at him with genuine love in her eyes has experienced a form of fulfillment that is impossible for nearly all of the world’s most powerful men to obtain
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
every guy who has ever taken a nice little walk with his wife and seen her look at him with genuine love in her eyes has experienced a form of fulfillment that is impossible for nearly all of the world’s most powerful men to obtain
The Eagles make perfect sense to me as a sometime MMA fan because “grindy control-oriented guy with minimal offense who keeps winning tight controversial decisions” is a well-established archetype.
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The Eagles make perfect sense to me as a sometime MMA fan because “grindy control-oriented guy with minimal offense who keeps winning tight controversial decisions” is a well-established archetype.
The Eagles have now brought in two different veteran defensive players only to have them abruptly retire. I can never prove it but my theory is that the rest of the team is too young, and the veteran guys don’t realize until they get here how old it’s gonna make them feel.
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Eagles have now brought in two different veteran defensive players only to have them abruptly retire. I can never prove it but my theory is that the rest of the team is too young, and the veteran guys don’t realize until they get here how old it’s gonna make them feel.
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That thing about long-term residents is huge. Fucking obviously somebody whose mom is undocumented and can’t get Medicare despite paying into it for three or four or five decades is gonna be mad at asylum seekers getting put up in hotels!
Some Dems and pundits overread the significance of Trump's win. They looked at dissatisfaction with the border and discerned a seismic cultural reaction to immigration levels inside the country. The former was real. The latter is a mirage.
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
(h/t @gelliottmorris.com)
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
That thing about long-term residents is huge. Fucking obviously somebody whose mom is undocumented and can’t get Medicare despite paying into it for three or four or five decades is gonna be mad at asylum seekers getting put up in hotels!
“More than seven years” is crazy to me specifically because I’ve been married 6 2/3 at this point and I have No Idea what this person is talking about.
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“More than seven years” is crazy to me specifically because I’ve been married 6 2/3 at this point and I have No Idea what this person is talking about.
Forgot to take my psych meds last night so I get to spend this morning trying to manage my incandescent rage at the failure of the state at an intensity 30% higher than normal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Forgot to take my psych meds last night so I get to spend this morning trying to manage my incandescent rage at the failure of the state at an intensity 30% higher than normal.
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acab and also ameromaidan doesn't happen without security forces on our side
ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.”
ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.
ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.
September 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
acab and also ameromaidan doesn't happen without security forces on our side
I wonder if it means anything that the two darkest Internet crime stories of this year are both French.
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
www.euronews.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I wonder if it means anything that the two darkest Internet crime stories of this year are both French.
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Would’ve been nice to get a push notif when 911 came back online is all I’m saying.
July 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Would’ve been nice to get a push notif when 911 came back online is all I’m saying.
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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...
July 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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...
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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
June 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
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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.
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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.
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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.
June 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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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!
what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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!
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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.
—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.
It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.
June 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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.
—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.
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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.
June 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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.
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voting for the first democrat that promises tribunals
“They took my cousin. He informed them he is a US citizen and his passport was in his pocket. We don’t know where they took him.”
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
This isn’t about deporting undocumented immigrants this is about going after people who are not white!
June 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
voting for the first democrat that promises tribunals
Called it called it CALLLLLLLED IT
U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders.
Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…
www.propublica.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Called it called it CALLLLLLLED IT