Anthony L Barnes
@anthonybarnesusa.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives IL District 15 🟪
Modernizing Education | Employment & Business Protections | Government Spending
"Render useful service."
Modernizing Education | Employment & Business Protections | Government Spending
"Render useful service."
Pinned
I want to build and defend a world where humans live fulfilling lives in service and pursuit of a future which sustains us and our descendants into eternity.
Every government who failed to recognize the out sized impact potential of @cloudflare.social to cause harm on a global level exposes their lsck of understanding how software / infrastructural monopolies exist in the modern day.
Too big to be trusted.
Redundant industry is a societal safety net.
Too big to be trusted.
Redundant industry is a societal safety net.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Every government who failed to recognize the out sized impact potential of @cloudflare.social to cause harm on a global level exposes their lsck of understanding how software / infrastructural monopolies exist in the modern day.
Too big to be trusted.
Redundant industry is a societal safety net.
Too big to be trusted.
Redundant industry is a societal safety net.
Thank you everyone!
Your demand for present and capable representation has been powerful as I've traveled to meet so many of you.
Sadly I did not gather enough signatures to get on the primary ballot, with the final count being 317 of the required 560. I joined the race with only 1/3 of time.
Your demand for present and capable representation has been powerful as I've traveled to meet so many of you.
Sadly I did not gather enough signatures to get on the primary ballot, with the final count being 317 of the required 560. I joined the race with only 1/3 of time.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Thank you everyone!
Your demand for present and capable representation has been powerful as I've traveled to meet so many of you.
Sadly I did not gather enough signatures to get on the primary ballot, with the final count being 317 of the required 560. I joined the race with only 1/3 of time.
Your demand for present and capable representation has been powerful as I've traveled to meet so many of you.
Sadly I did not gather enough signatures to get on the primary ballot, with the final count being 317 of the required 560. I joined the race with only 1/3 of time.
Power and utilities are NECESSITIES, so they should not be subject to profiteering at ANY point in the supply chain.
Is your bill too high? Reach out to CUB for guidance on how to help get our power bills down before more data centers show up to raise OUR prices!
www.citizensutilityboard.org
Is your bill too high? Reach out to CUB for guidance on how to help get our power bills down before more data centers show up to raise OUR prices!
www.citizensutilityboard.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Power and utilities are NECESSITIES, so they should not be subject to profiteering at ANY point in the supply chain.
Is your bill too high? Reach out to CUB for guidance on how to help get our power bills down before more data centers show up to raise OUR prices!
www.citizensutilityboard.org
Is your bill too high? Reach out to CUB for guidance on how to help get our power bills down before more data centers show up to raise OUR prices!
www.citizensutilityboard.org
Most of #MAGA lived through #RodneyKing, they saw in real time and for years after how real riots and urban sieges affect real people. Far worse than any modern riot.
#NoKings is what #Democracy looks like BECAUSE we respect the truth of history as we work to right the wrongs.
#NoKings is what #Democracy looks like BECAUSE we respect the truth of history as we work to right the wrongs.
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Most of #MAGA lived through #RodneyKing, they saw in real time and for years after how real riots and urban sieges affect real people. Far worse than any modern riot.
#NoKings is what #Democracy looks like BECAUSE we respect the truth of history as we work to right the wrongs.
#NoKings is what #Democracy looks like BECAUSE we respect the truth of history as we work to right the wrongs.
Join me at the Moultrie County Democrats Annual Chicken Dinner to hear how I will bring reliable representation to #IllinoisDistrict15! I'm gathering signatures to unseat #MaryMiller from her do-nothing position.
Our farmers deserve trade, our towns federal money, and our children a future!
Our farmers deserve trade, our towns federal money, and our children a future!
October 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Join me at the Moultrie County Democrats Annual Chicken Dinner to hear how I will bring reliable representation to #IllinoisDistrict15! I'm gathering signatures to unseat #MaryMiller from her do-nothing position.
Our farmers deserve trade, our towns federal money, and our children a future!
Our farmers deserve trade, our towns federal money, and our children a future!
🎇🎇 Friends, I have BIG NEWS! 🎇🎇 I am running for Congress to be YOUR Representative in The House in Illinois' 15th District. Ensuring that Central Illinois' voice reaches DC clearly, without it being buried under partisan politics, pet projects or pork.
www.AnthonyBarnesForCongress.com
www.AnthonyBarnesForCongress.com
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October 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
🎇🎇 Friends, I have BIG NEWS! 🎇🎇 I am running for Congress to be YOUR Representative in The House in Illinois' 15th District. Ensuring that Central Illinois' voice reaches DC clearly, without it being buried under partisan politics, pet projects or pork.
www.AnthonyBarnesForCongress.com
www.AnthonyBarnesForCongress.com
The most moral way to wield power is to ensure it benefits others above all else.
August 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The most moral way to wield power is to ensure it benefits others above all else.
Trump has such a hold in the #midwest because if these people didn't have "Little Miss" beauty pageants their county fairs wouldn't have any headliner-level events.
I think I just cracked the #Epstein case!
Seriously, #BeautyPageants have creeped me out since childhood. Why are they still here???
I think I just cracked the #Epstein case!
Seriously, #BeautyPageants have creeped me out since childhood. Why are they still here???
July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump has such a hold in the #midwest because if these people didn't have "Little Miss" beauty pageants their county fairs wouldn't have any headliner-level events.
I think I just cracked the #Epstein case!
Seriously, #BeautyPageants have creeped me out since childhood. Why are they still here???
I think I just cracked the #Epstein case!
Seriously, #BeautyPageants have creeped me out since childhood. Why are they still here???
Lotta folks sure spent their whole life laughing at the "you're just a talking head" jokes in their media, only to believe the ones the parody was based on.
Our severely-lacking #MediaLiteracy is a CRITICAL need for us as a society to teach at scale.
Our severely-lacking #MediaLiteracy is a CRITICAL need for us as a society to teach at scale.
July 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Lotta folks sure spent their whole life laughing at the "you're just a talking head" jokes in their media, only to believe the ones the parody was based on.
Our severely-lacking #MediaLiteracy is a CRITICAL need for us as a society to teach at scale.
Our severely-lacking #MediaLiteracy is a CRITICAL need for us as a society to teach at scale.
What breaks my heart about this #MAGA insanity is that I had just put my relationship back together with my father in 2008. It really felt like there was a future as friends, or even peers.
He was gardening when I came over to try hanging out. We shared a beer and I felt optimistic.
He was gardening when I came over to try hanging out. We shared a beer and I felt optimistic.
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
What breaks my heart about this #MAGA insanity is that I had just put my relationship back together with my father in 2008. It really felt like there was a future as friends, or even peers.
He was gardening when I came over to try hanging out. We shared a beer and I felt optimistic.
He was gardening when I came over to try hanging out. We shared a beer and I felt optimistic.
Imagine being Republican right now in front of your peers, having spent years railing against executive orders, bloated-with-pork bills and advocating for a slow moving and considerate government.
Then you celebrate the Big Beautiful Bill being passed.
What say you?
Then you celebrate the Big Beautiful Bill being passed.
What say you?
July 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Imagine being Republican right now in front of your peers, having spent years railing against executive orders, bloated-with-pork bills and advocating for a slow moving and considerate government.
Then you celebrate the Big Beautiful Bill being passed.
What say you?
Then you celebrate the Big Beautiful Bill being passed.
What say you?
Boomers have so grossly malformed the idea of "Respect your elders.", transforming it from "Listen to..." for the sake of learning from and acknowledging the experiences passed.
Now they won't even acknowledge their real meaning: "deference".
Absolutely not. Make your elders earn their respect.
Now they won't even acknowledge their real meaning: "deference".
Absolutely not. Make your elders earn their respect.
July 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Boomers have so grossly malformed the idea of "Respect your elders.", transforming it from "Listen to..." for the sake of learning from and acknowledging the experiences passed.
Now they won't even acknowledge their real meaning: "deference".
Absolutely not. Make your elders earn their respect.
Now they won't even acknowledge their real meaning: "deference".
Absolutely not. Make your elders earn their respect.
Everyone needs to understand that we CAN NOT let #AI be plugged into any widespread #PII infrastructure for even a MOMENT!
A single simple scan would be more than enough metadata to peg any single person's personal device for whatever the average age of a phone is before upgrading.
A single simple scan would be more than enough metadata to peg any single person's personal device for whatever the average age of a phone is before upgrading.
June 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Joy. Reverence. Childlike excitement. A crisp standing at attention.
250 years of training, serving, dying, winning and returning home for our soldiers. MAGA says this parade should inspire youth to enlist.
So lead by example, Mr. President.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
250 years of training, serving, dying, winning and returning home for our soldiers. MAGA says this parade should inspire youth to enlist.
So lead by example, Mr. President.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Joy. Reverence. Childlike excitement. A crisp standing at attention.
250 years of training, serving, dying, winning and returning home for our soldiers. MAGA says this parade should inspire youth to enlist.
So lead by example, Mr. President.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
250 years of training, serving, dying, winning and returning home for our soldiers. MAGA says this parade should inspire youth to enlist.
So lead by example, Mr. President.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Single Issue Voting needs to become a relic of the past.
No matter WHAT you think or feel, growing up in this day and age bombards you with information whether you like it or not. Your CIVIC DUTY is to discern as insight and understanding from as you can.
Your vote becomes so much more impactful!
No matter WHAT you think or feel, growing up in this day and age bombards you with information whether you like it or not. Your CIVIC DUTY is to discern as insight and understanding from as you can.
Your vote becomes so much more impactful!
June 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Single Issue Voting needs to become a relic of the past.
No matter WHAT you think or feel, growing up in this day and age bombards you with information whether you like it or not. Your CIVIC DUTY is to discern as insight and understanding from as you can.
Your vote becomes so much more impactful!
No matter WHAT you think or feel, growing up in this day and age bombards you with information whether you like it or not. Your CIVIC DUTY is to discern as insight and understanding from as you can.
Your vote becomes so much more impactful!
Remember when Sleepy Joe was too weak to prevent political assassinations and unrest in the streets?
Under which President are all our current political assassinations and unrest in the streets?
Under which President are all our current political assassinations and unrest in the streets?
June 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Remember when Sleepy Joe was too weak to prevent political assassinations and unrest in the streets?
Under which President are all our current political assassinations and unrest in the streets?
Under which President are all our current political assassinations and unrest in the streets?
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Commander in Beef, General McDonald Bonespur embarrassing himself for the world to see!
June 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Commander in Beef, General McDonald Bonespur embarrassing himself for the world to see!
Reposted by Anthony L Barnes
Exercise time, let's go tit-for-tat.
Show me an equivalent act perpetrated by a far-left extremist. Then I'll respond in kind. First to give up loses.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Show me an equivalent act perpetrated by a far-left extremist. Then I'll respond in kind. First to give up loses.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Live updates: Minnesota suspect Vance Boelter captured after manhunt in lawmaker killing | CNN
Vance Boelter, the suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, is in custody. Follow for live updates.
www.cnn.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Exercise time, let's go tit-for-tat.
Show me an equivalent act perpetrated by a far-left extremist. Then I'll respond in kind. First to give up loses.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Show me an equivalent act perpetrated by a far-left extremist. Then I'll respond in kind. First to give up loses.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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This is it, a topical example of how clear the charade is for #Trumpism and the cocksure nature of MAGA Conservatism.
www.iranintl.com/en/202506157...
Pick ONLY 1! It can't be neither or both.
1) Trump knew, so sanctioned it.
2) Trump did not know.
Which one is in accordance with his campaign?
www.iranintl.com/en/202506157...
Pick ONLY 1! It can't be neither or both.
1) Trump knew, so sanctioned it.
2) Trump did not know.
Which one is in accordance with his campaign?
Panic in Tehran: exodus as Israel strikes for a third day
Panic-stricken residents began fleeing Tehran on Sunday as Israeli strikes and air defense fire rocked the city, sending thick plumes of smoke into the skyline of a capital unprepared for war.
www.iranintl.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is it, a topical example of how clear the charade is for #Trumpism and the cocksure nature of MAGA Conservatism.
www.iranintl.com/en/202506157...
Pick ONLY 1! It can't be neither or both.
1) Trump knew, so sanctioned it.
2) Trump did not know.
Which one is in accordance with his campaign?
www.iranintl.com/en/202506157...
Pick ONLY 1! It can't be neither or both.
1) Trump knew, so sanctioned it.
2) Trump did not know.
Which one is in accordance with his campaign?
This sorta shit is the most practical (in a working class sorta way) argument I've seen for why housing SHOULD NOT be left completely to the free market. THIS house for $285,000 because the flipper knows more than the target buyer, thereby preying on ignorance?
youtu.be/83S2FxXm1AI
youtu.be/83S2FxXm1AI
Attics never get the TLC they deserve 😔
YouTube video by Inspector Randle
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June 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This sorta shit is the most practical (in a working class sorta way) argument I've seen for why housing SHOULD NOT be left completely to the free market. THIS house for $285,000 because the flipper knows more than the target buyer, thereby preying on ignorance?
youtu.be/83S2FxXm1AI
youtu.be/83S2FxXm1AI
They like their blue line thin, so it's easier to cross.
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
They like their blue line thin, so it's easier to cross.
⚠️ Remember ⚠️
Just as with traffic you are not merely living through history, you are PART OF IT no matter how small.
Just as with traffic you are not merely living through history, you are PART OF IT no matter how small.
June 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
⚠️ Remember ⚠️
Just as with traffic you are not merely living through history, you are PART OF IT no matter how small.
Just as with traffic you are not merely living through history, you are PART OF IT no matter how small.