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Denise Civiletti

@deniseciviletti.bsky.social
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Native New Yorker, lawyer, independent local news publisher. Founder & editor, RiverheadLocal.com. #LocalNewsMatters

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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
They would sure love a shout-out.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@maddowblog.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social #VisibilityBrigade in Riverhead NY says "Be Brave Like Dolly- Vote 4 Change" Aug. 30 on Long Island Expressway overpass just before last exit. Week after week in #Red #Suffolk at the gateway to the #Hamptons and #LIWineCountry. Photo: @riverheadlocal.com
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
New York’s Even Year Election Law stands. Judge calls governments suing alongside political committees and spending public funds on this lawsuit “troubling.”
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Federal judge dismisses challenge to NY Even Year Election Law
A federal judge dismissed the challenge to N.Y. Even Year Election Law, throwing out the government plaintiffs’ claims with prejudice, questioning their role in the case, and citing RiverheadLOCAL’s r...
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A must-read in this 250th anniversary year. A painful, compelling and powerful book that puts the Trump administration’s whitewashing of our history in context. It’s nothing new, but it gets more dangerous every time. Thank you @esglaude.bsky.social
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence newrepublic.com/article//myt... via @newrepublic.com
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How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence
The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Pete Hegseth burned through $93 billion, including: $15.1 million for ribeye steak $6.9 million for lobster tail $2 million for Alaskan king crab $140,000 for donuts $124,000 for ice cream machines $99,000 for a grand piano $26,000 for a violin $21,750 for a flute $12,000 for fruit basket stands
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Pete Hegseth Blew Billions On Shellfish, Steak, Fruit Baskets, Furniture
Pete Hegseth's Defense Department blew through tens of billions in one month ... including huge splurges on steak, lobster, crab, fruit baskets, and furniture.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"It could have been me, but instead it was you And it may be me, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through But if you can die for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom If you can die for freedom, I can too" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsJ...
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It Could Have Been Me
YouTube video by Social Issues in Song
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
No $ for healthcare, food or heating help, but the Trump treasury department's *unlegislated* tax cuts add hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses & investors — ON TOP of the $4T in tax cuts for the rich enacted in July. This is illegal btw. But laws are meaningless now.
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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RiverheadLOCAL @riverheadlocal.com · 19/10/2025
No Kings: Riverhead, NY. Hundreds turned out to each of two No Kings protests 10/18/2025. youtu.be/SGYV1gq9Nhc?...
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No Kings Riverhead NY Oct. 18,2025
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Fed judge mocks Trump pleadings v. NYT: “…in one of many, often repetitive, and laudatory…but superfluous allegations, the pleader states, ‘The Apprentice’ represented the cultural magnitude of President Trump’s singular brilliance, which captured the [Z]eitgeist of our time.” Judge Steven Merryday
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2025
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
With all Trump's yammering about what should and should not be in museums, I can't help but wonder: Do you think he's actually ever been inside a museum — not for some ribbon-cutting or an "appearance" but just for the sake of viewing exhibits and learning? NVM. Dumb question.
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RiverheadLOCAL @riverheadlocal.com · 25/08/2025
Star Confectionery, the Riverhead luncheonette known to locals as Papa Nick's, served its last customers on Sunday after more than a century in business.
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Goodbye, Papa Nick’s: Riverhead legacy luncheonette closes its doors
Star Confectionery, the Riverhead luncheonette known to locals as Papa Nick’s, served its last customers on Sunday after more than a century in business.
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RiverheadLOCAL @riverheadlocal.com · 17/08/2025
Crowds flocked today to the Polish Town Fair and Festival, an annual summer favorite in Riverhead since 1975. Photo gallery.
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Witamy! In Riverhead, everyone’s Polish on the second weekend in August: photos from the fair
Crowds flocked today to the Polish Town Fair and Festival, an annual summer favorite in Riverhead since 1975. Photo gallery.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
No. He’s a racist prick.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A couple years from now, once right-wing "rage" against antisemitism fades, and it's OK to be blatantly antisemitic again, expect Damsky to be appointed to a high-level post in the administration. #Trump'sAmerica
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
After receiving the award, this POS joined X and "began posting racist and antisemitic messages. After he wrote in late March that Jews must be 'abolished by any means necessary,' the university suspended him, barred him from campus and stepped up police patrols around the law school."
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This same student also advocates that the courts should attack the 14th & 15th amendments and that nonwhites should be stripped of voting rights and given 10 years to leave the country. #Trump'sAmerica
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Trump-appointed judge teaching a class on "originalism" at U. of Florida law school gave the top award in his class to a racist miscreant who argued in his "capstone" paper that the Constitution only applies to white people. The dean of the school defended the award. #Trump'sAmerica
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
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RiverheadLOCAL @riverheadlocal.com · 23/06/2025
Latino parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Church and community allies walked in support of immigrants Sunday evening after the 6 o'clock mass. Photos and video.
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Immigrants and allies march against mass deportation in Riverhead
Latino parishioners of St. John the Evangelist Church and community allies walked in support of immigrants Sunday evening after the 6 o’clock mass. Photos and video.
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E.S. Michelson @esmichelson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Nassau County, New York's ordinance on 15 foot so-called Zone of Protection from first responders endangers the public's right to know. By @deniseciviletti.bsky.social www.newsday.com/opinion/comm...
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Nassau County is wrong on its first responder protection act
Requiring a 15-foot buffer around first responders could unlawfully restrict newsgathering, a fundamental right protected by the First Amendment.
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RiverheadLOCAL @riverheadlocal.com · 05/04/2025
Crowd of more than 200 turned out for #handsoff rally in deep red #Riverhead this morning. More photos and video here: riverheadlocal.com/2025/04/05/h...
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov You’ve always had my respect and admiration but your passion and eloquence for 25 hours on the Senate floor blew me away. Thank you, Senator Booker.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Justice Thurgood Marshall, July 4,1992
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision & the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, & its sick to disappear & just blow away…”
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind…” 1/3
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Women hold up half the sky @bigfastsmallslow.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“…for democracy—in America and Europe—to stand a fighting chance, lawyers committed to the rule of law must take action now.” Article by UCLA law prof Scott Cummings, interviewed by @maddow.msnbc.com last night, worth reading in full. verfassungsblog.de/stopping-aut...
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Stopping Autocratic Legalism in America – Before It Is Too Late
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social handled this ethically and honorably from the beginning — more than we can say of the clowns who breached security protocols and then lied to cover it up. I'm proud to be a subscriber of @theatlantic.com and appreciate your journalism every day. Thank you!
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Now that Trump said this chat didn't contain classified information, @theatlantic.com published the full chat. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Climate change is something we need to take seriously," then-Congressman Lee Zeldin said in 2018. In his eastern Long Island district "nearly completely surrounded by water, rising sea levels and its impact on the coastal economy, fisheries and tourism is a pressing issue we must address," he said.
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Zeldin’s massive environmental deregulation plans: What will the changes mean for his native Long Island and former NY-1 constituents?
Many of the reversals EPA Administrator Zeldin announced yesterday would have direct consequences for the eastern Long Island congressional district that sent Zeldin to the House of Representatives…
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We now live in a country where a permanent legal resident can be deported for protesting US government policy. What’s next? (Rhetorical question.)
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I’m a local news publisher. We have no paywall. (90%+ advertiser supported with the balance in voluntary subscriptions.) There are people who think our social media posts and comments on our posts are all they need to know. They never visit our site to read the actual stories. Willful ignorance.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Musk-DOGE algorithms at work. Don’t say gay. Lol. But yeah, let’s erase history.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
He had his cod liver oil in his backpack no doubt.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is what happens when a hedge fund executes a "turnaround"— eviscerates staff, stuffs his own pockets with cash and leaves behind a crippled shell of its former self. What could possible go wrong?
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
More like they've taken a hacksaw to the U.S. Constitution.
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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My statement on the FBI Purge that puts at risk the safety, well-being and national security of the American people.
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Taylor McKay ELBOWS UP🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️RISE UP 🇺🇸 SLAVA🇺🇦 @taylortotts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Canadian here, ummm Americans…what are you doing? Seriously are y’all in a coma? Why aren’t you taking to the streets? Where is the outrage?! A full on dismantling of your democracy is happening RIGHT NOW. You’re just watching. S Korea and Brazil took care of it in a day. What are you doing?
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
From the perspective of 2025, as we begin to witness the new order he describes unfold, it is absolutely chilling.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com this week played a clip from this interview with Vance in September 2021, when he was running for US Senate, his first public office — an office he held for just 24 months before he was catapulted to VP. Watch the entire interview. www.youtube.com/live/PMq1ZEc...
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J.D. Vance - JML #070
YouTube video by Jack Murphy Live
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
As Vance explained, “when the courts stop you, stand before the American people like Andrew Jackson did and say the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.” Vance’s words express the administration’s regard for the rule of law.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Trump/Vance administration got right to work on this objective. In astonishment, we observe that their actions violate the Constitution, federal statutes, regulations and well-settled case law. But we miss the point. None of that matters.
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“And when we get taken to court and when the courts stop you, stand before the American people like Andrew Jackson did and say the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”
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Denise Civiletti @deniseciviletti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
JD VANCE on Jack Murphy Live, Sept. 21“, 2021: “…we should just seize the administrative state for our own purposes. We should fire every single mid level bureaucrat, every single civil servant and replace them with our own people…”🧵
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RiverheadLOCAL @riverheadlocal.com · 22/01/2025
An outbreak of avian influenza at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has forced the farm to cease operations and begin to euthanize its entire flock, jeopardizing the future of Long Island’s last duck farm.
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‘Bird flu’ outbreak shutters Long Island’s last duck farm, as culling of 99,000 birds is underway
An outbreak of avian influenza at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue has forced the farm to cease operations and begin to euthanize its entire flock, jeopardizing the future of Long Island’s last…
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