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Tony Pentimalli

@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
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Passionate progressive writer and advocate. Exploring politics, social justice, and the intersection of history and modern issues. Amateur chef, and media critic. Always seeking bold ideas and honest conversations.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
They mocked him. Dismissed him. Told him to wait. Jesse Jackson refused. He forced America to expand and taught millions to stand and say, “I AM SOMEBODY.” That wasn’t a slogan. It was a demand. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/18QU...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Two people are dead. This was a targeted family dispute at a hockey rink — not a culture war event. One individual committed murder. Not an entire community. Turning tragedy into ammunition against trans Americans is a choice. Facts still matter. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1LBo...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Supreme Court just confirmed police can enter your home without probable cause if they claim an “objectively reasonable” emergency Entry first Review later. When permission becomes interpretation the Fourth Amendment isn’t abolished - it’s hollowed out Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BHW...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Justice Jackson says the Court “gets along well” Meanwhile enforcement escalates injunctions narrow and executive power accelerates. Civility is not a shield It is cover No one is coming to save us Democracy survives when citizens organize & apply pressure Read more www.facebook.com/share/p/1AKg...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi didn’t testify today l She showcased impunity She refused to apologize survivors dodged basic transparency questions and mocked Rep Raskin as a “washed-up loser lawyer” That isn’t toughness It’s authoritarian contempt and zero fear of consequences Read more www.facebook.com/share/p/17RP...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Over 1 million references to “Trump” in the Epstein archive, per Rep. Jamie Raskin. That isn’t incidental. That’s structural. The shock isn’t the number. It’s that it didn’t detonate the political system. Power survives what would destroy anyone else. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/18Kq...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
In 15 minutes on the Super Bowl’s biggest stage, a Puerto Rican artist offered a broader, more inclusive vision of America than the sitting president managed across five years in office. That contrast wasn’t cultural. It was civic. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/182K...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Trump didn’t usher in tyranny. He removed the mask. The system worked as designed, until those who felt protected weren’t. The question now: when this regime falls, do we stand arm in arm-or retreat back into privilege and distance? Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GPq...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A brilliant work from Shawn Braley
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A judge said no. The DOJ proceeded anyway. Journalists were arrested for filming a protest in a church. MAGA free-speech warriors who screamed about Hunter Biden’s photos are now silent. This is not drift. It’s enforcement. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/14Sk...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The government won’t shut down DHS got a two-week carve-out That didn’t end the fight. It narrowed it ICE is already funded through 2029. The only question left is whether Congress will write laws to restrain a fascist enforcement state - or normalize it. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/18F2...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
With all the heartbreaking, hateful, and scary news we’re surrounded by every day, I didn’t realize how badly I needed this.
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
They don’t need to repeal the Constitution if they can redefine the words that protect it. If “peaceful” means silent, invisible, obedient, then protest becomes lethal by definition. Alex Pretti wasn’t killed by law. He was killed by language. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1LVp...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The danger isn’t fewer guns at protests. It’s a government killing a legally armed citizen, then retroactively declaring the right didn’t apply. Rights enforced by discretion aren’t rights. They’re permissions. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/v/1BeB...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
They demoted Bovino. They didn’t dismantle the machine. The Axis of Evil-Trump, Miller, Noem-still runs an interior crackdown that’s killing civilians. This wasn’t accountability. It was theater. They blinked. They didn’t yield. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1fnn...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We all saw the videos. Alex Pretti was disarmed, pinned, stopped moving - then shot again. He was holding a phone, trying to help a woman ICE shoved down. This wasn’t policing. It was an execution. An authoritarian state in action. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bt2...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Helen Keller wasn’t a feel-good parable She was a socialist labor militant anti-war dissenter and disability theorist who said capitalism manufactures misery and disability When she became politically dangerous, her ideas were erased and she was repackaged Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/17QU...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is how it always happens. Not monsters in capes. Not cartoon villains. Ordinary men who put on a uniform, are told who the enemy is, and decide the badge gives them permission to dehumanize.
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“Papers, please" has come to America. Kristi Noem says citizens should be ready to prove they belong. That’s the logic that built Nazi Germany. It will be used to silence protesters, remove witnesses, and criminalize dissent. This is how it starts. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GC7...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE whining about honking horns while making an arrest is rich. After a year of masked raids, warrantless detentions, and defying courts, they now play victim. Even richer: they serve a president who protects pedophiles. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/r/1BgH...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
MLK Day is not a holiday. It’s a warning. One year after Trump was sworn in, troops were placed on standby and the DOJ bent toward loyalty. King fought state violence. Trump rehearses it. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DQj...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Lmao
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Ida B. Wells didn’t “raise awareness.” She documented crimes. She proved lynching wasn’t chaos it was governance sheriffs handing bodies to mobs judges refusing justice, papers laundering murder into “necessity" It didn’t vanish It adapted Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/19KG...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
DHS didn’t just “miss” a dog whistle It amplified a white nationalist anthem and paired it with ICE recruitment. That’s not drift. When coercive power adopts extremist symbolism without consequence democracy doesn’t vanish overnight It erodes operationally Read more: www.facebook.com/share/r/1DSf...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
“One of ours all of yours” was never the point as a quote It’s the logic of collective punishment History remembers that logic from Nazi reprisals like Lidice because it shows where it leads The danger isn’t the words It’s the worldview now being normalized Read more www.facebook.com/share/p/189Z...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Selective justice isn’t justice at all. Congress is demanding subpoenas while ignoring a law it passed and a president signed. The Epstein files remain sealed. Enforcement is conditional. Truth is discretionary. And the victims are still waiting. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ALx...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Who stops a madman when the GOP aligns, Democrats hesitate, and the Court clears the path? No cavalry is coming. Democracies survive only when ordinary people accept the burden institutions abandoned. This only works if we do. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1AAi...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
MAGA isn’t an ideology. It’s a loyalty system. No beliefs. No lines. Just power, dominance, and control. That’s why “no new wars” turned into escalation abroad, and why civilians like Renee Good get smeared at home. There is no gotcha moment coming. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bgg...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Renee Nicole Good was a U.S. citizen A mother of three If an undocumented person had killed her, MAGA would have made her a martyr to justify cruelty Instead she died at the hands of a masked agent of the state, and the regime closed ranks That is the tell Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1A1W...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Anna Politkovskaya didn’t carry a weapon. She carried notebooks. She documented war crimes while they were still deniable, knowing it could cost her life. Authoritarians fear witnesses for a reason. They leave behind proof. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GXn...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A sitting president hinted elections may be unnecessary. The press shrugged. That silence wasn’t a mistake, it was functional. When an agenda is accelerating and power is consolidating elections become an inconvenience. This wasn’t a joke. It was strategy. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EpJ...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Greenland is not for sale And neither is the world order If the U.S. treats allied territory as conquerable NATO hollowes out borders become optional and Americans pay the price in instability, inflation and fear This is not abstract It’s already happening Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CCs...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis for trying to drive away. Not at the border. Not in a war zone. In her own neighborhood. Interference is not a death sentence. Fear is not a license to kill. This is authoritarianism, plain and simple.
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The U.S. didn’t “liberate” Venezuela. It bombed a capital, abducted a head of state, bypassed Congress, threatened NATO allies, and proposed taxpayer bailouts for oil giants. This isn’t strength. It’s a doctrine of force without law. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/19xU...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
January 6 wasn’t a riot. It was a warning shot. We studied it, explained it, then let it metastasize. Now cruelty is policy, waiting is surrender, and fascism is operational. This is not a warning anymore. It’s the record. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/15YD...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We are racing toward an economy that no longer needs people to function. AI isn’t just changing jobs-it’s stripping away leverage, consent, and democratic control. This isn’t about the future. It’s already happening. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BvZ...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Rob Reiner’s death makes this All in the Family clip hit even harder Mike Stivic naming the lie we still live with: “hustle” has never meant the same thing for everyone because some people hustle under the weight of racism and rigged systems If you’ve ever had this argument you know that fire
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
“Trump must have a reason” isn’t confusion anymore. It’s consent After a decade of corruption, cruelty, sexual misconduct and attacks on the rule of law, this phrase now signals alignment, not ignorance It’s how people surrender judgment and call it faith Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1G2r...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Trump responded to a double homicide with mockery No empathy No restraint Just cruelty from the President This is the man who calls immigrants “vermin” and “poisoning the blood,” but excuses extremists as “very fine people” and Jan 6 attackers as “hostages.” He owns the violent rhetoric What a POS
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A cancer vaccine just prevented aggressive tumors in mice at UMass Amherst A breakthrough like this should change everything but in an America run by anti-science and profit-driven health system the real question is whether the people who paid for it will ever see it www.facebook.com/share/p/16J5...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Maine just fired the first real shot at a system built to let billionaires buy our elections. Their $5K cap on super PAC donations forces the very ruling that created unlimited money onto the path of the Supreme Court One state just cracked the foundation. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1G2e...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Birthright citizenship was written in blood after a nation tore itself apart. Now a SCOTUS built to roll back Reconstruction is poised to make citizenship conditional turning citizens into subjects This is not about borders. It’s about the republic itself. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1JUz...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Trump’s 2025 security strategy quietly reclassifies Europe from ally to leverage. It normalizes interference, weakens NATO, turns Ukraine into a bargaining chip, and trades the postwar order for short-term power. The cost will land on ordinary Americans. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/14TB...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A U.S. citizen pulled from her car by masked ICE in daylight. No cause. No charges. Just fear as policy. Under Trump’s second term, cruelty isn’t drifting-it’s accelerating. When does documentation become complicity?
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Gisèle Halimi put the state on trial-exposing torture in Algeria, defending a raped teen in the Bobigny abortion case, and proving that illegal orders are never a defense. History records obedience, but it moves only when unjust law is challenged. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/17Qg...
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The GOP exits aren’t about burnout anymore. Lawmakers are leaving, lining up exits, even facing death threats for crossing the line. When intimidation becomes enforcement and loyalty replaces law, power hollows out. This is what collapse looks like. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BRf...
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