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Anthony Pignataro

@apignataro.bsky.social

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Current journalist at the co-op @lbwatchdog.bsky.social, former MauiTime editor. My new novel The B Girls and new memoir Remembering Lahaina are now available. He/him.

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new novel for sale! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FV3V8MR...

Maui Daze: A novel look at newspaper life in Lahaina

Maui Daze: A novel look at newspaper life in Lahaina [Pignataro, Anthony] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Maui Daze: A novel look at newspaper life in Lahaina

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Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 12h

My union—the LA Times Guild—has authorized a strike with the support of 85% of our membership.

This comes after years of brutal layoffs and no cost-of-living raises since 2021.

Next up: we bargain. But if we have to strike, we will 🪧
laist.com/news/la-time...

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever

The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 8h

Donald Trump begging for a Nobel Peace Prize is really something

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8h

whew

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival

Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11h

why u may ask well

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 12h

85% of LA Times union members just voted to authorize a strike laist.com/news/la-time...

LA Times union votes to authorize strike for first time ever

The L.A. Times Guild has been negotiating over their contract with management for three years.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 14h

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

Was a mistake to drop the "weird" attack

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15h

everyone who knows the kid who didnt do their homework or who was the kid who didnt do the homework and is pushing bullshit to the teacher has seen this speech pattern before

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: With soybeans, what is the plan to help farmers? Is it direct checks?

TRUMP: What happens with soybeans is uhhh, we're gonna see more and more I think opening up and part of the reason-- he's got things that he wants to discuss with me and I have things I want to discuss with him

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

White people are producing mass shooters at an incredible clip, and this is what they’re trying to do about it.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 22h

A White Christian nationalist pastor argued recently on a right-wing podcast that the Bible--specifically Deuteronomy 21, about how a father must bring his rebellious son to the town square to be stoned--justifies state violence against Black boys and young men.

www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

Article from "The Root" by Asheea Smith. Published October 8, 2025

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16h

What makes it even more pathetic is that he's just stealing Trump's jokes and delivering them more cringily

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 16h

Oh yeah he’s healthy. Ridiculously healthy. In fact, he’s the healthiest human being in all of history. You can dig up any corpse, and he’s healthier than him. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump, 79, Going for ‘Yearly’ Health Check After Just Six Months

The annual checkup is the second this year as speculation on the president’s health swirls.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

Color blind and merit based bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is who they are.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 1d

Right wing money is setting millions of dollars on fire to buy all possible media while wealthy left wing types are

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

i truly hate this party sometimes

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media refuses to explain to the public that almost all of Trump policy is based on his obsessive watching of Fox News.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

The south launched the Civil War to defend slavery and Trump is launching the reboot based on some dumb antifa b-roll he saw on Fox News.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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