Tony Pentimalli
@tonywriteshere.bsky.social
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.
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...
February 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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...
A brilliant work from Shawn Braley
January 31, 2026 at 11:09 PM
A brilliant work from Shawn Braley
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...
January 31, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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...
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...
January 30, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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...
With all the heartbreaking, hateful, and scary news we’re surrounded by every day, I didn’t realize how badly I needed this.
January 29, 2026 at 9:31 PM
With all the heartbreaking, hateful, and scary news we’re surrounded by every day, I didn’t realize how badly I needed this.
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...
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...
January 29, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
January 29, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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...
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...
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...
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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...
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...
January 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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...
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...
January 24, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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...
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.
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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.
“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...
Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GC7...
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 PM
“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...
Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GC7...
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...
January 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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...
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...
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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...
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...
January 16, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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...
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...
January 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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...
“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...
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...
January 15, 2026 at 9:16 PM
“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...
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...
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...
January 14, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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...
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...
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...
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
January 12, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
January 10, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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...
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...
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...
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...
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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...
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...
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...
January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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...