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Tony Pentimalli

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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 · 17h

Mike Johnson isn’t protecting victims - he’s protecting predators. His refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva keeps the Epstein files sealed and the powerful safe. This isn’t procedure. It’s concealment. Power guarding its own rot.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 19h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud: “The president has plenary authority.” Then froze as CNN cut the feed and later erased the clip.

That wasn’t a glitch. It was a confession - the blueprint for absolute power, hidden in plain sight.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 1d

As America nears its 250th birthday, the world now watches the “shining city on a hill” through the smoke CIVICUS has placed the U.S. on its Human Rights Watchlist-our freedoms under inspection, our hypocrisy laid bare Trump still wants a Nobel Peace Prize Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BY4...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 1d

50 years after Watergate, Nixon’s portrait still hangs in the East Room
Nixon lied to survive
Trump lies to rule beyond it
Pam Bondi’s defiance before the Senate wasn’t testimony It was the sound that no longer fears accountability
The guardrails are gone
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 2d

Power built on fear devours its own. Trump’s inner circle-Bondi, Patel, Noem, Homan-believe loyalty will protect them. But obedience isn’t a shield. It’s a sentence. The reckoning always comes. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cnj...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 2d

Hamas’s massacre cannot be excused.
But what followed in Gaza was not simple retaliation—it was near erasure.
Over 63,000 lives lost, 18,000 of them children.
Entire neighborhoods vanished.
If this is not genocide, the word has nothing left to say. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1CNx...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 3d

A passport should be a shield, not a test of loyalty.
Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship isn’t just about law. It’s about control. When a president teaches Americans to question whether their children belong, the damage is already done.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 3d

A judge’s home burned to the ground on Edisto Beach. Her husband barely survived. She had ruled on voter data just weeks earlier. In a nation where disagreement now draws fire, the question is no longer if violence follows politics, but when.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Friday!!

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 6d

Operation Midway Blitz was not law enforcement, it was theater. Children dragged from beds, citizens detained until “verified,” protestors gassed. For MAGA, the binky was pacified: bigotry masked as patriotism, and Chicago finally under federal control. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/177t...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 6d

Pete Hegseth strutted at Quantico, crowing about “warrior ethos” while dismissing women as “complications.” History says otherwise. From Nancy Wake to Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock, women are not distractions. They are warriors who define the fight. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1VhD...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall proved science without empathy is empty hope is a discipline and each of us can make a difference As authoritarian leaders gut protections her challenge echoes: if she gave her life to this fight, what excuse do we have to do less?

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 7d

JD Vance went on Fox & claimed Democrats want to give “illegal immigrants” free healthcare. Nonsense. Vance didn’t “end benefits,” he just shoved the bill onto hospitals & you. Americans pay more while Republicans lie. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/19g3...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 7d

ICE raids are not about hardened criminals. They are violent shows of force-doors kicked in before dawn. They target immigrants of every status, even U.S. citizens. They hide behind masks because they know the work is indefensible. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1JJR...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 8d

America was built on protest and dissent. NSPM-7 brands beliefs like anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity as “terrorism indicators.” Criticism of Netanyahu is smeared as antisemitism. Once thought becomes a crime scene, democracy is gone. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BXH...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 9d

Trump turned Quantico into a loyalty test.
“Applaud-or there goes your rank, your future.”
Hegseth: “No more anonymous complaints,” silencing survivors.
Trump: “They spit, we hit,” as he declared war on American cities.
It was a rehearsal for repression. Read more:
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 9d

Republicans bankroll billionaires and foreign leaders while denying Americans health care. Schumer must not blink. ACA subsidies must be permanent, Medicaid defended, and GOP recklessness exposed for the sabotage it is. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1J9i...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 10d

Marches matter, but money moves systems. The Kimmel boycott proved it: when silence carries a cost, power retreats. Imagine that leverage scaled-Tesla, Exxon, AT&T. Every dollar is complicity or resistance. The choice is ours. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BRr...

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