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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.

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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...

20.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

18.02.2026 20:00 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

17.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 17    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
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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...

12.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

12.02.2026 01:34 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0
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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...

11.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

09.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

02.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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A brilliant work from Shawn Braley

31.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 59    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

31.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

30.01.2026 15:14 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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With all the heartbreaking, hateful, and scary news we’re surrounded by every day, I didn’t realize how badly I needed this.

29.01.2026 21:31 — 👍 38    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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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...

29.01.2026 21:29 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

29.01.2026 01:14 — 👍 22    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 3
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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...

27.01.2026 19:54 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

27.01.2026 06:00 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

24.01.2026 01:27 — 👍 74    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 2
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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.

22.01.2026 19:46 — 👍 30    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
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“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...

20.01.2026 17:32 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

19.01.2026 23:01 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 1
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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...

19.01.2026 22:38 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Lmao

18.01.2026 00:57 — 👍 28    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1
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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...

16.01.2026 21:12 — 👍 445    🔁 137    💬 4    📌 6
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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...

16.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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“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...

15.01.2026 21:16 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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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...

14.01.2026 22:47 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

13.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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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...

12.01.2026 17:19 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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