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Anthony Pignataro

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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 · 6d

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

Maui Daze: A novel look at newspaper life in Lahaina

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.bsky.social · 11h

Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead early Sunday morning, authorities said.

Read more from @apignataro.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/man-fatally-...

Man fatally shot in Bixby Park neighborhood, police say.
The shooting happened around 1:28 a.m. Sunday at the 200 block of Falcon Avenue, according to Long Beach police.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

I'm a fan of virtue signaling. I think more people should do it.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14h

You eat jar sauce

The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 16h

On today's dubious holiday, reread our report from the anti-Columbus protest this summer:

Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already
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Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already

Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus

nygroove.nyc

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Anthony Pignataro @apignataro.bsky.social · 2d

5 injured in a helicopter crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach and the video shot by a beach goer is absolutely terrifying www.nbclosangeles.com/video/news/l...

At least 5 injured after helicopter crashes in Huntington Beach

Video captured by a beachgoer showed a helicopter at a low altitude Saturday over the beach as visitors watched in confusion.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 2d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 2d

OH NO

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

I just screamed NOOOOOOO at my phone. Didn’t realize I felt so strongly about this lady.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2d

How do regimes do when the soldiers don’t get paid? Does anyone know of any concerning historical precedents that this evokes

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 3d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 2d

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 2d

Among all the things that make AI garbage, it has one of the shittiest business pitches ever. There was a time where corporate bosses would make some effort to sell you something you’d actually want.

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 3d

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d

EPSTEIN FILES

I suggest to you, that most of you have it wrong.

It's not Trump being in the files that's so problematic. It's that it's largely his leverage against a lot of rich/powerful people.

A British working royal was there for fuck's sake. Bill Gates got divorced over this.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

"there are fires all over the place"
~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Kyle Foddrill 🫥 @foddrill51.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Thiel is the guy in the zombie movie who has been bitten but is hiding it from the rest of the group.

The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Thiel says Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist.

Seems like projection to me.

What do you think?

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Long Beach Watchdog @lbwatchdog.bsky.social · 3d

The purrly elegant Le Chic Chat Soirée is coming soon, and in this week’s Scratch This, @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social tells you how you can win a pair of tickets!

Read more on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/the-purrly-e...

The purrly elegant Le Chic Chat Soirée is coming soon!
Here’s how you can win a pair of tickets to the event, where funny veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald will be guest of honor.

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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