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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 5h

Watching Sinatra’s 1945 short, where he asks a pack of boys if they’re Nazis. Those kids were taught to reject hate, yet too many of their real life counterparts grew up defending the cruelty their fathers died fighting. Eighty years on, the faces change; the hate doesn’t. Stand up. Speak up.

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 9h

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 10h

Charlie Kirk built a career painting targets on people’s backs then called it faith freedom & patriotism His death is tragic but it exposes a nation where hate has become a broadcast frequency Words don’t need orders to kill when they’re amplified to millions Read:
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 12h

Trump calls it peace. TIME calls it triumph. But Gaza still breathes through dust and silence. A ceasefire without justice isn’t peace — it’s intermission. The world claps for the man in light while a city mourns in the dark. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1A8i...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, you’ve all seen the viral clips-one lone frog staring down a wall of riot shields in Portland. What you’re witnessing isn’t chaos. It’s courage

Mocking the machine robs it of power. Every costume, every laugh makes tyranny look ridiculous.

Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/17KV...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s war on history is not about “wokeism.” It is about control. Reclaiming Columbus Day, restoring Confederate-linked base names, and weaponizing nostalgia are not pride They are propaganda A government rewriting truth is the first step toward tyranny. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DNm...

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 2d

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 4d

She never faced soldiers or spies—her war was with authority itself.
Grace Hopper didn’t just invent modern code; she defied every rule written to stop her.
Her machines learned to speak our language. The question is whether we’ve learned to speak hers. Read more:
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 4d

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 11d

Happy Friday!!

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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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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