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Emily Dominguez

Emily Dominguez

@oneacre.bsky.social

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Educator and hobby farmer, believe equity and diversity are essential in modern society, believe in civil rights, support unions, work in nonprofits, have a PhD in biomedical sciences that I have yet to use in gainful employment

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Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 3d

Very cool indeed. This makes me think of the “cabezudos” during Carnival from my time in Uruguay. I looked it up and it seems to be a tradition of Spanish/European origin with different countries doing their own take.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 3d

Pray for my family, among the lawless terrorists in the #Austin #NoKings rally. (Sarcasm)

Austin No Kings rally demonstrators. Several people, one in an inflatable squirrel suit, another in an inflatable sea horse suit.

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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings-Austin,TX

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 3d

Go Austin!

Swamp Girl @libchic.bsky.social · 3d

Austin Texas No Kings

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 3d

I once lived in Carrboro! Now in a smaller Texas small town. We too rallied! Good to see smaller communities doing their part.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty good turn out for #NoKings in #Bastrop Texas. More people trickling in to rally point. Exciting to have a new candidate Clayton Tucker for Texas Ag Commissioner here with us.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 3d

My somewhat bad punny signs for Bastrop, TX No Kings day (context: we are known as the “Lost Pines” area due to being in an area with pines normally only seen in Eastern Texas.)

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 10d

Oregon Trail v. 2025?

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 18d

“In another unconstitutional and systemically racist move, FEMA halts preparedness grant money, orders states to recount their populations excluding deported migrants.” Fixed it!

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

You could be ny long list twin 🥰. I commit!

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

“And boots” makes it even better, especially if they are rubber, mud stained, and chewed up by a dog.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

This! My idea of a good weekend is putzing around in the garden (aka engaging in horticultural Darwinism) and maybe cooking a few things from scratch, only because I don’t like all packaging. I’d do it every day of the week if I weren’t required to be gainfully employed until I take my last breath.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

Proud washed-up hag here!

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

One of those mornings when even turkey wattles can be inspiring 😀!

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

…and then they will still try to convince you that you haven’t done enough, and you just to need to adjust some magical mindset and read a few more inspirational quotes to get there. Whatever the f “there” is. (Let’s normalize being okay just “being”… no extra adjectives attached.)

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

This is the only thing giving me hope. Once a country goes through a dictatorship/facism, it takes a good generation or two before the horrors are forgotten. Maybe we will emerge better, and if I don’t get to see it, perhaps the younger generations will.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

Seeing a theme here… and, it’s all sleight of hand, isn’t it?

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 24d

But don’t you know it’s not “socialism” if it benefits the ruling class?! It’s “protecting economic interests” or some other BS. It’s only socialism if it’s actually done to help marginalized people.

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 25d

Valid point!

Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 25d

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 25d

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money

apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 25d

Came here to say this. I’m pretty sure it happened, too. I mean how do you pardon people in jail for something that never happened?🤷🏻‍♀️Were they ever even there? This is like bad science-fi!

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 25d

One of many great Bob Dylan songs from that era. Also this one resonates with the current era:

A South politician preaches to the poor white man
“You got more than the blacks, don’t complain
You’re better than them, you been born with white skin,” they explain.
And the Negro’s name
Is used it is plain
For the politician’s gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game

The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 25d

Exactly! When do we start worrying as much about the rights of all the people improperly detained and killed by this regime as much as we worry about entertainers rights?

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 25d

Came here to say that. From them, it’s always the woman’s fault.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 28d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

Emily Dominguez @oneacre.bsky.social · 28d

It in the year 9 TE, (Trump Era), it was common for the cabinet to publicly preview speeches, due to an attempt to mold the anticipated incoherence of said speech into something that served reigning party.