Emmanuel Villarreal
@evillarreal.bsky.social
Eleanor’s dad, street taco enthusiast, and striving to empower working-class communities across Texas.
UTSA & TxState Alum. Based in Austin, but the RGV will always be home. #Puro956
UTSA & TxState Alum. Based in Austin, but the RGV will always be home. #Puro956
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While I have plenty of beef with other stuff Newsom has done, this is exactly what we need right now
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
August 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
While I have plenty of beef with other stuff Newsom has done, this is exactly what we need right now
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
ABSOLUTELY
I only have two episodes left and yeah, y’all are right. #MrRobot is one of the all-time best TV shows. I thought I knew but I had no idea.
July 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
ABSOLUTELY
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You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in
July 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in
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republicans keep making life worse for working people and better for the rich and then we have elections and they’re like no that’s not true! and people believe them and then they just do it all again and it’s enough to make a rational person feel absolutely fucking insane
July 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
republicans keep making life worse for working people and better for the rich and then we have elections and they’re like no that’s not true! and people believe them and then they just do it all again and it’s enough to make a rational person feel absolutely fucking insane
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Want to win back working class people?
Run a campaign like Zohran Mamdani.
Make working class people the centerpiece of your campaign.
Run a campaign like Zohran Mamdani.
Make working class people the centerpiece of your campaign.
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Want to win back working class people?
Run a campaign like Zohran Mamdani.
Make working class people the centerpiece of your campaign.
Run a campaign like Zohran Mamdani.
Make working class people the centerpiece of your campaign.
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Zohran’s results so far just show how tired Americans are of the status quo, how we need creative, people-first campaigning and governance, and why positive, progressive politics are the future.
Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.
Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Zohran’s results so far just show how tired Americans are of the status quo, how we need creative, people-first campaigning and governance, and why positive, progressive politics are the future.
Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.
Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.
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I agree with the increasing number of people who say that when this ordeal is over there have to be trials.
“On his first call to his son after the detainment, Barranco was less concerned with his injuries and more concerned with his job. He told him where his truck and equipment were and asked him to speak with his client and finish the job, the younger Barranco said.”
June 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I agree with the increasing number of people who say that when this ordeal is over there have to be trials.
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
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Democratic Party electeds are going to be standing outside the gates of death camps watching smoke billow out of crematoria, and they'll still be saying "We demand answers!"
June 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Democratic Party electeds are going to be standing outside the gates of death camps watching smoke billow out of crematoria, and they'll still be saying "We demand answers!"
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If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
June 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.
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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
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I cannot express enough how much these people actively hate the U.S. Constitution and would tear it into shreds if they were permitted.
Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
May 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I cannot express enough how much these people actively hate the U.S. Constitution and would tear it into shreds if they were permitted.
lmaooooo
if my little brother was made pope I would 10,000% lie to the local press about what team he rooted for just to make him mad
May 9, 2025 at 2:00 AM
lmaooooo
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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
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Some have responded w/ a version of "why are you elevating this story when non-citizens have it much worse?"
This story shows, in a concrete & visceral way, that citizenship is not a shield from state lawlessness in a mass deportation regime. That realization can turn ppl against such policies.
This story shows, in a concrete & visceral way, that citizenship is not a shield from state lawlessness in a mass deportation regime. That realization can turn ppl against such policies.
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Some have responded w/ a version of "why are you elevating this story when non-citizens have it much worse?"
This story shows, in a concrete & visceral way, that citizenship is not a shield from state lawlessness in a mass deportation regime. That realization can turn ppl against such policies.
This story shows, in a concrete & visceral way, that citizenship is not a shield from state lawlessness in a mass deportation regime. That realization can turn ppl against such policies.
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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
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It is not lost on me that a man who attended the funeral of Pope Francis also deported a child with metastatic cancer, innocent people to a gulag, and feels not one shred of remorse about either.
April 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It is not lost on me that a man who attended the funeral of Pope Francis also deported a child with metastatic cancer, innocent people to a gulag, and feels not one shred of remorse about either.
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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.
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Dictatorships grab people off the street and jail them.
Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities.
Dictatorships destroy data.
Dictatorships reject independent courts.
Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich.
Dictatorships persecute dissidents.
See what’s happening, fellow Americans.
Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities.
Dictatorships destroy data.
Dictatorships reject independent courts.
Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich.
Dictatorships persecute dissidents.
See what’s happening, fellow Americans.
April 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Dictatorships grab people off the street and jail them.
Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities.
Dictatorships destroy data.
Dictatorships reject independent courts.
Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich.
Dictatorships persecute dissidents.
See what’s happening, fellow Americans.
Dictatorships demonize vulnerable minorities.
Dictatorships destroy data.
Dictatorships reject independent courts.
Dictatorships buy the backing of the super-rich.
Dictatorships persecute dissidents.
See what’s happening, fellow Americans.
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You do not give fascists an inch.
Not. One. Inch.
Not. One. Inch.
April 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You do not give fascists an inch.
Not. One. Inch.
Not. One. Inch.
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Also, let's be clear: Having a criminal record also doesn't mean you should be deported to a torture camp in another country and effectively sentenced to death.
Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.
Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.
April 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Also, let's be clear: Having a criminal record also doesn't mean you should be deported to a torture camp in another country and effectively sentenced to death.
Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.
Because everybody has basic rights, and because dictatorships will always redefine what "criminality" means.
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Fascinating to see so many otherwise intelligent and privileged people discover that Trump is disastrous for America and the world at the exact moment their bottom line, wealth, and stock portfolio took a hit.
As long as Trump was attacking "the woke" and college students, they were on board.
As long as Trump was attacking "the woke" and college students, they were on board.
April 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Fascinating to see so many otherwise intelligent and privileged people discover that Trump is disastrous for America and the world at the exact moment their bottom line, wealth, and stock portfolio took a hit.
As long as Trump was attacking "the woke" and college students, they were on board.
As long as Trump was attacking "the woke" and college students, they were on board.