Emily Dominguez

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

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

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

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.

Proud washed-up hag here!

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

…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.)

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.

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

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.

Valid point!

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!

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

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

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?

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

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.

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...

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.

Exactly. And the indirect support of any industry making them money either directly or through investments, regardless of whether of the environmental impact of that industry. Propping up oil and auto industry is tied to vilifying public transportation, for example.

What a surprise! Rich people responsible for yet another problem. And here I thought they were benevolent and giving souls protecting us from the harm we would do ourselves without their “oversight.”

We have several of these, too! I’ve slowly been collecting the flowers and drying them for tea.

I suspect these “former” sycophants suddenly “turning” on their dear leader are just trying to save themselves from future prosecution once the regime falls.

Poor innocent Pence, finding out that “free market principles”have only ever applied to those in a position of privilege, however privileged is defined.

Or the people dying of preventable disease due to this regressive policies? Or the victims of school gun violence? Or …(fill in the blank…)

Can we do the same for those not mourning the death of 1000s of CHILDREN IN Gaza?

May I turn your attention to exhibit (US)”A”?
You will see what happens if you give this kind of rhetoric even a smidgen of legitimacy.

I wish! Unfortunately objective and rational self-reflection is not usually a hallmark of authoritarian regimes and their followers.

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for day. Teach a man to fish and and he becomes a victim of war crime.” Is that proverb?

I’m starting to think they never even lost it. Just hid it better for a while until it was safe to display prominently again.

Louisiana likely to spend over $93 million on four youth jails, prisons • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana seems poised to spend $93.6 million on new and expanded youth jails and prisons over the next five months to allow more minors to be sentenced to time behind bars.

I certainly wouldn’t say I investigated, but I would wager the amount states spend on education is inversely proportional to the amount they spend on incarceration. One quick search gave me this: lailluminator.com/2025/02/13/l...

Imagine that: sensible laws, properly enforced. Must be nice…