Ali Sierra
@alisierra.bsky.social
Wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, cousin and retired LCSW. Democrat, liberal Catholic, Cuban 🇨🇺American 🇺🇸, avid book 📚 and art 🖼️ lover. Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 11/10/24
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Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
January 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Fed’l judge tells the administration to stop violating the rights of people in Minnesota www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 17, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Fed’l judge tells the administration to stop violating the rights of people in Minnesota www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
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DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
DOJ is out of control. The crime of impeding federal agents requires physical force. Speaking out against the way ICE is being deployed is not a crime.
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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"Trump is putting America’s money in Qatar, where courts can’t touch it. Kind of like a drug dealer stashing his funds in the Caymans."
How Trump Turned a Foreign Country Into a Piggybank
And how Marco Rubio used Trump to hurt Cuba.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
"Trump is putting America’s money in Qatar, where courts can’t touch it. Kind of like a drug dealer stashing his funds in the Caymans."
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Gov. Walz to MS NOW:
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
January 17, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Gov. Walz to MS NOW:
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
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If you've been living under a rock for twenty years, that is Anthony Bourdain. Maybe @chill bill hick can explain why we have first hand accounts of rape against Dump, including his first wife, and several children.
December 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you've been living under a rock for twenty years, that is Anthony Bourdain. Maybe @chill bill hick can explain why we have first hand accounts of rape against Dump, including his first wife, and several children.
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Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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Days after meeting with the DOJ, Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a less restrictive minimum security federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to less restrictive prison after DOJ meeting
According to the Bureau of Prisons, the type of facility to which Maxwell has been moved has “dormitory housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing."
www.politico.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Days after meeting with the DOJ, Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a less restrictive minimum security federal prison camp in Texas.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, has been moved to a lower-security prison, her attorney said.
Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.
Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to lower-security prison in Texas
Her attorney did not explain why she was moved from a detention facility in Florida, where she is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, has been moved to a lower-security prison, her attorney said.
Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.
Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.
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As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI.
www.lawfaremedia.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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July 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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July 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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No honor among thieves.
July 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
No honor among thieves.
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Someone needs to check with all the GOP lawyers and consultants who worked for Musk in 2024 to see if they are now working for his new political party.
July 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Someone needs to check with all the GOP lawyers and consultants who worked for Musk in 2024 to see if they are now working for his new political party.
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Spent a lot of time and U.S. government diplomatic bandwidth trying to ensure detainees transferred to other countries were treated lawfully and humanely.
A sadistic stunt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
A sadistic stunt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo
www.nytimes.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Spent a lot of time and U.S. government diplomatic bandwidth trying to ensure detainees transferred to other countries were treated lawfully and humanely.
A sadistic stunt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
A sadistic stunt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
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ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
July 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
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While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
July 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.
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