Sierra
@sierrawells.com
retired political strategist. lover of books and british crime dramas. also on threads as @sierrawellsreads
Blueish, my podcast, is here!
kicked it off by having a conversation with Reggie Greer—where I got to ask him why the Democrats keep using Obama’s playbook nearly 20 years later, why Democrats fail to legislate with urgency, and where does the Party go from here.
it’s a good one.
kicked it off by having a conversation with Reggie Greer—where I got to ask him why the Democrats keep using Obama’s playbook nearly 20 years later, why Democrats fail to legislate with urgency, and where does the Party go from here.
it’s a good one.
The State of the Democratic Party
Blueish · Episode
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August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Blueish, my podcast, is here!
kicked it off by having a conversation with Reggie Greer—where I got to ask him why the Democrats keep using Obama’s playbook nearly 20 years later, why Democrats fail to legislate with urgency, and where does the Party go from here.
it’s a good one.
kicked it off by having a conversation with Reggie Greer—where I got to ask him why the Democrats keep using Obama’s playbook nearly 20 years later, why Democrats fail to legislate with urgency, and where does the Party go from here.
it’s a good one.
thinking of Amos, Henry and Barbara (baby Collie), Lewis and Melinda, and the rest of my ancestors and family across Galveston, Brazoria, Polk, and Kaufman counties.
happy Juneteenth to my fellow Black Texans🖤
happy Juneteenth to my fellow Black Texans🖤
June 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
thinking of Amos, Henry and Barbara (baby Collie), Lewis and Melinda, and the rest of my ancestors and family across Galveston, Brazoria, Polk, and Kaufman counties.
happy Juneteenth to my fellow Black Texans🖤
happy Juneteenth to my fellow Black Texans🖤
i finally finished The Raven Scholar.
HOLY HELL. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 10/10.
“i would have liked longer. but it was enough. i was enough.”
this is how i feel about the book. i am UNWELL.
I AM READY FOR A FOX IN WINTER 🦊
huge ty to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!
HOLY HELL. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 10/10.
“i would have liked longer. but it was enough. i was enough.”
this is how i feel about the book. i am UNWELL.
I AM READY FOR A FOX IN WINTER 🦊
huge ty to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!
April 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i finally finished The Raven Scholar.
HOLY HELL. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 10/10.
“i would have liked longer. but it was enough. i was enough.”
this is how i feel about the book. i am UNWELL.
I AM READY FOR A FOX IN WINTER 🦊
huge ty to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!
HOLY HELL. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. 10/10.
“i would have liked longer. but it was enough. i was enough.”
this is how i feel about the book. i am UNWELL.
I AM READY FOR A FOX IN WINTER 🦊
huge ty to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest review!
John Cornyn is a loyalist, but he’s forgettable. Because he’s up against a literal criminal, he’s now publicly joining the circus so he doesn’t lose his seat. Who can be the most terrible is how to describe this republican primary race 🫠
It’s going to be a long, rough year.
It’s going to be a long, rough year.
Texas Sen. John Cornyn wants DOJ to look into proposed EPIC City development www.keranews.org/new...
April 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
John Cornyn is a loyalist, but he’s forgettable. Because he’s up against a literal criminal, he’s now publicly joining the circus so he doesn’t lose his seat. Who can be the most terrible is how to describe this republican primary race 🫠
It’s going to be a long, rough year.
It’s going to be a long, rough year.
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
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This is the center-left strategy worldwide. Attempt to beat your opposition by parroting and therefore crediting your opposition's claims. It's a proven failure morally and electorally:
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as we see ice disappearing americans and wrong thinkers, keep in mind that the key democratic party message last year was: we are also tough on immigration, were just not as mean as republicans.
and the result was more people voting for republicans than they have in a long long time. whee.
and the result was more people voting for republicans than they have in a long long time. whee.
April 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is the center-left strategy worldwide. Attempt to beat your opposition by parroting and therefore crediting your opposition's claims. It's a proven failure morally and electorally:
bsky.app/profile/anat...
bsky.app/profile/anat...
HAPPY PUB DAY, @ravynnkamia.bsky.social!! 🎉💛
Love in 280 Characters or Less is out today and you should go buy a copy or request it from your library right now!
Love in 280 Characters or Less is out today and you should go buy a copy or request it from your library right now!
Sierra (@sierrawellsreads) on Threads
No surprise here: I loved Love in 280 Characters or Less by @ravynnkamia which comes out TOMORROW 4/15!
Syd’s college journey was so real. Beyond the romance, it’s about identity, friendship(!!), com...
www.threads.net
April 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
HAPPY PUB DAY, @ravynnkamia.bsky.social!! 🎉💛
Love in 280 Characters or Less is out today and you should go buy a copy or request it from your library right now!
Love in 280 Characters or Less is out today and you should go buy a copy or request it from your library right now!
dwayne wade ate when he said “the high road has run out of real estate” and i think about it often.
March 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
dwayne wade ate when he said “the high road has run out of real estate” and i think about it often.
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We wouldn't be heading into the fascist abyss were it not for Justice Roberts and his Federalist Society colleagues. The Roberts may throw up yield to Trump revving the engine & risking going off road but that's cause Roberts is steadily steering us toward control by the billionaires.
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We wouldn't be heading into the fascist abyss were it not for Justice Roberts and his Federalist Society colleagues. The Roberts may throw up yield to Trump revving the engine & risking going off road but that's cause Roberts is steadily steering us toward control by the billionaires.
lent is just me spending 40 days and 40 nights googling contents of sonic drinks to see if it counts as a soda or candy. the answer is always yes.
March 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
lent is just me spending 40 days and 40 nights googling contents of sonic drinks to see if it counts as a soda or candy. the answer is always yes.
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People change their minds. And it is, in fact, the job of political campaigns to change them.
In 1996, gay marriage was a 70-30 issue where the 70% was against it.
Now, less than 30 years later, it's a 70-30 issue in the opposite direction.
Now, less than 30 years later, it's a 70-30 issue in the opposite direction.
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
People change their minds. And it is, in fact, the job of political campaigns to change them.
the reality for democrats is that it’s not an either/or when it comes to decorum and fighting back — it’s an AND.
democrats have to hit hard and disrupt, while also “playing” the game for harm reduction.
neither side will win alone. there *has* to be a middle ground.
democrats have to hit hard and disrupt, while also “playing” the game for harm reduction.
neither side will win alone. there *has* to be a middle ground.
March 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
the reality for democrats is that it’s not an either/or when it comes to decorum and fighting back — it’s an AND.
democrats have to hit hard and disrupt, while also “playing” the game for harm reduction.
neither side will win alone. there *has* to be a middle ground.
democrats have to hit hard and disrupt, while also “playing” the game for harm reduction.
neither side will win alone. there *has* to be a middle ground.
i really hope democrats leave the beltway to talk with and listen to voters.
March 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
i really hope democrats leave the beltway to talk with and listen to voters.
February 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
i’m so so so proud. my sister is dope af.
When I told y’all that the panel I’m co-moderating at #NTTBF25 is a literal dream come true,
I have no words.
I have no words.
February 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
i’m so so so proud. my sister is dope af.
No law, no order.
Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025
www.documentcloud.org
January 14, 2025 at 6:27 AM
No law, no order.
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Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
www.wdbj7.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.
On 2/1/25, ~448 members of the Democratic Party will vote on the Party’s new leadership and vision that will decide WHO and WHAT Dems fight for.
If you care even a little bit about the who or what, I urge you to reach out to YOUR state’s chair and vice chair to ask them who they’re voting for.
If you care even a little bit about the who or what, I urge you to reach out to YOUR state’s chair and vice chair to ask them who they’re voting for.
December 6, 2024 at 5:24 PM
On 2/1/25, ~448 members of the Democratic Party will vote on the Party’s new leadership and vision that will decide WHO and WHAT Dems fight for.
If you care even a little bit about the who or what, I urge you to reach out to YOUR state’s chair and vice chair to ask them who they’re voting for.
If you care even a little bit about the who or what, I urge you to reach out to YOUR state’s chair and vice chair to ask them who they’re voting for.
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The co-opting of language like “good trouble” without interrogating what that actually means is irresponsible. The all white starter pack of educators “getting in good trouble” had good intentions, I’m sure… but the impact is exclusion and alienation. Good trouble would have meant doing the WORK 1/
November 30, 2024 at 6:35 PM
The co-opting of language like “good trouble” without interrogating what that actually means is irresponsible. The all white starter pack of educators “getting in good trouble” had good intentions, I’m sure… but the impact is exclusion and alienation. Good trouble would have meant doing the WORK 1/
@heymrsbond.bsky.social hosted book club on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and I must say: having the best educator you know, work through one of the most prolific literary novels all of time with you is… amazing 😭
November 30, 2024 at 8:31 PM
@heymrsbond.bsky.social hosted book club on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and I must say: having the best educator you know, work through one of the most prolific literary novels all of time with you is… amazing 😭
If after the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections you thought, “How did we get here?”… read Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin.
It’s harrowing. It will probably be uncomfortable for a lot of folks, but it is necessary.
It’s harrowing. It will probably be uncomfortable for a lot of folks, but it is necessary.
November 27, 2024 at 11:21 PM
If after the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections you thought, “How did we get here?”… read Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin.
It’s harrowing. It will probably be uncomfortable for a lot of folks, but it is necessary.
It’s harrowing. It will probably be uncomfortable for a lot of folks, but it is necessary.
Day 1:
20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations.
No reviews.
Just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations.
No reviews.
Just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
November 27, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Day 1:
20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations.
No reviews.
Just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations.
No reviews.
Just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
“Democrats haven’t done anything!” True-ish… but, do you know how many votes it takes to pass a bill?
Bring back School House Rock so people can know the basics of government.
Bring back School House Rock so people can know the basics of government.
Sesame street is a good show, but we need to bring back school house rock.
As an adult, School House Rock is the sole reason I remember my multiplication tables not even joking
As an adult, School House Rock is the sole reason I remember my multiplication tables not even joking
November 25, 2024 at 7:09 PM
“Democrats haven’t done anything!” True-ish… but, do you know how many votes it takes to pass a bill?
Bring back School House Rock so people can know the basics of government.
Bring back School House Rock so people can know the basics of government.
Stopped watching Oklahoma football after the Texas game, and here they are leading 24-3 in the 4th quarter against Alabama 😭
November 24, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Stopped watching Oklahoma football after the Texas game, and here they are leading 24-3 in the 4th quarter against Alabama 😭
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Oh since I’m getting all these new followers….
Just so you’re not confused…
Free Palestine
Free Sudan
Free Congo
Free Haiti
Free all colonized people
All day every day
Just so you’re not confused…
Free Palestine
Free Sudan
Free Congo
Free Haiti
Free all colonized people
All day every day
November 23, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Oh since I’m getting all these new followers….
Just so you’re not confused…
Free Palestine
Free Sudan
Free Congo
Free Haiti
Free all colonized people
All day every day
Just so you’re not confused…
Free Palestine
Free Sudan
Free Congo
Free Haiti
Free all colonized people
All day every day