Joyce Alessi
@jealessi.bsky.social
I’m a lifelong liberal Democrat, living in Anaheim Hills, CA (Orange County!) Married to Carl Alessi since 1986. Childless cat lady- cat mom to Fergus & Ariel. Semi-retired LCSW. I turned 70 in 2024 & that feels really weird.
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
Add your name now to call on Congress to pass the Dream Act and the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act — because our families, communities, and economy can’t wait. #DreamAct action.momsrising.org/sign/immigra...
Add your name now to call on Congress to pass the Dream Act and the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act — because our families, communities, and economy can’t wait.
SIGN NOW: DREAMers, TPS recipients & Asylees deserve stability & dignity!
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December 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Add your name now to call on Congress to pass the Dream Act and the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act — because our families, communities, and economy can’t wait. #DreamAct action.momsrising.org/sign/immigra...
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September 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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September 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Deploying the National Guard for political stunts is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Congress can tear up the blank check—demand they act now:
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Stop Trump’s D.C. Takeover
Deploying the National Guard for political stunts is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Email Congress now and demand they block funding for National Guard deployments that put politics over public safety a...
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September 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Deploying the National Guard for political stunts is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Congress can tear up the blank check—demand they act now:
act.standupamerica.com/letters/cte-...
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Why would the DOJ scrub the fact that right-wing extremism is the #1 domestic terror threat in America?
Why not acknowledge and confront it?
Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files?
Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer?
These problems won't go away.
Why not acknowledge and confront it?
Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files?
Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer?
These problems won't go away.
September 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Why would the DOJ scrub the fact that right-wing extremism is the #1 domestic terror threat in America?
Why not acknowledge and confront it?
Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files?
Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer?
These problems won't go away.
Why not acknowledge and confront it?
Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files?
Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer?
These problems won't go away.
Oh FFS.
OMG!
He thinks there is actually a brick and mortar with a board for “antifa!”
How do I know there’s not?
Cause I’d be the CEO and all soldiers in WWII would be proud.
(Y’all know they were antifa) right?
Y’all are letting a draft dodger diss our veterans!
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#DemVoice1
He thinks there is actually a brick and mortar with a board for “antifa!”
How do I know there’s not?
Cause I’d be the CEO and all soldiers in WWII would be proud.
(Y’all know they were antifa) right?
Y’all are letting a draft dodger diss our veterans!
#Pinks
#Voices4Victory
#DemVoice1
September 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Oh FFS.
IMO - the reason Donald J Trump is destroying cancer research is more personal than political. Of the legion of people whom Donald hates, who does he hate the most?
September 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
IMO - the reason Donald J Trump is destroying cancer research is more personal than political. Of the legion of people whom Donald hates, who does he hate the most?
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Most don’t realize DEI includes those with disabilities. Convicted Felon President Donald J Trump & his Cabinet are cruel enough to use children who have disabilities to blame for causing “division.” There is no bottom to their cruelty, irrationality, & incompetence. This is psychopathy in action.
These people want Democrats to help them pass a new annual budget.
Ed Dept has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have hearing & vision loss. They got caught in Trump admin’s attacks on DEI, with Ed Dept spokesperson citing concerns about “divisive concepts” and “fairness” in acknowledging decision to withhold the funding.
September 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Most don’t realize DEI includes those with disabilities. Convicted Felon President Donald J Trump & his Cabinet are cruel enough to use children who have disabilities to blame for causing “division.” There is no bottom to their cruelty, irrationality, & incompetence. This is psychopathy in action.
Those who are cheering Luigi Mangione outside the courtroom where he is being tried for the murder or United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and calling it a “Protest for Healthcare Reform & Justice” need to stop it now. They are delegitimizing any and all protests for healthcare reform & justice.
September 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Those who are cheering Luigi Mangione outside the courtroom where he is being tried for the murder or United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and calling it a “Protest for Healthcare Reform & Justice” need to stop it now. They are delegitimizing any and all protests for healthcare reform & justice.
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Holy crap. Postal traffic to U.S. drops over 80% after trade exemption rule ends, U.N. agency says www.npr.org/2025/09/07/n...
Postal traffic to U.S. drops over 80% after trade exemption rule ends, U.N. agency says
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Aug. 29.
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September 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Holy crap. Postal traffic to U.S. drops over 80% after trade exemption rule ends, U.N. agency says www.npr.org/2025/09/07/n...
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Today the SCOTUS green-lit racial profiling by ICE, & sided with xenophobia over the Constitution. Read this piece that I wrote for @boltsmag.org back in April on @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social & their example of leadership to form community watches & counter patrols.
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How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE - Bolts
In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood of City Heights. It was... Read More
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September 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Today the SCOTUS green-lit racial profiling by ICE, & sided with xenophobia over the Constitution. Read this piece that I wrote for @boltsmag.org back in April on @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social & their example of leadership to form community watches & counter patrols.
boltsmag.org/how-voluntee...
boltsmag.org/how-voluntee...
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This is one good illustration why diversity on the court matters: Sotomayor can imagine a version of the world where this ruling would affect a younger version of herself, her family and people that look like her. Kavanaugh cannot.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government
can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is one good illustration why diversity on the court matters: Sotomayor can imagine a version of the world where this ruling would affect a younger version of herself, her family and people that look like her. Kavanaugh cannot.
We are in a dictatorship. That line has been crossed. We are the ones to resist - to stand up for our rights and the Constitution. We must be the sand in the fascist regime’s machine.
We are not living in a democracy any longer when our criminal justice system is used to selectively punish the President's political opponents and give his loyalists and friends immunity. We are becoming a banana republic in front our eyes and we cannot normalize it.
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We are in a dictatorship. That line has been crossed. We are the ones to resist - to stand up for our rights and the Constitution. We must be the sand in the fascist regime’s machine.
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In a court of law...good luck proving that drawing is of a naked "child," we know what it was of...but...what we "know"...
We already know they both liked little girls; We have the testimony from the girls themselves. Do NOT allow the media to make this about a drawing. Demand MUCH MORE.
We already know they both liked little girls; We have the testimony from the girls themselves. Do NOT allow the media to make this about a drawing. Demand MUCH MORE.
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In a court of law...good luck proving that drawing is of a naked "child," we know what it was of...but...what we "know"...
We already know they both liked little girls; We have the testimony from the girls themselves. Do NOT allow the media to make this about a drawing. Demand MUCH MORE.
We already know they both liked little girls; We have the testimony from the girls themselves. Do NOT allow the media to make this about a drawing. Demand MUCH MORE.
Despicable. The Republican majority on SCOTUS is actively violating the Constitution they are supposed to uphold. I call that evil.
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Despicable. The Republican majority on SCOTUS is actively violating the Constitution they are supposed to uphold. I call that evil.
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Threatening to traffic Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda if he doesn't plead guilty is extortion, not justice.
If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats.
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If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats.
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US seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he refused plea offer in his smuggling case
U.S. immigration officials say they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to hu...
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August 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Threatening to traffic Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda if he doesn't plead guilty is extortion, not justice.
If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats.
apnews.com/article/abre...
If the corrupt and incompetent Pamela Jo Bondi had evidence of a crime, she would have the DOJ prosecute instead of making threats.
apnews.com/article/abre...
Has anyone seen or heard Dan Bongino?
August 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Has anyone seen or heard Dan Bongino?
100 percent!
If any reporter ever pointed out to Trump what cities have the greatest crime rates and asked him why he isn't sending troops there, they would forever be my hero.
But I suspect no such hero exists.
But I suspect no such hero exists.
August 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
100 percent!
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If any reporter ever pointed out to Trump what cities have the greatest crime rates and asked him why he isn't sending troops there, they would forever be my hero.
But I suspect no such hero exists.
But I suspect no such hero exists.
August 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
If any reporter ever pointed out to Trump what cities have the greatest crime rates and asked him why he isn't sending troops there, they would forever be my hero.
But I suspect no such hero exists.
But I suspect no such hero exists.
Where are the leaders of our military? Why are they so easily defying the Constitution, defying the oaths they swore to uphold the Constitution and instead act like they now owe allegiance only to Donald Trump, a convicted felon? How can we ever trust them to protect America?
August 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Where are the leaders of our military? Why are they so easily defying the Constitution, defying the oaths they swore to uphold the Constitution and instead act like they now owe allegiance only to Donald Trump, a convicted felon? How can we ever trust them to protect America?
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LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
August 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!