@ilyseh.bsky.social
Life long strategist and activist. Author, mom and rescue dog nut. Here for the social and political commentary. Formerly batgirl. Bees are magic. Live every week like it’s Shark Week. Defy Tyranny.
@charlotteclymer.bsky.socialReposted by @ilyseh.bsky.social“Voters hadn’t simply abandoned their standards; they’d become aggrieved parties renegotiating a contract. And they had no problem negotiating it with a candidate who lacked decency because, to them, he seemed to be hiding nothing.”
@adamkeiper.comReposted by @ilyseh.bsky.socialTen years ago today, we heard the most damning recording in modern politics—and then quickly discovered that "damning" no longer meant "disqualifying."
Read @ilyseh.bsky.social on the legacy of the 'Access Hollywood' tape.
www.thebulwark.com/p/access-hol...
@ilyseh.bsky.socialHad I not been writing a piece on the 10th anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape , I would have missed that the Trump DOJ is looking to reframe Nixon as a casualty of the Deep State. Their devious obsession with rewriting history is something.
@thebulwark.comReposted by @ilyseh.bsky.social"By November, it was clear that institutional Republicans had lost their nerve. Democrats lost the argument, and the feminist movement—my movement—lost the room. So what had changed? Not one thing but many." @ilyseh.bsky.social on the Access Hollywood tape:
@ilyseh.bsky.socialIt's (almost) the 10 year anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape. I wrote about what we should have known and are still learning for @thebulwark.com. TL; DR: It's hard to have a functioning democracy when the people have withdrawn their own consent. www.thebulwark.com/p/access-hol...
@ilyseh.bsky.social10th anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape and I think we had the wrong diagnosis then of the cancer metastasizing in our country and we're still not caught up to speed. Wrote about it for @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/access-hol...
@ilyseh.bsky.socialTrue, I stopped short of offering too many solutions because the piece was already long and I think we had (and have) the wrong diagnosis of the problem. That being said, I agree with you on healthcare and the Republicans will own if if they can.
@thebulwark.comReposted by @ilyseh.bsky.social"The first week of October 2016 was still the Before Times."
@ilyseh.bsky.social on the Access Hollywood tape 10 years later:
@adamkeiper.comReposted by @ilyseh.bsky.socialNEW: The 'Access Hollywood' tape, 10 years on—a look back on the decade gone by, from @ilyseh.bsky.social.
@ilyseh.bsky.socialNot at all the point of this post, but I do feel like it's criminal that I was today years old before knowing that there's a BlueSky account with the handle Why Sharks Matter.
@ilyseh.bsky.socialFew organizations in the world could take the kind of fire Media Matters has since 2023 and not only survive, but win legal victories that benefit all. For another org to use misinformation to raise funds for themselves is questionable at best and certainly not how we win against fascists.
