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Ilyse Hogue
@ilyseh.bsky.social
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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.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9d
I'm on the board of Demand Justice, so I'm not an objective source on this. But... I like this. :)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
A Liberal Group Returns to Push Democrats to Oppose Trump
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · 27d
Just heard on the radio that there are so many spotted lantern flies in the sky above DC that they are showing up on the weather radar and if that is not one of the seven signs, it should be. It’s getting real folks.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27d
When do we get a retraction from The Wall Street Journal for erroneously claiming the assassination was related to trans people? When do we get apologies from every journalist who spread that disinformation?
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · 29d
I have butted heads with Charlie Kirk on almost every policy issue, and my heart is hurt by this news. Taking a human life (or trying to) is vile. Political violence is never acceptable. May Charlie Kirk recover wholly and quickly.
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 29d
Someone shot Charlie Kirk at a university event www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...
Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event
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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · Sep 9
The House Oversight Committee has just released new documents from Epstein’s estate. Former president of NARAL @ilyseh.bsky.social and former Joe Walsh 2020 campaign manager Lucy Caldwell join The Weeknight to discuss why Trump’s Epstein troubles are far from over.
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Trump’s alleged letter and drawing from Epstein ‘birthday book’ released
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Sep 9
Because there's no bottom to the dystopian world we have entered, there's a deadly kissing disease making its way through our country.

www.sciencealert.com/deadly-kissi...
Deadly Kissing Bug Disease Is on The Rise Across The US, CDC Warns
Blood-sucking 'kissing bugs' have now carried a deadly parasite across 32 US states, the CDC warns, with hundreds of thousands of people likely already infected with the parasitic disease Chagas witho...
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Sep 9
A truthier Truth Social coming to you for one low, low price….and the grift goes on.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Sep 8
Filling this under "courts will not save us." Thanks to Rebecca Slaughter for fighting for the rule of law.

www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
John Roberts backs Trump’s power to fire FTC commissioner without cause for now
The chief justice’s move is the latest boost to Trump’s power in his second term, continuing a theme from the high court’s Republican-appointed majority.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Sep 8
In a time of weakness, caving and preemptive obeyance, @ejeancarroll.bsky.social's tenacity in fighitng Trump is something to behold.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
…..and Ernst drops out of the race. Crazy.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
Signs are positive for 2026. Latest polling in the 2026 Senate race shows Zach Wahls beating Joni Ernst in a head to head match up winning a full 7% of Trump voters.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
So many still in the wild yet to be identified and tagged.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
As @symonedsanders.bsky.social pointed out on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social tonight, this is more than just dumb luck, mad voters or excellent candidates although all three are true. But there’s been real investment in these local races and they ladder up to big wins. This is how you build power.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
Signs are positive for 2026. Latest polling in the 2026 Senate race shows Zach Wahls beating Joni Ernst in a head to head match up winning a full 7% of Trump voters.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
Talked on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social tonight about the Iowa special where Caitlyn Drey broke the GOP supermajority in the State Senate in a Trump + 11 district. Far from an anomaly, it’s the fourth special this year in Iowa when the D candidate over performed by double digits.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Aug 29
Joy is getting to break down what’s going on in this crazy world with @symonedsanders.bsky.social on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · Aug 15
Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment.

For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM.

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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Jul 28
Hey look, secure messages with end to end encryption coming soon to a bluesky near you! Courtesy of @tessa.germnetwork.com and @germnetwork.com

www.404media.co/this-company...
This Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol
Germ says it is the “first secure messaging service on the ATProtocol!”
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Jun 10
THIS! This is the problem. @zachwahls.bsky.social transparency about perfectly normal experiences growing up should be treated as a superpower not a danger.
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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · Jun 4
“Democrats can’t win these folks over if they’re not speaking the language that young men are speaking,” says @ilyseh.bsky.social. “Most people I talked to, Democratic operatives, have never heard of Red Pill Fitness, which is just huge online.”
Democrats set out to study young men. Here are their findings.
A widely mocked project to get under the hood about why Democrats are losing young men has sobering results.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Jun 10
This insane military parade is bad enough on the (lack of) merits but it’s making traffic unbearable for people who need to work downtown. People actually live in this town for chrissakes.
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Michael Smerconish @smerconish.bsky.social · Jun 9
Michael welcomes Ilyse Hogue ( @ilyseh.bsky.social ) co-founder of the Speaking with American Men (SAM) Project, which aims to help the Democratic Party win back young male voters who are no longer aligning themselves with the party.
Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/7l3hQnE
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Apr 26
So much respect.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 26
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Apr 25
In another episode of Trump's Patronage and Punishment chronicles, yesterday he pardoned a politican in NV who's a loyal supporter for using money allocated to erect a memorial to a fallen police officer to get plastic surgery for herself.

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A Nevada politician was convicted of using funds meant to honor a slain officer on plastic surgery. Trump just pardoned her
President Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Apr 25
I find the lack of an operational definition of "working class" fascinating given the amount of political and media real estate supposedly dedicated to addressing the needs and desires of the working class.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Apr 25
It may not feel like a lot but signal boosting and bearing witness is going to be an increasingly important part of our portfolio. The front lines will move and those on them are made safer by the many more watching.
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Ilyse Hogue @ilyseh.bsky.social · Apr 25
FBI arrested a sitting Judge this morning for allegedly aiding the avoidance of ICE in her courtroom which a flaming red line that should not be crossed. If you're in the greater Milwaukee area and care about rule of law, head down to bear witness to the hearing happening right now.
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