#chris hayes

[vampwire-redux]

This is how using your platform can get your message spread.

[elitehanitje]

MSNBC covered Brody King's "Abolish ICE" shirt that he wore at AEW Grand Slam Mexico.

"Consider the fact that one of America's top professional wrestlers, Brody King, showed up to a match in Mexico City wearing a tank top saying Abolish ICE. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are on the wrong side of public opinion about this, and they are losing badly in the court of public opinion," -- Chris Hayes

[liberalsarecool]

Trump is making Republicans crawl through the Capitol in their underwear to eat dog food out of a can in front of everyone.

This is a humiliation exercise.

Abusers do this.

[tomorrowusa]

Tim Walz is going on tour. While Taylor Swift had her "Eras Tour", you might call this Tim's "Narrows Tour" – where he visits Congressional districts narrowly won by Republicans in 2024.

Politics is about power, and power depends on elections. Tim Walz's tour is centered on flipping the US House next year the way the blue wave of 2018 did.

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota will be touring a series of Republican-held House districts across the country, with his first stops in Iowa and Nebraska. In the wake of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s firing of essential federal workers and disastrously unpopular budget plan, the GOP has chosen to refuse their increasingly anxious and angry constituents town halls.  Walz’s first stop is in Iowa’s 3rd District, which is represented by Republican Zach Nunn, who narrowly defeated Democrat Lanon Baccam in 2024.  When asked why he’s not scheduling any town halls, Nunn released a statement saying that he has “held hundreds of events with Iowans, including open forums and listening sessions in all 21 counties in the Iowa Third Congressional District. My record of delivering wins speaks for itself, and I’ll continue to always put Iowans first in D.C.” But Walz isn’t so sure that Nunn has made himself available to his constituents. “I'm going to go out there and make sure that those folks down in Iowa know that their rep doesn't want to come talk to him, but he voted for this stuff. I hope people show up at that town hall and say, look, governor, what are you offering? Are you offering anything better that's fair not to turn your back and not do it. It's dangerous,” Walz told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

Gov. Walz served in the US House for a dozen years. He understands the dynamics of elections on a Congressional district level.

Here is a list of the ten closest 2024 House elections for Democrats and for Republicans who won in 2024. The winning margins are not big.

^^^ And those are not the only House elections expected to be close.

If you want to derail Trump, it's necessary to start now. Democrats on that list need to be shored up and Republicans need to be defeated.

Getting involved in races for House in those districts will do far more good than all the petitions and social media clicks in the world.

[bumblebeeappletree]

“The bulwark against tyranny in this country is not politicians, it's us. All of us, in every walk of life who hold fast to the American promise of government of, by, and for the people. Not the debased whims of a wannabe dictator and billionaire weirdos. No kings. Not ever. And if there is any good news on this otherwise bleak day, it's every single hour of every single day folks are waking up and there is a dawning awareness that it's time to fight back,” says Chris Hayes.

[porterdavis]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ben Blanchet at HuffPost:

Sen. Raphael Warnock (R-Ga.) on Thursday called out Republicans obsessed with attacking diversity, equity and inclusion efforts by turning the attention to their hopefuls for positions in the federal government. “It’s Republicans who will have to decide if they’re going to choose country over party, choose the people they were set to represent over partisan politics. They failed that test miserably when it came to Pete Hegseth, even as they’re attacking diversity, equity and inclusion,” said Warnock of President Donald Trump’s defense secretary in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “I want to know what qualifies Robert Kennedy to be the chief public health officer of the United States of America? What qualifies the likes of Pete Hegseth to be the leader at the Pentagon? This is a disturbing moment in our country.” Right-wingers have blamed DEI efforts for a number of issues in the past year such as the deadly Baltimore bridge collapse, the devastating Los Angeles wildfires and �� powered by bonkers claims by Trump on Wednesday — the midair plane collision in Washington, D.C. that left 67 dead. Conservatives’ focus on DEI — a dog whistle used to question the qualifications of those seeking, or holding, government positions — comes as Trump’s controversial Cabinet picks face questioning from senators over their backgrounds in the nation’s capital.

Appearing on MSNBC’s All In Thursday, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) called out the Republican obsession with attacking DEI.

From the 01.30.2025 edition of MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes:

[saywhat-politics]

‘Focus is power’: Chris Hayes on covering Trump in the age of ‘the attention economy’

“The key here is paying attention and focusing on the things we all think matter, and not being whipped around constantly.” Chris Hayes joins Joy Reid to discuss his new book, The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, and how Donald Trump and his allies use attention as a tactic to divide focus while carrying out controversial and unpopular measures.

[dk-thrive]

You can’t busy yourself out of boredom or amuse yourself out of it. Neither work nor constant entertainment provides a solution. Not for the king or for us. The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational. We cannot escape our own mind; it follows us wherever we go. We can’t outrun the treadmill. Our only hope at peace is to force ourselves to step off whenever we can. To learn again to be still.

— Chris Hayes, I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here Is How I Mastered My Own. (NY Times, January 3, 2025)

[mikedawwwson]

"It's Hard To Imagine"

At my present age, my life feels very much bifurcated by 9/11. I have twenty years and change of conscious memory before that date, and now I have twenty years and change after. I used color in this comic, to show different time-periods. For me, riding that Q train home was when one era ended and the next began.

I have sent my brand new 'zine, THE GOOD WAR ON TERROR, out to the printer's. This is a reformatted and fully revised print edition of the webcomic I've published previously, adapting (with permission), an essay by the same name written by Chris Hayes. This diary comic pairs well with that piece, and is included in the 'zine.

Join my Almost Monthly 'Zine Club today, and I'll instantly send you some comics in the mail, and you'll also receive this brand new 'zine as soon as it arrives at my house in the first week of January. I think it's going to be a really special comic, and I'm looking forward to sharing it.

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is a great read, so the above link is a gift 🎁 link, so anyone can read the whole article. Here's an excerpt:

I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between reading the internet and obsessively posting my takes to various social media platforms. I tell myself that this is for my job, that I must, as a professional duty, keep up on the news, but it’s a little like a tobacco executive with a two-pack-a-day habit. “Why am I like this?” I ask myself. What I want to say is that it’s not just me. From my perspective as both an attention merchant and a compulsive customer, it’s clear that the difficulty of sitting in one’s “own chamber” — as the philosopher Blaise Pascal described the freedom to sit undisturbed with one’s thoughts — is greatly exacerbated by the form of attention capitalism we are enmeshed in.

[political-us]

The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

[tomorrowusa]

Why would Trump want to be pope when he already heads a large groveling cult which financially supports him by buying his shoddy (and imported) merch and worthless crypto at exorbitant prices?

Anyway, Chris Hayes makes the point that with the election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, Trump has to cope with the possibility that he may no longer be the most famous American on the planet.

In that vid, former US Ambassador to the Vatican Miguel Diaz said that the election of former Cardinal Prevost is providing the world with a different way of seeing the United States.

"It's going from America First to America Cares."

[bumblebeeappletree]

“It makes it very hard to imagine a leader ‘meeting the moment’ if they don't believe the moment is here,” says Chris Hayes on Chuck Schumer saying democracy is not at stake—yet.

[goreprofonde]

My brother places his rifle in my hands after clearing the chamber. Its oak stock still warm with his sweat. Everything is the color of gunmetal: fields layered with snowfall at dusk, the distant milk jugs, dusk itself. He folds his arms around my body, molds my finger to the trigger. I miss the easier silences that once rested between us. Our father is not yet dead, but it doesn’t matter. We both know the shape grief takes: a loaded gun held flush against the shoulder. One empty casing after another spinning through the frostbitten air.

- Chris Hayes, Elegy Reserved for Future Use.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ed Mazza at HuffPost:

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Thursday slammed Donald Trump as a man suffering from “pretty obvious mental decline.” And he wants to know why the same voices that pressured President Joe Biden to drop out of the race over his mental skills are largely silent on Trump.

“We are not seeing nearly as much discussion about Trump’s diminished mental acuity,” Hayes said. “Seems like everyone’s grading Trump on a curve: ‘He has always been rambling and incoherent’ ― true ― ‘so he gets a pass.’”

But Hayes isn’t giving the former president a pass. “I gotta say you spend any amount of time listening to him these days ― and for our sins, we do here at all end ― he does not sound like a person who should be anywhere near the nuclear codes,” he said. Hayes then shared a series of clips of Trump’s most nonsensical comments ― including his attempt earlier in the day to answer a question about the cost of child care that went very badly off-track and turned into a bizarre word-salad ramble.

On the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, host Chris Hayes raised major alarms about DonOld Trump’s cognitive decline.

From the 09.05.2024 edition of MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes: