#Chris Hayes

[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.

#comics #Chris hayes #9/11 #politics #war on terror #diary comics

[thedearidiot]

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.

#chris hayes #poetry #am i my brother's keeper? #supernatural

[gwydionmisha]

Chris Hayes On Breaking Supreme Court Decision To Hear Trump's Immunity Case

Chris Hayes: The GOP Would Like Putin’s Help Again In The 2024 Election

#Chris Hayes #Supreme Court #Donald Trump #Immunity Case #Republicans #Vladimir Putin #2024 Election #Stephen Colbert #Youtube

[tomorrowusa]

Elon Musk has turned Twitter X into a haven for hate speech as well as bots from Russia and other malevolent countries.

Musk himself promoted an antisemitic tweet – probably to show his far right pals that he's just one of the guys. Because of that, he's losing his few remaining respectable advertisers and is coming under scrutiny by governments in the US, UK, and the EU.

An advertising boycott of social media platform X is gathering pace amid an antisemitism storm on the site formerly known as Twitter. Apple, Disney, Comcast and Warner Brothers Discovery have all halted advertising on X, US media report, following hot on the heels of IBM. The European Commission, TV network Paramount and movie studio Lionsgate have also pulled ad dollars from X. It comes after X owner Elon Musk amplified an antisemitic trope. The corporate boycott has also been picking up steam in the wake of an investigation by a US group which flagged ads appearing next to pro-Nazi posts on X. A spokesperson for X told the BBC on Thursday that the company does not intentionally place brands "next to this kind of content" and the platform is dedicated to combatting antisemitism. Mr Musk came under fire on Wednesday after he replied to a post sharing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, calling it "actual truth".

Yeah, "actual truth" as the type of stuff you'd find on Truth Social. 🙄

The White House denounced Mr Musk's endorsement of the post. "We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms," said spokesperson Andrew Bates.

The Washington Post has a list of major advertisers who have suspended their ads on Musk's platform.

IBM IBM pulled its advertising from X on Nov. 16 after the Media Matters report identified it as one of several blue-chip companies whose ads had appeared next to tweets promoting antisemitism. [ ... ] Apple The maker of iPhones and MacBooks decided to pause all advertising on X on Friday after Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on platform, according to Axios, citing unnamed sources, and the New York Times. Apple was reportedly the platform’s largest advertiser, spending nearly $50 million in the first quarter of 2022. [ ... ] Lionsgate A spokesperson for the entertainment and film distribution company told The Washington Post it suspended advertisements on X on Friday afternoon, saying the decision came after “Elon’s tweet.” [ ... ] Disney The entertainment giant suspended advertising on the social media platform Friday, a company spokesperson said. [ ... ] Paramount The media, streaming and entertainment company is suspending all advertising on the platform, a spokesperson said in an email to The Post on Friday.

[ ... ] Comcast The global media and tech company is pausing ads on X, company spokesperson Jennifer Khoury said in an email on Friday. Philadelphia-based Comcast, with a market cap near $171 billon, provides a range of broadband, wireless and other services.

The European Union has also stopped all advertising at MuskX.

No more ads on Elon’s X, EU Commission tells staff

Truth Social is having HÜGE financial problems. Perhaps the two ought to merge; a lot of people wouldn't notice the difference except for the logo. 😆

Chris Hayes at MSNBC put Elon Musk's antisemitism in historical perspective.

To people still on Twitter/X: How do you explain to others why you remain on a platform associated with vile hatemongers?

#social media #twitter #x #elon musk #antisemitism #extremism #hate speech #advertisers fleeing twitter #ibm #apple #comcast #disney #lionsgate #paramount #european union #leave twitter #delete twitter #quit twitter #truth social #chris hayes #henry ford #rachel maddow

[luxe-pauvre]

Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers. Humans evolved in small groups, defined by kinship: those we knew, knew us. And our imaginative capabilities allowed us to know strangers—kings and queens, heroes of legend, gods above—all manner of at least partly mythic personalities to whom we may have felt as intimately close to as kin. For the vast majority of our species’ history, those were the two principal categories of human relations: kin and gods. Those we know who know us, grounded in mutual social interaction, and those we know who don’t know us, grounded in our imaginative powers. But now consider a third category: people we don’t know and who somehow know us. They pop up in mentions, comments, and replies; on subreddits, message boards, or dating apps. Most times, it doesn’t even seem noteworthy: you look down at your phone and there’s a notification that someone you don’t know has liked a post. You might feel a little squirt of endorphin in the brain, an extremely faint sense of achievement. Yet each instance of it represents something new as a common human experience, for their attention renders us tiny gods. The Era of Mass Fame is upon us.

Chris Hayes, On the internet, we’re always famous

#Chris Hayes #On the internet we're always famous

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Sen. Bernie Sanders said late Tuesday night that it was time to "put up or shut up" for any U.S. lawmaker who claims to fight for the working class as he and other progressives in Congress vowed to insert paid sick leave into a labor agreement between railway workers and the nation's rail companies.

With a vote in the U.S. House as early as Wednesday morning, Sanders was asked by MSNBC host Chris Hayes whether Congress has the authority to mandate that sick leave—the final key demand of railway workers unions who have battling the carriers for months—be added to the deal that congressional lawmakers have been asked by President Joe Biden to force through as a way to avert a strike by the workers that would have huge impacts on the national economy.

"Congress has the power to come up with an agreement in order to protect the economy," said Sanders. While he said that he doesn't know anybody who wants a strike—and acknowledged that such a work stoppage would hurt the broader economy—Sanders said the "bottom line" in this fight is quite clear.

"The bottom line," said Sanders, "is that the American people and workers throughout this country are profoundly disgusted by the kind of corporate greed that we are seeing. Everybody knows that billionaires are getting richer, working people are struggling, corporate profits are at an all-time high, and they're making goods unaffordable for ordinary Americans—that's the overall reality. And what you're seeing in the rail industry is that phenomenon in spades."

Citing statistics that show the major rail carriers have made an estimated $21 billion in profits over the last three quarters, another $25 billion in stock buybacks to enrich their wealthy investors, and multi-million dollar salaries to top executives, Sanders slammed the fact that the railway workers themselves "have zero—underline zero—guaranteed sick leave."

Watch the full interview:

On Tuesday night, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) introduced an amendment in the House that would add seven paid sick days to the labor contract proposal that was negotiated with the assistance of the White House earlier this year, but subsequently rejected by a number of the railway unions for lack of sick leave. With the strike deadline looming, Biden on Monday angered many rank-and-file union members and outside progressives by asking Congress to force through the previous contract deal without pushing for the inclusion of sick leave.

While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday backed Biden's call to push through a vote on the contract "with no poison pills or changes to the negotiated terms," but in a Dear Colleague letter issued Tuesday evening she adjusted that course by indicating that two votes would be held, explaining to members:

• First, we will consider the strike-averting legislation to adopt the Tentative Agreement, as negotiated by the railroad companies and labor leaders.

• Next, we will have a separate, up-or-down vote to add seven days of paid sick leave for railroaders to the Tentative Agreement.

• Then, we will send this package to the Senate, which will then go directly to President Biden for signature.

With Sanders vowing to fight for the same kind of inclusion in the Senate, reporting from Capitol Hill indicated that there may be enough Republican support for adding the paid sick leave to bypass the 60-vote threshold and overcome a filibuster in the upper chamber.

Asked if he thought he could get the ten necessary votes from the GOP in the Senate, Sanders said, "Well, who knows?" as he mentioned that Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the party caucus' whip, has indicated "significant" support for the amendment among Republicans.

"Look, you have a number of Republicans who claim—claim—to be supporters of the working class," he added. "Well, if you are a supporter of the working class how are you going to vote against the proposal which provides guaranteed paid sick leave to workers who have none right now? So I am cautiously optimistic that we can get this done."

Asked by Hayes if this represents a "put your money where your mouth is" moment for a Republican Party that has tried to claim the mantle of being the authentic blue-collar party, Sanders nodded in agreement.

"Put up or shut up," said Sanders. "If you can't vote for this, to give workers today—who really have hard jobs, dangerous jobs—if you can't give them paid sick leave, don't tell anybody that you stand with working families."

#us politics #news #2022 #sen. bernie sanders #vermont #biden administration #railway workers #railroads #railroad unions #railroad strike #paid sick leave #us house of representatives #us senate #msnbc #chris hayes #common dreams #progressives #progressivism #worker's rights #union workers #working class #YouTube #videos #Rep. Jamaal Bowman #twitter #tweet #speaker nancy pelosi #rep. nancy pelosi

[romansroys]

this article was written specifically with me in mind

#this is such a funny premise for an interview #i love it #succession #chris hayes

[yeahiwasintheshit]

#chris hayes #gun violence #racism #fuck republicans #fuck conservatives

[divdevdump]

Dec 19, 2023 #msnbc#israel#gaza Chris Hayes: “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”

#Chris Hayes #MSNBC #video #video link #age restriction #youtube link #Gaza #Palestine #Youtube #ceasefire #call for ceasefire

[beelas-bees-art]

erm did someone order kaleb doodles?

#my art #my ocs #to capture one's heart #tcoh #kaleb ford #timothy conrad #chris hayes #splashtail #technically LOL #doodles

[longliverockback]

Huey Lewis and the News Sports [40th Anniversary Edition] 2023 Capitol ————————————————— Tracks: 1. The Heart of Rock & Roll 2. Heart and Soul 3. Bad Is Bad 4. I Want a New Drug 5. Walking on a Thin Line 6. Finally Found a Home 7. If This Is It? 8. You Crack Me Up 9. Honky Tonk Blues —————————————————

Mario Cipollina

Johnny Colla

Bill Gibson

Chris Hayes

Sean Hopper

Huey Lewis

* Long Live Rock Archive

#Huey Lewis and the News #Huey Lewis & the News #Mario Cipollina #Johnny Colla #Bill Gibson #Chris Hayes #Sean Hopper #Huey Lewis #Sports #Reissue #40th Anniversary #Pop #2023

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Chris Hayes: “This is one of the most impressive macroeconomic interventions in recent American history—and if we end up in 2024 with these trends continuing, Joe Biden has one of the best economic stories to tell of any president in the last century.” Yes. The bottom line is that America right now has the best performing economic it has had since Dwight David Eisenhower was president—yet very few Americans have an inkling of this fact. They're all concerned about inflation and a recession that aren't happening.

* * * *

Bidenomics is the new Obamacare.

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

JUN 29, 2023

         Part of the GOP effort to disparage the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to tie the program specifically to President Obama by creating the label “Obamacare.” Originally intended as an insult, “Obamacare” has now become synonymous with “access to health insurance.” Although Republicans have stubbornly refused to acknowledge the success of Obamacare (even as they depend on its benefits), “Obamacare” is now viewed favorably by 60% of all American adults—the high-water mark for almost any policy in our fractious society. See KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public’s Views on the ACA.

          So, too, with “Bidenomics”—a term created by Republicans to tie Biden to inflation and high gas prices. But as the economy has continued a historic stretch of expansion and improvement—especially for middle-class Americans, Biden has embraced the term “Bidenomics” as a badge of honor. As they say, “Eighty is the new sixty” and “Bidenomics is the new Obamacare.”

          On a day when President Biden gave a major speech in Chicago embracing the term Bidenomics, the White House released a brag sheet entitled, “Bidenomics Is Working: The President’s Plan Grows the Economy from the Middle Out and Bottom Up—Not the Top Down.” The press release described Bidenomics as follows:

[Bidenomics] is an economic vision centered around three key pillars:

Making smart public investments in America

Empowering and educating workers to grow the middle class

Promoting competition to lower costs and help entrepreneurs and small businesses thrive

While our work isn’t finished, Bidenomics is already delivering for the American people. Our economy has added more than 13 million jobs—including nearly 800,000 manufacturing jobs—and we’ve unleashed a manufacturing and clean energy boom. There were more than 10 million applications for new small businesses filed in 2021 and 2022—the strongest two years on record. America has seen the strongest growth since the pandemic of any leading economy in the world. Inflation has fallen for 11 straight months and has come down by more than half. And we have done it all while responsibly reducing the deficit. President Biden believes in a fundamentally different approach. Under Bidenomics, he has proven that we can make smart investments in the American people while reducing the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share in taxes, closing wasteful tax loopholes, and slashing wasteful spending on special interests.

          It is worth ten minutes of your time to read the entire press release—its content will become the substance of Biden’s campaign pitch for 2024.

          Dan Pfeiffer of Pod Save America posted an analysis with charts and graphs in an accessible, shareable format. See Dan Pfeiffer, The Message Box, The Biden Economy: What You Need to Know. Pfeiffer distills Bidenomics to the following:

Inflation is down.

Jobs are up.

Manufacturing is back.

Consumer confidence is up.

Republicans want more tax cuts for the wealthy.

          E.J. Dionne Jr. penned an op-ed in WaPo that described the quiet revolution of Bidenomics, If ‘Bidenomics’ works, it will be a very big deal. Dionne writes:

“President Biden might not seem like a revolutionary, but he is presiding over a fundamental change in the nation’s approach to economics. Not only is he proposing a major break from the “trickle-down” policies of Ronald Reagan, as Biden highlighted in a speech in Chicago on Wednesday. He is also departing from many orthodoxies that shaped the presidencies of Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. “Government is no longer shying away from pushing investment toward specific goals and industries. Spending on public works is back in fashion. New free-trade treaties are no longer at the heart of the nation’s international strategy. Challenging monopolies and providing support for unionization efforts are higher priorities.

          “On Wednesday [in his Chicago speech], he stressed they are producing well-paying jobs for those who have been on the short end of economic growth: Americans without college degrees and those living in places with “hollowed out” economies.”

          One sure sign that Bidenomics is working is that Republicans who opposed Biden’s signature legislative achievements are now trying to take credit for those accomplishments. Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville tweeted to his constituents,

“Broadband is vital for the success of our rural communities and for our entire economy. Great to see Alabama receive crucial funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts.”

          Senator Tuberville twice voted against the Biden bill containing funds for broadband in rural areas. President Biden responded to the Tuberville tweet with his own tweet, saying “See you at the groundbreaking.”

          Despite the successes of Bidenomics, it is difficult for the slow work of rebuilding the economy to rise above the daily drama of Russian rebellions, Trump indictments, and new tragedies involving the Titanic. Each of us should help spread the word of Biden’s successes. Sharing Dan Pfeiffer’s article (above) is a good place to start. And Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles is always a reliable source of data and talking points relating to Democratic successes. Don’t be shy about sharing the good news of Bidenomics!

[Robert B. Hubbell]

#Bidenomics #Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter #Chris Hayes #economics #Election 2024

[tomorrowusa]

If future felon Donald Trump is a piece of shit, "MAGA Mike" Johnson is an enthusiastic dung beetle.

The latest innovation in Trump's attempt to promote The Big Lie is to spray cologne on it by referring to it as "election integrity".

Trump is still unhappy that he lost in 2020 (LOOZER Trump! lol) and is partly blaming his loss on pandemic measures legally passed to make it easier for people to vote without catching COVID-19 — which, we remember, spread out of control in the US because of his administration's gross incompetence.

Christian fundamentalist Speaker Johnson knows he'll roast in Hell for telling and spreading world class lies. So by using the expression "election integrity" he's trying to fool God into thinking that he's not really lying. So he's basically telling lies to cover up lies.

Johnson flew to Mar-a-Lago to promote these lies alongside his true Lord and Savior Donald Trump; he thinks Trump will save him from other MAGA extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene who are trying to remove him from House leadership. So MAGA Mike apparently thinks that eternal damnation is a small price to pay for remaining as Speaker for the rest of this session.

If you're interested, CNN did a fact check on the Trump & Johnson Show at Mar-a-Lago.

Fact checking Trump and Johnson’s election integrity announcement

#chris hayes #the big lie #election 2020 #“election integrity” is the new maga euphemism for the big lie #donald trump #“maga mike” johnson #trump lost – get over it! #mar-a-lago #speaker johnson holds joint lying session with trump #us house of representatives #marjorie taylor greene #republicans #fact checking trump and johnson #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[kp777]

#georgia #voter suppression #raphael warnock #msnbc #chris hayes #republicans cheat #republicans #democracy #vote

[luxe-pauvre]

As I’ve tried to answer the question of why we seek out the likes and replies and approval of strangers, and why this so often drives both ordinary and celebrated people toward breakdowns, I’ve found myself returning to the work of a Russian émigré philosopher named Alexandre Kojève, whose writing I first encountered as an undergraduate. In 1933, Kojève took over the teaching of a seminar on Hegel at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Paris. Though Kojève would live his life in relative obscurity, ultimately becoming a civil servant in the French trade ministry and helping to construct the architecture for a common Europe, his seminar on Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit” was almost certainly the most influential philosophy class of the twentieth century. A Who’s Who of Continental thinkers, from Sartre to Lacan, passed through, and Kojève’s grand intellectual synthesis would deeply influence their work. In his lectures, Kojève takes up Hegel’s famous meditation on the master-slave relationship, recasting it in terms of what Kojève sees as the fundamental human drive: the desire for recognition—to be seen, in other words, as human by other humans. “Man can appear on earth only within a herd,” Kojve writes. “That is why the human reality can only be social.” Understanding the centrality of the desire for recognition is quite helpful in understanding the power and ubiquity of social media. We have developed a technology that can create a synthetic version of our most fundamental desire. Why did the Russian couple post those wedding photos? Why do any of us post anything? Because we want other humans to see us, to recognize us. But We Who Post are trapped in the same paradox that Kojève identifies in Hegel’s treatment of the Master and Slave. The Master desires recognition from the Slave, but because he does not recognize the Slave’s humanity, he cannot actually have it. “And this is what is insufficient—what is tragic—in his situation,” Kojève writes. “For he can be satisfied only by recognition from one whom he recognizes as worthy of recognizing him.”

Chris Hayes, On the internet, we’re always famous

#Chris Hayes #On the internet we're always famous

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

On Oct. 13, the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol publicly voted to issue a subpoena to former President Trump seeking information about his involvement in the insurrection.

In response to the subpoena, Trump issued a letter to Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) calling Committee members “highly partisan political Hacks and Thugs whose sole function is to destroy the lives of many hard-working American Patriots, whose records in life have been unblemished until this point of attempted ruination” and called Congress’s Jan. 6 investigation a “Charade and Witch Hunt.” Trump then urged Thompson and other Committee members to examine the “massive Election Fraud” that Trump insists took place during the 2020 presidential election.

Trump also defended his actions leading up to and during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, which were a point of scrutiny at the Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing on Oct. 13. Trump claimed that the committee “willfully ignored” that he allegedly recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to the Capitol in the days before Jan. 6 because he “knew, just based on instinct and what [he] was hearing, that the crowd coming to listen to [his] speech, and various others, would be a very big one, far bigger than anyone thought possible.” He then blamed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) for the hours-long delay in the deployment of the National Guard to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, arguing that he “did [his] job long ahead schedule” and that the “troops were ready to go.”

In closing, Trump lauded the “great American Patriots” who participated in the attack on the Capitol, and said that they “have had their lives ruined” by the Committee.

You can read Trump’s letter here.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday dismantled former President Donald Trump’s 14-page response to a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating last year’s deadly U.S. Capitol riot.

Raskin, a member of the committee, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that Trump was already “playing his silly games” in the written reply from earlier that day.

“I mean, that letter, including the use of the royal ‘we,’ which was pretty jarring, is just an outrageous distraction from the reality to the extent that there’s anything substance or substantive there,” Raskin said.

The U.S. Representative reality-checked Trump over his remark that conservatives “feel” the 2020 election was rigged, saying that so-called MAGA Republicans have been unable to pinpoint how the vote was supposedly stolen. Such claims about a rigged election had prompted the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington.

“They can’t say. They just have a feeling. And in fact, Trump uses that too in this enormously revealing letter, where he says lots of people ‘feel’ that there was fraud,” he added.

“I’m sorry. Your feelings, Mr. Snowflake, cannot dictate the course of the future of the republic. No, your feelings cannot dictate our elections.”

#us politics #news #lawfare #house select committee #capitol riot #capitol riot investigation #donald trump #2022 #rep. jamie raskin #huffington post #msnbc #chris hayes #Muriel Bowser #rep. nancy pelosi #rep. bennie thompson