“This Fourth of July... we remember.” My latest piece centers Black and Native people in the American story. Director: Garrison Hayes Cinematographer: Mark Comberiate Poet: Trevor Smith Vocals: Ulani Mafate Produced by the BLIS Collective
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Protests erupted on Wednesday in Nashville as Republicans in Tennessee raced to slice up their state's sole Democratic district covering the majority-Black city of Memphis. Mother Jones’s @garrisonhayes.bsky.social is on the ground at the State Capitol covering the upheaval:
Thank you @garrisonhayes.bsky.social of @motherjones.com Get it together people. “The More You Know”…😒 youtu.be/ajPYQcEFaOg?...
“We Could See the Largest Drop in Black Representation Since the End of Reconstruction.”
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@donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @garrisonhayes.bsky.social in an important discussion on the continuous destruction of black political power in this country. We aren’t paying enough attention to our elections and too many people in our community don’t care🤦🏾♂️ www.youtube.com/live/aN3kyxk...
HOT TOPICS | SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights Act & Opens the Door to Racial Discrimination!
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Progress in this country never comes easy or quick. For every few hard-earned steps forward, we might stumble a couple steps back. But sometimes, the slow, steady effort of generations is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.
Barack Obama on the 24 Hours that changed America forever
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Anyone else kind of annoyed by this outcome?? Good for democracy, no doubt. But where were these people 5 months ago? America is weird.
Art Candee 🍿🥤@artcandee.bsky.social · last yr.This looks like a "mandate" to me in for Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-elect Susan Crawford!
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
The “DEI Content” purges are insane. Latest w/ @motherjones.com youtube.com/shorts/QbRJ7...
Trump’s “DEI Purges”? Yeah, It’s Just Racist Bigotry
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The ten Democrats who voted with Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green: Ami Bera Ed Case Jim Costa Laura Gillen Jim Himes Chrissy Houlahan Marcy Kaptur Jared Moskowitz Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi clerk.house.gov/Votes/202562
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StephenBright;🦻🏻🥄🐈 🐝🏳️🌈🇺🇸@sebright.bsky.social · last yr.10 Ds voted to censure Al Green. I did search & could not find out which ones yet but livid. It still would have passed I think but that’s not the point.
🗣️🗣️🚨🚨 Are you thinking about running for public office? I’d love to hear from you.
Garrison Hayes@garrisonhayes.bsky.social · last yr.Fully anticipate that a new crop of democratic candidates have been born tonight. Born of rage and disappoint. Expect competitive primaries.
Fully anticipate that a new crop of democratic candidates have been born tonight. Born of rage and disappoint. Expect competitive primaries.
Begging Black Republicans to explain how this is good for our grandparents. QUICKLY.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.
What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't
It’s not just people of color who are upset. The rest of us have eyes as well, even if some choose not to use them. I’m pissed. Wrong is WRONG. Full stop.
The final episode of @joyannreid.bsky.social’s award-winning show, The ReidOut, starts in just a few minutes. Black folks aren’t happy about it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Black viewers rally around Joy Reid
MSNBC canceled her primetime show as part of a major overhaul of its programming.
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When the Confederates were debating whether or not to conscript enslaved Black people into fighting for them during the civil war, Black folks met secretly and decided that if they got put them on the frontlines they’d just turn around and start shooting the rebels 🤣🤣🤣 Black people are funny
Step one: break the government Step two: shout "see? Government doesn't work! We need to privatize!" Step three: profit
Even if this isn’t “corruption” (it is), it is deeply corrupted.
I think we should avoid reinforcing the co-opted and corrupted use of “DEI” to mean something undeserved given at the expense of the deserving. @garrisonhayes.bsky.social over at @motherjones.com did this great clarification on DEI and "meritocracy." bsky.app/profile/moth...
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr."I have some potentially disturbing news for you," says @garrisonhayes.bsky.social in his latest video. "Throughout American history, the only group of people to consistently get jobs they didn't deserve because they were the right race or the right gender were white men."
RFK had/has very real support from IRL people I’ve spoken to and I’ve concluded that Americans hate America as a country, but love America as their idea. Very little “us/we,” lots of “I/me.”
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump's health secretary by the Senate.