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Chris Hayes
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Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.

The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.

https://sirenscallbook.com/
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“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.
December 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.
sbagen.bsky.social Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d
Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid.

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf
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December 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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mikebaker.bsky.social
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Also good: @mattbelloni.bsky.social highlighting the wild amount of $ these WBD execs stand to make from a sale
The funniest Warner Discovery grift: I know, we all love to read about how much richer David Zaslav will get from the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, a company from which he aggressively drained value during his three years as C.E.O. (and which he should never have created in the first place). But let's at least acknowledge his other C-suite collaborators, who aren't far behind in the outrageous golden parachute pecking order. Thanks to Paramount's S.E.C. filing this week, we can now see the total payouts in cash, equity, and benefits if the company were to sell: David Zaslav, C.E.O.: $567.7 million Gunnar Wiedenfels, C.F.O.: $144.9 million Bruce Campbell, chief revenue and strategy officer, $138.5 million JB Perrette, C.E.O. and president, global streaming and games: $167.4 million Gerhard Zeiler, president, international: $95.2 million That's more than a billion bucks to five executives, ghoulish money for all of them. But the funniest grifter of all might be Amy Girdwood, the chief people and culture officer, who stands to make $28.9 million in vested stock awards. A pittance compared to the others, but that's nearly $30 million to the H.R. person! Who has no involvement in the strategy and direction of the company! And that's before any further bidding!
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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darthfos.bsky.social
Usually people who are still alive don't add their own name to a MEMORIAL.
December 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Excuse my language but this looks like absolute dog shit.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:
The building now reads: “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts”
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Dark times, and you gotta take your chuckles where you can, but I’m still spontaneously cracking up every time I think of “Congratulations, President Kennedy!”
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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wertwhile.bsky.social
Had this take ready to go before today's CPI, might as well get it out there. Democrats should be ready for politics to be about jobs and not prices again. wertwhile.substack.com/p/dont-over-...
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...)

Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.
"Moderator: What do you think of Adolf Hitler? Ashley: I think he was a great leader, to be honest. I think what he was going for was terrible, but I think he showed very strong leadership values. Andrew: I’m in favor of a strong executive. I think we should have a stronger executive branch. I don’t think we should be killing people or doing mass genocide, obviously, but I do think we should have a strong executive. I feel like one of the biggest problems Trump is running into right now is all these little courts, they want to throw up little blockages against everything he’s trying to do, whether it be his tariffs or deporting people. So I’m very pro-strong executive, strong leader, strong man. I support national sovereignty, and Hitler was a nationalist. He was like, we have to take Germany back for Germans. And I feel like we should do that in America. We should take America back for our native population. So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means, but as far as nationalism is concerned, I’m all that. Brice: I myself am actually Jewish, ancestrally. I’m Christian by faith, but Jewish by blood. I’ve actually read Mein Kampf. The end conclusions that he came to: absolutely abominable. But I strangely understood where he was coming from as far as wanting to improve the national state of Germany."
December 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The death toll in the U.S. military bombing campaign of suspected drug runners in the ocean has surpassed 100, nearly one for each day since the Trump administration operation began. Here is our updated tracker.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In three months, the Trump administration has killed scores of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Trump’s pardons wipe out restitution payments to defrauded victims

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s pardons wipe out payments to defrauded victims
In addition to clearing prison sentences, the president’s clemency actions have erased millions in restitution payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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tvmojoe.bsky.social
I'm sorry: I'm glad the Brown shooter has been found, but watching law enforcement officials take a victory lap and praise each other feels kinda gross? Given how the FBI messed up by leaking the name of an innocent person and that a random 48-year-old guy avoided capture for days, no time to brag
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.
 
ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.
December 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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rollingstone.com
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life

The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.

Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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It's really wild to see this data for groups over time because, among other reasons, you see the amount of variation.
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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lmao
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
FOX: If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to 0. If you cut it by 600%, the drug companies are actually paying you

LUTNICK: What he's saying is if a drug was $100 and you bring it down to $13, it's down 7 times

F: Not a 600% cut

L: But it's 700% higher price before. It's down 700% now
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
I'll call it the Kennedy Center bc it'll get changed back eventually.

Nobody calls it "Ciudad Trujillo" - it's Santo Domingo.
 smckinley.bsky.social @smckinley.bsky.social · 1d
What are you going to refer to it as?
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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jokeb0i.bsky.social
if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The Kennedy Center name is established by federal statute, and therefore may be repealed only by federal statute. www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Congrats to President Kennedy!
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d
Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center —Karoline Leavitt x.com/PressSec/sta...
Tweet from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: I have just been informed that the highly respected Board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building. Not only from the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially, and its reputation. Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump, and likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be a truly great team long into the future! The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur. 1:11 PM • Dec 18, 2025 • 18.8K Views
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
chrislhayes.bsky.social
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.” When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother. During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM