Chris Hayes

Wait what!?!?!? How did this happen? I would spontaneously combust

the CPB shutting down is a history defining event in the arc of journalism’s existence as a practice

Every time I talk about this I start to feel like a conspiracy theory monger myself. But Trump’s desperation is so glaring, and the Maxwell stuff is not subtle. bsky.app/profile/atru...

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it ... I know I have the right to do it. I have the right to give pardons."

By all means, let the guy who told the secretary of state of Georgia "I just want to find 11,780 votes" make decisions about whose numbers are wrong.

When’s the last time they were this high?

a timeline graph for tariffs

Finally updated the tariff calculations to incorporate the 50% copper tariffs, 40% tariff on Brazilian imports, and 5-31% tariff on imports from 94 countries that Trump has signed over the last 24 hours—overall tariff rates rise more than 2%, and are now 16% higher than pre-Trump

"the drainage grates are in the shapes of American flags"

I have zero knowledge beyond what is in the press, but at the very least it really *looks* that way.

Has the head of BLS ever been fired before?

Book cover English version: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SIRENS' CALL HOW ATTENTION BECAME THE WORLD'S MOST ENDANGERED RESOURCE CHRIS HAYES AUTHOR OF A COLONY IN A NATION

Book cover German version: NEW-YORK-TIMES-BESTSELLER NUMMER 1 THE SIRENS' CALL DAS ENDE DER AUFMERKSAMKEIT UND WIE WIR SIE ZURÜCKERLANGEN KÖNNEN CHRIS HAYES

Just finished reading “The Sirens’ Call” by @chrislhayes.bsky.social . For me it was a page turner!
Waiting for the German translation (supposedly out in September) to give to some friends/family members who prefer reading in German. Friends reading English won’t have to wait 🎁.

That’s very flattering and believe me I’d love to but she’s not talking yet

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

Prime EPOP has been at 80-81% since August 2019 except during the covid recovery

Your plan for more economic growth has to involve some of
* higher productivity
* less restrictive immigration
* more people 55+ working
* picking which 18-24yos would be better off working instead of in school

Just for the record, Wiatrowski is a longtime BLS employee, a dedicated public servant, someone who has been acting commissioner before, and someone I would have total confidence in during a normal transfer of power. The scary part is who they replace *him* with.

Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.

Oh man that last one sounded like it was gone off the bat

lol

I'm sure the tone and volume of recession coverage will match that of the Joe Biden years of <checks notes> unprecedented economic recovery & nonstop job growth

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

> @conorsen.bsky.social

A little like when Trump wanted to just stop testing for Covid because there was too much Covid and so he wanted to just suppress the numbers.

I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

For context, that is 1.6 times the size of the ground floor, state floor, and residence of the White House and 2.4 times the size of Mar-a-Lago.

Big Dumper my favorite non-Cubs baseball player by a mile.

whoa!?!?!?!?!?

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

Saw the Dershowitz sues pierogi vendor on Martha’s Vineyard for not selling him pierogis and 100% thought it was a bit/fake headline.

It’s impossible to overstate the amount of nonsense being spread on X about the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. You could spend a lifetime debunking the lies and still not get to them all.