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Garrison Hayes

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Video Correspondent at Mother Jones

Articles

  • 1 week ago | motherjones.com | Garrison Hayes

    Trump has been on a spree this week: He’s pardoned or commuted the sentences of a host of people this week, tax fraudsters and TV personalities among them. So, how do you get one of these pardons? In my new video, I point out that if you’re Black, you should probably know Trump’s “Pardon Czar,” Alice Marie Johnson. Trump just pardoned rapper NBA YoungBoy, who spent time in prison for gun charges, and Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples gang.

  • 2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Garrison Hayes

    It’s been five years since George Floyd was murdered on a Minneapolis street in the Spring on 2020. Though far from novel, this particular act of state violence shocked the world and ignited one of the largest protest movements in modern history.

  • 4 weeks ago | jemartisby.substack.com | Jemar Tisby |Garrison Hayes

    Bringing you news and views to help you become a more informed civic participant, activist, and believer. Bringing you news and views to help you become a more informed civic participant, activist, and believer.

  • 1 month ago | motherjones.com | Garrison Hayes

    For years, I’ve heard the familiar refrain: “America should be run like a business.”First, it came from the young Republicans at my small, conservative, undergraduate institution, advocating for Mitt Romney in 2012. More recently, it has become a justification for Elon Musk’s indiscriminate cuts to government spending alongside his team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

  • 1 month ago | motherjones.com | Garrison Hayes

    Donald Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on the global economy while millions of Americans—including some of his own advisors—are furious. Even as many voters watch their retirement and education savings vacillate wildly, MAGA World maintains the president knows exactly what he’s doing—it’s just “the art of the deal,” they say. But as our new video explainer points out, history tells a very different story.