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The Joy Reid Show

May Day! May Day, America! | The Joy Reid Show LiVE!

The Joy Reid Show

Image Lab Media Group

Politics, News

4.8719 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Joy Reid Show, May day, May day! The country is going down. And the Republican majority Supreme Court is the Iceberg that's sinking the ship. GUEST SOCIALS: Clayton Weimers: X: @RSF_en https://www.rsf.org/en Justin Pearson: IG: @justinpearson X: @Justinjpearson Campaign Website: https://www.votejustinj.com Jasmine Burney-Clark: Twitter/X: @EqualGroundFL Facebook: EqualGroundFL Website: https://www.equal-ground.com Gary Chambers Jr. On all socials: @garychambersjr Elie Mystal: Bluesky: @ElieNYC Maurice Mitchell: on all socials: @mauricewfp And thank you to @weoutsidenyc for providing tonight's Moment of Joy! THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: Helix: Go to helixsleep.com/JOY for 27% Off Sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! HexClad: For a very limited time only, shop the HexClad Mother’s Day Sale for up to 49% off sitewide and score big savings on their bestselling sets at HexClad.com/JOY ABOUT JOY REID: Joy-Ann Lomena Reid (AKA Joy Reid) is a best-selling American author, political journalist and TV host. She was a national correspondent for MSNBC and is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated, NAACP Award-winning political commentary and analysis show, The ReidOut, from 2020 to 2025. Her previous anchoring credits include The Reid Report (2014–2015) and AM Joy (2016–2020). STAY CONNECTED WITH THE SHOW: Website: https://www.joyannreid.com Merch: https://shop.thejoyreidshow.com/ Substack: https://substack.com/@joyannreid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Joy-Reid-Show/61576759980854/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyreidshow/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thejoyreidshow FOLLOW JOY ON SOCIAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyreidofficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyannreid/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joyreidofficial Want to hear more of our theme song? Check out the Foodchain page on BandCamp: https://pthefoodchain.bandcamp.com/track/the-foodchain-basically-ft-jd-era ============================= Copyright Notice: This video and my YouTube channel contains content that is property of The Joy Reid Show, a production of Image Lab Media Group. You are authorized to share the video link and channel, and embed this video in your website or others as long as a link back to this YouTube Channel is provided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Happy Friday, TG-I-F, happy, thank God it's Friday.

0:18.7

Even though every day is Wednesday, I have to be honest with you. Welcome to the Joy Reach. Every day is Wednesday. They're all the same. Welcome to Jerry Reach. I'm big up to everybody who is watching on YouTube. We can already see the chats already starting to heat up on the YouTube side. A lot of happy Fridays. Good evening. Lots of people saying good evening. Good reminders in the YouTube chat

0:38.4

to please hit that like and subscribe button if you're on YouTube. Please, and we thank you for doing

0:42.8

that and also hitting share to try to help us get to our half a million followers by our birthday

0:47.8

on June night. So we are well on our way. We are keeping it moving. Also big up to those who

0:52.6

are watching on Substack. Hello to our

0:54.8

substackies. Those chats are always a lot of fun, too. They're very different communities, and they're all sort of unique in their own special way. Big up to everybody that's watching on Facebook right now. We love you guys, but we do not get news from Facebook. Let us not do that, other than the Joy reach it. You can get that, but be careful on Facebook. But we appreciate everyone who is a Facebook

1:12.9

viewer. Also our LinkedIn fam, thank you for watching.

1:16.2

If you're watching on LinkedIn, and if you're watching on Twitch, welcome to our new Twitch subscribers.

1:21.5

We actually increased after interviewing Hassan Piker, who is probably the biggest Twitch streamer in the land.

1:30.3

And so welcome to all the new people who came to us because of our interview with Hassan.

1:36.0

I really enjoyed that conversation.

1:37.4

I was actually texting with Crystal Ball, who was actually who helped make that connection.

1:42.3

And she enjoyed the interview.

1:45.0

It's high praise because Crystal is one of the sort of most important voices in the progressive media.

1:52.9

She and her husband Kyle Kalkinski, if you guys are not watching both of them, you should be watching them.

1:57.4

Just like you're taking in, you know, Don Lemon and Midas Touch and Katie Fang, who's in a lawsuit right now. We're trying to get her for next week. She's filed a very interesting lawsuit against the regime. So everybody, it's all in together, Jim Acosta, all of our friends. We just big up everybody in independent media and ask you guys to keep on supporting all independent media because we are where the truth is coming to you from.

2:17.9

Like we are the ones who are unbiased, unbought. We are not held down by the sort of, you know,

2:24.1

oligarch interests. We basically only answer to you. We answer to our, to our, to our, our,

2:31.6

our, our, those who follow us. Somebody who said my lip gloss is popping. I'm on the New York side. So Lynette is responsible for the glam. Thank you, Lynette, for the glam. It's usually jeanise when I'm in the DMV. So depending on where I am, we get different glam, but the glam is always fabulous. We're always going to make sure that the news may be bad,

2:55.1

but the beat is good. We're going to make sure that the beat is good, even when the news is bad.

3:03.5

So we've got a lot to talk about on today. This is the final day to vote in our Vontel contest to try to pick one of these three styles for our readers.

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