The Majority Report with Sam Seder

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: More details emerge in the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at the hands of ICE. The coroner has ruled Araujo's death a homicide which corroborates with the accounts of witnesses. Joe Scarborough has harsh words for ICE, showing that the anger with the agency's violence and brutality has broken through into the mainstream. Ryan Grim , j...

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report On today's program: In Houston, Texas ICE agents have murdered another unarmed person.   Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was killed by ICE agents who were tailing him in an unmarked van while he was on his way to work. Lorenzo's son spoke to the media saying that he recognized his father's screams from the video. Mairav Zonszein , senior analyst on...

The Emmajority Report week continues On today's program: Donald Trump is still at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey Trump has reignited his war on Iran, calling their leadership scum and cuckoo. This is a very different tone for Trump who only a month ago was calling Iranian leadership rational and very intelligent people. Trump's deterioration continues as he confuses Iran and Japan in saying the...

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: Graham Platner is accused of raping a woman in 2021 as reported by Politico. Platner has lost all of his endorsements, and the DNC is threatening to withhold funds if he stays in the race. Jake Tapper cynically tells the survivor that progressives will tell her that they don't care about the sexual assault and will vote for Platner a...

Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Benjamin Netanyahu appears on Fox News to express his fears of the Democrats and "woke-right" no longer supporting Israel. Jeffrey Winters, professor of political science at Northwestern University, joins Sam in a pre-taped interview about his new book; " The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracy." In the Fun Half: Trump interferes...

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's Program: We are off for a three-day weekend, but Sam pre taped an interview for you. Jeet Heer , national affairs correspondent at The Nation and host of the In Time of Monsters podcast, joins Sam to recap the week's news. Read more from Jeet: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jee... Check out Jeet's podcast: https://www.thenation.com/content/ti...

It's Thursday and you are listening to The Majority Report On today's program: Donald Trump 's financial disclosure shows that he has raked in more than $2B in his first year in office. The report reveals that Trump made thousands of stock trades last year. Elizabeth Vargas from News Nation tries to get Rep. Mike Lawler to admit that it is not acceptable for Trump to use his office to earn billion...

Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Melat Kiros wins the Democratic primary for Colorado's 1st congressional district, unseating a 30-year incumbent in Diane DeGette . Kiros is the third Democratic Socialist to beat a House incumbent in this year's primary cycle. Abdul El-Sayed says in an interview that if one cannot define the systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of child...

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: Please consider phone banking for progressive Colorado candidates  Melat Kiros  and  Julie Gonzalez  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacts to the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship. Donald Trump is so bored by the affordable housing bills. The president said anything other than the SAVE act is a "yawn". Rep. Ran...

It's Fun Day Monday on The Majority Report On today's program: ABC's Jonathan Karl tells Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the Republicans will make him the face of the Democratic party to which Mamdani responds with, "let them". The mayor then lists all of the accomplishments of his administration - a list that would be impressive for an entire term, let alone in just under 7 months in office. Jen Psaki...

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: Zohran Mamdani delivers on two of his biggest campaign promises. The NYC mayor has secured $1.2B in funding to expand universal childcare from 2,000 seats to 12,000. Additionally, the NYC Rent Board has voted to freeze the rent on rent-controlled apartments - this applies to over a million apartments throughout the five boroughs. Megyn...

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report On today's program: Hakeem Jeffries tries to downplay the genocide's role played in motivating voters to support DSA-aligned candidates in Tuesday's primaries by touting pro-genocide Rep.  Ritchie Torres ' landslide victory over an anti-genocide candidate. Jeffries implies that Israel's genocide is a wealthy voter issue whereas working clas...

Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: The DSA slate wins the New York Democratic primaries in a sweep. Zohran Mamdani delivers a powerful speech at Claire Valdez 's election party. A DSA chair tells Hasan Piker on his stream that his phone banking drive on behalf of Darializa Avila Chevalier yesterday identified 2,000 voters which is essentially the margin of victory. Centrist De...

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's Program: It's Primary Day in Utah, Maryland, New York and runoffs in South Carolina. If you are available to phone bank for the DSA slate in New York today from 4pm EST until the polls close you can find the information here . Susan Collins says that she does not regret casting the deciding vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court...

It's Fun Day Monday On today's program: California has declared a state of emergency over the warehouse fire in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The fire has been raging for five days now, releasing a black cloud of toxic smoke and destroying 85 million pounds of frozen food. Lineage Logistics, the company responsible for this disaster, has 55 workplace safety violations, 77 regulato...

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report. On today's program: In a pre-taped interview , Sam Seder was joined by Eddie Glaude, Jr , distinguished professor of African-American studies at Princeton University and author of several books. Glaude's newest release is titled: " America U.S.A: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries :. For more from Eddie check out his Substack - A Native Son . Hap...

It's a Mattjority Report Thursday on The Majority Report On today's program: Matt Binder guest hosts for Emma Vigeland who is partying in the streets of Manhattan at the Knicks parade. Before day drinking with Karl Anthony-Towns , Emma pretaped two interviews. First, she is joined by Ken Klippenstein , investigative journalist and publisher of KlipNews on Substack, for a conversation about the 15...

It's Hump Day on The Majority Report On today's program: JD Vance talks to Megyn Kelly why the whole Memorandum of Understanding has not been released, citing certain cultural sensitivities in the region without explaining what that means. The war hawks are not happy with the leaked sections of the Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran. Former Vice President Mike Pence says on CNN...

It's news day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: Donald Trump has harsh words for the over-the-top violence Israel is waging in Lebanon (and Palestine, though Trump is not concerned about that). History tells us that Trump's words are exactly that, just words, and it's almost guaranteed that the U.S. will continue to fund, arm, and support Israel's genocidal colonial ambitions. Ed...

It's Knicks Day Monday on The Majority Report On today's program: The New York Knicks did their best impression of the Boston Celtics by winning the NBA Championship. Pete Hegseth claims that the U.S. has secretly been in control of the Strait of Hormuz the whole time. President Trump announces a peace deal with Iran. This means that things are allegedly back to the exact same way they were before...

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: Elon Musk is set to become the world's first billionaire as Space X launches its initial public offer today. A More Perfect Union explains how this sketchy IPO could destroy many people's 401(K) accounts. Heather 'Digby' Parton , columnist at Salon and publisher of the Hullabaloo blog, joins to recap the week's news. Topics include the...

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report On today's program: Trump joins Fox & Friends to announce that the U.S. will resume heavy bombing of Iranian infrastructure. Former Trump  military adviser, Keith Kellogg uses his appearance on Fox News to appeal to the president to finish the job quickly and just "obliterate" Iran. Hasan Piker joins the show to discuss the DSA slate of can...

It's Wednesday and it's The Majority Report On today's program: Graham Platner wins the Democratic nomination in a landslide. In his acceptance, Platner says if you give him a chance, he will be a "senator for those who cannot afford to buy one". Micah Loewinger, co-host of WNYC's On the Media , joins to discuss his four-part podcast series on the decades long movement to kill FEMA . Joseph Boucha...

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report. On today's program: David Dayen , executive editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the Organized Money podcast, joins us in the studio for the free half. MS NOW reporter Jacob Soboroff takes a tour of the L.A. County Ballot Processing Center in the City of Industry to try and dispel the conspiracy theories of voter fraud pushed by Trump , Spenc...

Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Donald Trump storms out of an interview with Kristin Welker on Meet the Press after Welker challenged the president on his claims of rigged elections. Whitney Wimbish , staff writer at The American Prospect joins to discuss her piece: " NYC Immigration Courts Speed Deportations as Striking Detainees in Newark Suffer " Jonathan Cohn , writer o...