2427 - Musk Running The Government Gamut; Tech Bro Siren Song w/ David Dayen; Eoin Higgins

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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It's Hump Day! Sam and Emma speak with David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect and co-host of the Organized Money podcast, to discuss the recent legal action taken by a group of unions and organizations against Elon Musk's efforts to gain access to sensitive information at the U.S. Treasury. Then, they speak with independent journalist Eoin Higgins, , to discuss his newly released book Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left.

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report.
0:04.2	Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily.
0:12.4	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.4	It is Wednesday.
0:20.3	February 5th, 2025.
0:23.3	My name is Sam Cedar.
0:24.4	This is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:27.8	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:37.5	On the program today, David Dayn, executive editor at the American prospect,
0:42.3	co-host of the Organized Money podcast on the illegal gutting of our government.
0:52.5	It's a funny joke, actually, by Jacob Silverman.
0:55.8	They're now coming, stripping the government of its copper wires.
1:02.0	Then Owen Higgins, reporter at IT Brew author of Owned,
1:09.5	how tech billionaires
1:11.0	on the right, Bob
1:12.6	the loudest voices on the left.
1:16.6	Meanwhile, Trump calls for
1:18.5	U.S. ethnic cleansing and hotel
1:20.9	development in Gaza.
1:24.0	Saudi Arabia says no
1:25.8	normalization with Israel until a Palestinian state.
1:32.2	Treasury Department claims dodgy staff has read-only access to payment systems.
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