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🗓️ 26 February 2025
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It's Hump Day! Sam speaks with Chris Geidner of the Law Dork newsletter on SubStack, to provide some updates on a number of court challenges to the Trump Administration's directives & executive orders. First, Sam runs through updates on the GOP’s budget resolution, US-Ukraine relations, Elon’s role in the Trump Administration, DOGE, an impending government shutdown, the GOP’s town hall-phobia, Trump’s “Gold Card” immigration plan, the EPA, longshoremen’s contract win, Oregon nurses’ contract win, and Bernie’s move on arms sales to Israel, before watching AOC eviscerate the GOP’s plan to cut taxes for the wealthy and benefits for the poor. Chris Geidner then outlines the various types of executive orders that have been coming from the Trump Administration, including legitimate executive actions, general memoranda, and insane musings, with an unfortunate majority landing in that latter category and often positing illegal, inhumane, and outrageous policy changes without more specific action entailed, ultimately making for a much more difficult challenge in court before the actual dangers are demonstrated. Expanding on the actual efforts to block these maneuvers, Geidner walks Sam through the expansive field of plaintiffs challenging everything from Trump’s funding freeze and firings to constitutionality and DOGE, examining the various organizations backing these efforts, and unpacking the legal strategy – particularly around the fourth circuit – that has brought them success so far. After touching on the constructive, methodical nature of the still-developing legal cases against the Trump Administration, Chris and Sam wrap up with the insanity of Trump’s impoundment maneuver and overwhelming attack on equal opportunity employment.
And in the Fun Half: Sam unpacks Jeff Bezos’ announcement that the Washington Post will no longer publish opposing viewpoints to his own, watches Stephen A. Smith and Hakeem Jeffries take this moment to punch left, and admires White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s ability to crumble under pressure when Elon Musk’s role in the government comes into question. The MR Team tackles Trump’s insane AI-generated “Trump Gaza” video and absurd plan to put US citizenship up for purchase, before touching on his understandable fear of the Epstein Files. Mimi from Colorado discusses relationships with conservative family, Laura from Minneapolis highlights the importance of uplifting joy, and Max from New York examines Trump’s recent discussion of US v. Skrmetti, plus, your calls and IMs!
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0:12.1 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
0:17.5 | It is Wednesday. February 26, 2025. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Chris Geidner, proprietor of the Law Dork newsletter on |
0:42.4 | Substack on the legal front being waged against apparently headless doge. |
0:53.4 | Meanwhile, Republican House passes a budget resolution to cut Medicaid and snap to offset some of those cuts, tax cuts for the rich. |
1:06.2 | Meanwhile, U.S. Ukraine framework for minerals for defense already seems to be falling apart. |
1:15.4 | And no one knows who's in charge of Doge or why Elon Musk is attending Trump's first cabinet meeting. |
1:23.1 | But 21 of the top technical experts at Doge, the ones that were already part of the government, just quit. |
1:33.8 | Meanwhile, it is 16 days until the government shutdown. |
1:39.6 | And House Republicans have decided to cancel all of their town halls. |
1:48.4 | First Amendment, free speech. |
1:52.7 | Meanwhile, Trump has a plan to sell green cards in an attempt to increase wealth inequality in the U.S. |
2:01.1 | The American Federation of Teachers |
2:03.9 | sues the Department of Education for Civil Rights rollbacks. |
2:09.5 | An EP head, Lee Zeldin, |
2:13.0 | is looking to reverse the landmark 2009 |
2:16.2 | endangerment finding that climate change is real and bad for the |
2:22.5 | planet. International Longshoremen Association vote in favor of a new contract. This after |
2:31.5 | negotiations following its October strike. |
2:36.9 | And remember those Oregon Nurses Association? |
2:40.4 | Folks we spoke to now, I guess it was a month ago? |
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