2518 - Trump Administration Thuggery & The Coopting of the Military w/ Jeet Heer
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
It's Casual Friday, and it is so casual that we have pre-taped today's show Thursday evening in order to attend Emma's wedding. Sam starts off by discussing the implications of Senator Alex Padilla being man-handled and handcuffed by federal agents while trying to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. He gets further into that and Donald Trump's propensity to politicizing the military with The Nation's Jeet Heer. Check out Jeet's writing and podcasting here: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/
After that, we take a look at Donald Trump's changing tune on immigration enforcement. Apparently famers and business owners in the "leisure industry" have managed to get Trump's ear, because he's suddenly concerned that rounding up and deporting vital workers in those industries is bad for business. Who'da thought?!?!
Donald Trump is having a big bad birthday party on Saturday featuring tanks and planes and all sorts of military toys for the birthday boy, but he has an ominous warning for anyone planning to protest that day. If you do want to protest that day however, check out one near you at https://www.nokings.org/ and stay safe!
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| 0:00.0 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar, where every day is casual Friday. |
| 0:09.9 | That means Monday is casual Monday. |
| 0:13.6 | Tuesday, casual Tuesday. |
| 0:16.4 | Wednesday, casual hump day. |
| 0:19.6 | Thursday, casual thurs. |
| 0:22.3 | That's what we call it. |
| 0:23.6 | And Friday, casual Shabbat. |
| 0:26.7 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:35.6 | It is Friday, June 13th, 2025. |
| 0:41.7 | My name is Sam Cedar. |
| 0:42.9 | This is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:46.3 | We are broadcasting live to tape steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal |
| 0:52.5 | and the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:57.8 | On the program today, Jeet Here, National Affairs correspondent for the Nation magazine, host of the Nation magazine podcast podcast Time of Monsters. |
| 1:13.1 | Also on the program today, Senator Alex Padilla, |
| 1:16.5 | forcibly ejected and then cuffed |
| 1:19.6 | in an attempt to ask a question at a press conference of Christy Noem. |
| 1:25.5 | Pete Higgseth on the Hill won't commit to obeying courts or to not invading Greenland. |
| 1:37.3 | It's got to worry about staying sober. |
| 1:40.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:41.3 | One thing at a time. |
| 1:47.7 | And more on the program today. |
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