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🗓️ 14 August 2023
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It's a special edition of the Majority Report: The MR Crew are celebrating the life of Michael Brooks, as his 40TH BIRTHDAY was yesterday. They're joined by a number of friends and former guests of The Michael Brooks Show to commemorate.
Guests on the show today: Lisha Brooks, Michael's sister; Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho, TV, film, and video producer Artesia Balthrop, Drew Mikhael, scholar in the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen’s University Belfast, Ben Burgis, columnist at Jacobin and host of Give Them An Argument With Ben Burgis, and Bhaskar Sunkara, president of The Nation. Plus, some birthday wishes from other friends!
First, Sam and Emma run through updates on Trump’s tampering in Georgia, the civil war amongst his Co-Conspirators, the failures behind the Hawaii wildfires, the Wisconsin GOP’s attack on the state Supreme Court, a potential Assange plea deal, and fascist attacks on education, before diving into the recent raiding of a Kansas Newspaper by local police. Then, Sam, Emma, and the MR Crew are joined by countless guests as they share stories of the beauty, joy, strength, and righteousness that Michael brought into their lives, and the lives of countless others – touching on how he constantly welcomed people into his life, delivered masterful impersonations and impressions, influenced and connected with the politics of strangers and friends alike, grew his vision of cosmopolitan socialism, and so much more.
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0:00.0 | You are listening to a free version of Majority Report with Sam Steeder. |
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0:13.0 | The Majority Report with Sam Steeder. |
0:19.0 | It is Monday, August 14, 2023. |
0:23.0 | My name is Sam Steeder. This is the five-time award-winning Majority Report. |
0:28.0 | We are broadcasting live steps from the industrial and ravaged Gawanas Canal in the heartland of America. |
0:36.0 | Downtown Brooklyn, USA on today's program. |
0:42.0 | Special day to celebrate what would have been the 40th birthday of Michael Brooks yesterday, August 13. |
0:54.0 | About three years and almost a month from his passing. |
1:03.0 | Joining us on the program today, Lisa Brooks, Michael's sister, Luke Mayville, co-founder of Reclaim Idaho. |
1:12.0 | Artista Balfra, TV film and video producer Drew McHale, scholar in the center for the study of ethnic conflict at Queens University, Belfast. |
1:24.0 | Ben Burgess, host of Give Them An Argument with Ben Burgess, will be joining us. |
1:30.0 | Baskar Sincara, president of the Nation Magazine, will be here. |
1:39.0 | Also, some videos wishing Michael a happy birthday, lamenting that he's not here, obviously, to celebrate it. |
1:50.0 | Meanwhile, in Georgia, prosecutor makes the case, front of a grand jury for electing, I should say, for Trump's election tampering indictment. |
2:05.0 | In a sign of rising authoritarianism, cops raid a local Kansas newspaper and journalist's home to quash the story of a DWI. |
2:18.0 | Judge Shutkin warns Trump not to share evidence. |
2:22.0 | Meanwhile, Trump's co-conspirators are each other's throats. |
2:28.0 | They were for it before they were against it, Republicans who demanded Hunter Biden's special counsel. |
2:33.0 | Now, lamenting, they caught the car. |
2:38.0 | Wake of the most deadly wildfire in U.S. history, who I reviews, it's failed responses. |
2:46.0 | Republicans threatened to impeach newly elected state Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin. |
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