3159 - DeSantis Corruption, Anti-LGBT Hate, Right LOSES In Guatemala w/ Marco Fonseca

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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It's News Day Tuesday! But first, Emma speaks with Marco Fonseca, instructor in Latin American and International Studies at the York University Glendon campus in Toronto, to discuss the results from Guatemala's runoff election this past weekend.

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of Majority Report with Sam Steeder.
0:05.0	To support this show and get another 15 minutes daily program, go to Majority.fm, please.
0:13.0	The Majority Report with Sam Steeder.
0:19.0	It is Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023.
0:24.0	My name is Emma Vigiland in for Sam Steeder and this is the five time award winning Majority Report.
0:30.0	We are broadcasting live, steps from the industrially ravaged Goannas Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:40.0	On the program today, Marco Fonseca returns to the show to discuss the massive loss for the conservative right wing establishment in Guatemala's elections.
0:54.0	Also on the show, Trump says he'll surrender to Georgia authorities on Thursday, his fourth arrest since April.
1:03.0	Meanwhile, Trump's lawyers are claiming they need until 2026 to review evidence in the federal January 6th case, trying to put off the trial until then, which is a hilarious Hail Mary.
1:19.0	Biden finally visits Maui after the horrific wildfires, promises federal support, mudslides and flooding in Southern California after tropical storm Hillary made landfall.
1:33.0	Ronan Farrow profiled Elon Musk revealing and alleged ketamine problem and gouging over the DOD over Starlink Internet access in Ukraine.
1:47.0	Maybe we shouldn't privatize that stuff.
1:51.0	Satellites?
1:53.0	Exactly.
1:55.0	Meanwhile, Biden begins a PR push for his much smaller scale student debt relief programs, the Save Plan, to help reduce monthly payments, which resume soon.
2:07.0	Child care facilities face a funding cliff as federal COVID relief money is set to expire on September 30th.
2:16.0	The Supreme Court to hear a new case on race admissions this time in high schools.
2:22.0	Indiana's abortion ban to take effect after the state Supreme Court blocks an ACLU challenge.
2:31.0	And Alabama's felony gender affirming care ban for minors upheld by a circuit court.
2:39.0	Anti-cop city organizers have collected the necessary 100,000 signatures, but Atlanta officials are not going to make it easy for them.
2:49.0	And lastly, a federal judge to take up the case that would determine the legality of Greg Abbott's border death traps, but he is a Reagan appointee, unfortunately.
3:01.0	All this and more on today's program.
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