3385 - Puerto Rico’s Nationalist Movement; RNC Dials Up Transphobia w/ Margaret Power, Erin Reed

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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It’s an EmMajority Report Thursday! She speaks with Margaret Power, professor of history at the Illinois Institute of Technology, to discuss her recent book Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism. Then, she's joined by journalist Erin Reed, author of the Erin In The Morning newsletter on SubStack, to discuss how speakers at the RNC have been employing transphobic rhetoric.

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of the majority report.
0:04.0	Support this show at join the majority report.com and get an extra hour of content daily.
0:11.0	The majority report. content daily. The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.0	It is Thursday.
0:20.0	July 18th, 2024. My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Ceter and this is the five-time
0:26.7	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, Margaret Power, author of solidarity across the Americas, the Puerto Rican Nationalist
0:46.1	Party and anti-imperialism.
0:49.4	And later in the show, Aaron Reed will be back with us of the Aaron in the Morning Substack to talk about the rampant transphobia at the RNC.
0:59.0	Also on the program today a new AP poll shows nearly two-thirds of Democrats want
1:06.2	Biden to withdraw from the race. Emerson polling shows Trump gaining and Biden losing in every swing state,
1:15.0	which is in keeping with basically every other poll out there.
1:20.0	Top Democrats tell Axios that Biden could step aside as early as this weekend.
1:27.0	His COVID diagnosis may complicate that, but pressure is at an all-time high.
1:33.0	J.D. Vance was coronated as VP last night,
1:38.0	touting his foe populist message,
1:41.0	but overall ratings for the RNC fall.
1:47.0	Labor leaders and Democrats expressed feelings of betrayal over Sean O'Brien's RNC speech.
1:55.0	The FBI says the Trump shooter had been looking up images of both Biden and Trump on his phone, as well as dates for their public appearances.
2:09.0	Jack Smith appeals pro-Trump judge Cannon's partisan decision to dismiss Trump's classified
2:17.4	documents case.
2:20.3	Biden forgives another tranche of student debt for public service workers.
2:25.0	The Israeli conness it overwhelmingly votes to deny Palestinian statehood,
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