3540 - Trump's War on Free Speech, Elon Musk is Poisoning Memphis w/ Chip Gibbons and Ren Brabenec
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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It's Thursday which means it is an Emmajority Report Day.
We start the show with the Senate Rescissions bill that passed in the wee hours last night. PBS, NPR and USAID are now defunded.
We are joined by Policy Director of Defending Rights & Dissent, Chip Gibbons, to discuss Trump's war on free speech, specifically around Palestinian activism.
Then we are joined by Ren Brabenec to talk about his piece in the Tennessee Lookout that covers Elon Musk's unpermitted Ai data center that is causing massive environmental damage in Memphis.
In the fun half we are joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder as we continue the coverage of the Epstein caused MAGA / Trump fissure.
Charlie Kirk's gaslight's his fans and they are furious.
We close out by enjoying Ben Shapiro's review of Superman. It's as bad as you imagine it to be.
All that and more plus phone calls.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report. |
| 0:04.4 | Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily. |
| 0:12.0 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:17.6 | It is Thursday. |
| 0:20.5 | July 17th, 2025. |
| 0:22.9 | My name is Emma Vigland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:28.5 | We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:38.8 | On the program today, Chip Gibbons will be with us to talk about Trump's war on free speech |
| 0:45.3 | as it relates to Gaza. And later in the show, Ren Brabineck, Nashville-based journalist, will be with us to talk about Elon Musk's |
| 0:58.4 | supercomputer polluting the city of Memphis. |
| 1:03.6 | Also on the program, overnight Senate Republicans rescinded $9 billion in funds to public broadcasting and foreign aid. |
| 1:14.6 | Sending it to the House and they'll vote for it too. |
| 1:18.2 | Russ vote says more is coming. |
| 1:21.2 | The DOJ fires federal prosecutor Maureen Comey, daughter of James, who also did work on the Jeffrey Epstein case. |
| 1:30.7 | Are we still talking about that guy? |
| 1:34.5 | The Epstein case, that stuff will not go away for Trump. |
| 1:39.4 | A Reuters poll finds that just 17 Americans approve of his handling of it, and nearly 70% think the government |
| 1:47.5 | is hiding something. |
| 1:48.8 | 17%, not 17 total. |
| 1:51.8 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:54.1 | Just 17 Americans. |
| 1:55.6 | Is that what I said? |
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