3550 - The Immigration-Incarceration Pipeline; Neoliberalism in Crisis w/ Silky Shah, Tim Sahay
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
It’s Emmajority Report Thursday!
On today’s show:
After facing significant backlash, Scott Bessent makes a half-hearted attempt to walk back his comments about using Trump "accounts" as a backdoor to privatize Social Security.
Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, joins us to discuss how immigration policy fuels mass incarceration.
Then, Tim Sahay, co-editor of the Polycrisis newsletter, stops by to talk about the crumbling foundations of neoliberalism and what comes next.
In the Fun Half:
Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder join us as we kick things off with Cory Booker’s passionate floor speech—no, not about Gaza, Epstein, or austerity—but about a procedural technicality in a bill he supported twice.
We break down the Senate vote on Bernie Sanders’ failed proposal to block additional arms shipments to Israel—and Bernie’s ongoing refusal to say the word “genocide.”
Plus: a deep-pocketed centrist enters the race for Jerry Nadler’s seat, borrowing stylistic cues from Zohran Mamdani, minus the actual policy platform.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:04.8 | To support the show and get another 15 minutes of daily program, go to majority.fm. |
| 0:11.5 | Please. |
| 0:13.8 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:19.3 | It is Thursday. |
| 0:22.3 | July 31st, 2025. |
| 0:25.1 | My name is Emma Bigeland in for Sam Cedar, |
| 0:27.2 | and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:30.8 | We are broadcasting live steps |
| 0:33.7 | from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal |
| 0:36.8 | in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:41.4 | On the program today, Silkie Shaw, executive director of the Detention Watch Network, author of Unbilled Walls, |
| 0:48.8 | Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, joins us, and later in the show, Tim Sahay, co-editor of the Polycrisis, joins us to talk about neoliberalism, |
| 1:01.7 | in trouble, question mark, and how the rest of the world is responding. |
| 1:07.9 | Also on the program program inflation numbers accelerate |
| 1:11.3 | with June showing a rise for the second straight month |
| 1:17.0 | as tariffs begin to make their effects known |
| 1:22.1 | the Fed holds interest rate steady despite Trump having a meltdown over it. |
| 1:29.8 | Canada joins France, recognizing the state of Palestine. |
| 1:35.8 | And labor is like, maybe soon. |
| 1:41.2 | Felix Biederman said it's a preemptive land acknowledgement. |
| 1:46.3 | Um, well, it do, it does seem to be pissing off Israel. |
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