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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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It's an Emmajority Thursday on the Majority Report.
On today's Show:
After another school shooting the right-wing media plays defense for the gun lobby.
Kristi Noem wants us to know that the shooter was a transgender woma
Co-Host of the Un-Diplomatic Podcast, Julia Gledhill joins us to make the case for nationalizing the defense industry.
Voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, Ari Berman joins Sam in a pre-taped interview to discuss the GOP's war on voting rights.
In the Fun Half:
We are joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder.
Adam Friedland interviews AIPAC robot Ritchie Torres.
Senator from Susan Collins can't be out in public without getting heckled.
All that and more.
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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. |
| 0:12.3 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:17.8 | It is Thursday. |
| 0:20.8 | August 28th, 2025. |
| 0:23.5 | My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Cedar, |
| 0:25.9 | and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:29.9 | We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal |
| 0:35.4 | in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:39.9 | On the program today, Julia Gledhill will be with us to talk about her piece, arguing for |
| 0:47.1 | nationalizing the defense industry. And later in the show, Ari Berman joined Sam for an interview that is recorded in the past, |
| 0:57.5 | but you'll get to hear it through the magic of time travel. |
| 1:03.5 | And it's also about an article from the future. |
| 1:06.1 | Yes. |
| 1:07.2 | Wow. |
| 1:08.2 | My head is spinning. |
| 1:09.6 | That will be after my interview with Julia. Great conversation. Also on the program in Minneapolis, a shooting at a Catholic school leaves at least two children dead and 17 injured as Republicans scramble to find a way to blame anything but guns. |
| 1:30.9 | RFK Jr. severely limits who is eligible for the COVID vaccine, narrowing it to people older than 65 or with proof of an underlying condition. |
| 1:43.3 | And not so coincidentally yesterday, the CDC director was fired less than a month after being |
| 1:50.2 | sworn in. |
| 1:52.9 | In Chicago, Pritzker and Johnson's offices are closely coordinating to shield the city from |
| 1:59.5 | Trump's deployment of the National Guard. |
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