3576 - The Age of Extraction w/ Tim Wu

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Sam Seder

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

It's Fun Day Monday (in name only)

On today's program:

Donald Trump faces massive backlash over his racist video that he reposted on Truth Social, depicting the Obamas as apes.

A Three-time Trump voter calls into C-SPAN to apologize for his support of Trump.

Columbia Law Professor, Tim Wu joins the show to discuss his book Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.

In the Fun Half:

A local CBS news outlet interviews a former ICE employee who quit over the abuse, over-crowding, and squalid conditions that detained immigrants are experiencing at a detention center in Baltimore.

A masked ICE Agent in Minnesota claims that the blue state media refuses to cover the violent criminals they arrest because it doesn't fir the narrative.

Trump says that will we are finally living in the Trump economy.

Jon Ossoff calls out the Epstein class and spares no billionaire in his indictment of wealth inequality.

The TPUSA alternative halftime show is an absolute disaster.

all that and more

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0:00.0	You are listening to a free version of The Majority Report.
0:04.1	Support this show at join the Majority Report.com and get an extra hour of content daily.
0:12.2	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.7	It is Monday.
0:20.1	February 8,, 2006.
0:23.6	My name is Sam Cedar.
0:24.8	This is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:28.2	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:37.1	On the program today, Tim Wu,
0:39.7	professor of law at Columbia University,
0:41.9	author of The Age of Extraction,
0:45.1	how tech platforms conquered our economy
0:48.4	and threatened our future prosperity.
0:51.6	Did I say February 9th?
0:53.8	8th? Well, it's the 9th. Also on the program
0:58.0	on February 9th. Senate returns
1:01.7	today facing a DHS shutdown on Friday.
1:07.5	Unclear if ICE would go unfunded because they have a huge slush fund.
1:13.4	Meanwhile, Galane Maxwell pleads the fifth and a closed-door deposition with Congress.
1:21.4	New York City nurses make a deal to end.
1:24.8	It's strike at two hospitals in New York City.
1:28.7	One is extant.
	...

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