3583 - China Decarbonizing; AIPAC On the Ballot in North Carolina w/ Assaad Razzouk, Nida Allam

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Sam Seder

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani looks like he cleared a major hurdle in his promise of freezing rent for rent-controlled housing in NYC after nominating 6 appointees to the Rent Board.

Mayor Mamdani is now applying pressure to Governor Kathy Hochul to raise taxes by 2% on those earning more than $1 million a year in order to avoid having to raid the city's reserves and raising property taxes in order to bridge the $5.4 billion dollar budget gap.

Assaad Razzouki, host of the Angry Clean Energy Guy Podcast and CEO of Gurin Energy a clean energy company, joins Emma to talk about China's ability to decarbonize while still growing their economy.

Nida Allam, progressive candidate for North Carolina's 4th Congressional district joins Emma for a conversation about her campaign.

In the Fun Half:

Francesca Fiorentini, comedian and host of the Bitchuation Room joins show.

RFK, Jr. and Kid Rock post a video of them working out together.

Michigan candidate for Senate, Haley Stevens touts the great female leadership at an ICE Facility that she just toured. If you are in Michigan vote for Abdul El-Sayed.

Journalist Tara Palmeri directly asks Michael Tracey if the basis of his slandering of Epstein survivors is a result of him being on the payroll of someone implicated in the Epstein files.

Dave Clips, a Dave Rubin parody account makes an incredible compilation of Dave Rubin begging Elon Musk to put him on the guest list for the fabled Mars colony.

Rep. Randy Fine uses an innocent joke about Islam coming to NYC and banning dogs as pets as an opportunity to launch another Islamophobic attack.

all that and more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:06.4	It is Wednesday, February 18th, 2026.
0:12.4	My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:18.0	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:27.6	On the program today, Assad Razuk will be with us to talk about China's CO2 emissions falling despite their massively growing economy.
0:39.1	We were told it couldn't be done.
0:42.3	And later in the show, Nita Alam, candidate for Congress in North Carolina's fourth district,
0:47.8	will be with us to talk about her race.
0:50.8	Also on the program, the U.S. kills 11 more people with illegal strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific,
1:00.6	and an enormous military buildup of U.S. personnel ships continues off Iran's coast.
1:11.2	FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, the sole Democrat left in the FCC, calls CBS's
1:18.5	censorship of Colbert's Tala Rico interview, corporate capitulation.
1:26.1	A Cambodian national,
1:29.0	Lourth Sim,
1:30.3	is the latest to die in ICE custody,
1:33.6	the seventh immigrant this year.
1:36.8	So far.
1:39.1	That we know of.
1:42.5	Federal judges sound the alarm on ICE's abuse of pregnant people and nursing people in their custody.
1:50.3	And ICE just deported that two-month-old, I mentioned earlier this week, who was hospitalized for vomiting.
1:57.6	They only waited a few hours.
2:01.4	Christine Nome's spokesperson at the DHS is resigning.
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