3588 - Tenant Strike; Not Just a 'Vibecession' w/ Isi Breen, Yusra Murad & Mike Konczal

The Majority Report with Sam Seder

Sam Seder

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It's Hump Day on the Majority Report

On today's program:

Trump delivers a boring, predictable state of the union address but on the bright side it was the longest SOTU address ever.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) heckle Trump over his racist attack on sanctuary policies.

Yusra Murad and Isi Breen join Sam to talk about the Twin Cities rent strike that starts on March 1.

Mike Konczal, Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Economics Security Project joins Sam to discuss his piece on affordability and vibecession. For more writings from Mike, subscribe to his Substack.

In the Fun Half:

all that and more

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Transcript

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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.
0:12.0	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:17.4	It is Wednesday, February 25th,
0:23.6	2006. My name is Sam Cedar. This is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA on the program today.
0:43.2	Izzy Breen and Yusra Merad on behalf of the Twin City Tenants' rent strike starting March 1st.
0:57.7	Then Mike Consell, Senior director and policy research at the economic security project publisher of the newsletter mike consul dot combe on why the
1:09.5	economy feels bad but the numbers supposedly look good.
1:15.0	Also on the program today, Trump's State of the Union boring and predictable, but he makes up for it by making it the longest boring and predictable state of the union in history records all
1:30.7	over the place one hundred and seven minutes of pure gruel and consistent with my uh snap poll
1:41.3	of myself snap poll say it was the least popular
1:45.9	State of the Union address
1:48.0	in the 21st century
1:49.3	Oh, he's important to be a supportive
1:54.0	Dozens of FBI records
1:57.8	of Trump accusers' interview
2:00.1	now clearly missing from the Epstein files.
2:06.9	Trump imposes a 10% import tax on all imported goods globally in response to that state of the Supreme Court ruling.
2:20.3	Meanwhile, Democratic leadership is trying to block a vote on the Kana Masi Iran War Powers
2:29.3	resolution because they want the Iran war. They just don't want to be responsible for it.
2:37.1	No progress in DHS funding bill in the Senate.
2:42.7	New whistleblower report,
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