2709 - ICE's Insane New Toy; How The Israel Lobby Conquered US Politics w/ Eli Clifton
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What is the pre‑alcohol probiotic ad that opens the episode?
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It is Thursday, August thirteenth, twenty twenty six. My name is Emma Vigland, In for Sam Cedar, and this is the five time award winning majority report. We are broadcasting live. Steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanas Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Eli Clifton. Investigative journalist, co-founder, and senior advisor at the Quincy Institute joins us to discuss his new book co written with Ian Lustic. Israel's lobby America in the grip of a foreign power. Also on the program, a third person has died in ICE custody at Geo Group's Delaney Hall. More than fifty people have died in ICE hands since Trump took office at the start of twenty twenty five.
A nice agent pleads guilty for throwing an activist to the ground in Illinois. A wired investigation finds customs and border protection workers have for years been using DHS tools to spy on exes and colleagues. No. Not the fine m men and women and mostly men at C B P
some bad apples, surely.
Surely. Caroline Levitt is stepping down as White House press secretary after doing the noble work. Of defending the president's renovation choices on a daily basis. That's what I call a patriot. Go off into that good night, Caroline, aka get a job at Newsmax. The White House has finalized a rule that ends gender affirming care through chip and Medicaid. As uh Hegz and the other Republicans demand that young men in the military inject themselves with testosterone. Israel is carrying out a massive campaign of evidence destruction, trucking out millions of tons of rubble that also contains body parts, undoubtedly. US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has been forced to publicly rebuke the Israeli settler theft of a home belonging to a Palestinian American.
Reports of US military personnel attempting to jump ab overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Come out. They have been at sea more than two hundred fifty days, which is a r over a record.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the pre‑alcohol probiotic ad that opens the episode?
0:00–13:28
2
How does ICE plan to use $20 million electric‑shock gloves on detainees?
13:28–25:03
3
What is the Israel lobby and how is it defined by Eli Clifton?
25:03–41:38
4
Why does Clifton compare the Israel lobby to a foreign‑power influence operation?
41:38–58:26
5
How have campaign‑finance reforms (Citizens United) changed lobby funding?
58:26–1:09:24
6
Who are the biggest donors behind the Israel lobby and what do they fund?
1:09:24–1:11:33
7
How does AIPAC’s strategy differ from other foreign lobbies?
1:11:33–1:13:48
8
What future challenges could weaken the Israel lobby’s grip on U.S. politics?
1:13:48–1:14:25
Speakers
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