2738 - LA's Next Mayor?; Stopping AI's 'Obsoleting Project' w/ Nithya Raman, Garrison Lovely
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It is Thursday, September twenty-fourth, 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 canal uh goanis canal. In the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Nithya Raman. Los Angeles City Council member running for the mayor of LA will be with us. And later in the show, Garrison Lovely, author of Obsolete, the AI industry's trillion dollar race to replace us and how to stop it, will be with us. Also on the program, the White House defies a federal judge's order by refusing to reinstate CNN, MSNow, and Politico. The outlets have filed an emergency request for a hearing.
Trump welcomes Chinese leader Zhin uh she's in Xiin Ping, rather. At the D C airport.
I mean I'm off for diplomacy, but that's a bit much.
It's you can find
me a pillar G five.
Pretty unprecedented. He's holding up a poster board. Oh it's upside down, sorry. So
embarrassed.
Trump's gonna lean on him to try to get him to accept US sanctions against Iran. Of course. Good luck with that. Democratic lawmakers urge Trump to push for a mutual slowdown on AI development with China. Also, good luck with that. Yesterday the US delegation walked out of Iranian president uh pr Purgesh Progeshkian's speech. After he showed images of the children the US and Israel killed. War criminal Netanyahu is also here to speak at the UN and is expected to focus on Zoran Mamdani in his speech. That doesn't make you look small at all, world leader going after a mare. Psycho. Eight Navy personnel on the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier attempted suicide during their deployment, according to a letter written to Senator Gillibrand.
Trump floats a diesel export ban to combat rising prices, which every expert says is a terrible idea, including some members of his own cabinet. Other White House officials beg Trump to roll back his beef import idea as GOP midterm concerns grow. In Michigan, a Guatemalan man has died in a car crash because Ice was chasing him and he fled. And lastly, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Cassar introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. As Congress attempts to get a handle on AI. All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome to the show, everybody. It is an Majority Report Thursday. Hello, Matt. Hello, Brian. Hello, audience. Lovely audience that I love to suck up to on occasion.
Um, like the stream. How about that? Let's get those numbers. furs up. Show your love that way, huh? Get it into the algorithm. Um we'll start here. So As I mentioned, Trump is weighing this idea of a US ban on uh diesel exports. These are global markets and there's a diesel shortage right now. This idiot has no idea what he's doing. But every industry expert, the oil and gas people, plus his own member uh cabinet members, including his s energy secretary Chris Wright, and I believe Rollins as well is also immensely concerned about this. They're like no What are you talking about? We need more in circulation. And um ahead of these midterms right now, the average price for a gallon of diesel was uh six dollars and fifty-two cents on Wednesday.
Yesterday. That's up ninety-one cents from a month ago and two dollars and eighty-three cents from last year. So like the the and and diesel is primarily when you see rapid increases in diesel like this, this is for transporting goods and food.
I mean as fundamental import is uh um I'm blinking on the term uh input. Input, yeah. Yeah.
as anything. And so who's gonna bear the the brunt of these costs? It's it's gonna be the consumer. Um and food prices have already uh continued to rise under Trump. Um just regular gas is also uh much more expensive at this point. And so uh let alone the fact that a third of uh certain kinds of fertilizers pass through the Strait of Hormuz, impacting
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–16:19
2
What is the current diesel price crisis and how is it affecting everyday Americans?
16:19–35:28
3
How are rising fuel costs impacting school bus drivers, farmers, and truckers across the U.S.?
35:28–54:06
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What solutions does the show propose to reduce dependence on volatile global energy markets?
54:06–1:11:31
Speakers
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