3676 - How Protest Became Terrorism; Supreme Court Run Amok w/ Sufia Khalid, Chris Geidner
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What headlines and show topics open the episode and set the agenda?
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It is Monday. June 29th, 2026. My name is Sam Seder. 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, Sophia Khalid, Deputy Director of the National Security Criminal Defense Center at the Muslim Legal Fund of America. attorney for one of the Prairieland Nine. Also on the program today, Chris Geidner, journalist, publisher of the Law Dork newsletter on Substack, to discuss all the Supreme Court rulings that didn't come today, that came before today, because today we also got a bunch of new ones. Meanwhile, after a post-stock market close bombings of and by Iran, Trump announces a pre-market opening ceasefire again.
Supreme Court rules Trump can't fire members of the Federal Reserve, but can fire members of the Federal Trade Commission. Supreme Court also rules that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day if they are postmarked by that day. Israel kills three, including a baby in Gaza overnight. As the Committee to Protect Journalists changes its definition of journalists to exclude Palestinians... In Gaza, U.S. torture whitewasher John Yoo to advise the DOJ on the so-called Russiagate investigations. Primary day tomorrow in Colorado may be the next Democratic insurgent day. Poll platinum with a tiny edge in Maine. The big problem, recalcitrant Democrats. Putin announces a fuel shortage in the wake of Ukrainian attacks.
And Republican groups teeing up the FCC commissioner to pull Disney's broadcast license. All this and more. On today's majority report. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks so much for joining us. Emma Vigeland out today. I'm still getting a little bit ecstatic from the fan. Are you hearing it or not? It's about 90 degrees generally in this office. And then sometimes warmer outside. It's going to be a hot week. Often cooler outside. I wouldn't worry about it. Going to be a... Super El Nino. It's going to be a fun summer. I will be out of office for some of that. More on that later in the week. Juicy teaser. Yep. The big story in the wake of... And it seems to be metastasizing in some way. Now... I'm of two minds of these reports of concern.
It's really, I mean, let's be honest. It's conservative Democrats that are, are crying to the media. They're called moderate Democrats, but if they're the moderate Democrats, who are the conservative Democrats? Like one guy in Texas, Henry Cuellar, because he doesn't subscribe to abortion rights. Now, let's be clear. It is the conservative Democrats. Are upset because of. The rising fortunes of progressives, whether it's DSA candidates in New York and in Pennsylvania. Or progressives in Maine. Pennsylvania, Michigan. other places across the country uh... perhaps in colorado tomorrow and part of it may be ideological i think some of it is maybe maybe the majority but really i think the the nature of these type of democrats
is less about ideology and more about their own personal power and wealth accumulation and their advisors around them now i do think that's tied into ideology i don't think you get that corporate mentality if you don't have a neo-liberal ideology but i think if somebody could go to them and say you will still have your power and your sinecure Though this ideology will be preeminent, I think they'd be like, fine. But they also know that that can't really happen. And so they're freaking out. And it's sort of sad. You hear people like Van Jones saying, moderates have to mobilize.
Yes.
And it's funny because what constituency does Josh Gottheimer, for instance, have outside of those in his district, the wealthiest, I think, in New Jersey, who want tax cuts? These people don't mobilize. These people hire people to go out and canvass. They don't canvass.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What headlines and show topics open the episode and set the agenda?
0:00–23:23
2
How are progressive insurgents and the DSA portrayed in media debates about party leadership?
23:23–40:19
3
What did Zohran Mamdani say about his mayoral record when Jonathan Karl labeled him a 'poster child'?
40:19–1:04:44
4
How did AOC describe the need for new Democratic leadership and what response does she get?
1:04:44–1:24:15
Speakers
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