3697 - Is Israel Imploding Or Expanding?; Trump's Crippling SNAP Cuts w/ Ilan Pappé, Katie Bergh
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It is Tuesday, July 28th, 2026. My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Seder. And 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, Ilan Pape, professor of history at the University of Exeter and director of their European Center for Palestine Studies, author of many must-read books, joins us to discuss Israel's simultaneous implosion and expansion. And later in the show, Katie Berg, senior policy analyst on the food assistance team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, joins us to discuss the impacts of Republican food stamp cuts. Also on the program, Iran and Oman are scheduled or actually not scheduled, are negotiating a side deal.
currently, to create a toll mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz that can benefit them, plus the Gulf states as well, sidelining Washington. This is a strategic failure on every level for the United States. Trump once again wants to talk to Iran now. Shocker! Netanyahu and Trump are meeting after Lindsey Graham's funeral this morning. He could easily manipulate Trump into escalation ahead of the midterms, some of the more savvy Republicans warn. A top DHS statistics official resigned, citing his inability to support Trump's war on immigrants. A couple recently deported by ICE was bound and killed in Guatemala in front of their 14-month-old child. They had been in the U.S. fleeing this kind of political violence.
Mitch McConnell provides another wordless photo proof of life, extending his leave as Kentucky Governor Beshear says he should disclose his health details or resign. Senate Majority Leader Thune pleads with Trump on Fox News to stop asking him to nuke the filibuster for the Save America Act. James Tallarico leads Paxton by five points in a new poll. Interesting. Wildfires rage in Oregon and Minnesota. Will you be shocked to hear that Trump's doge cuts on forest fire prevention had an impact?
We've got to tariff ourselves now.
You're right. We're creating the smoke. No, we tariff Canada for complaining about it. A witness in the case against the former Olympic canoeist accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool has testified, saying the pool was already damaged.
Worst thing that was ever done with a box cutter.
A likely story already damaged a perfect pool. You damaged it.
You damaged it. The witness is Antifa. And lastly, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits Japan this morning. Hope everybody's okay. Many people are feared to be trapped in a shopping mall. All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome to the show, everybody. It is Newsday Tuesday. As a reminder, Sam is out until Friday when he will make his triumphant return. And then all of next week, he will be back, of course. And I'm really trying to line up the best guests possible just to stay. Stick it to him, as Haley Stevens would say, and show him what the Michigan way is all about.
I've always thought you were a workhorse more than a show.
I'm not a show horse. I work. And, you know, like Abdullah Syed, I've been on podcasts. So that might make Haley Stevens and I unable to connect here. We'll talk about that insane debate in the fun half. I think it was about substance. It was about substance on his end. I watched the whole thing and I would be hard pressed to think of a more dominant debate performance than Abdul-Aziz versus Haley Stevens last night. We're a week away from that election, by the way, folks. And of course, if you're in Michigan. uh will lawrence donovan mckinney these are candidates that you know you should uh be supporting as well so um huge election coming up there and not just in michigan on that day that upcoming primary day the fourth you've got kansas you've got missouri uh virginia and washington i believe and in that same week
Next week on the Thursday is the Tennessee primary, where there are a bunch of progressive candidates as well, including Justin Pearson, amongst others. So speaking of the elections, let's start here.
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