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Description: In the waning days of the Bush era, at the height of the New Atheist movement, liberal firebrand Bill Maher travelled the world to mock the faithful, and left a trail of smugness in his wake. Will and Luke spent a lot of time talking about "Rogue One" to delay talking about this wretched film.

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Ep 219: How Elites Concern Troll "Waste" to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class

Elon Musk's star is in retrograde following Tesla's abysmal earnings report. This as Trump continues to take a sledge hammer to the IRS and other federal agencies. We have Merici Vinton on the show today, who is a former staffer at the U.S. Digital Service Department, which became absorbed by DOGE when Donald Trump took office. She's also a former adviser at the IRS. Check out her recent piece in the Federation of American Science:  In the Fun Half, Sam revels in podcaster Jennifer Welsh shouting at Rahm Emmanuel for throwing trans people under the bus when talking about what issues Democrats should focus on. Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan lament the negative impact that Trump's policy are having on the upcoming Canadian election. As always, Peterson is wearing a very silly suit. Also, Republican Congressman Byron Donaldson gets shouted at at a town hall in Florida by constituents who are PISSED about Elon Musk and DOGE. If you want to help save the SAFE Act in North Carolina, check out&nbsp; Become a member at&nbsp;JoinTheMajorityReport.com:&nbsp; Follow us on TikTok here!:&nbsp; Check us out on Twitch here!:&nbsp; Find our Rumble stream here!:&nbsp; Check out our alt YouTube channel here!:&nbsp; Gift a Majority Report subscription here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:&nbsp; Join the Majority Report Discord!&nbsp; Get all your MR merch at our store:&nbsp; Get the free Majority Report App!:&nbsp; Go to&nbsp;&nbsp;and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Delete Me:&nbsp;Text MAJORITY to 64000 for 20% off your DeleteMe subscription Ritual:&nbsp;Get 25% off during your first month. Visit  to start Ritual or add Essential For Men to your subscription today. Aura:&nbsp;Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at . Promo Code MAJORITY Naked Wines: To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to NakedWines.com/MAJORITY and use code MAJORITY for both the code AND PASSWORD Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @RussFinkelstein Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Matt Binder’s&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;channel:&nbsp; Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Ava Raiza’s music here!&nbsp; The Majority Report with Sam Seder –&nbsp;

2482 - Trump's Attack on the IRS & Tesla gets DOGE'd w/ Merici Vinton

Katie talks to the Academy-Award winning director Oliver Stone and JFK researcher and author Jim Di Eugenio about the JFK files which they testified about in Congress. 

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Then Katie talks to Civil Rights Lawyer Alec Karakatsanis about his book Copaganda and the way the media lies about crime. 

Oliver Stone is an Award-winning director, producer, screenwriter whose films include , Snowden, Savages, Untold History, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK and the documentary JFK Revisited. He is the author of Chasing the Light.

Jim DiEugenio is a researcher and writer who focuses on the political assassinations of the 1960s, including the killing of JFK. He is the author of two books, Destiny Betrayed (1992/2012) and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today (2018), co-author of The Assassinations, and co-edited Probe Magazine (1993-2000). 

Alec Karakatsanis is a Civil Rights lawyer and the founder of Civil RIghts Corps. He is the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (2019) and Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (2025)

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Oliver Stone On JFK Files, Alec Karakatsanis On 'Copaganda'

We're fighting dragons in the dreary post apocalypse. It's Reign Of Fire (2002)!

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Episode #178 - Reign of Fire

It's a jam-packed show for today's Emmajority Report, starting with some alarming news about the Trump administration cutting funding for vital research on women's health.&nbsp;After that, Emma talks to Jacob Silverman about Donald Trump's crypto shenanigan sand how the Trump camp is financially benefitting from manipulating the markets. Check out Jacob's latest piece for the Financial Times "Welcome to slop world: how the hostile internet is driving us crazy"&nbsp; After that, Emma speaks with Abdel El Sayed, who has just launched his campaign for a Senate seat in Michigan and has the backing of Bernie Sanders. He talks about his experiences as a public health official and how they informed his political outlook and why he's putting health care and particularly Medicare for All at the heart of his platform. He also thinks the Democrats need to do better when it comes to keeping groups like AIPAC out of their campaigns. In the Fun Half, Emma will be joined by the usual Thursday crew, Matt Binder and Brandon Sutton. They check in on LA City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto and why she's being credibly accused of bias against the pro-Palestinian protesters she's prosecuting. The gang also takes in Fox News' response to the Irish band Kneecap's anti-Israel protests at Coachella. &nbsp; Become a member at&nbsp;JoinTheMajorityReport.com:&nbsp; Follow us on TikTok here!:&nbsp; Check us out on Twitch here!:&nbsp; Find our Rumble stream here!:&nbsp; Check out our alt YouTube channel here!:&nbsp; Gift a Majority Report subscription here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:&nbsp; Join the Majority Report Discord!&nbsp; Get all your MR merch at our store:&nbsp; Get the free Majority Report App!:&nbsp; Go to&nbsp;&nbsp;and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Delete Me:&nbsp;Text MAJORITY to 64000 for 20% off your DeleteMe subscription Ritual:&nbsp;Get 25% off during your first month. Visit  to start Ritual or add Essential For Men to your subscription today. Aura:&nbsp;Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at . Promo Code MAJORITY Naked Wines: To get 6 bottles of wine for $39.99, head to NakedWines.com/MAJORITY and use code MAJORITY for both the code AND PASSWORD Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @RussFinkelstein Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Matt Binder’s&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;channel:&nbsp; Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Ava Raiza’s music here!&nbsp; The Majority Report with Sam Seder –&nbsp;

2483 - Trump’s Memecoin Scam; Michigan Senate Race Heats Up w/ Jacob Silverman, Abdul El-Sayed

We've made it to Friday folks. Krystal Ball will be here to break down the wild week that was. First, Sam and Emma discuss Donald Trump's memecoin dinner and the amount of money he's made since taking office just over a month ago. Then Krystal, Sam and Emma discuss the arrest of an immigration judge by the FBI in Wisconsin for allegedly protected an undocumented immigrant from federal authorities. The three discuss how this development plays into the direction the administration is heading on immigration and in general. The three try to decipher what Trump and his inner circle are thinking at this point about tariffs, after having ceded significantly from their initial plan. They also discuss what is on the horizon for the Democrats. Check out Krystals' shows:   Become a member at&nbsp;JoinTheMajorityReport.com:&nbsp; Follow us on TikTok here!:&nbsp; Check us out on Twitch here!:&nbsp; Find our Rumble stream here!:&nbsp; Check out our alt YouTube channel here!:&nbsp; Gift a Majority Report subscription here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:&nbsp; Join the Majority Report Discord!&nbsp; Get all your MR merch at our store:&nbsp; Get the free Majority Report App!:&nbsp; Go to&nbsp;&nbsp;and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Sunset Lakes CBD:&nbsp;Use coupon code "LeftIsBest" for 20% off of your entire order at  Fast Growing Trees:&nbsp;Get 15% off your first purchase.&nbsp;  Nutrafol:&nbsp;Get $10 off your first month’s subscription + free shipping at  when you use promo code TMR10 Aura Frames: Exclusive $35-off Carver Mat at AuraFrames.com. Promo Code MAJORITY &nbsp; Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @RussFinkelstein Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Matt Binder’s&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;channel:&nbsp; Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Ava Raiza’s music here!&nbsp; The Majority Report with Sam Seder –&nbsp;

2484 - Immigration Judge Arrested, Tariff Tizzy w/ Krystal Ball

A socially-conscious East Coast playwright gets a taste of Hollywood in BARTON FINK (1991). We discuss Barton, Madman Mundt, and "the common man." PLUS: One last check-in on the Canadian election.

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PREVIEW - #618 - That Barton Fink Feeling

We discuss Eddie Murphy's RAW, MONTY PYTON AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, Andrew Dice Clay's DICE RULES and Robin William's LIVE ON BROADWAY.

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#425 - Are You Ready To Laugh?: Stand Up Comedy At The Movies

It was a busy news weekend so it's a pretty jam-packed show today. First Emma and Sam take in the latest Trump administration spin on the blowback from their self-imposed tariff disaster. After that, they're joined by The Nation's legal analyst and justice correspondent Elie Mystal who breaks down some of the overarching legal issues that have emerged in Trump's first 100 days. Elie also has a new book out,&nbsp;“Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America"&nbsp;which is available here:&nbsp; Also check out Elie's writing in The Nation: In a Normal World, Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump Would Be a Slam Dunk:&nbsp; Did the Supreme Court Just Grow a Spine?&nbsp; After that, Sam and Emma react to the news that Rep. Gerry Connolly is stepping down as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee due to his worsening health. Basically at this point there's no good reason that the party shouldn't back AOC to replace him. In the Fun Half, Sam, Emma and Matt react to "Mr. Wonderful" attacking AOC by saying she's against the American dream because she's rallying tens of thousands of people against oligarchs. Then, Republican congressman Mike Lawler gets shouted out by a room full of his constituents over his acquiescence to Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker is in New Hampshire (gee, I wonder why) where he gave a fiery speech where he calls for mass protests against the Trump administration, saying that Republicans "must not know peace." Become a member at&nbsp;JoinTheMajorityReport.com:&nbsp; Follow us on TikTok here!:&nbsp; Check us out on Twitch here!:&nbsp; Find our Rumble stream here!:&nbsp; Check out our alt YouTube channel here!:&nbsp; Gift a Majority Report subscription here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here:&nbsp; Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:&nbsp; Join the Majority Report Discord!&nbsp; Get all your MR merch at our store:&nbsp; Get the free Majority Report App!:&nbsp; Go to&nbsp;&nbsp;and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase! Check out today's sponsors: Liquid IV:&nbsp;Get 20% off your first order at  Use code MAJORITYREP at checkout. Prolon:&nbsp; Get 15% off sitewide plus a $40 bonus gift when you subscribe to their 5-Day Nutrition Program Smalls:&nbsp;For 50% off your first order, head to Smalls.com and use code MAJORITY Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @RussFinkelstein Check out Matt’s show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Matt Binder’s&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;channel:&nbsp; Subscribe to Brandon’s show The Discourse on Patreon!&nbsp; Check out Ava Raiza’s music here!&nbsp; The Majority Report with Sam Seder –&nbsp;

2485 - Trump's Tariff Blowback & Battles In The Courts w/ Elie Mystal

Fighter jets are just falling off the back of our aircraft carriers now in yet another Keystone Kops-ass bungle in the Red Sea. Gerry Connolly announces he’ll step down from the oversight committee in another moment of glory for the funeral home waiting room of Democratic leadership. Will reads us a profile of a new up-and-coming conservative influencer so annoying it drives Felix to the brink of rage-quitting. Alex Nichols returns to the pod to discuss these stories and more on today’s program.

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929 - Given feat. Alex Nichols (4/28/25)

In the waning days of the Bush era, at the height of the New Atheist movement, liberal firebrand Bill Maher travelled the world to mock the faithful, and left a trail of smugness in his wake. Will and Luke spent a lot of time talking about "Rogue One" to delay talking about this wretched film.

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#23 - Religulous

Since the mid-2000s, a specific breed of liberalism has emerged broadly called "New Atheism." While the movement is hardly a monolith, it has at its core features of liberal chauvinism, anti-"political correctness," "science," secularism, and a general deference to U.S. foreign policy consensus. It’s biggest champions, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Maajid Nawaz, Bill Maher and the late Christopher Hitchens were and are major features in mainstream liberal discourse–from television shows on HBO to major podcasts to writings featured everywhere from The New York Times to The Guardian to The Daily Beast. 

For years, however, leftists of all stripes--anti-imperialists, socialists, progressives--have expressed concern over this brand of liberal chauvinism, its out-sized place in the media and its ability to turn the U.S., and white Americans in particular, into The Real Victims™; its ability to offend the religious while championing boilerplate National Security consensus and imperial wars abroad. It seemed vaguely provocative but who was it really offending? And, more importantly, who was it serving?

We discuss, with guest Luke Savage.

Episode 12 - The New Atheists: Celebrity Crusaders For Empire

It's a free Fox Mulder to celebrate one of the strangest episodes of the entire series! Listen as our hosts struggle to determine what is real and what is the work of secret government brainwashing.

Fox Mulder Is A Maniac - S03E20 - "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"

Ave, citizens! Rome wasn't built in a day, but this podcast was built in a few hours, so you tell me which is better? This week, we're doing a Romans special. We talk about the games Romans appear in, the way they're portrayed, and the difference between Romans on console vs on PC. Also we talk a lot about the Pope, and ask the important question: what does a wolf's milk taste like?

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#105: The Romans In Video Games Special

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#23 - Religulous

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