2739 - Our Fading Empire; Building Blue Tsunami w/ Jeet Heer

It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: In his speech before the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu claims that NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made Jews in New York feel unsafe and calls out the mayor's friendship with streamer Hasan Piker. Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent at The Nation and host of The Time of Monsters podcast, joins to recap the week's news. Sam, Emma and Jeet discuss the war in Iran, the midterm elections, the UN and more. In the Fun Half: Trump's approval rating in states with competitive Senate races is abysmal. Polling also shows that Gen-Z voters are abandoning the Republican party. Dan Osborn releases a perfect attack ad on Pete Ricketts. Two Christian nationalist knuckleheads host a podcast called "The King's Hall" where they say that people who think women should be able have unsupervised contact with each other is okay are actually insane. At a Senate nomination hearing for commissioner of the FDA, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) lays out an example of how Trump took a kickback from the tobacco lobby and then four days later changed FDA rules on flavored vapes. Murphy tries to get the nominee to acknowledge this corruption. Spoiler alert: she doesn't. Barack Obama claims that the federal government is less corrupt now than in any time in history. That's good messaging heading into the midterms, if you're a Republican. all that and more. To participate in the comment section on proposed rule changing Please consider helping the Aldaghma family, they are the family behind Gaza Bakery, which provides bread and meals to displaced families, and Future Flowers Kindergarten, which gives children a place to learn, play, and experience moments of normalcy whenever conditions allow. On Sunday, October 4, Emma will be in Los Angeles doing a Bitchuation Room Live with Francesca Fiorentini at the Lodge Room. Get tickets here. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: ZOCDOC: Find and book the right doctor https://Zocdoc.com/MAJORITY SUNSET LAKE CBD: Head to SunsetLakeCBD.com and use coupon code 'Left Is Best' to save 20% your entire order. Follow the crew on X @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's YouTube channel: https://ww.youtube.com/Th3Discourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here: https:/www.youtube.com/@avaraiza