6/5 Platner Smear Flops; The Screwworm Cometh w/ Jeet Heer (M)

About this episode

The episode discusses U.S.-Israel military integration, a screwworm infection in Texas, and features an interview with Jeet Heer on current political events.

FUN HALF: https://youtube.com/live/kzTIAEx36vU It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) speaks out against section 224 of the NDAA for 2027 which was suggested by Benjamin Netanyahu and aims to further integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries. Unfortunately, the section was passed and now Thomass Massie (R-KY) and Khanna will aim to strip the language out of the final NDAA. A screwworm infection has been detected in cattle in south Texas**. Elon Musk** and DOGE stripped out screwworm monitoring programs in 2025. That can't be good. Jeet Heer , national affairs correspondent at The Nation and host of The Time of Monsters podcast, joins the program to recap the week's news. Topics include the New York Times hit piece on Maine senate candidate Graham Platner , the War Powers resolution, and more. In the Fun Half: Rep. Rashida Tlaib spars with Zionist Rep. Brian Mast over Israel's ongoing Gaza-style destruction of Southern Lebanon. Mast demanding that Tlaib "prove" that the 11 children killed by Israel earlier this week weren't terrorists. Mehdi Hasan humiliates Patrick Bet-David on his own podcast. Hasan corners David over the…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Seder

Guest: Jeet Heer

Topics covered

• U.S.-Israel military integration
• screwworm infection
• political commentary
• War Powers resolution
• media criticism
• Israel-Palestine conflict

Keywords

• NDAA
• screwworm
• Ro Khanna
• Jeet Heer
• Graham Platner
• Israel
• politics
• media
• Rashida Tlaib

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Nation, New York Times, Jubilee

Places: south Texas

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