3687 - Trump Hijacks Science Funding; Minnesota's Senate Race w/ Elizabeth Ginexi, Peggy Flanagan

3687 - Trump Hijacks Science Funding; Minnesota's Senate Race w/ Elizabeth Ginexi, Peggy Flanagan

From The Majority Report with Sam Seder by Sam Seder

July 14, 2026 · 1h 14m

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a recent ICE murder, science funding issues, and features interviews with Elizabeth Ginexi and Peggy Flanagan about their respective topics.

It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's program: ICE murders another person in cold blood, this time a 26-year-old father was shot in the head in Biddeford, Maine. In the wake of the murder, protestors swarm Susan Collins ' office. Collins voted to provide a additional $70B in funds to ICE earlier this year. Elizabeth Ginexi , former NIH program official for 22 years and publisher of an eponymous Substack newsletter , joins to discuss how a little-noticed OMB rule could gut NIH and community funding. Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan joins to talk about her campaign for U.S. Senate. In the Fun Half: Italian American New Yorker's feelings are hurt over getting left off an immigrant enclave map of the city. PBD tries to capitalize on this "outrage" as a way to attack Mayor Mamdani. Marco Rubio makes his case for dismantling the Internation Criminal Court. Haley Stevens backed by tens of millions of dollars releases attack ads that label Abdul El-Sayed as sexist and mislead audiences into thinking that Obama has endorsed Stevens. Meta's CTO tries to sell Meta glasses as a way to remember people's names. Clavicular is surprised by the backlash he has received…

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