Best Adam Sommer Podcasts (2025)

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3582 - MAGA's Free Speech Split?; Trump Goads Venezuela w/ Will Sommer & Jose Luis Granados Ceja 1:20:53

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FBI director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing and fails miserably to answer questions. On Fox & Friends Kash Patel fumbles his way through explaining an alleged note left by Tyler Robinson that is now "destroyed". Senior reporter at The Bulwark, Will Sommer joins the show to discuss the right-wing media response to…

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3581 - False Kirk Killer Narratives; Private Equity Killing the American Dream w/ Megan Greenwell 1:15:57

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In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination Ben Shapiro hurls baseless accusations about the murderer's ideology and identity on Real Time with Bill Maher. Utah GOP Governor Spencer Cox continues to pin the shooting on the left without providing any evidence to support his claims. Journalist and author, Megan Greenwell joins the show to discuss her…

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3580 - Trump's Reichstag Aspirations & World's 2nd Oldest Profession w/ Adam Friedland 2:29:33

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The governor of Utah irresponsibly releases partial information about the Charlie Kirk shooter, even encouraging people to interpret it themselves. He then admits to praying that the shooter would be from another country or not one of "us". Donald Trump goes on Fox & Friends and proclaims, "he doesn't care about radicals on the right". Donald Trump…

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3579 - The New Economic Nationalism; AI Bubble Already Bursting? w/ Jostein Hauge, Ed Zitron 1:26:29

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It is an Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report. On today's show: Right Wing broadcaster Charlie Kirk is shot and killed on a university campus in Utah. Simultaneously three teenagers were wounded in a shooting in a high school in Colorado. As of writing this the Kirk shooter is still at large and unknown but that has not stopped right-w…

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3578 - ICE Raid Falls Flat; Big Union Victory in CA; Israel's West Bank Annex w/ Simeon Benit, Leila Espinosa & Jasper Nathaniel 1:45:47

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It's Hump Day on the Majority Report On today's show: Trump teases another National Guard Deployment to an American city, promises to make announcement tomorrow. In Rochester, New York, ICE Agents swarm two roofers working at a private residence and within minutes 200 protestors assemble and successfully deflect the Feds. Unrelated, one of the ICE …

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3577 - Epstein's Birthday Card; Schumer & Jeffries Cave Plans w/ David Dayen 1:29:06

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It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report On today's show: The Jeffrey Epstein estate has released the infamous 50th birthday book, which led Trump to sue the Wall Street Journal after it reported on it, claiming the coverage was false. Rep Dave Min (D-CA) pushes back on CNN's John Berman claiming there are no reasons to believe that Donald Trum…

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3576 - McTrump Slump; The Immigrant Rebuild of NOLA w/ Sarah Fouts 1:12:21

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It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report On Today's Show: The Trump slump is really starting to punish Americans as farmers panic and stagflation builds McDonald's CEO breaks down the dual realities of the American economy. People making over 100k are living in a strong, healthy economy while lower income people are skipping breakfast to save mon…

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3575 - Trump Slump Hits Jobs; Epstein Files Loom; Trump as Murderer-In-Chief w/ Heather 'Digby' Parton 1:44:18

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It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report On today's show: Revisions to the June and July job numbers show they were actually 21,000 less jobs added than initially reported. However, the ever optimist Howard Lutnick tells us to wait until a year from now when the job numbers will be amazing. Contributing writer to salon.com and proprietor of the Hu…

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3574 - Trump Family’s Crypto Cash-In; Israel Threatens Aid Flotilla w/ Molly White, Greg Stoker 1:25:09

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It's Emmajority Report Thursday on Majority Report On today's show: RFK, Jr is grilled at a Senate Finance Committee hearing over the chaos he has created at the CDC. Crypto and Tech Industry researcher and publisher of the Citation Needed newsletter, Molly White joins the show to talk the Trump family crypto cash in. Host of the Colonial Outcasts …

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3573 - Epstein Survivors vs White House; RFK, Jr vs Public Health w/ Jonathan Cohn 1:26:07

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It's a solo Sam Hump Day on the Majority Report On today's show: Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA) host a press conference at Capitol Hill with several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sex traffic ring. Speaker Mike Johnson throws his own simultaneous press conference in a sad attempt to distract people from the Epstein survivors. JB …

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3572 - Progressive Packs Maine Arena; Tariffs Take Toll 1:20:14

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Sam has returned from vacation for a classic News Day Tuesday On today's show: Graham Platner and Bernie Sanders held a rally in a sold-out arena in Portland, Maine. In his speech, Platner says we should be spending our tax money to build schools and hospitals in American rather than destroying them in Gaza. Here's a link to donate to Graham Platne…

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Labor Day Show 2025 45:28

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Happy Labor Day! The MR Crew is off today but in the meantime please enjoy our annual audio compilation of labor-themed excerpts from luminaries such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mario Savio, John L. Lewis, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders reading the words of Eugene Debs.

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3571 - GOP Braces For A Big Beautiful Backlash; Trump’s CDC Purge w/ Brendan James, Amanda Seales 1:33:47

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It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report On the show today: In response to terrible polling and rising anger, Donald Trump sends JD Vance around to sell the rebranding from Big Beautiful Bill to a tax cut for the middle class. In response to another unpopular policy Trump sends Speaker Mike Johnson to try and sell his national guard deployment int…

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3570 - Nationalize the Defense Industry; GOP's War on Voting Rights w/ Julia Gledhill & Ari Berman 1:35:23

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It's an Emmajority Thursday on the Majority Report. On today's Show: After another school shooting the right-wing media plays defense for the gun lobby. Kristi Noem wants us to know that the shooter was a transgender woma Co-Host of the Un-Diplomatic Podcast, Julia Gledhill joins us to make the case for nationalizing the defense industry. Voting ri…

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3569 - America Tips Into Fascism; Canada's Largest Union Flexes w/ Garrett Graff & Mark Hancock 1:12:03

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It's hump day on the Majority Report On today's show: Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif posts on his social media a plea for Israelis to use every democratic avenue to end this holocaust of Palestinians. The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner interviews the former ambassador to Israel under the Biden administration about their policy in Gaza. Palestinian…

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3568 - Trump’s Fresh Assault On The Fed; Pritzker Resists Fascist Chicago Takeover 1:11:47

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It's a classic News Day Tuesday on Majority Report On Today's show: Trump is attempting to fire Federal Reserve Govenor Lisa Cook via tweet, accusing her of mortgage fraud yet no charges have been filed. This is just the continuation of his crusade to influence interest rate cuts. As the Pentagon reports that preparation for a National Guard invasi…

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Why Astrology with Mark Jones 1:08:47

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Each year, I try to make my way up to Wales to spend some quality time with Mark. We also try to record a sliver of our endless conversations. This year, we stumbled into the existential questions around astrology: Why did we get involved? Why are we still involved? And really, what is valuable about it…? Some of these ideas, along with many others…

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3567 - Trump Targets Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Indigenous Identity in America w/ Joseph Lee 1:06:49

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It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report: On today's show: After 160 days in detention, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was briefly released and reunited with his family only to be detained again on Monday. Despite no due process and lack of evidence, boarder czar Tom Homan declares on Fox News that Kilmar will "absolutely be deported". Author, Joseph Lee j…

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3566 - Bolton Raided & Trump’s Christo-Fascist Crusade w/ Eleanor Janega & Derek Davison 1:13:08

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It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report On today's show: John Bolton's home and office have been raided at the behest of Pam Bondi but Trump "knows nothing about it". despite a five-year history of threatening Bolton with much worse than a raid. Publisher of the Foreign Exchange Newsletter and host of the American Prestige, Derek Davison and Medi…

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3565 - Trumpflation Squeezes Parents; Populist Dem Runs in Maine w/ Elizabeth Pancotti & Graham Platner 1:19:50

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It's Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report On today's show: In an interview with Laura Ingraham, JD Vance spews great replacement theory racism as he threatens to withhold federal funding for states that refuse to comply with the administration's Immigration Policy. Former economic advisor to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Pancotti joins us …

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3564 - Texas Democrats Put Up A Fight; Trump Laps Reagan's Anti-Union Extremism w/ Julie Su 57:28

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It's Hump Day on the Majority Report On today's show: The Texas State Representative Democrats continue their fight against gerrymandering. Former Acting Labor Secretary under the Biden Administration, Julie Su joins the show to discuss Trump's war on workers and unions. Check out her piece in The American Prospect In the Fun Half: Wesley Bell gets…

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3563 - Canadian Labor Victory; Resisting Trump's Invasion of DC w/ Lisa Gilbert 54:51

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It's Newsday Tuesday on the Majority Report On today's show: Canadian Union of Public Employees President Mark Hancock tears up a government order demanding Air Canada workers end their strike and return to work. Two days later a tentative collective agreement is struck. Co-President of Public Citizen, Lisa Gilbert joins the show to discuss Donald …

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3562 - What is Ukraine Fighting For; Trump's Assault on Puerto Rico w/ Denys Pilash & Alberto Medina 1:23:35

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It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report On today's show: As Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces the suspension of visas for Palestinian children receiving medical care at the behest of Laura Loomer, we take a brief look at an excerpt from Ken Burns' documentary "The Holocaust and the US" to remind that Congress did this same thing to Jewish…

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3561 - Trump's DC Occupation; Democrats Recalibrate Partisan Politics w/ David Weigel 1:37:15

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It's Casual Friday on the Majority Report: On today's show: DC residents are fed up with the federal occupation and the resistance in the streets is growing nightly. David Weigel from Semafor joins us to discuss the last week's the DC occupation, Netroots conference, right wing media, and the failures of the Democratic party. In the Fun Half: The w…

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3560 - Zohran’s Food Desert Solution; Private Prison Profits Soar w/ Omar Ocampo, Whitney Wimbish 1:10:31

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It's Emmajority Report Thursday On today's show: Israel's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference in the occupied West Bank to announce their E1 settlement project that in his own words will bury the idea of a Palestinian state. After receiving obvious backlash for his comments on Gaza, Pete Buttigieg puts minimal effort into wa…

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3559 - Celebrating Michael Brooks on His Birthday w/ Milton Allimadi, Harvey J Kaye, Lisha Brooks & David Griscom 1:18:41

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It's Hump Day on the Majority Report Today is Michael Brooks birthday and we are celebrating him by bringing on two of his favorite guests. But first the Trump administration is nominating EJ Antoni for the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics despite a deluge of conservative economists labeling him incompetent. Not to mention that he has…

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Constellating Cosmos with Dan Waites 1:14:25

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In this show, Dan returns—this time solo without SJ—to discuss the state of the world and some attractive underground theories. I always learn from Dan. He’s quite the investigator. With mundane astrology on his side, there is a cornucopia of ideas to explore that give that extra layer—or context—to everything that is happening. I loved this conver…

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On Venus Cycles 38:00

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In this little solo pod, I reflect on 16 years (2 Venus cycles) of podcasting and doing astrology. It’s been a journey. The show is part educational and a moment to check in with you all. A lot has changed in the 16 years of doing these, and I do feel there will be another 8, yet for now, I’m still pupating…. enjoy, adam to learn Astrology: ....to …

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Ep. 11: Trade Chaos, Voter Suppression SAVE Act, MO Voters Ignored Again 24:03

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Sources used https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/ The SAVE act The Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22 USA Today summary piece: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/11/what-is-save-act-2025/83042307007/ https://newrepublic.com/post/193868/democrats-save-act-bill-harder-married-women-vote htt…

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Ep. 10: March Against Oligarchy 20:12

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Dan Brigman Substack Host: Adam Sommer Find Adam on tik-tok (maybe) and bluesky as "midmapdadenergy" - follow The Process on instagram. JOIN PATREON FOR MORE “Change The Conversation” Outro Song: “The World Is On Fire” by American Aquarium http://www.americanaquarium.com/ Nothing on this channel is to be taken as legal advice for any jurisdiction. …

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Lunar Standstills with Gemini Brett pt. 2 1:19:06

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In this episode, Gemini Brett returns for the 2nd part of our little astronomy discussions. It's an essential lesson around the lunar standstill. Something clicked for me in this conversation. I hope it does for you as well. enjoy, adam his site: https://geminibrett.com to learn Astrology: ....to support my work and learn astrology all at the same …

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Ep. 9 "Women's Work" 29:05

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Story Links https://missouriindependent.com/2025/03/13/repub/judge-orders-rehiring-of-thousands-of-fired-probationary-federal-employees/ https://missouriindependent.com/2025/03/13/repub/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-trump-over-u-s-education-department-layoffs/ https://www.missourinet.com/2025/03/14/bid-to-scrap-missouris-minimum-wage-paid-sick-l…

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Ep. 8 Alford The Cowardly? 19:53

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Adam dives into the 4th Congressional District in Missouri and the ongoing attacks on the first amendment under the new administration and how folks can respond. (NOTE: Some small audio technical difficulties early in the episode that pan out). Host: Adam Sommer Find Adam on tik-tok (maybe) and bluesky as "midmapdadenergy" - followThe Process on in…

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Ep. 7: Loud Mouth Bullies, Missouri Wins, Separation of Powers 25:43

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Democracy Docket Link Host: Adam Sommer Find Adam on tik-tok (maybe) and bluesky as "midmapdadenergy" - follow The Process on instagram. JOIN PATREON FOR MORE “Change The Conversation” Outro Song: “The World Is On Fire” by American Aquarium http://www.americanaquarium.com/ Nothing on this channel is to be taken as legal advice for any jurisdiction.…

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Ep. 6 : Unitary Executive Theory 39:32

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Additional Reading Basics: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unitary_executive_theory_%28uet%29 US Constitution Art. 2 The Virginia Plan Context NY Times Article on Vance comments Guardian article on Courts Host: Adam Sommer Find Adam on tik-tok (maybe) and bluesky as "midmapdadenergy" - follow The Process on instagram. JOIN PATREON FOR MORE “Change …

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Ep. 5: Trade Wars, Missouri Abortion Updates, & Freedom 33:53

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Horrific plane/helicopter crash Trumps disgusting claims of DEI as a CAUSE drew broad reaction, because it’s just demonstrably false but it’s a disgusting devaluing of the lives lost https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/trump-plane-crash-dei-press-conference-biden-faa-washington-dc-rcna190020 Trumps Trade War - Buckle Up Good time to fill a freezer,…

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Ep. 4 What Gender Is Wal-Mart? 30:43

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ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL READING Missouri - attack in home https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/missouri-man-immigration-officer-kidnapped-woman-demanded-citizenship-documents-trump/63-6187037a-2cdb-4cad-b11d-5cc5deabb156 Colorado - assailant shouting trumps America against an american citizen… https://www.yahoo.com/news/pacific-islander-journalist-c…

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Ep. 3 Fact Check Frenzy 23:44

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Adam dives into the topic of facebook fact checking, and the major reactionHost: Adam Sommer Find Adam on tik-tok (maybe) and bluesky as "midmapdadenergy" - followThe Process on instagram. JOIN PATREON FOR MORE “Change The Conversation”Outro Song: “The World Is On Fire” by American Aquarium http://www.americanaquarium.com/ Nothing on this channel i…