It's Casual Friday! Emma speaks with Ben Dixon, host of the Benjamin Dixon Show, to discuss the week in news. First, Emma runs through updates on the confirmation of Project 2025 leader Russ Vought to the OMB, Trump’s official destruction of USAID and the devastating impact it could have on US Agriculture, Trump’s targeting of HHS, Pam Bondi’s repeal of anti-foreign influence efforts, birthright citizenship, ICE’s detainment of a DACA middle school teacher, the NCAA’s transphobic policy, Mike Johnson’s tax cuts for the rich, and Trump’s ICC sanctions, before diving a little deeper into the Trump/Musk Administration’s attempts to obscure the insane levels of their executive overreach. Ben Dixon then joins, jumping right into the need for the US public to rally behind their federal workers in the face of genuine intimidation and threats from the Trump/Musk Administration, exploring the obvious and extensive danger posed by allowing more space for Trump loyalists and obstructionists in the government alongside the necessary role they play in bolstering genuine attempts to resist this regime. After expanding on the major solidarity being shown between federal workers at this moment – including relevant unions – Dixon and Emma parse through Trump’s declaration of a US-backed plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and Democrats’ ongoing inability (or genuine lack of desire) to stand up for marginalized communities at home or abroad, wrapping up the show by reiterating his call to rally behind our federal workers. And in the Fun Half: Emma touches on the struggle from Democratic leadership and media actually to address the ongoing administrative coup, before looking to some exceptions to that trend, including Kyle Clark’s coverage of recent blunders in Colorado and Texas Rep. James Talarico’s tirade against the lies of “school choice.” The MR Team also watches Ben Shapiro’s gleeful defence of Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza, and gets an update from the Crowder & Co. deposition, before diving deep into the long history of fascist regimes relying on rhetorics of efficiency and bureaucratic cutbacks to obscure their destruction of public welfare, plus, your IMs!

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