Episode

5/7 Trump Builds Deportation Army; HHS Pushes Trans Conversion w/ Austin Kocher, Kellan Baker

May 7, 2025

It’s an Emma-jority Wednesday and we’ve got 2 great guests for you. First though, Emma and Matt soak in some of the horrifying news coming out of Israel’s siege on Gaza, where children are starving. The Trump administration has compounded the problem by continuing to support the Israeli military onslaught as they plan to intensify operations there.

After that, Syracuse University professor Austin Kocher joins Emma to discuss the Trump administration’s efforts to conscript local law enforcement to crack down on immigrant communities, as well as other extreme and unconstitutional tactics being taken by federal immigration enforcement agencies. Check out Austin’s writing and research on his Substack: https://austinkocher.substack.com/

Then Dr. Kellan Baker, Executive Director of the Institute for Health Research and Policy at Whitman-Walker, gives his reaction to a new Trump administration report that endorses the widely discredited idea of so-called conversion therapy. He also talks about the barriers the Trump administration is fortifying to prevent trans people from getting the health care they need.

In the Fun Half, Emma and Matt check in on the PBD podcast’s reaction to the genius Trump idea of reopening Alcatraz as a prison. Their reviews are mixed folks! Meanwhile, Ben Shapiro is calling for the Trump administration to fire Peter Navarro and elevate Scott Bessent. All that and more on today’s Emmajority Report!

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