Oshtemo and Michigan Dept of Ed Call BS on Trump's DEI Lies, and More

We start with some updates about the WMU chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. We then look at a positive story about how Oshtemo Township and the Michigan Department of Education are calling out the BS on the Trump administration's lies about DEI programs.

 

Lawrence joins us to talk about how some big figures in liberal politics are capitulating and "building bridges" with an overtly fascist regime, then talk about how that regime is interfacing with El Salvador- slandering a Maryland resident on national television to justify disappearing U.S. residents into a concentration camp.

 

On this show the news came to us- students and faculty demonstrated outside the student center to support international students and demand protections from the administration as Trump's "visa purge" has hit home here at WMU- we talk with one of the demonstrators.

 

We close with a story of how a Dearborn attorney was stopped at the US border for representing anti-genocide protestors.

 

01:30- 11:45 WMU SJP Updates

 

13:20- 26:30 Oshtemo and MI Dept of Education Speak Truth to Power on DEI

 

28:00- 39:50  Big Gretch and Liberal Capitulation to the Trump Regime

 

39:50- 54:40 El Salvador's Concentration Camp and the End of Habeas Corpus

 

57:30- 1:02:10 WMU Students, Faculty Rally at Student Center to Protect International Students

 

1:03:30- 1:08:05 Dearborn Attorney Targeted at Border for Representing Anti-Genocide Protestors

 

SOURCES/ FURTHER READING

 

Township promotes DEI in rebuke to Trump administration https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2025/04/township-promotes-dei-in-rebuke-to-trump-administration.html

 

Michigan state superintendent signals he won’t sign Trump’s anti-DEI certification https://www.chalkbeat.org/detroit/2025/04/10/michigan-responds-to-trump-anti-dei-demand/

 

Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/11/lawyer_detained_border

 

How Americans view Israel and the Israel-Hamas war at the start of Trump’s second term https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/04/08/how-americans-view-israel-and-the-israel-hamas-war-at-the-start-of-trumps-second-term/

 

Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens as Salvadoran Pres. Says He Won’t Return Wrongfully Removed Man https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/nayna_gupta_jose_olivares