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- Part 1:We talk with Chris Lehmann, DC Bureau Chief of The Nation Magazine.We discuss the military riot in Los Angeles, brought about by Trump's calling up the National Guard to provoke violent response from protestors against ICE tactics.Part 2:We talk with Steve Paikin, Canadian talk show host and commentator.We discuss the political climate in Canada, in the wake of Trump's assaults on Canadian sovereignty, and the tariff impositions. We discuss the last election in Canada, that of Carney to be Premier. WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovic
- Part 1:We talk with Ames Alexander, reported for Floodlight.We discuss the use of lighter colored roof materials as a way of cooling buildings and the areas surrounding them.Part 2:We talk with Mike Allen, Associate Professor at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter, England.We discuss his research into sea weed, and the many uses that it has in agriculture, animal husbandry, carbon sequestration, etc. WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: "Stand" Sly and the Family Stone
- Part 1:We talk with Sasha Abramsky, West Correspondent for The Nation.We discuss how Trump has escalated the response to the protests In Los Angeles.Part 2:We talk with Dr. John Nielson-Gammon, of Texas A&M University.We discuss storm and natural disaster costs. WNHN.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- This is a panel discussion.Party 1:The topics covered are:-Immigration and deportation-Dismantling the government-Gerrymandering and voter suppression-Workers' rightsPart 2:-Visitors to US-Resegregation and ethnic cleansing in the US-Use of military force in the US on US residents-The fantasies of the very rich-Expendable residents of the US-Cyber warlord Musk vs. TrumpWNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- Part 1:We talk with Derek Kelly, a recent Chief of Staff for the Texas Democratic Party, and now works for the Harris County Justice of the Peace.We discuss Texas politics. We specifically focus on the upcoming elections to the US Senate, where Cornyn is being challenged by Ken Paxton.Part 2:We talk with Bill Curry and Ryan Cooper. Bill Curry was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. Ryan Cooper is the Prospects managing editor, and author of 'How Are You Going to Pay […]
- Part 1:We talk with Laura Belin, publisher of "Bleeding Heartland", which originates in Iowa.We discuss Joni Ernst, and other Iowa Republicans. We also discuss the effects of Trump's Big Bill on health care, and rural areas of the US.Part 2:We talk with Jeremy Kohler, a reporter for ProPublica.We discuss the efforts in many states to restrict the power of direct voter participation in referenda. Elected officials want to undo what voters decide during referendum efforts.WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- Part 1:We speak with Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-Large for The American Prospect.We discuss how the Democratic Party has lost focus on working class Americans, and instead has listened to their wealthy donors. What should they do next?Part 2:We talk with Thom Walsh, Healthcare regulator in Vermont, and teaches health systems and policy at the Geisel School of Medicine and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.We discuss the proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients. What will be the effects? What cost savings will accrue, if any? WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- Part 1:We talk with Susan Milligan, a writer for the New Republic.How American families have changed. Only 18% of American families are now "traditional", in that there is a father and mother, with children. Unfortunately, policies and the society continues to treat this as if it were the only definition of families. We discuss how this should change.Part 2:We talk with Jamie Rowan, Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at Amherst.We discuss how veterans are being mistreated and disadvantaged by the Trump administration. Budget cuts are affecting many, including through the Veterans' Administration changes. Protests are being planned for […]
- This is a pane discussionSeveral topics. were discussedElon Musk “Leaving” DOGE, though with a lot of data that will be useful to him. His legacy of disease, starvation, and death through DOGE actions will follow him.We discuss the corruption of the Trump administration.The “long termist” tech oligarchs who are now running the show.The actions of ICE with respect to the treatment of those who are targeted, many legal, authorized residents, not “illegals”. The role of the Supreme Court. WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- Part 1:We talk with Harvey Kronberg, owner and publisher of the Quorum Report of Texas. We discuss Dan Patrick, who is attempting to re-criminalize the use of cannabis in opposition to the popular sentiment. In addition, we discuss the posting on the Ten Commandments in classrooms, but the refusal of passing ethics legislation for the Texan government. We also talk about the upcoming campaign for US Senate. Paxton, Cornyn are on the Republican side as candidates. On the Democratic side, there are several others: Allred, Castro, O'Roure among them. Part 2: We talk with Bill Curry and Laura Jedeed. We discuss the use of […]
- Part 1:We talk with Jacob Mchangama, wo is the founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, and a Research Professor at Vanderbilt University. We discuss the recent surveys that indicate that young Americans' support for free speech is declining. We talk about why this is happening, and how it can be reversed. Part 2:We talk with Prof. Jonathan Feingold of Boston University. This is part of the ongoing Race Class Project.
- Part 1:We talk with Anthony Pahnke, Assoc. Prof. of International Relations at SF State University, and VP of the Association of Family Farm Defenders.We discuss how farms, farmers, and food production is endangered in the US and other countries.Part 2:We talk with Denise Lynn, Prof. of History, University of Indiana in Evansville.We discuss the pro-natalism of the Trump administration. The goal is "more white babies" with mothers who stay home and out of the workforce. WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovic
- This program is a repeat of two previous programs which were aired on April 15 and April 22, 2025.The guest is Lori Wallach.We talk about tariffs. What are they? How do they work? What effect do they have on the economy of a country?WNHNGM.ORG production
- This is a panel discussion.Janice Rowen is Prof of Legal Studies at U of Mass at Amherst.Stephen Pimpare is Prof. of Public Policy at the Vermont Law and Graduate School.Lincoln Mitchell teaches Political Science and public Policy at Columbia University.Ryan Melton, a progressive who is running for state representative in Iowa.We discuss multiple issues:-The "Big Bill" being touted by Trump includes many cuts, not only the budget for SNAP. This will affect the recipients, but farmers and food processors, and grocery vendors.-There are no AI regulations in the bill.-The climate crisis is not being addressed.-The goal is to increase populace […]
- Part 1:We talk with Joe Jaworski of Texas. He is a lawyer and former mayor of Galveston.We discuss the offshore energy industry in Texas.we also talk about Medicaid in Texas.The federal government is being disabled, just as hurricane season is starting in Texas.Part 2:We talk with Robert Hockett and Bill Curry.We discuss the effects of the "BBB" which will gut Medicaid, and how this will affect many who are struggling now.We also talk about how this big bill will affect the US and world economy. WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- Part 1:We talk with Rafia Zakaria, a political philosopher and author.We discuss the denaturalization threats that have been used by the Trump Administration, and how denaturalization has been used in the past.Pare 2:We talk with John Nichols, journalist and author.We discuss Trump's attacks on popular entertainers, such as Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift.We also talk about how Democrats have been outperforming in local elections. We discuss some of the tactics used by the winner Democrats to defeat 'safe' Republicans WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- Part 1:We talk with Jeff Hauser, founder and Executive Director, Revolving Door ProjectWe talk with Jeff about the current bill regarding the use of crypto currency by the US government. Normalizing crypto currency will have many effects on the US and world economy, and will provide Trump with huge personal profits. We talk about these effects.Part 2:We talk with Seth Miller, New Hampshire State RepresentativeWe discuss with Rep. Miller his advertisements regarding Avelo Air, the air line used by ICE for transporting persons that have been taken by ICE to foreign countries. We discuss the law suit that Avelo Air […]
- Part 1:We talk with Garrett Epps, Local Affairs Editor, Washington Monthly.We discuss the recent case before the Supreme Court dealing with birthright citizenship and the rulings of lower appeals courts.Part 2:We talk with Mark Stern, Slate senior writer.We discuss the Supreme Court, and the due process issues ignored by Trump's administration.We also talk about the elimination of the filibuster currently being pushed by Republicans in the Senate. WNHNFM.ORG productionMusic: David Rovics
- This is a panel discussion.Dave Levinthal is based in Washington, D.C., Dave has led Raw Story's newsroom as editor-in-chief and served as deputy editor of Business Insider, where he oversaw the publications political investigations and enterprise journalism.Lincoln Mitchell teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University.Stephen Pimpareis Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School.Aaron Rosenthalis the research director for North Star Policy ActionThe discussion covers many topics.- Cost of living for US residents continues to rise- The age of the members of Congress is high, not representative of the population- The regulatory commissions are not working- […]
- Part 1:We talk with Anjeannette Damont, who covers government accountability issues at the local, state and federal level in the Southwest. At Pro Publica, her work has included uncovering COVID-19 testing contracts awarded to the Nevada governors friends with disastrous results, documenting how a city council empowered a wealthy developer to raze motels and displace hundreds of low-income residents, and investigating how the countrys largest house-flipping company cashed in on homeowners desperation. Prior to Pro Publica, she was a government watchdog reporter and regional investigative editor for the USA Today Network.We discuss the damage done by a We Buy Ugly […]
- Chris Lehmann|Steve Paikin[image: image.png] opening thoughts on protest and Trump part one: part one: bio: Chris Lehmann is the DC Bureau chief for *The Nation* and a contributing editor at *The Baffler.* The 4-Year Grudge Behind Trump’s Invasion of California The president’s response to the protests in Los Angeles is a naked attempt to settle a score going back to January 6, 2021 part two: Steve Paikin is a Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer. Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVOntario> (TVO), Ontario’s public broadcaster, and is anchor of TVO’s flagship current affairs program *The Agenda with Steve Paikin <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Agenda_with_Steve_Paikin>*. US Canadian relations PM Carney G7 agenda the King’s visit — Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Trump, protest,Chris Lehmann, The Nation, Jan 6, insurrection, LA protests, deportation, Home Depot, Canada, TVO, Steve Paikin, PM Carney, G7
- Floodlight’s Ames Alexander|Professor Mike Allen[image: image.png] opening thoughts: 1, Sly Stone, Funk-Rock Pioneer Who Led the Family Stone, Dies at 82 June 9 2025 His life and career were documented earlier this year by Grammy and Oscar-winning “Summer of Soul” director Questlove in “Sly Lives: aka the Burden of Black Genius,” 2, Pointing to protesters, but not ICE agents, Trump demands arrests of those in masks. Part One: Ames Alexander is an investigative reporter at Floodlight *This little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making your city hotter As cities heat up, reflective roofs could lower energy bills and help the climate. But dark roofing manufacturers are waging a quiet campaign to block new rules.* part Two:Mike AllenAssociate Professor of Single Cell Genomics, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter <theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-exeter-1190> *How seaweed is a powerful, yet surprising, climate solution * Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Sly Stone,masked ICE, masked protestors, dark roofs, white roofs, Floodlight, Reporter Ames Alexander, Texas, prisons, Mike Allen U of Exeter, seaweed, climate crisis
- Sasha Abramsky|Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon[image: image.png] opening thoughts: Musk and Trump Still Agree on One Thing-Adam Serwer <www.theatlantic.com/author/adam-serwer/> part one: Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA <www.thenation.com/article/politics/la-national-guard-ice-raids/> Federalizing the National Guard in response to ICE protests risks bloodshed—which is exactly what this administration wants. bio: Sasha Abramsky is The Nation’s Western correspondent art two: *Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk 5 <theconversation.com/storm-damage-costs-are-often-a-mystery-thats-a-problem-for-understanding-extreme-weather-risk-257105> * *bio: Texas A&M *Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon’s weather-related work involves jet streams, extreme rainfall events, and land and sea breezes. — Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Musk, Trump, Sasha Abramsky, The Nation, LA protests, National Guard, Home Depot, day workers, Texas A&M, John Nielsen Gammons, storm damage, cost
- Derek Kelly|Bill Curry|Ryan Cooper[image: image.png] opening thoughts: She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. part one:if it is Friday it must be Texas…we are joined with Derek Kelly Derek works in the office of Harris County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 2 and was recently the Chief of Staff for the Harris County Democratic Party. He has work experience as a US diplomat, a lawyer, campaign staffer, higher education administrator, and even a two week stint as an independent minor league baseball player. He has lived and worked in six different countries, including tours with the US. topics: Texas’ undocumented college students no longer qualify for in-state tuition Within hours of a federal lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting its nearly 20,000 undocumented students qualify for lower public tuition rates, the 24-year-old law was no more. Texas’ DEI ban on public schools heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for final sign-off Senate Bill 12’s supporters say DEI programs use class time and public funds to promote political agendas part two: *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets. *Ryan Cooper* is the *Prospect*’s managing editor, and author of *How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics* <read.macmillan.com/lp/how-are-you-going-to-pay-for-that/>. He was previously a national correspondent for *The Wee**k*. topics: Russia base strike a stark warning for US forces on Guam <asiatimes.com/2025/06/russia-base-strike-a-stark-warning-for-us-forces-on-guam/> Asia Times. Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb.The drone attack has wiped out 34% of Russia’s bomber fleet, causing $7B in damage to its military capability. Trump’s Beautiful Bill Will Kick 11 Million People Off Their Health Insurance It will also increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Lead to 51,000 Preventable Deaths Each YearAnnual cuts to Medicaid would average $70 billion — roughly the same amount the wealthy will save in tax cuts. Polling Conundrums: Activist Government, Sí; Democrats, No!Today on TAP: Polls show support for liberal economic policies, as well as more support for Republicans than Democrats on matters economic. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Texas, abortion, sheriff, Derek Kelly, undocumented college students, Bill Curry, Ryan Cooper, American Prospect, Ukraine, drones, US Military Budget, Big Beautiful Bill, Musk, Trump *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
- Laura Belin|Jeremy Kohler[image: image.png] opening thoughts.*Dear Hateful White Americans, (an edited version. John Pavlovitz..go to the original) Part One: Laura Belin is the publisher, editor, and primary reporter for Bleeding Heartland Let’s talk Joni Ernst and the other Iowa Republicans: Part Two: Propublica reporter Jeremy Kohler a St. Louis-based reporter covering Missouri and the Midwest. Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,John Pavlovitz,Laura Behlin, Iowa, Joni Ernst, Medicaid, Death,Jeremy Kohler, Propublica, Red State Voters, referendum, GOP legislatures
- Harold Meyerson|Thom Walsh[image: image.png] opening thoughts: a story of color or a story of risk part one: *Harold Meyerson* is editor at large of *The American Prospect*. Identity Politics That Will Actually Work part two: Thom Walsh is a healthcare regulator serving the people of Vermont. He also teaches health systems and policy at the Geisel School of Medicine and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Medicaid Work Requirements Don’t Work Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,paint, Prospect, Harold Meyerson, identity politics, democrats workers, Thom Walsh, Vermont, Medicaid work requirements
- Susan Milligan, Professor Jamie Rowen[image: image.png] opening thoughts: the climate crisis no respect for borders and Musk leaving NOT *part one: TNR Writer Susan Milligan *Lawmakers No Longer Understand the American Family The definition of the “traditional family” has broadened considerably over the past few decades. But policymakers keep trying to fit their ideas to a tradition that no longer exists part two: U Mass Professor Jamie Rowen *Veterans’ protests planned for D-Day latest in nearly 250 years of fighting for their benefits* Listen online at http:// <www.wnhnfm.org/live>wnhnfm.org/live <www.wnhnfm.org/live>. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,climate change, Canadian fires, Elon Musk, DOGE, TNR, Susan Milligan, the American Family, UMass Amherst, Professor Jamie Rowen, Veterans protest
- (no title)[image: image.png] opening thoughts: Pope Leo is holding a virtual mass on the same day as Donald Trump’s birthday parade. BRILLIANT! NUGGET: The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a Mass and a special program June 14 to celebrate the election and inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, and participants will get a video message from the native son of the Windy City. “Pope Leo XIV will greet us in Chicago and offer a special video message to the young people of the world, which will be broadcast first from our event,” the Chicago Archdiocese said on its website. WAR ON HARVARD IN A NUTSHELL! Press Sect. Leavitt: “Electricians, plumbers — we need more of those in our country, and less LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard University. And that’s what this administration’s position is.” part one: *: Texas a conversation with Harvey Kronberg publisher of the Quorum Report* Harvey Kronberg is an American journalist who owns the Quorum Report, an online publication covering Texas politics. In 2005, Texas Monthly named Kronberg as one of the 25 most powerful people in Texas politics. topics: Lt Governor Patrick and THC.. 10 Commandments in the Classroom ahhh but no ethics bill in the TX legislature the US Senate primary between Cornyn and Paxton part two: *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. *Laura Jedeed* is a freelance journalist who primarily focuses on the American conservative movement. Her bylines include The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Politico, and you can find her newsletter at BannedInYourState.com topics: deportation of a military wife Harvard push back tariffs blocked by the courts Supreme Court….should they reconsider giving Trump get out of jail card Cory Booker gets a book deal hmmmm Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Pope Leo,Harvard, plumbers, electricians, Press Sect Leavitt, Texas, Quorum Report, Harvey Kronberg, THC, Lt Gov Patrick, Paxton, Abbott, Cornyn, 10 Commandments, ethics, Texas Legislature, Bill Curry, Laura Jedeed, deportation, Australia,military spouse, Harvard, visas, Cory Booker
- Professor Jacob Mchangama|Professor Jonathan Feingold[image: image.png] opening thoughts: from a Norwegian that studied in America in the 1970s and mourn what he is seeing part one: *From defenders to skeptics: The sharp decline in young Americans’ support for free speech. * Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech. He is a research professor at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). part two: Race Class with BU Law Professor Jonathan Feingold Ep. 41 | Harvard Gets Too Much Praise & Trump Resegregates America Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Norway, free speech, Vanderbilt, Jacob Mchangama,Race Class, BU Law, Jonathan Feingold, Harvard
- Lincoln Mitchell|Stephen Pimpare|Jamie Rowan|Ryan Melton[image: image.png] *rethink the week* *talkers:* *Dr. Jamie Rowen* is a Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. *Ryan Melton* is a progressive running in Iowa’s Conservative 4th District a 3rd time. Ryan improved his performance in 33 of the district’s 36 counties and stayed steady in the other 3, without taking any corporate PAC money. He is currently a people leader at a Fortune 100 company based in Des Moines. topics: crypto dinner corruption Harvard Big Beautiful bill Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Iphones,tariffs, Trump, Harvard, Big Beautiful Bill, Crypto Dinner
- Lori Wallach|Poet Robert Arnold[image: image.png] the Memorial Day show (May26) for Memorial Day we go back into the archive and grab Lori Wallach, director of Rethink Trade the break finds a commentary by Robert Arnold On Memorial Day it begins this way: In the middle of a dust storm on the road to Nasiriyah, a convoy stalled for thirty-seven minutes. That was long enough. Sergeant Miguel Reyes had just turned twenty-two. He was the kind of soldier the old-timers said you’d follow into hell with a can of gasoline … calm under pressure, funny as hell, and good to the bone. He carried a pocket-sized copy of Leaves of Grass in his breastplate, right next to a photograph of his sister and a Saint Christopher medallion. When the IED exploded, it tore through the lead Humvee like paper. The fireball turned night into noon for one blistering second. Reyes didn’t scream. He pushed his gunner out first. Then the medic. Then he tried to climb out last He didn’t make it. His body was found slumped over the radio, hand still clutching the receiver, calling in coordinates for air support that wouldn’t come until morning. The only thing unburnt on him was that medallion … and the photograph. And that’s Memorial Day. That’s the ghost that taps us on the shoulder while we barbecue. That’s the name we say before the anthem. That’s the folded flag pressed into a mother’s chest by a boy in white gloves who is shaking so hard it looks like the flag might fall. Memorial Day is not just about flags waving in the wind or Lee Greenwood choruses at baseball stadiums. It is about silence. Deafening silence. It’s about the spaces left empty — the boots by the door that will never be laced again, the phone that will never ring, the arms that will never again wrap around a loved…. THE TRADE POLICY WE HAVE THE TRADE POLICY WE NEED Given the chaotic Trade War being driven by Trump and his tariffs we spend the hour with Lori Wallach. bio: Lori Wallach is the director of the Rethink Trade program at American Economic Liberties Project. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Memorial Day, Lori Wallach, Trade Policy, Rethink Trade, Robert Arnold, Defiance 13
- Joe Jaworski|Bill Curry|Robert Hockett[image: image.png] *opening thoughts* *Ready, Don’t Aim, Fire Fire Fire!!! by Lyn Ekedahl* They were ready when they came to power With Project Twenty-Five. They planned to take the country down, While they themselves would thrive. They’re succeeding. Now they live their dream, Doing all that they had planned. Our norms and laws were built, it seems, On many grains of sand. Their weapon? Rapid firing That keeps us all confused. They’re cutting so much wiring It’s hard to track the news. We’re losing our democracy. It’s slipping through our hands, As civic leaders bend their knees To Donald’s crass demands! Resistance is the only course! Don’t bow to autocrats! Our numbers and our shows of force Must shake the dirty rats! Bullies tend to fold like pests From push back that is strong. So let’s push back in protest…. And hope that we’re not wrong Part one: *Ready, Don’t Aim, Fire Fire Fire!!!* They were ready when they came to power With Project Twenty-Five. They planned to take the country down, While they themselves would thrive. They’re succeeding. Now they live their dream, Doing all that they had planned. Our norms and laws were built, it seems, On many grains of sand. Their weapon? Rapid firing That keeps us all confused. They’re cutting so much wiring It’s hard to track the news. We’re losing our democracy. It’s slipping through our hands, As civic leaders bend their knees To Donald’s crass demands! Resistance is the only course! Don’t bow to autocrats! Our numbers and our shows of force Must shake the dirty rats! Bullies tend to fold like pests From push back that is strong. So let’s push back in protest…. And hope that we’re not wrong Part One: our Texas segment with Attorney Joe Jaworski Joe Jaworski is a third-generation Texas trial attorney and former Mayor of Galveston, Texas. He has served as a law clerk to the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, and he has spent over 30 years in private practice as a trial attorney, mediator, and legal commentator. and can be heard on KPFT in Houston TX Tuesday mornings at 9:30am The Midterms topics: Short-Staffed After DOGE Purges, National Weather Service in Houston Braces for Hurricane SeasonThe service, which fills a critical role in the event of severe weather, is missing more than a third of its staff in the wake of Trump’s hiring freeze and Musk’s downsizing. TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICTS SLAM THE SENATE’S SCHOOL FINANCE PLAN “It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water.” This Texas bill would ban offshore wind farms in state waters from connecting to ERCOT’s grid Don’t let Congress cut funding for nursing homes. Texas seniors have nowhere else to go. How Trump’s SNAP cuts would take food off 700,000 Texans’ tables to fund tax breaks for the rich Texas Legislature moves to build Texas Life Memorial on Capitol grounds Approval of the monument comes as the lower chamber prepares to debate the “Life of the Mother Act” bill later this week. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/20/texas-life-monument-capitol/ *comments by Congressman Maxwell Frost on the passing of the Big Beautiful Bull in the House:* *Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.* part two: *Robert Hockett * is an American lawyer, law professor <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_education>, and policy advocate he teaches legal, financial and some philosophical subjects at Cornell University in New York *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House.. topics: Trump Is Slowly but Surely Killing U.S. Economy, Experts Warn Deutsche Bank analysts are ringing warning bells for the U.S. Trump ambushes South Africa president with video of attacks on white people 16 Senate Dems Join GOP to Advance Crypto Bill—A Gift to Trump’s ‘Reeking Corruption'”No Democrats should be supporting Trump’s self-enrichment,” said one grassroots progressive group. Senate confirms Charles Kushner, Jared’s dad, as France ambassador; Booker only Dem to vote yes Israeli embassy staffers were likely “targeted” by alleged shooter who yelled “free Palestine” Two Israeli embassy employees were shot dead Wednesday night outside a Jewish museum in Washington, DC Here Are the Worst Things in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill The GOP is struggling to pass a budget bill that would threaten millions of poor Americans’ livelihoods and health care—to the benefit of the wealthy. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Lyn Ekedahl, Joe Jaworski, Texas, Bill Curry, Robert Hockett, the economy, crypto, Israeli embassy employees, Big Beautiful Bill
- Rafia Zakaria|John Nichols[image: image.png] opening thoughts: the genius act..the vote 16 Senate Dems Join GOP to Advance Crypto Bill—A Gift to Trump’s ‘Reeking Corruption'”No Democrats should be supporting Trump’s self-enrichment,” said one grassroots progressive group. Part one: Rafia Zakaria is a political philosopher She served as a director of Amnesty International USA from 2009 to 2015 Is Donald Trump About to Launch a Denaturalization Purge?Mass denaturalization could be used to move the country toward the MAGA movement’s larger goal of a white Christian nationalist United States. Part two:John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for “The Nation”. Springsteen Gets America in Ways Trump Never WillAnd that reality has caused the president of the United States to lose it. Democrats Are Overperforming in 2025 Thanks to Trump and a Fresh Focus on Grassroots Organizing More than 16,000 volunteers are already in the field, creating what DNC chair Ken Martin describes as an unprecedented organizing infrastructure for a non-presidential year. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,The Genius Act, Crypto, Democrats,Rafia Zakaria, denaturalization, John Nichols, Bruce Springsteen, Grassroots Organizing, Ken Martin, The Nation dot com
- Jeff Hauser|Seth Miller[image: image.png] *opening thoughts **On Senate Floor, Warren Urges Colleagues to Vote No on the* *GENIUS Act *Warren: “It doesn’t have to be this way. A bill that meaningfully strengthens oversight of the stablecoin market is worth enacting. A bill that turbocharges the stablecoin market, while facilitating the President’s corruption and undermining national security, financial stability, and consumer protection is worse than no bill at all. Part One: *Jeff Hauser *is the founder and executive director of the Revolving Door Project. Are Some Dems About to Cave to Crypto? It Wouldn’t Be the First TimeAs the Senate considers a GOP-backed stablecoin bill, it’s a good time to look back on when the Biden administration bailed out a bunch of high-rolling, right-wing crypto crybabies. Part Two: Seth Miller has over a decade of experience covering the airline industry. Campaign Against an Airline That Flies Deportees Sets Off a Legal Fight Seth Miller, a New Hampshire lawmaker, placed billboard ads protesting Avelo Airlines’ decision to operate flights for ICE. Avelo accused him of trademark infringement. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Elizabeth Warren,the Genius Act, Jeff Hauser, crypto, New Republic, Seth Miller, Avelo Airlines, ICE, billboards
- Garrett Epps|Mark Stern[image: image.png] *opening thoughts *Poet and writer, Robert L. Arnold, from Helena, Arkansas is a child of the Mississippi River delta. Deep interest in the likes of Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson and Voltaire combined with his multifarious degrees shape Arnold’s work. no kings …The erosion of liberty is never announced with fireworks. It happens in meetings. It happens in laws nobody reads. It happens when an administration ignores the courts, and instead of answering a ruling, they smear the judge. Or impeach them. Or replace them with sycophants in robes. That, dear reader, is not democracy … it is autocracy in drag. The moment the executive branch decides the judiciary no longer matters is the moment we stop being a nation of laws and start being a nation of whims. And yet, we shrug…. part one*: **Garrett Epps *is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly. In Birthright Citizenship Case, Trump DOJ Asks Supreme Court Justices to Make Themselves Irrelevant Attempting to limit trial judges’ power to issue nationwide orders, the solicitor general argued that every crying newborn rendered stateless by MAGA executive order had better get their own lawyer. themselves-irrelevant/ <washingtonmonthly.com/2025/05/16/in-birthright-citizenship-case-trump-justice-department-asks-supreme-court-justices-to-make-themselves-irrelevant/> part two: *Mark Joseph Stern* is a Slate senior writer. Donald Trump’s Attempt to Destroy Due Process Ran Into a Wall at the Supreme Court Republicans Think They Have a Way to Blow Up the Filibuster Without Anyone Noticing Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Robert Arnold, No Kings, Garrett Epps, Washington Monthly, birthright citizenship, nationwide orders, Mark Joseph Stern, slate dot com, due process, filibuster
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- Dave Levinthal|Lincoln Mitchell|Stephen Pimpare|Aaron Rosenthal[image: image.png] *opening thoughts from the Guardian ….this is barbaric* *”A pregnant woman in Georgia <www.theguardian.com/us-news/state-of-georgia> was declared brain dead after a medical emergency and doctors have kept her on life support for three months so far to allow enough time for the baby to be born and comply with Georgia’s strict anti-abortion <www.theguardian.com/world/abortion> law, family members say. **She could be kept in that state for months more.**The case is the latest consequence of abortion bans introduced in some states since the US supreme court in 2022 overturned <www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-summary-supreme-court> national abortion rights afforded by the historic Roe v Wade ruling.”* talkers: *Dave Levinthal *is based in Washington, D.C., Dave has led Raw Story <www.rawstory.com/staff-bio-dave-levinthal/>’s newsroom as editor-in-chief and served as deputy editor of Business Insider <www.businessinsider.com/author/dave-levinthal>, where he oversaw the publication’s political investigations and enterprise journalism. *Lincoln Mitchell teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. * *Aaron Rosenthal* is the research director for North Star Policy Action *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. topics: Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration Devout Speaker Johnson and the Worship of TrumpToday on TAP: Trump’s acceptance of a really cool $400 million 747 bribe raises no ethical issues for Old-Time Religion Johnson. Map: These are the countries that allow birthright citizenship Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Georgia, brain dead, abortion, Roe v Wade, Stephen Pimpare, Aaron Rosenthal, Dave Levinthal, Lincoln Mitchell, White Afrikaners, $400 Million Jet, gift, Trump, bribe, cost of living, birthright citizenship
- Anjeanette Damoni/Bill Curry/Harold Meyerson[image: image.png] *opening thoughts* “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ― Frédéric Bastiat *Quote from Pope Leo XIV.* I like him already: ” Brothers, sisters… I speak to you, especially to those who no longer believe, no longer hope, no longer pray, because they think God has left. To those who are fed up with scandals, with misused power, with the silence of a Church that sometimes seems more like a palace than a home. I, too, was angry with God. I, too, saw good people die, children suffer, grandparents cry without medicine. And yes… there were days when I prayed and only felt an echo. But then I discovered something: God doesn’t shout. God whispers. And sometimes He whispers from the mud, from pain, from a grandmother who feeds you without having anything. I don’t come to offer you perfect faith. I come to tell you that faith is a walk with stones, puddles, and unexpected hugs. I’m not asking you to believe in everything. I’m asking you not to close the door. Give a chance to the God who waits for you without judgment. I’m just a priest who saw God in the smile of a woman who lost her son… and yet she cooked for others. That changed me. So if you’re broken, if you don’t believe, if you’re tired of the lies… come anyway. With your anger, your doubt, your dirty backpack. No one here will ask you for a VIP card. Because this Church, as long as I breathe, will be a home for the homeless, and a rest for the weary. God doesn’t need soldiers. He needs brothers. And you, yes, you… are one of them.” Robert Prevost (Leo XIV) part one: “Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas Anjeanette DamonI cover government accountability issues at the local, state and federal level in the Southwest for Propublica part two: *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets. *Harold Meyerson* is editor at large of *The American Prospect*. topics: Kamala Could Have WonShe was poised to claim the presidency, but Joe Biden and a disastrous campaign defeated her. David Hogg,a distraction or an asset HOW DO YOU SPELL CORRUPTION? C-R-Y-P-T-O FROM THE NYTimes-Enrichment By Eric Lipton Crypto $TRUMP is the family’s cryptocurrency, owned by the president and run by Donald Trump Jr. It has no inherent value beside what people will pay for it; the family describes it as a collectible — like a baseball card. But every time someone purchases a coin (currently worth about $13), the family gets a share. Recently, the president offered rewards. The top 220 buyers are invited to dinner with him next week at his Virginia golf club. The top 25 buyers also get a White House tour. The winners of the contest spent at least $174 million to buy $TRUMP coins. Through an investment firm, the United Arab Emirates put $2 billion into the Trump family’s new cryptocurrency outfit, World Liberty Financial. The company, whose leaders include Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., will make tens of millions of dollars per year from the investment. Donald Trump’s Corruption Reaches New HeightsHis “flying palace” scheme could not be more brazen. Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Defense of Trump’s Open Corruption Trump’s War on the Constitution by Bill Curry Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Frederic Bastiat, Pope Leo XIV, Texas, ProPublica, Angeanette Damoni,We Buy Ugly Houses, Ponzi scheme,Bill Curry, Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect, the democratic party, Biden, Harris,Speaker Johnson, corruption, Qatar, planes, constitution, crypto
- Laura Jedeed|Amy Littlefield[image: image.png] *opening thoughts* The Qatari royal family bankrolls Hamas. This is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, relative of the man who the US Defense Department has identified as the funder of the mastermind of the September 11 attacks and helped Khalid Sheikh Mohammed evade capture for many years. Now they just bought their way into Trump’s inner circle. This is the same regime that: • Finances Hamas • Was found guilty of bribing hundreds of European Union officials to sway policy in its favor • Financed 9/11 attacks And it’s not just Trump with his snout in the trough: • Pam Bondi – Qatar’s registered lobbyist $115,000 per month • Kash Patel – Security consulting for Qatar • Eric Trump – Building Qatari-funded golf resorts • Jared Kushner – Took \$1.5B from Qatari and Emirati funds • Lee Zeldin – His firm was paid by a Qatari-linked company • Steve Witkoff – Business ties with Qatari interests • Barry Bennett & Doug Watts – Secretly lobbied for Qatar • Joey Allaham – Arranged Qatari meetings with Trump insiders Qatar doesn’t spend billions for friendship. They don’t give ‘gifts’. They invest to control. They’ve been cited as one of the most corrupt countries on earth, specifically for bribing targets and people it deems necessary to cultivate. Terror money is still terror. No matter how big the check. part one: Laura Jedeed is a freelance journalist based in New York City whose work has appeared in places like *Politico* <www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/31/colonial-williamsburg-american-history-culture-wars-00176182> , *Rolling Stone* <www.rollingstone.com/author/laura-jedeed/>, and *The New Republic* <newrepublic.com/authors/laura-jedeed>. You can find her newsletter, BANNED IN YOUR STATE <www.bannedinyourstate.com/>, on Substack. Why Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump—a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check. part two: Amy Littlefield is *The Nation*’s abortion access correspondent and a journalist who focuses on reproductive rights, healthcare, and religion. She is the author of the forthcoming book *American Crusaders*, a history of the anti-abortion movement over the last fifty years, to be published in 2026. What Would It Mean to Defend All Abortions?Democrats love to avoid it, and Republicans love to lie about it. But later-abortion care has never been more important. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Qatar, Trump, plane, Hamas, Laura Jedeed, Pete Hegseth,Amy Littlefield, late term abortions, The Nation
- Jeet Heer|Professor Peter Rutland[image: image.png] *opening thoughts* Brilliant: @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social John Roberts should design a civics curriculum. * presidents are kings * money is speech * bribery is friendly conversation They came, they bought, they took over…the NH political landscape has been overwhelmed by uber libertarians who have taken over my home an article by Gary Rayno indepthnh First they came for the vaccine and the masks, and then they came for the Trans kids and their healthcare. Then it was public schools, libraries, the interest and dividends tax, and now zoning and land use regulations.If it resembles decency, kindness, empathy, intelligence or tradition, they have come for that too.If it clashes with their vision of a free world, it needs to be eliminated, demonized and relegated to the trash heaps they have created nearly overnight on the once pristine lands of New Hampshire.They want to tear down anything “statist” and replace it with a world without rules or regulations, or a social safety net, or a level playing field for the less fortunate or not like them. The underprivileged don’t deserve it, nor should they touch real power the Free Staters and libertarians contend as they hide behind the trappings of the State House.The Free Staters and mega libertarians have taken over the Republican Party in New Hampshire leaving little room for those who were once the party’s stalwarts.Their agenda is leaving a legislative wasteland for the vast majority of people in the state, as they seek to turn the Granite State into one big mobile home park so their cronies can find cheap housing to cram Free Staters into a two-bedroom manufactured home. Part one: Jeet Heer The Nation Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him. The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen opening thoughts: John Roberts ethics course and when a state is overtaken by uber libertarians producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude) streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon & 7pm EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH podcasts available at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 *opening thoughts* Brilliant: @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social John Roberts should design a civics curriculum. * presidents are kings * money is speech * bribery is friendly conversation They came, they bought, they took over…the NH political landscape has been overwhelmed by uber libertarians who have taken over my home First they came for the vaccine and the masks, and then they came for the Trans kids and their healthcare. Then it was public schools, libraries, the interest and dividends tax, and now zoning and land use regulations.If it resembles decency, kindness, empathy, intelligence or tradition, they have come for that too.If it clashes with their vision of a free world, it needs to be eliminated, demonized and relegated to the trash heaps they have created nearly overnight on the once pristine lands of New Hampshire.They want to tear down anything “statist” and replace it with a world without rules or regulations, or a social safety net, or a level playing field for the less fortunate or not like them. The underprivileged don’t deserve it, nor should they touch real power the Free Staters and libertarians contend as they hide behind the trappings of the State House.The Free Staters and mega libertarians have taken over the Republican Party in New Hampshire leaving little room for those who were once the party’s stalwarts.Their agenda is leaving a legislative wasteland for the vast majority of people in the state, as they seek to turn the Granite State into one big mobile home park so their cronies can find cheap housing to cram Free Staters into a two-bedroom manufactured home. It ends this way!…One of the goals of some in the Free State Project is Anarcho-capitalism, or ancap, which is a political philosophy and economic theory that would abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies, where systems of private property are enforced by private agencies. So police and fire protection should be privatized and schools as well. Is that what the vast majority of the people in New Hampshire want?I do not believe they do, but fueled by outside money, that is where this group of Free Staters and libertarians are taking us legislatively and they are moving at a rapid pace, hopefully not fast enough for Granite Staters to realize they need to stop it now! indepthnh.org/2025/05/10/distant-dome-turning-the-legislature-into-an-arm-of-the-free-state-project/ Part one: Jeet Heer The Nation Why Trump’s Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him. part two: Professor Peter Rutland Wesleyan U *I watched the Kremlin’s new Putin documentary (so you don’t have to) − here’s what it says about how the Russian leader views himself* Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, ethics, Chief Justice Roberts, Free Staters,indepthnh, Gary Rayno, The Nation, Jeet Heer, crypto corruption Trump, Professor Peter Rutland, Wesleyan U, Putin, documentary – *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
- Cameron Joseph| Bob Hennelly[image: image.png] Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Cargo ships, China, zero, Cameron Joseph, CSMonitor, failing democracies, Bob Hennelly, WBAI, Newark, Mayor, arrest, private prison, certificate of Occupancy
- (no title)[image: image.png] *opening thoughts: the new pope * www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/world/pope-leo-xiv-robert-prevost-wwk-intl-latam 1. He was the ‘least American’ of the American cardinals 2. He was well regarded by Pope Francis 3. He’s a member of the Augustinian order 4. He has strong leadership experience 5. He has a missionary focus“I still consider myself a missionary. My vocation, like that of every Christian, is to be a missionary, to proclaim the Gospel wherever one is,” Prevost said in an interview with Vatican News <www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2023-05/archbishop-prevost-the-bishop-is-a-pastor-not-a-manager.html> shortly after he moved into his leadership role in Rome.He once said in an interview his time in Peru was the life experience that shaped him the most.“He’s somebody that, even though he’s from the West, would be very attentive to the needs of a global church,” Allen said. “You’re talking about somebody who spent over half of his ecclesial career abroad as a missionary in Peru.” 6. He’s also a Peruvian citizen 7. His papal name reflects commitment to poorThe last pope to take the name Leo, Pope Leo XIII, was a pope on the side of the poor and who stood up for workers.Leo XIII, who was pope from 1878 to 1903, had a strong emphasis on workers’ rights and Catholic social doctrine – so the choice of that name for the new pontiff makes a strong statement. 8. He’s seen as a centrist unifierHe is in line with Francis on the direction of the church and on the process to foster a more inclusive global church, but he is expected to lead as his own man.Leo is expected to lean more progressive on social issues like migration and poverty but fall more in line with moderates on moral issues of Catholic doctrine.In order to a get a two-thirds majority in the College of Cardinals, he would have had to have had broad appeal, even among more moderate or conservative members. 9. He studied math at Villanova 10. He’s a fan of tennis rethink the week talkers: *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Susan Milligan* is a political writer and former White House and congressional correspondent for the Boston Globe, U.S. News and World Report, and the New York Daily News.Currently a contributing editor of TNR.com *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. *Laura Jedeed* is a freelance journalist who primarily focuses on the American conservative movement. Her bylines include The New Republic, Rolling Stone, and Politico, and you can find her newsletter at BannedInYourState.com topics: new pope Pope Leo XIV heralds a renewal of Catholic social justice <unherd.com/newsroom/pope-leo-xiv-heralds-a-renewal-of-catholic-social-justice/> Unherd The Crypto Racket Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution. prospect.org/power/2025-05-09-crypto-racket-texas-bitcoin-mining/ Trump says 10% is floor for tariffs; ‘Some will be much higher’ <www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/trump-tariffs-trade-minimum.html> CNBC The first boats carrying Chinese goods with 145% tariffs are arriving in LA. Shipments are cut in half. Expect shortages soon <edition.cnn.com/2025/05/06/business/tariffs-price-increases-shortages-ports> Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? The Justices, who have steadily eroded prohibitions on government sponsorship of religious schools, now seem ready to end them entirely. New Hampshire just became the first state to establish a crypto reserve <www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-reserve-new-hampshire-crypto-cryptocurrency-trump-btc-2025-5> Business Insider The Biggest Medicaid Cut Left for House Republicans Would Hit Red States HardestNow, Trump’s big budget bill might require particularly painful cuts in the South. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Pope Leo, crypto, corruption, tariffs, separation of church and state, Laura Jedeed, Susan Milligan, Lincoln Mitchell, Stephen Pimpare *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous *D. ARNIE ARNESEN* 15 Rumford Street Concord NH 03301 nharnie@gmail.com (C) 603-321-7654 *Host of “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen”* *Award Winning Public Affairs Show (NHAB 2018)* *airs noon to 1pm and 7pm EST M-F at 94.7FM (concord nh)* Home Station – wnhnfm.org Part of the Pacifica Network go to wnhnfm.org for streaming live Podcasts available here: www.wnhnfm.org/category/attitude-3/ *Arnie on the Air* Boston, MA-WGBH Under the Radar/Sunday Nights Keene, NH-WKBK Friday Morning with Dan Mitchell
- Attorney Joe Jaworski|Bill Curry|Professor Jamie Rowen[image: image.png] *opening thoughts:*Veterans Affairs secretary defends mass layoffs in testy exchange with Congress Doug Collins said the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs set a goal of further cutting 15% of its roughly 470,000 workforce to make the agency more efficient. www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/veterans-affairs-secretary-defends-mass-layoffs-testy-exchange-congres-rcna205178 a response from someone with expertise inside the VA Secretary Collins has gone on multiple tv outlets and podcasts and even in front of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee to talk about irrelevant and redundant positions in the VA. One in particular he always cites is that of interior design. This is not a froufrou job picking paint and throw pillows. It’s a term of art within the VA. VA interior designers are very involved in procurement of fixtures from offices to patient rooms. They consult on safety matters and accreditation requirements as dictated by the Joint Commission and other bodies. They plan space to ensure accessibility for those with disabilities. Yes, they look at aesthetics but they have to work with a lot of other offices like facilities to ensure their choices are safe and healthy and don’t endanger the vets or staff. (Example: ventilation). They’re involved in facility design for sustainability and cost management. He’s demeaning positions he doesn’t understand. part one: our Texas segment with Attorney Joe Jaworski Joe Jaworski is a third-generation Texas trial attorney and former Mayor of Galveston, Texas. He has served as a law clerk to the United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, and he has spent over 30 years in private practice as a trial attorney, mediator, and legal commentator. and can be heard on KPFT in Houston TX Tuesday mornings at 9:30am The Midterms topics: Texas Attorney General Announces Vote Fraud and ‘Harvesting’ Charges A county judge, two City Council members and a former county election administrator are among Ken Paxton’s targets as he elevates his “election integrity” accusations to criminality. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/texas-vote-fraud.html Republicans want an anti-abortion statue on display at Texas CapitolIt would be the first new statue to the Texas Capitol grounds since 2018. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/anti-abortion-statue-texas-capitol-20313737.php Donald Trump has a negative economic approval rating in Texas for the first time, poll finds www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/donald-trump-economy-approval-rating-20311330.php Ken Paxton Thinks He’s Found the Cause of Our Growing Stupidity: Fluoridated Pokémon Toothpaste. The attorney general alleges Crest and Colgate are “encourag[ing] kids to ingest fluoride toothpaste” with their marketing. It’s the latest in the Texas GOP’s war on nonexistent threats. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-vs-toothpaste/ *part two:* *Bill Curry * was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. *Dr. Rowen* is an associate professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the founding director of *UMass’ Center for Justice, Law, and Societies* <www.umass.edu/justice-law/>. Her work focuses on both domestic and international criminal law. topics: Foreigners Are Funneling Millions Into Trump’s Shady Meme Coin Trump’s crypto has become a vessel for staggering foreign corruption 764,000 lost money on Trump meme coins, while 58 profited The president is promoting the coin as a chance to dine with him and tour the White House New Hampshire just became the first state to establish a crypto reserve The first boats carrying Chinese goods with 145% tariffs are arriving in LA. Shipments are cut in half. Expect shortages soon <edition.cnn.com/2025/05/06/business/tariffs-price-increases-shortages-ports> CNN Trump Admin Plans To Shut Down the Energy Star Program <www.engadget.com/big-tech/trump-admin-announces-plans-to-shut-down-the-energy-star-program-184846271.html> Engadget Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? The Justices, who have steadily eroded prohibitions on government sponsorship of religious schools, now seem ready to end them entirely. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,VA, Secretary Doug Collins, interior designers, Texas, Joe Jaworski, AG Ken Paxton, voter integrity, election fraud, anti abortion statue, Donald Trump’s approval under water, Bill Curry, Jamie Rowen, crypto, corruption, Trump, NH, Crypto fund, separation of church and state *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
- Bob Sanders|Sam Whitehead[image: image.png] opening thoughts*: a friend, writer and professor posted this* I’m currently visiting Normandy, to honor the anti-fascist soldiers who gave their lives for America…and this is the thanks they get: An electorate that re-hires a choleric buffoon who’s dumber than a barrel of bricks. When asked yesterday how he birthed his brainstorm about reopening Alcatraz (which was shuttered 62 years ago because it was three times more expensive to operate than other federal prisons), the convicted criminal mustered this verbatim reply: “Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We’re talking—we started with the movie making and will end. I mean, it—it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. Alcatraz is, uh, I would say, the ultimate, right? Alcatraz. Sing Sing and Alcatraz. Eh, the movies. But, uh, it’s right now a museum, believe it or not, a lot of people go there. It housed the, uh, most violent criminals in the world, and nobody ever escaped. One person almost got there. But they, as you know the story, they found his clothing rather badly ripped up. And, uh, it was a lot of shark bites, lot of, a lot of problems. Nobody’s ever escaped from Alcatraz. And just represented something, uh, strong having to do with law and order. We need law and order in this country. And so we’re going to, uh, look at it. Some of the people up here are going to be working very hard on that. And, uh, we had a little conversation. I think it’s going to be very interesting. We’ll see if we can, uh, bring it back in large form, add a lot. But I think it represents something. Right now it’s, uh, a big hunk that sitting there rusting and rotting, uh, very, uh, you look at it, it’s sort of a [unintelligible]. You saw that picture that was put out. It’s sort of amazing. But it sort of represents something that’s both horrible and beautiful and strong and miserable. Weak. It’s got a lot of, it’s got a lot of qualities that are interesting. And I think they, they make a point. Okay.” BTW: * He lied. Three people did escape Alcatraz. They were never found, dead or alive, so the “shark bites” riff was bullshit, too. *opening to the first segment about GAZA* headline: Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump’s trip This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza nugget: This is the longest continuous <www.wfp.org/news/wfp-runs-out-food-stocks-gaza-border-crossings-remain-closed> total siege Gaza has endured in the war. Israel is now openly exploiting aid as a tool of war; senior Israeli officials have declared <www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250416-israel-says-no-humanitarian-aid-will-enter-gaza> what effectively is the intent to use starvation as a tactic <www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/world/europe/israel-gaza-blockade-humanitarian-crisis.html> to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages — a clear violation of international law. Many Palestinians fear it is also part of a plan to expel them from Gaza, and aid groups warn that Palestinians could end up in “de facto internment conditions <www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/03/gaza-aid-displacement-humanitarian-crisis/287526ee-27de-11f0-ae6d-e4db528eba27_story.html> .”Israel’s blockade — and the deliberate delays, denials and excessive security procedures that surround it — is not just a failure of logistics. It is an engineered system of deprivation. The short-lived cease-fire in January proved inadequate to meet humanitarian needs. Aid increased beginning on Jan. 19, but was again cut off entirely by March. The intent to use hunger as leverage is explicit, and it is unconscionable….When we talk about peace, we must ask: What kind of future are we envisioning if an entire people is left to suffer starvation? Israelis will not be safer while Gaza remains under siege. Sustainable peace is built not through domination, but through dignity, freedom, opportunity and mutual security.This is the moment of moral reckoning. Will the world be complicit in Gaza’s collapse, or part of its recovery? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/gaza-israel-aid-starvation.html Part One: Bob Sanders ride and GazaA 70-year-old Jewish former reporter turned activist is cycling across the country this summer in a 4000-mile Ride Against War on Gaza (RAW GAZA). Bob Sanders, also a founder of Not In My Name, NH – a group of Jews opposed to Israeli policy on Palestine — will fly out to San Francisco on May 28, and start cycling a few days later, almost 50 years to the day when he last embarked from the Bay area on his last transcontinental trek.RAW GAZA is backed by the national American Friends Service Committee, Peace Action and Veterans For Peace. The ride will raise awareness about Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank encouraged and paid for by the United States. It will also raise funds for humanitarian assistance and peace groups. “I feel compelled as Jew to speak out considering what the Nazi’s did to us,” Sanders said. “How can I then remain silent when a Jewish nation is systematically destroying and starving an entire population of two million people with my tax dollars? It can’t be antisemitic to protest this injustice. Never Again means never again for anyone, not just Jews.”With a sign on his back, Sanders plans to ride a gravel bike over the mountains and through the nation’s rural heartland, skirting the Great Lakes, arriving back at his home state around Labor Day. *Part two: work requirements for medicaid* Government Watchdog Expects Medicaid Work Requirement Analysis by FallWork Requirements Might Cut Medicaid Spending. But at What Cost? conversation with Sam Whitehead, correspondent, covers the South <www.kffhealthnews.org/news/author/sam-whitehead/> from his base just outside Atlanta. He previously worked as a health care reporter for public radio station WABE, where he chronicled the covid-19 pandemic as host of the award-winning podcast “Did You Wash Your Hands?” Before that, he was a general assignment reporter and fill-in radio host at Georgia Public Broadcasting. He also co-founded a long-running nightly news program on WRFI Community Radio in Ithaca, New York. He’s a graduate of Emory University. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Alcatraz, Trump, Gaza, Bob Sanders, medicaid, work requirement, KFFhealthnews *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
- (no title)[image: image.png] opening thoughts*: * *Good Morning Arnie, I didn’t know who to ask. Am I in danger of being arrested because of my Facebook posts?* Everyone is a target if they have found u thousands have already been rounded up *For posting on Facebook* they don’t need an excuse…it is the thought police but don’t lose sleep there are too many posts on Facebook and blue sky and folks at rallies that they don’t have the prison cells to hold us…intimidation and fear is their tool don’t fall for it. *I had a dream over the weekend that I was arrested for my Facebook posts. I think I need to scrub my site It is hard to hear folks glorify this man. Feel like we are in the dark ages Now I understand the fear that other countries lived in* Don’t succumb to your fear…you have millions who feel like you, they undermine us by getting folks like you to disappear, to stop showing your disgust and frustration and anger…Don’t let your nightmares dictate your life then they will have succeeded they have occupied your mind *I am just a little person that believes in the truthI told my daughter if I get arrested get the media involved. There is power in the media.* I am not much bigger than you and I believe in the truth too. part one: Pursuit of critical minerals unearths new idea: Use what’s already dug up <www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china> CynthI am not much bigger than you and I believe in the truth toopart one: Pursuit of critical minerals unearths new idea: Use what’s already dug up <www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china> www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china Stephanie Hanes is the Monitor’s environment and climate change writer. After covering justice for both The Concord Monitor and The Baltimore Sun newspapers, she began writing for the Monitor as a correspondent from southern Africa in the mid 2000s. There, she took particular interest in the many intersections of development, conflict, conservation and culture. Her environmental reporting in Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and elsewhere led to her book, “White Man’s Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden and other Myths of Conservation in Africa” (Henry Holt/Macmillan, 2017). Part two: Worker Rights Threatened at the Department of Labor Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to make federal employees miserable on the job. Their latest trick: threaten criminal penalties for exercising free speech. prospect.org/labor/2025-04-25-worker-rights-threatened-department-of-labor/ Global Working Conditions Matter for American WorkersThe Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S. prospect.org/labor/2025-03-30-global-working-conditions-matter-american-workers-su-tai-ilab/ Julie Su is a nationally recognized workers’ rights and civil rights expert who served in President Biden’s cabinet as the Acting Secretary of Labor where she successfully led efforts to build worker power and union strength, negotiate historic contracts, and expand good jobs for all. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, CSMonitor, Stephanie Hanes, critical minerals, re use, Julie Su, Department of Labor, worker’s rights, independent contractors
- Alex Sammon|Michael Tomasky[image: image.png] The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen opening thoughts: a part of a poem by Mary Oliver and the lyrics from Kindness producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude) streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon & 7pm EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH podcasts available at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 opening thoughts*:* What can I say that I have not said before? So I’ll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is the face of patience. Inside the river there is an unfinishable story and you are somewhere in it and it will never end until all ends. Take your busy heart to the art museum and the chamber of commerce but take it also to the forest. The song you heard singing in the leaf when you were a child is singing still. (from, “What Can I Say”)” ― Mary Oliver Kindness by Mark Hayes the original text of “Kindness,” written by Hayes, seeks to answer the question, “How then shall we live, especially in a world that seems so dysfunctional?” The answer: live with kindness, courage and compassion. When we are joined as one in our pursuit of these values, we can make a lasting impact. To quote Margaret Mead, “Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.” The text is intentionally not sacred, rather universal in its appeal. Imagine how the music and message of this work could join a community together in the pursuit of kindness, courage and compassion. It’s what the world needs.. now. part one: Alex Sammon Slate features writer How Mahmoud Khalil First Glimpsed His Son One heartbreaking afternoon inside an ICE facility in a remote corner of Louisiana. part two: Michael Tomasky is the editor of *The New Republic* Donald Trump’s Biggest, Dumbest Lie Is … *Really* Big and *Really* Dumb The president is peddling hot nonsense on what tariffs can do for America—and the person he’s conned the most seems to be himself. Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done. -Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/>Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Mary Oliver, What Can I Say, Kindness by Mark Hayes,Alex Sammon, Slate, Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil,prison,Michael Tomasky, The New Republic Elon Musk, DOGE, data, tariffs, Trump, income tax *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous *D. ARNIE ARNESEN* 15 Rumford Street Concord NH 03301 nharnie@gmail.com (C) 603-321-7654 *Host of “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen”* *Award Winning Public Affairs Show (NHAB 2018)* *airs noon to 1pm and 7pm EST M-F at 94.7FM (concord nh)* Home Station – wnhnfm.org Part of the Pacifica Network go to wnhnfm.org for streaming live Podcasts available here: www.wnhnfm.org/category/attitude-3/ *Arnie on the Air* Boston, MA-WGBH Under the Radar/Sunday Nights Keene, NH-WKBK Friday Morning with Dan Mitchell
- Aaron Rosenthal|Lincoln Mitchell|Stephen Pimpare|Jamie Rowen[image: image.png] opening thoughts*:* Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952 *rethink the week* *talkers:* *Jamie Rowen* is a Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. *Aaron Rosenthal* is the research director for North Star Policy Action Racial Inequality. *topics:* Taxing people’s wages is bad because it undermines liberty….it means (government) controls your life.” Really SO what does placing an unconscionable burden on property taxes ie your shelter, your home, perhaps the only significant asset you have? Wait how do you pay your property taxes? WITH YOUR INCOME Curious…. What is liberty with no place to live???? “ Almost half of layoffs this year driven by DOGE: Report \ Stephen Miller claims Americans likely ‘willing to pay more’ for US-made dolls Trump, on Tariffs, Says ‘Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30 *.* Judge rules Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations unlawfulA federal judge in Texas said Trump can’t be allowed to determine a new scope of the law while invoking it ICE raids wrong Oklahoma home, seizes life savings and leaves family ‘traumatized for life’ The state agreed earlier this year to increased cooperation with federal immigration agents Corporations Exploiting Migrant Labor Left Unscathed by Trump Crackdown <www.leefang.com/p/corporations-exploiting-migrant-labor?> The Trump Tariffs and the U.S. Labor Movement <mronline.org/2025/05/01/the-trump-tariffs-and-the-u-s-labor-movement/> MR Online RFK Jr Says Vaccine Contains ‘Aborted Fetus Debris’ <www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-robert-f-kennedy-jr-vaccine-aborted-fetus-2066618> Newsweek How Trump’s tariff chaos is bringing China’s ‘trade circle of friends’ closer <www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3308544/how-trumps-tariff-chaos-bringing-chinas-trade-circle-friends-closer> U.S. maternal deaths doubled during COVID-19 pandemic, among other findings in new study <www.brown.edu/news/2025-04-28/maternal-mortality> Brown University Canada Strong. There are 3 steps Carney must take to get a truce from Trump <www.cbc.ca/news/world/carney-trump-meeting-trade-war-lookahead-1.7523186> CBC “Bats**t crazy”: House Dems float unsuccessful amendment to bar ICE deportations of US citizens In a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee, Democrats tried to bar ICE deportations of US citizens Trump’s Recession Has Begun It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east. Republicans Opt to Make Education an Upper-Class Privilege The goal is to save money on higher-education assistance to pay for tax cuts for the rich. “A liability for your party”: Schumer confronted over flagging poll numbers The Senate minority leader has the worst approval ratings of any congressional leader Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,Stephen Pimpare, VT Law School,Lincoln Mithcell,Columbia,Aaron Rosenthal, North Star Policy Action, Jamie Rowen, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, taxes, tariffs,Labor, recession, immigration, courts, dolls, Stephen Miller, Trump, China, deportations, chaos- *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
- Philip Levine|Ben King|Gene Carroll[image: image.png] opening thoughts*:**Poet Philip Levine (1928-2015) knew intimately about the monotony, filth and physical pain of hard labor. But he also greatly admired the men and women who toiled every day in America’s factories. The son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Levine was born and raised in Detroit and began working in an auto plant when he was just 14 years old. He assumed that would be his career, as he told the NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown in 2010. <www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment-jan-june10-levine_01-12/>**“When I was a young guy working in these places and didn’t see a way out as yet — and I certainly didn’t think the way out would be poetry,” he said.But poetry did indeed become his vocation. After attending Wayne State University, he went on to do graduate work at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and Stanford University and would eventually teach writing at California State University, Fresno for more than 30 years. He wrote 20 collections of verse, won a Pulitzer Prize and served as Poet Laureate of the United States. And yet he always considered his main mission was to document and honor the lives of working-class people.“I saw that the people that I was working with…were voiceless in a way,” he told Detroit Magazine. “In terms of literature of the United States they weren’t being heard. Nobody was speaking for them. And as young people will, you know, I took this foolish vow that I would speak for them and that’s what my life would be. And sure enough I’ve gone and done it. Or I’ve tried anyway.”* What Work Is BY PHILIP LEVINE <www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/philip-levine> We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it…. *part one:employee rights a discussion of at will employees, contract employees* bio: Benjamin T. King, Esquire, is a partner in the Concord law firm of Douglas, Leonard & Garvey, P.C., concentrating in employment litigation, civil litigation, workers’ compensation, and personal injury litigation. Attorney King, who has been a New Hampshire trial lawyer since 1997, is the current President of the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association and is a Past President of the New Hampshire Association for Justice. Attorney King graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia School of Law *part two: a conversation with Labor Educator and Organizer Eugene Carroll So where is the labor movement going*….we talked about the possibility of a general strike the question: can you even imagine such a thing? and the assault on unions under Trump bio: Eugene Carroll, a longtime labor educator and organizer and a Worker Institute Fellow at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. His previous positions included executive director of New York Jobs with Justice; communications specialist for the United Mine Workers of America; national labor coordinator and organizing director for the National Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze; and organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Poet Philip Levine, What Work Is (poem), Ben King, employment law, at will employment, Gene Carroll, Labor Educator, Labor Organizer, Cornell ILR School, Trump, unions, national strike- *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous *D. ARNIE ARNESEN* 15 Rumford Street Concord NH 03301 nharnie@gmail.com (C) 603-321-7654 *Host of “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen”* *Award Winning Public Affairs Show (NHAB 2018)* *airs noon to 1pm and 7pm EST M-F at 94.7FM (concord nh)* Home Station – wnhnfm.org Part of the Pacifica Network go to wnhnfm.org for streaming live Podcasts available here: www.wnhnfm.org/category/attitude-3/ *Arnie on the Air* Boston, MA-WGBH Under the Radar/Sunday Nights Keene, NH-WKBK Friday Morning with Dan Mitchell
- Sophie Hills|John Nichols[image: image.png] opening thoughts*:**From dread to action: Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll from cuts to USAID **A researcher at Boston University is keeping tabs on deaths likely caused by dismantling U.S. foreign aid programs* www.salon.com/2025/04/26/from-dread-to-action-cuts-to-usaid-spurred-one-researcher-to-begin-tracking-the-impact/ At the outset of the United States’ freeze on billions of dollars in foreign aid, Brooke Nichols thought President Donald Trump <www.salon.com/topic/donald_trump> would never cut funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a $6.5 billion program that supplies most of the HIV treatment drugs in low-income countries across the world. PEPFAR <www.salon.com/2025/02/28/our-progress-in-ending-the-hivaids-epidemic-shows-the-importance-of-support/> saves too many lives, the global health expert recalled thinking, he couldn’t possibly touch it.But the Trump administration soon did. Dread then set in.”I immediately knew what the impact was,” Nichols, a Boston University associate professor of global health and infectious disease mathematical modeller, told Salon in a video call. “If you don’t have that funding, and it just disappears overnight, people die.”Nichols said she wracked her brain over how she could make clear to others just how devastating the cuts to U.S. foreign aid would be for the world. How could she impart how outrageous the Trump administration’s decision was — and how outraged everyone should be?Then an idea came to her during a run: create a model tracking the human impact, including the inevitable increase in HIV/AIDS infection and transmission and the subsequent rise in otherwise preventable deaths. HIV response research was one of her first professional focuses when she got her start in 2008, so the effort came naturally, the Amsterdam-based mathematical modeler said.The first version of her model, now a web dashboard focused on multiple diseases called theImpact Counter <www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=funding_status&order=asc> estimating the death tolls caused by the funding freezes, terminations and the effective elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development, would go live on Jan. 28. The hope, Nichols said, was that it would resonate with others and galvanize them to advocate for the government to change course. “I hope that people can feel the numbers because I know there’s a subset of people that understand and ‘feel’ numbers, that these are people,” she said. “To a lot of people, numbers are just numbers, and without stories around them, it’s really hard to engage with what those mean. But because I’m a numbers person, I’m speaking to the numbers people, and I hope that all the people that visit the site or engage with the work can feel the gravity of what’s happening.”On the first day of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order <www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/> establishing a 90-day, program-by-program review of foreign assistance programs to determine which would continue, bringing funding for foreign assistance to a screeching halt. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency also forced out the majority of USAID employees, reducing <www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/usaid-trump-doge-cuts.html> its staff to just 15 legally required positions and folding it into the State Department as part of the administration’s concerted effort to shrink the size of the federal government. Aid organizations dependent on U.S. funding felt the fallout immediately, including largely successful programs that contained outbreaks of Ebola and saved more than 20 million people through HIV and AIDS treatment. Musk and Trump have both characterized USAID projects as a waste of money that push a liberal agenda. As of Friday afternoon, the Impact Counter estimates that the funding discontinuation and terminations will result in 70,856 adult deaths and 147,852 child deaths at a combined rate of 103 deaths per hour. The PEPFAR-related counters, which reflect the number of adult and child deaths to date since funding disruption earlier this year, estimate nearly 40,000 additional adult HIV deaths and just over 4,000 additional infant HIV deaths. Those numbers are projected to reach nearly 159,300 and 16,954 deaths, respectively, after one year. In the face of such anticipated loss at the hands of her native government, Nichols said she’s battling a “general feeling of powerlessness” not unlike other Americans, particularly those on the left. But she said creating the Impact Counter is her way of attempting to fight back part one: Antisemitism reaches 45-year high in US. It’s ‘the canary in the coal mine.’ Sophie Hills is the Monitor’s faith and religion writer, focusing on the intersection of religion and politics, culture, and ideas. She’s based in Washington, D.C. part two: The FBI Arrests a Milwaukee Judge in “a Whole New Descent Into Government Chaos” Trump’s escalation in the struggle between the courts and his administration sent shock waves through Milwaukee and beyond. John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for *The Nation*. He has written, cowritten, or edited over a dozen books on topics ranging from histories of American socialism and the Democratic Party to analyses of US and global media systems. His latest, cowritten with Senator Bernie Sanders, is the *New York Times* bestseller *It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism* <www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667864/its-ok-to-be-angry-about-capitalism-by-bernie-sanders-with-john-nichols/> . Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Trump-Musk, the Impact Counter, USAID, AIDS, Brooke Nichols, death, Sophie Hills, CSMonitor, Antisemitism, John Nichols, The Nation, Milwaukee Judge, arrested ICE, FBI
- (no title)[image: image.png] opening thoughts: from immigration lawyer Hassan Ahmad immigration lawyer No, the immigration law business isn’t good. I would hope oncologists don’t get excited when the cancer rate spikes. I’m asked often how’s business. I usually say I’m busy and not in a good way. It’s exhausting. I can’t turn my mind off because there’s always a fire to put out or prevent. Everyone’s worried about traveling. Vacations are getting canceled. Trips to see family, too. There’s a chill over political speech – I have clients who have deleted their entire social media profiles. Others who opt for virtual meetings because it’s safer. Others who simply don’t leave their homes. The psy op of being sent to Bukele’s House of Horrors in El Salvador is imprinted in the collective psyche of the aspiring American community. I’d be lying if I said it hadn’t crossed my mind as a native citizen. Another question I’m asked is how 2.0 differs from 1.0. A lot of it is the same: the exhaustion certainly is. But it does feel different. I think the damage being done to our institutions – and our democracy – is far more pervasive this time. Last time this administration took to democracy with a sledgehammer. This time, they’ve added a scalpel. I carry the weight of being targeted or disappeared or worse. … This administration knew where to surgically strike and knew what to do to abuse our law to create American political prisoners like Dr. Suri. It fills me with dread that I could easily piece together a slam-dunk asylum case for him if he were to go to a third country. I’ve often thought that the real measure of a country’s greatness is inversely proportional to the number of refugees it creates. Now another metric is emerging: the adoption of ideology that literally creates cruelty. Whatever we naively believed in as the good, the promise of America – it’s being incinerated. The evil of white supremacy continues to rear its ugly head, making all of what has been accomplished feel so empty. I find myself asking did it really matter? Emanicipation, suffrage, integration? When the white supremacists felt threatened they turned it all off, seemingly with no more difficulty than flipping a switch. I remember that feeling the night of the Muslim Ban at Dulles Airport in 2017. What good are laws that can just be turned off at will? But I’ll be damned if I sit on my ass waiting for the dominoes to fall. They want us running scared. They control the action, for sure. We control the reaction. Go down swinging. rethink the week *Stephen Pimpare *is Professor of Public Policy at Vermont Law and Graduate School. *Bob Hennelly ** Hosts What’s Going On!*He’s an award winning print and broadcast journalist and staff reporter *Lincoln Mitchell* teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. topics: Dartmouth was the only Ivy League that did not sign the letter standing up to Trump…read this and you will understand why: At Last, College Presidents Are Standing Up to Trump A letter signed by more than 400 university heads offers a sharp rebuke to the bully-in-chief. -When the government asks if you’re Jewish Campus communities rally around international students threatened by ICE Largest federal employee union, a leading Trump opponent, to lay off more than half of staff. The Teamsters Make Some Moves on Amazon Today on TAP: They’re compelling the company to bargain with their warehouse workers and delivery drivers. The Permanent Tariff Damage Trump tries to walk back his tariffs after supply chain collapse and threats of empty store shelves. But reversing course entirely may not be possible. China cancels 12,000 metric tons of US pork shipments Trump administration looking at $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more childrenThe “baby bonus” is one of a number of proposals being considered. -Listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live. Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, immigration, Hassan Ahmad,Robert Hennelly, Lincoln Mitchell, Stephen Pimpare,Jewish, Trump, student visas, deportation, higher education, federal employee union, Teamsters, tariffs, baby bonus, fertilizaion *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous *D. ARNIE ARNESEN* 15 Rumford Street Concord NH 03301 nharnie@gmail.com (C) 603-321-7654 *Host of “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen”* *Award Winning Public Affairs Show (NHAB 2018)* *airs noon to 1pm and 7pm EST M-F at 94.7FM (concord nh)* Home Station – wnhnfm.org Part of the Pacifica Network go to wnhnfm.org for streaming live Podcasts available here: www.wnhnfm.org/category/attitude-3/ *Arnie on the Air* Boston, MA-WGBH Under the Radar/Sunday Nights Keene, NH-WKBK Friday Morning with Dan Mitchell
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