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opening thoughts: a poem by Angela Jackson
producers: Dave Scott and Stephanie Collins
Chloé LaCasse (the best of the attitude)
streaming live at wnhnfm.org noon EST on the dial-94.7FM Concord NH
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opening thoughts:
who is Angela Angela Jackson (1951–present) is a poet, playwright, and novelist who has earned many honors for fiction and poetry, including a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Award. Her debut novel, Where I Must Go (Triquarterly, 2009), won the American Book Award. Jackson's work speaks to traditions and myths of the African diaspora as well as her own and collective histories of her native Chicago, particularly in her collection More Than Meat and Raiment (Triquarterly, 2022). Angela Jackson’s imaginative writing elaborates on Chicago’s powerful mix of aspiration and desperation, especially on the part of Black Americans—those who made their way to the city during the Great Migration and those living in the legacy of that journey.
Miz Rosa Rides the Bus
By Angela Jackson
That day in December I sat down
by Miss Muffet of Montgomery.
I was myriad-weary. Feets swole
from sewing seams on a filthy fabric;
tired-sore a pedalin’ the rusty Singer;

dingy cotton thread jammed in the eye.
All lifelong I’d slide through century-reams
loathsome with tears. Dreaming my own
silk-self.

It was not like they all say. Miss Liberty Muffet
she didn’t
jump at the sight of me.
Not exactly.
They hauled me
away—a thousand kicking legs pinned down.

The rest of me I tell you—a cloud.
Beautiful trouble on the dead December
horizon. Come to sit in judgment.

How many miles as the Jim Crow flies?
Over oceans and some. I rumbled.
They couldn’t hold me down. Long.
No.

My feets were tired. My eyes were
sore. My heart was raw from hemming
dirty edges of Miss L. Muffet’s garment.
I rode again.

A thousand bloody miles after the Crow flies
that day in December long remembered when I sat down
beside Miss Muffet of Montgomery.
I said—like the joke say—What’s in the bowl, Thief?
I said—That’s your curse.
I said—This my way.
She slipped her frock, disembarked,
settled in the suburbs, deaf, mute, lewd, and blind.
The bowl she left behind. The empty bowl mine.
The spoiled dress.

Jim Crow dies and ravens come with crumbs.
They say—Eat and be satisfied.
I fast and pray and ride.

Can we talk about the human warehouse/detention center/ concentration camp being planned for Merrimack?

These facilities are being placed across the US including NH to achieve the administration’s goals of deporting immigrants more efficiently and at greater scale. It has been describe by Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, as “Prime, but with human beings.”

on Epstein and the men implicated:
The movie Crash sorta reminds me of the story of Dean Kamen. We are complex creatures, not all good and not all bad but given the lies offered up by Dean about his relationship with Epstein and the level of toxicity and child abuse oozing from the Epstein files it is difficult to remember or even value the public facing man who transformed Manchester NH, created FIRST Robotics (an organization intended to build students' interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) invented the Segway was a successful inventor of the first drug infusion pump holds patents for portable dialysis machines, an insulin pump, an all-terrain electric wheelchair,"Luke", a prosthetic arm replacement...
Kamen has even worked extensively on a project to create two machines: one that would generate power, and the Slingshot that would serve as a water purification system that he hoped would help to improve living standards in developing countries facing a water crisis.
And now, now we are learning about the personal Dean who on January 31, 2026, Kamen was put on a leave of absence from a number of organizations he is associated with due to his ties with Jeffrey Epstein...ties he originally lied about.
Does that not mean that the man I just described did not do remarkable incredibly valuable things? NO But the evil genius of Epstein is that he understood the headset of rich and powerful people (make that men) ...he seduced them with their sexual proclivities and manipulated their sense of superiority knowing that they saw themselves as different or better. We have a child abuse problem, we have a two tiered justice system as AG Bondi showed us the other day at her Congressional hearing and we clearly have an uber rich, billionaire problem...and the inventor Dean is yet another public face of the hundreds of well connected, wealthy, disgraced men.
rethink the week
talkers:
Stephen Pimpare is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Master in Public Policy program at Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is the author of four books, numerous articles, and the Host of the New Books Network's public policy channel.
Lincoln Mitchell teaches political science and public policy at Columbia University. He is the author of nine books and his writings have appeared at CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, NBC, the San Francisco Examiner and numerous other media platforms. For more of Lincoln’s work you can subscribe to his Substack “Kibitzing with Lincoln” at /lincolnmitchell.substack.com/.”
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 Firewalled media.com

topics:

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/politics/gallup-poll-presidential-approval-ratings-trump.html

Pam Bondi Is Not Practicing Law The attorney general’s testimony before Congress revealed what a farce this is. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/pam-bondi-epstein-files-testimony-reveal.html

Republicans Are Objecting to ICE’s Human Warehouses—but Not on Behalf of Immigrants The real victims, it turns out, are the people outside the detention centers’ gates. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/ice-deportation-stephen-miller-donald-trump.html

ICE Director: DHS Has Worked with Governor on Merrimack Facility. Ayotte: That’s Not True https://indepthnh.org/2026/02/12/ice-director-dhs-has-worked-with-governor-on-merrimack-facility-ayotte-says-thats-not-true/

Ayotte denies ICE director’s claim federal officials talked to her about Merrimack facility https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-02-12/ayotte-ice-merrimack-detention-facility-immigration-dhs

Why Minnesotans Still Haven’t Backed Down From Fighting ICE It’s freezing. It’s terrifying. And it’s potential deadly. But anti-ICE activists are not giving up. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/minneapolis-ice-activists-immigration-trump.html

Trump’s Plan for an American Gulag Just Got a Major Boost in Court https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/trump-plan-texas-gulag-supreme-court-analysis.html

The Epstein Files and the Hidden World of an Unaccountable Elite The search continues in the documents for ironclad criminal conduct, but the story of a sexual predator given a free ride by the ruling class has already emerged. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/epstein-files.html

Kamen takes leave from board of Vermont-based tech firm amid Epstein fallout https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-02-12/beta-board-member-kamen-engulfed-in-epstein-scandal-has-deep-ties-to-company

Why the Tulsi Gabbard Election Raid Is Scarier Than Initially Thought https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/tulsi-gabbard-election-raid-georgia-2026-scary.html

Goldman’s Top Lawyer Departs Amid Revelations About Her Ties to Epstein Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed a friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spanning many years. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/business/goldman-lawyer-kathryn-ruemmler-resigns.html

ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent

The company’s year-end earnings call came just days after a lawsuit alleges guards in the company’s Washington state immigrant prison routinely sexually assaulted immigrants. https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/

'Worse Than the Pandemic’: Restaurants Say ICE Presence Imperils Business In several cities where immigrants are being detained, owners say they’re struggling to stay open as fear keeps customers and workers from leaving home. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/dining/restaurants-food-delivery-immigrants-ice.html

ICE Is Strangling the Minneapolis Economy Trump’s masked kidnappers are recreating the effects of the COVID pandemic in miniature. https://prospect.org/2026/02/13/ice-minneapolis-economy-trump-homan-operation-metro-surge/

Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled? Hansen: If the current La Niña minimum temperature is high, we'll know that global warming has sped up even more.

https://neuburger.substack.com/p/has-the-rate-of-global-warming-more--

Trump Orders the Pentagon to Buy More Coal-Fired Electricity Mr. Trump is trying to revive coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. At the White House, coal executives awarded him a trophy as the “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/climate/trump-coal-pentagon-electricity.html

US House approves bill mandating proof of citizenship for voting in federal elections https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/12/repub/us-house-approves-bill-mandating-proof-of-citizenship-for-voting-in-federal-elections/

topics:

Ayotte denies ICE director’s claim federal officials talked to her about Merrimack facility https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-02-12/ayotte-ice-merrimack-detention-facility-immigration-dhs

Trump’s Plan for an American Gulag Just Got a Major Boost in Court https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/trump-plan-texas-gulag-supreme-court-analysis.html

Kamen takes leave from board of Vermont-based tech firm amid Epstein fallout https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-02-12/beta-board-member-kamen-engulfed-in-epstein-scandal-has-deep-ties-to-company

Why the Tulsi Gabbard Election Raid Is Scarier Than Initially Thought https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/tulsi-gabbard-election-raid-georgia-2026-scary.html

ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent

Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled? Hansen: If the current La Niña minimum temperature is high, we'll know that global warming has sped up even more.

https://neuburger.substack.com/p/has-the-rate-of-global-warming-more--

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