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Nov 10, 2025, 6:36:03 PMNov 10
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The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen
opening thoughts: poetry by Lyn Ekedahl and thoughts on elections by Kevin Bart
 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

opening thoughts
May Be Hope by Lyn Ekedahl
Now's not the time to sit and mope.
Rather, we should savor hope.
It seems there may be ways to cope
With our outrageous misanthrope.

In New York, new hero Zohran
Venom the elite did pour on.
“Tax the rich to help the poor?
“What scary, shocking campaign lure.”

In Virginia, Jersey New
Different flavor, same blue stew.
The anti-Dons came out to vote!
Perhaps a harbinger of note!

The fight is on, t’will be ferocious,
As we battle Don Atrocious.
We all know it won’t be purty,
Donald loves to fight real dirty!

The Don and tribe will gerrymander,
To the rich intensely pander,
With fear and bias crudely play
To try to frighten votes away!

As we move toward Twenty-Six,
Just be prepared for Donald’s tricks!
He will bully, whine, and gloat,
But he can’t nullify our vote!

Kevin Bart from Nashville Tennessee Why the Country keeps voting for pain.

I have no idea how this will land with readers. But after a day of watching and listening to stunned people on both sides of the aisle here in the South, I feel compelled to reason it out - as I do - in writing.
People love to act shocked when someone like Zohran Mamdani wins. They scream socialism as if that word alone explains everything. They never bother to look at the country they are defending.
Start with the basics. Minimum wage stuck at $7.25 while the price of eggs plays powerball. Rent takes half a paycheck and the landlord still treats you like a squatter. Groceries cost more every month. You get charged for bags, carts, and the privilege of staying alive.
Health care? Miss one shift and you owe a hospital more than a luxury car. We die in debt. We are born in debt. We live in debt. The economy runs on a hamster wheel of panic.
The average home buyer is now pushing forty. Most young people have never seen a starter home. They get starter roommates. Starter basements. Starter despair. Meanwhile, the wealth gap is a canyon with billionaires launching rockets across it for fun.
Child care costs more than college. Elder care drains the last dollars a family has left. Then dying costs thousands too. They bill you long after your pulse quits.
People are lectured to work harder by politicians who have never worked a day. The same politicians who call it radical to want a doctor, a house, and a chance. They yell about freedom while millions choose between medicine and rent.
This is why voters are looking for something new. They are tired of pretending the current system works. They are tired of being told survival is a luxury. They do not want a revolution. They just want a life.
So when Mamdani wins, maybe the bigger question is not why New York elected him. Maybe the question is why the rest of the country keeps voting for the pain.
Part One:  a conversation with Nicole Bennett of Indiana U
Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation https://theconversation.com/always-watching-how-ices-plan-to-monitor-social-media-24-7-threatens-privacy-and-civic-participation-268175

Nicole M. Bennett Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Assistant Director at the Center for Refugee Studies, Indiana University

opening thought: rewriting history
UPI President Donald Trump is pardoning Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and dozens of other allies who have been accused of trying to subvert the 2020 election, according to U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin.
The list of 77 people pardoned by Trump was published late Sunday on Martin's personal X account.
"No MAGA left behind," he said.
The proclamation signed by Trump was dated Friday.
"This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 presidential election and continues the process of national reconciliation," the document states.
Those pardoned were tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including participation in what has become known as the fake electors scheme. The strategy involved the creation of false slates of pro-Trump electors in every battleground state that he lost to Biden, including Georgia.
Among those pardoned were four of Trump's 17 co-defendants in a case concerning the effort in Georgia, including Kenneth Chesebro, the alleged architect of the scheme. Powell, Scott Hall and Jenna Ellis were the other three.
Trump, who was among those charged in Georgia, was specifically not granted a pardon.

Part Two:a conversation with Nate DiMeo Why history matters.
There was a History Teach-In on the National Mall on Sunday, Oct. 26.
Organized by the folks behind history podcasts The Memory Palace (Nate Dimeo) and This Day (Jody Avirgan), from sunup to sundown on the National Mall will be a Teach-In in defense of history and museums, with lectures, readings, performances, and conversations.
Featuring Nate DiMeo, Kellie Carter Jackson, Nicole Hemmer, Jody Avirgan, Derek Musgrove, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Amanda Seales, Marcia Chatelain, Martha Jones, Michael Ralph, Paul Butler, Nathan Connoly, and James Fallows.

bio of Nate DiMeo--For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo's pioneering podcast, The Memory Palace, has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history's dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales. The show has made its way into The Library of Congress, as a member of its first class of podcasts tapped for preservation, and the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where Nate was the museum's artist in residence. He has performed stories from the podcast in cities all over the United States as well as Canada, England, Ireland, and at a rock festival in Tasmania. His new book from Random House, The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past, collects beloved stories from the show, new stories, memoir, found photographs and illustrations. Booklist has called it, "ceaselessly entertaining."

He has reported stories for National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered and American Public Media's Marketplace, as well as numerous other public radio programs. He is the co-author of Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, for which he was a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor. He has written for NBC's Parks and Recreation and the ABC miniseries, The Astronaut Wives' Club. He lives in Los Angeles, by way of Providence, Rhode Island.

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