the attitude with arnie arnesen the Thurs edition March 26

[Arnie Arnesen]

the attitude with arnie arnesen
opening thoughts:  masks and ICE agents

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:

The Florida race no one is talking about:

In the shocker of the night, D Brian Nathan defeated R Josie Tomkow in the Senate District 14 race by 408 votes. 

The defeat of Josie is a bigger deal than people realize. She was the darling of the Republican party- a major House Chair. She is only 30 years old.

a focus on ICE and masks:
I noted that the ICE agents don't wear masks at the airports and this comment came in: No they wear masks and glasses because it helps when you get randomly maced by a pedestrian who thinks your the devil incarnate… mace isn’t allowed in Airports and if you have it your mace will be confiscated therefore they don’t need masks you just disassembled the entire Lefts argument with this post, it also has to do with the threats but I’d say is mostly the mace thing my response..

my response: really have they shared proof of those mace threats..I don't think so

https://www.cato.org/blog/evaluating-ices-claim-it-masks-agents-fear-targeted-violence

ICE, our new secret police agency, claims its agents must wear masks and conceal their identities because of a rising risk of violence on the job or home terror attacks. But according to columnist Philip Bump at the Washington Post, ICE refuses to substantiate those claims—and there’s much reason to doubt them.

The agency does not publish statistics on assaults suffered by its agents, and because it has a habit of characterizing behavior like that of New York City Comptroller Brad Lander the other day as “assault” (Lander linked arms with a man being arrested and was in turn arrested), it’s not clear how dependent on definition its internal numbers may be. Meanwhile, the related but more transparent Customs and Border Protection agency does publicly release statistics on what it classifies as assaults on its agents. Those assaults have been declining since 2022 and are down again in 2025.

ICE’s press releases indicate that most violence occurs during detentions, and as Bump notes, it’s not clear why hiding identities would do anything to prevent that category of violence. “ICE didn’t provide me with any examples of immigration officers being identified, targeted, and assaulted outside of the context of an arrest.”

part one: Not Enough Workers for the Job Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds.  https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/understaff-workplace-business-covid-cvs-pharmacies-hotels-grocery-stores/

Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein is a freelance journalist and author of the forthcoming book Tyranny at Work: Unfreedom and the American Workplace.

part two: race class with Jonathan Feingold Law Professor at BU

Legislation restricting the teaching of race and racism in public schools and government entities has spread across the country. In an effort to respond, Boston University Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen  are offering "Race Class" - a once a month course/conversation where listeners can hear what it is like to approach race and racism from a place of curiosity and history rather than fear and anxiety.

The class/conversation is available on the last Thursday of every month

In describing the foundational purpose of "Race Class," Arnesen and Feingold note, "We know race matters.  Part of this project is to make sense of what that means."

topics: segregation

Report: Schools Across New York Are The Most Segregated in the U.S. Many school attendance zones in New York City, upstate New York, Westchester and Long Island are similar to 1930 redlining maps, the report shows.  https://www.the74million.org/article/report-schools-across-new-york-are-the-most-segregated-in-the-u-s/

Black Elders Without Birth Records Could Lose Vote Under SAVE America Act. Decades after segregation left gaps in citizenship documents, a controversial voting bill could create barriers at the ballot box.  https://capitalbnews.org/black-elders-save-america-act-voting/

Promoting a New Segregation The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.   https://www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-new-segregation/

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