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The Attitude with arnie arnesen
opening thoughts: poem by Ferlinghetti 
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   
Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Pity the nation"
(Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems https://amzn.to/47I4piF)
part one: if it is Friday it must be Texas

The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions. https://prospect.org/2025/11/20/trump-international-students-texas-tuition-universities/

Texas Said the Wrong Magic Words When Rigging Their Maps

California said different magic words when rigging theirs. That’s why Texas’s map might be tossed, while California’s might remain. https://prospect.org/2025/11/20/texas-said-wrong-magic-words-rigging-their-maps/

How a billionaire’s plan to export East Texas groundwater sparked a rural uprising As fast-growing cities and suburbs scramble for new water sources, farmers in East Texas are turning to government regulation to keep their wells from running dry. https://grist.org/regulation/how-a-billionaires-plan-to-export-east-texas-groundwater-sparked-a-rural-uprising/

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.  ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.  https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-tierra-walker-preeclampsia
Kavitha SuranaI have been reporting on changes to reproductive health care access since Roe v. Wade was overturned. I regularly speak with doctors, patients, researchers, community workers and lawmakers to better understand how maternal health care has been affected by abortion restrictions. Learn more about how ProPublica covers maternal health and how to get in touch.
 joined ProPublica as a national reporter in 2022. Since then, I have investigated the consequences of state abortion bans for people facing life-threatening pregnancy complications, including uncovering deaths that could have been prevented, and a rise in maternal sepsis rates in Texas after the state banned abortion.
The reporting led to a federal investigation and spurred lawmakers in multiple states to file bills expanding abortion access. I interviewed experts across the country to help create a guide on the medical procedures that could save your life during a pregnancy loss.
My reporting has taken me inside a hospital abortion committee and a private meeting between anti-abortion activists urging Republican lawmakers not to change a strict ban.
I also spent a year partnering with a photographer to document one family’s struggle to navigate Tenneessee’s social safety net after being denied an abortion for a life-threatening pregnancy. Before joining ProPublica, I reported on housing, law enforcement and health care inequality at the Tampa Bay Times and BuzzFeed News. I was previously a 2018 fellow at ProPublica covering immigration. I got my start in international journalism. I interned at the Associated Press in Rome and was a fellow at Foreign Policy magazine. I speak Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French, and I’ve reported from Italy, Germany, Rwanda, Colombia and Senegal.
part two:
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. He was previously a national correspondent for The Week. 
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.  
topics:


Trump’s New Best Friend Today on TAP: His one-sided deal with MBS throws Bibi under the bus and gets nothing for the United States other than more wealth for the Trump family. https://prospect.org/2025/11/19/trumps-new-best-friend-mbs/

Trump and Mamdani to meet in Oval Office
 on Friday after months of bickering President has previously criticised the New York City mayor-elect, labelling him a ‘communist’ and threatening to deport https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/donald-trump-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-elect-meeting

Trump has ‘blurred’ line between military and politics, ex-officers warn Former leaders’ report cautions against politicizing armed forces as national guard deployments raise tensions in US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/17/trump-politicizing-military-report
Hospitals and clinics are shutting down due to Trump’s healthcare cuts. Here’s where From Georgia to Oregon, clinics and wards are closing as Trump’s health law triggers steep Medicaid cuts and rising costs https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/20/hospitals-shutdown-trump-healthcare-cuts

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