February 20, 2025

[image: image.png] opening thoughts: What surprises me most about humankind is that we get bored of our childhood, rush to grow up, and long to be children again. That we lose our health to make money and then lose our money to restore our health. That by thinking anxiously about the future, we forget the present, such that we live in neither the present nor the future. That we live as if we’ll never die and die as though we’ve never lived.” Anaïs Nin part one: ACLU Congress is soon expected to consider the *No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act*, which would force cities and states to choose between facilitating mass deportations or losing otherwise unrelated health, education, transportation, domestic violence response, and other funding. This bill comes on the heels of various threats from Trump administration officials to jurisdictions with so-called sanctuary policies. a conversation with *Naureen Shah* <tracking.us.nylas.com/l/68de938b222a403697048f59d08d10c5/0/e36850eda4ed4c1a899536f27798e9f655ee9552147f990da5d2d3dd1cb4e333?cache_buster=1739390122>*, Deputy Director of Government Affairs at the ACLU, the impact of this *legislation on communities? part two: Laying Off Empiricists Today on TAP: The Trump-Musk war on federal workers zeroes in on agencies that document facts that may run counter to Trump’s fantasies. *Harold Meyerson * Editor at Large at the American Prospect. 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/> the Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Anias Nin,Naureen Shah, ACLU, immigration, *No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities Act*, Trump,Harold Meyerson, Prospect dot org, Madison, the monarch, three branches of government, the constitution,the empiricists