270: Trump vs Education and the Alien Enemies Act
Without A Country
Corinne Fisher and Shayne Smith
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Summary
Corinne Fisher talks about her first (political) write up in the New York Times after she did better than sitting mayor Eric Adams heading into the first disclosure mark for her mayoral race and more before diving into the biggest news of the week including the teacher who was forced to take down an "everyone is welcome here" sign from her classroom, a Texas midwife who was the first to be arrested for performing an abortion in Texas following the overturning of Roe, Trump using some sketchy legal precedents to invoke the "Alien Enemies Act", the end of protections against segregation, Marco Rubio's plan to use AI to round up students on visa's who are pro Palestinan, a bill in motion to ban visas for Chinesse students, Trumps ongoing war against education and so much more!
Original Air Date: 03/19/25
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WED MARCH 19TH
Stuff I did this week:
-reached our fundraising goal
-made the NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/nyregion/eric-adams-fundraising-donors.html
And Black Westchester
-invited to a mayoral forum
-hired a real campaign manager
WACO mailbag
From ABBY
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-inama-idaho-everyone-is-welcome-here_n_67d1fc57e4b0668b4e9d5b93
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Texas Midwife
https://www.thecut.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-maria-margarita-rojas-midwife.html
Alien Enemies Act
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331857/alien-enemies-act-trump-deportations
Venezuela
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/trump-venezuela-migrants-deportated-el-salvador
Segregated Facilities
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dei-order-nixes-feds-ban-on-segregated-facilities/
Mahmoud Khalil
AI Pro Hamas (wording on others is Pro Palestine)
Bill to Ban Chinese Students
MAIN
Trump and Education
RIGHT
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sign-executive-order-abolish-department-education
LEFT
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| 1:22.6 | I spent the last week running from the heat But the beep beats come and alive |
| 1:29.0 | Hello, Wackos, welcome to another episode of Without a Country. |
| 1:52.6 | I'm Corinne Fisher. |
| 1:54.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:56.8 | Guys, big week. |
| 1:58.8 | Big week. |
| 1:59.7 | Baby's first, New York Times, political version. I've been in the New York Times before, but it was for rape jokes. You know, the art of them. Not like this bitch. Can't stop telling them. It was the art of them. And yeah. So I know it's been a conversation on this podcast and on my social media since we announced on January 31st of like, you know, getting the news to pay attention to us. |
| 2:26.7 | And as I had said, it was my hope to, I wanted to hit a six digit fundraising number because I thought that's what it would take |
| 2:35.0 | to get eyes on the campaign. I was right to a certain extent, like it got some movement, |
| 2:43.0 | but when you really think about it, right, like when we really think about it, to go from |
| 2:46.8 | January 31st, me just putting out an Instagram reel announcing that I'm running for mayor of New York City. |
| 2:54.1 | Everyone doesn't even fucking know if it's a joke or not. |
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