Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
I was out yesterday for a doctor’s appointment, but I’m back today.. Sadly, there’s no lack of news to discuss and questions to ask. From COVID vaccinations to the enormous, ugly bill, and the demented orange guy occupying the White House, the news is as dismal and offensive as ever.So, today, we’ll review some of…
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It was another eventful week in this surreal world. The idiot-in-chief went to the Middle East, SCOTUS held a special hearing yesterday, and what was thought to be a very old copy of the Magna Carta housed at Harvard is discovered to be an authentic 7th original copy dating back to 1300! Marcy Wheeler thinks…
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Ethics are important to Republicans ONLY when it’s a Democrat engaging in questionable behaviors. That’s more evident every day. But it cuts much deeper… they’re quick to call out anything a Democrat does, like nodding off in an all-night hearing. But they have no problem with it’s a Republican. It seemed like all we heard…
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Welcome to Tuesday. I’ve had more than a few listeners ask me about ActBlue in the wake of D’ump ordering the DoJ to investigate the online fundraising platform used by Democrats and progressive organizations. Today we’ll check in with Josh Nelson, CEO of Civic Shout, an advertising platform for progressive causes, who’ll set the record…
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A new week begins with news of a “$400 Million flying palace” that allegedly will be gifted by the Qatari Royal Family to Donald F’ing Trump!?! WTF? Oh there’s more news too. Like the idea of suspending habeas corpus? Huh? I accidentally stumbled onto Newsmax over the weekend and was hit with El Dumpo on…
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It’s Friday, so we made it to the end of another action-packed week. Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net and I review some of the crap that Dump and his gang flung at us this week and try to make sense of it all.This week we got a new pope – one from the United States for…
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I accidentally loaded the wrong show… this is the correct one. Sorry for the inconvenience! ————————————————————– Today we get back to the news, issues and concerns about life in our messed-up world. I’m looking forward to talking with Antonia Juhasz again. She’s an investigative journalist who covers energy and environmental justice will join us to…
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It’s Thursday, so we’ll talk politics with Howie Klein of DownWithTyranny.com and the Blue America Pac today… Lots of action, perhaps, in Congress where we can’t help but hope the Republican caucus starts coming apart to derail some of this insanity that the orange one is unleashing on the world. Dump did announce a trade…
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Today we get back to the news, issues and concerns about life in our messed-up world. I’m looking forward to talking with Antonia Juhasz again. She’s an investigative journalist who covers energy and environmental justice will join us to explain what the “deal” is with Ukraine over their rare earth minerals. We certainly can’t forget…
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The world lost one of its better inhabitants this week. On May 1, 2025, Jill Sobule was killed in a tragic house fire. Words can’t express our loss. Jill was truly a remarkable human being. I’m heartened by the continuing show of love and support I’m seeing all over social media for the last…
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