Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Howie Klein is usually with us on Thursdays but, as he’s been writing about at DownWithTyranny.com, he’s battling cancer and isn’t able to be here today. He should be back with us next week.Today, the senate is debating the continuing resolution passed by the Republicans in the House, even though most of them would never…
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I’ve gotten a lot of email in the past week or two from listeners very concerned about what the Musk/Dump regime will do to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Although I know that messing with those programs would bring down what’s left of this nation — or maybe because I know that — it’s got…
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I don’t usually interview novelists on this show, but Mike Papantonio is so much more. He is a leading trial lawyer who’s won numerous multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of victims of corporate malfeasance. He hosted the radio show “Ring of Fire” on Air America Radio, and has written a bunch of books – both…
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We usually spend Mondays talking about the latest news with Jonathan Larsen of thefuckingnews.substack.com, but he’s out today doing something important with his son. And frankly, I just don’t have it in me today. I was trying to find something that would bring some hope to my feelings of hopelessness right now, when a video…
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We reached another Friday and it was another week filled with more crap than we could cover in an hour-long discussion, which is what Marcy Wheeler and I try to do each Friday. This morning, Marcy put up a long, information-filled post at emptywheel.net titled “Attention Deficit and Defiance Division of Labor: There’s Stuff Happening…
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Watching the Dow crash for the third day in a row since the megalomaniac in chief unilaterally put 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, the orange one tried to change course again. First he suspended tariffs on cars from both nations. Then he paused the tariffs on Mexico for a month. As the…
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Craig Unger is a journalist and NY Times bestselling author of six books, two of which deal directly with his reporting on what led him to conclude that Donald Trump is a Russian asset. I first spoke with Craig in January of 2021 for the release of his book American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated…
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Jason Leopold has been dubbed the “FOIA Terrorist” by the government. I don’t like the word terrorist, so I call him the FOIA Master… He writes the FOIA Files for Bloomberg News, where he continues breaking news. Jason’s work is truly important. I caught up with him a few days ago after our last conversation…
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Mondays are inevitable. Sadly, in recent weeks, the news on Mondays has been tragic and today is no exception. We’re still reeling from the spectacle in the Oval Office on Friday and coming to terms with the fact that the man occupying the White House has aligned us with Russia over our allies in Europe….
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Today is Friday, when we get together with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net to recap much of what happened in the week leading up to our conversation. We record these shows on Friday mornings here in Arizona/Friday afternoons for Marcy in Ireland. Today, while we were recording, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelinskyy arrived at the White House…
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