Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Tomorrow is the end of open enrollment for Medicare. The means that before midnight Tuesday night, Dec 7, you can change what type of Medicare plan you’re enrolled in. I already knew and was warning my listeners about the realities surrounding Medicare Advantage, and we’ll get into that again today. But this article was about…
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We’ve got a lot to jam into our last hour of the week today. We’ll start with Jason Leopold, who has another two FOIA victories that earn him bragging rights. One of them resulted in 10 redacted passages from the Mueller report being made public(!). The other has to do with multiple allegations of CIA…
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Every Thursday for the better part of a decade, we get together with Howie Klein. Howie writes at DownWithTyranny.com, and runs the Blue America PAC, identifying and raising money for real progressive candidates running for office. Plus, some scary info about the clandestine privatization of Medicare, started under Trump and continuing under Biden.
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I’ll admit it… I have The Beatles on my mind. We’re in the middle of “Get Back,” the new documentary on the last album and live performance from the greatest band in history. But I’ve already learned a few things from it. Relationships are complicated. Life isn’t fair. Working within a group is often more…
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Charles Lenchner has been one of the unsung heroes of the progressive movement for as long as I’ve been covering the movement. He was one of the original occupiers at Occupy Wall Street. He’s a co-founder of People for Bernie. He’s Executive Director of Organizing 2.0. He’s part of Progressive Hub and Roots Action, and…
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