Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Apologies for my absence yesterday. Husband somehow contracted Covid (first time in our home) and we spent the better part of the day at the Emergency Room. I’m doing my best to keep the virus at bay, but that hasn’t stopped me from feeling lousy. Thankfully the tests keep reading negative! Good thing that today’s…
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The amazing Marcy Wheeler, who keeps us informed about the news we need to know at emptywheel.net joins us every Friday to talk about what happened that week. As she does today. I must apologize to Marcy and everyone watching this. I started a new medication last night to deal with my RLS, and it…
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Whoo boy, another crazy busy day in our world… Somehow it’s fitting that today marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. And since I took the day off yesterday, there’s so much to cover before Howie Klein joins in at the bottom of the hour, today joined by Conor O’Callaghan, who’s running for Congress in AZ…
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Americans have very short memories. For some unfathomable reason, there are millions of people with their heads in the sand who just don’t (or won’t) remember how bad things were under TFG. The years the orange one was in office were some of the darkest of my long life. Even after we voted him out,…
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You know the old adage, ‘Sticks & stones my break my bones but words can never hurt me.’ As I often say, the scientific term for that is “bullshit.” Words can and do immense damage. And as today’s guest Annalee Newitz explains in her new book (out today) STORIES ARE WEAPONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AND THE…
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Like death and taxes, there’s no stopping Mondays. They come every week whether we want them or not. But there’s a silver lining… we get The Fucking News every Monday from Jonathan Larsen who writes the fucking news every fucking day… Then again, there are some weeks when there’s good fucking news, like Trump being…
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The verdicts are in! Donald J Trump found guilty on all 34 counts, but you already knew that. However, today is Friday, so Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net is here. We discuss the verdicts, the hypocrisy and worse from the right, the fact that they’re out for revenge, and that Hunter Biden’s gun charges trial gets…
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Literally ten minutes before hitting the air, the word came down that the jury had reached a verdict in the first criminal trial of the former guy. Needless to say, everything I had planned for today’s show was thrown out the window…. but Howie Klein still joined me to help celebrate the news that our…
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ur favorite legal expert Lisa Graves returns to the show to bring some clarity to the surreal legal news we’ve been dealing with the the past few weeks. First, there’s the Trump trial – the one of four criminal cases that he should be standing trial for. Closing arguments were delivered yesterday; the judge gave…
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The title of today’s episode is taken from a line in a commencement address delivered this weekend by filmmaker/historian Ken Burns to the graduating class at Brandeis University. I heard enough plaudits about it to seek it out, and I must agree. In fact, so much that I’m going to share the final 8 1/2…
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