Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
The most dysfunctional House of Representatives in my lifetime (and that’s saying a lot) opened an impeachment inquiry yesterday into President Joe Biden. Why? We don’t know. Neither do they.We’ll talk politics today with Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny and the Blue America PAC.Politics, it’s creepy.
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It was five months ago that SAG/AFTRA had just gone out on strike, joining the WGA writers on picket lines, when I invited my old friend David Jolliffe on the show to talk about what they were striking over. Dave is on the SAG/AFTRA Negotiating Committee and the National Board, and serves as 2nd VP…
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It’s that other Tuesday when GottaLaff is here. Rudy’s in court, SCOTUS goes with Jack Smith, and Voldimyr Zelinskyy is much more confident than Ron DeSantis… just sayin’
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Today’s scheduled guest stood me up. Just as well. I wound up talking with Spocko for a while, bitching about how truly awful Cox internet service is, and told you about my Women Who Rock project dying. Monday. Blech.
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Each Friday, we hook up with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net across the pond for the best coverage of what’s happening on this side of world. Today, Marcy has the latest on the new charges filed against Hunter Biden, TFG’s never-ending appeals, the incredible shrinking House Republican majority and even Time’s Person of the Year causing…
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We lost a trailblazer and one of the people who most influenced my way of thinking as a child this week, Norman Lear. I grew up on his TV shows, from All In the Family on. I believe his framing of social issues via comedy is, in large part, responsible for my fierce opinions today….
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Desi Doyen is my guest today for the whole hour. I know, she was just here, in studio, with Brad Friedman for some Thanksgiving Week fun and frivolity, but today it’s a serious conversation about the weather. No, not “the weather” but climate change. For some reason, the corporate mainstream media has shirked its responsibility…
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The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch joins us today. I invited him on after reading his column about the death of Henry Kissinger and how the man who finally died would have likely applauded MSNBC firing Mehdi Hasan. Selfishly, I want to point out that Mehdi’s not the only one who had a show canceled because…
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No guest today. Just a lot of what happened while we were weekending. From Liz Cheney to Pramila Jayapal and lots more…
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The best way to end the week is with an @emptywheel news wrap up. Today, George Santos is finally gone, Matty Dick Pics is back in the news, and the world is basically fubar. Marcy Wheeler explains it all….’
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