Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Talk about good medicine! As you may know, I’ve been pretty sick for the past week or so. But the best medicine possible came last night in the form of Night 1 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention!It just kept getting better as the night went on, and I cried tears of joy as President…
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I spent the weekend resting and recuperating, slowly regaining my strength and planning to be back on the air today. But E Coli seems to have other plans. I am feeling much better, but far from normal (even for me, which is also far from normal).So it’s lucky for me that the Democratic Convention gets…
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I’m sorry I’ve been MIA all week, but I’ve been really sick. I’ll give a brief update today, but I’m still not well enough to come back. And it pains me (sorry for the pun) to say there’s no Emptywheel Friday episode today. I really had hoped to feel good enough enough to do the…
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What a weekend this was! On Friday, I was at the Glendale AZ Kamala Harris/Tim Walz record-breaking rally. On Saturday night, I saw the Pretenders in concert (Chrissie Hynde is still amazing!), and I spent Sunday sick in bed… But today is Monday and there’s lots of fucking news to get to, so the show…
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We made it to the end of another eventful week. The best news of the week is that Kamala Harris named her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz! He almost seems too good to be true! So, Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net and I discuss our VP nominee, the so-called press conference Trump held yesterday at…
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It’s Thursday, so Howie Klein is here from Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC. Today, one of the congressional candidates they’ve endorsed — Eric Wilson from Wisconsin! First, some of the news of the day, including that spectacle the former guy called a press conference, and VP/ soon to be POTUS Kamala Harris…
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We witnessed history yesterday, and it streamed live right here. As our regular hour together was just finishing up yesterday, VP Kamala Harris and MN Gov Tim Walz took the stage at a massive rally in Philadelphia PA in their new roles as Democratic nominee for President introducing for the first time her running mate….
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t’s a big day.. VP Kamala Harris announced her running mate this morning: Gov Tim Walz of Minnesota The two will appear at their first rally together in Philadelphia this afternoon during our live show. They’re expected to speak at around 5:30ET (2:30 AZ time). So I’ll keep an eye on the feed and pick…
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Yes, a lot of fucking news for a fucking Monday, and that’s not even all of it. As we do on Mondays, I’ll chat with Jonathan Larsen of thefuckingnews.substack.com about much of what I don’t get to in the first half hour of the show on my own!
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Every Friday, Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins Nicole Sandler to recap and discuss the week’s news. Today, that includes the $10 million transfer from Egypt to Donald Trump in 2017, the huge prisoner swap that President Biden was negotiating while sick with Covid and the media was declaring him too old to do his job,…
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