Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
I’m glad this week is over. I can’t even recite the mass shootings and cops who killed Black men (or boys) in the past week, because this shit has reached pandemic proportions. Or, more accurately, epidemic, as it’s only here in the US. I did check in with The Intercept’s Ryan Grim who broke the…
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Let’s start with the shooting. The boy, Adam Toledo, was 13 years old. A Chicago cop saw him in an alley in the middle of the night and began chasing him. He told him to show his hands. He appears to have dropped something behind the fence which has been reported to be a gun….
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Digby is my guest today. She wrote a great post (up at both digbysblog.net and Salon.com) about Joe Biden announcing we’ll have our troops out of Afghanistan by 9/11, the 20th anniversary of that attack. I began the show talking about a few recent incidents of blatant racism, one of them featured a drill sergeant…
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The past month has been devastating when it comes to guns in America. I mistakenly thought that we had gotten a bit of a reprieve during the pandemic. Well, maybe there was break in school shootings– because the kids were out of school! As the nation returns to “normal,” it appears so too are the…
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It’s Monday, the start of a new week, and things are really tense in Minnesota. The trial of the former cop who killed George Floyd enters its third week. And yesterday in Brooklyn Center, MN – about 10 miles away- a cop shot and killed another unarmed young Black man for no reason. And we…
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