Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Finding it difficult to keep up with all the news of the week? Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins me every Friday for a sort of debriefing of what we need to know happened that week. Today, we talking Stormy Daniels testifying, Trump getting just what he wants from Aileen Cannon and a Georgia appeals court,…
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Stormy Daniels returned to the stand today for more grilling from the orange one’s lawyer whose name is pronounced necklace (spelled Necheles) who basically seemed to rehabilitate Daniels today, however unintentionally. According to reports, Stormy was much more composed, in control and funnier today. I’ll share some tidbits before we move on… It’s Thursday, so…
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Sorry, no sex (unless you count the encounter between Stormy Daniels & TFG “sex”… it isn’t/wasn’t… it’s just yuck), but lots of rock and roll and yes, politics, on today’s show. It’s a Wednesday worthy of another edition of THE MAL-LADIES a couple of women talking about all that ails us (and we may venture…
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Stormy Daniels spent the day on the stand in NYC at TFG’s trial. We’ll discuss some of the highlights (or lows, depending on your point of view), But we’ll begin today on a different subject — the future of Social Security and Medicare. A breaking news alert crossed my desk yesterday proclaiming that Social Security…
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Mondays are always difficult by definition, so we try to make them a bit more palatable by kicking off each fucking week with The Fucking News, as written and delivered by Jonathan Larsen who does his reporting for us daily at thefuckingnews.substack.com. Lots to discuss today from the possible ceasefire between Israel & Hamas, TFG…
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Every Friday, Marcy Wheeler joins us from emptywheel.net to talk about some of the news she covered in the previous week. Today, a little Trump trial stuff mixed in with a whole lot about Bill Barr and his role in framing Joe Biden and, of course, Hunter Biden. And more… — Send in a voice…
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It’s Thursday, so TFG is back in the courtroom, snoring and farting while a jury listens, Democrats are one vote closer to a House majority, protests escalate, and Time magazine published a massive story about what TFG plans to do if he becomes the current guy again… and Howie Klein is here from Down with…
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We’ve had non-stop guests and lots of news recently, so I thought we’d take the day to catch up and talk. Phone lines are open for you to weigh in on anything we’ve been talking about… from the Extreme Supreme Court, Trump Trials, College protests, Israel-Hamas, or anything else on your mind. — Send in…
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If you’ve listened to my show, you know that I often refer to myself as an “atheist Jew”. My Judaism comes by way of heritage, family, generational stories and history. I have real disdain for organized religion of every stripe, and have often commented about how virtually every war ever fought had its basis somewhere…
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Ahh we joke, but that’s how the news gets digested better. Every Monday, I’m joined by Jonathan Larsen who writes at TheFuckingNews.substack.com. Mondays are difficult enough, so I figure it’s best to ease back into the new week with a bit of humor injected into the normal awfulness of it all. Today we’ll have some…
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