Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Well, they sure took their sweet time to stick a dagger in the heart of democracy and now the Supreme Extreme Court is dragging it’s feet before it strikes the death blow. Rather than immediately put us out of (or increase our) misery quickly (like they did in Bush v Gore 2000), they’re draaagggging it…
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Making Mondays suck a little less… Mondays come every week, inconveniently at the end of a weekend. It’s difficult to make that transition from down time to work time, especially when the work involves the (usually depressing) news.Today is no different! It began with the Supreme/Extreme Court deciding unanimously that TFG will be on the…
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Friday was always my favorite day of the week, and now even more so since we started spending Friday’s shows with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. Having a tough time keeping all of the Trump trials straight? Somehow, Marcy stays on top of it all. Each week she answers whatever questions I throw at her, and…
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Big news broke yesterday while we were on the air – and I missed it! I didn’t see that the Supreme Court finally announced their decision to hear TFG’s appeal regarding his ridiculous claims of absolute immunity. So we’ll deal with that at the start of the show – and really get into it on…
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**Programming note of frustration. The long-awaited news from the Supreme Court about TFG’s appeal of the DCÂ Circuit Court decision agreeing with the lower court that he has no immunity came down about 20 minutes in to the show today. But because it was live, I didn’t see the emailed alert until the show ended….
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There’s a meme making the rounds featuring a photo of some Trumper idiot with a swastika and the text “I did Nazi this coming” …to which I call Bullshit. The Nazis made their presence known in an unmistakable manner in Charlottesville. They regularly display their flags in Florida at Disney World, no less. Just two…
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Grrr, it’s Monday already. I try to escape from the real world on weekends so make an effort to avoid all news if possible. That makes Mondays even worse, as I start early catching up. Thankfully, Jonathan Larsen is here each Monday to share his reporting and tell us what went on while I was pretending nothing…
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Marcy Wheeler covers the news at emptywheel.com like no other news outlet today. Best of all, she's independent and reader supported, so no corporate overlords or sponsors to please. She just reports truth, an important rarity these days! She joins me every Friday to bring us up to speed on the latest news, somehow keeping…
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Howie Klein, the man behind DownWithTyranny.com and the Blue America PAC joins me every Thursday for some plain talk about politics. In election years, like this one, we talk a lot about specific races — many of them where Blue America has endorsed a candidate. Today, Howie wrote about two races whose primaries are in…
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Rachel Bitecofer is a political scientist who doesn't mince words. Her new book, HIT 'EM WHERE IT HURTS: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game is out and should be required reading for all of us concerned about the future of this American experiment. I'm excited that Rachel returns to the…
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