Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
It’s April 15. Have you done your taxes yet? Remember when TFG was in office and he told us we’d be filling out our taxes on a postcard? Yeah, not so much. But he’s in a Manhattan courtroom today as his first criminal trial begins… And of course, Jonathan Larsen is here with the fucking…
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I am honored that the independent national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, whose original reporting you can find at emptywheel.net, joins me on my show every Friday for an hour-long discussion of the news that matters and, for the most part, hasn’t been reported accurately or with enough urgency elsewhere. Today, in addition to preparing for…
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Howie Klein has been doing a weekly segment on my show for more than a dozen years now. He and I first met some 30+ years ago on Los Angeles where I was doing (really great) music radio and he was President of Reprise Records. When Howie exited the music biz, he turned his energies…
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I’m new to Arizona. We moved here from Florida for a number of reasons, chief among them was the fact that AZ was trending bluer while FL has become Fascist Central. Well, yesterday Arizona’s Supreme Court reinstated a law that was in effect until 1973 when Roe v Wade came into effect and legalized a…
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Another busy day in today’s strange new world. We begin today with breaking news from my adopted state of Arizona where we moved from Floriduh because AZ was a bit less fascist… Well, today the AZ Supreme Extreme Court upheld an 1864 near total ban on abortions. The only exception is to save the life…
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Well, so far no rapture but we did see the eclipse here in Arizona! It’s another Monday so we start the f$^king week with more f$^king news from Jonathan Larsen at thefuckingnews.substack.com because someone’s got to do it! — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nicolesandler/message
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We couldn’t end the week and usher in the weekend properly without a visit from Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. As she does each Friday, Marcy will walk us through the latest developments in Trump Trial World, including the batshit whack-a-doodle-ness of Judge Aileen Cannon who is doing TFG’s bidding so much to his liking that…
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It’s a Thursday, so Howie Klein takes a weekly break from writing at DownWithTyranny.com and vetting the best candidates for the Blue America PAC to support. There’s no shortage of topics to discuss today, but I’m running late as I spent the morning at the doctors office and urgent care trying to figure out what’s…
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If you’re thinking that in the US, all may theoretically be created equal, but we’re sure not treated equally under the law. It’s a fact that those with money, fame and power get away with (almost) murder. And if Donald Trump did, indeed, shoot someone on Fifth Avenue? Well, let’s just say the jury’s still…
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Yes, we’re in the Threats era of the Trump tour of America’s court rooms. The National Lampoon magazine cover depicted on today’s show graphic is a classic! It’s an actual magazine cover from 1973. it was funny because it was so absurd and obviously a joke. But the current incarnation of Donald Trump isn’t making…
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