Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
But she’ll be back in 2024!As usual, Marcy Wheeler and I hook up on Zoom Friday mornings Arizona time, which is late afternoon for Marcy in Limerick, Ireland. Today, a couple of hours after we finished recording, the Supreme Court ruled on Jack Smith’s motion to leapfrog the appeals court asking SCOTUS to rule quickly…
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Howie Klein has been doing a weekly segment on this show for probably a dozen years already. I truly appreciate his participation in this program- especially knowing that if the politics of the day are too nauseating or overwhelming, we can always talk music. Perhaps 2024 is the year that Howie will release his memoirs,…
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Yes, I know that Festivus falls on December 23, which is when we usually observe the made up holiday. But this year, Festivus falls on Saturday, so we’ll observe the traditions today.Seinfeld (the TV show) was huge in the 90s, and a few episodes spawned catch phrases and traditions that live on. One that I’ve…
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We’re in the home stretch of 2023. In addition to the usual holiday fare, this time of year brings with it hopes and dreams and wishes for a better future. All of those elements made it into Brian Karem’s column at Salon.com last week in the form of a dream about a presidential speech. I…
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It’s the last week before Christmas and we’re still here. With a lot of legal issues popping up on Friday and in our near future, I thought today would be a great day to invite Lisa Graves back to the show. Lisa has those legal bona fides — she served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General…
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Just when you think a week can’t be any crazier than the week before……… it’s Friday and time for Emptywheel.net‘s Marcy Wheeler to share her knowledge and reporting to let us know what’s happening with the many prosecutions of the former guy and those who aided his attempt to overturn the results of a fair…
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The most dysfunctional House of Representatives in my lifetime (and that’s saying a lot) opened an impeachment inquiry yesterday into President Joe Biden. Why? We don’t know. Neither do they.We’ll talk politics today with Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny and the Blue America PAC.Politics, it’s creepy.
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It was five months ago that SAG/AFTRA had just gone out on strike, joining the WGA writers on picket lines, when I invited my old friend David Jolliffe on the show to talk about what they were striking over. Dave is on the SAG/AFTRA Negotiating Committee and the National Board, and serves as 2nd VP…
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It’s that other Tuesday when GottaLaff is here. Rudy’s in court, SCOTUS goes with Jack Smith, and Voldimyr Zelinskyy is much more confident than Ron DeSantis… just sayin’
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Today’s scheduled guest stood me up. Just as well. I wound up talking with Spocko for a while, bitching about how truly awful Cox internet service is, and told you about my Women Who Rock project dying. Monday. Blech.
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