Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
We lost a trailblazer and one of the people who most influenced my way of thinking as a child this week, Norman Lear. I grew up on his TV shows, from All In the Family on. I believe his framing of social issues via comedy is, in large part, responsible for my fierce opinions today….
Read More
Desi Doyen is my guest today for the whole hour. I know, she was just here, in studio, with Brad Friedman for some Thanksgiving Week fun and frivolity, but today it’s a serious conversation about the weather. No, not “the weather” but climate change. For some reason, the corporate mainstream media has shirked its responsibility…
Read More
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch joins us today. I invited him on after reading his column about the death of Henry Kissinger and how the man who finally died would have likely applauded MSNBC firing Mehdi Hasan. Selfishly, I want to point out that Mehdi’s not the only one who had a show canceled because…
Read More
No guest today. Just a lot of what happened while we were weekending. From Liz Cheney to Pramila Jayapal and lots more…
Read More
The best way to end the week is with an @emptywheel news wrap up. Today, George Santos is finally gone, Matty Dick Pics is back in the news, and the world is basically fubar. Marcy Wheeler explains it all….’
Read More
It’s Thursday, so Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny day on the show. And, as usual, there’s no lack of stories to discuss.Just a few hours ago, the House again debated the move to expel George Santos from Congress. Henry Kissinger finally died. And Howie made a surprising statement in a post on Down with…
Read More
Deborah Ben Aderet grew up in Illinois, but moved to Israel a dozen or so years ago. She met her husband there, they had two children and lived on a Kibbutz just a few miles north of the Gaza border. She’s my guest today. We’re not going to talk politics, but instead Deborah will tell…
Read More
It’s one of those Tuesdays when GottaLaff is here…. Rosalynn Carter is be memorialized today at a ceremony in DC in which all the living first ladies attended. (There are five, for those keeping count.)I’m not sure what we’ll talk about today, but we’ll figure out something to get us through the hour… Feel free…
Read More
There are few days when it’s more difficult to get back to work than the Monday after Thanksgiving, but here we are, back for more. Thankfully, today I’m joined by OG progressive blogger Driftglass, who co-hosts the Professional Left Podcast with his wife, BlueGal Fran…. I’m sure we can find something to talk about…
Read More
Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel.net) usually hangs with us Friday, but is celebrating Thanksgiving in Ireland. and will be back with us next Friday. So today, we’re also taking a holiday. I’ll be back live on Monday. But today, we’ll enjoy a musical journey with Dave Matthews. I hosted him for his very first Los Angeles radio…
Read More
Recent Comments