Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
I tried to keep the title of today’s episode light, though I’m feeling anything but. Yes, I was glad to hear that TFG was compelled to testify today, but it was more of the same from this teflon turd who gets away with crap that would find anyone else displaying the same juvenile lack of…
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Fridays are filled with info here on the show because Marcy Wheeler is my regular Friday guest. Yes, she writes and publishes news at emptywheel.net that you’re not getting from the corporate mainstream media, but she joins me on Fridays for an in-depth look at what’s happened during the past week. Today, it’s a deep…
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We spent most of the hour Tuesday with Health Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter. That was after I recounted my troubles trying to get new insurance here in AZ to get me through the last two months of this year. I haven’t yet told you of the horrors I experienced yesterday while looking for a…
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The asterisk in the title of today’s show isn’t mine; it’s in the title of the book I’ll be discussing with the one & only Joan Walsh today: CORPORATE BULLSH*T: EXPOSING THE LIES AND HALF-TRUTHS THAT PROTECT PROFIT, POWER, AND WEALTH IN AMERICA.Joan wrote the book with two co-authors– progressive billionaire Nick Hanauer (who I’ve…
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It’s that time of year again and I’m not talking about Halloween. Open enrollment for Medicare began two weeks ago, and tomorrow (Nov 1), the Obamacare exchanges open for those of us still under 65. Both are like the worst haunted houses to navigate as you never know what scary monsters are hiding in those…
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It’s Monday and this promises to be an interesting week. The former guy’s three eldest spawn all will take the stand in the fraud trial against the organization with their name on it. Wars continue raging overseas while antisemitism has been ratcheted up to levels I’ve never experienced in almost 64 years on the planet.Speaking…
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It’s Friday, so we have another date with Marcy Wheelerof the essential news siteemptywheel.net. Today, the scoop on the new Republican Speaker of the House — he’s all and so much more (or less) that you expected, the various trials of the former guy, the overnight news of the US bombing of Syria and more….
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Howie Klein, your host at DownWithTyranny.com and the Blue America PAC is my standing guest every Thursday, today introduces us to the newest Blue America endorsee… Zach Shrewsbury! The Marine veteran who served as a member of the Fleet Anti Terrorism Security Team (FAST) is putting his mind and skills to thwart another threat to…
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I’m still getting adjusted to living in Arizona… the biggest hurdle that I’ve yet to overcome is that, although the show still runs at the same time –5ET/2PT, I’m not in the ET zone any longer! Where I am, the show starts at 2pm. That means I lose three hours of prep time. I know…
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If you don’t know GottaLaff, you probably never were active on Twitter. Now that it’s Xitter, Laffy is off Twitter but continuing to aggregate news on Mastodon. You can follow here there @GottaLaff@Mastodon.social. And of course, you can hear her here every other Tuesday (or thereabouts)… Today we’ll likely be all over the place (what…
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