Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Nicole continues the discussion of Brian Williams’ story telling with Julianna Forlano. Attorney and author Stuart Smith tells us about fighting Big Oil. Plus the Grammys. And Howie Klein explains his absence.
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It’s Friday! Today, Nicole takes on the news conundrum and Brian Williams’ lies and the rest of the news of the week. Criminologist Scott Bonn tells us about America’s obsession with serial killers. And we rock into the weekend with a Flashback Friday music session from the Wild Colonials
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Nicole Sandler reports on good news for a change! FreePress.net’s Tim Karr joins in to talk about the about face on Net Neutrality. And the Gliberal Goddesses (Nicole, GottaLaff, Amy Simon) gather to talk about the media, Brian Williams’ war stories, and lots more!
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Nicole Sandler discusses the levels of absurdity to which today’s politicians have descended, from waffling on vaccinations to claiming hand washing rules are oppressive. Susie Madrak of Crooks & Liars joins in. Plus CAF’s Dave Johnson on the fight against the TPP and fast track and other actual important issues
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Nicole tackles the war on drug and the anti-vaccination movement. Journalist Johann Hari guests to talk about his new book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. And Nicole goes back to 2010 for her interviews with defrocked Dr. Andrew Wakefield (the guy credited for the anti-vax trend) and…
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It’s Groundhog Day and we’re doing the same stupid things again and again. Oil & energy expert, author & journalist Antonia Juhasz weighs in on Obama’s decision to open the Atlantic to drilling. Plus Julianna Forlano helps Nicole Sandler unpack the week’s most absurd news stories (of which there are plenty to choose from).
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It’s Protest Friday as Nicole Sandler looks at the nearly extinct First Amendment right to peaceably protest with activists Kevin Zeese and Medea Benjamin, both of whom were exercising their rights this week. Nicole’s Tom Petty interview from April 1999 is today’s Flashback Friday feature!
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Today, Nicole Sandler speaks with author/journalist William Greider about his column for The Nation that asks how the Democratic Party lost its soul, and more. Plus She’s History’s Amy Simon on our sexual abuse epidemic.
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Nicole Sandler takes a listen back to some of the high (low) lights from yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Trans Pacific Partnership and the push toward fast track. Huffington Post’s Zach Carter and Crooks & Liars’ Susie Madrak join in.
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Nicole looks at the Big Blizzard of 2015 that went bust in NYC but has blasted New England. Payback’s a bitch! GottaLaff joins in the fun. On a more serious note, Lisa Graves of the Center for Media & Democracy tells us about the Koch Brothers “Freedom Partners” who will spend close to $1 Billion…
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