Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Nicole talks with activist/blogger/media trainer Spocko about how to talk effectively about public safety and guns. Nicole Belle joins in with our weekly Fools on the Hill segment on the Sunday shows. And Nicole recaps the filibuster fix failure.
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Nicole gives an update on the efforts to fix the filibuster. Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel.net) tells about yesterday’s Hillary Clinton testimony on Benghazi, and Maysoon Zayid joins in for serious discussion and some laughs too
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Nicole speaks with Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (Hint: we’ve been torturing people for a long time). Plus Amy Simon of She’s History and Crooks & Liars’ John Amato. Plus, guns in the news, the filibuster and Michelle Obama’s eye roll at Boehner!
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Nicole talks with AmericaBlog’s Gaius Publius about today’s possible filibuster showdown, UCSF’s Tracy Weitz about Roe v Wade’s 40th anniversary, and premiered the last Blunt webisode from GottaLaff
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Today is President Obama’s 2nd Inaugural, MLK Day, the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the third anniversary of Citizens United and the end of Air America. Nicole talk about all of those, and speaks with Toi Hutchinson, running for Congress to fill Jesse Jackson Jr’s old seat. Plus Nicole Belle with Fools on the…
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President Obama went big on his proposals announced yesterday to make us all safer from guns. Nicole discussed the proposals and what we must do to help them become reality with pundit/columnist/ consultant to Mayors against Illegal Guns, Cliff Schecter. Plus Maysoon Zayid on unfairness in Israel/Palestine and Hollywood
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Nicole talks about our precarious fiscal situation with Congressional Republicans threatening not to raise the debt ceiling and thereby taking the nation into default. Economist Warren Mosler explains MMT and why this threat is frightening. Also, Amy Simon of She’s History and Crooks & Liars’ John Amato. Todays show runs long, as Nicole carries President…
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Nicole speaks with UK Progressive’s Denis Campbell about the differences between life in the UK & the US from healthcare to media to guns and beyond, and talks guns in the news with The Political Carnival’s GottaLaff
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Nicole talks about the tragedy of the suicide of Aaron Swartz and the sadness of the state of mental health care in this country. Truthout’s Jason Leopold tells us about an innocent man who died after over a decade in Guantanamo Bay, and Crooks & Liars’ Nicole Belle joins in for “Fools on the Hill”
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Nicole talks about Morning Joe’s TV meltdown. Plus Journalist Mark Taylor Canfield on the FBI labeling Occupy as a terrorist organization, Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin on Drones, Brennan, NRA, Gitmo & more, and comedian/actress Maysoon Zayid on the Oscar nominations
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