Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
The House passed the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling deal last night with more Democratic than Republican votes. Was it a great deal? No. But did the Dems come out ahead of the Republicans? Without a doubt. Well, that’s my take. As for what Howie Klein thinks? We’ll find out today. You never know with Howie. One…
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The House today is voting on the Biden-McCarthy deal to raise the ridiculous debt ceiling. David Dayen of The American Prospect returns to the show today to bring us up to date on what’s happening and how we got here. I call it a deja vu because we’ve had this conversation before — 12 years…
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The first day back after a long holiday weekend is always tough. But here we are.News was made while America was using the day set aside to remember those lost in battle to buy mattresses and gorge themselves on food and beer. OK, I’m over-generalizing, but we really do need to step back and assess…
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Monday is Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer. So today, I’m joined by my friend Boca Britany Somers for a special Trans Summer Kick Off in honor of the fascist Florida man who had the gall to announce his candidacy for president this week… We’ll have a gay old time!
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Sometimes life just doesn’t make sense. Although today’s show isn’t really about two governors, it does involve two (actually three) southern governors whose actions were not reflected in the paths their lives and careers have taken. But, in all fairness, one of the stories hasn’t yet reached a conclusion, so the odds are pretty good…
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Today’s the big day! The Fascist Florida Man Ronald DeSantis is officially declaring his candidacy for president in 2024 this evening. We knew it was coming; we just didn’t know where, exactly when or how he’d do it, but now we do, and it’s par for the ridiculous course that is this authoritarian Trump-in-training. You…
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The word on the street is the DeSantis will make it official tomorrow, declaring his candidacy for president on 2024 with an announcement live on Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk. Twitter Spaces? That’s like a phone party line, right? Either way, I guess I’ll miss it. But I continue doing my civic duty as someone…
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The news is that Ron DeSantis is going to declare his candidacy for the presidency this week, as ridiculous as that is…. So I figured we’d spend the better part of this week enlightening the rest of the world about what we’ve known about moRon DeathSentence since he was elected…. and no one knew anything…
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We wrap up the week today with another visit from independent journalist Marcy Wheeler. She does a better job of covering the actual news dealing with national security and the various investigations into the former guy (and all news items related) than I see anywhere in the corporate mainstream press. You find her work at…
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Howie Klein is a fascinating man. We first met some 30+ years ago. At the time, I was doing music radio in Los Angeles and Howie was President of Reprise Records. When he saw the writing on the wall ahead of the AOL/Time Warner merger in 2000, he took the payout and got out just…
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