Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Mondays. They happen like clockwork every week, coming right after the weekend to put an official end to our fun. So on Mondays, we check in with Jonathan Larsen of The Fucking News to help ease us back into the work week with an irreverent discussion of the serious shit happening in our world. Jonathan…
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I always look forward to Fridays for the obvious reasons: the weekend and Marcy Wheeler! Emptywheel.net’s Marcy Wheeler and I have a standing date every Friday to discuss the week’s happenings in Trump Trial and other national security and other news of importance. Today we speak on the morning after President Joe Biden’s State of…
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It’s been a politically busy week in the US, so we have lots to discuss with Howie Klein of downwithtyranny.com and the Blue America PAC today. Super Tuesday solidified Trump as the Republican nominee with Nikki Haley dropping out. California finalized its two senatorial candidates who’ll be vying for Dianne Feinstein’s former seat, and Katie…
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A new book is out and making waves because it points out an ugly truth about a huge swatch of this nation. Following yesterday’s Super Tuesday primaries, the top of the 2024 presidential ticket is now set. It’ll be a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as if we didn’t know that would be…
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Well, they sure took their sweet time to stick a dagger in the heart of democracy and now the Supreme Extreme Court is dragging it’s feet before it strikes the death blow. Rather than immediately put us out of (or increase our) misery quickly (like they did in Bush v Gore 2000), they’re draaagggging it…
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Making Mondays suck a little less… Mondays come every week, inconveniently at the end of a weekend. It’s difficult to make that transition from down time to work time, especially when the work involves the (usually depressing) news.Today is no different! It began with the Supreme/Extreme Court deciding unanimously that TFG will be on the…
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Friday was always my favorite day of the week, and now even more so since we started spending Friday’s shows with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. Having a tough time keeping all of the Trump trials straight? Somehow, Marcy stays on top of it all. Each week she answers whatever questions I throw at her, and…
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Big news broke yesterday while we were on the air – and I missed it! I didn’t see that the Supreme Court finally announced their decision to hear TFG’s appeal regarding his ridiculous claims of absolute immunity. So we’ll deal with that at the start of the show – and really get into it on…
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**Programming note of frustration. The long-awaited news from the Supreme Court about TFG’s appeal of the DC Circuit Court decision agreeing with the lower court that he has no immunity came down about 20 minutes in to the show today. But because it was live, I didn’t see the emailed alert until the show ended….
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There’s a meme making the rounds featuring a photo of some Trumper idiot with a swastika and the text “I did Nazi this coming” …to which I call Bullshit. The Nazis made their presence known in an unmistakable manner in Charlottesville. They regularly display their flags in Florida at Disney World, no less. Just two…
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