Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
It’s the third day of a stalemate in the quest for the Republicans to elect a speaker… it’s deja vu all over again for the third day in a row with no end in sight. We’ll bring you the high (low) lights of today’s events before talking with Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny &…
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It’s Day 2 of voting for Speaker of the House. It’s been 100 years since the majority party in the US House of Representatives were unable to reach consensus on a speaker on the first ballot. As I’m writing this preparing for today’s show, they’re on the second vote of the day… after three failed…
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Today marks the start of the 118th Congress, if only they could elect a speaker! At the time of this writing, the second round of voting is still in progress, though the outcome is already known. With probably another hour of voting to go, there are already 13 Republican votes against McCarthy, and he could…
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I couldn’t think of a better guest to kick off the new year than Heather “Digby” Parton. She is THE OG progressive blogger, still writing liberally at digbysblog.net as well as in her regular columns for Salon.com. We’ll talk about the end of 2022, the J6 committee and the 117th Congress, and preview what’s in…
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Originally aired 3-4-22 Stevie Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band wrote his memoir
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