Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
After the phony outrage from the American right wing nuts, I got to thinking about other political prisoners. The longest-serving one is Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who’s been held since 1975! He just turned 78, is in failing health, and the government has resisted calls for his release for decades. Today, I’ll share…
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This week the Extreme Supreme Court heard two consequential cases that could affect millions of same sex married couples, and could enable state legislatures to upend our election systems, potentially allowing what Trump attempted in 2020 but couldn’t. Today, we’re joined by friend of the show Lisa Graves, currently executive director/founder of TrueNorthResearch, who served…
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Howie Klein blogs at Downwithtyranny.com and runs the Blue America PAC. He’s done a weekly guest segment with me for probably over a decade now. During that time, the role of progressives in the House Democratic caucus has been somewhat of a rollercoaster. Today, we’ll get the lay of the land from Howie regarding the…
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I spent a very busy four years from 1990-1994 as producer of the #1 morning radio show in Los Angeles, the Mark and Brian Show, based at KLOS. The show continued for another 20 years or so after I left.. Mark Thompson wrote a book, just released this week. All proceeds go to benefit the…
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The 2022 midterms will finally come to a close tonight when the final vote is cast in the runoff election for the US Senate seat from Georgia. The race between the incumbent Raphael Warnock and his opponent, former football player Herschel Walker is inexplicably close, a depressing reality when you consider the qualifications of these…
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