Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
I took the day off yesterday, not to rest up or have fun, but to fight with my health insurance extortionists. For as long as I can remember, I’ve called our for-profit system of heath noncare “government-sanctioned extortion,” because that’s the best description of this predatory system. Yesterday, I found out that due to a…
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I am a non-observant Jew. I’m actually an atheist who was raised in a secular Jewish home. My parents weren’t religious either and, with three daughters and no sons, we had no Bar Mitzvahs and we were growing up at a time when Jewish girls weren’t necessarily expected to be a Bat Mitzvah. So were…
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There was a bit of shock, anger and disapproval among my circle of friends and political confidants last week when the Congressional Progressive Caucus officially endorsed Shontel Brown in the primary for the seat she currently holds in Congress over progressive favorite Nina Turner. I voiced my concerns about problems with how the caucus is…
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Many of us were riveted Friday, watching Marjorie Traitor Greene testify at a hearing in GA as she lied her way an unending stream of “I don’t remembers” and I don’t recalls” as she channeled other ethically challenged Republicans before her, like Alberto Gonzalez’ famous 72 denials of memory. Today, John Bonifaz of Free Speech…
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Today is Earth Day. To mark the occasion, I’ll speak with author Eugene Linden about his new book, “Fire & Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change 1979-Present”. If we had enacted any of the legislation and protections proposed in the Green New Deal, we’d be in a much better position regarding the fate of…
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