Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
She’s been our Vice President for almost four years now, but do we really know Kamala Harris? Joan Walsh first interviewed her for a 2003 San Francisco magazine profile when Ms. Harris was running for district attorney. She sat down with most recently just a few weeks ago, for a cover story profile of the…
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I’ll admit it. I don’t know much about ancient history. I read The Iliad and The Odyssey, but most other historical literature from the ancient world is like Greek to me…. And although I excelled in Advanced World History in high school, that was a very long time ago and sadly, I’ve forgotten most of…
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Another Monday has arrived and the outlook is much rosier than in recent weeks. Needless to say, there’s lots to discuss. And it’s Monday, so Jonathan Larsen of The Fucking News (thefuckingnews.substack.com) joins in for the second half hour of the show. We’ll venture into the world of the weird, which we acknowledge that there…
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Another week that feels like a decade gone by since our last Friday get-together. There’s no shortage of news to discuss today as Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net and I try to recount what all happened. Of course, it was this week that President Joe Biden stepped away from his re-election campaign and passed the torch to VP Kamala Harris….
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The blurb I posted on the live video stream today read I watched two speeches from Washington DC yesterday. One that shouldn’t have happened, and one that should (though the way we got there is troublesome). One brought out the best of America; the other, the worst. We’ll discuss both of them today and more…
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My first existential question is whether we, as a nation, are too broken. Our politics are broken. Our ‘news’ media is broken. Our ability to talk with one another is broken. Believe it or not, I’m not as depressed as I was yesterday (or the past few weeks), but that changes too… Journalist, columnist, author,…
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I took a rare day off yesterday as I was in no shape to do a show. Emotions are running too high due to a combination of things beyond my control. I should probably take off another day or four, but there’s too much at stake to sit on the sidelines. But I also realized…
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I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. Thank Dog it’s Friday so we can stick a fork in this week. But another one is coming right behind this one with plenty more shit to be stirred. At least have this hour each week to get together with Marcy Wheeler, independent journalist at emptywheel.net, to…
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Trying to remember despair is not an option. It seems that sanity is failing all around us, but I’m trying to stay positive and believe that good will win out over evil. Evil has been on display all week, from a rally in PA to a convention hall in Milwaukee. The Democratic circular firing squad…
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Political Scientist, Election Strategist and author of the must-read book, Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at their Own Game, Rachel Bitecofer returns to the show today to tell Democrats how to win. All we need to do is listen to her and do what she suggests! Take notes…..
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