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01:19:42

20250228 Emptywheel Friday And a Massive Oval Office...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/28

Today is Friday, when we get together with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net to recap much of what happened in the week leading up to our conversation. We record these shows on Friday mornings here in Arizona/Friday afternoons for Marcy in Ireland.Today, while we were recording, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelinskyy arrived at the White House to meet with Trump, ostensibly to sign a deal for Ukraine to compensate the US for our help in defending them against Russia. I had the tape-delayed coverage

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01:00:06

20250227 FL Can Help with Howie Klein & Josh Weil on...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/28

I know. I escaped Florida after living there for half of my life. I don't have many kind words to say about the state that has mostly become a bad joke. But I'll sing their praises if the people of Florida come through on April 1. (And I'm not talking about an April Fools prank!)There are two special congressional races in FL being held that day to replace two of D'ump's cabinet nominees. Matt Gaetz left Congress as the rep for District 1 when he was ridiculously nominated to be

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00:59:59

20250226 David Dayen on the State of the News on the...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/26

The current regime has announced that they are following the authoritarian's handbook when it comes to controlling the media. Banning the AP from the Oval Office and other press events with the liar-in-chief wasn't enough for them, so now they've decided that they will decide which reporters and media outlets will be allowed to cover the office of the president in the WH Press Pool. The NY Times' chief White House correspondent Peter Baker likened the move to "how the Kremlin took over its own press

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00:59:59

20250225 Tuesday Afternoon with Digby on the Nicole...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/25

A huge part of surviving this assault on our nation from within is our ability to maintain our sanity. One lesson I've learned in the past five weeks is that some days are better than others. I look forward to those mornings when the usual pit in my stomach doesn't fully form and I'm able to make it through the day without dissolving into a trembling mess. So far, so good today. I like days like these because I'm more able to catch up on my reading and somehow digest the avalanche of

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01:00:16

20250224 Monday Madness with Joan Walsh on the Nicole...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/24

Despite our best efforts to keep the weekend going, Mondays inevitably arrive. And with Mondays come the reality of the shit that hit the fan over the weekend. And the madness began Friday evening when we learned that D'ump has his unqualified, drunken idiot of a Secretary of Defense fired the highly qualified chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At "The Nation," Joan Walsh's article on this travesty carries the headline, "Make No Mistake, This is Trump's Worst Move

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01:16:48

20250221 Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/21

With the D'ump/Musk regime working at breakneck speed to destroy our democracy, it's hard to keep up with it all. That's one reason I'm so grateful that Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net sits down with us for an hour (or more) each Friday to help us understand what happened that week. Since Marcy is in Ireland and I'm in Arizona, we record these sessions right around noon ET. By the time it goes live at 5ET/2PT, some things may have already changed .. as is the case today.When we

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00:59:51

20250220 Opposite World Thursday with Howie Klein-...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/20

I've long theorized about our existence in "Opposite World" but never has it been more apparent than today as the sitting US President lies to the world about who started and is responsible for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war, now in its third year. The ONLY chance we have at making it out of this mess with any semblance of democracy in place is in the hands of Congressional Republicans. We only need a few in the House and four in the Senate, but are any of them

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01:00:08

20250218 Journalist Brian Karem Returns to the Nicole...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/18

He famously tussled with the orange one during Trump 1.0, and thankfully he's still on the beat.Brian Karem gained notoriety as the White House Correspondent for Playboy magazine last time around. Playboy is no more, but Karem is writing at Salon.com, hosting his podcast (justaskthequestion.com) and raking the muck... Today we'll talk about the administration's crimes and missteps. the Oval Office banning the AP, the role of media during a crisis like this and more...

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01:12:09

20250214 Emptywheel Friday-Thursday Massacre Edition-...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/14

I try to follow what's happening closely, but there's only so much my mind and psyche can handle. I'm quite fortunate to have Marcy Wheeler as a friend who joins me every Friday to recap much of what happened in the week just ending. At least much of what we need to know. (We'd need much more than an hour to cover all the shit they throw at the wall in any given week!)Today we cover a lot of territory, but focus in on the "Thursday Afternoon Massacre" at the DoJ, as the

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00:59:59

20250213 DoJ Vet Lisa Graves Weighs In on the Nicole...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/13

My friend Lisa Graves served in the Justice Dept under Attorneys General Janet Reno and John Ashcroft in both the Clinton and GWBush administrations. She's been chief counsel for nominations under then Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy, and her CV has many more examples of her legal bona fides. These days, Lisa is Executive Director of the watchdog group True North Research, but she appears regularly on this show in her personal capacity as a citizen, not representing any organization.With

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00:59:59

20250212 Greg Palast Explains How We Got Here -...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/12

I frequently exclaim that we're living in 'Opposite World'. It's a place filled with gaslighting where things are pretty much the exact opposite of what we're being told. D'ump and his cult followers, while screaming that WE were stealing the election are actually the ones who've been stealing OUR votes. Remember the newish warning: Every accusation is a confession.In his new film, VIGILANTES, INC: AMERICA'S NEW VOTE SUPPRESSION HITMEN, Greg explains how they've

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00:59:59

20250211 Knowledge is Power with Tom Schaller -Nicole...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/11

It's been a long time since my 8th grade civics class. I did learn a lot from Mr. Patton back then, but I haven't brushed up on much of what I learned then since. But we're being told a lot of stuff about our government, and the newly empowered administration is doing a lot of things that appear to be not only counter to what I learned, but also unconstitutional. Speaking of the constitution, we hear we're either approaching a constitutional crisis or we're smack dab in the

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00:59:59

20250210 Another F'n News-Filled Monday - Nicole...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/10

Our list of things inevitable is growing. It's no longer just death and taxes. To that we know that Monday will always arrive and with it more fucking news. So we get it out of the way... Each Monday I'm joined by Jonathan Larsen who actually compiles the news every fucking day at thefuckingnews.substack.com - and then does more original reporting at jonathanlarsen.substack.com too. And he hangs out with us on Mondays to talk about as much of it as we can.Today, some good news is tempered by

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01:03:41

20250207 Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/07

Although it feels like a decade, we've reached the end of the third workweek of the D'ump 2.0 administration and it is the shit show we anticipated. But the Democrats in the House and Senate finally seem to get getting the hang of fighting back and protecting our democracy.Each Friday, I'm joined by one of the best independent journalists working to keep us informed, Marcy Wheeler. Emptywheel.net is her home base, and it should be on your daily reading list. As this week comes to an end,

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00:59:19

20250206 Thursdays with Howie Klein & a Filibuster...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/06

Well, now the senate Democrats are getting the hang of it. Instead of just granting unanimous consent to end debate, allowing the Republicans to to ram through D'ump's horrendous cabinet nominees, it seems that they're finally getting in the fight. The debate began yesterday morning at 10:30am ET. They went all night long and are still going strong. The rules allow up to 30 hours of debate, so the Dems are apparently going to use every one of those hours to slow down the process.The

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00:59:54

20250205 Fighting For Our Future in the Streets &...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/05

There's a lot going on today. We do have a guest in the second half hour of the show. Catherine Coleman Flowers is one of the leading environmental activists of our time. Her new book, HOLY GROUND: ON ACTIVISM, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND FINDING HOPE, is just released. And the timing couldn't be better because we can certainly use some hope right about now. I almost canceled today's show as I debated going to the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix to participate in today's 50501 "Build the

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00:59:59

20250204 Tuesday with GottaLaff on the NicoleSandler...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/04

Well, technically, she's there, in Canada, and back on the show for today. GottaLaff (known to many as Laffy) is an old friend who used to do a weekly segment with me on this show for many years. She began working to move from Southern California to Canada when the orange menace was in office the first time, a process that took until this past year when she & Mr. Laffy were able to get residency and officially move. Between the move and the stress of doing this work, appearing weekly with me got to

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01:05:28

20250203 Another F'ing Monday with More F'ing News -...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/02/03

The coup is in full swing and we're not going to take it. I just had to say that right off the bat. D'ump went golfing this weekend, but on days 12 & 13 of this unconstitutional regime, his minions were hard at work... especially Elon Musk, WHO NOBODY CAST A SINGLE VOTE FOR. He has seized parts of the US Treasury that pays our bills and installed some kids barely out of high school who have access to all Americans' most sensitive data. They told us what they were going to do in

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00:59:59

20250131 Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/01/31

Every Friday, we check in with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net - one of the best journalists out there - to discuss what happened during the week. Given that this week we saw the senate confirmation hearings for the worst of D'ump's cabinet picks, it's no wonder that the shit show keeps getting even shittier.Not only did we have to hear from RFK Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, but this week brought another flurry of unconstitutional executive orders and pronouncements, firings of non-partisan

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00:59:59

20250130 Senate Confirmation Hearings Overload &...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/01/30

Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC returns with lots to say about the wholly unqualified people who the convicted felon in the White House has chosen to be in his cabinet. The senate confirmation hearings are running ad nauseum, many concurrently so we can't possibly cover all of them. But we'll do our best today. In addition to the testimony, much of which was filled with lies and non-answers, we'll also expose the failures of many of the Senate Democrats who cast

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