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61:28

SCOTUS & Senate Screwed Us. Law Dork Chris Geidner...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/07/01

After more than 24 hours of "debate" (it wasn't a debate) and the so-called vote-a-rama (including bullshit backroom deals, we're looking at you Murkowski), the Opposite World fittingly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (though according to Schumer, he got the name changed to something else) passed the Senate today with the tightest possible margin. It was a 50-50 vote with VP JD Vance breaking the tie.All Democrats voted NO. Three Republicans --Thom Tillis, Rand Paul and Susan Collins stepped up

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65:21

Can the F'n News Get Any More F'd Up?

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/30

It's difficult to imagine the news getting any worse than the crap we've been dealing with over the last five months. Just when you think we've hit rock bottom, we live through another week of Dump 2.0 and we realize there is no basement.The senate right now is in the middle of the vote-a-rama on its way to passing the Behemoth Barbaric Bill Act which is worse than anything we could have imagined. The orange idiot-in-chief has also taken us down through the depths of Opposite World as his lies

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60:03

Emptywheel Fridays

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/27

It was a week that, once again, felt like a year... or more! There was a war. More accurately, the moron in the White House inserted us into a war between Israel and Iran. The Supreme/Extreme Court finished it's term by handing down the final opinions in the regular term, though a handful of shadow docket cases will be handed down next week). It was an ugly day for the future of our democracy. The Big Ugly Bill is racing toward the MAGAts self-imposed 4th of July deadline. And a whole lot more

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59:59

Catching Up on the News - The Bad, The Sad and a Tiny...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/26

I read a ridiculous amount of news in preparation for this show every day, much of which I never get to during the hour I'm on the air with this show. So today we'll play catch up on a bunch of news that transpired so far this week.The Supreme Court today handed down four of their 10 remaining decisions, and announced they'll finish them off tomorrow! Of course, that doesn't count the outstanding shadow docket cases, or does it? (That's a gift link to a NY Times article "The Major Supreme Court

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59:48

The Courts, Rule of Law and Lisa Graves

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/25

While we await the final rulings of this term from the Supreme Extreme Court, we're still getting decisions from them along with rulings from lower courts which may, or may not, apply nationally... depending on what SCOTUS rules when they finally get around to announcing their final decisions of the term. It's not only tedious but unnerving, frightening and based on their recent records, potentially (and probably) sickening.There's also a confirmation hearing for Judge Emil Bove, a person wholly

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60:05

Brian Karem Rides with us on the TrumperCoaster of War

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/24

It's another TrumperCoaster ride so get your barf bags ready. We've ridden many TrumperCoasters over the last 10 years, but this one might be the most nauseating. He's the self-proclaimed "peace president"; one who drops bombs. He threatens, cajoles and lies at every turn. He's delusional!I can't explain it. Perhaps Brian Karem can... He does a pretty good job of it at Salon.com, on his Just Ask the Question podcast, on his substack and social media and, occasionally, on this show. Hopefully he can

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59:59

Truly F'd Up News on Another F'n News Monday

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/23

For some reason it seems like President D'ump likes those Friday night news dumps. So of course, after throwing out his standard delay brain crutch of "2 weeks," the man who can't think for himself launched an attack on three "nuclear sites" inside of Iran, breaking a big campaign promise to keep us out of Middle East wars, inserted us right in the middle of one.Shortly before showtime we learned that Iran retaliated. However, AP reported that “this missile attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar

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87:20

Emptywheel Fridays

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/20

We survived another week, though this one had quite a few precarious moments, much of which went unreported by the mainstream, corporate media and certainly ignored by the right-wing media which most of MAGAt-world erroneously considers news and trusts to (dis) inform them. It's a big reason why I do this show and why these Friday episodes with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net are so important. And although we usually run over our allotted hour (like today), there's still a lot of real news that we

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67:20

Juneteenth Thursday with Howie Klein

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/19

Happy Juneteenth! It's our newest federal holiday, recognized as such in 2021 after President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. Even D'ump proposed making Juneteenth a national holiday during his first re-election bid.But he's done an about face since somehow getting back into office in January, with a vendetta against "DEI" and, by his attitude and actions, reaffirming his followers' rights to let their racists flags fly. He's bringing back Jim Crow which did NOT

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93:01

WTF Wednesday

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/18

This is is one of those days in the middle of one of those weeks during one of those months in the inconceivable, unbelievable second term of an imbecile. There's an avalanche of news, precious little of it good. We don't have a guest today, so our pal Spocko joined in to talk about much of the day's news.We cover a lot of ground, share a lot of video - especially from a contentious hearing today in the Senate Armed Services Committee where the completely in-over-his-head Defense Sec (sic) Whiskey

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59:39

Will Bunch Weighs In

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/17

While the guy who obviously thinks of himself as America's "dear leader" demanded Iran's "Unconditional Surrender" and unilaterally (I guess) decided that "we" will not kill their supreme leader (though he boasts of knowing where he is), it's another Tuesday in America. DC is still grappling with the Big, Ugly Bill and the Republicans continue vacillating on Trump's immigration pronouncements... the chaos continues. And in New York City, ICE and other masked and unidentified thugs rough up and

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59:59

No Kings, Ego Parade Bust & Lots of F'n News Monday

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/16

We begin each week here on the Nicole Sandler Show by catching up on the news with Jonathan Larsen of TheFuckingNews.substack.com and yes, there certainly was a lot of fucking news made over the weekend.When we last spoke on Friday, we were reeling from the treatment of California's Senator Alex Padilla at a press conference at the federal building in Los Angeles held by DHS secretary Kristi Noem. He was forcibly removed, tackled to the floor and handcuffed. It was awful.That didn't prepare us for

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84:43

Emptywheel Friday (the 13th)

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/13

Every Friday, Emptywheel.net's Marcy Wheeler joins Nicole Sandler to recap much of went down since we spoke the Friday before. We usually start the show amazed at just how much had happened in a week, but today seems to be in a new category altogether. We knew at the start that we'd be running a bit longer than usual, and on Fridays we do tend to run over the one hour this show usually runs.Today, we were dealing with the inept and grossly incompetent Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's

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59:50

Holy S&#t! They Did That to a US Senator!

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/12

My plans for today's show changed just moments before showtime as there was really disturbing breaking news! Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed - wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a Kristi Noem press conference after LOUDLY AND CLEARLY identifying himself.This is what the DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, was saying before Sen. Padilla spoke up. “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on

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59:59

Gaslighting vs Truth, ICE begets Fire, David Dayen on...

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/11

The news keeps getting worse but, for the most part, the narrative is manufactured by Trump and his sycophantic cabinet. We ARE living in 'Opposite World' where the 'news' is reporting the lies Trump posts at his Truth (sic) Social propaganda platform. Journalists from corporate media who dare to attempt to speak up are punished (see Torry Moran, now formerly of ABC News).The gaslighting underscores our need for real, courageous, independent news sources and the call to support them. One of the best

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60:01

Dysfunctional America in the Streets & the Boardroom

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/10

These are scary times in our country. The incompetent orange idiot occupying the White House is doing everything we were afraid he'd do if he took power again. In advance of his North Korea-style military salute to himself happening this Saturday on the streets of Washington DC, he's created a showdown with mostly peaceful protesters who've been exercising their constitutional rights in a small sliver of downtown Los Angeles. He's breaking norms and the constitution by using military force against

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59:59

More F'n Monday News, but Earlier

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/09

It's another inevitable Monday with a ridiculous amount of fucking news to share and, beginning today, we're doing it earlier! The Nicole Sandler Show now streams live at 3pm Eastern/noon Pacific time on YouTube and live audio on the Progressive Voices network.As always, both the audio and video also stream live to the homepage at nicolesandler.com, and are archived there as well by date.. (So today's show is posted at nicolesandler.com/6-9-25 -- all shows use that format). And you can still get it

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59:59

Emptywheel Fridays (Big Bad Breakup Episode)

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/06

Every Friday, Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel.net) and I get together to recap some of the big news of the week and, frankly, it's usually a depressing job. Today, though, we were able to have a few laughs at the expense of two utterly despicable characters - Donald Trump and Elon Musk. That's because of their very public, very childish big, beautiful breakup yesterday.But we also did the responsible thing and point out the questions that journalists should be asking instead of just exploiting the

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59:19

Feuding Narcissists & Howie Klein Thursday

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/05

We knew it would eventually happen, we just didn't know when. But things are ugly in Dump World today where barbs are flying between the orange madman and his biggest campaign contributor. Dump and Elmo are lashing out at one another on their (dis) respective social media platforms and I can't wait to see how low they'll go.Over at downwithtyranny.com, Howie Klein wrote about it, and came up with a great headline: "Musk to Senor Trumpanzee: Go Fund Yourself". Today is Thursday, so we will check in

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59:59

Lisa Graves Told You So (Re: Leonard Leo)

The Nicole Sandler Show ·

2025/06/04

For many years, Lisa Graves has been exposing Leonard Leo for the sleazebag he is. The Dumpster fire in DC finally got the message! Lisa Graves wrote about the man Extreme Court inJustice Clarence Thomas called "the third most powerful man in the world" in her Grave Injustice substack newsletter today, and joins us on today's show to show just how prescient she is... and give us the dirt she's been reporting on since before Leo orchestrated the scheme to turn the high court into the shit show it is

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