The Nicole Sandler Show

Emptywheel Friday and the News Keeps Breaking!

This show is recorded live every day except Fridays! Because Marcy Wheeler lives in Ireland and I'm in Arizona, we record on Fridays at 12 noon Eastern, and it goes live

The Healing Has Begun, Now We've Got Some Apologizing to Do

The healing has begun, and now we've got some apologizing to do. I open with a song from 2Krispii for every conservative who suddenly cares because gas prices are too hig

We Did It: Celebrating Democracy’s Return and Our Birthdays with Driftglass

It’s my birthday, and the blue tsunami is the best gift I could have asked for. As of this morning, Democrats had secured 54 Senate seats and 228 House seats, with a real

It's Election Day – Vote Like Your Future Depends On It

It's Election Day, so go vote! I'm back in the new studio, a little scattered and a lot bruised after yesterday's MRI (four tries to find a vein, in case you were wonderi

Back to the Future with the Nicole Sandler Show

After a week away to move, I’m back in the rebuilt studio, just in time for Election Day tomorrow. I open the show with J-L Cauvin doing his best D'ump impression with a

Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler: Midterm Home Stretch, Stolen Elections, and 11 Days to Go

Happy Friday, everyone! I got my YouTube channel back, so we are officially back in business. Today's Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net is a big one

Elizabeth Lee 4 AZ - She Just Might Be the First CongressWoman from AZ05

Elizabeth Lee, the Democratic nominee in Arizona's 5th Congressional District, is back on the show 12 days before Election Day. A year ago she was an underdog nobody gave

Wednesday Driftglassing: No Kings, Evil Landlords, Damn Hackers!

Happy Wednesday! Driftglass and I did our weekly hour today, and it's my most enjoyable of the week. We talked about No Kings, the Arizona and Illinois races, and the Rep

The Clinical Term for Him Is Psychopath: Dr. Vincent Greenwood on "Puppet on a String"

It's Monday, October 19th, and I'm still locked out of my YouTube channel, so this week the show lives on Twitch, Vimeo, and the audio stream at NicoleSandler.com and Nic

Emptywheel Fridays: A Week and a Half of Corruption Hitting the Fan and Lots More

It's Friday, so national security journalist Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net is back to connect the dots on anoother week that felt like a year. We start with the White H

I'm Back (Sort Of) with Driftglass, No Thanks to Hackers

I apologize for being MIA for the past two days, but I do have a good excuse.. Actually, a few! Hackers took my YouTube channel and my main Google account and my house hu

Emptywheel Friday: Sanctions, Serbia, and Stephen Miller's Plan to Export Fascism

Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins me after landing back from Vilnius, Lithuania, where she attended the Disinfo conference. She explains how two panels naming the Uni

Lisa Graves Is Back! Roberts, Bush v. Gore, and the Fight to Protect Our Votes

Lisa Graves is back on the show, and so much has happened while she was away. Lisa is my go-to legal expert and the author of Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts

Driftglass and Nicole Sandler try to make sense of a senseless world

It's Wednesday and Driftglass is in the house. We start with a satirical "betting app" ad about Ken Paxton that made both of us laugh out loud, then dig into the Texas Se

Alex Lawson Making Good Trouble and Uncovering a Nefarious Republican Plan

Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, flew to Dallas to confront a House Budget Committee field hearing, and what he found was something else entirely

Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 10-2-26

Emptywheel Friday: Klan Act Lawsuits, Chicago's Reckoning, and Georgia's Ask It's Emptywheel Friday, and Marcy Wheeler is here to connect the dots on a week that kept pi

D'ump's AI-ARROGANT IDIOTS- with Digby on the Nicole Sandler Show

Heather 'Digby' Parton and I go back more than 20 years, to the early days of the progressive blogosphere, and today she helps me look past the Trump spectacle to what's

Schmitting the Bed with Driftglass plus Eric Schmitt, the Hawkeyes, and the Dumbest Gotcha Ever Attempted

It's another Wednesday with Driftglass, and what a Wednesday it was.  Mangy Fetlocks kicks things off with a song about Senator Eric Schmitt, who tried to spring a gotch

Mr. Smith Told Off Washington

Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the theater was almost as remarkable as the testimony. In his opening statement, Smith said the evidence p

Taking on the Media & Giving Real News with Dan Froomkin

Welcome to a new week in opposite world. I opened today's show with a video that put a smile on my face (and apologize for playing something created by AI which I said I