The Nicole Sandler Show

Emptywheel Friday 9-4-26

I apologize for the late arrival of this podcast, but my right hand is in severe pain which makes it very difficult to type. So, here it is. but this week the show will h

Rest In Peace & Power with Our Thanks & Love Gloria Steinem from All American Women

I awoke this morning after very little sleep due to extreme pain in my right hand thinking I'd take the day off when I learned that Gloria Steinem had died. So much for t

Driftglass and the FOIA King on the Nicole Sandler Show

Driftglass returns for our weekly check-in, and things go sideways fast — straight into the Supreme Court's bunker-ballroom ruling, the "court packing" talking point, and

BradBlog's Brad Friedman's Vacation Interruptus (er them...)

I crashed Brad Friedman's vacation. Again. I've done it before, but only because it's difficult to get him on my show when he's knee deep in recording his own show each d

A New Beginning And An Extra Decade For Me - For This?

I started the show recounting my ongoing beef with T-Mobile - a diversion from what I'm really mad about. Yesterday marked my 10th anniversary of being cancer-free, but I

Emptywheel Friday: No Gremlins, All Chaos: Marcy Wheeler on Trump's Collapsing Empire

It's Friday, so it's Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net — and for the first Friday in a few weeks, no technical gremlins. We dig into Trump's plan to

Show Me on the Doll where the Mean Liberal Hurt You - A Focus Group Attempt

Today I decided to run my own one-woman focus group. Not with liberals — with Republicans. Because nobody who actually voted for this guy calls into my show, so I figured

Driftglass, the Wrong Second Death and an Idea for Tomorrow

Tim Curry died. He was 80- making it the second death of the wrong 80-year old so far this week, and there was only one way to open the show. Driftglass joined me for thi

We're Back! Digby's Here, but Dolly's Gone

Dolly Parton has died, and before anything else today, I had to sit with that — a woman who somehow made everybody love her, right and left, gay and straight, country fan

Another Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler

Marcy Wheeler joins me for our weekly deep dive, and this Friday's episode is a doozy. We unpack the Natalie Harp saga — how one line from Jon Ossoff exposed just how muc

Howie Klein Knew Angie Nixon was Great Six Years Ago!

I apologize for being away for the past week or so, but I've been in studio/YouTube hell. I'll explain on another day... But given the huge win in Florida's Primary on Tu

Studio Still Not Quite Right, so Listen to Jon Ossoff Tonight

Well, the speech was last night, but wow, it was really good. I do think he could someday be president. He should be. Anyway, I'm still having studio troubles and still n

Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler!

Happy Emptywheel Friday! This was the week from hell. Not only in the news, courtesy of the Orange-man regime - which Marcy Wheeler & I discuss on today's show- but in my

Inevitable Mondays: Some Things Are Unavailable

Everything that could go wrong technically did today — but I somehow pushed through anyway. We had no video working, but I got the audio, so regular podcast listeners won

Emptywheel Friday: The Good Guy Gets the Last Word

It's another Emptywheel Friday as Marcy Wheeler takes a break from emptywheel.net to join Nicole Sandler to recap the week's legal and political wreckage. Topics include

The First Big Fugly Medicaid Cuts Hit Nebraska

The One Big Ugly Bill was designed so its cruelest provisions wouldn't hit until after the midterms — but Nebraska didn't get the memo, or rather, Governor Pillen decided

John Fugelsang Still Helping Us Laugh So We Don't Cry

Last night was a big election night, and I'm still sorting out how I feel about some of it. Michigan, Kansas, and a few other states weighed in yesterday, and my old frie

Mueller She Wrote's Allison Gill's FOIA Request Results Might Make You Cry

Allison Gill of Mueller She Wrote joined me today with two huge stories she broke this week — and it's only Tuesday! First, the FOIA request she filed after ICE raided ch

Scammers Keep Scamming- Trump, Blanche, the IRS & Dave Johnson visits

If you didn't know that the Trump Crime Organization would pull off this scam too you've had your head in the sand. I'm running late this morning trying to pull all the p

Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler

It's Friday, which means it's time to dig deeper with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. This week we're covering a lot of ground: Iran outmaneuvering a US military running