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Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net on the Nicole Sandler Show

It's Empty Wheel Friday, and Marcy Wheeler is here to make sense of an absolutely chaotic week. We start with Trump's underwhelming state visit with Xi Jinping — the pre

Interview with a Non-Human: I Grilled Claude AI About Trump, War, and the Robot Uprising

Today I did something I've never done before — I interviewed Claude AI, live, about all the unsettling stuff happening with AI right now (blackmail tests, hacking inciden

It's Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler on the Nicole Sandler Show

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Jonathan Kaufman Takes Us Back to the 80s, and I Remember Them All Too Well

It's Constitution Day, and we're 46 days from the end of voting in the midterms. I open with YouTube's attempt to demonetize and block a Hamilton-cast get-out-the-vote vi

Driftglass' & My Audio Fixed, but Patel Still has a Bestiality Problem

Today has been one of those days when everything that could go wrong did. I'm finally posting this at 7pm because I had to fix the audio which was fubar on today's show.

David Corn: It's Not the Russia Hoax, It's the Russia Hoax HOAX

Today's the day David Corn's new book, How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America, hits stores — and he joins me to make the case that this i

Back to the Grind: 50 Day Countdown to Election Day Nicole Sandler Show

I'm back from vacation and diving straight into the deep end. Fifty days until Election Day — vote early, vote smart, and don't trust the mail with your ballot if you can

Twenty-five Years After 9/11 with a Song by John Ondrasik and a Book by Jim DeFede

I'm on vacation this week, but dropping in a special show to commemorate 9-11, twenty-five years later with some personal remembrances, along with a song and a book! The

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