The Nicole Sandler Show

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

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