Marcy Wheeler reports the important news daily at emptywheel.net. She joins me on Friday's to recap what the highlights (and lowlights) from the week. Today, the latest Comer farce impeachment inquiry hearings and the various pending cases against him. Plus NBC News' latest hire and more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeBbFesbmVY&t=1185s
Howie Klein of DownWithTyranny.com has done a weekly segment with me on this show for more than a dozen years now. We mostly talk politics, often music and occasionally other subjects too. And fairly regularly, Howie brings along a guest. It's usually one of the Blue America-endorsed candidates, but today's guest is slightly different. Steven Fulop is the Mayor of Jersey City. Tonight he'll deliver his 11th State of the City address. He's already announced his candidacy for NJ Governor; that election happens in November of 2025. So you might ask, "why today?". Well, that has to [...]
FIGHTING MAD: RESISTING THE END OF ROE V. WADE is the title of a new book of essays about the recent SCOTUS decision in Dobbs overturning a 50-year precedent that gave women "reproductive autonomy". One of the editors, Krystale E. Littlejohn guests today to showcase the wide range of experts fighting back for our rights. The title FIGHTING MAD also works when describing the Democrats who sat through another ridiculous episode of the GOP's impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this morning which was more of a circus than a hearing, deeply embedded in opposite world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU4UosDaY4 [...]
Today ushers in the first day of Spring! It's only fitting that it's also the first day of the rebooted Bruce SPRINGsteen tour, and it's kicking off in Phoenix. It is Bruce so of course I'll be there. Yes, I'm giddy. There's nothing like a Springsteen concert! I'm glad today's guest is a fellow music lover. Jason Leopold's seeing him in LA on April 4... but he's not here to talk Bruce today. These days the man who's been dubbed the "FOIA Terrorist" by our government just launched "The FOIA Files," a weekly newsletter through Bloomberg News, for [...]
The 2024 presidential election is in full swing. My husband David and I were fortunate enough to be at a Biden-Harris event in Tempe, AZ yesterday where the featured speaker was our favorite member of Congress, Jamie Raskin.I hope to have him on the show sometime soon for a real interview, but we got to say hello, shake his hand, take a photo and hear him speak for about 30 minutes. It was one of the best political speeches I've ever attended, and he did it extemporaneously - no notes, no teleprompter. Just his quick wit and brilliant mind.I started [...]
I've been fortunate to have had a wonderful career in radio. It's been 45 years since my first radio job while in college at the University of South Florida's WUSF. After college, I moved up to NY where I quickly found a job at WMCA producing The Bob Grant Show. One day while Grant was on vacation, the guest host was former Congressman John LeBoutillier. While he was on the air, the hotline in the studio rang. It was Jim Kerr, the morning man at WPLJ. When I gave John the message, I asked for an introduction. He asked me [...]
It was the beginning of July 1994. I had just made the difficult decision to walk away from a very high-profile gig producing the #1 morning radio show in Los Angeles. I had spent four years with Mark & Brian, a rewarding job that started out as loads of fun but became less fun as time progressed and is a story for another time. Thankfully and luckily, I landed at the perfect place. I had planted the seeds some months earlier while watching the rise of a new radio format that was actually about the music – good, quality [...]
Wild Colonials Angela McCluskey, Paul Cantelon with KSCA's Nicole Sandler at Tower Records Sunset Blvd **Echo at the start of the video is fixed in a minute. Sorry about that!** Fridays are special aside from the obvious reasons. Marcy Wheeler, an independent journalist who covers legal and national security issues better than the corporate media at emptywheel.net, is our standing date to wrap up every week. Today we'll talk about the breaking news out of Fulton County, GA where Fani Willis will remain on the case as long as Nathan Wade doesn't, from NY where DA [...]
Wild Colonials Angela McCluskey, Paul Cantelon with KSCA's Nicole Sandler at Tower Records Sunset Blvd I'll update this post later when I have time to really gather my thoughts and write a fitting remembrance of one of my favorite people in the world. Angela McCluskey was truly the life of every party and we shared some great times. We lost her yesterday, and I'm still reeling. I thought I'd share one of the Wild Colonials appearances with me on KSCA fm 101.9 in Los Angeles. This was December 9, 1996. Enjoy. Thank you Angela for your friendship [...]
