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I’ve been remiss in updating this page, but fixing that now to point you to our new home for The Nicole Sandler Show podcast.
Hopefully, you won’t notice much difference. The show still airs live weekday afternoons from 5-6pm ET. After that, it’s available as a podcast. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, or download any episode directly from this page, or from each day’s show post.
The only difference is that if you’re looking through the blog for an older show, the audio/podcast embed may not work. But you can go to the new podcast page and search for the date of the show you want to hear, and it should come right up for you.
As with anything new, it’ll likely take a little while to iron out any problems. So please let me know about any bugs you encounter, and do tell me what’s working well too!
My show is not behind a paywall, though we do depend on your donations to keep it going.
Thanks for checking us out!
Communication Breakdown – No Show Today
I'm cursed when it comes to computers. I usually blame the problem on gremlins. Today I think they're demons. Or maybe it's that old disrupter, Mercury Retrograde. I'm not big on astrology, but I have noticed that when Mercury is in retrograde, bad shit happens, especially concerning communications. And according to the people who are big on astrology, this time around, it's a doozy. On March 15, Mercury retrograde begins again, and it’s time to send in the clowns. For the next three weeks, Mercury will appear to move backward in the sky, causing very real miscommunications, technology meltdowns, and debilitating headaches. [...]
Another F’n Monday with this Incompetent Administration – Nicole Sandler Show 3-24-25
It was a weekend with some hope as I tried to focus only on the good stuff, and there was cause for encouragement. Bernie Sanders and AOC held five rallies in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, and they were awesome in the truest sense of the word. Record crowds everywhere, with reports that most were not necessarily previous Sanders voters or supporters. People are rising up and there are more actions planned. Keep 'em coming! I have to be out on Wednesday for some doctors appointments, so I may take that day to share Bernie's and [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-21-25
We made it to another Friday, and another end of the week recap with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. We keep noting that each week seems like an eternity, but this one seemed to have been even longer. I cannot keep up with all that’s happening. I don’t have the bandwidth, physically or emotionally to handle it. It’s one of many reasons why I’m so grateful for Marcy Wheeler and her indefatigable work at emptywheel.net, and that she brings it to us here each Friday. We had a few video-tech issues at the start, but got it fixed, [...]
Politics & Music with Howie Klein & Danny Goldberg on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-20-25
Howie Klein has been my regular Thursday guest for over a dozen years now, but our friendship goes back further to the early 90s, when I was doing rock radio in Los Angeles and he was president of Reprise Records. When Howie left Reprise and Warner Brothers as Time Warner and AOL merged, he began devoting all of his time to progressive politics, launching Down with Tyranny and the Blue America PAC. Danny Goldberg also worked in the music industry as a personal manager, record company president, public relations man and journalist since the late 1960s. [...]
Alex Lawson & Facts About Social Security on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-19-25
Both Alex and I had technical problems last week when he joined us, so he's back today as the regime's attack on Social Security intensifies. The news has only gotten more alarming and unprecedented in the last seven days. Alex Lawson is executive director of Social Security Works, an organization dedicated to fighting to protect and expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; lower drug prices; ensure economic justice for all; and guarantee health care as a human right—because everyone deserves to live in dignity. I've known Alex for close to 15 years, and have never heard [...]
A Free Press or Not on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-17-25
Monday mornings always come with a rude awakening... it's that "here we go again" feeling as we embark on another week in a world we no longer recognize. With each Monday comes the now-routinely awful news of what happened over the weekend when we tried to look away from the train wreck happening constantly before our eyes. This weekend brought with it the moment we knew was coming while we hoped it wouldn't... when Trump and his administration openly ignored a court order. It involved due process for a group of men who Trump decided were terrorists, without [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-14-25
We wrap up each week on Fridays with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. We try to cover much of the important news from the week just ending. With the avalanche of shit raining down on us constantly, there's a lot of information to parse. Marcy is in Ireland, I'm in Arizona, so we record our Friday get-togethers at around noon Eastern. The show goes live at 5pm ET. There's a lot happening today, as the senate will vote on the "continuing resolution" offered by the magats. That may or may not happen by showtime. But as Marcy and I [...]
About That CR & the GOP Assault on the USA on the Nicole Sandler Show 3-13-25
Howie Klein is usually with us on Thursdays but, as he's been writing about at DownWithTyranny.com, he's battling cancer and isn't able to be here today. He should be back with us next week. Today, the senate is debating the continuing resolution passed by the Republicans in the House, even though most of them would never have voted for this if the orange man in the White House hadn't threatened them to do it. Because they'll need 60 votes to invoke cloture and avoid a filibuster, the Republicans will need help from seven Democrats to get that [...]
Social Security, All Government Spending at Risk – Nicole Sandler Show 3-12-25
I've gotten a lot of email in the past week or two from listeners very concerned about what the Musk/Dump regime will do to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Although I know that messing with those programs would bring down what's left of this nation -- or maybe because I know that -- it's got me really concerned too. ProPublica this morning published a story regarding a leaked phone recording of the acting Social Security Commissioner expressing grave concerns about what "the DOGE kids" are doing there and the ramifications if they 'succeed'. I shared [...]
Mike Papantonio on Big Pharma, PBMs & RFK Jr – Nicole Sandler Show 3-11-25
I don't usually interview novelists on this show, but Mike Papantonio is so much more. He is a leading trial lawyer who's won numerous multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of victims of corporate malfeasance. He hosted the radio show "Ring of Fire" on Air America Radio, and has written a bunch of books - both fiction and non-fiction- dealing with the law. His new book, The Middleman, centers on the shady practices of Big Pharma, a subject we should all be concerned about. One of Pap's co-hosts on "Ring of Fire" for many years was Bobby Kennedy [...]
