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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!
The Truth about the Big Ugly, Social Security, Healthcare & More with Alex Lawson – Nicole Sandler Show 7-9-25
The Social Security Administration sent out an unsolicited email a few days ago, making far fetched claims about what ‘benefits’ the just-passed Big Ugly Tax & Kill bill would bring to Social Security beneficiaries. Most notably, the claim that El Dumpo has been crowing about repeatedly -- that it would eliminate taxes on those Social Security benefits. It's a lie. Steve Benen had a great article about it the other day at MaddowBlog. But there are many others out there echoing similar sentiment. The email makes other claims too that are, at the very least, confusing. To help clear up the confusion [...]
Wendell Potter on What Will Happen to our Healthcare Now – Nicole Sandler Show 7-8-25
We first met Wendell Potter about 15 years ago when he broke ranks as a health insurance PR executive to blow the whistle on the industry he knew was killing people in its quest for higher profits. And the rest, as they say, is history. Wendell still stands virtually alone in telling truth about the industry that's only grown larger and more powerful and still values profits over the lives they allegedly exist to protect. Wendell Potter is a best-selling author, journalist and above all, a leading advocate for health care reform. He's also editor-in-chief of the newsletter [...]
Another F’n News Monday with Jonathan Larsen of The F’n News – Nicole Sandler Show 7-7-25
When Jonathan Larsen first launched his newsletter and called it The Fucking News, I thought it was quite clever. Now I know it was perfect and prescient. Jonathan joins me on the show each Monday to help us get a handle on what's happening in the news and set the stage for the week. It reminds of of the limbo dance. It's really a game that asks, "How low can you go?" The aim is to pass forward under a bar, which keeps getting set lower and lower, without falling or dislodging the bar. Unfortunately, in this Trumpian world, [...]
An Ironic Musical 4th of July Celebration -Nicole Sandler Show 7-4-25
It’s the 4th of July. Independence Day. The day we celebrate our democracy from a king. And here we are now, fighting to retain some semblance of that freedom…. I usually celebrate holidays with music, and today is no different. To be honest, I’m cheating a bit this year… this is last year’s show. Frankly I didn’t have it in me to put together a new on this year. But the music still works. This will not go out as a regular podcast due to copyright issues. But I’m embedding the audio here, so you can listen [...]
A Big Ugly Independence Day Eve- We’ll Take it to 11 with Spinal Tap’s Harry Shearer! Nicole Sandler Show 7-3-25
Just when I thought that just maybe three or four Republican House members would find a spine and actually represent their constituents and fulfill the oaths they swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, I realize that I only wind up disappointed. In the middle of the night last night, the traitors who would sell out the people to help the wealthiest of the wealthy caved. As I prepare to go live on the air at 3pm Eastern/noon Pacific, the Democratic Leader in the House Hakeem Jeffries wrapped up a record-breaking speech (Dems are good at that). After 8 [...]
CBS Caves, Immigrants Continue to Fight Back with Gaby Pacheco – Nicole Sandler Show 7-2-25
Knowing that I can't possibly cover everything that goes on each day in this hour we have together, today we'll focus on two... First, I must apologize. I’m a one-woman show here. I don’t have a producer, engineer, webmaster or anyone else helping me out. I multitask, with the best of intentions. But more often than I’d like to admit, things don’t go as smoothly as I’d planned. If you want the video version of the show, you’ll see what I mean. During the segment where I attempted to show you the videos to illustrate what I’m about to [...]
SCOTUS, Senate Screwed Us. What’s Next? We’ll talk with the LawDork – Nicole Sandler Show 7-1-25
After more than 24 hours of "debate" (it wasn't a debate) and the so-called vote-a-rama (including bullshit backroom deals, we're looking at you Murkowski), the Opposite World fittingly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (though according to Schumer, he got the name changed to something else) passed the Senate today with the tightest possible margin. It was a 50-50 vote with VP JD Vance breaking the tie. All Democrats voted NO. Three Republicans --Thom Tillis, Rand Paul and Susan Collins stepped up. But it was Alaska's Lisa Murkowski who betrayed the nation and caved in to the pressure and more [...]
Can the F’n News Get Any More F’d Up? Nicole Sandler Show 6-30-25
It's difficult to imagine the news getting any worse than the crap we've been dealing with over the last five months. Just when you think we've hit rock bottom, we live through another week of Dump 2.0 and we realize there is no basement. The senate right now is in the middle of the vote-a-rama on its way to passing the Behemoth Barbaric Bill Act which is worse than anything we could have imagined. The orange idiot-in-chief has also taken us down through the depths of Opposite World as his lies continue confusing those who somehow [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 6-27-26
It was a week that, once again, felt like a year... or more! There was a war. More accurately, the moron in the White House inserted us into a war between Israel and Iran. The Supreme/Extreme Court finished it's term by handing down the final opinions in the regular term, though a handful of shadow docket cases will be handed down next week). It was an ugly day for the future of our democracy. The Big Ugly Bill is racing toward the MAGAts self-imposed 4th of July deadline. And a whole lot more happened, much of which Marcy [...]
Catching Up on the News – Nicole Sandler Show 6-26-26
Cartoons by Ann Telnaes and Barry Blitt I read a ridiculous amount of news in preparation for this show every day, much of which I never get to during the hour I'm on the air with this show. So today we'll play catch up on a bunch of news that transpired so far this week. The Supreme Court today handed down four of their 10 remaining decisions, and announced they'll finish them off tomorrow! Of course, that doesn't count the outstanding shadow docket cases, or does it? (That's a gift link to a NY Times article "The [...]