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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!
FL Can Help with Howie Klein & Josh Weil on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-27-25
I know. I escaped Florida after living there for half of my life. I don't have many kind words to say about the state that has mostly become a bad joke. But I'll sing their praises if the people of Florida come through on April 1. (And I'm not talking about an April Fools prank!) There are two special congressional races in FL being held that day to replace two of D'ump's cabinet nominees. Matt Gaetz left Congress as the rep for District 1 when he was ridiculously nominated to be AG. Thankfully we dodged that [...]
David Dayen on the State of the News on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-26-25
The current regime has announced that they are following the authoritarian's handbook when it comes to controlling the media. Banning the AP from the Oval Office and other press events with the liar-in-chief wasn't enough for them, so now they've decided that they will decide which reporters and media outlets will be allowed to cover the office of the president in the WH Press Pool. The NY Times' chief White House correspondent Peter Baker likened the move to "how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access." [...]
Tuesday Afternoon with Digby on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-25-25
A huge part of surviving this assault on our nation from within is our ability to maintain our sanity. One lesson I've learned in the past five weeks is that some days are better than others. I look forward to those mornings when the usual pit in my stomach doesn't fully form and I'm able to make it through the day without dissolving into a trembling mess. So far, so good today. I like days like these because I'm more able to catch up on my reading and somehow digest the avalanche of surreal news that, on [...]
Monday Madness with Joan Walsh on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-24-25
Despite our best efforts to keep the weekend going, Mondays inevitably arrive. And with Mondays come the reality of the shit that hit the fan over the weekend. The madness began (or continued) Friday evening when we learned that D'ump had his unqualified, drunken idiot of a Secretary of Defense fire the highly qualified chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At The Nation, Joan Walsh's article on this travesty carries the headline, "Make No Mistake, This is Trump's Worst Move Yet". And that says something, as we know the moves he'd previously made. Joan Walsh joins me [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-21-25
With the D'ump/Musk regime working at breakneck speed to destroy our democracy, it's hard to keep up with it all. That's one reason I'm so grateful that Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net sits down with us for an hour (or more) each Friday to help us understand what happened that week. Since Marcy is in Ireland and I'm in Arizona, we record these sessions right around noon ET. By the time it goes live at 5ET/2PT, some things may have already changed .. as is the case today. When we got around to discussing the case of NYC Mayor Eric [...]
Thursday in Opposite World with Howie Klein on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-20-25
I've long theorized about our existence in "Opposite World" but never has it been more apparent than today as the sitting US President lies to the world about who started and is responsible for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war, now in its third year. The ONLY chance we have at making it out of this mess with any semblance of democracy in place is in the hands of Congressional Republicans. We only need a few in the House and four in the Senate, but are any of them willing to challenge the [...]
Journalist Brian Karem Returns to the Nicole Sandler Show 2-18-25
I didn't do a new show yesterday. That's because I was out at the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix protesting with a few thousand others. I will embed the videos I shot at the bottom of this post so you can see some of it for yourself. We must ALL step up in whatever ways we can to fight back against the oligarchy and preserve our democracy. Also, I will not be here tomorrow. I was able to get in to see an endocrinologist. Right now, I must take care of myself and try to get healthy again [...]
National Day of Protest – No New Show Today – 2-17-25
I will not have a new, live episode of The Nicole Sandler Show today, as I'll be at the Arizona state capitol in Phoenix standing up for democracy! We'll run a repeat episode on Progressive Voices at our regular air time of 5pm ET/2PT/3MT I can't guarantee anything, but I'll try to go live on my YouTube channel from the protest, sometime around noon MT (2pm ET/11am PT) I'll try to post pictures and updates on Bluesky. Follow me at nicolesandler.bsky.social. Here's a search engines for some of the planned protests. Please know these are all locally organized, so [...]
Emptywheel Fridays – the Thursday Massacre & More Edition – on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-14-25
I try to follow what's happening closely, but there's only so much my mind and psyche can handle. I'm quite fortunate to have Marcy Wheeler as a friend who joins me every Friday to recap much of what happened in the week just ending. At least much of what we need to know. (We'd need much more than an hour to cover all the shit they throw at the wall in any given week!) Today we cover a lot of territory, but focus in on the "Thursday Afternoon Massacre" at the DoJ, as the Attorney General (sic) has ordered [...]
DoJ Veteran Lisa Graves Weighs In on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-13-25
My friend Lisa Graves served in the Justice Dept under Attorneys General Janet Reno and John Ashcroft in both the Clinton and GWBush administrations. She's been chief counsel for nominations under then Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy, and her CV has many more examples of her legal bona fides. These days, Lisa is Executive Director of the watchdog group True North Research, but she appears regularly on this show in her personal capacity as a citizen, not representing any organization. Most of what D'ump & co are unlawfully doing was told to us in Project 2025. Check out [...]