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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!
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 [...]
Greg Palast Explains How We Got Here on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-12-25
I frequently exclaim that we're living in 'Opposite World'. It's a place filled with gaslighting where things are pretty much the exact opposite of what we're being told. D'ump and his cult followers, while screaming that WE were stealing the election are actually the ones who've been stealing OUR votes. Remember the newish warning: Every accusation is a confession. In his new film, VIGILANTES, INC: AMERICA'S NEW VOTE SUPPRESSION HITMEN, journalist Greg Palast explains how they've been doing this and why Donald Trump is sitting in the Oval Office again. See the film now at gregpalast.com, here on YouTube [...]
Knowledge is Power with Tom Schaller – Nicole Sandler Show 2-11-25
It's been a long time since my 8th grade civics class. I did learn a lot from Mr. Patton back then, but I haven't brushed up on much of what I learned then since. But we're being told a lot of stuff about our government, and the newly empowered administration is doing a lot of things that appear to be not only counter to what I learned, but also unconstitutional. Speaking of the constitution, we hear we're either approaching a constitutional crisis or we're smack dab in the middle of one. But do we really know what [...]
Another Fucking News-Filled Monday on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-10-25
Our list of things inevitable is growing. It's no longer just death and taxes. To that, we know that Monday will always arrive and with it more fucking news. So we get it out of the way... Each Monday I'm joined by Jonathan Larsen who actually compiles the news every fucking day at thefuckingnews.substack.com - and then does more original reporting at jonathanlarsen.substack.com too. And he hangs out with us on Mondays to talk about as much of it as we can. Today, some good news is tempered by a depressing thought. It's the new existential question of [...]
Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-7-25
Although it feels like another decade, we've reached the end of the third workweek of the D'ump 2.0 administration and it is the shit show we anticipated. But the Democrats in the House and Senate finally seem to get getting the hang of fighting back and protecting our democracy. Each Friday, I'm joined by one of the best independent journalists working to keep us informed, Marcy Wheeler. Emptywheel.net is her home base, and it should be on your daily reading list. As this week comes to an end, there's a lot to digest. Digestion is difficult when your [...]
Thursday with Howie Klein & A Senate Filibuster Too -Nicole Sandler Show 2-6-25
Well, now the senate Democrats are getting the hang of it! Instead of just granting unanimous consent to end debate allowing the Republicans to to ram through D'ump's horrendous cabinet nominees, it seems that they're finally getting in the fight. The debate began yesterday morning at 10:30am ET. They went all night long and are still going strong. The rules allow up to 30 hours of debate, so the Dems are apparently going to use every one of those hours to slow down the process. As they should! The Judiciary branch - you know, one of the three [...]
Fighting For Our Future in the Streets & with Catherine Coleman Flowers -Nicole Sandler Show 2-5-25
There's a lot going on today. We do have a guest in the second half hour of the show. Catherine Coleman Flowers is one of the leading environmental activists of our time. Her new book, HOLY GROUND: ON ACTIVISM, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND FINDING HOPE, is just released. And the timing couldn't be better because we can certainly use some hope right about now. I almost canceled today's show as I debated going to the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix to participate in today's 50501 "Build the Resistance" protests. I'll explain on the show why I opted not to go [...]
She’s Back! Tuesday with GottaLaff on the Nicole Sandler Show 2-4-25
Well, technically, she's there, in Canada, and back on the show for today. GottaLaff (known to many as Laffy) is an old friend who used to do a weekly segment with me on this show for many years. She began working to move from Southern California to Canada when the orange menace was in office the first time, a process that took until this past year when she & Mr. Laffy were able to get residency and officially move. Between the move and the stress of doing this work, appearing weekly with me got to be too much for [...]