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Emptywheel Friday on the Nicole Sandler Show 7-11-25

I’ll keep the written part short and sweet today, as yesterday’s was long and overloaded with information and links. And today’s show runs a bit longer than usual. Today, really, the only link you need is emptywheel.net. That’s Marcy Wheeler’s info-packed site where she wrote about pretty much everything we discussed today on the show. Marcy took last week off - as did we. It was the 4th of July here, but Marcy lives in Ireland these days. She did write a piece about what she did with her week off that you can read here. Thankfully, she’s back today. We always [...]

By Nicole Sandler|July 11th, 2025|Tags: corruption, coverup, dhs, emptywheel, Epstein files, FEMA, Marcy Wheeler, screwups, tariffs, Texas flood, Trump|0 Comments

9-27-17 What’s News – The Time to Talk Puerto Rico Edition

By Nicole Sandler|September 27th, 2017|Tags: ACA, FEMA, Graham-Cassidy, hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Roy Moore, Trump|Comments Off

11-10 News Notes

TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. TRNS News Notes will not publish Tuesday because of the Veterans Day holiday Breaking: Suicide bomber disguised in school uniform killed at least 47 students at school in Nigeria (AP, Reuters, BBC) In the News Obama sees momentum for trade agreement Another "Asia pivot" for Obama Obama on elections: "We [...]

By nicolesandler|November 10th, 2014|Tags: Asia, FEMA, Obama, obamacare, Sandy, TPP, VA|Comments Off

The Scariest Halloween Ever

It's Halloween, so I thought I'd assemble some really scary things for you to think about today (and leading up to election day on Tuesday). 1. In the wake of Sandy, let's remember Mitt Romney's big laugh line during his RNC speech: "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans...and to heal the planet...." He went on to say that it's immoral for the United States to take out loans to help fellow Americans. Really? I'd say it's immoral not to do anything and everything possible to help those in need, especially after a disaster [...]

By nicolesandler|October 31st, 2012|Tags: Amy Simon, Crooks & Liars, FEMA, hurricane, John Amato, Obama, Romney, russ baker, Sandy, She's HIstory, whowhatwhy|2 Comments

The Corporate States of America with a Privatized FEMA

In one of the GOP's many primary debates, CNN's John King asked Mitt Romney that, in light of the disastrous recent weather events in Joplin, MO, New Orleans and other cities, what should be done with FEMA? Romney's answer was Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. [...] We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It [...]

By nicolesandler|October 30th, 2012|Tags: Atlas Drugged, Ayn Rand, FEMA, Romney, Stephen Goldstein|Comments Off

After the Storm

If there is a silver lining on the giant Sandy cloud - and I'm not sure there is one - it's that now, perhaps, the powers that be will begin to take the reality of climate change seriously. Words fail me right now. This morning, my friend Greg Basta joined me on the show to talk about the storm. Greg was on with me last week to talk about the release of the Occupy the Boardroom book that's just been published. Of course, I also asked him about his work with New York Communities for Change where he works as [...]

By nicolesandler|October 30th, 2012|Tags: 350.org, EMP, FEMA, GottaLaff, Greg Basta, hurricane, Mark Langford, NY Communities for Change, Obama, Persia Rising, Romney, Sandy|Comments Off

Sandy!

Hurricane Sandy is now officially the biggest tropical cyclone in recorded history. As one who's lived through a few major hurricanes, obviously my thoughts and what passes for prayers in my world are with the millions of people in the path of the storm. That crazy image comes courtesy of my favorite weather source: Wunderground.com. Dr. Jeff Masters has been a frequent guest on my show, but circumstances have him a bit too busy to come on today. I will be checking his blog throughout today as I do both my show and Randi Rhodes' this afternoon. On my [...]

By nicolesandler|October 29th, 2012|Tags: Digby, FEMA, hurricane, John Fugelsang, Obama, Romney, Sandy, Stephen Goldstein|Comments Off

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