The Nicole Sandler Show is a listener/reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 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 h...
Jul 03, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 703
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... CBS paid Trump's extortion demands and a conversation with Gaby Pacheco, a lifelong activist for dreamers, Immigrants and education rights. Both are critical stories as the current administration is methodically taking away our rights on its road to fascism. Get full access to The Nicole Sandler Show at nicolesandler.substack.com/subscribe...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 702
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...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 2025Ep. 701
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 ...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 2025Ep. 630
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 h...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr•Season 2026Ep. 627
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 Major Supreme Cour...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 626
While we await the final rulings of this term from the Supreme Extreme Court, we're still getting decisions from them along with rulings from lower courts which may, or may not, apply nationally... depending on what SCOTUS rules when they finally get around to announcing their final decisions of the term. It's not only tedious but unnerving, frightening and based on their recent records, potentially (and probably) sickening. There's also a confirmation hearing for Judge Emil Bove, a person wholl...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 625
It's another TrumperCoaster ride so get your barf bags ready. We've ridden many TrumperCoasters over the last 10 years, but this one might be the most nauseating. He's the self-proclaimed "peace president"; one who drops bombs. He threatens, cajoles and lies at every turn. He's delusional! I can't explain it. Perhaps Brian Karem can... He does a pretty good job of it at Salon.com , on his Just Ask the Question podcast, on his substack and social media and, occasionally, on this show . Hopefully ...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 624
For some reason it seems like President D'ump likes those Friday night news dumps. So of course, after throwing out his standard delay brain crutch of "2 weeks," the man who can't think for himself launched an attack on three "nuclear sites" inside of Iran, breaking a big campaign promise to keep us out of Middle East wars, inserted us right in the middle of one. Shortly before showtime we learned that Iran retaliated. However, AP reported that “this missile attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar ...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 623
We survived another week, though this one had quite a few precarious moments, much of which went unreported by the mainstream, corporate media and certainly ignored by the right-wing media which most of MAGAt-world erroneously considers news and trusts to (dis) inform them. It's a big reason why I do this show and why these Friday episodes with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net are so important. And although we usually run over our allotted hour (like today), there's still a lot of real news that ...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 2025Ep. 620
Happy Juneteenth! It's our newest federal holiday, recognized as such in 2021 after President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. Even D'ump proposed making Juneteenth a national holiday during his first re-election bid. But he's done an about face since somehow getting back into office in January, with a vendetta against "DEI" and, by his attitude and actions, reaffirming his followers' rights to let their racists flags fly. He's bringing back Jim Crow which did ...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 2025Ep. 619
This is is one of those days in the middle of one of those weeks during one of those months in the inconceivable, unbelievable second term of an imbecile. There's an avalanche of news, precious little of it good. We don't have a guest today, so our pal Spocko joined in to talk about much of the day's news. We cover a lot of ground, share a lot of video - especially from a contentious hearing today in the Senate Armed Services Committee where the completely in-over-his-head Defense Sec (sic) Whis...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Season 2025Ep. 618
While the guy who obviously thinks of himself as America's "dear leader" demanded Iran's "Unconditional Surrender" and unilaterally (I guess) decided that "we" will not kill their supreme leader (though he boasts of knowing where he is), it's another Tuesday in America. DC is still grappling with the Big, Ugly Bill and the Republicans continue vacillating on Trump's immigration pronouncements... the chaos continues. And in New York City, ICE and other masked and unidentified thugs rough up and d...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 617
We begin each week here on the Nicole Sandler Show by catching up on the news with Jonathan Larsen of TheFuckingNews .substack.com and yes, there certainly was a lot of fucking news made over the weekend. When we last spoke on Friday, we were reeling from the treatment of California's Senator Alex Padilla at a press conference at the federal building in Los Angeles held by DHS secretary Kristi Noem. He was forcibly removed, tackled to the floor and handcuffed. It was awful. That didn't prepare u...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 616
Every Friday, Emptywheel.net 's Marcy Wheeler joins Nicole Sandler to recap much of went down since we spoke the Friday before. We usually start the show amazed at just how much had happened in a week, but today seems to be in a new category altogether. We knew at the start that we'd be running a bit longer than usual, and on Fridays we do tend to run over the one hour this show usually runs. Today, we were dealing with the inept and grossly incompetent Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's congre...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Season 2025Ep. 613
My plans for today's show changed just moments before showtime as there was really disturbing breaking news! Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed - wrestled to the ground and handcuffed at a Kristi Noem press conference after LOUDLY AND CLEARLY identifying himself. This is what the DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, was saying before Sen. Padilla spoke up. “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed ...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 612
The news keeps getting worse but, for the most part, the narrative is manufactured by Trump and his sycophantic cabinet. We ARE living in 'Opposite World' where the 'news' is reporting the lies Trump posts at his Truth (sic) Social propaganda platform. Journalists from corporate media who dare to attempt to speak up are punished (see Torry Moran, now formerly of ABC News). The gaslighting underscores our need for real, courageous, independent news sources and the call to support them. One of the...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 611
These are scary times in our country. The incompetent orange idiot occupying the White House is doing everything we were afraid he'd do if he took power again. In advance of his North Korea-style military salute to himself happening this Saturday on the streets of Washington DC, he's created a showdown with mostly peaceful protesters who've been exercising their constitutional rights in a small sliver of downtown Los Angeles. He's breaking norms and the constitution by using military force again...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 610
It's another inevitable Monday with a ridiculous amount of fucking news to share and, beginning today, we're doing it earlier! The Nicole Sandler Show now streams live at 3pm Eastern/noon Pacific time on YouTube and live audio on the Progressive Voices network. As always, both the audio and video also stream live to the homepage at nicolesandler.com , and are archived there as well by date.. (So today's show is posted at nicolesandler.com/6-9-25 -- all shows use that format). And you can still g...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 609
Every Friday, Marcy Wheeler ( emptywheel.net ) and I get together to recap some of the big news of the week and, frankly, it's usually a depressing job. Today, though, we were able to have a few laughs at the expense of two utterly despicable characters - Donald Trump and Elon Musk. That's because of their very public, very childish big, beautiful breakup yesterday. But we also did the responsible thing and point out the questions that journalists should be asking instead of just exploiting the ...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr•Season 606Ep. 2025
We knew it would eventually happen, we just didn't know when. But things are ugly in Dump World today where barbs are flying between the orange madman and his biggest campaign contributor. Dump and Elmo are lashing out at one another on their (dis) respective social media platforms and I can't wait to see how low they'll go. Over at downwithtyranny.com , Howie Klein wrote about it, and came up with a great headline: " Musk to Senor Trumpanzee: Go Fund Yourself" . Today is Thursday, so we will ch...
Jun 05, 2025•59 min•Season 2025Ep. 605
For many years, Lisa Graves has been exposing Leonard Leo for the sleazebag he is. The Dumpster fire in DC finally got the message! Lisa Graves wrote about the man Extreme Court inJustice Clarence Thomas called "the third most powerful man in the world" in her Grave Injustice substack newsletter today , and joins us on today's show to show just how prescient she is... and give us the dirt she's been reporting on since before Leo orchestrated the scheme to turn the high court into the shit show i...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 604
Really! We had a miscommunication last week, but Heather 'Digby' Parton is here today. The OG Grand Dame the progressive blogosphere, Digby still churns out the daily must-read Hullabaloo at digbysblog.net and shares her wisdom a couple of times a week at Salon.com . And I'm grateful that she joins us here on a semi-regular basis for a no-bullshit, honest conversation about the challenges we face in these very strange times! One quick programming note: The Nicole Sandler Show streams live five d...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 2025Ep. 603
The Nicole Sandler Show is a listener/reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. It's not only a Monday, but it's the first Monday in a new month. Welcome to June, busting out all over with more inanity and insanity. We've missed Jonathan Larsen of thefuckingnews.substack.com for the past couple of weeks, but he's back! Although it's not yet Tuesday, we'll talk TACO, Town Hall stupidity, terrorists and sadly, Trump too. Ug...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 602
The Nicole Sandler Show is a listener/reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We made it through another week. It's Friday, when we are joined by Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net to discuss some of the important news from the week. Due to scheduling issues, we recorded this episode on Thursday. As things tend to happen at warp speed in Dumpland, there's an update in at least one of the stories we covered. On Wednesday ev...
May 30, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 530
The Nicole Sandler Show is a listener/reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Although we have a lot of work to do in keeping democracy alive until then, we have the most important election in our lifetimes coming up on Nov. 3, 2026. Either the Democrats take back control of Congress or we resign ourselves to living in a dictatorship with an autocratic orange lying blob determining just how bad things will get. And base...
May 29, 2025•59 min•Season 2025Ep. 529
The Nicole Sandler Show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’ve been in a bit of a haze lately, so I may have crossed wires with Digby when I booked her to appear on today’s show. I’m guessing she may have put it in her book for next Tuesday.. either way, I apologize. We’ll have her on soon. So I spent much of today’s show talking about the disconnect between a really great commencement address delivered by CB...
May 27, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 527
There was no shortage of real news this week, almost none of it good! But the media is still set on telling us that Joe Biden is old. And you wonder why I call it Opposite World?! It’s another Emptywheel Friday, when we get together with the seemingly indefatigable Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net to take a look back at what happened in this years-long week! From action in the courts, to the flying bribe palace and presidential corruption on a scale never seen before, we have a lot to talk about ...
May 23, 2025•1 hr•Season 2025Ep. 523
The Nicole Sandler Show is a listener/reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The second time is the charm! We had our wires crossed on Tuesday, so John Fugelsang did not join us then. But he is here today. We have much to catch up on since the last time we spoke. He jumps in for the second half hour of the show. To get us started though, a bit of an update. I was out yesterday for a medical test. It seems that as we ge...
May 22, 2025•59 min•Season 522Ep. 2025
Listen to today’s show here: The Nicole Sandler Show is a listener/reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The world lost one of its better inhabitants this week. On May 1, 2025, Jill Sobule was killed in a tragic house fire. Words can’t express our loss. Jill was truly a remarkable human being. I’m heartened by the continuing show of love and support I’m seeing all over social media for the last few days from her frien...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 8 min
