The Nicole Sandler Show

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, p...

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...

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 be...

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....

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 attitu...

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 h...

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 Tru...

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...

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 ru...

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 ci...

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 gasl...

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 i...

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...

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 res...

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...

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 d...

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 challen...

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&...

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...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 u...

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 conti...