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- Today1h 25m
Nurse Lee for Me (AZ-05) & Wow, Do We Disagree (on a different topic)
Today's show started out chaotic — I discovered live on air that Arizona had quietly changed my voter registration to "inactive." I have my registration card right here. Correct address. Everything. And yet.. So yes, I'm going to say it again: go to vote.gov and check your registration right now. Arizona's primary is July 21st and you need to be registered 29 days out. Don't get caught the way I almost did. The good news is I had a wonderful guest — Elizabeth Lee, the nurse running for Congress in Arizona's 5th district. She is the real deal. The district is splitting a third Democrat, a third Republican, a third independent, and she has already canvassed 60% of it. She's got two primary opponents. Should she win (and she should), her opponent would like be former Pinal County sheriff Mark Lamb, who apparently doesn't even live here- and that's the least objectionable thing about him. He's a liar, a cheat and a felon. You know, just like today's Republican leadership. Nurse Lee does live here, and is the real thing! I'm voting for her and I think you should too if you're in AZ05. Check her out at nurseleaf4az.com. Then the show took a turn I didn't entirely plan. I read aloud a Sam Harris essay called Why I Won't Debate Critics of Israel. I'd had it in my inbox for days and read it for the first time last night. I agreed with every word of it. I didn't know what to expect, but he was spot on. Apparently, quite a few of my listeners didn't agree. Oh well. As I said, you don't have to agree with me on everything.. But I'd like to know what you don't agree with. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- Yesterday1h 25m
A Weird Weekend- Dr J Helps Us Understand the WTF About It
On Sunday night, the evil orange guy who occupies the White House hosted a UFC fight on the South Lawn. With a branded octagon. And military honor guards as ambiance. And a fighter who, after winning his match, grabbed the mic to announce to smear Michelle Obama by saying she's better than he is (that's what he meant, right?). While Joe Rogan grinned next to him like a golden retriever who just found out about steaks. I didn't watch it. I don't do fights, certainly not trashy fights at the WH, but you can't avoid the sickening clips. To help make sense of all of it, I brought back Dr. Art Jipson, professor of sociology at the University of Dayton, who studies extremism, culture, and the ways societies lose their collective minds. We talked about what laws the White House UFC event may (or may not) have broken, why we can no longer tell parody from reality (there was an AI video that nearly convinced me the Trump family was suing MSG owner James Dolan over crowd boos, and honestly, I didn't immediately doubt it), and Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyper-reality — which sounds very French-professor-y but is actually the perfect framework for what we're all living through right now. And a whole lot more, including two clips from one of the early hate-talk radio precursors to today's moronic mic hogs- Bob Grant in 1984 (yes, I was his producer then) that might blow your mind. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 4 days ago1h 22m
Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler, from Dublin to Belfast to Mar-a-Lago
It's another Emptywheel Friday, when Marcy Wheeler brings her vast knowledge from emptywheel.net to the Nicole Sandler Show, and we covered a lot of ground today. Elon Musk's paper trillionaire status and the fact that he's ALSO currently inciting far-right riots in Belfast (third time in the UK, by the way). The stolen election scanner situation in Maricopa County. The terrorist slush fund — which a federal judge just put on hold, thank you Judge Brinkema. Trump's "Fraud Task Force" that is itself fraudulent. The Epstein investigation, including what the big New York Times piece mysteriously forgot to include (hint: it rhymes with "Schmelania"). And, of course, the UFC cage at the White House, sponsored by Bud Light, Pit Boss Grills, and approximately six other brands, because apparently we live here now. And as Marcy tells us regularly, the fight against fascism is a slog. It's supposed to be a slog. You will lose sleep and battles and people along the way. But we keep fighting on every front — legal, political, activist — because that's the only way any of this actually moves. And Trump said he loves inflation. So there's that... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 5 days ago1h 21m
Oil and Water and Climate Change and War Don't Mix: The ImPerfect Storm
I warned you. I've been talking about the coming El Niño for weeks while the corporate media looked the other way — and then the AP runs the story the same morning I'm finally doing a show on it. Of course! On today's show, I bring in two essential guests: Kurt Cobb, energy writer and author of the peak oil novel Prelude, breaks down just how precarious the global oil situation is — with the Iran war disrupting supply, strategic reserves draining fast, and futures prices that may spike to $150–$200 a barrel by fall. And Tom DiLiberto, former NOAA El Niño forecaster and now media director at Climate Central, confirms what I've been dreading: El Niño is officially here, it could be the strongest in recorded history, and with climate change amplifying everything, we're in for a rough ride through 2027. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 6 days ago1h 5m
Driftglass Unmasked! Plus: Trump's War, Your Money, and the GOP's "Both Sides" Lie
Driftglass , one of the OG progressive bloggers left, and co-host of the Professional Left podcast — is back on the show! Tomorrow, episode #999 of the Pro Left Pod drops, and next week, their 1000th! A milestone worth celebrating. And today, Driftglass returned for his first of a Wednesday "residency" on my show on Wednesdays. To mark the occasion, we actually got to Driftglass's face on camera! We covered a lot of ground today. We dig into Mike Johnson's very revealing hot mic moment about "adjusting" Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid — spoiler: that means cutting them. We talk about Trump's war spending, the strategic oil reserves being drained to nothing, a monster El Niño brewing in the Pacific, the Trump Freedom 250 trucks spreading Christian nationalist and antisemitic propaganda (and lying about Muhammad Ali, of all people), and the GOP's oldest trick: run up the debt, then demand Democrats fix it while screaming about fiscal responsibility. Whew! And remember, he'll be back next week. I'll see you tomorrow. Peace Out. Please. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 1 weeks ago1h 23m
Get Your Religious Lies Out of My US History | Jonathan Larsen on Trump's Freedom 250 Propaganda Trucks
America's 250th birthday is just weeks away and Trump is using the occasion as if the nation is celebrating his birthday. And he's doing it in a truly sickening manner, skirting convention with a commercial moneymaking UFC violent and bloody fight on the South Lawn, no-bid contracts for his golf buddies, and a fleet of propaganda trucks with content created by PragerU and Hillsdale College, rewriting the founding as a Christian nationalist fairy tale. I talked to Jonathan Larson, who broke the story about what's actually inside those things at jonathanlarsen.substack.som. It's not great. Neither is any of the rest of today's news. But we got through it. Mostly. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 1 weeks ago1h 8m
Sen. Mark Kelly Changed My Mind, Something I Didn't Expect
I've been a bit skeptical of my senator, Mark Kelly. I've said so on this show plenty of times. But yesterday David and I went to a "Kick Out Corruption Tour" event at ASU, organized by Stand Up America and End Citizens United, and… I came home genuinely impressed. Kelly talked Citizens United, congressional insider trading, Trump's insurrectionist slush fund, the weaponization of government, AI, and more — all without notes, without a teleprompter, with actual command of the facts. Oh, and I got to ask him the question I've been wanting to ask: why did he vote to confirm those Trump judicial nominees? His answer surprised me. I'm not saying I've drunk the Kool-Aid. I'm saying he earned some respect. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
- 1 weeks ago1h 28m
Emptywheel Friday: Bribery, Binance, Bolton & More BS
It's another Emptywheel Friday in which Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net helps us figure out what went on this week. Today, we got into Todd Blanche literally telling Congress that Trump can't be held accountable for accepting a bribe... and then getting named acting AG the next day. We talked about the DOJ "fraud task force" that's really just a scheme to chase people on SNAP while shielding Trump's billion-dollar crypto corruption. Pam Bondi's Epstein deposition transcript dropped and there's a lot to unpack — including what's still being hidden and why. Plus the SPLC superseding indictment, FISA leverage, Bolton's guilty plea, Trump sleeping through cabinet meetings on camera, and a UFC cage in front of the White House that Trump is now comparing to the Eiffel Tower. No, really. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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