The Nicole Sandler Show

Nicole Sandler

Speaking Truth to Power from a progressive point of view with the irreverence it demands NicoleSandler.com

  1. The Day SCOTUS Hit Us with Citizens United (and Killed Air America Too!)

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    The Day SCOTUS Hit Us with Citizens United (and Killed Air America Too!)

    With the Supreme Court ending their term yesterday with what I call the sequel to Citizens United, NRSC v FEC, which will make things exponentially worse than its predecessor, and I'm not feeling great today, I thought I'd reach back 16.5 years to the day when the Extreme Court handed down that devastating opinion in Citizens United v FEC. It was January 21, 2010. They didn't even wait until the end of the term! To add insult to injury, later that afternoon, I lost my job along with everyone else who worked at Air America Radio. At about 5pm, they pulled the plug on the network for good. At the time, I hosted a late night show from 11pm-1am Eastern, so I decided to take that night's guests which included John Fugelsang, John Bonifaz, Congressman Alan Grayson, Congreswoman Donna Edwards and others (it was a 2-hour show back then!) and go live with video on uStream. We didn't have YouTube then, so this show has never been on YouTube. And it still isn't, but it will be. It's been sitting on Vimeo. How it got there, I don't know! But I found it and am playing it today for the first time since then. I think there are lessons to be learned. Do you? Let me know. As soon as YouTube will edit out the fullsongs I played (fingers crossed). In the meantime, you should be able to hear the audio streams... I hope. This is history in your ears. I hope you'll check it out. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    1h 56m
  2. Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler

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    Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler

    It's Emptywheel Friday, and Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net is back to help us wrap up another ridiculously absurd and awful week. We cover the Supreme Court's TPS ruling — which strips protection from hundreds of thousands of Haitians and is dressed up by Alito as something other than what it plainly is: racism with a legal fig leaf. This ruling has a human cost that people need to understand. Marcy breaks down who's actually running things in the White House right now — Bill Pulte, illegally installed as acting DNI and already firing analysts; Natalie Harp, the gatekeeper to the president's social media diet- and quite likely a whole lot more (eew); and a man who, as Marcy puts it, is rotting in plain sight, mentally and physically, doing whatever the last person in the room tells him to do. We spend serious time on what I think is one of the most important and under-covered stories going: DOJ's systematic effort to criminalize protest. The Prairie Land sentences — up to 100 years — are shocking. The new Minnesota indictment is terrifying in a different way: it sweeps up organizers, AFL-CIO members, DSA members, and 50501 activists by trying to make "Antifa" into an actual organization on par with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. It is not. There is no membership, no dues, no leader, no headquarters. Marcy has an extensive post at emptywheel.net breaking the Minnesota case down in detail. Read it. We also get into Todd Blanche being ordered by a judge to follow the Epstein Transparency Act, Kushner and Witkoff's suspected cut of the $300 billion Iran reconstruction deal, JD Vance's Nixon rehabilitation tour, the reflecting pool con and manufactured "Antifa vandalism" narrative, Tulsi Gabbard's cult history, and Elon Musk's brief, already-over trillionaire moment. Buckle up, it a rough and rocky one. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

    1h 26m

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