The Nicole Sandler Show

3 weeks ago | nicolesandler.com | Nicole Sandler

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.

3 weeks ago | nicolesandler.com | Nicole Sandler

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”.

3 weeks ago | nicolesandler.com | Nicole Sandler

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 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 it is today.

3 weeks ago | nicolesandler.com | Nicole Sandler

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.

3 weeks ago | nicolesandler.com | Nicole Sandler

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. Ugh. It’s Monday. Oh, and some big news about this show… Beginning next Monday, June 9, the live show will run from 3-4pm ET/12-1PT.