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Score One From SCOTUS, But Tomorrow's One Last Day
Jun 30, 2026
1h 19m 45s
Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler
Jun 26, 2026
1h 26m 22s
SCOTUS Goes Full Alito (just about) and It's All Bad
Jun 26, 2026
1h 19m 32s
The Deflecting Pool, Democrats & Dylan: Driftglass and Nicole Discuss it All
Jun 24, 2026
1h 13m 35s
To Dylan or Not to Dylan? Variety's Chris Willman Joins Me to talk Music that Heals
Jun 23, 2026
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| 6/30/26 | ![]() Score One From SCOTUS, But Tomorrow's One Last Day | It's the penultimate day of this Supreme Court term and it wasn't as bad as they've been lately. Dr. Art Jipson from the University of Dayton joins me to help us sort through they four new opinions they gave us— including a mail ballot ruling that actually went our way. But, as usual, they saved the worst for last, so tomorrow is birthright citizenship and transgender athletes, and I'm bracing. At least today had a bit of humor as we also get into Trump's disastrous Freedom 250 fair (attendance: sparse), the baby name Donald hitting an all-time low, and I open with another edition of "The Mal Ladies" featuring the broken mass of flesh and bones that is me and a health update you may relate to if your own body is betraying you. Plus my husband David Sloane drops in with some pointed takes on fascism, scapegoating, and why Nixon looks like a Boy Scout by comparison.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 19m 45s | ||||||
| 6/26/26 | ![]() 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 22s | ||||||
| 6/26/26 | ![]() SCOTUS Goes Full Alito (just about) and It's All Bad | It's Alito's world and we're just living in it. The formerly Supreme, now Extreme Court handed down four of the remaining 12 opinions this morning, and three of them came from the pen of Samuel Alito — all 6-3 decision. The fourth was a 7-2 written by Kavanaugh, with the bizarre twist of Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch dissenting together. We'll run them down today, along with a bit of today's news. The next opinion day is Monday and the term technically ends Tuesday, when Lisa Graves will join me to navigate the damage. Strap in. Today's were and are pretty rough ones. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 19m 32s | ||||||
| 6/24/26 | ![]() The Deflecting Pool, Democrats & Dylan: Driftglass and Nicole Discuss it All | It's Wednesday, which means Driftglass is here — and today's conversation went deep and wide. We started with Trump's "deflecting pool" — his preferred name for what used to be the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool before a no-bid contract turned it into an algae-choked disaster, and the administration started blaming "antifa" with a knife. Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado is calling on Trump to personally pay for the damage, which is exactly the right call. From there, Driftglass and I traced the accountability vacuum that got us here — Obama's "look forward, not back" decision after Bush, Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon, and the lesson that gets learned every single time: if you don't hold them accountable, they just come back worse. George W. Bush walked so Trump could run. My husband David jumped in with a sharp, pointed history of antisemitism — how it was essentially a marketing tool in the early days of Christianity and has never gone out of style — and we talked about how that history connects to what's happening right now as the Democratic Party fractures over the Israel-Palestine issue in the primaries. I said some things about the primaries that will make some of you mad at me. I stand by them. And I wrapped up by finally telling you - and Driftglass - about seeing Bob Dylan in Phoenix last night. Musically brilliant. Dylan in a hoodie behind a keyboard, totally anonymous. Songs you've probably not heard before and, if you had, you likely wouldn't have recognized. Lucinda Williams, post-stroke and as angry at this administration as I am. It was exactly the kind of evening that reminds you why music matters. And we were running late, sadly, thanks to the shitty GPS who sent us in circles downtown, so we missed all but one song from John Doe. He sounded good though! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 13m 35s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | ![]() To Dylan or Not to Dylan? Variety's Chris Willman Joins Me to talk Music that Heals | Music is the medicine I needed today. Variety's senior music writer and chief critic Chris Willman joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about Bob Dylan's current tour — which I'm catching tonight in Phoenix — the legacy of Clive Davis, Bruce Springsteen's Land of Hope and Dreams run, Taylor Swift, and the new artists worth paying attention to. We also cover Keir Starmer's resignation as UK Prime Minister and what it means (or should mean) for a certain American president who has no intention of following suit. A necessary break from the madness — and a reminder of why music matters more than ever right now. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 19m 12s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | ![]() The Reflecting Pool as a Metaphor for Everything D'ump Has Done to America | I don't like Mondays. Yeah, it's a song but it's also a general rule. It hit 114 degrees here in Chandler, AZ today, I wasn't feeling great, and the news was its usual dumpster fire self. But I showed up, because that's what we do. I started with a Jonathan Pie clip that had me cackling despite myself — his breakdown of Trump's Iran "victory" is one for the ages. Then the incredibly talented Patrick Fitzgerald with a parody of the Doobie Bros "Black Water," - done as "Green Water" about the reflecting pool disaster that features Marco Rubio as the pool boy. You need to see the image. Then Dr. Art Jipson joined me, and we covered a lot of ground: the $14 million no-bid reflecting pool catastrophe and the three-time Olympian being arrested for touching a peeling piece of paint; the mainstreaming of "re-migration" by white nationalist networks and Stephen Miller; the Reagan-to-Trump throughline on the destruction of norms; and the Obama Presidential Center dedication — including Michelle Obama's moving words about John McCain. My husband David popped in to note that the term "re-migration" would make George Orwell smile. (He's right.) I think what made me feel so sick today is the knowledge that it's not even close to over. But there is music in the air... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 11m 41s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() Emptywheel Friday: Deal or No Deal or Surrender Donald and Much More | It's Emptywheel Friday — the one day a week where Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net and I sit down to connect the dots and try not to lose our minds. This week we dig into Trump's Iran capitulation: what's actually in the 14-point MOU, why the $300 billion "reconstruction fund" is a payoff to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff and their Gulf state clients, and why the Strait of Hormuz was already shut again within hours of the announcement. We also cover the reflecting pool algae disaster, the Epstein files and what Todd Blanche was really doing in that Ghislaine Maxwell interview, Bill Pulte at ODNI, FISA 702 going dark, the Broadview 6, and Pete Hegseth's Juneteenth record. Plus — I found out my own voter registration was marked inactive. Check yours. Arizona primary is almost 29 days out (the deadline!). We end with one genuine piece of good news. You'll want to hear it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 25m 55s | ||||||
| 6/19/26 | ![]() Trump Surrenders, Obama Wins (Again) and Will Bunch Weighs In | Today's show opened with the split screen to end all split screens: the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago — featuring Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and a stunning speech from Michelle Obama — running simultaneously with JD Vance's press conference trying to sell the world on Trump's Iran "deal" that is, in fact, a memo of understanding signed two days early in Versailles. Yes, Versailles. I played extended clips from Michelle Obama's remarks, including her powerful tribute to Barack and the barely-veiled contrast she drew between his presidency and the current one. Then Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch joins me to dig into JD Vance's authoritarian true-believer tendencies, discuss what Bill Pulte is really doing vying for the DNI position the spectacular failure that is Trump's Iran policy, plus the historical echoes of Versailles, the collapse of congressional independence since Watergate, the Chris Rabb primary win in Philadelphia, and the complicated politics of Israel in the 2026 Democratic landscape. Whew. Yeah, the show ran a bit long again today. Tomorrow is Emptywheel Friday — Marcy Wheeler joins me every Friday. And tomorrow also happens to be Juneteenth, the official opening day of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. I'll be in Arizona and Marcy in Ireland, both as usual Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 30m 05s | ||||||
| 6/18/26 | ![]() Jan 6ers Still Want Our Money, Trump Has No Deal and Driftglass is Dodging Storms | My friend Driftglass is best-known as one of the OGs of the Progressive Blogisphere. Today I helped him mark the eve of the Professional Left Podcast's 1,000th episode with a wide-ranging Wednesday that covers everything from the 40-year history of right-wing media radicalization to Trump's Iran "deal" - actually just a memorandum of understanding that doesn't understand anything. I pulled out a clip from 1984 when one of the original right wing hate talk radio voices Bob Grant -whose show I produced at WMCA at the time. The clip is a shocker to hear today, 42 years later. He was warning candidates then not to be mean. Seriously! He said that the meanest candidate loses. I'd love to see data on that. In other news, we learned that the January 6th rioters are now attempting to collect millions of dollars of taxpayer money via an obscure federal tort loophole. And while Trump continues lying about President Obama and the deal he made with Iran 10 years ago- and said that the Iranians laughed at him, we looked at the Lego propaganda videos coming out of Iran that are, frankly, more accurate than anything you'd ever hear from the orange one. Plus: JB Pritzker, Illinois politics, and why your uncle probably isn't getting deprogrammed anytime soon. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 13m 42s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() 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 | 1h 25m 26s | ||||||
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| 6/16/26 | ![]() 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 | 1h 25m 46s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler, from Dublin to Belfast to Mar-a-Lago✨ | politicscurrent events+4 | Marcy Wheeler | New York Times | BelfastMaricopa County | Elon MuskBelfast+6 | Bud Light | 1h 22m 12s | |
| 6/11/26 | ![]() Oil and Water and Climate Change and War Don't Mix: The ImPerfect Storm✨ | El Niñoclimate change+4 | Kurt CobbTom DiLiberto | NOAAClimate Central+1 | Iran | El Niñoclimate change+5 | — | 1h 21m 34s | |
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Driftglass Unmasked! Plus: Trump's War, Your Money, and the GOP's "Both Sides" Lie✨ | progressive politicsTrump's war spending+5 | Driftglass | Professional Left podcastGOP | — | DriftglassTrump+6 | — | 1h 05m 59s | |
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Get Your Religious Lies Out of My US History | Jonathan Larsen on Trump's Freedom 250 Propaganda Trucks✨ | US historyChristian nationalism+3 | Jonathan Larsen | PragerUHillsdale College | US | Trumppropaganda trucks+3 | — | 1h 23m 06s | |
| 6/8/26 | ![]() Sen. Mark Kelly Changed My Mind, Something I Didn't Expect✨ | SenateCitizens United+5 | — | Stand Up AmericaEnd Citizens United | — | Mark KellyCitizens United+5 | — | 1h 08m 18s | |
| 6/6/26 | ![]() Emptywheel Friday: Bribery, Binance, Bolton & More BS✨ | briberycrypto corruption+4 | Marcy Wheeler | DOJSPLC+2 | — | briberyTrump+7 | — | 1h 28m 22s | |
| 6/5/26 | Trump Makes No Sense, but Lisa Graves Tries to Explain Anyway✨ | Trumplegal issues+4 | Lisa Graves | Roberts CourtNicole Sandler Show | TucsonPhilly+1 | TrumpLisa Graves+6 | — | 1h 17m 42s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Catching Up on Blanket Immunity, Slush Funds, the Murder of 60 Minutes & more✨ | blanket immunitypolitical commentary+4 | David Sloane | 60 MinutesDOJ+1 | — | Trumpblanket immunity+7 | — | 1h 03m 58s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() The DOGe Ate Our Social Security with Alex Lawson of Social Security Works✨ | Social SecurityMedicare+4 | Alex Lawson | Social Security WorksMore Perfect Union | IowaMontana+1 | Social SecurityMedicare Advantage+5 | — | 1h 01m 19s | |
| 6/1/26 | ![]() Karem Goes To Cannes, Spreads Chaos Courtesy of Trump✨ | Cannes Film Festivalpress freedom+5 | Brian Karem | Salon.comThe First 100 | CannesSalt River | CannesBrian Karem+7 | — | 1h 01m 27s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() It's Another Emptywheel Friday with Marcy Wheeler on the Nicole Sandler Show | It's Emptywheel Friday and Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net is joining me LIVE from a Paris terrace instead of her usual place at home in Ireland Today: the White House demolition derby, Iran falling apart in real time, Delaney Hall hunger strikes, DOJ corruption, the Texas primary's real story, and why Trump's birthday concert has Milli Vanilli as a headliner. (No, really.) Or is it FloRiDa? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 12m 06s | ||||||
| 5/27/26 | ![]() How Can This Life Be Real? Digby Joins Nicole Sandler to Make Sense of the Insanity | These last few weeks have been insane. About three weeks ago I ended up in the hospital for four days after what looked like a cardiac event. My arteries are clear, we still don't know exactly what happened, and I've been kind of scattered ever since. But Digby was here today and we had so much to talk about that I almost forgot to be tired. Here's what we covered: Trump is literally building a coliseum on the White House lawn for a UFC fight on his 80th birthday. He tried to strongarm Arab leaders into the Abraham Accords during a ceasefire call — as an afterthought — and there was dead silence on the line. The Iran war is over and we lost. Ken Paxton, one of the most corrupt politicians in America, just won the Texas Republican Senate primary because Trump endorsed him and his cult followers said "good enough for Trump, good enough for me." AND — there may actually be a path for James Talarico to win that Senate seat. We talked about what Nate Cohn is seeing in the numbers, and it's more hopeful than I expected. I'll take whatever I can get, at this point! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 12m 15s | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | ![]() CBS Killed Late Night and Free Speech Too! | I'm playing catch up with the news, so today I'm covering Trump's third hospital visit this year, the alarming details about his daytime somnolence (falling asleep in the Oval Office, possibly at Arlington on Memorial Day — yikes), and his midnight rhino meme that makes zero sense. Plus the Texas Senate runoff — Cornyn vs. Paxton — and how Trump just torpedoed a nearly-done Iran ceasefire deal by throwing the Abraham Accords in at the last minute like an afterthought. Then my guest Mark Malkoff — author of Love Johnny Carson and a veteran of the late night world — joins me to talk about the end of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 33 years of the CBS late night franchise, gone. We cover it all: the joke that supposedly got the show canceled, Colbert's brilliant post-finale appearance on Monroe Community Media's public access channel with Jack White, Eminem and Jeff Daniels, the CBS copyright freakout, what happens to the Ed Sullivan Theater now, and whether we'll ever see late night TV at this scale again. Spoiler: probably not. And I close with one more gut punch — the Trump administration wants every federal employee to sign an NDA. Because why not finish off what's left of free speech? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 22m 30s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 | ![]() Memorial Day Memorializing 'Boca' Britany Somers and Howie Klein | Today, I have a different kind of Memorial Day show for you. Instead of the usual music, I'm honoring two dear friends we lost too recently — Boca Brit Summers, the comedic genius behind so much of this show's best imaging and parody music, and Howie Klein, former president of Reprise Records and my weekly guest for nearly 15 years. We revisit a 2023 show Brit and I did together when she was finally feeling well enough to come back on the air, featuring some of her greatest hits. Then Howie, in his own words, remembering his close friend Lou Reed just days after Lou's death in October 2013. Grab a tissue. Or maybe a laugh. Probably both. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy | 1h 29m 04s | ||||||
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