Jonathan Larsen, the man behind "The Fucking News" and the Jonathan Larsen Substacks joins us every Monday to help explain wtf is happening in the news. Today, we will discuss wtf is going on with Dump threatening war with Venezuela. He has original reporting on the whole f'n mess at jonathanlarsen.substack.com.

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Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins me every Friday to recap both the momentous and the newsworthy events of the week that you might not have heard enough about. Obviously this was a heavy-duty week. Unfortunately, I've been out of commission and certainly didn't pay as much attention as I usually do this week as I've been dealing with the death of my dog Jaxson, who was a member of my family. My baby boy.

But Marcy brings us up to date not only on the Epstein emails that dropped on us like a bomb, but the keystone cop-like prosecutors of this administration and, as you'd expect, much more.

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It's Nicole Sandler, back on this Thursday, Nov 13. I was out earlier this week because my dog Jaxson, my fur baby, got very sick Monday and we lost him. I could probably use a few more days off, but Jason Leopold was scheduled to join me, and he's a dear old friend, so I thought I could make it through... For the most part, I did.

Jason is the government-anointed "FOIA Terrorist," and with all the news and Epstein emails that dropped yesterday, the timing to have Jason on couldn't be better. He's been writing an ongoing series about the pedophile and Trump BFF and the 18,000 emails they uncovered at Bloomberg News where he's a Senior Investigative Reporter. Their latest on Epstein focused on the money laundering scheme he had going alongside the federal sex crimes that have been virtually shrouded for decades. Jason also recently started his new podcast, Disclosure and, of course, has his weekly newsletter, the FOIA Files, so you can keep up with his work when he's not here on my show.

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Every Friday, we wrap up the week's news with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. And this was certainly a momentous week! Just this morning, Marcy posted a blueprint for much of today's discussion in a post titled "May This Week Be a Pivot". I second that emotion!

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It's Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. I was dreading yesterday's Supreme Extreme Court hearing regarding the felon's illegal and unconstitutional tariffs because of how the court has demeaned itself by bending over backwards to appease the dick-tator over the past year. But to my layperson's ears, it sounded like they - or at least enough of them - have finally reached their limit.

And it wasn't only me. The actual legal experts who I read seem to have heard what I did yesterday. But, of course, when the Extreme Supremes are in the picture, I like to turn to my favorite legal expert, Lisa Graves. Though she's currently on a book tour in support of the excellent WITHOUT PRECEDENT, Lisa will take an hour off today to spend with us, explaining what happened yesterday and what the ramifications might be.

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Today is Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Yesterday was Election Day. It was about as close to a clean sweep as possible, with the people rebuking D'ump and taking back control. And hopefully, showing what's still to come.... That's not all we're talking about today. This morning, The Supreme Extreme Court heard arguments about the felon's illegal and unconstitutional tariff debacle that has cause prices we pay for just about everything to skyrocket.

Joining me on today's show to discuss what it all means - as only he can - Driftglass! One of the OG progressive bloggers of the blogosphere (at driftglass.blogspot.com), Driftglass also co-host the Professional Left Podcast with his with, BlueGal Fran...

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This year, my birthday falls on election day, something that wouldn't necessarily warrant a day off. But when my daughter tells me she's coming to town to spend my birthday with me, that's another story. So I figured we'd go back in time to Nov 4, 2016. That year, election day fell on Nov 9, so this was just a few days out. I was truly mortified at the idea that Donald Trump could actually become president. But we still had a few days left of relative sanity.

Those days I did a daily news segment with the Talk Media News Service. On that particular day, the correspondent was Bob Ney, former Congressman from Ohio who got caught up in the Jack Abramoff scandal and did time in jail. (Google them if you're not familiar with the sordid story!)

Then Brad Friedman of the BradBlog and BradCast joined in and so did actress and activist Mimi Kennedy.

A slice of life before the world went completely mad...

I'll be back tomorrow with OG blogger Driftglass. We'll have to ease back in to the real world slowly and with lots of humor...

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It's the Nicole Sandler Show for Monday, Nov. 3. Election Day is tomorrow. Unfortunately it's an off-off year so we don't get to dump the garbage, yet. But some of us will be able to get rid of some annoying trash, so there's that.

Please vote! As he does on Mondays, Jonathan Larsen brings his latest scoops from thefuckingnews.substack.com and jonathanlarsen.substack.com. And we'll do our best to make light of the really dark and evil plans being cooked up in what's left of the White House. Are we having fun yet?

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It's Friday, October 31, 2025! Nicole Sandler here, finally here in my newly rebuilt studio in our new home. Hopefully we'll stay at this one for a while!

Today is Halloween, but every day is frightening in this D'umpster fire of a nation these days... Thankfully, Marcy Wheeler is here to help us muddle through much of what transpired this week. I'm not much help today because I've been in moving hell. The good part of it was that I opted for more music, less of the old, addled, orange incapacitate squatter in the oval office.... But here we go....

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Today is the final day of my move, so we're up and running for good from the new home studio after today's special pre-Halloween episode, and this one is scary as Trump. David Daley literally wrote the book about gerrymandering. Now make that books, as he's written two more sequels since the original, Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, was released in 2017.

Now that Trumpkin has enlisted his army of dirty tricksters to figure out how to use the gerrymander to guarantee a few more congressional seats from Texas are held by Republicans, he's coercing other Republican governors to do it in their states too. When the Texas story began heating up, I invited David Daley back on the show to explain just wtf is going on. This episode originally aired August 12, 2025.

Yes, this episode is frightening. I hope it scares the bejesus out of everyone how hears it because we are the ones who'll save us...

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