We did it! For the third time now, millions of patriots took to the streets of the USA and many more joined in from foreign shores to stand up for democracy and against an evil, sociopathic narcissistic ruler who thinks he should be king in a nation that was borne on the premise that there are no kings. His actions have set our 250-year young experiment with a fragile democracy on a collision course to upend the global infrastructure, causing more than one expert to predict our demise if we stay on this course. Today on the show, after a look at where we go from here, we'll check in with our professor - Dr. Art Jipson, University of Dayton professor of sociology, prolific writer, and aka Dr J, host of the Tuesday Afternoon Alternative at WUDR, since 2004!

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Emptywheel.net's Marcy Wheeler joins me each Friday to recap much of the most important news of the week. We were both our last week, so there was a lot to talk about today. We didn't worry about what we missed last week, but dug into the seriousness of the mess he's gotten us in to.

Yes, it's depressing, but we all need to arm ourselves with the truth and as much of it as we can stand, because information is power. We need to know what's happening so we can fight back against D'ump and his ilk who are trying to kill off democracy. Bring the information with you tomorrow to the No Kings rally near you!

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This has been a really a strange week on The Nicole Sandler Show. Good thing tomorrow's Friday. But then again, who knows.. The walls are closing in on donOLD, and when a mad animal is trapped, it tends to become very dangerous. And that's what we're witnessing coming out of the Oval Office.

We'll attempt to peek in and see what we can find. News reports are not very encouraging. The Month of March is winding down, and I've been remiss. March is Women's History Month, and I haven't even mentioned it yet. We'll change that on today's show too, as Cultural HERstorian Amy Simon returns with some stories, both good and some not so much...

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Trying to hold on to some semblance of sanity in times like these is more of a challenge with each passing week. And this week has brought with it some special challenges for me! Somehow, despite not getting enough sleep, we're still standing.

I'm a bit over-taxed today and almost didn't do a show. But when Brian Karem responded to my email inviting him on today, I figured that if he can do it, so can I. I'm still on a high from seeing Jesse Welles in concert last night (wow), but unfortunately didn't sleep last night.. again. Hopefully my brain and mouth will cooperate with each other as I try to discuss some of the news that defies sanity...

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The once-varied and somewhat diverse media landscape in the US has vastly changed to where a small cartel of billionaires and conglomerates dominates much of what Americans see, read and hear. Today's guest - Tim Karr of freepress.net - got delayed (he'll be back next week), so I spent most of the hour ranting about what has happened to our media in the 40 + years I've been part of the industry... What a long, strange trip it's been.

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Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-director of Indivisible, joins Nicole Sandler on her first day back from vacation to talk about No Kings Day #3 coming up this Saturday, plus some history of what has grown into a movement, organizing, democracy. And Nicole's studio's gremlins re-appeared to welcome her back from vacation. Then some news and phone calls from listeners too...

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I'm on a bit of a forced vacation this week. The house we live in is a rental, and the owners are putting in a new roof, now. So the noise makes it impossible for me to do a show. And that's just as well, because my main computer melted down this weekend, and now I'll have to figure out a solution. So for now, anyway, I'm only able to stream audio.

And that's just as well, as I recently found an old stash of shows that I did on Air America back in 2009, and I didn't stream video then.

Today, we go back to August 17, 2009. Congress was in the middle of fighting over health care and the legislation that would become the Affordable Care Act. On that day, one of my guests was former Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, who was a professor at US Berkeley. Just over a week later, Senator Ted Kennedy, one of our biggest proponents of a single payer health care system succumbed to brain cancer. Robert Reich wrote a lovely tribute to him an Huffington Post. So I reached out to him again and he joined me again on my show the following day, August 26, 2009.

I had also produced a bit of a tribute to him so, today on the show, I shared both of those interviews, followed by the tribute.

And in the few minutes I had left, I shared another production piece I put together to celebrate George W Bush's finally leaving the White House, "Bushisms A to Z". Enjoy!

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Today is the 14th day of this insane war against Iran, launched by the demented orange man who's still occupying the White House for no apparent reason and appears to have no plan to end it either.

Every Friday, Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins me to discuss what happened since we spoke the week before and today, Marcy goes in-depth to pull all the crazy together and tries to help us make sense out of the senseless.

Both Marcy and I will be out next week. I'll run a combination of some of the best shows of the recent past and pull out a few interviews I just unearthed from my time at Air America radio which I think you'll truly appreciate...

Also, I want to send a big thank you to all who have supported my work with donations, subscriptions or in other ways. I couldn't continue doing this work without you, and just wanted to thank you all again. I know that not everyone can afford the support my work monetarily, but do share my stuff. Thank you for helping to let others know what I do here every day.

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So many aspects of our society have taken a major hit during both of the orange guy's time in office, notably education. I think, uniformly, all administrations - except for the current one- have tried to make the US system of education the best in the world. But in this Dump-led regime, the goal is the break it. That's just one of the topics I'll discuss with today's guest, a fascinating professor of sociology and a whole lot more. Dr. Art Jipson, who also hosts a very popular radio show on the University of Dayton's radio station, WUDR. If you haven't heard him yet, do listen or watch. I'm pretty sure you'll like him too!

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The world of progressive political talk media is relatively small. We don't ALL know each other, but most of us aren't much more than 2 degrees of separation apart. A relatively new show on the air and online, The Politics Bar, is hosted by an old friend and colleague Shawn "Smith" Peirce and a newer friend Jody Hamilton. We spent some time today talking a bit about everything from, obviously, the news and the idiot steering the news, to our/their histories, family, tv and so much more. It was a delightful conversation at a time when, frankly, we could all use it.

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