Just a quick note today to say thanks once again for your generous support. It is truly a Christmas miracle and I am very grateful.
I want to give a shout out today to some of the podcasters and radio hosts whose shows I’ve had the privilege of contributing to all year (in some cases for many years.) I’m absolutely terrible about promoting this work and it’s very unfair to these great political analysts who have been kind enough to have me on.
For many years I’ve been appearing with Sam Seder on Majority Report and, back in the day, Ring of Fire. I come on casual Fridays once a month or so where we have a free wheeling take on the current atrocities and (and rare victories.) We’ve known each other a long time and remember where a lot of the political bodies are buried so it’s often an interesting conversation. I’ll be on this Friday to wrap up the year and I have no doubt it will be fun.
Likewise, I do The Bradcast with my fellow Angelenos Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen at least once a month and often more depending on the political crisis of the day. (There are a lot of them lately.) This past year I’ve been teaming up with my fellow OG blogger driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast for some good humor and analysis with Brad and Desi and it’s always a delight. We’re doing an hour on Thursday. (Check that link for ways to listen.)
I also appear with my old pal Nicole Sandler with some frequency. The two of us basically have a fabulous hour of political chit chat often just expressing our astonishment and how insane everything has become. I always enjoy it.
John Fugelsang at Sirius XM Progress invites me on for some late night chatter from time to time and it’s always a joy to talk to him. His show is one of my favorites.
Finally, I appear at least once a week with my good friend Michaelangelo Signorelli at Sirius XM Progress. He is one of the great mensches of the progressive left and it’s an honor to be one of his frequent guests. We also get together with his fellow Sirius XM Progress host Joe Sudbay, another class act, for a Friday afternoon roundup of everything that’s gone down in the past month. We all agree that it actually serves as a form of necessary therapy to compare notes to make sure we aren’t losing our minds. I’ll be on this Friday at 5est for our last session of the year. I can’t wait.
There are some others who call up from time to time and I’m almost always willing to talk to anyone who isn’t a right wing crank. (I’m not very good at that — I get too emotional.) I
Thanks to all of these wonderful friends for being so generous and promoting my work. I suspect many of my newer readers each year find me that way. And I promise to be a better person in 2026 and promote my appearances and their work in general. My bad for failing to do more of that.
If you’d like to leave a little something in the Christmas stocking, you know what to do. Thanks again for supporting what we do and being awake and aware of everything we need to do to try to salvage our democracy.
cheers,
digby
Happy Hollandaise!