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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Trump’s Individual Claims about Immigrant Targets Are False–But So Is the Larger Premise
/59 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThus far, the campaign to fight back against Trump’s authoritarian immigration crackdown has focused on individual stories, with some success. But it has yet to account for the fact that his crackdown is based on far bigger lies manufactured by Stephen Miller to justify claiming expansive powers in the name of fear.