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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
How JP Morgan Chase Plans to Profit Off the 300,000 People It’s Forcing to Lose Their Jobs
/21 Comments/in automobiles, Economics/by emptywheelJP Morgan Chase is working to put 300,000 people out of work–many of them in Michigan. But lucky for JP Morgan Chase, it has the contract for providing Michigan’s unemployment benefits by debit card. So it still stands to make money off those unemployed Michiganders after JP Morgan Chase causes them to lose their job.
Pre-Coffee Deep Thought
/50 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials/by emptywheelAs it becomes more likely that Emmett Sullivan will throw out Ted Stevens conviction, Alaska Republicans have called for Mark Begich to resign, on the logic that Toobz is therefore “innocent.”
Does that mean she’d be willing to let the Gitmo detainee whom Sullivan may force the government to release should be allowed to resettle in AK, since he is innocent, according to Palin’s claims?