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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
Toyota Sings The Mercury Blues
/21 Comments/in automobiles, Culture, emptywheel, Labor/by emptywheelAs the Republicans in Congress, most notably the Senate fixate on emasculating the stimulus package, stripping it and the country of hope, I want to return to another recent example of the un-American activities and bent of this group of legislative geniuses. I refer to this same group’s actions and illogic in relation to willingness to kill or cripple American Auto manufacturing under the false guise it is not as good or efficient as foreign makers. Recent news from Toyota puts the lie to another Republican claim.
“Bipartisan”
/66 Comments/in Bingo, Economics/by emptywheelHaggis Logic
/93 Comments/in Economics/by emptywheelI just watched Arlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter explain how they didn’t really cut $600 million in child care.
He explained very helpfully that if you don’t get 60 votes, then there would be no money for child care.
Of course, he and Susan Collins (and, apparently, one more Republican) are the only ones standing between a bill and 60 votes.