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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
Rule of Law: Don’t Obey in Advance, But Also Don’t Give Up in Advance
/72 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelJD Vance might well like to simply ignore Judge Engelmeyer’s order. Trump might want to start siccing his mob when judges make adverse rulings. But there are good reasons to believe that that won’t happen, yet. And until then, this legal process is a tool that can be used to buy time and hem in Trump’s mob.
Trump Stewing because of Lies Stephen Miller Fed Him During the Campaign
/77 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Immigration/by emptywheelTrump is furious that his thugs can’t fulfill his promises of mass deportation. But those failures arise not through want of trying. Rather, those failures stem from the fact that reality in no way matches the hellhole Miller pitched for Trump, the imaginary hellhole Miller used to get voters afraid enough to vote for Trump.
Republicans Continue to Cover Up Why Kash Patel Pled the Fifth
/29 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelDemocrats are trying to figure out what Kash Patel believed, in October 2022, that he had criminal exposure in an Espionage Act investigation. And Chuck Grassley wants to use the fact that the FBI stalled the investigation into Donald Trump for two months as an excuse to refuse that.