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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.
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The Golden Teapot Dome: Mark Kelly Warns “This Is a Very Hard Physics Problem”
/72 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThe newest spectacular failure of SpaceX raises the stakes on an exchange between Mark Kelly and Pete Hegseth yesterday. Kelly described, first, that the physics that Trump’s planned Golden Dome would require are nearly impossible to pull off. And then he observed that Hegseth just fired the people who would have demonstrated the physics were impossible.