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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
Pete Marocco Keeps Trying to Prevent Bill Cassidy from Learning the Truth about USAID
/57 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelA memo written by an Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health at USAID puts Senators who were placated by Rubio’s past public reassurances about life-saving aide on notice: They were lying to you. And while they were lying to you, food and medicine was spoiling and people were dying.
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
/22 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelThis was an odd podcast, because Nicole and I went back and opened live to talk about Trump’s ambush of Zelenskyy. I’ll say more in coming days. One thing I think is super important is that the SEC is moving to settle with Justin Sun, the Chinese-linked businessman who dumped $30 million into Trump’s crypto […]
No Kings! Around the Partisan Bend on DOGE [sic] and Ukraine
/47 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelA bunch of contentious town halls in heavily Republican congressional districts this week are a kind of politics that Democrats have too often eschewed in recent years as consultants told candidates that they couldn’t swing voters in culturally conservative areas. This kind of politics is not sufficient to reverse the fascist trend in America, but it is an irreplaceable part of any effort to try.