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.
Thus far, Trump is making a sustained attack on the United States and Republican Members of Congress are still easily bought off with tailored exemptions rather than policies that serve the common good. That may change, but thus far, Article I remains solidly and easily co-opted.
Predictably, Sammy Alito misrepresented the posture of the Global Health challenge when dissenting from the mere lifting of a stay of a Temporary Restraining order. While he oozed contempt, he didn’t mention the government’s own contempt.
When Judge Dale Ho first asked Emil Bove to address amicus briefs submitted in Mayor Adams’ case, he wasn’t asking about the amicus briefs themselves. Rather, he was getting Bove to authenticate the letter he sent Danielle Sassoon.
A 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.
Those expressing bewilderment about why Trump might be rushing to deliver Ukraine to Russia have somehow missed that Trump picked up right where such coordination halted in 2017 when the FBI caught wind.
Given all the other ways Trump has capitulated to Vladimir Putin, we can’t rule out that the damage DOGE is doing to the US government is intentional sabotage.
This 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 […]
Russ Vought set out to make people like Ryleigh Cooper villains. Thus far, firings of government workers around the country have instead made the functions of government visible, and cherished.
Who is making decisions to shut down foreign aid? Marco Rubio, between meetings with foreign leaders? Or Elon’s AI?
By getting his job reinstated for two weeks, Hampton Dellinger was able to issue a ruling treating Trump’s purge as a reduction in force, which creates obligations on the agencies doing the firing.