Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We talked about the suspected Egyptian payment to Trump, Trump’s faceplant at NABJ, and Kamala Harris’ success.
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.
We talked about the suspected Egyptian payment to Trump, Trump’s faceplant at NABJ, and Kamala Harris’ success.
Things are going to get busy in the courts again, for both Trump and Hunter Biden.
Michael Sherwin says that Merrick Garland could have reopened the investigation into whether Trump received a $10 million donation from Egypt. Except he never briefed Garland on the investigation.
Joe Biden has confirmed a massive prisoner exchange, including WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich.
Donald Trump is lying about how and why his classified documents case got dismissed. Here’s what you need to fact check him.
I’m not convinced that Trump’s latest stunt to claim the media spotlight — truly atrocious behavior at the National Association for Black Journalists conference — will be any different than all the other things Trump has succeeded in commanding the media’s attention without ever paying a price for his own racism.
Bulwark predicted that if Trump won a second term, democracy would die a slow death of the same kind of intimidation and threats Trump’s targets have experienced for seven years now.
Because Trump has nearly complete control over the Republican Party, Kamala Harris will be able to target Trump as if he were an incumbent President.
The fourth episode of Ball of Thread.
When Trump tells an audience assembled by Charlie Kirk that they only need to vote one more time, you need to