Weekly Nicole Sandler Podcast Appearance
Weekly podcast appearance with Nicole Sandler.
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.
Weekly podcast appearance with Nicole Sandler.
The first time Trump reached out to Russia to undercut Barack Obama’s foreign policy in 2016 was an attempt to protect Bibi Netanyahu from repercussions for illegal settlements.
Because Trump is such an epic, reliable narcissist, you don’t need anything more than that narcissism to explain his behavior.
An explanation for my Ball of Thread series.
Elise Stefanik didn’t call Jan6ers “hostages” today because she believes it. She blurted that word along with about 20 others to perform the word salad Trump values.
As expected, Dan Scavino told prosecutors that he was not in the room when a Tweet sent from Trump’s phone almost got his Vice President killed.
In honor of January 6, a slew of journalists allowed themselves to be manipulated by Donald Trump to suggest one can’t discern who is telling the truth about democracy and rule of law, Joe Biden or Trump.
Last summer, Jack Smith chose to indict just Trump, by himself. At any point, he could choose to do something else.
The Supreme Court will rush to interfere in states’ management of elections in Colorado.
As of right now, thin majorities support democracy over Trump’s fascism. Those numbers need to be defended and, hopefully, expanded.