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.
Russia has been engaged in a whole bunch of dick-wagging since Trump won the election. That’s likely because the last time they helped Trump get elected, he deferred on and then failed to deliver his side of the bargain.
There’s a telling quote from Greg Sargent in his description of Kamala Harris’ difficulties in convincing voters that Trump was a bad president. Some Democrats believe that the leading pro-Harris Super PAC, Future Forward, failed to spend enough of its enormous budget on advertising early on that might have reminded voters of the horrors of […]
There were two elections last week. A traditional political one, in which Democrats had some down ballot successes. And a far bigger propaganda one, in which Trump — but not always the rest of his party — had tremendous success.
We talk a miserable election loss.
Jack Smith has asked for three weeks — until December 2 — to inform Judge Tanya Chutkan what they plan to do with the January 6 case going forward.
By dint of his twin prosecutions, Hunter Biden has what virtually no one else in the country will be able to get now: standing to raise questions about Donald Trump’s conduct.
Had Kamala Harris won on Tuesday, we’d likely be in an immediate crisis of political violence. Instead, we have two months before the manufactured excuse to seize authoritarian powers.
If Jack Smith will shut down his investigation, then he must write a report for Merrick Garland. That would provide one more opportunity to disclose the findings of his investigation.
Trump’s own impunity will do grave damage to the rule of law.
But the pardons he will surely give will turn it into a transactional form of loyalty test.
You will only defeat Trumpism by destroying his manufactured facade of victimhood.