Episodios

  • UPDATE: Stephen Miller's Fever Dreams

    UPDATE: Stephen Miller's Fever Dreams
    Oct 17 2025
    Stephen Miller is trying to use the ICE invasion of Chicago to create a pretext to invade with troops. So far, mobilization of the entire Chicago community has prevented that. Read the post: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/how-city-of-chicago-beat-back-stephen-millers-shoddy-propaganda-so-far/ Support emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/
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    28 m
  • How Kristi Noem is giving away $400K in "free" medical care

    How Kristi Noem is giving away $400K in "free" medical care
    Oct 9 2025
    The shutdown debate over healthcare has ignored one significant healthcare cost: What taxpayers are paying for the damage Kristi Noem's goons have done to people rounded up in their raids. Read the post: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/05/400000-the-free-medical-care-kristi-noems-goons-made-taxpayers-pay/ Support emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/
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    12 m
  • The White House crime scene

    The White House crime scene
    Oct 7 2025
    Stephen Miller is trying hard to criminalize the Democratic Party. But the biggest crime scene in DC is the White House. Find out more: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/06/the-crime-wave-is-coming-from-inside-the-white-house/ Support emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/
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    32 m
  • Press Confesses They Missed Trump's Politicized Prosecutions

    Press Confesses They Missed Trump's Politicized Prosecutions
    Sep 29 2025
    The same journalists who normalized Trump's past politicized prosecutions are shocked that Trump did it again with Jim Comey.

    Read the post: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/26/mainstream-press-confesses-they-missed-the-other-politicized-prosecutions/

    Watch: https://youtu.be/KBEgfIU8Oyg?si=j1tifL_zlEZqF9RY

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    9 m
  • Donald Trump will shut down the government.

    Donald Trump will shut down the government.
    Sep 24 2025
    Given the looming shutdown, it's time for all the lefty pundits who demanded a shutdown to actually do something to win it. Read more: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/22/time-to-win-the-shutdown/ Support the government: https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/
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    17 m
  • How Russia's 2016 Attack Led Trump to Destroy US Hegemony

    How Russia's 2016 Attack Led Trump to Destroy US Hegemony
    Sep 20 2025

    The 2016 attack by Russia on the 2016 election helped US abandon rational discourse, created deep polarization, and continues to harm the US Deep State.

    Get the whole story: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzj-nJwdjvbfutHZdsNfOEou7UXvHm_SH

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    49 m
  • A Shutdown Must Be Tied to a Strategy to Fight Fascism

    A Shutdown Must Be Tied to a Strategy to Fight Fascism
    Sep 14 2025
    While much of the left is pushing for a shutdown later this month, almost none are talking about how a shutdown ties to any articulable strategy to fight fascism. Indeed, the hope it will be an "attentional" event simply outsources the agency of fixing the Democrats' attentional problems generally. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/GH7kzWO2c1s?si=4QVJ4DX1Fvi2MU9H Read more: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/09/the-education-of-ezra-klein/ Support emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/
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    28 m
  • A Tale of Two Governors

    A Tale of Two Governors
    Sep 9 2025
    JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom both gave press conferences showing that Trump's attempts to invade their states is about authoritarianism, not law enforcement. But Newsom's effort more successfully exposed Trump's authoritarian spectacle. Read more: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/a-tale-of-two-governors-confronting-versus-dick-wagging/ Support emptywheel: https://www.emptywheel.net/about/support/
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    26 m