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Breathing Room: The Three Rs — Reduce, Repair, Recycle
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/18/breathing-room-the-three-rs-reduce-repair-recycle/
Published: May 18, 2025 17:00
Are you seeing the effects of the Trump supply shock? What are you doing to reduce, repair, recycle?
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Yarvin on Democracy, Leftism, and Julius Evola
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/17/yarvin-on-democracy-leftism-and-julius-evola/
Published: May 17, 2025 17:25
Plus a dash of Tolstoy
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Journalists’ Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump’s Squirrels, Biden Recording Edition
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/17/journalists-persistent-willingness-to-chase-trumps-squirrels-biden-recording-edition/
Published: May 17, 2025 10:52
Most of the people commenting on what two excerpts of Joe Biden's interview with Robert Hur exhibit no understanding they're listening to cherry-picked excerpts.
The post Journalists’ Persistent Willingness to Chase Trump’s Squirrels, Biden Recording…
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/16/fridays-with-nicole-sandler-56/
Published: May 16, 2025 21:00
We talked about Trump's attempts to arrest his opponents.
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Trump Confesses Migrants Aren’t the Criminals He Claimed They Are
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/16/trump-confesses-migrants-arent-the-criminals-he-claimed-they-are/
Published: May 16, 2025 08:27
By demanding that the FBI take agents who are currently looking for criminals and instead assign them to look for migrants, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are confessing that migrants aren't the criminals that Trump's entire political career has been…
The Comings and Goings from Stephen Miller’s Gulag
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/15/the-comings-and-goings-from-stephen-millers-gulag/
Published: May 15, 2025 12:30
Hopefully, the discovery of that a version of the Magna Carta Harvard bought in 1946 thinking it was a copy is actually an original will be an auspicious sign as Stephen Miller threatens to tear up that right.
The post The Comings and Goings from Stephen…
Trump’s Mob Understands “Skeezy” Better than the Corruption Beat Journalists
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/14/trumps-mob-understands-skeezy-better-than-the-corruption-beat-journalists/
Published: May 14, 2025 12:24
The response to Trump's acceptance of a flying palace from Qatar offers some lessons about how to give reporting on corruption salience for Trump supporters.
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Stephen Miller Invites John Roberts to be the Instrument of His Own Destruction
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/13/stephen-miller-invites-john-roberts-to-be-the-instrument-of-his-own-destruction/
Published: May 13, 2025 12:00
Stephen Miller's colleagues at his NGO seem to be testing whether Miller could apply the same theory to takeover the courts he has used against independent agencies and, this weekend, even Congressional entities.
The post Stephen Miller Invites John…
NYT’s Storytime on Trump’s Houthi Capitulation
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/13/nyts-storytime-on-trumps-houthi-capitulation/
Published: May 13, 2025 10:56
NYT has a story describing the Houthi campaign as a clusterfuck. And yet, it clearly only tells part of the story.
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Stocking up on Containers of Vapor
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/12/stocking-up-on-containers-of-vapor/
Published: May 12, 2025 16:53
Right-wing propaganda before and after Trump and Bessent's US-China trade negotiations announcement can't cover up the damage already done to the US economy, the worst of which has yet to arrive in the form of vapor at the ports.
The post Stocking up on…
Jamieson Greer Says Trump’s Trade Deficit Emergency Wasn’t as Serious an Emergency “as Maybe Thought”
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/12/jamieson-greer-says-trumps-trade-deficit-emergency-wasnt-the-emergency-as-maybe-thought/
Published: May 12, 2025 10:32
Jamieson Greer, Trump's Trade Representative, has decided in the face of empty ports and stalled shipping that the trade deficit that Trump claimed was an emergency in order to usurp Congress' power really isn't as big an emergency "as maybe thought."
The…