# emptywheel: emptywheel

> Come for the weedy coverage of legal cases, politics, and left theory\. Stay for the potty mouth and craic\.

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## Pages
- [Test Projects](https://emptywheel.net/test-projects/)
- [Home](https://emptywheel.net/)
- [Support](https://emptywheel.net/support/)
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## Posts
- [Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works](https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/whos-fooling-whom-how-the-splc-indictment-works/): While the SPLC indictment lists a lot of senior people that SPLC allegedly paid, most of those people are not tied to the specific wire fraud charges alleged in the indictment\. 
- [Todd Blanche's Weird Double Standard Protects Sex Traffickers and Racists](https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/22/todd-blanches-weird-double-standard-protects-sex-traffickers-and-racists/): With the indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center, Todd Blanche demonstrates a double standard regarding whether funding implicates someone in racism and sex trafficking\. 
- [The Third Trajectory and Hopes for Rebuilding](https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/21/the-third-trajectory-and-hopes-for-rebuilding/): The global catastrophe Trump created in Iran may provide an opportunity to disrupt his authoritarian trajectory\.
- [Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation](https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/todd-blanche-puts-dmitry-firtashs-onetime-lawyer-in-charge-of-criminalizing-the-russian-investigation/): The biggest reason Joe DiGenova is a wildly inappropriate person to lead an attempt to criminalize the Russian investigation is his past efforts to get paid by Russian\-backed Ukrainians to do the same thing\.
- [The Person Playacting as President May Be Getting Addicted to Snuff Films](https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/20/the-person-playacting-as-president-may-be-getting-addicted-to-snuff-films/): Everyone, from Trump himself to his aides to access journalists to experts, are packaging up Trump's moods as rational actions of a President\. That makes his increasing fondness for spectacular videos showing the power of military destruction, which aides show him in lieu of conveying mood\-killing reality, unbelievably dangerous\. 

## Projects
- [Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler on the Nicole Sandler Show  4\-3\-26](https://emptywheel.net/project/emptywheel-fridays-with-marcy-wheeler-on-the-nicole-sandler-show-4-3-26/): We talked about the pilot rescue\.
- [Joe DiGenova Back in the Criminal Frame](https://emptywheel.net/project/joe-digenova-back-in-the-criminal-frame/): Todd Blanche decided to put Joe DiGenova, who tried to monetize his lies about the Russian investigation and related issues, in charge of criminalizing the Russian investigation\.
- [Think of the Iran War as Global War](https://emptywheel.net/project/think-of-the-iran-war-as-global-war/): You can't separate Trump's disastrous war in Iran from the opportunities it gives Russia and China to wreak havoc in Europe and elsewhere\. Produced by LOLGOP Studios\. https://www\.patreon\.com/cw/LOLGOPStudios
- [Emptywheel Fridays with Marcy Wheeler on the Nicole Sandler Show](https://emptywheel.net/project/emptywheel-fridays-with-marcy-wheeler-on-the-nicole-sandler-show/): We survived Armageddon and Melania tried to pre\-empt bad Epstein news this week\.
- [Trump Hoards the Money He Stole](https://emptywheel.net/project/trump-hoards-the-money-he-stole/): How JB Pritzker made Trump's attempt to hoard tariff money politically poisonous\. 

## Categories
- [emptywheel](https://emptywheel.net/category/emptywheel/)
- [2008 Presidential Election](https://emptywheel.net/category/2008-presidential-election/)
- [2016 Presidential Election](https://emptywheel.net/category/2016-presidential-election/)
- [FISA](https://emptywheel.net/category/fisa/)
- [Mueller Probe](https://emptywheel.net/category/mueller-probe/)

## Tags
- [Mike Flynn](https://emptywheel.net/tag/mike-flynn/)
- [Roger Stone](https://emptywheel.net/tag/roger-stone/)
- [Paul Manafort](https://emptywheel.net/tag/paul-manafort/)
- [John McCain](https://emptywheel.net/tag/john-mccain/)
- [John Brennan](https://emptywheel.net/tag/john-brennan/)

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## Module Width
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## Project Categories
- [Videos](https://emptywheel.net/project_category/videos/)
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- [Special Projects \- Featured](https://emptywheel.net/project_category/special-projects-featured/)

## Project Tags
- [Alex Pretti](https://emptywheel.net/project_tag/alex-pretti/)
- [Stephen Miller](https://emptywheel.net/project_tag/stephen-miller/)
- [John Roberts](https://emptywheel.net/project_tag/john-roberts/)
- [JD Vance](https://emptywheel.net/project_tag/jd-vance/)
- [Jeffrey Epstein](https://emptywheel.net/project_tag/jeffrey-epstein/)

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