Emptywheel Friday | Nicole’s Back and Marcy Wheeler Explains WTF is Happening
Nicole Sandler is back after a health scare, joined by national security journalist Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel.net for their weekly breakdown of everything the media is underreporting. This week: the Iran War is far more catastrophic than the White House is letting on β bases may be permanently abandoned, Saudi Arabia is furious, jet fuel prices are spiking, and Spirit Airlines is history. Plus, Kash Patel’s whiskey brand may have gotten him into serious legal trouble, Howard Lutnick testified behind closed doors about his Epstein ties, Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy conspicuously omits far-right extremists, and the Voting Rights Act is hanging by a thread. It’s a lot β but it always is these days.