Gotta hand it to @wired.com: they're on a roll. They're doing such good work that whenever I have a question or a concern about tech, my first instinct is now to see if Wired wrote about it. This cover is awesome.

Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets? We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

On the contrary this person has just been anointed and is now the pope, I'm hearing.

to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven www.wired.com/politics-iss...

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

No one knows Silicon Valley better than @stevenlevy.bsky.social. And no one is more clear-eyed about how far removed it has become from its supposed ideals.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

watching righteous gemstones prepared me for writing this: www.chron.com/culture/reli...

honestly, it’s a must watch if you cover national politics. you can’t understand the right wing without understanding television evangelism

the righteous gemstones was a documentary

I've been slightly but meaningfully more optimistic about this since your BK show.

Google gets the green light from the state to turn wetlands into a data center in Fort Wayne. The company will aim to offset the environmental impact by purchasing credits from a wetland mitigation bank. www.21alivenews.com/2025/09/19/g...

me: politico is almost certainly framing this quote in the most anti-trans way humanly possible bluesky: but LOOK AT THE QUOTE IT LOOKS BAD me: i used to work there and quit my job over their reporters and others doing transphobia bluesky: BUT IT LOOKS BAD!!!

We’re turning our latest cover into posters, billboards, and even a mural in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Here’s how to find it. (Pics or it didn’t happen.) www.wired.com/story/wired-...

Our story about treatment delays and life-threatening incidents in ICE facilities is cited by ~30 US senators in a letter to Noem, urging her to "cease detaining pregnant, postpartum, and nursing women absent exceptional circumstances." www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

this is not a new thought but the best political commenters for the next decade will be people who understand both megachurch aesthetics/doctrine/culture and WWE

As thousands gather for Charlie Kirk’s funeral Sunday, we revisit our piece on the spontaneous vigil from the day he died where a crowd of families, college students, and Proud Boys gathered to mourn.

Wrote a bit about how FCC Chair Brendan Carr won't stop his attacks until someone makes him. At this point, no one's really all that optimistic Congress or the courts will step up. More here: www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

A House Oversight Committee hearing produced a flood of bizarre claims about cloud seeding, chemtrails, and solar geoengineering. Proven, human-driven changes to the weather were dismissed. www.wired.com/story/the-do...

has there been any serious effort in brooklyn to start a dvd rental place

i listened to mtg’s entire weather modification hearing yesterday and tried — for you, dear WIRED readers — to make sense of it:

throws a lot of cold water on the bullshit peddled by the whole austin comedy scene, which has constructed an identity around the idea that the election freed up comics to say whatever they want without fear of cancellation

Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Taylor Greene chaired a committee meeting in Congress yesterday on weather modification and, as @mollytaft.com reports, it went about as well as expected www.wired.com/story/the-do...

What are the best books/essays you’ve read about the nature of power? The wielding of it, the pull of it, the abdication of it in the hopes of retaining it in the future—I need to understand better than I do right now.

Actual sentence published on the Bari Weiss site today: “For help decoding [Tyler] Robinson’s very modern manifesto, I spoke to independent reporter Andy Ngo…”

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

I legit think this is so blatant that a lot of people who haven’t been paying attention are going to figure it out

Your government was hard at work today investigating chemtrails and other made-up weather-modification nonsense. from @mollytaft.com

i listened to mtg’s entire weather modification hearing yesterday and tried — for you, dear WIRED readers — to make sense of it:

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

has the free press said literally anything about the database of people being targeted for firing for making instagram posts other people didn't like

NEW: In the indictment, prosecutors claim Tyler Robinson planned Kirk’s killing in advance, citing rooftop surveillance, engraved bullets, and a written note as they seek the death penalty.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

i am not loving living through the plot of Eddington 2

Cynthia Rehberg, a school teacher in WI, was falsely targeted after right wingers claimed she made comments about Kirk. But she hadn't. Her school received 800 voicemails, some including death threats. "She didn't do anything, she didn't do anything wrong," said the district's superintendent

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

ekko FUCKING astral @ekkoastral.bsky.social

“Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million.” By @mollytaft.com at @wired.com www.wired.com/story/us-tax...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

we passed this point long ago. the Christchurch shooter murdered more than 50 people for the memes. if you don't realize that was part of the point for him you don't understand this stuff.

FYI, Brooklyn. Neergaard Pharmacy on 5th Ave in Park Slope has walk-in COVID boosters (Pfizer and Moderna) and all you have to do is say you have a pre-existing condition. I have asthma so I got mine.

National political reporters: consult your gaming desk. You likely have a massively blind spot — this isn’t a dig at anyone, because I have this blind spot too b/c I’m not a gamer and am trying to adjust for it in real time — covering this very important moment if u don’t game & don’t know the memes

this Joshua Citarella report from 2019(!) about the rise of extremely online Zoomer nihilism on TikTok still lives rent-free in my head, not least since its grimmest predictions are coming true www.newmodels.io/editorial/is...

On Wednesday, I saw someone say to check in on the young people in your life and I immediately called my younger brother. He had seen the video and was pretty distraught over it, and really happy to talk to someone. So to anyone seeing this - check in on the young people in your life.

got sucked into some very scary pro-serial killer tiktok holes last night. very young kids posting insane stuff. their world is so different than ours that it scares me more than most other things

Far-right influencers and violent extremists are posting identifying details about people they view as celebrating or glorifying the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. www.wired.com/story/right-...

It's no coincidence that you couldn't escape the violent video yesterday. Social platforms like X, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram have scaled back their content moderation efforts for long to get us where we are today. Really essential reporting by @laurengoode.bsky.social

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.