SCOOP: WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees grilled leadership on plans for the agency. wrd.cm/3JNrCIu

“People are coming to me saying they cannot put gas in their car and they cannot afford to come to work anymore, and they'll need to get other jobs,” said one employee on the call. “Pretty soon they won't be able to afford to work at the agency.”

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

I am absolutely certain that Jake is going to have a great job lined up before too long (a good reason to reach out to him now if you're hiring), but a job tomorrow doesn't pay the bills today.

help jake pay rent, please!

being fired suddenly in NYC is a nightmare — if you can help out Jake, please consider it!

Hey everyone, thank you so much for the outpouring of support. I need to pay rent, and I launched a GoFundMe spot.fund/LahutRentFund

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

once again jael writes the piece I wish I’d written :)

I’ll add more context here, because I think folks are (understandably) reading a lot into what I’m saying here. I am not asserting anything past what’s literally reported in this story. And I am on the record as being a huge supporter of the current Wired team, whose work I encourage you to pay for.

when Elon Musk attacked my reporting to his millions of followers last week, it was one of the scariest days of my life in that moment, the leadership at @wired.com enthusiastically stood by my article and its message: holding powerful tech leaders accountable

WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office. Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS. It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football. www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

I PROMISE you, our aggressive, unflinching, investigative reporting isn't going anywhere—ever.

Just to be absolutely clear: Our commitment to politics reporting is unwavering, and we'll continue to invest in, hire for, and prioritize that coverage.

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

unsubscribe to me at your own fucking peril

I don’t think this is fair to all these journalists. Compared to Teen Vogue, Wired invested in adversarial politics reporting relatively recently (and are great at it!). When Wintour was telling TV they don’t want to hear about politics, in 2021? That was the canary. bsky.app/profile/meli...

Jake is a resourceful political reporter with deep access to the White House; he goes out of his way to befriend everyone in the newsroom; and he is tireless at promoting our work on TV. WIRED will carry on politics reporting with his legacy, but he deserves a better employer and platform.

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

to me jake is everything WIRED is: relentlessly curious, hilarious, and willing to ask the right questions at the right time. i am truly devastated about this and i am so jealous of whoever gets him next

Jake is one of the best and I’ll really miss working with him — whoever gets to work with him next is very lucky!

Jake did tremendous work at WIRED and I'm really going to miss working with him every day.

have been eagerly anticipating this @carolinehaskins.bsky.social scoop on mark zuckerberg's illegal school based on 1,600 (!) pages of docs she got and it does NOT DISAPPOINT:

I have a history of planning to go to COP and then those plans suddenly getting derailed, but so far looks like I'll make it this year. I'm going to report on a couple of very specific things, but am also curious to see what happens when the U.S. opts out. ANYway, other journos who are going, hmu!

Zohran Mamdani's Campaign Figured Out How to Channel Fandom The Zohran Mamdani campaign ran a competent social media program, yes. But it's the fandom it fostered that transformed Mamdani into a digital (and IRL!) phenomenon. More here: www.wired.com/story/zohran...

very funny to see one's peers be written about like the 2016 talking-to-a-trump-voter-in-a-diner missives www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...

lmao bowdoin’s “congratulatory” post to zohran proving my point here

i love living here man

this is the race i’m watching tonight

i can be in bed by 10:30 on election night. a better world is possible

spanfeller makes an oblique data center reference in her speech about making big energy users pay their fair share, to thunderous applause

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

spanbergers kids seem fun!

the social hierarchy of election parties in nyc tonight is what i imagine the oscars to be like except it’s for people who are way less tan and way more online

It's been a year since Trump was elected. Have Democrats figured out the internet yet? “I can't, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” a Democratic digital strategist tells @makenakelly.bsky.social:

In Oklahoma, oil companies inject tens of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater into the ground each year — enough to fill the Empire State Building 300+ times — frequently at pressures above the legal limit. Regulators have failed to stop them. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

would really love to know what teen vogue / @leximcmenamin.com would have written about This Morning's News

best part about being an early bird is texting all my friends with Big News

Condé leadership owes us--and Teen Vogue’s readership--answers. We will get those answers. And we fight for our rights as workers with a collective bargaining agreement as we fight for the work we do, and the people we do it for.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

Teen Vogue changed my life and their politics team was doing incredible journalism comparable to very little other publications. I can't say I'm not disappointed with this decision. Sending y'all love❤️

teen vogue did some of the hardest hitting work out there and this is a huge fucking loss

Finding it hard to articulate how much Teen Vogue as we know it did for my writing and reporting and career, but also my understanding of the world as a reader. There's a really solid chance that without that team, some random then-20-something from Kentucky wouldn't even be in this field.

So, all the stories about politics are going to be replaced with pieces about... career development?

really fucking heartbroken about teen vogue and solidarity to all my colleagues there