it's also just a rather good newsletter and worth a sub anyway

No GoFundMe, but I am thinking about rent for this month, so if you don’t wanna subscribe to the newsletter and just feel like chipping in some beer money or whatever: Venmo is @ Jake-Lahut straightfromthehut.substack.com

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

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It also helps when they are literally the best coworkers

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.

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

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Incredible reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all

Also, as the guy who broke the story, I can very much assure you that the American Airlines gate attendant played the teeny tiniest of roles in the police report. That quote, which you can read here, underscores how many ppl were rattled by the congresswoman’s behavior www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

White House schedule is teasing an "announcement" by Trump tomorrow at 11 am — which is this deal with Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk on GLP-1 drugs.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Interesting pro-Trump billionaire sighting on The Free Press homepage

Folks, I think the competition is over. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & @premthakker.bsky.social have been awarded Joe Rogan Of The Left status, along with @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social & @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social. 4-way split, I don’t make the rules:

There’s a reason we left this cover ambiguous in 2022– we didn’t know yet how many new paradigms of leadership would emerge…and where they might yet go.

Something I learned from @willknight.bsky.social's AI Lab newsletter today: The term "teleoperation" www.wired.com/story/agibot...

What shocked me most about the death threats sent to teachers in Arizona in recent days was that they didn't come from extremists on fringe platforms, these were sent from seemingly regular people on Facebook. Here's a sample of what they sent: www.wired.com/story/arizon...

Trump's approval rating has fallen the most among the voters who are newest to his coalition: people of color and young people. Good article from Mary Radcliffe (who is a must-read): marywitha4.substack.com/p/trumps-app...

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...

WIRED talked to NBC’s Steve Kornacki about Tuesday's election results. He thinks Trump didn't do Republicans any favors. www.wired.com/story/democr...

New: We've got an exclu with none other than Steve Kornacki to break down last night's results, including what surprised him coming out of New Jersey, where Zohran's best & worst turf was, and why Dems should be optimistic. Also, he's not a khaki guy? Come nerd out www.wired.com/story/democr...

Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for her

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

Damn, this FB post from Scott has put up some serious numbers after I was first alerted to it last night

Before opening these I was like, solid chance Brandon Gill is in there. And yup, he is

Vivek Ramaswamy, of all people, tells Republicans to “cut out the identity politics” and “focus on affordability” in a video that is not gonna make Trumpworld happy

Yeah, bit of a freakout happening on Fox News right now

Yeah, “turn the volume up” goes hard

Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off: "My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."

So far on the other website, many in the GOP activist class seem to be taking tonight as the consequence of infighting over Tucker/Fuentes rather than a referendum on anything.

If you have NY1 or want to pull up the free livestream on YouTube, check out Zohran’s lawyer giving an interview just now. He’s been good and sometimes makes some news

“That is not right, and that is not us,” Cuomo tells his crowd as they continue yelling over him booing / jeering Mamdani

nooooo not Cuomo bringing up his dad’s eerily similar final campaign against Ed Koch, and bragging that he did better?

Cuomo concession speech happening now. Surreal moment, as someone who covered him closely as governor. This is it, folks: “I am blessed, I am blessed to have the people in this room… You are superstars. Even more, you are New York patriots.”

AOC to Abby Phillip from Zohran HQ: “We don’t have to be afraid of our future, we don’t have to be afraid of our young.”

Cuomo concession speech when

Not sure if this is generative AI, but the White House decided to go with this Knicks mockup logo as their response to Zohran’s win

Oh?

Governor for 2026 baby (or the nightmare blunt rotation of consulting firms: DeRosa-Glavin-Azzopardi)

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

DDHQ — so goated, so underrated. Honestly I have no idea why so many outlets stick with the AP when this outfit has much better data & the ability to make faster calls

Bill Ackman has begun writing a tweet that he will finish at midnight.

I bear full responsibility for the intra-South Carolina beef that continues to escalate because of Nancy Mace. Original story here: www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

The video version of this pod has now been described as “Tegan and Sara hosting a podcast” which is honestly the highest possible compliment.

It's giving Matt Gaetz?

Also he literally just said a couple days ago that it would be almost impossible to do it & that he doesn't want to uproot his employees' lives. So which is it?

The opinion sections of major newspapers have responded to Zohran Mamdani's campaign in the same way that a group of terrified, purse-clutching suburbanites visiting NYC might respond if you asked them to ride the subway to try some Indian food in Jackson Heights. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

Time will tell, but perhaps one of the most memorable Truth Social posts of all time. Potentially one of the most consequential, in terms of some very real pain in people’s daily lives

If you’re wondering: has People magazine’s coverage of Trump’s second presidency been pissing him off, per our sources: yes, the literal president has noticed and he’s not pleased, particularly the framing and repeated coverage of his health.