we're like a week out from bari weiss getting put in charge of venezuela aren't we

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

as the year ends, i do want to take a minute and briefly toot my own horn because i worked my butt off, broke a lot of stories, wrote several print features, did tons of cable hits, shot two youtube videos, and i was pregnant the whole fuckin time

CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…

Very normal vehicle spotted today. People are pumped for Bears v Packers!

NEW: ICE has hired the infamous for-profit prison company GEO Group to help its immigrant bounty hunter program. GEO Group now stands to make money both tracking down immigrants and imprisoning them. theintercept.com/2025/12/19/i...

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”

so glad we published this fascinating dive into retatrutide by @johnsemley3000.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/people...

By now the broad story of USAID’s ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by President Donald Trump; Elon Musk and Russell Vought to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. 1/x

what's up with the grinch becoming freakishly popular/ omnipresent in the cultural imagination

What does Moana drink on the boat… she takes snacks but no water…

went to the yoko ono exhibit at MOCA today and left with the distinct impression that a) i underestimated how funny yoko is b) yoko rules

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

Parkinson's disease shows both the promise and failure of MAHA: it's environment, not genetics, that could hold the key to prevention. If only we would actually do something about it www.wired.com/story/scient...

It’s officially time for end-of-year posts and I am honestly SO eager to brag about my brilliant colleagues at @wired.com. there are way too many people to talk about in the newsroom, but this wild, exhausting, and absolutely ridiculous year wouldn’t have happened without any of them!!

NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less. “You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.

In case you missed it, Politico's unionized journalists won a key arbitration ruling against management efforts to rush undercooked, error-prone AI systems into journalism without being transparent or competent about it:

Chicago bears baby!!!!!!

After this, federal agents tear gassed the public on their way out of Elgin, per our photographer who was present. The Feds tear gassed eight Chicago neighborhoods this fall and now a suburb.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

IVE BEEN GEESE PILLED

Even before launch these AI hearing aids have become the in-ear Birkin bag of the elite (of a certain age). Here’s why. www.wired.com/story/hearin...

what’s more virgin than a computer

Mad Men 4K

SNOCAPS

I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...

www.wsj.com/finance/cme-... via @ubiquity75.xyz

My dad was on a waitlist for bears season tickets for over a decade and got them this year 😈

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI companies, funders, and government are all intertwined in one big heaping trillion dollar blob. Here's what it means. www.wired.com/story/ai-ind...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Ryan Murphy American Crime Story S4 "American Canto".... its only a matter of time

The mysteries of the PELVIC FLOOR have been plumbed by our greatest writer on the body, @caseyjohnston.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

This is a whole can of worms Trump just opened up: He’s reviving some version of the ban on state-level regulation of AI that fell out of the big beautiful bill — shoutout to @knibbs.bsky.social for her coverage on the Blackburn defection that led to that — by folding it into the defense bill

Everyone is speculating about the *AI BUBBLE* so for @wired.com Big Interview podcast, I asked one of my favorite econ experts @weisenthal.bsky.social to come explain it to me. His use of the word "creaking" to describe the US economy? Mildly terrifying. Other than that, great convo, 10/10.

NEW: For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @propublica.org did. www.propublica.org/article/bird...

SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Trying to get ahead of that Joyce Carol Oates dunk

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

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