MacKenzie Scott continues to rule the billionaire ex-wives club. She just announced a donation of $45M to The Trevor Project -- a non-profit that serves LGBTQ+ youth:

Another big @wired.com scoop today www.wired.com/story/fbi-ag...

The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation. www.wired.com/story/minnes...

This is major. MacKenzie Scott just donated $45 million to the Trevor Project. www.wired.com/story/macken...

NEW: GoFundMe strictly bans fundraisers for “the legal defense of financial and violent crimes,” yet is currently running one “to help pay for any legal services” for the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good. Its conflict is not even the least bit contestable.

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

‘Adolescence’ PHEW www.wired.com/story/adoles...

I always enjoy the Globes but I am especially in this headspace right now.

This weekend’s invasion was both a throwback to the last century and a new, uniquely Trumpian nightmare—one that’s just beginning.

GDT lost to PTA but it’s always a good time to share a Guillermo interview. www.wired.com/story/guille...

I’m going to take this as proof that Jason was right with this www.wired.com/story/sinner...

Now seems like a good time to reup @manishakrishnan.bsky.social’s interview with EJAE www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

WIRED has updated this guide in light of the protests happening in Minneapolis, NYC, and beyond.

Very important story from David here.

People are already in the streets after an ICE agent shot a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis today. Here are some @wired.com tips for protecting yourself from your government. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

for the new york times magazine, I wrote about people through objects that defined them: the recliner where Brian Wilson quieted his anxiety; the cross that Ozzy Osbourne’s welder dad made for him; how Kitty Dukakis defied convention through her wedding dress www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

Finally wrote my magnum opus on social media, AI, and how tech companies seem to not understand what it means to have friends. www.wired.com/story/expire...

“Today’s deal means Netflix has a decision to make: use the Warner Bros. legacy it has acquired to carry on as a major Hollywood studio, or use it to make reams of content but far less art.” @waterslicer.bsky.social on Netflix’s bid to buy a new identity

WIRED’s Big Interview event is up and running! www.wired.com/story/big-in...

I literally cannot imagine a worse shrooms scenario than livestreaming myself taking a hero dose and inviting MrBeast to show up www.wired.com/story/bryan-...

NEW: Contrary to some recent news reports, DOGE isn’t dead. Far from it. read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social for more on what DOGE operatives are doing in government now:

Now that the fifth season of ‘Stranger Things’ is coming out, I’m remembering my interview with Shawn Levy more than two years ago. The last installment of the show had been held up by the Hollywood strikes and the cast was aging—quickly. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/shawn-...

SCOOP: I was one of the guinea pigs.

A must-read from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social

A must-read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social on Roblox and what’s going on with #FreeSchlep. www.wired.com/story/he-hun...

Really love the Defector year-end report defector.com/defector-ann...

Been fascinated by the idea of a Great Meme Reset ever since I first heard about it. Originally, I was trying to parse how it would be possible to rewind the internet. Then I really thought about what it could mean and why people might want to turn back time... www.wired.com/story/the-gr...

I think the first time I ever talked to a fandom researcher about parasocial relationships was for this story about Rey, having no idea people could one day make AI versions of Star Wars characters they carried around in their pockets... www.wired.com/story/star-w...

One of my favorite parts of being WIRED’s Special Projects editor is working with the team that turns our journalism into films, docs, and TV series. Today, the world gets to see one of those projects with the release of ‘The Carman Family Deaths’ on Netflix. 🧵 www.netflix.com/watch/81664825

Gen Alpha is already tired of AI slop and brainrot, and they are pining for memes that mean something....so is the Great Meme Reset coming? @waterslicer.bsky.social finds out www.wired.com/story/the-gr...

This is **fascinating** www.wired.com/story/book-e...

“I think I can speak for most of our employees when we say now more than ever, employees are feeling somewhat betrayed by the federal government as federal employees because of what we're navigating and the length in which we're navigating it.” www.wired.com/story/social...

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

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.

Yes, Makena, yes!

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Mere months ago, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social was polling at 1 percent—right next to “Someone Else.” Tonight, he was elected New York City’s newest mayor. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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:

alt hed: How Much Antisemitism Is Too Much AntiSemitism? Nick Fuentes Has Thoughts read @davidgilbert.bsky.social on a really interesting schism happening in the GOP right now:

If you need 10 minutes of distraction today, please do read this story about the time mathematician Georg Cantor made a smarty-pants plea to the Catholic Church www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Netflix's new true-crime doc 'The Carman Family Deaths' is based on an epic @wired.com story from 2021. Watch the new trailer here: www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

NBA stars, mobsters, and marks with fat wallets. I dove inside the seedy underbelly of private high-stakes poker games, how they can be cheated, and how alleged scams like the "Billups Games" take shape. For @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/inside...

NEW: I had a very interesting talk with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, AI, tech bros, and whether Mary Shelley really kept Percy Bysshe Shelley's charred heart after he died. Also, GDT says he hopes to start shooting 'The Buried Giant' next year. (!!!) www.wired.com/story/guille...

Obsessed with this @manishakrishnan.bsky.social interview with EJAE. www.wired.com/story/how-k-...

A @wired.com milestone for me today, if you'll excuse a slightly sappy thread for a sec: It's been one year since I asked @leahfeiger.bsky.social if she was sitting down when I relayed to her what I was hearing. Hours later, we published this story www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Made a video for @wired.com about protest 🐸s www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMXuCba6/

Scoop: In digging into the AI slopification of the White House, I’ve learned that the president of the United States is capable, from time to time, of posting generative AI videos on his own, per a senior WH official. More in this week’s Inner Loop @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/donald...

"According to a senior White House official, there are times when Trump will come across a video he finds particularly funny or amusing—either on Truth Social or through other unspecified channels—save it to his camera roll, and release it into the world. Most of the time, though, it’s staffers..."

"...with the casino-ification of the economy, the breakdown of a meaningful regulatory apparatus to rein in all of the above—well, it has all come just in time to give novice investors a vehicle to sink their savings into the vague promise of superintelligence." www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Y'all. It's a HUGE day here on the ol' @wired.com because we have a giant package of stories on AI. Like deep, dark reporting on everything AI is doing to our world. I'll call out some favorite stories on subsequent posts, but for now—pick a card, any card www.wired.com/ai-issue/