Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

NEW: SSA employees are getting extremely worried about how the agency will continue to provide benefits to some 70 million Americans, according to meeting minutes obtained by @wired.com. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

“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...

SSA employees grilled management during a tense meeting about the government shutdown yesterday. “People are coming to me saying they cannot put gas in their car and they cannot afford to come to work anymore," one employee said. Scoop w/ @leahfeiger.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/social...

NEW: We obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees grilled leadership on plans for the agency during the shutdown + shared really upsetting stories from employees unable to get to work bc they can't afford gas. from me and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:

help jake pay rent, please!

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

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

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

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...

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...

here to report that the right wing is having a real normal one

A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

SCOOP : I got hold of the death threats, doxes and attacks teachers in Arizona are facing after a TPUSA spokesperson inaccurately claimed they mocked Charlie Kirk during Halloween. "We’re coming for you. Literally driving to Tucson as we speak You fucking wait.” www.wired.com/story/arizon...

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:

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:

NEW: As the GOP tears itself apart over claims of antisemitism, the person who triggered it all, Nick Fuentes, is celebrating. “I am no longer the radical on the outside; I’m actually the leader on the inside." www.wired.com/story/gop-ci...

The revolution started on social media. It ended with protests, violence, and an online poll to pick the new prime minister. www.wired.com/story/nepal-...

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team

we've updated this story with a statement from Nancy Mace's rep and you should read it:

no one does it like @evystadium.bsky.social ! so lucky to have worked with evy at two (2!) different publications, and I cannot say enough good things about her. hire evy, and make me so so so so jealous:

Scoop: Nancy Mace went Full Karen on airport police in South Carolina during the govt shutdown. No paywall, since this was from a FOIA request. "She repeatedly stated we were ‘Fucking incompetent,’ and ‘this is no way to treat a fucking US Representative." www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

NEW: Rep. Nancy Mace berated law enforcement during a meltdown at an airport in South Carolina on Thursday. The congresswoman was “repeatedly stated we were ‘Fucking incompetent,’ and ‘this is no way to treat a fucking US Representative,’” the report states. read @jakelahut.writes.news:

UPDATE: A TikTok account dedicated to posting racist videos featuring an AI-generated Black woman named “Lakisha” was part of a trend pushing racist disinformation about SNAP benefits TikTok didn't comment, but the account was removed after our report www.wired.com/story/disinf...

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

"The reality is that the overwhelming majority of recipients of SNAP are people born in the US and many are in families with children or are elderly or disabled. Of those able to work, most do."

With SNAP benefits set to run out on Saturday, far-right influencers and extremists have been spreading racist disinformation, including the claim that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. Fact check: not true! read @davidgilbert.bsky.social for the necessary debunker:

NEW from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: 30 days into the shutdown, federal workers talked to us about the toll it has taken on them—unpaid bills, anxiety, and even waiting to be reimbursed for emergency cancer treatment. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/federa...

NEW: Almost a month into the government shutdown, and some federal workers are barely making it through. One fed, who spoke with @telliotter.bsky.social, is out tens of thousands of dollars waiting to be reimbursed for their husband's cancer care. More here: www.wired.com/story/federa...

Today marks 30 days of the government shutdown and federal workers -- 750,000 were furloughed -- are barely making ends meet. @telliotter.bsky.social + @makenakelly.bsky.social spoke to federal workers struggling to pay bills, working side gigs, and relying on free food programs to get by:

Radio Free Asia will shut down its news operations on Friday for the first time since its founding in 1996, removing one of the few independent journalism outlets in Asian countries with limited press freedoms. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

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...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

NEW: CBP searched a record 55,424 devices at the US border over the past 12 months. While these searches are rare compared to the number of travelers, the data shows a notable uptick over the past six months. @mattburgess1.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-se...

NEW: Republicans are targeting the census -- again. This time, they're going after a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” that helps keep census data anonymous. This would impact a number of vulnerable people, immigrants included. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

A @wired.com AI package needs to clear an impossibly high bar. And by god, I think we've done it. Hours of sensational, thought-provoking, fun reading, and the design is simply dazzling. WIRED can't predict the future, but we can try to make sense of it. And that's exactly what we're doing here:

NEW: Andrew Cuomo wants to separate himself from Trump. So why is his campaign teaming up with the same MAGA influencers who helped Trump win? More here: www.wired.com/story/andrew...

new york is the greatest city in the world!!!

The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.

NEW: Inside the Trump Administration's Bluesky Invasion Spoke with some administration officials who said the move was about "reaching new audiences." It's amounted to trench warfare. www.wired.com/story/inside...

"Following his stormy departure from Washington, Musk’s focus on Europe is once again creating chaos."