NEW: The Office of Remigration, housed in the State Dept and seemingly named for a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations, has been a black box since it was created a year ago. But @davidgilbert.bsky.social has figured out what's going on:

NEW: The Department of Labor told employees to report anyone using DEI, in an email reminding workers that they can even report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second term. One employee tells @wired.com it felt like a “reminder to narc on your coworkers.” read @telliotter.bsky.social:

🎇New package! We know you are confused, angry, invigorated or maybe paralyzed by corporate America's embrace of AI. So we wrote a bunch of stories, made a bunch of videos, added quizzes and made a whole mandatory AI training www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...

Debt is rising in the United States. Now, when you owe money, you're likely to get a phone call from an AI collector asking you to pay up—sometimes even when you *don't* owe anything: www.wired.com/story/ai-tak...

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 Civilian in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. SOUTHCOM is now counting the survivor of the last strike, on May 8, as another death. We have the running tally of strikes and deaths on our tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Really interesting to see this op-ed calling for the French gov to invest in alternative platforms to ones like X. Just another way in which EU countries, but particularly France, are starting to talk with increasing seriousness about moving away from US tech products www.wired.com/story/the-eu...

Great news, just in time for summer reading season! @wired.com is launching a book club, helmed by the inimitable @knibbs.bsky.social. Sign up here before the fun gets started:

subscribe to @hugolowell.bsky.social's Inner Loop newsletter!!!! www.wired.com/tag/inner-lo...

“If this is not under control immediately, we will have cases here in no time,” says one former deputy assistant administrator for global health at USAID. From me and @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

“We are so far behind in this outbreak,” a current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employee tells @wired.com. “This is a perfect storm.” new from me and @knibbs.bsky.social on how aid cuts from last year are already fueling the sudden ebola outbreak:

NEW: WIRED spoke to more than a dozen election officials, including secretaries of state and election directors, about the possibility of an ICE deployment to polling locations in November. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social's latest, where seasoned officials outline some very scary scenarios:

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

NEW: I recently started seeing more and more videos featuring youthful Scientologists from “orgs” around the world, especially on TikTok. It turns out this is part of an coordinated campaign, and I spoke to some of the people who helped develop it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt won’t stop talking about the apocalyptic results of homeless people using “super meth,” a very scary-sounding drug that does not exist:

Huge congratulations to @dmehro.bsky.social, @agreenberg.bsky.social, & everyone at @wired.com who worked on this piece—the culmination of more than a year of excellent iterative reporting on an under-covered story. Read here: www.wired.com/story/school...

this is *such* a good story from @emilymullin.bsky.social about the story behind how testing for Hantavirus was very quickly developed in Nebraska after local health officials learned they were getting sent 16 american passengers from the infamous cruise ship:

Heading into the 2026 midterms, this is the story I'm thinking about - one of absolute chaos for truly no discernible reason, surrounding elections and conspiracy theories in a state Trump has already pressured once. give this a read, for a preview of what's ahead. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak. www.wired.com/story/race-t...

NEW: 2021: Conspiracists said QR codes were somehow used to rig the 2020 election 2024: Georgia bans QR codes in elections 2026: No new system has been agreed on, and conspiracists are using the ensuing chaos to push to remove voting machines completely www.wired.com/story/conspi...

what's going on with Truth Predict, you may ask? well: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

there are already tons of conspiracy theories (and grifts!) out there about the hantavirus and @davidgilbert.bsky.social explains them best:

Thanks to @maddow.bsky.social for covering my report on the decimation of the voting section of the Justice Department and the dangerously inexperienced lawyers who now work at what was once call the "crown jewel" of the DOJ You can read it here: www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

we all have better things to do today, but instead... www.wired.com/story/video-...

NEW FROM ME: The president posts 19 times a day on average. Most of those posts go unnoticed. But then, they’re…yknow…the president talking to the world. So I figured, let’s just read and analyze all of them. www.npr.org/2026/05/08/n...

While the outbreak aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic is concerning, the virus isn't easily transmitted through casual contact. www.wired.com/story/hantav...

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

SCOOP! DOGE’s Ethan Shaotran, one of the young engineers first identified by WIRED, is starting a post-government second act: defense tech startup that appears to be gearing up to get government contracts. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doges-...

NEW: DOGE's Ethan Shaotran is now running a defense tech startup. In an email viewed by WIRED, Shaotran describes Blitz Industries as “a defense company backed by big names.” read @telliotter.bsky.social with the latest on what DOGE's early operatives are up to:

go listen to the pod this week if you want to hear me panic slightly about hantavirus while @brbarrett.bsky.social @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and (special guest!) @emilymullin.bsky.social make fun of me!!

NEW: For the last decade, nothing has been able to unite left and right in America.....until now. In recent weeks, the far-right and the woke left have come together to boost baseless conspiracy theories that Trump is staging his own assassination attempts www.wired.com/story/there-...

This is @hugolowell.bsky.social's first newsletter for @wired.com!!!! Give it a read + subscribe! and if you get the NL in your inbox you'll see a very fun new feature added that i refuse to spoil here

With telehealth access to mifepristone in legal limbo, clinics say they are ready to pivot if access is cut off. Medication abortion usually involves two drugs, but virtual providers plan to switch to a one-pill protocol if needed. From me and @knibbs.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/telehe...

It was an honor to accept the 2026 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism last night with @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social. The WIRED team's DOGE coverage was unmatched -- fight me, nobody did it better -- and we're grateful to the @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for the recognition.

It was a privilege to accept the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism with @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social for @wired.com’s DOGE coverage last night! Our team uncovered a government takeover in real-time, and our reporting was unparalleled-an honor to have that recognized!

Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. www.wired.com/story/a-fede...

For those *trying* to keep track ... in the 48 hours since #SCOTUS issued its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais striking down the state's election map containing two majority-Black districts (links to follow):

always read @mollytaft.com:

NEW: This is the inside story of how Trump's Justice Department destroyed the once-storied Voting Section, and forced out the team of lawyers responsible for upholding the Voting Rights Act. this is must read from @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

NEW In the space of a year, Trump has destroyed the DOJ's voting rights section, turning what was once the "crown jewel of the Civil Rights Division" into what one former DOJ lawyer called "the losingest law firm in America" This is the story of that demise. www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

New from me! Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service, is now being run by a DOGE affiliate, Greg Hogan. www.wired.com/story/a-doge...

NEW Conspiracies claiming the attack at the White House Correspondents dinner on Saturday night was STAGED were everywhere online within minutes of the incident happening Like Butler, most of it is coming from the left.... www.wired.com/story/staged...

The Trump administration on Friday dismissed members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation, which finances much of the public scientific research in the U.S.

NEW: Unfounded conspiracy theories are everywhere following the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, as the word “staged” has exploded on social media following the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

California Engineer Identified in Suspected Shooting at White House Correspondents Dinner

when a government agency that never really weighs in on trans rights all of a sudden starts weighing in on trans rights...you should pay attention! read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest:

First insider trading arrest in the US for prediction markets & the govt says one of the Polymarket whales who made over $400k on the maduro raid... was a special forces guy who worked on the Maduro raid 🤯 www.wired.com/story/us-spe...

reminder that we have a very fun weekly podcast here at @wired.com you should listen to on all things you care about!! from me, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, and @brbarrett.bsky.social!! go listen!!

SCOOP: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers. More on the internal dissent growing inside the company: wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by @wired.com, suggest a workforce in turmoil. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:

NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/usaid-...