Just a reminder that if you work for or contract with the federal government, and would like to share information with WIRED, contact me securely using a non-work device on Signal at DavidGilbert.01 For those unsure how to use Signal, here's our guide #Shutdown www.wired.com/story/signal...

Read the @davidgilbert.bsky.social story that broke the news of Antoni’s apparently colorful past here:

Trump has withdrawn EJ Antoni's nomination to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This comes after WIRED first reported about an old Twitter account of Antoni's that showed how thoroughly red-pilled he was.. www.wired.com/story/twitte...

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone. Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

New Posting Through It: What the Hell Is Antifa? — with @letsgomathias.bsky.social The three of us breakdown the decade long disinfo campaign around antifa that led us to this objectively insane moment. Grab it here and anywhere podcasts go!👇🏽 www.patreon.com/posts/139790...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Many of Elon's little toadies are still there. Still fucking with your data. Still fucking up your government. And almost certainly still helping Elon and his friends rig the system against the rest of us. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

New from @abbierichards.bsky.social, based in part on research I provided: TikTok Shop is now selling supplements from a company co-founded by "Plandemic" conspiracy theorist Mikki Willis. The company claims the supplements “bulletproof your immune system,” likely in violation of TikTok rules.

#NickFuentes relaunched his YouTube channel last night after the company said it would allow some banned accounts back on the platform Fuentes' account was just nuked Read my piece on how, even without YouTube, Fuentes is more popular than ever www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

VERY FUNNY SCOOP: The Onion made a 20-minute Epstein/Trump mockumentary called “Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.” I got a sneak peek and it is gloriously dumb. Read about it/watch the trailer here: www.wired.com/story/the-on...

Thank you, @wired.com, and @davidgilbert.bsky.social for sharing the stories of so many of us. Please read these stories and remember that we are people, just like you. We are Americans, who just want to do our jobs, to serve you, our fellow citizens. These last several months have been so hard 💔💔💔

The Onion's Jeffrey Epstein mockumentary sounds amazing www.wired.com/story/the-on...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

“He does a brilliant job of being, let’s call it the anti-Elon.” Another unmissable edition of @jakelahut.writes.news's newsletter, where he looks at the power being wielded by Larry Ellison, who, as soon as today, could become the owner of the US version of TikTok www.wired.com/story/larry-...

Charlie Kirk's murder has been very good for Nick Fuentes -- which is very bad for literally everybody else. Great reporting from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

“You have the youth in this country sold on this movement.” Nick Fuentes' popularity is at an all time high, and he has a clear vision on how to leverage his support to influence the future of America. Here's how he plans on doing it... 🧵 1/7 www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

Don't listen to Trump, read @DrDavidACox, who explains why banning pregnant women from taking Tylenol could actually increase autism rates... www.wired.com/story/trumps...

If you want to know more about Fuentes, you should listen to this great episode of Posting Through It, featuring @jaredlholt.bsky.social @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social pocketcasts.com/podcast/post...

I'm in here talking about groypers and their ties to the Trump administration.

Here's a screenshot from the video I took of Paul Ingrassia, who is mentioned in this story, at the Nick Fuentes rally he claims he "accidentally" went to.

Read @knibbs.bsky.social excellent profile of Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social and why she is "extremely" confident she's going to win... www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview. And it's already happening... www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

Just for fun, I asked ChatGPT to compare Joseph Goebbel's 1932 "The Storm is Coming" speech to Stephen Miller's speech at the Charlie Kirk memorial yesterday. It's conclusion:

As part of WIRED's Politics Issue, read @stevenlevy.bsky.social on how the vibrant, outsider Silicon Valley he discovered as a young reporter decades ago, has changed utterly, to become a place bowing before Trump With incredible art from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/silico...

All Hail The Technocracy — WIRED's Politics Issue is launching today. Come for the incredible reporting, stay for the visuals, including amazing work from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Kash Patel confirming the FBI is willing to look into every X conspiracist's wildest claims to deflect from the fact there is no evidence to link the shooter to any left-wing groups...

I covered the protests in London against Trump for @wired.com. Protesters aren't convinced by the AI deal from US tech giants: They want to know what the UK is giving them in exchange for up to $45bn in investment and where the power for data centers will come from www.wired.com/story/climat...

No one should buy the lie that this has anything to do with Charlie Kirk. Kimmel insulted Trump, well, all the time. Trump wanted him gone and figured out how to get the media to lie about it for him.

Fun fact: Texas is a one party consent state when it comes to recording conversations, which means that you can legally record any conversation of which you are a part — and can share it with a journalist, such as me

“Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology or compromise my integrity.” Former CDC director Susan Monarez says she was forced to resign by RFK for refusing to pre-approve changes to the vaccine schedule and fire CDC officials for no reason www.wired.com/story/susan-...

Marjorie "Jewish Space Lasers" Taylor Greene chaired a committee meeting in Congress yesterday on weather modification and, as @mollytaft.com reports, it went about as well as expected www.wired.com/story/the-do...

Spent some time with Jensen Huang this morning and let's just say some stuff came up a lot www.wired.com/story/jensen...

OUT NOW: @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I made one of our “Who the Hell?” episodes for Charlie Kirk to counter the gross revisionism and lies in mainstream press. We covered how he died and how he lived — honestly Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Pxo...

important to understand that it takes a lot of work and planning to aquire and use a true burner phone, but luckily you don’t need a full on burner phone in most situations to enhance your digital privacy www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The far right really are leaning into the apocalyptic nature of #CharlieKirk's death. Here's right-wing influencer Sam Hyde: "What happens in next two weeks is going to determine the future of mankind. That's not hyperbole. That's just how it is."

NEW: Extremists hated #CharlieKirk but now they’re using his death to radicalize others... www.wired.com/story/extrem...

SCOOP “I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers www.wired.com/story/right-...

"This is a war. This is a war. This is a war." Alex Jones' mantra in response to #CharlieKirk's murder has been repeated by everyone from extremists on fringe message boards all the way up to the Oval Office www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

FBI: We have no suspect and no known motive POTUS: It was the "radical left" www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

NEW: "War is here" With no suspect in custody and no known motive, far-right influencers, right-wing commentators, extremists, militia leaders, conspiracists, and Republican lawmakers all responded to the assassination of #CharlieKirk by blaming the left. www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

This is really good (and of course @derekberes.bsky.social is invovled) www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

If you read one thing about the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska, make it this, by @nataliaantonova.bsky.social who was also born in Ukraine and moved to Charlotte... nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/decarlos-b...

A teen told Meta researchers his brother, then under 10, had been sexually propositioned through Meta's VR headsets multiple times. Their boss told them to delete the evidence, they said. That's one example in our new investigation about Meta's crack down on internal research.

Simon Harris and his family have faced credible death threats in recent days. This morning Elon Musk piles in by falsely claiming Harris is stopping McGregor from running for president.

Anti-vaccine communities in the US are over the moon about Florida's decision to ban vaccine mandates. Now they want all other states to follow suit, and believe RFK is the person to help make it happen www.wired.com/story/anti-v...

SCOOP: Inside private anti-vaxxer Facebook groups, members celebrated Florida banning vaccine mandates, quickly calling for other states to implement similar actions “I shouldn’t have to inject my kids with poison because you’ve been brainwashed to live in fear,” www.wired.com/story/anti-v...

“Amen, stop the application of poison given to our precious children.” “F yah! About time. Let the revolution begin.” “Hopefully more will follow Florida’s lead.” Anti-vaxxers are THRILLED about Florida's plan to end vaccine mandates. Important context from @davidgilbert.bsky.social here:

State Department officials are now working as ICE agents great scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/state-...