ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

10/10 take. No notes.

"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits." 👇

#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.

Before her (too early) death, the amazing Sharon Begley wrote this piece on double helix co-discoverer James Watson and the racist and sexist pronouncements he seemed to revel in making in later life. Fascinating read about a troubling individual. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

Well when you put it that way. #UMich

This is one of those things that's obviously true and has massive negative consequences, and also I have no idea how you solve it in a way that's politically palatable to the average voter.

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package: he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions here's a handy graphic www.wsj.com/business/aut...

state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages. Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

wow

considering....

lol

He wrote “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” after shooting U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez. www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

"We want to make sure that families are not making a decision between feeding their pets and feeding themselves," said Alyssa Krieger, director of community outreach for MSPCA-Angell. on.nbcboston.com/gqhTkS8

Kash Patel's private-jet problem is getting worse. The FBI director has taken the government jet to Nashville, his country-singer girlfriend's home city, even more than has been publicly reported. My latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

in case you missed this from @alisonkilling.bsky.social yesterday

Lots of though guy cosplayers like to say they’re read The Art of War to seem edgy. If they actually read it, they’d find it’s mostly a manual about logistics, economics, and people management

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

A million seconds is 11.6 days A billion seconds is nearly 32 years A trillion seconds is nearly 32,000 years

I was under the impression that Tesla stock had been declining. Turns out, wrong. It’s higher than it was in January, despite continuing bad news about the company. Untethered from reality in both proportion *and* direction.

pulling up to the club with a 512gb version of these would slay

Trump touts cost of Walmart's Thanksgiving meal to vindicate his policies — ignoring that this year’s package has six fewer items www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump just gave $40 billion in taxpayer dollars to Argentina to bail out its libertarian president.

“It’s kind of a shocking number." The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V

Tesla says 75% of shareholders voting approved the ~$1T pay package the board teed up for CEO Elon Musk... (story is developing please check back for updates) @cnbc.com

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.

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.

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Remember the Oracle Open AI announcement? it is gone

Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to US President Donald Trump, told leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany — classified as an extremist party by German authorities — that he sees them as “bold visionaries” shaping the country’s future.

Two things about housing a lot of folks aren’t ready to hear: When you combine fire codes, nimby zoning restrictions, and well-meaning affordability requirements: what makes the most economic sense to build is the same much-hated 6-story luxury apt building you see copy and pasted everywhere.

This week on the 404 Media Podcast we talk all about the $60 mod people are buying to disable the privacy-protecting recording light on Meta's Ray-Ban AI glasses. Light is supposed to warn others you're recording. Now, possibly to film without anyone knowing www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAmh...

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Oh my GOD. The song that Rudy Giuliani used in his anti-Zohran post is fucking AI-generated. It's a song called "September 11, 2001" and it's from some AI slop factory called The Experience. You need to hear how bad this song is. music.apple.com/cz/album/sep...

“Severe legal action”

NEW: Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has conceded. A stunning defeat for a MAGA media fixture who built a national profile on claims of a "complete gang takeover" of Aurora that led President Trump to visit and falsely proclaim the city "conquered" by an immigrant gang

Wow I wonder who they’ll give it to

Denny, there’s an update

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Serious question: why? And how does he know?

I'm confused about the video clips Trump is pushing out on Truth Social and YouTube right now. They're all shorter clips on various topics, but I'm not sure where they were shot or why they were done in this style behind a podium talking directly to camera.

Bahahahahahaha