I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

But if you have some spare income, give what you can here or sign up for one of the paid tiers. I think the founding member thing lets you put in whatever you want straightfromthehut.substack.com

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

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.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Did Men With No Rizz Ruin the Workplace?

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

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...

“Doing social media well is about clicking the right buttons or posting at the right time or using the right phrases for the SEO...But fandom is about building a community that cares about values.” @makenakelly.bsky.social captures how fandom fueled Mamdani's campaign www.wired.com/story/zohran...

Yes! Fan cultures are generative in the _true_ sense, not the way that "generative AI" uses the word. This is what I mean when I say the campaign had to "Meet the people where they are" www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...

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...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

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Locked in to multiscreen live election coverage that New Yorkers can trust

Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead. IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained. IRS Direct File: 2023-2025. (Story from when the pilot launched.)

Mamdani has had an excellent digital campaign, but that's not reflective of Dems as whole. My colleague @makenakelly.bsky.social on what the party still misses about the internet. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/do-dem...

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:

Wrote about Condé ending Teen Vogue as we knew it. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

i am once again begging our humble nation not to use polymarket or kalshi markets as meaningful indicators of election outcomes

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

i need the holidays to slow stuff down so i can Think

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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

crying over a dumb song on shuffle riding the train is chic, actually!!!!!

Republicans Claimed Biden Censored YouTube. 20 Employees Seem to Say Otherwise More from me here: www.wired.com/story/republ...

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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: 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...

Larry Bushart, 61, spent over a month in jail over a liberal meme he posted on Facebook. He celebrated his freedom by eating wings, drinking margaritas — and posting a bunch more liberal memes on Facebook. Heart of a true boomer poster. Gift link: wapo.st/4qwXqSJ w/ @benbrasch.bsky.social

kind of obsessed with politicians not just partnering with creators FROM the community, but working with them IN the community. first i’ve seen something like this + i think it’s really cool!!!!!

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...

my entire car on this acela smells like calzone and it's making me sick lmao

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...

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:

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...

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i don’t want to be a Christmas freak on the timeline just yet… but guys we’re getting so close to Egg Nog Season forget the xmas part of it all

i've been trying to find a secondhand couch for my office since june and everything on facebook marketplace is BOUCLE

idk if anyone else gets these videos of Pokemon card vendors giving kids cards for free........ but it's so sweet and i'm terrified of them getting milkshake ducked

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...

guys is the secret to success actually drama and going scorched earth on all of your enemies

New with @lhn.bsky.social: Thousands of people who applied for jobs with the Democrats in the US House of Representatives have had their data exposed online—including hundreds with "top secret" clearance Officials say they have launched an investigation into the data exposure

🎇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/

my last big break up, i flew home to nebraska and stayed at my brother’s but he had to work so i watched five night’s at freddy’s lore videos during the day alone for like a week

getting a tattoo of all your computer passwords

got a text from an unknown number and it was just a link to a dance moms episode on youtube?