Donald Trump said he would replace the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Noem's tenure was marked by aggressive anti-immigration tactics and ICE's killing of two US protestors. www.wired.com/story/the-co...
thinking quite a bit about this story from @makenakelly.bsky.social -- midterms are JUST starting and there's going to be *so* much about creators vs politicians vs creators, and this is a really smart way to think about it:
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
One surprising side effect of the US war in Iran: American farmers are staring down soaring fertilizer prices at the worst possible time.
From @mollytaft.com
NEW from me: The Trump administration's immigration crack down is becoming a whole-of-government initiative as agencies whose work often has little to do with immigration, are getting pulled in. For @wired.com's InnerLoop newsletter this week: www.wired.com/story/how-th...
NEW
At 2.30am on Saturday morning Donald Trump announced he had decided to attack Iran
Two hours later, he shared a link suggesting Iran rigged the 2020 election
Here's why
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
@carolinehaskins.bsky.social did some really really thorough reporting here, highly recommend a read:
NEW: Took a look at the Kalshi Khamenei shitshow.
The company lost over $2 million in its quest to appease pissed-off customers
www.wired.com/story/irania...
NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Breaking News: Three U.S. troops were killed in action and five others were seriously hurt, the Pentagon said, announcing the first American deaths in President Trump’s war with Iran. Follow live updates.
"Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial intelligence tools made by the tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools."
yes, a cav! and he’s actually 6 (!!) but we pretend he’s a puppy
a pacifist puppy if I ever saw one
NEW
Within minutes of Trump announcing the launch of Operation Epic Fury, X was flooded with disinformation.
Almost all of the accounts sharing fake videos of the attack on Iran featured blue checkmarks, meaning X is profiting from this.
www.wired.com/story/x-is-d...
NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:
Sam Altman’s statement on OpenAI’s agreement with the Department of Defense, *hours* before the US attacked Iran:
United States and Israeli forces have launched military strikes against Iran, with President Donald Trump calling the attacks a “major combat operation” against the Iranian regime.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/us-ira...
"This is the most shocking, damaging, and over-reaching thing I have ever seen the United States government do," said one former Trump administration AI policy adviser. The DoD has created an impossible mess:
i have seen every single episode of this slightly cursed show and this is a very good blog from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social:
We were also nominated for our coverage of DOGE ransacking the US government, which is exactly as it should be IMHO! This recognition of the adversarial journalism that we do at WIRED is so appreciated. Thank you to everyone who read, shared, and subscribed to @wired.com over the past year+.
Just learned that @wired.com got nominated for four (!!) National Magazine Awards, including for our "How to Win a Fight" package, with a specific callout for this excellent piece by @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...
@wired.com is nominated for the ASMEs!!! FOUR times!!!
I am so so proud of the whole WIRED newsroom, and just a special shout out to my politics team -- this time last year, we were barely sleeping as we unveiled a government takeover in real time. It's a real honor to have that recognized here!
go listen to the ep!! (also survivor 16, black widow brigade 4ever)
“MAGA media is a personality cult that revolves around the president’s whims, and the closer a right-wing commentator is to power, the more likely they are to follow Trump’s directives and talk about anything else,” @mattgertz.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
new Uncanny Valley pod out today (every thursday!) from me, @brbarrett.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social! we talk about many important things and also perhaps the most important thing of all (survivor 50's premier and the season I'd most like zoe to watch)
Incel slang is now so ingrained in the mainstream discourse that its origins have been obscured. How did we get here?
SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers.
More here:
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
NEW: A popular right-wing X account that called the video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
NEW: Among many other things (obviously), the Epstein files release revealed what Google turns over in response to US subpoenas. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/heres-...
send @knibbs.bsky.social all your tips!!
