NEW: DOD employees are being pressured to volunteer to help with DHS's immigration crackdown. The work includes things like: “developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border”
www.wired.com/story/pete-h...
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
NEW:
Grok is making disinformation on X so much worse—
....it's now even backing it's own lies by creating AI images
www.wired.com/story/fake-a...
SCOOP:
In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally.
In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders
w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/they-h...
Many of these million-dollar contracts are related to America 250, a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The most recent contract was signed on Feb 27 with the State dept. The description of the contract reads “EVENT SUPPORT.” The value was $3.7 million.
NEW: They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts
The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.
touched grass (water) this weekend and let me tell you it is good to log off sometimes and dive with sharks
I would say yes! even if it’s not ‘standing up’ in the way you prefer - but it’s notable that this company is taking a legal stance (of any sort) against an administration their peers have fallen in line behind
first time we’ve see big tech stand up to the trump administration in a solid, documented way
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:
