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Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent defense conference following reports of the data analytics firm's work with the Trump administration.

submitted 19 hours ago • 33 comments

When your massive ego gets you to announce something a more careful person would have kept quiet.

submitted 21 hours ago • 908 comments

So... as beef continues, a look back at a piece that our WIRED readers are reading... Elon Musk appears to have worked in the US without authorization. Could he have his citizenship revoked?

submitted 18 hours ago • 75 comments

The Florida Bar has filed misconduct charges against Attorney General Pam Bondi. She has been in violation of multiple ethics rules since being sworn in.

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"Reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service..." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 296 comments

Public schools are not for religious indoctrination. Texas, we'll see you in court.

submitted 3 days ago • 337 comments

After only five months in office, Trump has transformed the Department of Justice into an instrument for voter suppression. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

Blessed are the cheeseheads, for they shall inherit the NFC North.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Guys, I just want to say that on Friday I renewed my library card and took out a bunch of books that are not worthy, or serious, or educational. They're just stories, and they have already fundamentally made my mental health better. Thank God for the story tellers.

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

"No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression." -- Abraham Lincoln

submitted 25 days ago • 190 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 26 days ago • 2257 comments

Women expected to do this dance of patriarchal femininity and for what? Ain't no prize. Just more bullshit. Drink what you want, talk how you please and live your life.

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

It is actually physically hurts to see society increasingly adopt and normalize anti-intellectualism

submitted 26 days ago • 127 comments

I cannot love this more.

submitted 26 days ago • 141 comments

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

submitted 27 days ago • 351 comments

It’s the worst feeling to find out someone isn’t who you thought they were but there will always be time to surround yourself with people who give you joy 🩷

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Americans still think bad things will never happen to them, so they don’t care.

submitted 26 days ago • 508 comments

Trump’s latest budget proposal includes nearly $500 million in cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is the main federal agency tasked with safeguarding U.S. elections from hacking. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 26 days ago • 42 comments

ICE agents know what they are doing is probably illegal, which is why they try to conceal their identities with scarves and sunglasses. #AmericanGestapo

submitted 27 days ago • 1277 comments

We are not under invasion. There is no justification for suspending our constitutional rights. Every single American should speak out against this, loudly and forcefully.

submitted 27 days ago • 2010 comments

I can't stop laughing. 😂

submitted 26 days ago • 584 comments

Jamie Dimon says the best case scenario for the US is now a recession. Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months. Gotta be some kind of record.

submitted 37 days ago • 983 comments

In case you missed it... WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

submitted 39 days ago • 40 comments

The Trump administration deported a 2-YEAR-OLD U.S. CITIZEN?!?!?!?

submitted 41 days ago • 30 comments

"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin

submitted 41 days ago • 589 comments

Also terrifying.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

This is terrifying.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

They are destroying freedom every single way possible.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

submitted 46 days ago • 508 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 46 days ago • 1348 comments

Honestly, me too.

submitted 47 days ago • 258 comments

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

submitted 47 days ago • 526 comments

at this point 2025 feels like being awake during surgery

submitted 47 days ago • 403 comments

🚫 Doom scrolling, AI edition 🤦‍♀️ ✅ Switching to cat scrolling now 😻

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Kinda hard to see a free and fair 2028 election where she doesn’t win by a lot.

submitted 54 days ago • 915 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 57 days ago • 481 comments

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

submitted 56 days ago • 440 comments

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

submitted 56 days ago • 99 comments

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 56 days ago • 1238 comments

when they go low, we go Jasmine Crockett @repjasmine.bsky.social 🔥

submitted 56 days ago • 453 comments

Let’s go, Wisco! 👏👏👏👏👏 www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

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The House has passed legislation that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring those signing up to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.

submitted 56 days ago • 82 comments