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Trying to wrap your mind around what's happened this week (it's Wednesday)? Same... So for our clarity (and possibly yours) we're resharing some WIRED scoops in this refresher thread, starting with business leaders paying millions of dollars to dine with President Donald Trump.

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments

For the first time in history, a world leader has been kicked out of the White House. It wasn’t a dictator, a monarch, a despot, or a brutal authoritarian. It was a democratically elected president fighting for western values and his nation’s sovereignty. The Founders wept.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

The Government has created a portal to report on fellow Americans who espouse 'divisive ideologies'. Americans, you know what to do. enddei.ed.gov

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Slava Ukraini.

submitted 9 days ago • 107 comments

National Press Club president Mike Balsamo issued the following statement after the White House seized power over press pool access from the WHCA: "The White House’s announcement today is a direct challenge to the independence of a free press in the United States."

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

While you weren't looking, Trump rolled back Biden's ethics rules prohibiting executive branch employees from accepting major gifts from lobbyists. So much for "drain the swamp."

submitted 12 days ago • 278 comments

submitted 36 days ago • 438 comments

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

submitted 36 days ago • 166 comments

President Donald Trump’s move to fire federal inspectors general en masse in the middle of the night is an attack on oversight and accountability. In the face of a president who believes he is above the law, it is essential that inspectors general investigate abuses of power.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has repealed a Biden executive order mandating ethical behavior from administration employees. The order told federal workers to: -Not accept gifts from lobbyists -Not take other bribes -Not lobby for two years after government work -And more Now those rules are gone.

submitted 47 days ago • 77 comments

Welcome to the plutokleptokakistocracy! Where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable.

submitted 47 days ago • 582 comments

youtu.be/HZl_ZBzvifA?...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments