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Another big win in court. No, Donald, you can’t play with the lives of foreign students by arbitrarily revoking their visas and, no, you can’t treat universities like pawns in your Gangster State and retaliate against them for defending themselves.

It's not just tariffs. The White House is rethinking the central role of the dollar in the global economy.

Thousands of people crowded in front of the Washington Monument on Saturday afternoon to protest President Donald Trump and top adviser Elon Musk’s dismantling of federal agencies, alleged circumventing of due process and introduction of tariffs.

Federal immigration officials are seeking to locate up to 7 million people suspected of being in the U.S. unlawfully by accessing confidential tax data at the Internal Revenue Service.

Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two. By @jonakimehta.bsky.social

the funniest thing we can do today is withdraw all our money from the bank and dispute every transaction on your credit card from a major corporation

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

Large portions of the United States were damaged from unusually strong storms formed across several states. Trump and Musk weakened the agencies tasked with monitoring and responding to natural disasters and extreme weather. Now hundreds of thousands are paying for it.

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

Remarkable: Numerous Fox News figures are now openly panicking about Trump's economy, warning that it's in real trouble. It's a sign that the MAGA project is quite fragile: If voters keep turning on him here, the whole edifice could collapse. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1925...

The wildifires in the Carolinas have followed months of whiplash weather—drought, followed by hurricane-fueled floods, and then more drought.

“I won’t forget” ?

Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full scoop here by @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @jakelahut.writes.news: www.wired.com/story/people...

We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Heat mined from underground can be used to produce steam, spin a turbine, and generate electricity. If scientists can figure out a safe way to mine it, “next-generation geothermal power could supply clean energy for eons,” Brent Crane writes.