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I just subscribed to Wired for $10 for the year. Great deal, especially considering the quality of their reporting lately.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

submitted 18 days ago • 1066 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 32 days ago • 1239 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 36 days ago • 1083 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 38 days ago • 907 comments

So let’s see, shuttering FBI election interference efforts, and DOJ also now not investigating violations of FARA. Almost like they want to open the door for foreign influence into our elections. In exchange for…?

submitted 44 days ago • 50 comments

Bondi shuttered the FBI task force on foreign election interference and gutted enforcement of FARA, ensuring foreign operatives can work in the US without disclosure or consequence, green lighting covert foreign influence on lawmakers and political campaigns. Scary read, @olgalautman.bsky.social.

submitted 43 days ago • 17 comments

Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

submitted 38 days ago • 398 comments

People have been asking how they can pay more money for @wired.com -- a lovely question to get! So we've created an option for Superfans to pay a higher price for a subscription. Subscriptions make WIRED's journalism sustainable for the long haul. We're grateful for that support. wrd.cm/40XCLLs

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments

DOGE's questionable hires have had access to American's most sensitive data. @makenakelly.bsky.social says "at this point we have no idea [what they've seen] and I think that's the scariest part of this all."

submitted 42 days ago • 39 comments

Just subscribed to @wired.com to support what they are doing. They are rising to the moment.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I've been hungry for a clear story that comprehensively lays out the risks to government systems from DOGE. Here, @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social speak to people with the right knowledge and provide a great, sense-making piece. Unfortunately, the sense that is made is... scary sense:

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

Biggest data breach and largest IT security breach in our country's history. That sounds bad. Very bad.

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments

In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts. This triggered three reviews, according to the NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/

submitted 42 days ago • 86 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 43 days ago • 332 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 43 days ago • 732 comments

Biggest concerns with DOGE computer access are not only incompetence or carelessness that could break something, but risks of cybersecurity breaches, theft, or espionage. Major national security concern. cc: @asharangappa.bsky.social @djrothkopf.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DFyQQKZxoY...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 43 days ago • 1559 comments

Truth here.

submitted 46 days ago • 12 comments

Trump takes up Musk's pro-apartheid cause as he threatens South Africa www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/...

submitted 46 days ago • 131 comments

Ah. So this explains the need to access classified information at USAID. If this info gets leaked, it puts our intelligence officers abroad — including (and especially) sources they may have — in serious danger.

submitted 47 days ago • 44 comments

Two accounts that you should follow if you don’t already: @propublica.org @wired.com

submitted 47 days ago • 161 comments

A very sobering but necessary 🧵

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Between unprovoked and foolish trade wars, threatening our allies, eliminating foreign aid, gutting our civil service, preparing to weaken the intel community and FBI, placing inexperienced clowns in key nat sec positions, and supporting our enemies’s agenda, we are weaker by far today than on 1/19.

submitted 48 days ago • 51 comments

“'They seem to want Treasury to be the chokepoint on payments, and that’s unprecedented,' the person added, emphasizing that it is not the bureau’s role to decide which payments to make — it is 'just to make the f-ing payments.'"

submitted 48 days ago • 176 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 48 days ago • 6159 comments

As a father of five kids, I totally agree with this evergreen post.

submitted 54 days ago • 600 comments

Excellent post

submitted 54 days ago • 2076 comments

Something to think about with the Ross Ulbricht pardon. The feds are still sitting on $6.5 billion in bitcoin seized from silk road. If Trump gives it back to Ulbricht, he could easily pay back Trump by trading it for Trump coin. A potential bribe of millions or billions of dollars for a pardon.

submitted 59 days ago • 121 comments