NEW:

Last month Trump and RFK Jr announced the FDA was was recommending a new drug to treat autism — leucovorin

But they failed to provide any more information. So parents flocked to a Facebook group, that quickly filled with chaos, confusion and conspiracies

www.wired.com/story/chaos-...

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr’s Autism ‘Cure’

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social's latest:

Fear And Loathing In...Boyle

I travelled to a tiny town in north west Ireland to attend a conspiracy conference that brought together figures from the US and Irish far-right communities.

The uniting force at this conference? Charlie Kirk

www.wired.com/story/conspi...

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

NEW: Federal workers had their out-of-office replies changed to an unhinged and probably illegal partisan screed; when they changed them to neutral language, the replies were changed yet again. @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social have the details:

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/govern...

SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left."

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/govern...

NEW: Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown. Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies, and pop up banners across different agencies blame Democrats too.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Ever since he helped avert a government shutdown in March—citing WIRED’s reporting on Elon Musk as part of his rationale—Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has been waiting for this moment to redeem himself.

The problem is, he may have already blown his chance: www.wired.com/story/chuck-...

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship.

Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire
ever since.

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

it is very real!!!!

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of federal agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

This is the oral history of DOGE, as told by federal workers:

also if you're sitting here wondering what making fun of Jeffrey Epstein has to do with the shooting of Charlie Kirk...I'm with you. It's just not about that, anymore - it's about capitulating in advance.

don't capitulate in advance! read and subscribe to @theonion.com and @wired.com instead!

“In the last year, we've been able to say a lot of stuff that other places are afraid to say,” says @bencollins.bsky.social. “We're going to keep doing it.”

Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation was rightfully front page news -- the attempted silencing of the Onion should be too. (go subscribe!!)

The Onion made an unreal Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary - but following Charlie Kirk's death, it's national theatrical release was put on ice.

Never fear, though! @theonion.com figured out how to launch it anyways!

The reviews are in!

Jeffrey Epstein Bad Pedophile is "half biopic, half true crime, and 100 percent dumb (complimentary)."

A very big Onion announcement:

The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece.

It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.

It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd.

Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

VERY FUNNY SCOOP: The Onion made a 20-minute Epstein/Trump mockumentary called “Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.” I got a sneak peek and it is gloriously dumb. Read about it/watch the trailer here: www.wired.com/story/the-on...

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

A new senate report is full of *shocking* details about DOGE activities inside the federal government. Including, unfortunately, the disturbing access that DOGE affiliates had to our SSNs:

"One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one."

"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.” This is WIRED's oral history of DOGE:

In Trumpworld, he's "the shadow president of the United States" to some, an enigma to others. But Larry Ellison has most certainly arrived as the most powerful billionaire in Trump 2.0...

New reporting in Inner Loop on his political transformation, influence & more: www.wired.com/story/larry-...