Tim Foley of Arizona Border Recon, a paramilitary group, claimed he's "in talks with a few different people" from the incoming admin and he expects to be a valuable resource to them. "We have a better lay of the land than the federal agents do" he said. wired.com/story/border-m…

The recent neo-Nazi rally in Columbus prompted shock, widespread media attention & condemnation. But data I compiled suggests it was just the latest brazen display of hate in the last 2 years, among dozens of similar events across the U.S wired.com/story/neo-nazi…

A super-PAC backing RFK offers paid access to him at Mar-a-Lago motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Ireland bucked a global trend by rejecting the far-right completely in last week's election They are already pushing election denial conspiracies wired.com/story/ireland-…

TikTok users are studying Chinese to better integrate on platforms like Xiaohongshu, or Red Note. Duolingo has seen a *216% spike* in new users signing up to learn Chinese, many coming from TikTok. PLUS more in this week's #WIREDPoliticsLab newsletter: wired.com/story/tiktok-b…

BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok this weekend. More here: wired.com/story/tiktok-b…

Elon Musk gave two Nazi salutes during his Trump inauguration speech. Neo-Nazis across the globe are already celebrating "WE ARE FUCKING BACK" wired.com/story/neo-nazi…

I'm floored by the scale of pardons & sentence commutations issued by Trump for J6ers. 14 sentences commuted. All others convicted of crimes related to J6 received a "full, complete and unconditional pardon." Thats nearly 1,600 rioters walking free. wired.com/story/trump-pa…

Here are some of the Jan. 6 defendants who received a full and unconditional pardon from Trump tonight:

Four years after he tipped off the FBI to his father's involvement in the #J6 attack, Jackson Reffitt watched in terror as Trump signed the pardons of his father and 1500 other J6ers. Now, in hiding, he's terrified of what comes next. wired.com/story/capitol-…

"Sarah Jones was 11 hours and 49 minutes into her 12-hour shift as an emergency dispatcher for the county sheriff in Spokane, Washington, when she received what she would later describe as the worst phone call of her life." Dhruv Mehrotra Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) @wired longreads.com/2025/01/22/the…

From Australia to Ireland, the UK, France, Germany and Brazil, the global far-right movement want their countries to follow Trump's radical actions on immigration, gender, DEI, and wokeism at large. “Trump is their hero at the moment,” says Wendy Via wired.com/story/global-f…

John Bolton tells me he's facing Trump's "retribution" in losing Secret Service protection. And he's worried what his old NSC staffer Kash Patel will do at FBI. "The signs, with Kash Patel at the FBI, are that they are going to pursue retribution." csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2…

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say. wired.com/story/elon-mus…

Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. wired.trib.al/ixWCW8k

WIRED's work has paid off, the publication says, in "a record-breaking increase in subscriptions" on Sunday, "with numbers soaring to ten times their usual rate." The boost has been driven by politics coverage

Scoop: Elon Musk's Takeover Is Causing Rifts in Donald Trump's Inner Circle. DOGE briefings are happening "as needed" within the WH, per a sr official, and nobody seems to know what's going on. More from me in WIRED wired.com/story/trump-ai…

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email calls DOGE staff's access to payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” wired.trib.al/mT1WxhR

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, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting. wired.com/story/people-p…

Congratulations to Leah Feiger and the whole WIRED newsroom on winning the March Sidney Award for their agenda-setting coverage of DOGE. hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/…