makena kelly

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they hate to see a girlboss winning

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

A White House staffer is running an anonymous pro-MAGA X account with nearly 300,000 followers.

The account, JohnnyMAGA, has never disclosed formal ties, blurring the lines of official WH messaging and organic digital support.
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

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A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

A White House staffer is running an anonymous pro-MAGA X account with nearly 300,000 followers.

The account, JohnnyMAGA, has never disclosed formal ties, blurring the lines of official WH messaging and organic digital support.
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

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Everyone Speaks Incel Now After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Incel slang is now so ingrained in the mainstream discourse that its origins have been obscured. How did we get here?

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

SCOOP: An X account called Johnny MAGA with 300k followers that described the Obamas-as-apes video as "a masterpiece" appears to be a sockpuppet account for a White House rapid-reaction staffer. @makenakelly.bsky.social has all the details:

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

NEW: A popular right-wing X account that called the video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

read @makenakelly.bsky.social:

Kalshi Suspended a California Politician and a YouTuber for Insider Trading Leading prediction market Kalshi has revealed details of two recent insider trading cases it flagged to authorities, giving a rare look at how the platform enforces its policies.

NEW: Kalshi announces details into two insider trading investigations. WIRED confirms that one suspended account belongs to California congressional candidate Kyle Langford: www.wired.com/story/kalshi...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

While the Trump admin works with right-wing creators, a White House staffer moonlighting as an anonymous MAGA influencer makes it nearly impossible to distinguish official government messaging from 'organic' online support.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

if this SOTU speech is as long as people suggest.... I'm gonna need CNN to add some subway surfers

ty!!! one of the first things I made when I was learning to crochet lolol

Neopets and MyMelody plushies hanging from microphone with a crocheted Murloc from World of Warcraft sitting on a desk.

more cute plushies will join my desk until morale improves

How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations 404 Media found multiple users of Zello, an app previously used by January 6 insurrectionists, linked to ICE officials. An officer at the scene of an CBP official shooting a U.S. citizen also used the...

New from 404 Media: how ICE and CBP are using the free walkie-talkie app Zello to coordinate their operations. We've linked multiple Zello accounts to ICE, found group chats with names referencing immigration. App previously criticized for allowing far right channels
www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...

i have never needed a spare $1k this badly before in my life

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DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.

Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir.

The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers.

Here's how it was announced internally:
www.wired.com/story/depart...

Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security's proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

NEW: You'll never guess who says he'd prefer the average stay for detainees in ICE's proposed "mega" detention centers to be 30 days but "60 is fine" www.wired.com/story/metada...

Donald Trump Jr’s Private DC Club Has Mysterious Ties to an Ex-Cop With a Controversial Past The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious former DC polic...

SCOOP: MAGA's exclusive private club has an unusual figure in its inner circle—a former DC cop best known for a viral stop-and-frisk video that led to a lawsuit www.wired.com/story/magas-...

Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

Today, Trump hosted the first meeting of the so-called Board of Peace at the building that served as the headquarters for the US Institute for Peace. But that building is still the subject of a major court case after being forcibly taken over by DOGE last year.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

www.wired.com/story/depart...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir.

The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers.

Here's how it was announced internally:
www.wired.com/story/depart...

Burnt Hair and Soft Power: A Night Out With Evie Magazine Evie is a longtime favorite of far-right. At its very first live event, the strength of the publication's politics was in the pretense that it doesn’t have any.

I went to an Evie Magazine ("conservative cosmo!") new york fashion week party and blogged about it:

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions. www.wired.com/story/social...

A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

Here's your mystery of the week:

A blog about a small island off the coast of Canada, personal portfolio websites, weather forecast platforms, Shopify sites, and the US federal gov—a wide range of websites have reported being hit by a massive influx of bots tied to China and Singapore since 2025.

In the Friday video to staff, Karp argued that contracting clients planning to break the law don't buy Palantir products—because they're so good and that makes it harder for them to hide illegal stuff...
www.wired.com/story/palant...