Sam Spengler

Inside the Contentious World of Luigi Mangione Supporters As Luigi Mangione is being tried legally and in the court of public opinion, tensions are growing between his supporters pushing health care reform and those who believe he is innocent.

New deep dive into the world of feuding Luigi Mangione supporters. Some are using alleged crime to push health care reform; others find that offensive, as they believe he's completely innocent. And most of them hate the media's fixation on the "thirsters": www.wired.com/story/inside...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

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I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

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Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets?

We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.

Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.

You may know the software company Palantir as a contractor for ICE + the military. But in recent months, it's relaunched its merch store & said it wants to be a "lifestyle brand."

What does it mean for Palantir to be a lifestyle brand...? I unpacked it here:
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Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him? With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

Is Elon's Mars talk overblown? Total B.S.? Maybe even a deliberate distraction?

That's what one Musk admirer — and well-regarded space analyst — told me for my new feature for @wired.com.

Let me explain. (1/x)

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The tech industry’s embrace of President Trump has left many of us asking the same question: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? On Sept. 23 at 11 AM, our WIRED experts get into it. wrd.cm/4mslR0k

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WIRED's The Politics Issue

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?

In our new politics issue, we're getting into it.

Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

And many more where that came from! Subscribe to WIRED and never miss breaking news and cutting-edge reporting from a truly unparalleled team.
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

I didn’t work on this story myself, but it’s one of my favorites from this year. Nothing encapsulates our era—and WIRED’s subject matter expertise–better than this gem from ‪@sam-apple.bsky.social. See what happens when six strangers and their chatbot partners get together for a couples’ retreat:

‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

From investigating the surveillance tech used against protestors, to parsing the Epstein clips' metadata, the work of @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social is unmatched. In June, the pair reviewed hundreds of 911 calls placed from immigration detention centers—revealing an inundated system.

Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

In May, IT workers learned that the colleague they collab with via Teams each day could actually be a North Korean national. That was thanks to reporter Bobbie Johnson, who exposed a North Korean government sponsored operation that defrauds western companies out of millions in salary and benefits.

Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI The search giant should’ve been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn’t. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and lowering some guardrails.

WIRED reporters are a cut above when it being inside the conference rooms and research labs of AI giants like OpenAI, Google, Meta and Microsoft. In March @peard33.bsky.social and @arielle.bluesky.social expertly captured the year-long panic inside Google that began with the launch of ChatGPT-3.5.

The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its first patients—type 1 diabetics?

In the thick of Ozempic mania, master wordsmith @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social visited the Novo Nordisk factories that make insulin and GLP-1 agonists. She got to the bottom of drugmaker’s deepest fears about the weight loss drug market, all while examining the culture that created “Ozempic face.”

In 2025, WIRED reporters have navigated destructive chaos at DOGE, AI run amok, and explosive levels of conspiracy theories. Threaded below are stories from this year that I've had the privilege to assist on. They're just a taste of what you get with a premium subscription to WIRED

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Officially spent one week on this platform and I’ve decided my friend’s assessment is unfortunately accurate