Karl Jacoby

WIRED seeks an experienced journalist to cover national politics, particularly the Trump administration’s efforts to remake the federal government and how other power centers—Congress, tech oligarchs, and more—are responding. In this role, you’ll be responsible for breaking news consistently. We’re less interested in horse race drama than we are in the people making consequential decisions, whether in the White House, among local and national Democrats, or Silicon Valley, and the logic guiding their actions. To succeed in this role, you should be deeply sourced at both the top and working levels of government and politics and intimately familiar with the operational mechanics of the federal government; you will ideally also have good sourcing in and understanding of the tech industry. You should have a proven ability to deliver scoops, exclusives, and stories that can’t be found anywhere else. We’re interested in hard news and the ability to put new information into a broader context. A large part of this role is writing a politics-focused newsletter every week; the ideal candidate will understand how to leverage their reporting to attract and retain subscribers, engage audiences, and drive reader loyalty in a competitive news landscape. In addition to breaking news and regular newsletter sends, there are opportunities to work on long-form feature stories and collaborate with reporters across our coverage areas as part of this role as well. You should also be prepared to engage in a wide range of storytelling formats, such as social, podcasts, video series, and live events. This senior writer will report to WIRED’s Director, Politics, Science, and Security, and will be part of a growing and increasingly global newsroom of smart, kind, collaborative, and well-informed colleagues who are always brimming with ideas and eager to help each other out. This role is in-office (4 days/week) and will be based in our New York or Washington, DC offices.

WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

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I'm sure she is trying to calm the waters.

One more layer: the land where Fort Brown was built supposedly belonged to the Cortina family.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Step by step towards the Russian model of fascist failure.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

I feel like the writers have lost the plot a little by making the Keystone Kontractors mistakenly land on Playa Bagdad.

A little too on the nose.

"But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil."

President Polk in 1846 or Donald Trump in 2025?

Either way, note the blood and soil nationalism.

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And the rest, as they say, is history.

Minor boundary disputes like this one can trigger major wars. The US-Mexico War (1846-48) started because of a disagreement over the location of the border between the two nations. When Mexican troops killed a few US soldiers, President Polk spoke of "American blood" being shed on "American soil."

Pentagon Pete’s War Goons Accidentally Invade Mexico U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.

Just hoping I can finish my book on the first US-Mexico War (1846-48) before Trump & Hegseth start the second US-Mexico War (2025-??)

US "accidentally" invades Mexican beach.

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

Thanks--had not seen this particular story!

Debris from his rocket launches have been falling on Mexico.

Es scheint, nicht nur Russland will Grenzen mit Gewalt verschieben?

What could possibly go wrong?

Historian here: this is all happening exactly where the first battles of the US-Mexico War (1846-48) were fought. In fact, Brownsville was named after Major Jacob Brown, who Mexican soldiers killed during the US invasion of northern Mexico.

Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...

Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.

It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...

This story is nuts.

"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

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this is a favorite bit of mine

This is what comes with incompetent and unqualified people in key positions. Hegseth must go. Now.

Jesus Christ

Statement in Response to ICE Detention of Judiciary Intern PROVIDENCE, RI -This afternoon, outside of the Licht Judicial Complex in Providence, ICE agents detained a high school student who is an intern at the Superior Court. If not for the intervention of a Superior Court judge who insisted that ICE had wrongfully identified his intern as their target, this young person would have been taken into ICE custody. When the ICE agents verified their information, they confirmed that the intern was not the person they were looking for and he was released.

"This egregious incident underscores both the community's and the Judiciary's concerns about how ICE is conducting its operations in Rhode Island," said Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell. "Given this climate, the Judiciary understands the call to implement remote hearings in Providence County, and beyond. The need to balance constitutional considerations, the public's right of access, and the integrity of testimonial and evidentiary processes do not allow for a fully virtual court system. What occurred today, however, reinforces the Judiciary's need to focus on ways to enhance access to virtual hearings and to educate the public as to how to request such hearings. The courts are here to serve the people and the Judiciary remains steadfast in preserving and augmenting access to justice for all persons." To learn more about how to request a remote hearing or to address accessibility needs, please contact the Judiciary's Access to Justice Office Resource Center at 401-615-2469 or accesstojustice@courts.ri.gov.

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So we had soldiers show up on a beach in Mexico and marked it property of the department of defense....

Turns out when you do that on another country's sovereign land, the other leader might see it as a problem.

Non-DEI incompetence!

This is like comic book fascist dialogue. Come on.