Leah Feiger

Hello! I’m WIRED’s senior politics editor, and it’s hard to put into words what it’s been like in our newsroom this year. I am so in awe of my colleagues here, and so grateful to wake up every day to get you, our lovely readers, the news. If you’ve haven’t already, subscribe!! Help us keep it going.

NEW: An unsigned interagency agreement calls for the Dept of Labor to reimburse the US DOGE Service up to **$1.3 million** for work done by four DOGE affiliates over 18 months. Musk has previously stated that DOGE staffers would cost taxpayers nothing. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:

thinking quite a bit about this story from @makenakelly.bsky.social -- midterms are JUST starting and there's going to be *so* much about creators vs politicians vs creators, and this is a really smart way to think about it:

@carolinehaskins.bsky.social did some really really thorough reporting here, highly recommend a read:

"Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial intelligence tools made by the tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools."

a pacifist puppy if I ever saw one

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

Sam Altman’s statement on OpenAI’s agreement with the Department of Defense, *hours* before the US attacked Iran:

i have seen every single episode of this slightly cursed show and this is a very good blog from @manishakrishnan.bsky.social:

@wired.com is nominated for the ASMEs!!! FOUR times!!! I am so so proud of the whole WIRED newsroom, and just a special shout out to my politics team -- this time last year, we were barely sleeping as we unveiled a government takeover in real time. It's a real honor to have that recognized here!

new Uncanny Valley pod out today (every thursday!) from me, @brbarrett.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social! we talk about many important things and also perhaps the most important thing of all (survivor 50's premier and the season I'd most like zoe to watch)

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: