Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.

SCOOP: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers.

More on the internal dissent growing inside the company:
wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its relationship with the US government (or not!), please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

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If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its relationship with the US government (or not!), please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

Here's the internal reaction to Palantir's 22-point manifesto earlier this week.

“It’s like we taped a ‘kick me’ sign on our own backs... I hope no one who decided to put this out is surprised that we are, in fact, getting kicked.”

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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.

SCOOP: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers.

More on the internal dissent growing inside the company:
wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

getting a hammock for the backyard was one of my better decisions recently

US Senate Candidate Caught Insider Trading on Kalshi Says He Did It on Purpose Mark Moran, an underdog Senate candidate from Virginia, claims he wanted to get caught violating the prediction market platform’s rules.

just when you think you've seen everything in political campaigns.... something new comes along www.wired.com/story/us-sen...

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com

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paid my internet/cable bill this morning and realized it has nearly doubled in the four years i’ve been on this provider………..

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

"WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular."

HUGE congratulations to my @wired.com colleagues for this well-earned 2026 Hillman Prize for our coverage of DOGE! www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

WIRED won the Hillman prize for our DOGE coverage :-)

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not necessarily a scoop bc it was live-streamed, but I think I was the only person watching the event with Blog Brain

The president just called the CEO of Apple ‘Tim Apple’ His name is Tim Cook and he’s sitting right there

rip Tim Apple, whose nickname from Trump was my first big SCOOP my first year as a full-time tech journalist
www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/182...

they’ve made me realize how hungry US audiences are for like the most basic DC details. like these guys spent a couple minutes excitedly going off about the capitol subway! and people watched it!

picture of a bacon egg and cheese with the caption: DC people — there's a place called Call Your Mother that makes an incredible bacon, egg and cheese. That is all

seeing the TMZ DC guys’ posts from the last week is like viewing the instagram stories of a DC summer intern lol

Meta threw a party for a right-wing influencer who wants to “save the West” The celebration offers a cocktail-fueled look at the tech behemoth's rightward pivot.

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

Musk’s DOGE may no longer exist as it did a year ago, but its impact continues to ripple across the government. Some of the young engineers have ascended to senior positions within government. Other people have decamped to the private sector. @wired.com

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Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

NEW: 14 months after @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social first revealed the young technologists of DOGE, the impacts of this "chaotic" Musk-inspired effort continue to reverberate across the US government. Tori reports: www.wired.com/story/where-...

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

New from me: across federal agencies, workers say religion—specifically Christianity—is showing up their workplace.

“The vibes are bad and people don’t like it.” @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/govern...

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

Whether its "desecrating Easter" or attacking the pope and now posting an AI image of himself as Jesus, Trump is doing a lot to piss off Christians lately.

So much so that many of them are now asking: Is Trump the Antichrist?

w/ @makenakelly.bsky.social

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The Screenmaxxers Who Spend Every Waking Hour on Their Phones As debates over social media addiction rage, people with extreme screen times tell WIRED they have no plans to cut back.

Not everyone is trying to to cut down on screen time: I spoke with people who in some cases are pushing 19 hours daily on their devices—and really don't care what you think about it.

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking If He's the Antichrist The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.

NEW: Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking If He's the Antichrist

w/ @davidgilbert.bsky.social
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it was me as a doctor

doordash grandma looked very sweet, but idk if that's giving the economic message Trump thinks it is.......... luv 2 work gig jobs into my 80s <3

i am a rum girl! but margaritas are just perfection lol

i hate the Drink Of The Summer discourse, it’s always been margarita and always will be stop

NEW: Someone allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house then went to OpenAI headquarters to make threats at workers. @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

Trump Truth Social post: Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!! President DJT

presidential palantir shout out this morning

MAGA Media Seems to Have Hit Its Breaking Point Over Iran "The online right wasn’t supportive and there wasn’t anything that was going to change that," says one person familiar with the Republican influencer pipeline.

After a decade of walking in lockstep, MAGA influencers have finally cracked. Iran was the breaking point. from @makenakelly.bsky.social

SCOOP

The Iranian group producing the Trump LEGO videos have a secret weapon.....Americans who send them tips and ideas to make their content better

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