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.

WIRED
Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground

YouTube
The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

Netgear is the first consumer router manufacturer granted conditional approval to avoid the US foreign router ban, though it has not committed to US manufacturing.

The Verge
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.

In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests

The article makes an argument in good faith but glosses over the faction of people that genuinely want Trump to hurt people they don't like and kill brown people.

https://www.psypost.org/cognitive-dissonance-helps-explain-why-trump-supporters-remain-loyal-new-research-suggests/

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Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests

A new study explores how supporters of Donald Trump maintain their loyalty despite serious allegations. The findings suggest psychological discomfort drives voters to deny accusations, prioritize political policies, or claim other politicians act similarly.

PsyPost Psychology News
Florida attorney general says state can ignore its own constitution to fund religion

James Uthmeier claims a clear ban on taxpayer-funded religion is “unconstitutional” and pledges not to enforce it

Friendly Atheist
Judge blocks Trump's executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR

A federal judge agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for NPR and PBS.

PBS News
How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.

404 Media
Pentagon to issue new press credentials but remove media offices

The U.S. Defense Department says it will issue new press credentials but remove media offices from the Pentagon. The announcement comes after a judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit regarding limits on reporters’ access to the building. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell says the agency disagrees with the ruling and will appeal. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington, D.C., ruled last week that the Pentagon’s limits illegally restrict the press credentials of reporters who walked out of the building rather than agree to the new rules. Parnell says reporters will be able to work from an “annex” outside the building, which “will be available when ready.”

AP News