News Highlights

Curated news highlights to help wake you up.

Article Title	Publication	Type	Date
‘Took away my hope.’ Federal workers say Trump mass firings upended their lives (no paywall)	federal workforce	USA Today	2025-02-16
Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts (no paywall)	general	New York Times	2025-02-14
The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity (no paywall)	general	Wired	2025-02-14
Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work (no paywall)	election interference	Wired	2025-02-14
Where the 200,000 federal employees most vulnerable to DOGE's latest firing sweep live and work (no paywall)	federal workforce	Business Insider	2025-02-14
Trump Layoffs Hit Federal Workers With Less Than a Year on Job. The latest cuts focus on roughly 200,000 probationary employees (no paywall)	federal workforce	Wall Street Journal	2025-02-14
Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated (no paywall)	general	New York Times	2025-02-13
Shillbilly Elegy: How JD Vance Became a Winning Spokesman for MAGA's Darkest Machinations (no paywall)	ideology	Vanity Fair	2025-02-12
Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles (no paywall)	general	Wired	2025-02-12
The Federal Reserve Will Be Targeted for Elimination (no paywall)	federal workforce	America 2.0	2025-02-12
Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy (YouTube) (no paywall)	ideology	The Nerd Reich	2025-02-11
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as 'Insider Threat' (no paywall)	general	Wired	2025-02-07
2024 Election Overview (YouTube) (no paywall)	election interference	Election Truth Alliance	2025-02-05
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook (no paywall)	ideology	The Nerd Reich	2025-02-05
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System (no paywall)	general	New York Times	2025-02-01
Curtis Yarvin’s Ideas Were Fringe. Now They’re Coursing Through Trump’s Washington. (no paywall)	ideology	Politico	2025-01-30
The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think. (no paywall)	ideology	Vox	2025-01-20
Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening. (no paywall)	ideology	New York Times	2025-01-18
How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms: Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism. (no paywall)	ideology	New York Times	2025-01-17
Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked (no paywall)	election interference	Substack	2024-11-19
The Wide Angle: Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse (no paywall)	ideology	The Washington Spectator	2024-07-30
Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets (no paywall)	ideology	Vanity Fair	2022-04-20