Kenneth Wolfe used to organize the prayer services. Controversial ones. Now he runs Civil Rights enforcement at the Labor Department. It was quiet. No fanfare. Just a shift in who holds the pen on discrimination complaints. The man who leads faith is now the man who judges it.
The data grab
Homeland Security wants your Google history. Specifically a Canadian man’s. He hasn’t stepped foot in the US in ten years. Still DHS cited a 1934 trade law. They wanted location data. Activity logs. Why? Because he posted on X about Renee Good and Alex Pretti being killed. Condoling with the victims is apparently a national security threat.
Login.gov gets bigger
Greg Hogan is in charge now. He’s tied to DOGE. The Department of Government Efficiency. His job? Login.gov. They’re mashing driver’s licenses and passports into one digital identity. One insider called it what it looks like. A national ID. It just happens to be wrapped in login screens.
The voters’ lawyers vanished
Donald Trump got sworn in. Thirty attorneys worked for the Justice Department’s Voting Rights Section. That day. Three months passed. Thirty minus two equals the current headcount. Twenty-eight are gone. Replaced? Mostly by people who doubt elections actually happen. The damage is massive. The section is empty.
A trainer’s track record
David Norman runs firearms training for ICE. Special Response Teams specifically. Before this he was a cop in Phoenix. He called himself a fucking savage. A little search suggests that’s not hyperbole. He’s linked to at least four deadly shootings. Now he’s teaching government agents how to pull the trigger.
Fired. Then elected?
Alexis Goldstein recorded DOGE people invading her office. At the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She filmed the incursion. They fired her for it. Now she’s running for Congress. The irony is sharp enough to cut glass. You fire someone for speaking truth to power and they end up holding power.
Taking it down
May 19 is the new deadline. Tech platforms in the US have to listen. The Take It Down Act forces them to remove nonconsensual nudes if asked. Major players are scrambling. It’s about consent. Or what’s left of it after the pixels hit the server. You can get them gone now. Hopefully.
Hack week
Palantir held a hackathon. Again. But this time the focus was ICE. User-auditing tools. Building software for customers. The employees aren’t thrilled. Palantir keeps wrestling with the moral weight of its contract. Coding for borders feels different than coding for retail. Even inside the tech bubble.
Erasure
OnlyFans creators are quitting. The first wave is retiring. They’re asking to be forgotten. Not just off the platform. Everywhere. Consent gets sticky when you stop working but the files remain. They want the digital afterlife to end. Can you delete the internet? Probably not. But they’re trying.
Laying it off
Seven hundred people. Ireland. They work for Meta. Indirectly. Through a contractor. The training data they produce might get them laid off. One worker said it’s undignified. To train AI knowing your own job is next. The numbers don’t care.
Happy at Meta? No.
Record profits. Record misery. Meta cuts 10 percent again. WIRED talked to current and former staff. The word keeps coming back. Unhappy. Everyone is. It’s not just the layoffs. It’s the air inside the company. Thick. Heavy. You make money and lose your mind. Which is the real cost?
