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Charlie Warzel

Washington

Writer at Galaxy Brain

Staff Writer at The Atlantic

Staff Writer, @TheAtlantic. I write Galaxy Brain, the first and only email newsletter. Occasionally: @golfersjournal. [email protected]

Articles

  • 1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Charlie Warzel

    Darren Beattie, a senior official at the State Department, is concerned that his agency has abused its powers under previous Democratic administrations. To rectify that, he has decided to marshal the power of his officeβ€”in what his fellow State Department employees reportedly described as β€œunusual” and β€œimproper” waysβ€”to conduct a political witch hunt.

  • 2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Ian Bogost |Charlie Warzel

    ALSO SEE: Russia Launches Nearly 150 Drones Against Ukraine as Trump Says He Doubts Putin's Desire for PeaceThe Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal governmentβ€”a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens.

  • 2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Ian Bogost |Charlie Warzel

    If you have tips about DOGE and its data collection, you can contact Ian and Charlie on Signal at @ibogost.47 and @cwarzel.92. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal governmentβ€”a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use of enormous volumes of data provided by or collected from citizens.

  • 2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ian Bogost |Charlie Warzel

    NowBack during the campaign, Trump pretended his β€œDictator on Day 1” talk was just a joke. One hundred days in, it’s clear he was not joking. WASHINGTON β€” However scared you might be for our democracy, you are not scared enough. The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, …

  • 4 weeks ago | golfersjournal.com | Charlie Warzel

    I’ll always remember the light. The way the sun, low in the sky, was descending into the trees behind the first and second fairways. Everything felt dappled in honeyβ€”soaked in the golden hour. In that light, the texture of the immaculate 18th fairway looked almost edible. This makes me sound like I was on mushrooms. To my knowledge, I wasn’t, but I’m not sure the experience would have been much different. Hours were seconds and minutes felt like a week.

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5 Nov 24

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Charlie Warzel
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel
4 Nov 24

Wrote about how Musk's purchase of Twitter (mass firings, financial chaos, no plan, turning it into a political weapon) are all seen as features, not bugs to Trump and MAGA elites. Musk's Twitter isn't just a success story, it's *the blueprint* for the federal govt in a second

Charlie Warzel
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel
1 Nov 24

RT @nxthompson: What did @cwarzel get when he created a new X account, said he liked tech, culture, gaming & sports, and followed only ESPN…