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For @wired.com’s April cover, we take you inside Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine — which has allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Revelatory work from @noahshachtman.bsky.social & @robertsilverman.bsky.social that I’m proud to publish and urge you to read.

NEW: Much of MAGA is now convinced that the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA was staged www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

"A lot of people were unhappy to read about this development, particularly those like me whose keyboards are dripping with blood." @stevenlevy.bsky.social @wired.com

NEW: Here's the video @wired.com made of me and @awinston.bsky.social discussing this investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d73...

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...

Praying for @milesklee.bsky.social post "bleak week of greasy meat and protein-infused seltzers". The bull shot would have finished me off. 🤢

“It started with gauze” 💔 If you read and share one thing today, make it this @wired.com report by @attackerman.bsky.social

Our second, and might I add CHILLING, cover for the @wired.com WAR MACHINE issue. Plus, this terrifying report on a family who hid out from ICE for six months www.wired.com/story/get-do...

One of two covers for @wired.com's latest issue: THE WAR MACHINE. Read the incredibly powerful reports from the front lines, at home and abroad here. We're publishing stories all week. www.wired.com/tag/war-mach...

"For the loved ones of the missing, this state of mass irresolution can amount to a lived experience of profound, frenetic, risky restlessness." @wired.com

NEW digital special: THE WAR MACHINE Read these incredibly powerful @wired.com reports from the front lines, at home and abroad.

If you're at an airport today, we'd LOVE to know what it's like interacting with ICE instead of TSA. You can DM me or find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82.

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Iran’s internet shutdown has reduced connectivity by 99 percent, with air strikes likely causing additional outages, and few workarounds remaining. www.wired.com/story/the-fu...

As missiles and drones cross the region’s skies, the Gulf’s layered air-defense networks—from THAAD to Patriot batteries—are being tested in real time. www.wired.com/story/how-ea...

ICYMI: After a tenure marked by controversy and a contentious week of Congressional hearings, secretary Kristi Noem is out as head of the Department of Homeland Security. www.wired.com/story/the-co...

This is @vermontgmg.bsky.social on the “known unknowns” of Trump’s war with Iran for @wired.com. If you didn't know, now you know.

The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most sensitive pressure points in the global economy. Conflict in Iran could put it at risk indefinitely. wrd.cm/3OH8dve

"Shortly after the first set of explosions, Iranians received bursts of notifications on their phones, not from the government advising caution, but from a prayer timing app called ‘BadeSaba Calendar’ which has been downloaded 5 million times from the Google Play Store." - @wired.com Middle East

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United States and Israeli forces have launched military strikes against Iran, with President Donald Trump calling the attacks a “major combat operation” against the Iranian regime. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/us-ira...

"Killing journalists means killing and silencing the truth." Read this powerful interview with Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad, whose online dispatches from Gaza helped change public perception - especially in the west - about what was unfolding on the ground:

A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death. www.wired.com/story/an-fbi...

NEW: @regret.bsky.social spoke with one of the CBP agents who, among other things, revealed that he accidentally went on a blind date with the mother of one of the FBI agents who interviewed him. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

NEW: DHS plans to build a giant, centralized biometrics platform that lets it search faces, fingerprints, and irises across all its agencies, including ICE, CBP, the Secret Service, and more. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

“Injustice is super loud. Justice needs to be louder.” - Plestia Alaqad

Is the Quad God gonna bag GOLD today?

In this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts dive into WIRED’s scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard. www.wired.com/story/uncann...

really, really loved this week’s edition of Made in China. such a fascinating and bizarre story, and @zeyiyang.bsky.social absolutely nailed it www.wired.com/story/made-i...

WE OUT THERE 📍 WIRED Middle East launched, let's go. www.wired.me @wired.com

ICYMI: This is the @wired.com SCOOP to read rn, this is @leahfeiger.bsky.social on the planned locations for new and expanded ICE offices.

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The human grass! 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics! “The only thing more powerful than hate is love”. This is @waterslicer.bsky.social and @d-jacks.bsky.social on Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl Halftime Show performance in the making...

The 🏈 🐰 🎤 breakdown courtesy of @d-jacks.bsky.social @alanayzola.com @wired.com

Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party its biggest-ever electoral victory, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she says could "split public opinion." n.pr/46tYuy9

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A growing number of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) doctors, nurses, and officers are resigning rather than accepting deployments to the Trump administration’s expanded immigration detention operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This story was published in partnership with @kff.org.

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Must-watch slash read slash share: this ep of Hacklab from @wired.com documenting @agreenberg.bsky.social's INCREDIBLE feature about a source who was trapped inside an industrial-scale scam compound.

The names that show up from Big Tech the most in the latest Epstein files release—and what the files reveal.

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