NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that ICE has or plans to open more than 150 facilities around the US, in nearly every state, many near major metro areas. @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

NEW: Over the last several months, ICE has carried out a secret campaign to place new and expanded facilities for its agents and lawyers in nearly every state and major metro area in the US—over 150 in all. @wired.com is publishing dozens of these locations; @leahfeiger.bsky.social has the scoop:

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

excellent story from @kyledcheney.bsky.social today — this is a clear constitutional crisis

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This morning at @propublica.org, we published a pair of stories about the children held at the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/life...

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved. DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.” www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

NEW: Mobile Fortify is not designed to "verify" identity, as DHS claims, and it was only approved after DHS rewrote its privacy review rules, records reviewed by @wired.com show. @dell.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social w/scoops. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

ICYMI: Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs

Amazing scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social: Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs www.wired.com/story/inside...

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

SCOOP from me in this week’s @wired.com Inner Loop newsletter: A look inside a forum where users claiming to be ICE/CBP vent their frustrations and concerns about their jobs. “This is going to be a train wreck that we may not survive.” www.wired.com/story/inside...

SCOOP: A look inside the ICE Forum where agents complain about their jobs and so much more. “I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter.” read @telliotter.bsky.social:

this is absolutely mind bogglingly horrific and also so so so predictable.

NEW: I went undercover, as a human poster, on the social network designed just for AI agents. The site isn’t a novel breakthrough; it’s simply a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies for the hype machine’s true believers. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE's surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

a very good rundown of the tech billionaire/silicon valley/jeffrey epstein crossover that you didn't even know you needed (always read @brbarrett.bsky.social)

SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

As Trump’s mass deportation program unfolds, immigration policy and enforcement is shifting fast. That’s why we’re launching Tracker, a limited-series newsletter navigating what’s happening and what’s next. Sign up for free: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...

Republicans who have known Nancy Mace for years are increasingly worried about her. But why is she like this? A number of scoops and new details here, including her recently departed campaign chief going on the record to call for her to leave electoral politics altogether: nymag.com/intelligence...

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.

AGAIN: If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Signal: makenakelly.32 www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

NEW with @makenakelly.bsky.social, ICE is using generative AI from Palantir to sort through immigration enforcement tips and summarize them. Details here: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

big news for wired.com!!! welcome @milesklee.bsky.social, we’re so happy you’re here!!!!

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

NEW: Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

"You can only preach against ICE for so long before God calls you to get out of the pulpit and get to the streets”

NEW: You think disinformation is bad now? Wait until you hear about "AI swarms" and how they have the potential to upend democracy across the globe www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

ICE complains about 'doxing' any time one of their officers is identified. Meanwhile at least 1,000 of them are apparently putting ICE right there in their LinkedIn profiles. from @regret.bsky.social

‘With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.’ always read @vermontgmg.bsky.social:

Exciting news! I’m now cohosting @wired.com’s Uncanny Valley podcast with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social and @brbarrett.bsky.social! Tune in every Thursday as we dive into Wired’s scoops, the news of the week, and more from inside Silicon Valley and DC!

In horror at the detention of a child, this moment from our reporting on Minneapolis today stands out — An ICE agent saw a bald eagle while driving with a detained US citizen. The agent said to the driver, “there’s a bald eagle, do you know what that means?” The driver said: “God is on our side.”

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon. Video by Ben Luhmann.

Silicon Valley is already dumping money into the 2026 midterms. read Maxwell Zeff for @wired.com on the major players spending millions:

ICYMI: Catch me on @npr.org's On Point, talking about the one year anniversary of DOGE (it still exists) and what comes next. And if you're a government worker or a tech worker and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82 www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

WIRED spoke to 10 residents in Minneapolis about what life has been like for them since ICE seized the city. I know there's a lot of coverage out there, but spend time with this heart wrenching piece:

Inside the plan to fix the mess DOGE created www.wired.com/story/former...

New from my colleagues @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social: The Trump administration is planning Minnesota-style ICE blitzes in California and New York, as well as other blue states. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/califo...

NEW: Minnesota Is Just the Beginning. California and New York Are ‘Next,' according to a senior White House official. more from me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/califo...

NEW: The Trump administration appears to be deploying the same playbook it used in Minnesota—leveraging allegations of fraud to justify significant federal oversight—in other blue states across the country, starting with California and New York. from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social:

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social

NEW: With ICE on hand, Trump simply doesn't need the Proud Boys anymore www.wired.com/story/trump-...

. @seth-stern.bsky.social at @freedom.press: "The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications having nothing to do with any pending investigation and, if investigators ... access them, we have zero faith that they will respect journalist-source confidentiality"