the Heated Rivalry fandom has done a really remarkable speedrun from a celebration of a fluffy, sexy gay show to calling cast members pedophiles & journalists "klan members" (yes, really) — v excited about @wired.com's blow-by-blow feat interviews w fans on the front lines

The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses. Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

This is a simply incredible decision from Judge Brasel. Stunning. In that you will be stunned. She captures perfectly the experience of trying to locate and help clients disappeared by ICE. And the stories of detainee’s experience while ICE plays hide-and-seek with their lawyers are soul crushing.

Not just that, but asks the court to "Issue an injunction directing Harvard to comply with all future document requests" DOJ makes that it says are related to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and "28 CFR Subpart C" (which is maybe a typo?)

Another shooting case falls apart (this time ICE, not CBP). These are the Venezuelans that ICE excused shooting by claiming they beat him w/shovels. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each. Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Here's your mystery of the week: A blog about a small island off the coast of Canada, personal portfolio websites, weather forecast platforms, Shopify sites, and the US federal gov—a wide range of websites have reported being hit by a massive influx of bots tied to China and Singapore since 2025.

23 habeas petitions were filed on behalf of detainees in the district of Minnesota yesterday. Attorneys say they have to file quickly because ICE will fly detainees to Texas and out of jurisdiction. How many will we find out were filed today?

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Todd Blanche says “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.” Kinsella was just selected as the US Attorney for the Northern District of New York by the district’s judges, as permitted by statute.

Some personal news

NEW: The US court system is already breaking down under the weight of a mass deportation campaign it is in no way equipped to process. @regret.bsky.social has the alarming details:

NEW: ICE is crashing the US court system in Minnesota. Thanks to Trump's push to detain an unprecedented number of people, and its attempt to kill bond hearings, petitions to secure people's release from custody have skyrocketed. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

sorry they modded a computer specifically so ghislaine could use it in prison to review discovery but couldn't buy a hard drive for this case? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The FTC is apparently hiring attorneys who will "focus on unfair and deceptive practices impacting children and families, including investigations relating to pediatric gender dysphoria treatment." Doesn't specify a division within BCP, which is odd! www.usajobs.gov/job/856161000

Habeas petitions have skyrocketed in the past few months as more people are in detention than ever and detainees arent being given bond hearings. At the MN-USAO, it’s made caseloads explode: www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

Hey Bluesky! I'm a senior writer at WIRED and I'm shifting beats to cover the tech I'm most obsessed with right now—PREDICTION MARKETS. Eager to hear tips on the industry at [email protected]

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.

Devastating decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last night endorsing the Trump Bureau of Immigration Appeals 2025 ruling that undocumented immigrants “apprehended anywhere in the United States are ineligible for release on bond, regardless of how long they have resided in the U.S.”

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

A lot about this app isn't known. We used court records, agent testimony, company patents & testing by federal scientists to understand how this works (and when it doesn't). Similarly, DHS is hiding its policies, so we look at behavior to deduce them.

"When a poorly framed street photo causes the subject to be excluded by the system early, it is a mathematical certainty that any match will be a miss."

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

“Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint,” the farm said in a statement Jan. 29. “Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact.” www.kpcw.org/summit-count...

Unlike other publications, which often frame AI articles around hype and fear-mongering like, “should we be afraid?” or “is it secretly alive,” proud to work for @wired.com, which always tells it as it is. No, the AI bots are not alive and posting on social media: www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

A young prosecutor tells a judge what’s really going on joycevance.substack.com/p/today-in-c...

Paris prosecutors raid the offices of Elon Musk's X. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

I went to Catholic mass today and the priest personally handed out this poem in memory of Alex Pretti to every parishioner…never seen this happen before

NEW: Ahem. For all of you "Melania" nay sayers out there, there are at least two sold out shows in the US for tomorrow's global release. Are they both before 3pm? Yes. Is one in Florida? Also yes. @regret.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/we-fou...

NEW: I reviewed nearly 1,400 screenings at over 300 movie theaters in the united states, and I am here to report that I successfully found two (2) sold out Melania screenings. Read on at @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/we-fou...

Great reporting last year from The Markup and @thecity.nyc themarkup.org/news/2024/03...

NEW we got more details about Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app that immigration agents have reportedly been using: www.wired.com/story/mobile...

exhibits like these (from the social media addiction lawsuit that’s been heavily covered this week) always give me pause bc how where else is conversation, “they think we’re doing the bad thing *intentionally*, but we’re just guys!” happening storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New from @regret.bsky.social and me: 35 state and territory AGs signed a letter demanding xAI remove all nonconsensual sexual images created by Grok and arguing that the company is treating them as a "selling point." www.wired.com/story/the-st...

Human trafficking to scam compounds in SE Asia is a catastrophe for forced laborers and their scam victims worldwide. One individual, Red Bull, gave @agreenberg.bsky.social incredible insight into the situation over months from inside. Then he attempted an escape www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

NEW: Amid it all, ICE is seeking information from companies about ad-tech and big data tools—potentially gaining access to information in ways that constitutional experts say circumvents the Fourth Amendment. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

Hi there, if you're in law enforcement, a legal observer, a government worker, or a tech worker and you're in MN/or have any info about what's happening now with ICE and law enforcement operations, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82. We can speak anonymously.

“The government has also argued that I must accept this as true because they said it, and they are the government…I respectfully suggest that the petition is frivolous.”

Apologies, wrong link in the first post (there are two letters). Correct link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I suggest reading in full…it’s really something. The judge, by the way, is a Bush appointee and two-time Scalia clerk. bsky.app/profile/anna...

Star Tribune confirms the man shot by ICE this morning is dead. ICE reportedly tried to order MPD to leave the scene but the chief of police refused and preserved the scene. BCA reportedly en route.

NEW! ICE seems to have taken to complaining about "doxing" any time an officer is publicly named. Meanwhile, like everyone else, people who work for ICE are on LinkedIn. Make it make sense!!: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

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

NEW: The ICE List website listing thousands of ICE employees cites LinkedIn as the source of much of its info about ICE agents. Despite DHS's threat to treat revealing agents' identities as a crime, it's trivial to find their profiles. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...

New research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate claims to put into context the number of sexualized images Grok created: "Grok produced an estimated 3 million sexualized images including 23,000 of children"

hi are you as freaked out by the big scary winter storm maps peppering the internet? i wrote a little guide:

i do think company-branded bench press plates are a good swag idea