Not hard to put all this in a straight line. WV went from a Dem stronghold to one with no investment from national party. GOP fully took over, and now as some states have their policies and police resist ICE, WV, already one of the poorest and whitest states, is incentivized to embrace it.

Our story from Saturday: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I can't believe this is a real NYT headline. In addition to being the tech-bougie capital, SF has to have the most natural beauty of any major American city, right? The giant mountains and the lush forests and the drastic cliffs that overlook the Pacific.

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal. @passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

It's so nice to have a weekend of amazing sports to temper the horrors. I am referring of course to Marshall men's basketball hosting undefeated Miami of Ohio, the first ranked team to visit us I think this century?? Anyway definitely watch ESPN+ this afternoon, not NBC or Peacock.

A fun fact about me is that I don't use my Facebook account but would always switch around my bday for opsec. I got a warning it would lock the next change in, so I set it to my childhood best friend's bday. Now every year on his special day half our estranged friends give best wishes to me instead.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

There's been a lot of solid reporting from the latest Epstein dump but I think this is the smartest angle I've seen.

In the very small chance this helps somebody: I wanted to make a calendar reminder to myself on a sensitive topic I don't want to keep a record of. Realized I can turn on disappearing messages to myself on Signal, then schedule a reminder message that's set to auto-delete.

Fun fact: I learned today that DHS puts out a daily newsletter to employees with links to news stories about the agency. We found this out because my editor noticed referral traffic from it. So when we in the press write these stories, DHS tells its employees to read them...???

“Never once in the many years I have been reporting on Wyden have I ever encountered a warning of his to be hyperbolic, let alone baseless.” www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...

Emails and other documents show that Epstein was in contact with at least 20 prominent tech executives, investors and researchers, including some current CEOs, according to an NBC News review of a portion of the documents.

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Having been on the receiving end before, these calls really are so devastating. What an awful day for what was one of the great American newsrooms.

I spoke with several VA staffers, most in Minneapolis, who say they've heard almost nothing from VA leadership after Alex Pretti was killed. They report low morale, blocked memorials and a feeling that the VA is downplaying it. New from me @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

Remarkable and terrifying, though I would have framed this with less of a legal wonk lens. The federal government is using its muscle to access the Google and other tech accounts of its critics.

A question to the privacy/surveillance nerds here: Who does good work evaluating and testing anti facial recognition clothing and gear?

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Every journalist whose theat model includes this administration/the federal government needs to be aware of this. Signal for desktop + touch ID + they have a warrant = the feds can read any of your signal messages that haven't disappeared.

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

Mamdani Targets ‘Unusable’ AI Chatbot for Termination

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

NEW: An informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a "personal hacker," according to a document released today. The document does not name the hacker, but says he is Italian, developed and sold zero-days (iOS and Blackberry) to governments such as the U.K. and the United States.

From one of the organizers: The Arizona Stop Flock Initiative is having a BYOB party in Sedona this Saturday to celebrate getting their city council to council to kill their contract for ALPR cameras.

The ADL found that Grok was the most anti-semitic chatbot in its testing -- and did its best to minimize that finding, because everyone is afraid of Elon. @miasato.bsky.social runs it down www.theverge.com/news/868925/...

I feel bad for all the Amazon employees laid off today but at least my morning commute is plastered with ads for the Melania movie.

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

also, it's a great app to use for ordinary everyday chatter. yes it's secure but it's not about being secure, it's about being NORMAL in a way that chat apps mostly fail to be. Having your conversations be ephemeral and not having everything logged somewhere is the normal state of talking to people

Thanks to @ashponders.bsky.social and @seamas.bsky.social for making me realize I'm severely underutilizing my position as a journalist.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

My 2c, obviously not legal advice but as a cyber reporter: This is true and it obviates a lot of overkill opsec advice I see posted. But it's still very generally good practice to chat over signal w disappearing messages on to minimize the chance of your convos being used against you.

A small band of moderate House Democrats teamed with Republicans to pass a bill to fund DHS, overcoming a revolt by most Democrats furious about ICE’s operations in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities.

the lede in FT (best paper in english these days?) is perfect

Beyond excited to have @wired.com's new magazine entirely dedicated to one of the biggest issues in our lives: how to understand China's rise and rise and rise. Humanoid robots, EV batteries, cleansing crystals, AI boyfriends, gene-editing... Something made in China is already changing your life.

I think this is the first time I've ever received a phishing/scam email where the lure is "you too can get wealthy from the President of the United States of America's personal cryptocurrency."

This story is so fascinating because it's genuinely unclear if it's the US engaging in cyberfuckery or a random ransomware attack with incredible timing or something else.

Not to downplay David's scoop — it's a good one! — but feds have already been drastically their reducing their outreach to industry folks since Trump retook office and have already been way less present at cyber conferences. (Noem did speak at RSAC last year, though, controversially.)

If only the Tsar knew!

It's becoming a well established trope that this White House is unhealthily obsessed with content creation, but this is the first time I've seen them preemptively threaten a reporter with a mean tweet.

NEW from NBC News: "As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed sent many new recruits into field offices without proper training..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I have full confidence that the two bylined reporters indeed heard this from U.S. officials, but to go ahead and uncritically report it as such when we all saw the video is just humiliating. What is happening at CBS, man.

Speaking on Dell's behalf without checking w/him: The most annoying reply to a reporter publishing a story like this is people telling him they already knew. Great! You have good instincts that powerful bullshitters bullshit. You didn't have government documents proving it, which is what's important

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

NEW: A senior U.S. military cyber operator responsible for overseeing efforts against Russia was dismissed from duty last week by the head of U.S. Cyber Command’s elite digital warfighting unit. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/senior-milit...

RIP Dilbert

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.