Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

A statement from Wired's Conde Union Members

will this guy’s humiliation ever end

My favorite professor in college, who I credit to no small extent for me ending up in law school, wrote this great book on the jury and how important it is.

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

Maybe in some million-teraflop HPC system. But commercial AI is still in the phase that robotic dog was in when it cost a $billion and you could trip it with a toilet paper roll. Have you watched it try to open a website with a single javascript button?

real psycho shit

Sandwich man leaving court

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

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I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq

ICE deported him anyways. They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica. Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own. What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this? He died a few weeks after deportation:

the #1 goal of the Democratic Party should be to build clones of Lina Khan so they can simultaneously fill a wide variety of government posts.

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Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social on our latest: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intel doc we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

The meltdown begins…

TLDR:

Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’ Free Mumia! www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

A photojournalist was arrested by ICE at gunpoint — and his DACA status revoked. “Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/04/h...

New York’s new mayor is also WIRED’s new cover.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

We did it for you Dick Cheney

is that a lot

Councilor Liz Breadon said all the people detained had some form of legal immigration status — but were not allowed to get their papers by ICE. https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-11-04/ice-detains-9-at-allston-brighton-car-wash-in-what-could-be-neighborhoods-largest-raid-of-the-year

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

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The U.S. government has begun drawing up new lists of terrorist organizations without disclosing the identities of the groups to Congress or the American people. interc.pt/4ooeeKd

In September, violent protests erupted in Nepal. What happened next was unprecedented, as activists used Discord to help choose the country's interim leader. Today on @wired.com we're publishing this deep dive into what actually happened, and what might come next. www.wired.com/story/nepal-...

story hit the top of r/politics earlier but was removed because irrelevant to US politics

zero people begrudgingly put on riot gear. you literally have to want to do it. they’re all excited to be there.

SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

The Cheney obituary pairs well with this piece I just published about the final attempts to stop @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Read them together and subscribe to @foreverwars.bsky.social:

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

It’s what the founders would have wanted

the Zohran campaign goes to show how much your local DSA chapter can accomplish if they stop watching wrestling

NEW: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @carolinehaskins.bsky.social / @wired.com #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Here's what that looked like. Tactical excellence.

Stay safe out there. Kidnappers on the rise

No paywall

SCOOP w/ @dell.bsky.social: the FBI is warning law enforcement to look out for people impersonating ICE to facilitate other criminal acts Plus, some odd details I got via FOIA about a March incident in which an aspiring prank YouTuber allegedly impersonated ICE: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

SCOOP : I got hold of the death threats, doxes and attacks teachers in Arizona are facing after a TPUSA spokesperson inaccurately claimed they mocked Charlie Kirk during Halloween. "We’re coming for you. Literally driving to Tucson as we speak You fucking wait.” www.wired.com/story/arizon...

Sadly there was no way to predict this.