This is a really beautiful story that goes places I did not expect when I first assigned it.

SCOOP from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job If you're a government worker/contractor/etc and you want to talk, you can find me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal www.wired.com/story/john-s...

SCOOP: In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally. In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/they-h...

I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

Remember that US attorney who was so burned out she asked to be held in contempt just so she could get some sleep? Here's @regret.bsky.social and @hudsongiles.bsky.social on just how far past the breaking point ICE has pushed the court system. www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

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

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

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...

A couple of us at the magazine were just talking about this. Dan wrote funny blogs, yes, but he also literally changed the course of conversation for an American icon.

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.

NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.

When @opb.org ended Hush, even Harvard's Nieman Storyboard could see how short-sighted that was. After making four successful podcasts together, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are committed to continuing our investigative work in the Northwest, and we're launching our own publication. More soon.

ripcorp.biz/episodes/202... the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.

Masthead of SunDance magazine #3, 1972. A lot of future heavyweights in the world of journalism.

It’s officially time for end-of-year posts and I am honestly SO eager to brag about my brilliant colleagues at @wired.com. there are way too many people to talk about in the newsroom, but this wild, exhausting, and absolutely ridiculous year wouldn’t have happened without any of them!!

Rick Telander = stud

Ugh, this is such a gut punch. @leahsottile.bsky.social is one of the best reporters I’ve ever worked with, and her reporting is more vital than ever.

"This is sacred work." Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America. magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

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.

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...

ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team

On one wall: A constantly updating dashboard with students' lesson completion rates and other metrics On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Words I never thought I’d read: “we’ve sold through the initial printing of your hardcovers.” More copies of Blazing Eye Sees All are being printed as we speak! Thanks to everyone who has supported this book!

It’s the weekend. We have a new podcast. You know what to do.

Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her? Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void: I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Have I ever said that I think THE INSIDER is the greatest movie ever made? Well, for my In Review Online debut, I write about the movie's relevant understanding of journalism's capitulating limitations and how those themes are elevated by Mann's signatures. inreviewonline.com/2025/09/30/w...

Babe, wake up. It's 1 p.m, first of all, and second of all... HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism --- so as to align with "current administration priorities." read @mollytaft.com:

Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes: - Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters - Livestreams to connect with our journalists - A new commenting experience + more It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵

Friday was my last day at WIRED. Today I started a new job at Bloomberg on a dream desk with @suryamattu.com and @jeffykao.bsky.social. Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89 In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:

Scoop! We got the agreement between ICE and Medicaid to share sensitive data with ICE agents. @leahfeiger.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...

I'm blown away by this review in The American Scholar. It likens THEY POISONED THE WORLD to Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, which ignited the modern environmental movement, and goes on to call my book a "masterly exposé" & "critical reading for us all." #PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...

NEW: Meet DOGE 2.0 Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government. read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:

One of my favorite pieces to fact check at @wired.com, involving polo, billionaires, scouring YouTube for old matches at the Campo Argentino del Polo & thousands of pages of court documents and trial transcripts. Plus, being able to work with @mattreynolds.bsky.social.

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped. www.wired.com/story/insure...

Beautiful stuff from @attackerman.bsky.social. www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

“When the battle’s playing out on a hundred fronts at once, we have to remember that there’s no single court ruling, no existential moment, no single referendum on ‘transgender rights’ that’ll decide how this struggle will go.” Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com[email protected] www.wired.com/story/histor...

It's hard to overstate how extremist a policy Remigration is: 1 - Mass deportation of all illegal migrants 2 - Deportation of legal migrants see as a burden on society 3 - Deportation of citizens who have not assimilated The aim? To create white Christian ethnostates www.wired.com/story/trump-...

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web. His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f... 🧵👇

Today is the day! After eight long years, They Poisoned the World, is out. The book interweaves the moving story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic global crisis with a deep investigation of one the most brazen cover-ups in corporate history. 1/

WOAH. A new review in The Washington Post calls They Poisoned the World “riveting and horrifying,” a “deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time,” and “a book that none of us can afford to miss.” I'm beside myself... #PFAS @CrownPublishing wapo.st/42VKsTl