Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

10/10 no notes. 🫠 I know I’m not the only one who sang this right out loud!

a) ossoff's whole "bring it, dipshit" attitude is exactly the right response to trump's election shenanigans b) good lord has he ever leveled up as a political communicator, I continue to think he's a very serious 2028 contender if he wants it

Warnock: "The SAVE Act is about saving Donald Trump's power. It's not about saving our democracy. It is a voter suppression bill, pure and simple."

OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.

"Reject the culture wars being waged against your Muslim American neighbors. Reject the anti-Muslim hate being laundered through the legislative chambers.And call out the silence of politicians who cower when asked to stand up for Muslim Americans too."

LDF Prebunks Disproven Claims of Stolen 2020 Election Ahead of Trump’s Speech on Elections and Voting www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Sen. Ossoff: Tonight, Donald Trump, the world's most famous sore loser, will deliver a prime time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election.

In April, we published our first story about the surveillance machine at Madison Square Garden—an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Read that here:

Read our story from July 9 about how an MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

From me, and the WIRED leadership team. Proud of WIRED today and every day, and we’re not slowing down on our reporting about MSG or anything else.

When Trump says he won the 2020 election in his address to the nation tomorrow night, remember Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for lying to viewers and spreading that same lie.

1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES

I mean, a federal judge just ordered formal sanctions against this nominee *this same week* What the hell are we doing here?

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

Exactly this. And I won’t vote for any candidate who doesn’t unequivocally state these policy goals (plus trans rights).

You stupid motherfuckers

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

And then, when they get defensive, you keep fucking pressing because these people are cowards. They don’t actually want to fight. They want the thrill of being the victor without putting in the effort. Punch them straight in the mouth and then keep on punching until they shut the fuck up.

Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.

Have we litigated this to death? Absolutely. Does it feel exhausting to have to do it again? Sure. But he's going to use these 2020 lies as an excuse for meddling in the 2026 midterms, so the lies need to be called out as obvious bullshit AND a direct threat to our political system.

If you are part of a comms team and your immediate initial response isn’t “fuck you, you’re wrong, here’s our twelve citations that prove otherwise in an absolutely humiliating fashion” then you are simply not equipped to do your job in the modern political age

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

I guess I just don’t understand how stupid you have to be not to see the world’s richest man embracing boilerplate white nationalism because it allows him to present himself as a victim bsky.app/profile/bren...

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

JK Rowling has used her wealth to stoke the fires of a worldwide pogrom against trans people to where she's silenced a Holocaust scholar after JK engaged in Holocaust denial & now done the same to Amnesty International for their warning about trans eradication, but keep buying your Harry Potter crap

For all the conservative pundits gnashing their teeth and lecturing us about our reactions to Lindsey Graham's death...

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Ummmmmmmmmmm

Biologist here (zoologist specifically)! This is a really good example of junk science being used to push a political pseudoscientific agenda. Even ignoring that the piece is absolutely filled beginning to end with fallacies and even actual factually incorrect statements, it also doesn’t even 1/2

I connect the dots painstakingly in my book…but they’re just straight up making it clear! Connections that would have been dismissed as conspiratorial last year are now on the public agenda in Congress.

Meaning these are now ADULTS?? Oh f*ck all the way off with this. These mf*ckers need to be voted out and jailed for unleashing this hate on people just trying to live their f*cking lives.

i cannot fathom what it’s like for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s family right now. this country murdered their husband/father for no reason.

so ICE did a kavanaugh stop and murdered a man www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Suddenly socialism is good when Trump does it?

LFG!!! Women’s sports are having a MOMENT and I’m absolutely here for it! Let’s Go New York Heights!

Anyway, did you see John Oliver was on General Hospital as some kind of secret government agency bigwig, and he played it completely straight? It's pretty fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpH...

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Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

Exactly this!!

oh dear did that maine man with the nazi tattoos turn out to be something of a problem after gazillions of women shouted from the rooftops that he was a fuckin creep

No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter

Dear America: PLEASE WATCH

I interviewed a former prosecutor yesterday who said this one thing that I cannot stop thinking about : “I think the most radical thing I learned from becoming a prosecutor is how much violence women face in this country and how little people care.”

Beginning of a thing I wrote that seems appropriate for today. All love to the American people fighting tyranny and 0 love as per usual to the American government.

We reject their sick perversion of this historic day. We reject the very idea of claiming freedom of speech to obliterate *all* the constitutional rights of people they hate and exclude by force—via ethnic cleansing (“remigration”) or other weapons. WE define ‘nation’. WE define ‘patriot’.

Fellow cis allies, read this and try to fully understand why so many have been sounding the alarm about trans rights and why this affects all of us. None of us is free until we are ALL free. Speak up and speak out. For our trans siblings now, for everyone else too. #TransRightsAreHumanRights