The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

You don't have to enter a Dolan venue to be under his watch.

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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

According to a lawsuit and our sources, Dolan’s head of corporate security takes such an expansive view of his mission that his employees will functionally cosplay as cops—patrolling the neighborhood, snooping on protesters if they happen to be in the area.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Dolan's biometric surveillance is so extensive that a New York City police officer’s photo was added to a facial recognition database and a child triggered an alert at one of Dolan’s properties.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

We discovered that Dolan’s security teams obsessively tracked Nina Richards, identified in a lawsuit as a trans woman, over a two-year period, monitoring her movements through the venue down to the second. (WIRED is using a pseudonym in this article out of respect for her privacy.)

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

But the true extent of Dolan's panopticon has only been caught in glimpses. A 2025 lawsuit by a former member of the MSG security team lifted the veil, just a bit.

Owner James Dolan has watch lists of basketball fans who dared criticize his management. He keeps a close eye on his other venues too, including Radio City Music Hall and the Sphere in Las Vegas.
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

New Yorkers have known for a long time that going to a game or concert at the Garden meant surrendering some privacy. That, as you watched the show, the Garden in a real sense watched you.

Democrat accused of stealing money from disaster funds resigns from House Democratic U.S. Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned on Tuesday, minutes before ​a congressional committee was set to hold a hearing on her punishment for ethics violations.

Democrat accused of stealing money from disaster funds resigns from House reut.rs/4twXz9U

It’s incredible to think of the impact his work still has, especially when things are tough.

I think he would’ve loved watching all the good people of Minnesota push away the bad. 💜

To claim women are inherently less capable ignores data & history. It says more about bias than reality. Every field needs competence, integrity, and accountability, those aren’t male traits, they’re human ones.
When we reduce people to stereotypes, we stop seeing what’s true in front of us.
#pinks

Iran's Military warns of powerful attack on predetermined targets in view of repeated threats by Trump.

US Vice President Vance's trip to Pakistan will not be happening Tuesday, White House official :

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

"I'm old enough to remember when people, hawks on Iran including me, screamed and yelled about Obama giving sanction relief and a little bit of money... Trump's trumping that manyfold."

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Iran schooling Trump at the art of the deal.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions When Tesla released its annual report for U.S. regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025.

Tesla reported an estimated US federal tax bill of $0 for almost every year over two decades, despite hundreds of billions in US revenues. A Reuters analysis examines how it's done reut.rs/48wd21x

Given the current state of American democracy, many of you are wondering what you can do to fight Trump’s authoritarianism.

Pennsylvania’s @GovernorShapiro has one suggestion: show up.

Whether it be at the polls or your local school board meeting, it all matters.

Local Election Officials Survey 2026 75 percent of local election officials have not received additional resources from their state or local government to address federal cuts to election security services. At least 71 percent of officials have done some preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration.

At least 71% of election officials have engaged in preparation or planning for scenarios that could disrupt election administration ahead of the midterms.

Learn more in our latest survey of local election officials: bit.ly/41pYmNr

The Trump team is starting the week off-message.

FBI Director Kash Patel is suing The Atlantic over reporting about his conduct.

But launching a personal lawsuit while leading the FBI raises serious questions and shows he is undisciplined and unfocused at a time of heightened security concerns.

Patel sues 'The Atlantic' for defamation over bombshell report on drinking, unexplained absences FBI Director Kash Patel is suing "The Atlantic" for defamation over their bombshell report accusing him of "excessive drinking" and unexplained absences. MS NOW Senior Investigative Reporter Carol Leo...

Patel sues 'The Atlantic' for defamation over bombshell report on 'excessive drinking, unexplained absences'

@carolleonnig.bsky.social joins @anacabrera.bsky.social with more details.
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Georgia, TODAY is the last day you can register to vote before our state's primary elections!

In a time when those in power want to make it as difficult as possible for you to vote, it's more important than ever that you use your voice. So don't wait. Get it done today.

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

'It’s pretty hard for me to think about staying here': OB-GYNs say NH's lack of shield law could drive them away As the state continues to face a maternal workforce shortage, two OB-GYNs said a lack of legal protections for abortion care weigh heavily on their decision about whether to stay in the state.

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WA state regs make it illegal for some daycare teachers to peel a banana - but opening a bag of Cheetos is just fine. Sadly, many states in the country treat serving fruits and vegetables in the same bureaucratic class as making sushi - and the result is more processed food for toddlers.

LeBron and Bronny James are the first father-son duo to play together in an NBA playoff game 👏

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

You deserve double credit for ending wars you started or enabled.

Trump DOJ loses again, now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases, as court rejects Rhode Island lawsuit U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy, a Trump appointee, called the DOJ’s widespread voter roll demands a “fishing expedition.”

A win! The Trump DOJ is now 0 for 5 on voter roll cases. A federal court just rejected their lawsuit against Rhode Island, the latest in a string of losses as they try to force states to purge voter rolls.

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.

The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.