Jim Dolan is a full-blown media and tech oligarch these days -- from his private deep state to his MAGA ties. But Dolan's connections to Trump go back further than most; he got married in Mar-a-Lago in 2002.
It's his security forces that are now spying on so many New Yorkers.
“Behind the scenes, the atmosphere is so rooted in paranoia that former Knicks players warn one another about rooms being bugged, and staffers worry about being watched when they go out to local bars.”
an instant @wired.com classic www.wired.com/story/madiso...
The genesis of this investigation (w/@regret.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social , @couts.bsky.social, @hudsongiles.bsky.social & @samspengler.bsky.social) was the winged insignia worn by Greg Bovino & several camouflaged Border Patrol agents thruout At Large, Midway Blitz & Metro Surge - BORTAC
A WIRED investigation has identified multiple members of the paramilitary units behind some of the most egregious immigration enforcement actions of the last year. from @awinston.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social
BORTAC members, according to a former Special Forces member, are highly trained but have little or no operational war-fighting experience. "They’re definitely not the people I’d want in any sort of civilian law enforcement context.”
In use-of-force instances during Operation Midway Blitz last fall, federal agents punched protesters, threw tear gas, fired pepperballs, and used tasers. The officers were often members of a paramilitary force trained not for crowd control, but high-risk desert operations. Latest from @wired.com:
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...
From drones to missiles to submarines, Anduril wants to transform how the tools of war are made. It’s not all going as planned. www.wired.com/story/anduri...
The New York Times is right. I don’t care!
(And huge credit to the @wired.com team, whose intrepid, fearless, always fair reporting gives the tech bros plenty to be mad about.)
The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.
This guy gets it.
Many of the agents terrorizing Minneapolis—including officers who shot Good and Pretti—are from highly-specialized tactical units designated for war-like situations. And they are known for rampant civil rights abuses and violence. New from @awinston.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/ice-cb...
"As we watch the least effective and most morally objectionable of our tactics come home and be used amongst and against us, we are left with a profound feeling of betrayal."
www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
NEW: DHS secretly obtained Chicago police data on 900 residents accused of gang ties. It was quietly deleted after intelligence officers violated rules against domestic spying.
The handoff came well after city inspectors formally announced CPD's gang data was deeply flawed and infected w/ bias.
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Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …
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.
Jake is a resourceful political reporter with deep access to the White House; he goes out of his way to befriend everyone in the newsroom; and he is tireless at promoting our work on TV.
WIRED will carry on politics reporting with his legacy, but he deserves a better employer and platform.
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.
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.
I was one of the four people who got canned.
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🎇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/
This might be the most slacked-about story so far: a profile of @edzitron.com, who has become the pre-eminent AI skeptic. @tcraggs22.bsky.social takes on what this specific role entails www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
A @wired.com AI package needs to clear an impossibly high bar.
And by god, I think we've done it. Hours of sensational, thought-provoking, fun reading, and the design is simply dazzling.
WIRED can't predict the future, but we can try to make sense of it. And that's exactly what we're doing here:
New deep dive into the world of feuding Luigi Mangione supporters. Some are using alleged crime to push health care reform; others find that offensive, as they believe he's completely innocent. And most of them hate the media's fixation on the "thirsters": www.wired.com/story/inside...
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...
Politics cover wired
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Why are we taking our latest politics cover to the streets?
We wanted you to see what we saw, over many months of covering DOGE, ICE, and the rest of it. Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.
You may know the software company Palantir as a contractor for ICE + the military. But in recent months, it's relaunched its merch store & said it wants to be a "lifestyle brand."
What does it mean for Palantir to be a lifestyle brand...? I unpacked it here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...
