Kate Knibbs
@knibbs.bsky.social
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Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude Send me tips: [email protected] / Signal: kateknibbs.09
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Went deep on the first AI streaming music fraud case. Mike Smith, the defendant, had more ties to the industry than you'd think. He worked with Snoop Dogg and RZA. And his former business partner suspects he'd been up to sneaky stuff for a while: www.wired.com/story/ai-bot...
‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case
A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.
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I need an oral history of the writing of every single episode
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One of the greatest gifts of my maternity leave thus far is that it gave me the opportunity to start The Morning Show- the perfect thing to watch at 4 am when you feel insane. This is now a The Morning Show fan account.
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Me usually but I’m on mat leave 🫠
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“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
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mikeferguson.bsky.social
rip to an absolute legend
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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Same it’s so good 😭
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Highly recommended reading:
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NEW: The Chicago Headline Club — the local chapter of the @spj-posts.bsky.social — has released a statement condemning ICE attacks on reporters.

In recent days, ICE has shot journalists in the face with pepper balls, assaulted journalists, and detained a reporter in Chicago.
Attacks and targeting of journalists by ICE must stop immediately!


The Board of Directors of the Chicago Headline Club condemns the targeting

of journalists, reporters and photographers covering protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agencies.


The Headline Club is calling for ICE, Customs and Border Protection and others

assigned to Operation Midway Blitz to stop this practice immediately. The Headline Club is aware of incidents of journalists being shot intentionally with bean

bags, chemical munitions and at least one working journalist being taken into custody on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. 


Journalists have a constitutionally-protected right to cover stories as afforded by the

First Amendment. No federal or state agency should interfere with that right either by

threats or action taken against working journalists. 


The Headline Club demands that Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Board Patrol Commander of Operations At Large Gregory Bovino take immediate action to ensure journalists are not targeted by officers of ICE or the Department of Homeland Security.  


Respectfully, 


The Chicago Headline Club Board of Directors
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leighkunkel.bsky.social
I keep trying to write something but the only thing I can say is that this government wants to inflict as much pain on as many people as possible. Everyone at Broadview tonight is literally putting their lives on the line so that the world knows it.
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Assisted by ATF agents here, CBP just rushed out of the gate and immediately into the crowd to seize safety gear (umbrellas, shields) from protesters. Loaded them into this truck.

Saw feds tackle and arrest one person between parked cars.
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logicallyjc.bsky.social
More people should be talking about this.
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Border patrol is patrolling the dangerous border between the Loop and... the other part of the Loop
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UPDATE — Witness videos captured Border Patrol agents boating down the Chicago River today.

Also, there are multiple anti-ICE protests planned for the Chicagoland area this weekend.

More details ⬇️

thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...
Border Patrol seen boating down Chicago River, raids at Cicero home and Northwest Side Home Depot, and more ICE protests planned • The TRiiBE
Here’s a roundup of federal agent sightings today, Sept. 25.
thetriibe.com
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If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.
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Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.
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"I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I’m going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads.”

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
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NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
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DM me your email and I can PDF it for you!