NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

If you're a government employee and you want to talk, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal. We can speak anonymously.

NEW: Government workers tell @wired.com that their out-of-office replies are being forcibly changed to blame Democrats for the government shutdown.

Scoop from @leahfeiger.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social

NEW: Federal workers had their out-of-office replies changed to an unhinged and probably illegal partisan screed; when they changed them to neutral language, the replies were changed yet again. @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social have the details:

NEW! Dept of Education workers say their OOO replies were forcibly changed to blame Democrats for shutdown. When employees changed their responses back to the more neutral language, it changed yet again to the partisan response.

@wired.com @leahfeiger.bsky.social

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"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

New from me! The Trump administration is gearing up to take aim "radical left" institutions aka nonprofits that work on everything from democracy to climate change. The industry is bracing for the hit.

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown in their OOO auto-responders, complete with suggested language. from @telliotter.bsky.social

If you're a federal worker and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82 using a non-work phone. We can speak anonymously.

SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left."

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/govern...

NEW: Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown. Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies, and pop up banners across different agencies blame Democrats too.

read @telliotter.bsky.social:

New article from @wired.com on the Dark Enlightenment cult of billionaires who want to become the new rulers of the world:

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late to this incredible piece on the tech elite's obsession with making their own nation-states from my brilliant colleague @telliotter.bsky.social ; the lede made me literally lol

Federal Cops ‘Instigating’ Confrontations With Protesters Outside ICE Building, Portland Police Official Says

Police say "federal agents’ firing on protesters without warning 'enraged' the crowd, which began 'pulling out makeshift shields and throwing things at the agents who fired on them.'”

and our final story (for this week) @telliotter.bsky.social digs into the world of network states (and other like-minded projects) -- when you are so beyond politics you want to make your own country www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

From Montenegro to northern California, the tech elite dream of building “network states”—cities where they make the rules.

“This is a colonial project, aimed at tech empire ... Colonization 2.0,“ I told @telliotter.bsky.social

via @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

The idea has been popular amongst Silicon Valley's libertarian right, including Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan, for years. But now, with trust in traditional governments waning, and people feeling more connected to their online communities than their fellow citizens, has its time finally come?

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

From Montenegro to northern California, the tech elite dream of building “network states”—cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

New! We spoke to workers across the federal government about what the months of the DOGE blitz looked like for them, as Elon Musk did a full court press to try and dismantle the US government.

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Huge DOGE oral history from @leahfeiger.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @mollytaft.com, @aarianmarshall.bsky.social, @peard33.bsky.social, + @jakelahut.writes.news

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Maybe settle in a bit and sip some coffee before reading this @makenakelly.bsky.social & @telliotter.bsky.social joint.

“Intermittent sleeping.” Muscle milk. Celsius. Blacked out trash bag windows. What more could you need?
www.wired.com/story/armed-...

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NEW! A Senate report claims that DOGE has put *every* American’s social security number at risk; that staff at GSA, OPM, and SSA wouldn’t or couldn’t say what DOGE was doing; and that agencies claimed that DOGE actually doesn’t exist at all.

For @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/armed-...