Vittoria Elliott

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.”

Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”

From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

🔔 Government officials are citing journalism as "doxxing" to threaten press freedom.

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@wired.com is nominated for the ASMEs!!! FOUR times!!!

I am so so proud of the whole WIRED newsroom, and just a special shout out to my politics team -- this time last year, we were barely sleeping as we unveiled a government takeover in real time. It's a real honor to have that recognized here!

He reported a stolen car. Then ICE arrested him at a police station, he says. DC police face criticism for allegedly assisting ICE in arresting immigrants at police stations

When Jose Argueta reported his car stolen, he did not realize that he would end up at an immigrant detention center.

Argueta’s account — part of a lawsuit over warrantless ICE arrests — renews concerns over local police’s cooperation with the agency.

Patel Ousts F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump’s Retained Classified Records

Patel promised Senators in confirmation hearings: “There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI.”
He lied. He just fired another 10 agents who served in Jack Smith's investigation.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

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MAGA Is Raging Over the Epstein Files. But They're Not Mad at Donald Trump Trump supporters are angry at the lack of arrests after the latest Epstein file dump, but have targeted their ire at Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and Steve Bannon rather than the president.

"For a bunch of ‘free thinkers,’ they're the most easily led people you can imagine," - @rothschildmd.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Fab scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

Judge Rules Government Cannot Search Washington Post Reporter’s Electronics

www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

College Campuses Are in Upheaval Over Faculty Ties to Epstein From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are demanding accountability.

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.

Last fall, I reported about how much of a shitshow self-deportations + voluntary departures have been. Immigration lawyers alleged that DHS indicated to minors that their family members in the US could be arrested/deported if they didn’t agree to leave “voluntarily”

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

Never related to anything more in my life

Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security's proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

A reminder to always wipe metadata and don't forget to remove comments before publishing something online 🤦

Scoop from @regret.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/metada...

Last month, @wired.com reported about potential plans to love the Board of Peace into the USIP building. USIP, though funded by Congress, is an independent nonprofit and not part of the government.

Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

Today, Trump hosted the first meeting of the so-called Board of Peace at the building that served as the headquarters for the US Institute for Peace. But that building is still the subject of a major court case after being forcibly taken over by DOGE last year.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.

New from me: In yet another forum, users claiming to be current and former Homeland Security Investigations officers complained about being roped into deportation efforts and their working conditions, and debated how ICE is interacting with the public. @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/hsi-fo...

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents Forum members discuss their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents

@telliotter.bsky.social reports from inside yet ANOTHER ICE agent forum:

Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows "We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.

50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

To Save the Media, Ditch Capitalism, a New Study Says

Pickard argues that
"Capitalism incentivizes the degradation of news media — from disinvesting in local journalism to capturing our attention and extracting personal data to devaluing and casualizing news workers’ conditions..." www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

ICE officers suspended after making ‘untruthful statements’ about shooting The federal immigration officers are facing a criminal inquiry after new evidence surfaced contradicting their accounts after the Jan. 14 shooting of a Venezuelan man.

Breaking news: Two immigration officers have been suspended and are facing a criminal investigation into whether they lied under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis last month.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Also as always, if you're a federal worker, law enforcement, someone working in tech and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com

wired.com/story/social...

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...