Dhruv Mehrotra

Sorry, but before I can share Maddy Varner's excellent story, I have to crow about her now working at @wired.com!

Congratulations, Wired for making the smartest choice. And, congrats, Maddy, on your new role! 🫰🏼

Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.

A new NY state law requires retailers to disclose when a "price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." What personal data?? Why a particular price?? There's a lot of unanswered questions, but the disclosure is attached to eggs and toilet paper: www.wired.com/story/algori...

Email says We are prepared to receive boxes tomorrow, as NY agents are travelling to WFO in the morning, and vill arrive to Winchester where they will start photographing and we will start scanning and processing the physical files. Once I see the volume, I'|l have a better estimate of processing times, although 1 suggest we do a rolling delivery to further demonstrate the FBIls commitment to delivery and transparency.

🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

No shade to my former employer, but what’s missing from this story is that the same Mormon anti-porn nonprofit behind Relay previously launched a “shameware” app that pinged Facebook when you masturbated — and sent FB your password in plaintext.

The letter says We hereby inform you that we do not intent to maintain our relationship and notify you this day, subject to a one-month notification period, the end of our banking contract for your account in existence since December 22", 2006. that is with effect on January 21", 2008. Consequently, after this period is over, you should retumn all unused checks still in your possession and provide us with your new banking references, in order to enable us to wire the amount remaining on your account upon closing date. If not provided, we will issue a certified check for said amount, Furthermore, we would like to have communication of the list of drawn checks which may still be presented for payment on your account, so as to keep sufficient and useful amount in order to avoid your account to become in debit. Failing that, your checks will be rejected. The end of our banking contract occurring at HSBC's request, no charge will be invoiced for the closing down of your account.

The letter says We hereby inform you that we do not intent to maintain our relationship and notify you this day, subject to a one-month notification period, the end of our banking contract for your account in existence since December 22", 2006. that is with effect on January 21", 2008. Consequently, after this period is over, you should retumn all unused checks still in your possession and provide us with your new banking references, in order to enable us to wire the amount remaining on your account upon closing date. If not provided, we will issue a certified check for said amount, Furthermore, we would like to have communication of the list of drawn checks which may still be presented for payment on your account, so as to keep sufficient and useful amount in order to avoid your account to become in debit. Failing that, your checks will be rejected. The end of our banking contract occurring at HSBC's request, no charge will be invoiced for the closing down of your account.

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking
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www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

1/6 Thread on story from @us.theguardian.com on FBI & NYPD spying on court watch Signal group chat. Bottom line: this stuff has been happening for ages and until we dismantle the post 9/11 domestic spying apparatus it will keep happening. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.

Several Chicago newsrooms spent two months collecting and analyzing evidence of ICE & Border Patrol's use of tear gas and pepper spray in Chicago.

They found that agents deployed chemical agents nearly 50 times. Most uses occurred after a judge ordered federal agents to restrict their use.

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Screenshot of Rachel Maddow Show clip that shows headline and excerpt of a South Side Weekly article “911 Audio Shows South Shore Residents’ Panic During ICE Raid.” Excerpt: “Agents stormed 7500 S. South Shore Dr. in the early morning hours of September 30. Dozens of heavily armed FBI, ICE, and Border Patrol agents swarmed the block as others rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter. Once inside, agents broke into apartments, threw concussion grenades, and zip-tied dozens of residents—including small children—before separating people by race.”

South Side Weekly’s reporting on the South Shore raid was featured on @maddow.bsky.social yesterday! (Story link in thread)

Incredible impact from @mattburgess1.bsky.social whose work put a spotlight on Starlink’s use in scam compounds in February.

A cache of 18,000 emails offers another window into Epstein’s mind. Bloomberg parsed Amazon receipts from that inbox—filtering, verifying, and cataloging book orders—to build this timeline.

Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

“Internal memos reviewed by WIRED reveal that the dataset was first requested by a field officer in the DHS’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) in the summer of 2021. By then, Chicago’s gang data was already notorious for being riddled with contradictions and error.”

nyc friends show the fuck up to 1 WTC tomorrow at 6

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Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

2/ But in September, we dug through Epstein’s inbox and found that she was central.

Daily emails. Coordinating gifts and favors. $35K watches, a $71K car, lingerie and cash routed to girls who later said they were abused.

Gift link:

1/ Maxwell is now asking Trump to commute her sentence.

She’s still telling the same story: that she wasn’t really involved, didn’t see what was happening around Epstein.

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack

Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted

Here are a few of them:

I PROMISE you, our aggressive, unflinching, investigative reporting isn't going anywhere—ever.

Shout out to @couts.bsky.social for helping get this out the door.

The incredible @peggylowe.bsky.social and I have been working on this for the better part of a year.

I also no longer work at WIRED. If you have tips/data hit me up on Signal (dmehro.89) or at dmehrotra11@bloomberg.net

(Slow to respond lately because I’m on parental leave.)

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...

The documents and data were shared with WIRED by the transparency collective @ddosecrets.com but it
draws from two other datasets they published:

— Oath Keepers membership leak
— D.C. Metropolitan Police files

www.wired.com/story/hack-e...

Leaked Veracity Disclosure List

These are among 62 current and former officers the department itself decided couldn’t be trusted…cops so compromised that the department believes their involvement in cases could jeopardize prosecutions.

Some stayed on the job for years. Some were promoted

Another officer posted a photo of a suicide on Facebook.

Another was arrested for pushing a police horse while off duty.

The list goes on and on..

Overlooked More than two years after his arrest, and after decades of allegedly terrorizing the Black men and women of Kansas City, Kansas, disgraced former detective Roger Golubski was set to go on trial. Until...

And then there’s Roger Golubski — a now retired accused of allegedly sexually assaulting at least seven women while on duty and protecting a drug dealer’s sex trafficking ring.

www.kcur.org/overlooked

Mark Glaspie allegedly beat a man with a flashlight and put a gun to his head and threatened to kill.

He would later promoted to captain.

Curtis Murphy allegedly forced a domestic-violence victim to undress for him.

She told investigators: “How can I say no if authority ask me that?