Kate Knibbs

Hi dear bluesky… I have a long shot request… if any of you lives somewhat close to Lenox Hill/ midtown east and need a house sitter next week or the week after, please lmk. (Or if you are rich and just have a pied a terre or something, that works too, lol)

"Authoritarian Capacity" and the Trump Regime - Lawyers, Guns & Money In May of 2022, the Department of Homeland Security tried to stand up a group to coordinate government anti-disinformation efforts. As Deepa Shivaram wrote at NPR, the “decision” resulted from a “coor...

"Now Wired — which has become indispensable and deserves your subscription dollars (🙏) — reports that DHS wants to create dedicated centers to mass monitor social-media in real time."

Hi dear bluesky… I have a long shot request… if any of you lives somewhat close to Lenox Hill/ midtown east and need a house sitter next week or the week after, please lmk. (Or if you are rich and just have a pied a terre or something, that works too, lol)

Me usually but I’m on mat leave 🫠

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.

“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.”

rip to an absolute legend

Same it’s so good 😭

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

Absolutely fascinating: www.404media.co/18-lawyers-c...

It's on my list!!

Highly recommended reading:

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.

so grateful to all the federal workers who spoke to us for story: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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

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.

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look' The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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.

More people should be talking about this.

Border patrol is patrolling the dangerous border between the Loop and... the other part of the Loop

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.

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.

The History of DOGE, as told by the people who lived 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.

"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.

so grateful to all the federal workers who spoke to us for story: 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.

NEW: 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...

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.

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...

DM me your email and I can PDF it for you!

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

I love this profile of @katmabu.bsky.social from @knibbs.bsky.social for the WIRED politics issue.

"Her candidacy is one truly of the moment, not just enmeshed with but fueled by the collision between internet culture and mainstream politics."

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

Throughout the summer, @wired.com reporter Kate Knibbs has been following our campaign.

From right-wing attacks to our mutual aid work to the 20 bottles of hot sauce in the campaign office, here’s what she saw: www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

ALL HAIL THE TECHNOCRACY Tech went all in on Trump this year. It's just the beginning.

and this is from our politics issue. check out more here: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE. An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

i finished the profile a few weeks ago, so couldn't include anything about what's gone down at the ICE protests in chicagoland, but she wrote about it at the new republic: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

Read @knibbs.bsky.social excellent profile of Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social and why she is "extremely" confident she's going to win...

www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

She Fought the Far Right Online for Years. Now She Wants to Do It in Congress Kat Abughazaleh, 26, made her name swatting down right-wing talking points on social media. Now she’s hoping internet fame can propel her to Congress.

We wanted to look at what seemed like a new generation of posters-to-politicians -- how well can they actually do in elections? So @knibbs.bsky.social spent time with @katmabu.bsky.social, one of the most prominent www.wired.com/story/kat-ab...

one element that surprised me—she's raised a lot of money so far, and *bluesky* is the campaign's biggest fundraising platform