David Gilbert

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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.

“MAGA media is a personality cult that revolves around the president’s whims, and the closer a right-wing commentator is to power, the more likely they are to follow Trump’s directives and talk about anything else,” @mattgertz.bsky.social

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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

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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.

NEW:

MAGA supporters are very angry about the lack of arrests over Epstein—to the point one Trump supporter went to Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and can of fuel.

But rather than blaming Trump, they's blaming figures like Bannon, Bondi and Kash Patel

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Incredible....

As Tommy Robinson continues to tour America and meet up with prominent figures on the far-right, here's another example of just how intertwined the extremist movements on both sides of the Atlantic have become

(Jared Taylor heads up the white supremacist American Renaissance group)

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

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DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

DHS now has a $1 billion tab with Palantir

Another incredible scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

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Within minutes of Prince Andrew being arrested, the conspiracy channels are lighting up with speculation that he a "scapegoat", will "be dead within a few weeks" and is proof that the "whole country is satanically fuelled on black magic kabbalah secret society occultism."

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Last week, we reported that Elon Musk was likely violating US sanctions by allowing Iranian leaders to pay for blue checkmarks.

X quietly removed the checkmarks and now Iranian lawmakers are pissed because parody accounts are impersonating them

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Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

The Trump admin is threatening Iran with military action, and Elon Musk has vocally supported Iranian protesters.

Meanwhile, X appears to be providing dozens of Iranian officials and agencies with paid premium accounts -- giving them a social media bullhorn and potentially violating US sanctions.

X did not respond to our requests for comment about Elon Musk allegedly violating US sanctions on Iran.

But within hours of us contacting them, they began removing blue checkmarks from the accounts we flagged.

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Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

“By failing to take basic steps to enforce our sanctions, the Trump Administration continues to undermine our national security and the integrity of the financial system,”

— @warren.senate.gov tells WIRED about Elon Musk

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Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

EXCLUSIVE

Last month, Elon Musk publicly claimed to support the protesters in Iran

But a new @ttp-updates.bsky.social report shows how X appears to have been violating US sanctions by allowing dozens of Iranian government accounts subscribe to its Premium service

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ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans; Palantir Employees’ Ethical Concerns; AI Assistants Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · 02/12/2026 · 37m

New Uncanny Valley pod up today! Come listen to me, @brbarrett.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social talk about ICE's expansion plans, AI bots taking over your life, Palantir, and our undying love for the Olympics. Wherever you get your podcasts!

I asked TPUSA about this and they said there are no plans for Erica Kirk to visit Belfast or for TPUSA to hold an event there....

FYI subscribe as @wired.com under @katie-drummond.bsky.social is killing it

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

ICE has secretly secured leases at over 150 locations in nearly ever state in the US as it races to expand its footprint.

Read @leahfeiger.bsky.social's incredible scoop about how the campaign came about, efforts to keep it a secret and where ICE is going next

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US federal contractor hired white supremacist leader for wildfire relief Ian Michael Elliott of neofascist Patriot Front worked ‘crisis relief missions’ funded by Department of Agriculture

“How a prominent white supremacist leader came to work for a federal security contractor is unclear.”

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RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

• A doc sued for prescribing a debunked autism therapy
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits

This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research

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RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

“We’ve fought so hard to protect our community, but they want to experiment on us. We are guinea pigs. When you are autistic, like me, and a mother to autistic children, I see this as a way to end us. That's what it is.” autism activist Fiona O'Leary

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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.

Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs “I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user.

Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs

Another excellent scoop from my @wired.com colleague @telliotter.bsky.social

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The Oireachtas Media Committee 🔔

Alan Kelly notes the “disrespect” shown by X in refusing to attend but also takes aim at the “bizarre” and “worrying” conditions requested by other social platforms - he says at least one company said “if three of the four platforms attend, we’ll be there”.

Tracker Newsletter: ICE in Focus As federal agents carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation, this limited-series newsletter will track what’s happening and what’s coming next.

It can be hard to keep up with EVERYTHING that the Trump admins is doing—and planning to do—right now with ICE and Border Patrol around the US

So @wired.com created the ICE Tracker newsletter to ensure you know exactly what's happening....and it's FREE

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Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti’s Killing Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti’s killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it.

"Pretti did this to himself.”

Right-wing gun nuts are doing some impressive mental gymnastics to blame Alex Pretti for his own death.

They are also excusing Trump's gun comments that appear to undermine their own gun rights....

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

"Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority."

Superb reporting from @adamserwer.bsky.social

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