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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 2d

Words I never thought I’d read: “we’ve sold through the initial printing of your hardcovers.” More copies of Blazing Eye Sees All are being printed as we speak! Thanks to everyone who has supported this book!

Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · Mar 25

Out today: Blazing Eye Sees All, my investigation into the wide spiritual world of the New Age. It is an unintentional story of extremism, feminism, climate change, deception, power, myth and the very nature of believing. I hope you read it.

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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 15d

It’s the weekend. We have a new podcast. You know what to do.

Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 18d

Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her?

Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 18d

Why was 18-year-old Sarah Zuber found dead 400 feet from her front door? And how is it possible, six years later, that no one knows what happened to her?

Hush, Season 2, "Love Thy Neighbor" — my investigation with @ryanjhaas.bsky.social — starts today.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Laura Bullard @laurabullard.bsky.social · 26d

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

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

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Daniella @daniellamazzio.bsky.social · 26d

Have I ever said that I think THE INSIDER is the greatest movie ever made? Well, for my In Review Online debut, I write about the movie's relevant understanding of journalism's capitulating limitations and how those themes are elevated by Mann's signatures.

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Wool Over Our Eyes: The Enduring Relevance of Michael Mann's The Insider | In Review Online

A film criticism essay on The Insider (1999), directed by Michael Mann, for film review site In Review Online.

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · Sep 24

Babe, wake up. It's 1 p.m, first of all, and second of all...

HUSH SEASON 2 TRAILER JUST DROPPED.

‘Hush’: Season 2 trailer

Season two of "Hush" covers the case of Sarah Zuber, who died 400 feet from her front door in 2019. Despite living in a small community, police have been unable to figure out what happened to her.

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · Aug 6

NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show that FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism --- so as to align with "current administration priorities."

read @mollytaft.com:

Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority

Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with "current administration priorities."

www.wired.com

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · Jul 23

Today, we're launching a new, improved subscription to give our fans more of the @wired.com they love. It includes:

- Five exclusive, subscriber-only newsletters

- Livestreams to connect with our journalists

- A new commenting experience + more

It's been a remarkable year so far. A look back: 🧵

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · Jul 21

Friday was my last day at WIRED. Today I started a new job at Bloomberg on a dream desk with @suryamattu.com and @jeffykao.bsky.social.

Got a tip? A dataset? Something we should look at? Find me on Signal at dmehro.89

In no particular order, here’s some stuff I’d like to continue to dig in to:

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · Jul 17

Scoop! We got the agreement between ICE and Medicaid to share sensitive data with ICE agents. @leahfeiger.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...

ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data

A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Jun 4

I'm blown away by this review in The American Scholar. It likens THEY POISONED THE WORLD to Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING, which ignited the modern environmental movement, and goes on to call my book a "masterly exposé" & "critical reading for us all."
#PFAS theamericanscholar.org/sticking-wit...

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · Jul 10

NEW: Meet DOGE 2.0

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:

This Is DOGE 2.0

Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government.

www.wired.com

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Matt Giles @hudsongiles.bsky.social · Jul 10

One of my favorite pieces to fact check at @wired.com, involving polo, billionaires, scouring YouTube for old matches at the Campo Argentino del Polo & thousands of pages of court documents and trial transcripts. Plus, being able to work with @mattreynolds.bsky.social.

Matt Reynolds @mattreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 10

My final piece for @wired.com

A story of biotech and betrayal, based on thousands of court documents, depositions, testimony and interviews.

Featuring an Argentine polo star, a Texas oilman and an exiled Russian billionaire. Oh, and lots and lots of cloned horses.

www.wired.com/story/clonin...

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.

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WIRED @wired.com · Jul 2

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped. www.wired.com/story/insure...

With RFK Jr. in Charge, Insurers Aren’t Saying If They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids If Government Stops Recommending Them

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board could stop recommending some routine childhood immunizations, leaving insurers to decide whether to still cover them. For now, most are remaining tight-lipped.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 25

Beautiful stuff from @attackerman.bsky.social.

www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

But me? As a 45-year old native Brooklynite who is raising his children here? I've waited my whole life for this. Every hour of the long, long 24 years since 9/11 in particular, I've waited. For long, gloomy periods of my life I convinced myself something like this just wasn't possible. But if we organize, we can win.

As Mamdani put it in his victory speech, it is time for the city of New York "to stop Donald Trump's fascism."

It's just getting started. It's a long way to November, and whatever comes after. But after the long, dark midnight of 9/11, if you squint hard enough, dawn is breaking.

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Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social · Jun 18

“When the battle’s playing out on a hundred fronts at once, we have to remember that there’s no single court ruling, no existential moment, no single referendum on ‘transgender rights’ that’ll decide how this struggle will go.”
Jules Gill-Peterson in @wired.com [email protected]
www.wired.com/story/histor...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · May 30

It's hard to overstate how extremist a policy Remigration is:

1 - Mass deportation of all illegal migrants
2 - Deportation of legal migrants see as a burden on society
3 - Deportation of citizens who have not assimilated

The aim? To create white Christian ethnostates

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

The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’ to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country

"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · May 29

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals.

www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · May 22

For 7 years, Akasha Song ran secret labs that produced tens of millions of doses of DMT—one of the world's most potent psychedelic substances—and made a fortune selling it on the dark web.

His story, in this 13,000-word piece, is one of the wildest I've ever told: www.wired.com/story/rise-f...

🧵👇

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · May 6

Today is the day! After eight long years, They Poisoned the World, is out. The book interweaves the moving story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic global crisis with a deep investigation of one the most brazen cover-ups in corporate history. 1/

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · May 4

WOAH. A new review in The Washington Post calls They Poisoned the World “riveting and horrifying,” a “deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time,” and “a book that none of us can afford to miss.” I'm beside myself...
#PFAS @CrownPublishing wapo.st/42VKsTl

Review | Chemical makers knew the harms. It didn’t matter.

In “They Poisoned the World,” investigative journalist Mariah Blake writes about the campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals.

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · Apr 22

NEW: DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at the Department of Health and Human Services -- this is *a lot.* In at least one instance, access appeared to be granted without proper security training.

from me, @hudsongiles.bsky.social, @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To

Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.

www.wired.com

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Apr 21

I'm so grateful to Booklist for this amazing starred review and for really getting what my book is all about. @crownpublishing.bsky.social #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

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Matt Giles @hudsongiles.bsky.social · Apr 21

Um…totally feel the same!

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · Apr 5

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data.

Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner.

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

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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