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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today we are publishing the first of a series of data-driven stories about how Israeli checkpoints strangle life in the West Bank www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Samer @remas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Was out of town last week when this ran, but I thought @thefrankiedlc.news did a great job chronicling the premature demise of the Miami Sol: defector.com/the-miami-so...
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The Miami Sol's Needless Demise Provided A Familiar Lesson | Defector
For a brief period two decades ago, Miami was an amazing place to be a fan of women’s professional basketball. The team had a roster full of promise and reached the playoffs in their second season of ...
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/09/2026
Meet the new WIRED app: the best way to read, watch, and listen to our journalism. To celebrate this launch, we’re giving app users full, free access to WIRED for a limited time. All you need to do is create an account. buff.ly/H3Zt1a5
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Few rightly recognize one of the most important and pernicious impacts of 9/11: how it changed our society’s very understanding and relationship to facts and truth. My new @wired.com essay: www.wired.com/story/conspi...
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How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist
Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 03/09/2026
some fun news: i'm going to be writing a weekly column on everyone's favorite topic: DATA CENTERS i'll be taking over the @wired.com sunday newsletter from now until the midterms to yap about all things DCs it's going to be tons of fun (in MY opinion)!
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25/08/2026
some words on Soraya Roberts, the best writer i ever knew
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Soraya
I sat on the aisle at a movie the other day.
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Sam Spengler @samspengler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Over the last year, Philly has watched the stunning collapse of one of our most cherished music venues. For @phillymag.com, I decided to figure out exactly what went wrong. Welcome to World Cafe Live, metaverse edition: www.phillymag.com/news/2026/08...
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What the Hell Happened to World Cafe Live?
Walkouts. Resignations. Arrests. Lawsuits. Inside the spectacular unraveling of a beloved Philly institution.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Beanie Sigel! Freeway! AI! Psyched to finally get the dude @thefarmerjones.bsky.social on @phillymag.com:
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LeBron James’s Philly Connections Run Back Nearly 25 Years
The new Sixer first played in Philly in 2002, as a high school junior.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Step 1: Quietly put face recognition code on millions of phones Step 2: Insist that you could not possibly answer any questions about that face recognition feature because it "doesn't exist" Step 3: Have your CTO describe the face recognition in great detail on a podcast. from @couts.bsky.social
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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’
Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For the better part of a year, I've been looking into the night LaGuardia Airport was bombed. I'd appreciate it if you'd give it a read. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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It’s One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Cold Cases. But What Happened Next Is Almost a Worse Crime.
When I began contacting the survivors, they thought I was a prank caller.
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I had the incredible honor of interviewing the NYC porno public access queen Robin Byrd for @wired.com. We talked about her upcoming HBO doc, her LGBTQ advocacy, why Internet porn sucks. wearing boobs as a hat, and how she was inspired by Mister Rogers: www.wired.com/story/the-ro...
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Robin Byrd, the Sex Godmother of Millennials, Says the Internet Ruined Porn
The 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.
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Meghan Herbst @megherbst.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In which I give AI chatbots a fact checking test and find them sorely wanting. My latest for WIRED.
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AI Just Isn’t Right
Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Well here’s some news: Blazing Eye Sees All won the Oregon Book Award for nonfiction last night. A win for journalism, a win for never giving up. bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...
Leah Sottile stands at a podium reading a speech accepting the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction for her book Blazing Eye Sees All. The book cover is projected on a screen behind her.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It was a privilege to accept the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism with @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @timmarchman.bsky.social for @wired.com’s DOGE coverage last night! Our team uncovered a government takeover in real-time, and our reporting was unparalleled-an honor to have that recognized!
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Put @thewesternedge.bsky.social's reporting against any media outlet in our region over the past two months. We're just starting and I can't wait to share the great reporting we have coming over the next two months. If you can't subscribe, consider a donation toward our next records request. 🙏
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For @wired.com’s April cover, we take you inside Madison Square Garden’s surveillance machine — which has allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Revelatory work from @noahshachtman.bsky.social & @robertsilverman.bsky.social that I’m proud to publish and urge you to read.
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The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The genesis of this investigation (w/@regret.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social , @couts.bsky.social, @hudsongiles.bsky.social & @samspengler.bsky.social) was the winged insignia worn by Greg Bovino & several camouflaged Border Patrol agents thruout At Large, Midway Blitz & Metro Surge - BORTAC
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is a really beautiful story that goes places I did not expect when I first assigned it.
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The Forgotten Cemetery
A neglected North Philly graveyard. A vanished fortune. And a two-year quest to answer a single haunting question: What do we owe the dead?
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
SCOOP from me and @makenakelly.bsky.social: John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job If you're a government worker/contractor/etc and you want to talk, you can find me at Vittoria89.82 on Signal www.wired.com/story/john-s...
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John Solly Is the DOGE Operative Accused of Planning to Take Social Security Data to His New Job
A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
SCOOP: In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally. In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/they-h...
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They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts
The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.
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🧢 @abebeame.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com defector.com/lost-recipes
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Lost Recipes | Defector
In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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...
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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.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Remember that US attorney who was so burned out she asked to be held in contempt just so she could get some sleep? Here's @regret.bsky.social and @hudsongiles.bsky.social on just how far past the breaking point ICE has pushed the court system. www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...
A chart that shows habeas petitions cases in Minnesota incrasing dramatically in January 2026.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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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.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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.
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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...
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/02/2026
As Trump’s mass deportation program unfolds, immigration policy and enforcement is shifting fast. That’s why we’re launching Tracker, a limited-series newsletter navigating what’s happening and what’s next. Sign up for free: www.wired.com/newsletter/I...
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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.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A couple of us at the magazine were just talking about this. Dan wrote funny blogs, yes, but he also literally changed the course of conversation for an American icon.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Hi there, if you're in law enforcement, a legal observer, a government worker, or a tech worker and you're in MN/or have any info about what's happening now with ICE and law enforcement operations, you can reach me at Vittoria89.82. We can speak anonymously.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
NEW: A federal court ruling in Minnesota, which notes ICE agents broke the Fourth Amendment by entering a family's home sans warrant, lands as ICE faces scrutiny over a secret memo claiming their agents can enter homes w/ administrative paperwork alone.
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US Judge Rules ICE Raids Require Judicial Warrants, Contradicting Secret ICE Memo
The ruling in federal court in Minnesota lands as Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces scrutiny over an internal memo claiming judge-signed warrants aren’t needed to enter homes without consent.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When @opb.org ended Hush, even Harvard's Nieman Storyboard could see how short-sighted that was. After making four successful podcasts together, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are committed to continuing our investigative work in the Northwest, and we're launching our own publication. More soon.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/12/2025
ripcorp.biz/episodes/202... the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Masthead of SunDance magazine #3, 1972. A lot of future heavyweights in the world of journalism.
ART DIRECTOR: Ken Kelley
EDITOR: Craig Pyes
FEATURE EDITOR: David Weir
MANAGING EDITOR: Alison Weir
COPY EDITOR: Cheryl Bishop
DESIGN CONSULTANT: Bob Roth
POETRY EDITOR: Anne Waldman 
MUSIC EDITOR: Alec Dubro
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Detroit Annie. Gary Weineke
CONSULTING EDITOR: Abbie Hoffman
WANDERING HISTORIAN: Harvey Wasserman

BUSINESS
BUSINESS CONSULTANT: Charles Fracchia
ADVERTISING MANAGER: Jay Odell
OFFICE MANAGER: Aloma Sue
DISTRIBUTION MANAGER: Keith Wilson
BUSINESS STAFF: Tia Odell, Tamara Baltar, Sharon Murphy
PUBLICITY. Kathy Streem
ART STAFF: Joe DiVencenzo, Michael Hamilton, Carl Muecke Terry Taube, Good Times
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Wade Carey
FRONT AND BACK COVERS BY PHIL CARROLL
Contributing Editors: Frank Bardacke, Robert Bazell, Richard Boyle, Kate Coleman, Banning Garrett, Jeff Gerth, Todd Gitlin, Howard Kohn, Sandra Levinson, J. Marks, Harold Rossman, Robert Scheer, Walte
Shapiro, Allen Young.
Correspondents: Sandy Carter (Omaha), Izzy Cohen (erusalem), Claudia Dreifus (New York), Thomas Dupree (Atlanta), Bob Hartley (San Diego), Kenji Kanesaka (Tokyo), Mike Kazin (Portland), Tom Miller (Dallas), Abe Peck (Chicago, Jeff Nightbird (Houston), Clark Norton (Charlotte), Larry Werner (Louisville), Daniel Zwerdling (Washington, D.C.).
Special Thanks: Suzanne Allen, Mark Bramhall, Elliott Buckdrucker,
Alvin Duskin, Bob Fisher, Karen Freedman, Erik Ipsen, Dan Weinstein
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s officially time for end-of-year posts and I am honestly SO eager to brag about my brilliant colleagues at @wired.com. there are way too many people to talk about in the newsroom, but this wild, exhausting, and absolutely ridiculous year wouldn’t have happened without any of them!!
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Seth Wickersham @sethwickersham.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Rick Telander = stud
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Matt Giles @hudsongiles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Ugh, this is such a gut punch. @leahsottile.bsky.social is one of the best reporters I’ve ever worked with, and her reporting is more vital than ever.
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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"This is sacred work." Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America. magazine.atavist.com/2025/14445-a...
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14,445 and Counting - The Atavist Magazine
Inside a Texas nurse’s quest to document the life and death of every woman killed by a man in America.
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
WIRED is focused on reporting the forces shaping the most terrifying administration in a generation already plagued by terror wars, financial ruin, and a global pandemic. The best way to help us keep doing that today is to stay reading. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
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Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
ok what's next? let's just say after 10+ years in journalism this is the most excited and responsible i feel to contribute to something because i believe in it so much. beating out everyone else's coverage of ICE/tech/your privacy in this dystopia, @404media.co, its an honor to join your badass team
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Todd Feathers @toddfeathers.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
On one wall: A constantly updating dashboard with students' lesson completion rates and other metrics On the other: A shop of toys (at 6x markup) they can buy with Alpha bucks, earned by hitting learning quotas In the middle: 6 yos tapping silently away at laptops www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
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AI of a Thousand Faces
What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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!
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
It’s the weekend. We have a new podcast. You know what to do.
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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...
Logo for Hush podcast, featuring a photo of Sarah Zuber
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