Jake Wasserman

"Many people prefer to believe the brutes and the sadists are responsible, largely because they are not like 'us,'" writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. "But modern genocide is the product of the technocrats, bureaucrats and cold planners of extermination, who don’t get their hands dirty."

Dr Norma Bowe, 69, is a nurse and grandmother who was working at her mobile medical clinic outside Delaney Hall immigration center in New Jersey when protests broke out there in May. An ICE officer flung her to the ground while she was still wearing her stethoscope. 🧵

We're hosting a Q&A about Iran and the midterms, send us your questions!

When federal agents fatally shot the US citizen protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis in January during the nation’s largest immigration-enforcement operation ever, it marked a turning point for the second Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. 🧵

When the documentary NAZA premiered this month, it sent shockwaves across the globe. Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, NAZA is a haunting exposé of the tools that the Israeli military uses to carry out the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

Experts fear that ICE involved deaths are going to continue rising. “What’s the red line? For policymakers, for states, for companies – at what time does this become indefensible or unsustainable?” asked Andrew Free, a former immigration attorney. Read the full story ⬇️

Public backlash against ICE climaxed after the January 2026 fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minneapolis. Since then, stealthier arrest operations have fueled enforcement that is quieter but just as ruthless. The 24 hours between the mornings of July 13-14 stand out as exceptionally deadly. 🧵

For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.

But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. It will be released in cinemas in more than 50 countries in the coming weeks, and then will stream on the Guardian’s website, for free.

"After its run in cinemas, the film will stream in late November on the Guardian’s website, for free, as part of the news organization’s commitment to the dissemination of independent journalism." I got to see NAZA this week, it's essential viewing. I hope you will watch it as well:

"Sometimes, we used to make kites and fly them, but they started bombing children who flew them. The other day, they bombed three children’s kites, so I stopped making them."

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

"A democracy that values life would at least investigate the film’s claims. Instead Israel’s government, which says it is committed to democratic accountability, is attacking journalists."

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

The solution to fascism is essentially planetary-scale Bundism "Here where we live is our country" becomes "here where we live is our planet" when every human is treated as inferior machine grist by the end timers

We're running a politics Q+A today! Come join us at noon ET with your questions about the rise of the left, affordability politics and more before the midterms in... (oh god *checks notes*)... just under 7 weeks! www.theguardian.com/community/li...

Q&A: Our political reporters take your questions on the state of the Democrats, the party’s moderate and leftwing candidates and key races to watch. Drop your questions and join us live at 12pm (EDT) on 16 September: www.theguardian.com/communi...

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵

Met a humpback whale today

Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’

The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily. 🧵

Name's a bit on the nose, no?

We may not have Brown Shirts in America, but we do have Brown Shorts

My colleague José Olivares's series 'Force-fed by ICE' is revelatory and horrifying

“If we were a Jewish Israeli American family who they had tried to burn alive, the American ambassador would have been here in two hours. But I haven’t been contacted.”

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

You can pry the broken down explanatory news thread from my cold dead hands (this is the first I’ve written in years that has really taken off lol)

An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵

Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, said ‘dehumanizing’ treatment reminded him of time spent in Israeli military jail

Very excited to be running this AMA today, please join us and drop questions in the comments!

Join @lexmcmenamin.com and @samrlevine.bsky.social for an AMA today at 2pm ET on Reddit's r/politics about the Prairieland case, where Texas anti-ICE protesters were sentenced to 450 years in prison.

hey folks! tomorrow at 2 pm ET, I'll be doing an AMA on r/politics about the Prairieland case in North Texas, the questions it raises for the First Amendment, and how it targeted trans folks. my colleague Sam Levine, who attended the trial, is participating too. bring your questions!

The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...

Progressive supporters of mayor celebrate as former city comptroller’s critical approach to Israel helps defeat incumbent congressman Dan Goldman in primary

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Very excited to be running this AMA on voting rights and post-Callais gerrymandering today. Join us!!

Join us for an Ask Me Anything session on r/politics about voting rights in the South with reporters @adriawalkr.bsky.social and @fabiolacineas.bsky.social today at 12pm ET/11am CT!

days into a hunger and labor strike of hundreds detained in GEO Group-run Delaney Hall, people inside report beatings, rotten food, crumbling facilities, and denied medical care. protesters and organizers outside are confronting ICE in the Newark street. talked to a few about it: @us.theguardian.com

subtle.

Federal agents deployed chemical irritants on protesters and journalists outside the Delaney Hall detention facility. See the scene in pictures from Newark, New Jersey:

Protests against immigration enforcement at a facility where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike erupted in fresh violence on Tuesday night as federal officers sprayed chemicals and charged demonstrators outside the jail in New Jersey.