Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 06/10/2026Dr 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. 🧵 35229
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We're hosting a Q&A about Iran and the midterms, send us your questions!theguardian.comSend us your questions about how the Iran war will affect the US midtermsOur politics and foreign policy reporters will answer your questions live in a Q&A on Tuesday 6 October 112
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/09/2026When 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. 🧵 24720
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026When 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. 411170
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026Experts 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 ⬇️theguardian.comThree deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surgeThese men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign 22717
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026Public 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. 🧵 49252
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026For 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.theguardian.comGone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than everAfter public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere 5515295
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026But 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. 9446186
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026ICE 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. 22688455
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026Gone 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. 18836500
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026At 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. 🧵 54859522
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026Watch 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.youtu.beNAZA - official trailerYouTube video by The Guardian 1217150
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"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:theguardian.comGlobal release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZATheatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website 000
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"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."theguardian.com‘I’m afraid they’ll bomb the cafe where I work, or bomb me’: a day in the life of a 12-year-old boy in GazaRamadan, 12, works in a cafe on the beach. He remembers enjoying school, playing and family barbecues before life became about survival 000
Reposted by Jake WassermanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @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.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845982953
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"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."theguardian.comThe Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason | EditorialEditorial: Politicians who threaten filmmakers rather than investigate alleged military crimes expose not strength but a leadership frightened of the evidence 030
Reposted by Jake WassermanMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New — 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:thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 10182512699
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The 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 010
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We'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... 021
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/09/2026Q&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... 051
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026ICE 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. 🧵 741244789
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/08/2026Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’theguardian.comRFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate 15615
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026The 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. 🧵 1614699
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026people aren't ready to talk about the battleship Potemkin 100
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We may not have Brown Shirts in America, but we do have Brown Shorts 010
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My colleague José Olivares's series 'Force-fed by ICE' is revelatory and horrifying 04219
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026“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.”theguardian.comAbandoned by the US: Palestinian Americans trapped in a surge of Israeli settler violenceAfter visits by US ambassador Mike Huckabee to the nearby Israeli settlement of Shilo, Palestinian Americans in Turmus Ayya have witnessed a terrifying rise in attacks 010
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026"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."theguardian.comDon’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John WashingtonI’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities 484152997382
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026You 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) 131
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026An 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… 🧵 18532731613
Reposted by Jake WassermanRebecca Leber @rebleber.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c... 14335138
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/07/2026Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, said ‘dehumanizing’ treatment reminded him of time spent in Israeli military jailtheguardian.comMuslim leader speaks out after more than 80 days in ICE detention: ‘It brought back memories from Palestine’ 35532
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Very excited to be running this AMA today, please join us and drop questions in the comments! 054
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/07/2026Join @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. 22316
Reposted by Jake WassermanLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 07/07/2026hey 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! 122376
Reposted by Jake WassermanEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The 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...nj.comDelaney Hall’s air conditioning goes out during N.J.’s worst heat wave in 15 yearsAir conditioning failed at Delaney Hall during a major heat wave, prompting concerns for detainees as advocates cite ongoing complaints and inspection disputes. 471086737
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/06/2026Progressive supporters of mayor celebrate as former city comptroller’s critical approach to Israel helps defeat incumbent congressman Dan Goldman in primarytheguardian.com‘Glorious time to be a New Yorker’ as Lander’s win highlights Mamdani effect 0548
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/06/2026Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facilitytheguardian.com‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison 13526
Reposted by Jake WassermanChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 23/06/202630 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 451994901
Jake Wasserman @jacobhwasserman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Very excited to be running this AMA on voting rights and post-Callais gerrymandering today. Join us!! 020
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/06/2026Join 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!reddit.comFrom the politics community on Reddit: We are Adria R. Walker and Fabiola Cineas, reporters at The Guardian US. Ask us anything about voting rights in the South!Explore this post and more from the politics community 062
Reposted by Jake WassermanLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 28/05/2026days 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.comtheguardian.com‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own wordsOrganizers rally outside Delaney Hall, facing violent clashes with agents, as over 300 detainees are on hunger strike 81277564
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/05/2026Federal agents deployed chemical irritants on protesters and journalists outside the Delaney Hall detention facility. See the scene in pictures from Newark, New Jersey:theguardian.comChaos breaks out at New Jersey immigration detention center – in picturesFederal agents deployed chemical irritants on protesters and journalists amid detainees’ hunger and labor strike 3209
Reposted by Jake WassermanGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 27/05/2026Protests 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.theguardian.com‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jailA day after ICE officials pepper-spray senator, tensions ramp up outside facility on fifth day of hunger and labor strike 24273153