I can’t recommend reading & supporting The Guardian highly enough. Read the opening several paragraphs of their “Saturday Edition” newsletter, below. This is a news organization that’s not using euphemism to sugarcoat what’s happening.
I’m Betsy Reed, and I lead the US edition of the Guardian. Our US newsroom, which now consists of more than 100 journalists with offices in New York, DC, and LA, reports on America from a global perspective for readers all over the world. Here’s what we covered this week in Trump’s America.
On Monday morning, President Trump declared at a White House press conference that Washington DC had been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals” – a typical flourish untethered from reality – and announced he would seize control of the city’s police force. By Tuesday night, national guard troops were patrolling the otherwise quiet streets of the US capital. As columnist Moustafa Bayoumi put it, the president’s takeover was straight out of a fascist playbook.
As we’ve learned over the past seven-plus months, Trump’s transformation of politics into theater creates dramatic scenes that are sometimes banal or absurd, but all too often turn brutal and even deadly.
Students, professors, journalists, military officers, scientists, doctors, federal workers and lawyers have all found themselves in the administration’s crosshairs – but those most directly and viciously targeted have been immigrants.
After our recent exclusive report found that people with no criminal convictions are being targeted for arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), on Wednesday the Guardian reported that a New Zealand woman with a US visa has been in Ice detention with her six-year-old son for the past three weeks. Also this week, we published the final installment of our three-part series revealing how Trump has turned to private prisons with records of inmate abuse to jail immigrants. Amid this climate of fear, as these private prison firms reap “extraordinary” revenues, our reporters are documenting how immigrants’ lives have shrunk and dimmed.
And that’s just on politics and current events; their coverage of sports, entertainment, lifestyle, etc. is excellent, too. It’s not paywalled, but it is reader-supported. And worth every penny.
