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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸

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Retired public servant, historian, educator, father & staunch defender of the Constitution.

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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 8h
An important read here on just how much control Trump and his enablers are exercising over FBI and DOJ. THIS MIGHT BE A GREAT TIME FOR DEMS TO THROW DOWN AND LET ALL KNOWN IF THEY BREAK THE LAW FOR THE ORANGE CHIMP THEY WILL DEFINITELY BE PROSECUTED!!! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Capt Chris @capt-chris.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Mindset reset: Right now, brave Ukrainians are defending their land & loved ones, at the cost of their sanity, limbs & lives. It’s an existential fight for their democracy & way of life. If the Russians lose, they go home. If the Ukrainians lose, they will be overrun & destroyed. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Picture of a Ukrainian soldier with mud on his face with a Time-magazine style caption that reads “Person of the Year, Ukrainian Defenders.”
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump’s America. Brought to you by the former Republican Party.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
Big Tech wants us to subsidize the AI takeover too. This is exactly why we need guardrails. #GuardrailsForAI
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Texas peeps You may have recently registered and think it’s a done deal. Read the below. Urgently double check that you’re actually registered to vote. 👉🏾 Iwillvote.com 
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DHS announces nationwide surge in 'sanctuary' cities #TheHill
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DHS announces nationwide surge in 'sanctuary' cities
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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Adamson said she wasn't offered water until around the five-hour mark of her detainment, and no one asked whether she needed to use the bathroom.” CBP is interrogating more and more travelers, claiming they're attempting to vote illegally. Fascists love to scapegoat. #USDemocracy #MomSky #CdnPoli
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
American health care creates no incentive for pharma companies to cure diseases. When you cure a disease, the customers go away. There's no money in that. Curing patients is not a sustainable business model, per Goldman Sachs. news.slashdot.org/story/19/02/...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 27/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) , not President Donald Trump, will hold the power to sabotage a narrow midterm outcome, a political analyst warned.
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Trump's midterm 'sabotage' hinges on Mike Johnson passing up a lobbying payday: analyst
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), not President Donald Trump, will hold the power to sabotage a narrow midterm outcome, a political analyst warned.The Atlantic's conservative columnist David Frum, who was previously former President George W. Bush's speechwriter, made the case in a Saturday episode on "T...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Trump's ICE FORCES U.S. Citizens To SIGN DEPORTATION Papers!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#FreeSpeech News Hollywood Reporter reporting that YouTube, TikTok and Meta platforms are refusing to take even paid ads for Alex Gibney's documentary which takes a, let's say, sceptical and questioning view of Elon Musk's career, personality and alleged achievements. "Musk" opens on 9 October.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We have to prepare for the day when Donald Trump will permanently leave the White House. And, even more importantly, the day after that.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Post from The Onion - YouTube
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit https://theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-with-how-much-trumps-english-has-i...
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leaked docs reveal ominous plan to feed 'evidence' to GOP lawyers in post-election blitz #RawStory
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Leaked docs reveal ominous plan to feed 'evidence' to GOP lawyers in post-election blitz
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The United States government killed another innocent person.👇
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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DHS claims about noncitizen voters in Nevada completely collapse under scrutiny
Secretary Markwayne Mullin referenced 15,903 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The state checked and found the actual number was zero.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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US government foots bill for television advertisement featuring Trump's midterm messaging
An ad running on Fox News and Newsmax showing images of President Donald Trump and calling for the defeat of communism was paid for by the U.S. government.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Americans are frustratingly slow to anger. But when they finally get there, their anger is rightious. Anyone having anything to do with ICE, but especially the street goons, will have to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulder. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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From Austin to Boston, Americans are rising up against Trump’s ICE crackdown
Rachel Maddow tracks protests across the country after ICE shootings, reported detention abuses and Trump’s expanded deportation efforts.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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New reporting sheds light on unsettling reason Trump’s first ballroom architect quit
“L’État, c’est moi” is a phrase attributed to France’s King Louis XIV, and 370 years later, the gap between “I am the state” and “I am the code” is narrow.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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TRUMP TV - New Slate (Parody)
YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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DOJ delay tactics aim to advance Trump’s voter suppression schemes
The DOJ is deploying delay tactics in lawsuits to get Trump’s voter suppression schemes in place for the upcoming midterms.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Opinion | Donald Trump dreams of a beautiful police state
Trump saying snipers and drones will be deployed at his 250 foot tall triumphal arch in Washington perfectly meld his aesthetics and violence
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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From Austin to Boston, Americans are rising up against Trump’s ICE crackdown
Rachel Maddow tracks protests across the country after ICE shootings, reported detention abuses and Trump’s expanded deportation efforts.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Opinion | Susan Collins’ brush with an FBI probe shows how Trump has enabled public corruption
But there are clear ways for future presidents and lawmakers to end this era of graft.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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ICE mistakenly targets US citizen who was left injured on the ground in Chicago suburb, officials say | CNN
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents mistakenly detained a US citizen in a Chicago suburb Sunday morning, leaving him on the ground with various injuries, according to local authorities.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/core.... MAN RISKS HIS LIFE TO CALL ICE COPS FUCKING WHITE SUPREMACIST PIGS !
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The media has finally started showing some courage by boycotting Trump for whom attention is like oxygen. Now, every reporter needs to asking every Republican, Mike Johnson and the orange Chimp, if they are going to refuse to seat Democrats elect in the 120th Congress. Every time. Make it hurt!!!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An ICE agent claimed three men brutally beat him with a snow shovel for three minutes. He forgot about the city camera pointing right at him. What the tape caught—and the state felony trap Washington can't pardon him out of: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-dhs...
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Trump’s DHS Said Minnesota Couldn’t Arrest ICE Agents. Here’s The Booking Photo.
Also: four places moved to stop data centers last week, a court struck down the regime’s six-hour deportation rule, and thousands linked arms around the Kennedy Center
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump regime told migrants they were flying to Louisiana—then rerouted the plane to Africa mid-flight with six hours' notice. The scathing federal appeals court ruling that just killed the entire policy: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-dhs...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The FBI told its agents to freeze out local police to protect an ICE shooter. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty didn't care. The unpardonable state felony trap she just sprung on him: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-dhs...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DHS rushed out a press release painting an ICE agent as a hero. Eight months later, the tape leaked, the bullets were tracked, and state prosecutors dropped charges that carry hard prison time. The receipts they couldn't bury: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-dhs...
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Trump’s DHS Said Minnesota Couldn’t Arrest ICE Agents. Here’s The Booking Photo.
Also: four places moved to stop data centers last week, a court struck down the regime’s six-hour deportation rule, and thousands linked arms around the Kennedy Center
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
This is surprising and welcomed news
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
Buttigieg in Texas: Many Texas Democrats, and a lot of independents, and quite a few of what I'm fond of calling the future former Republicans, are fed up with the carnival of chaos and corruption going on in Washington and in Austin, and are ready to make change in just a few weeks.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This country is more broken than most realize.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I continue to read about the improving chances of Dems at least taking back the House. Great! What’s the plan when Mike Johnson refuses to swear in and seat the Dems under the guise of election fraud? They have been whispering about it in the halls for months. Insiders warned Judge Luttic. PLAN???
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Opinion | I was a volunteer observer in immigration court. These are the children I won’t forget.
Jill Fordyce: As the administration closes courthouse doors to observers and cuts off resources for legal representation, it is essential that we continue to show up.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The No Press Conference
YouTube video by Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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What Trump’s new ‘ban on the free press’ is really about
Fights over who gets into the Oval Office might seem like vanity, but they decide how much Americans get to see of their own government.
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Michael Ganis 🇺🇸 @bellassai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here is the final plan laid out in detail about the Republican plan to steal Democracy. They are calling it, “The Final Battle.” They will simply refuse to seat Democratic Representatives elect in the next Congress. Must watch and act. youtube.com/watch?v=sJ2X...
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Trump’s KIDNAP Plot of Dem House Seats EXPOSED by former Federal Judge to avoid another Jan 6th!!!
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The First Amendment would like a word.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“There were dogs and bikers; elders with gray hair and babies with no hair; people in Nationals jerseys and business casual attire (equally ubiquitous DC uniforms). Most wore one common item: a red pin that read, 'Hands Off the Arts'...” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’
The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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He worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.
A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort.
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