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Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

This wasn’t a tragedy of one bad decision.
It was the predictable outcome of reckless planning, lethal escalation, and leaders who refuse accountability.
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Murder in Minneapolis: The Parents of the Crime

Essay 4: How leadership turned a killing into doctrine.

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January 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

An ICE agent breaks his own training, a woman dies, and the right’s first instinct is to sneer at the victim and sanctify the shooter. This is what a loyalty cult looks like.
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Murder in Minneapolis, Esssay 3, the MAGA Response

How the Right Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Narrative

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January 12, 2026 at 1:16 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

An ICE agent breaks his own training, a woman dies, and the right’s first instinct is to sneer at the victim and sanctify the shooter. This is what a loyalty cult looks like.
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Murder in Minneapolis, Esssay 3, the MAGA Response

How the Right Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Narrative

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January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

ICE didn’t just lower its standards — it abolished them, building a force unprepared for restraint, judgment, or accountability. The result? Murder in Minneapolis.
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Murder in Minneapolis, Essay 2: ICE Recruitment and the Machinery of Incompetence

How Fast-Track Hiring, Dodged Standards, and Pay-to-Play Bonuses Built a Force Ill-Prepared to Protect or Serve

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January 11, 2026 at 7:33 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

They condemned her before anyone saw the videos. ICE says self-defense, the footage says otherwise. Our first of four essays breaks down what actually happened in Minneapolis and why public trust matters more than ever.
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Murder in Minneapolis - How ICE Turned a City Street into an Execution Zone

The lies that followed the killing in Minneapolis tell us more than the shooting itself

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January 10, 2026 at 5:12 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

A 37-year-old woman was shot in the head by an ICE agent, left to bleed in her car, and then slandered as a “violent rioter.” This essay dissects the lie—and the machine behind it.
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Murder in Minneapolis

How ICE Turned a City Street into an Execution Zone — with impunity.

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January 8, 2026 at 4:36 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

The White House turned January 6 into a taunt. Trump’s communications director calls it a “trap.” Adults call it disgrace.
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The White House’s January 6 Website and Trump: The Eternal Infant

Turning the Capitol attack into a schoolyard taunt.

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January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Trump grabs Maduro. Facebook cheers like it’s a movie. But war isn’t 2hrs + credits. Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan taught us that.
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Venezuela, the Movie: Trump, Maduro, and the Facebook Mind

How social media turns geopolitics into useless 7-word arguments.

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January 6, 2026 at 4:26 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Seventy-four words. That’s all it took for Trump to announce a war, kidnap a sitting head of state, and shred 80 years of international norms.
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Regime Change by Tweet: Trump’s War on Venezuela

Seventy-Four words to announce a war, kidnap a head of state, and shred 80 years of international norms

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January 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Trump promised "America First.” Instead, we're getting American Imperialism: Power, not permission, is now the currency of legitimacy. open.substack.com/pub/brucemai...

Trump’s Venezuela Operation and the Collapse of Restraint

How “Law Enforcement” became a pretext for war

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January 4, 2026 at 7:02 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

The Epstein files were supposed to bring transparency.
Instead, we got black ink, blank pages, and a Justice Department warning us not to trust what it released.
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The Epstein Files: Where Things Stand Now

What the black ink tells us about power, protection, and a broken promise of transparency.

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January 3, 2026 at 5:04 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

A falcon in Israel in 2017 becomes a presidential warning about eagles and windmills in 2025. Welcome to the Trump presidency: absurd, reckless, and deadly serious in its distraction.
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Trump, Tilting at Windmills, Yet Another Clueless Blunder

How does one man get literally everything so spectacularly wrong — and never learn?

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January 1, 2026 at 10:41 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Social media Influencers — a billion-dollar industry around people whose main talent is self-promotion on a smartphone. The result? Vapid allegations without verification that shape policy and public perception, while eroding civic responsibility. open.substack.com/pub/brucemai...

The Dangers of Social Media Influencers

How manipulated narratives and viral outrage hollow out discourse and democracy

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January 1, 2026 at 4:12 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

A 23-year-old’s viral video on Minneapolis day cares caused a media uproar. No charges. No proof. Just outrage. My essay dissects the “influencer plague” and why we still need to fact-check even our mothers’ love. Read before you rage.
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The Alleged Minneapolis Day Care Scandal

Reflections on a viral day-care fraud video, the rush to judgment, and the influencer plague.

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December 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

America after Trump isn’t a thought experiment—it’s a reckoning. What would real recovery look like?https://open.substack.com/pub/brucemaiman/p/america-after-trump?r=2e7owr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

December 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

How Stephen Miller’s smug “tweet” exposes an ignorance and arrogance unworthy of power or influence.
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Stephen Miller and the Betrayal of the American Ideal

How a nativist's tweet reveals his war on the immigrant story that made America

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December 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

If you thought Ted Cruz was the pinnacle of political shapeshifting, wait till you meet his younger, slicker clone.
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Best overall:Ted Cruz, and Ted Cruz: The Sequel

Two Chameleons, One Throne

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December 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

GDP grew 4.3%. Commerce Sec Lutnick: 'That means ALL Americans earn 4.3% more.'
Um… not even close. New essay unpacks the delusion — and why people share headlines they never read.
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Donald Trump's 4.3% Delusion

How a Headline Became a Victory Lap for People Who Didn’t Read It

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December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Trump’s Christmas wish list just dropped: Annex Greenland. Appointed a sinking-state governor as envoy. Denmark’s response? Pure Scandinavian shade.
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Trump's Christmas Wish: Annex Greenland

Or, How to Lose Friends, Alienate Danes, and Everyone Else.

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December 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Bluster isn’t policy, ego isn’t a strategy, and nostalgia doesn’t pay the bills. The Trump economy, one year in.
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The Trump Economy: Liberation Day and Other Fairy Tales

How Bluster, Debt, and Broken Alliances Are Bankrupting America’s Future.

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December 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

The Trump Who Stole Christmas (an appropriate parody)

December 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

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The Trump Who Stole Christmas

Parody lyrics for a political Grinch

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December 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

The MAGA succession war has gone public at AmericaFest. Meet the pathetic parade of egos auditioning for Trump's throne.
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The Rogues' Gallery Assembles: MAGA's Succession Heist at AmericaFest.

Meet the Pretenders to the Throne

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December 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM

Bruce Maiman

@maimzini.bsky.social

Anne Applebaum called the administration’s new foreign policy “The Longest Suicide Note in American History.” She’s right, but it’s worse than that: gunboat cosplay, civilizational delusion, and self-sabotage on steroids.
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