Tana Ganeva

New York

Freelance Reporter at Freelance

Journalist, prisons, immigration, criminal justice

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Opinion | Naloxone saves lives. The Trump administration may cut funding for it.

1 week ago | msnbc.com | Tana Ganeva

At a Cabinet meeting in late April, Attorney General Pam Bondi lavishly praised Donald Trump for saving 75% of the American populace. “Since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills — 3,400 kilos of fentanyl,” she gushed. Turning to the cameras, she added that the seizures “saved — are you ready for this, media?
Texas Jail Staff Laughed as Army Vet Choked and Died, Lawsuit Says

2 weeks ago | theappeal.org | Tana Ganeva

According to a wrongful death lawsuit, staff at the Angelina County Jail stood by as 33-year-old Glenn Smallwood vomited and died in front of them. On the night of June 16, 2023, police officers in Lufkin, Texas, approached 33-year-old Glenn Smallwood. He was shirtless, on his hands and knees, and appeared to be scratching at something on the sidewalk.
Marco Rubio's grandfather was literally an "illegal alien"

1 month ago | tanag.substack.com | Tana Ganeva

Yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio (it feels so weird to say that—“Little Marco” looks like his Dad took him to the office and let him sit behind the desk and doodle) announced he’s revoking the visas of South Sudan passport holders.
Opinion | Trump claims tariffs will stop fentanyl. The facts say otherwise.

2 months ago | msnbc.com | Tana Ganeva

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has thrown global markets into turmoil with tariff threats, which he seems to alter depending in part on world leaders’ ability to coddle him. After Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke with Trump on Thursday and persuaded him to postpone a tax on goods from Mexico, Trump lavishly praised her.
Opinion | Trump claims tariffs will stop fentanyl. The facts say otherwise.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Tana Ganeva

As part of the 'Border Operation', a convoy of the Mexican National Guard installs a checkpoint on Juarez Avenue to check vehicles seeking to cross the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on February 07, 2025. The agents are one block from the Paso del Norte international bridge, where they check the trunks of some vehicles and ask drivers for information before entering the border port from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso.
BBC: "Deeply unacceptable" to show Palestinians as human.

2 months ago | tanag.substack.com | Tana Ganeva

Ed note: If you never want to sleep again read this round-up by Radley Balko of every outrageous thing the Trump admin has done in 5 days with the help of the rich guy who, don’t you think looks like Dwight from The Office? Must suck for someone so concerned about good genes. Anyway, every day I read the news until my eyes bleed and I still only knew like 30% of this.
Suicidal Psychopathy.

Feb 9, 2025 | tanag.substack.com | Tana Ganeva

“Can I just ask you … not to get into politics, but do you think the AfD will win?” I asked my cousin at lunch, in a furtive whisper—I’d been warned to stay away from politics. There’s the proverbial crank right-wing Uncle at the table and my Mom had warned me to shut up to keep the peace. “Yes,” my cousin said without doubt. His wife, who is German, concurred, even though AfD still lags behind the Christian Democrat party in polls. They both grimaced. Thankfully they were against this outcome.
People Who Use Drugs Among Victims of Trump's Foreign-Aid Assault

Feb 7, 2025 | filtermag.org | Tana Ganeva

On January 30, employees at SANPUD (South African Network of People Who Use Drugs) received a letter informing them that they’d soon get their last paychecks. The organization, which worked with fellow nonprofit TB HIV Care, had been forced to halt operations—part of a global freeze imposed on groups receiving United States humanitarian aid.
What actual resistance looks like: RIP Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez.

Jan 23, 2025 | tanag.substack.com | Tana Ganeva

Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, a pivotal member of the Rainbow Coalition, has died. Not the Jesse Jackson Rainbow Coalition. The truly revolutionary union of Black Panthers, the Young Lords—a Puerto Rican group spearheaded by Jimenez—and the Young Patriots, poor whites from the South, in the 1960s. The groups set aside their differences, rightly observing that their differences didn’t mean much in the face of commonalities like poverty and the Chicago cops bashing their skulls in.
What happened to #resistance?

Jan 22, 2025 | tanag.substack.com | Tana Ganeva

When Trump got elected in 2016 liberals lost their minds. The pussy hat protests, everyone on cable melting down every 1 minute. Unprecedented! Democracy dies in Darkness! (Democracy dies when Jeff Bezos buys it). I was at some media party and some of the most financially and socially privileged people in the history of the world were melodramatically fretting that as journalists they’d be rounded up and sent to camps.

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Tana Ganeva @TanaGaneva

11 May 25

This drab little sentence is actually so evil. Something I heard once about the banality of something? "More than 50,000 Palestinians have died, according to the Gaza health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths."

Tana Ganeva @TanaGaneva

10 May 25

Ah Taibbi. *IF* there really was nothing but the op-ed" there was a gov't lawyer at her hearing don't you think he'd have brought up the something worse?