The Trump Administration’s second attempt at a compact on higher education once again asks universities to be vegan while eating more steak. Be ideologically neutral, but support the “America First” agenda. www.ed.gov/media/docume...
Michael Kagan
@michaelgkagan.bsky.social
Law prof in Las Vegas | Bagel expert, with a sub-specialty in pickles | UNLV Immigration Clinic Director | Private chef to my kids | Mets fan | Speaking for myself only | https://www.michaelgkagan.com | https://behindtheborder.substack.com
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
None of the Burke Law Group’s lawyers list immigration law as an area of expertise, per the firm’s website.
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How easy would it be for @scholasticalr.bsky.social to add another checked box or three (along with the three we already check) to deal with AI disclosures? Answer: Easy. If one were concerned about the homogeneity of submissions to law reviews, that would be one way to do it.
New from Strength In Numbers: Trump’s immigration agenda and esp deportation operation is unpopular in every swing state — including Maine, where Susan Collins is trying to moderate on ICE www.gelliottmorris.com/p/even-repub...
A Phoenix man from Egypt has spent the last three months confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after ICE deported him there without warning. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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A reminder of what Abraham Lincoln thought of the Know Nothings, the party that championed "heritage Americans" and attacked immigrants in his day. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
HUGE NEWS (and good news IMHO)
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d agoBREAKING: The 9th Circuit has rejected ICE's unprecedented mass detention policy — the 5th striaght appellate loss for the Trump administration and perhaps the most significant, covering California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, among others. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
The fact that the Democratic Party has only a 51 approval among Democrats is ... something (extremely important to remember when interpreting other polling data and general dynamics and discourses in American politics right now)
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.Democratic Party Approval: All: Disapprove: 67% Approve: 23% Among Democrats: Approve: 51% Disapprove: 38% Among Independents: Disapprove: 70% Approve: 17% Quinnipiac / July 27, 2026
The ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
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For the historians, would this be America’s third Red Scare? What’s the official count?
Is this what they call a “big tent party”
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2w agoMichigan school board official Angie Smith says she’s supporting Haley Stevens because she thinks Stevens will represent everyone and “not just one race." "Don’t come out speaking only Arabic, don’t come out with your Arabic music on.” Video from reporter Sam Robinson:
I guess any day without the government demanding lists of Jews and threats to journalists is a day that could be worse?
2/ Same day as this: Trump Administration Drops Subpoena Demanding List of Jews From Penn www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
Trump Administration Drops Subpoena Demanding List of Jews From Penn
For more than a year, the Trump administration pressed the university for records about antisemitism complaints and a list of campus groups involved with Judaism.
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"Under heavy pressure from a federal judge, prosecutors agreed on Thursday to unilaterally withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters. The move followed sharp grilling about prosecutors’ actions ... The government called the subpoenas to reporters’ family members a 'mistake.'" 1/
BREAKING: Feds withdraw NYT subpoenas into reporting on Qatar-gifted jet
The government called the subpoenas to reporters' family members an “error.”
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88 percent of ICE detainees nationally are men. In Nevada, it's 97 percent. open.substack.com/pub/behindth...
I am tired of living inside a dystopian novel open.substack.com/pub/migranti...
Kalshi Wants You to Bet on How Many People ICE Abducts Today
A CFTC filing obtained by Migrant Insider shows the exchange quietly built a market that lets traders wager on ICE's daily arrest count with three confidential appendices the public never saw.
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@amyrs.bsky.social and I have a column in the @nevadacurrent.com today about meaning of the Jewish commemoration of Tisha B’av in 2026. I hope you will give it a moment of your time. nevadacurrent.com/2026/07/21/a...
As Jewish Nevadans, Tisha B’Av calls us to remember. Recent events call us to act. • Nevada Current
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old father, husband, and delivery driver from Colombia was recently shot and killed by an ICE agent while driving his car in Maine. A local witness to the murder, M...
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Judge dismisses Trump’s suit against Minnesota state and local police for declining to assist ICE’a deportation efforts. Do your own dirty work! Judge was appointed by … Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
Judge Tosses Justice Department Challenge to Minnesota Immigration Laws (Gift Article)
The Trump administration, which flooded Minnesota with immigration agents this year, argued that policies limiting cooperation with ICE were unconstitutional.
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Now that the World Cup is over, I turn my attention to the Las Vegas Aces. My goal is to remain distracted enough to never have to face head on some hard truths about the NY Mets.
A virtue of the World Cup final is that I’ve learned a lot more about Argentinian history and that I don’t like it
