Michael Kagan

Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms

People who capitulated in advance weren’t rational actors in a bad spot. They were just cowards, corrupt, or both. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

This was about the previous war but it still applies

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

So you know!

We don’t always do regime change in Iran, but when we do, it always involves a Pahlavi (IYKYK)

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War is peace.

Michael Kagan (@michaelkagan) Most of what Trump has done in his second term has been very much as advertised. On mass deportation in particular, I would say it’s been promises made, promises kept. It’s just that the promises were...

Fascists tend to do foreign military aggression, so this was all foreseeable. But unlike on immigration (and domestic authoritarianism), Trump is breaking his campaign promises.

A couple quick thoughts.

substack.com/profile/2930...

Still on the White House website.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

h/t Paul Farhi

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Update. Cortez Masto no better than Rosen.

Plaintiffs continue their outreach and report here on “the number of Plaintiffs who wish to travel independently to a U.S. port of entry or who wish to be flown from a third country to the United States for their court proceedings, understanding that in both scenarios they will be detained upon arrival.” ECF No. 247 at 7. There are nineteen (19) such Plaintiffs as of the date of this filing. Further details are submitted separately under seal, as ordered by the Court.

Incredible.
19 of the 137 Venezuelans whom Trump sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act, & who were swapped back to VZ & then escaped to 3d countries, seek to come back to the US to contest their Tren de Aragua designation—knowing they'll be detained (& God knows what else) by the Trump Admin.

article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court

continuation of article 8bis

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

Donald J. Trump » @realDonaldTrump Follow Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate. 5:39 PM • 10/9/12

Dina Titus > Jacky Rosen

Once again

is this going to become a (taps sign) kind of thing

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

Might be a good one for Dems to read www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X: "I’m proud to be supporting my friend Brad Lander for Congress.  @BradLander has spent his career taking on big fights for New York’s working families. He’ll bring principled leadership to Washington and make sure Congress works for the many, not just the few. https://t.co/DJ5Xf1og22" / X I’m proud to be supporting my friend Brad Lander for Congress.  @BradLander has spent his career taking on big fights for New York’s working families. He’ll bring principled leadership to Washington and make sure Congress works for the many, not just the few. https://t.co/DJ5Xf1og22

It’s not the most important goal, but neither is it irrelevant that the left wing of the Dem Party has realized that political communication can be entertaining. While much of the Dem establishment consultants seem devoted to making their clients as boring as possible. x.com/zohrankmamda...

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Gotta admit: Sometimes the other site is still 🔥

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A year ago there were a lot of well-meaning, centrist institutional types who were sure that Trump was unstoppable

If the men had even an inkling of solidarity, they would decline, too.

Mr. Schwank was hired as an ICE lawyer in 2021 and became an instructor last year at the federal government’s law enforcement training academy in Georgia, where he taught courses on the law. He resigned on Feb. 13 after he and another publicly unidentified person submitted a confidential whistle-blower complaint on a separate matter that has raised constitutional questions: a new ICE policy allowing deportation officers to enter homes and arrest people without a judicial warrant. “ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution,” he said on Monday at the event with congressional Democrats.

Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

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Alysa Liu, daughter of a Chinese refugee and pro-democracy activist, brings glory to the USA. 🇺🇸 🥇

Immigration Officials Detained 9-Year-Old at MIA En Route to Disney Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, 9, said she "only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family."

Like where is Disney on this horrible story? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

Is this relevant to any business interests in Las Vegas?