Michael Kevane

View from Brandon Hill looking over South Bristol. The sky has 30 balloons in it. It's the first morning of the balloon fiesta.

Bristol, 6.50am😃

It’s useful to know… veterinarian diagnosed in minutes…

If you have a dog and suddenly it’s back legs don’t work and it vomits then probably one of your house guests during Dead & Co weekend dropped a gummy on floor…

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Map of gold exports from RSF and SAF controlled areas out of the country (primarily to the UAE).

I recommend reading this report by Dr. Suliman Baldo @SulimanBaldo and Ahmed Soliman on gold and the war in Sudan. It demonstrates that most of the gold extracted from Sudan is ending up in the UAE, including gold mined in SAF controlled areas.

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Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

Only way argument is coherent, really, is if you think that Spanish-speaking immigrants do some kind of non economic damage to current citizen wellbeing- they’re eating the pets all over again…

His argument seems to be that a citizen (and Trump) should prefer a smaller economy with lower average per capita income and fewer immigrants to a larger economy with higher income, because in the larger economy some immigrants benefit.

The #VotingRightsAct was signed into law to ban racial discrimination in voting 60 years ago today. As a proud cosponsor of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, I'll keep fighting to empower voters against a regime that attempts to silence the voices of dissent.

Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

The Most Nihilistic Conflict on Earth Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

In Sudan, @anneapplebaum reports, the post-American world has already arrived. A brutal civil war has left a vacuum—and no international organizations, no diplomats, and certainly no Americans are coming to fill it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Oklahoma Ruling on Tribal Citizen Taxation Muddies Precedent A recent ruling from Oklahoma’s top court that Native Americans living and working on tribal land must pay state income tax has rankled tribal sovereignty advocates, who say the issue is ripe for US S...

@toreydolan.bsky.social comments on an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision to apply state income taxation to Native Americans living and working on tribal land, highlighting that the ruling contravenes a Supreme Court precedent. Read the @bloomberglaw.com story: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-tax-re...

"American Indian Geopolitical Rights" by Torey Dolan. Abstract: American Indian people hold a unique legal position under the United States Constitution and within American law based on Indian status. This unique relationship at times reflects the cultural, spiritual, and legal ties to land that are unique to American Indians and represent aberrations in American law. This fundamentally impacts the lives and interests of American Indians, including in matters of representational democracy. This paper seeks to contextualize the proscriptive legal ties that American Indians have with land under law, termed herein “Indian Geopolitical Rights.” This paper argues that American Indian Geopolitical Rights reflect not only significant cultural interests of American Indians, but that American Indians have substantive rights that are tied to place that impacts how Indians engage with democratic systems and conceive of political representation. As such, the needs of American Indians necessitate a consideration of Indian geopolitical rights in the development, maintenance, and implementation of local, state, and federal electoral systems. This paper argues that Indian geopolitical rights are incumbent upon states, that election law doctrine is currently ill-equipped to protect Indian geopolitical rights, and incorporating Indian geopolitical rights is consistent with the U.S. Constitution and principles of federalism.

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 2 I. THE LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF INDIAN GEOPOLITICAL RIGHTS 9 A. PRE-CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND INDIGENOUS LAND PHILOSOPHIES 9 1. Pre-Constitutional Law 9 2. Indigenous Land Philosophy versus Western Legal Philosophy 11 B. THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THE STRUCTURE OF INDIAN LAW 14 1. Indian Law Fundamental Principles 15 2. Indian Status and American Citizenship 19 C. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIANS AND LAND UNDER AMERICAN LAW 29 1. Indian Country and Tribal Territory 29 2. Treaties, Reservations, and Permanent Homelands 31 II. TAXONOMY OF INDIAN POLITICAL RIGHTS 36 A. INDIAN POLITICAL RIGHTS NOT DEPENDENT ON SPACE 39 1. Indian Status based on United States Law 40 2. Indian Status based on Tribal Affiliation 42 B. INDIAN GEOPOLITICAL RIGHTS 42 1. Recognized Indian Geopolitical Rights 43 a. Indian Geopolitical Rights with Indian Status under United States Law 43 b. Indian Geopolitical Rights with Indian Status based on Tribal Affiliation 47 2. What Indian Geopolitical Rights Does Not Include 51 III. HOW VOTING RIGHTS LAW DOES NOT ACCOMMODATE INDIAN GEOPOLITICAL RIGHTS 52 A. VOTE DILUTION AND GEOPOLITICAL VALUES 54 1. One-Person, One-Vote, but Not Land 55 2. Population Size 57 B. EXCLUSIVE RACIAL LENS OF VOTING RIGHTS LAW 60 C. COUNTY BOUNDARIES CROSSING TRIBAL LANDS 66 1. The San Carlos Apache Reservation Example 69 2. The Candidate Example with Trish Carter-Goodheart (Nez Perce) 73 CONCLUSION 77

A sneak preview: my article "American Indian Geopolitical Rights" is a labor of passion. Through this article, I consider the interests that American Indians have in land and how we should reimagine electoral geography and law in cognizance of these interests I term "Indian Geopolitical Rights."

The front covers in a grid of 16 books from the ‘hobbies’ Ladybird series

Ladybird cover stories.
‘Things to Make and Do’
(1963 - 1978)

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza

How political attacks could crush the mRNA vaccine revolution Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.

Sadly prescient reporting from May on mRNA vaccines (a Nobel prize winning technology) being maligned by the administration.

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My great-grandfather led a team of doctors that invented chemotherapy. He’s part of the legacy of breakthroughs in medical science that saved so many lives. And now we’re going to throw away years of groundbreaking research because we put a manifestly unqualified person in charge of public health.

San Francisco businesses thrive during Grateful Dead anniversary weekend SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- San Francisco businesses are experiencing a significant economic boost from the Grateful Dead anniversary celebrations held this past weekend. The festivities featured Dead and Company performing at Golden Gate Park for three consecutive days, drawing large crowds of fans and tourists to the area. "I call it the tie-dye Olympics whenever [...]

San Francisco businesses thrive during Grateful Dead anniversary weekend

Forthcoming in *JDE*! We study Burkina Faso’s 2008–17 grid rollout to compare community vs. private electrification effects. Despite low household uptake, electrification boosted public goods—schools, water, lighting—and benefited even unconnected homes. ⚡📊 Now online: doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

July Jobs Report Casts New Warning On Immigration And Worker Declines The July jobs report reveals a worrisome decline in the U.S. labor force, driven by the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Donald Trump fired the BLS head over the jobs report. But the Trump (and Stephen Miller’s) immigration policies caused a decline of 1.2 million foreign-born workers between Jan. and July 2025, affecting growth & the labor market. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Using financial leverage, the Trump admin compelled Columbia to agree to “take steps to decrease financial dependence on international student enrollment.” Trump officials view the (harmful) agreement as a model for other schools. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
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Given today's Supreme Court, could a lawyer, who has duty to client best interest, advise with confidence, "*this* Supreme Court will back us because they know what is constitutional and what is not"...?

Presumably courts are defential to the findings of government? When powers of Title Vi/IX were being used against discriminatory ethnic/relgious/gender/sexual orientation practices in 1970s-90s (say) did many lawyers/profs adopt maximialist position (don't negotiate, fight all way to Supreme Court)?

Is there explainer of how administration's claim of findings of violations of various Title VI and IX (?) gives them considerable power over the finances of university, so from the principles perspective situation is murky, as the entity (the university) is supposedly in violation...

Au Ghana, un conflit interethnique au cœur des affrontements meurtriers de Bawku Le gouvernement du Ghana a décrété un couvre-feu et a envoyé des troupes militaires et de police dans la ville de Bawku, au nord-est du pays, à la frontière du Burkina Faso et du Togo. Une réponse à…

Au Ghana, tensions entre communautés Kusasi et Mamprusi

Dans le nord-est du #Ghana, des tensions croissantes opposent les communautés #Kusasi et #Mamprusi, deux des principaux groupes vivant dans les régions #UpperEast et #NorthEast.

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actucameroun.com Burkina Faso : Radio Omega suspendue après des propos jugés « discourtois » envers les autorités

Burkina Faso : Radio Omega suspendue après des propos jugés « discourtois » envers les autorités #Afropages https://twp.ai/9PUEr1

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

Photograph by Heidi Levine / the Washington Post

Yesterday, @washingtonpost.com Washington Post published an image of Gaza City which looked like Hiroshima.
It seems that this is one of the *least damaged* areas in the Gaza Strip. Short thread:

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