Michael Zigismund
@michaelzigismund.bsky.social
I practice immigration law and criminal defense, and I love avocados.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelzigismund/
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🎙️ Attorneys Discuss: IMMIGRATION x CRIMINAL LAW: Detentions and Deportations ⚖️🚨
YouTube video by Darian Immigration Law
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I was recently on a podcast talking shop with a fellow immigration attorney. It was fun! Check it out here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIPL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIPL...
How difficult is it to "follow the rules to come in the right way"? Three harrowing stories shed some light.
Link to must-see 10-minute video in comments.
Link to must-see 10-minute video in comments.
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
How difficult is it to "follow the rules to come in the right way"? Three harrowing stories shed some light.
Link to must-see 10-minute video in comments.
Link to must-see 10-minute video in comments.
I missed this story! Trump’s Labor Department admits a lack of immigrants spells catastrophic consequences for the nation’s food supply.
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I missed this story! Trump’s Labor Department admits a lack of immigrants spells catastrophic consequences for the nation’s food supply.
President law-and-order thinks anyone calling for the military to follow the law by disobeying unlawful orders should be executed.
Meanwhile, legal experts, including the top military lawyer overseeing Trump's Pacific-Caribbean murder spree, challenge the killings' legality.
Meanwhile, legal experts, including the top military lawyer overseeing Trump's Pacific-Caribbean murder spree, challenge the killings' legality.
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
President law-and-order thinks anyone calling for the military to follow the law by disobeying unlawful orders should be executed.
Meanwhile, legal experts, including the top military lawyer overseeing Trump's Pacific-Caribbean murder spree, challenge the killings' legality.
Meanwhile, legal experts, including the top military lawyer overseeing Trump's Pacific-Caribbean murder spree, challenge the killings' legality.
Reposted by Michael Zigismund
This is George Washington’s copy of the Constitution. You can see—faintly—in the margin, he was carefully noting which parts of the Constitution were “President powers.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is George Washington’s copy of the Constitution. You can see—faintly—in the margin, he was carefully noting which parts of the Constitution were “President powers.”
Reposted by Michael Zigismund
Kimmel might consider interviewing neo-Nazi antisemites like Nick Fuentes if he wants Trump to stop bothering him.
(Didn’t get the joke? Look up Trump’s anodyne response to Tucker Carlson’s kid-gloves interview with Fuentes.)
(Didn’t get the joke? Look up Trump’s anodyne response to Tucker Carlson’s kid-gloves interview with Fuentes.)
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kimmel might consider interviewing neo-Nazi antisemites like Nick Fuentes if he wants Trump to stop bothering him.
(Didn’t get the joke? Look up Trump’s anodyne response to Tucker Carlson’s kid-gloves interview with Fuentes.)
(Didn’t get the joke? Look up Trump’s anodyne response to Tucker Carlson’s kid-gloves interview with Fuentes.)
Trump & Co. know tariffs raise prices
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Trump & Co. know tariffs raise prices
What’s shocking is that the central bright spot of US economic performance this year has been the stock market.
Now we don’t even have that 😫
Source: Bloomberg, 11/12/2025
Now we don’t even have that 😫
Source: Bloomberg, 11/12/2025
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
What’s shocking is that the central bright spot of US economic performance this year has been the stock market.
Now we don’t even have that 😫
Source: Bloomberg, 11/12/2025
Now we don’t even have that 😫
Source: Bloomberg, 11/12/2025
More evidence that tariffs raise prices: Amazon raised its prices more than Target & Walmart did because Amazon is more exposed to tariffs
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
More evidence that tariffs raise prices: Amazon raised its prices more than Target & Walmart did because Amazon is more exposed to tariffs
Trade barriers don’t just raise prices. They also limit consumer options (which also raises prices by dampening supply)
And quality suffers as competition is throttled.
Any defender of trade barriers is an impasta.
And quality suffers as competition is throttled.
Any defender of trade barriers is an impasta.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Trade barriers don’t just raise prices. They also limit consumer options (which also raises prices by dampening supply)
And quality suffers as competition is throttled.
Any defender of trade barriers is an impasta.
And quality suffers as competition is throttled.
Any defender of trade barriers is an impasta.
Wondering what's with all the hubbub about potentially starting yet another war, this time over an alleged Christian genocide in #Nigeria? I found this article illuminating.
www.foreignexchanges.news/p/trump-nige...
www.foreignexchanges.news/p/trump-nige...
Trump, Nigeria, and “Christian Genocide”
Donald Trump is threatening to invade Nigeria on dubious claims of a genocide against the country's Christian community. Here's why the Christian Right has woven this narrative.
www.foreignexchanges.news
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wondering what's with all the hubbub about potentially starting yet another war, this time over an alleged Christian genocide in #Nigeria? I found this article illuminating.
www.foreignexchanges.news/p/trump-nige...
www.foreignexchanges.news/p/trump-nige...
Next time you hear about the necessity of sending troops in for public safety, reflect on the fact that the National Guard is still in DC to this day.
The drop in gun violence in DC following the Federal deployment starting in mid-August has more or less completely subsided.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Next time you hear about the necessity of sending troops in for public safety, reflect on the fact that the National Guard is still in DC to this day.
Trump’s attorney just admitted to the Supreme Court that Americans pay 30-80% of tariffs’ costs
(h/t @scottlincicome.bsky.social)
(h/t @scottlincicome.bsky.social)
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Trump’s attorney just admitted to the Supreme Court that Americans pay 30-80% of tariffs’ costs
(h/t @scottlincicome.bsky.social)
(h/t @scottlincicome.bsky.social)
You know nothing, Mike Snow.
Btw, the 1850s' nativist "American Party" was known as the "Know Nothing Party" because they hid their organization's secrets.
Also btw, Speaker Mike has kept the House from voting to release the Epstein files since September.
Plus ça change.
Btw, the 1850s' nativist "American Party" was known as the "Know Nothing Party" because they hid their organization's secrets.
Also btw, Speaker Mike has kept the House from voting to release the Epstein files since September.
Plus ça change.
Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
You know nothing, Mike Snow.
Btw, the 1850s' nativist "American Party" was known as the "Know Nothing Party" because they hid their organization's secrets.
Also btw, Speaker Mike has kept the House from voting to release the Epstein files since September.
Plus ça change.
Btw, the 1850s' nativist "American Party" was known as the "Know Nothing Party" because they hid their organization's secrets.
Also btw, Speaker Mike has kept the House from voting to release the Epstein files since September.
Plus ça change.
Tangle is so illuminating!
2 weeks ago, they published the self-explanatory, “Yes, things are pretty bad right now. A frank assessment of the state of the country.”
Last week, a conservative rebuttal said: yes, but also consider Dems’ earlier abuses.
Sources in comments.
2 weeks ago, they published the self-explanatory, “Yes, things are pretty bad right now. A frank assessment of the state of the country.”
Last week, a conservative rebuttal said: yes, but also consider Dems’ earlier abuses.
Sources in comments.
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Tangle is so illuminating!
2 weeks ago, they published the self-explanatory, “Yes, things are pretty bad right now. A frank assessment of the state of the country.”
Last week, a conservative rebuttal said: yes, but also consider Dems’ earlier abuses.
Sources in comments.
2 weeks ago, they published the self-explanatory, “Yes, things are pretty bad right now. A frank assessment of the state of the country.”
Last week, a conservative rebuttal said: yes, but also consider Dems’ earlier abuses.
Sources in comments.
@radleybalko.bsky.social’s new podcast, “Collateral Damage,” is as golden as everything else he touches.
It’s about the lives needlessly expended (innocents, pain patients, police, foreigners) in our government’s quixotic quest for a drug-free America.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-first-...
It’s about the lives needlessly expended (innocents, pain patients, police, foreigners) in our government’s quixotic quest for a drug-free America.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first episode of Collateral Damage
The story of Kathryn Johnston
radleybalko.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@radleybalko.bsky.social’s new podcast, “Collateral Damage,” is as golden as everything else he touches.
It’s about the lives needlessly expended (innocents, pain patients, police, foreigners) in our government’s quixotic quest for a drug-free America.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-first-...
It’s about the lives needlessly expended (innocents, pain patients, police, foreigners) in our government’s quixotic quest for a drug-free America.
radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-first-...
We've known about the UAE backing the Rapid Support Forces for about two years now 😢
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
We've known about the UAE backing the Rapid Support Forces for about two years now 😢
Wondering why egg prices are down? Maybe because Trump allowed more imported eggs.
Meanwhile, he’s eyeing more imported Argentinian beef to lower beef prices.
Is there a lesson here about other import restrictions? 🤔
Sources: The Poultry Site (10/13); Econbrowser (10/26)
Meanwhile, he’s eyeing more imported Argentinian beef to lower beef prices.
Is there a lesson here about other import restrictions? 🤔
Sources: The Poultry Site (10/13); Econbrowser (10/26)
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Wondering why egg prices are down? Maybe because Trump allowed more imported eggs.
Meanwhile, he’s eyeing more imported Argentinian beef to lower beef prices.
Is there a lesson here about other import restrictions? 🤔
Sources: The Poultry Site (10/13); Econbrowser (10/26)
Meanwhile, he’s eyeing more imported Argentinian beef to lower beef prices.
Is there a lesson here about other import restrictions? 🤔
Sources: The Poultry Site (10/13); Econbrowser (10/26)
About that Reagan speech against tariffs that hurt Trump's feelings
October 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
About that Reagan speech against tariffs that hurt Trump's feelings
Trump is openly stealing $230 million from the American people and the right-wing media yawns.
Who’s “the enemy of the people” again?
Who’s “the enemy of the people” again?
October 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Trump is openly stealing $230 million from the American people and the right-wing media yawns.
Who’s “the enemy of the people” again?
Who’s “the enemy of the people” again?
More analysis shows tariff revenue will barely dent the US fiscal debt
(Tax Foundation, 9/24/2025)
(Tax Foundation, 9/24/2025)
October 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
More analysis shows tariff revenue will barely dent the US fiscal debt
(Tax Foundation, 9/24/2025)
(Tax Foundation, 9/24/2025)
Self-censorship is bad, unless it's the right kind of self-censorship
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Self-censorship is bad, unless it's the right kind of self-censorship
Don’t know about you but I prefer a president who fantasizes about dropping excrement on Americans he disagrees with over one who calls them “deplorables” or “garbage”
In response to today’s “No Kings” protests, the President of the United States posted an AI video on Truth Social of himself wearing a crown, flying a fighter jet with “KING TRUMP” written on the side, and dumping torrents of feces on the protestors.
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Don’t know about you but I prefer a president who fantasizes about dropping excrement on Americans he disagrees with over one who calls them “deplorables” or “garbage”
We’ve arrived at the Two Minutes Hate of our political descent
(Image: Andrew Egger, The Bulwark, 10/17/2025)
(Image: Andrew Egger, The Bulwark, 10/17/2025)
October 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We’ve arrived at the Two Minutes Hate of our political descent
(Image: Andrew Egger, The Bulwark, 10/17/2025)
(Image: Andrew Egger, The Bulwark, 10/17/2025)