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Michael J. Kelly

@michaeljkelly.bsky.social
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International Law Professor, Creighton University. Currently in political exile. Also teaching Climate Change & Constitutional Law against new authoritarian headwinds. Master of the Jedi mind trick in class. linkedin.com/in/publicinternational…

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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Instead of cancelling class 25 years ago, I walked into International Law at 1pm on 9/11 and faced my students. They were in tears. I told them the world had changed that day. We explored what would… ...
Instead of cancelling class 25 years ago, I walked into International Law at 1pm on 9/11 and faced my students. They were in tears. I told them the world had changed that day. We explored what would h...
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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Out in @justsecurity.org today, @michaeljkelly.bsky.social and I examine national approaches to AI governance, and explain why Canada's new AI strategy is really significant - because it is grounded in rule-of-law principles...1/3
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 06/08/2026
Canada's A.I. strategy, released in June, gestures toward the principle that ought to be at the center of A.I. governance -- the rule of law, write @craigxmartin.bsky.social and @michaeljkelly.bsky.social. They outline what other middle powers can learn from Canada's approach to A.I.:
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The Global Significance of Canada’s New AI Strategy
Other middle powers should emulate Canada’s focus on the rule of law as a central principle of A.I. governance.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here’s our latest on nuclear-powered AI data centers.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal | Michael Kelly
When the Roman Senate authorized the civilizational erasure of Carthage in 149 B.C., launching the 3rd Punic War, that was genocide. Carthage was erased. Civilizational erasure = genocide. My dear col...
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Our OpEd on Bloomberg comparing ICE’s relocation of detainees to relocation of Japanese in 1942. @georgetakei.bsky.social take a look, we must remember! news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...
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ICE’s Relocation of Minnesota Detainees Echo Korematsu Mistakes (1)
Opinion: ICE's movement of immigrants in Minnesota to faraway detention facilities has parallels to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump’s Board of Peace with Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Up on C-SPAN this week explaining the fiasco in Venezuela: www.c-span.org/program/wash...
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Michael Kelly on the Legality of U.S. Capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Michael Kelly talked about the legality of the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Now appearing in #Hamilton #NoKings
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Omaha! #NoKings
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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In this piece on @opiniojuris.bsky.social, @michaeljkelly.bsky.social and I explore how the Trump AI Action Plan increases the risk of uncontrolled emergence of AGI, and why the risks posed by AGI requires the development of global governance framework tailored to address it.
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The Global Risk in Trump’s AI Action Plan and the Need for Governance - Opinio Juris
[Craig Martin is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the International and Comparative Law Center at Washburn University School of Law in the United States. Professor Michael J. Kelly holds the Sen. Allen Sekt Endowed Chair in Law at Creighton University and co-chairs the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Internet Governance.] There has been considerable analysis of President...
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
So @oliviaoftroye.com and @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social, I think my chatbot’s graphic sums it up:
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 14/05/2025
Andor is one of the best television shows ever made.
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'Andor' Series Finale recap: Unstoppable force
After forty years of fandom, forty years of it being a catchphrase, “May the Force be with you” meant something to me again.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I reviewed 'Jedha, Kyber, Erso', the final episode of ANDOR and a brilliantly restrained sendoff to one of the most extraordinary television programs of all time. Freedom is a pure idea. www.patreon.com/posts/128906...
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 16/04/2025
[2/2] Kelly's “Trump’s Endgame for the War in Ukraine” www.justsecurity.org/105451/trump... Koh's “National Security Resilience and Reform: Trump 2.0 and Beyond” www.justsecurity.org/106146/natio... Starsovit's “Making Russia Pay to Strengthen Ukraine” by www.justsecurity.org/author/staro...
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Trump’s Endgame for the War in Ukraine
An overview of how bargains between Trump and Putin may play out and leave impoverished the vital interests of Ukraine.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 16/04/2025
[1/2] 3:30pmET at #ASILAM: “Impact of Trump’s Election on the War of Ukraine” featuring Margaret de Guzman, @michaeljkelly.bsky.social, Harold Hongju Koh, and Svitlana Starosvit. Pre-panel must reads ⬇️
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Omaha, Nebraska! 🇺🇸 #HandsOff
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Outstanding op-ed calling for judicial accountability by my colleague @paulmcgreal.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/judi...
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Best news I’ve heard all day. Rahm will bring a shiv to the alley fight instead of a strongly worded letter. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President
The former Chicago mayor is already on the hustings, finding new ways to attack Trumpism from the center.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Fact check: true
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
😂 Love this.
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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It seems that Trump, Musk, Vance, Miller, et al. think that they are buffered from suffering and death, and so they are willing to bring them on to affect those they loathe politically, even if they also strike their supporters. This is hard-heartedness, callousness, sociopathology.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
#StateOfTheUnion
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a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying so this is how liberty dies
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the man is saying so this is how liberty dies
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025
That’s right. 🇺🇦
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AJB (dark mode) @ajboyack.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands” Can the fucking Lorax do something since Congress apparently won’t?!? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It’s great to be at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, participating in this important symposium, “Transitional Justice Revisited: From the Nuremberg Trials to the Present,” with @michaeljkelly.bsky.social, Peter Black, and other experts (and great people).
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
That horrid display by America’s leaders in the Oval Office today is exactly why Europe needs to do its own thing on Ukraine and disregard the US. Here’s our OpEd providing a roadmap for doing so: www.publicinternationallawandpolicygroup.org/lawyering-ju...
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Europe Must Act Now to Secure Ukraine’s (And Its) Future — Public International Law & Policy Group
Europe Must Act Now to Secure Ukraine’s (And Its) Future By: Julian Braithwaite , Professor Michael Kelly , Katie Hetherington As the United States bypasses both Ukraine and Europe to negotiat...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Vance is credited with ushering in a new era of European solidarity.
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Europe United in Belief That JD Vance is a Prick
Attendees credited Vance with ushering in a new era of European solidarity.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump’s new Director of the Food & Drug Administration has replaced the recommended food groups pyramid with one that is “more in line with the president’s priorities.” #Trump #FDA
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Very relieved to know that the person in charge of regulating Elon’s overreach… is Elon.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Yerevan Saeed, Ph.D. on LinkedIn: My first encounter with America came through the USAID’s sacks of rice and…
My first encounter with America came through the USAID’s sacks of rice and wheat when I was 12. In 1992, we had returned to Kurdistan from Iran as refugees…
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Love this FB post of a Delta crew realizing their entire complement just happened to African American for that flight, and celebrating the moment.
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Download NOAA climate change maps now! Trump is purging all federal data he doesn’t agree with and these will be scrubbed soon. CDC and USAID are already disappearing. Don’t wait, FOIA requests won’t bring them back. www.climate.gov/maps-data #Climate #NOAA
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wow. They are laying the groundwork for eventual Holocaust denial and Jim Crow denial. To say the Trump administration is not racist is to say the Moon is made of green cheese. 🌖
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago today, but see chart below! If you teach or know law students, please send them my way to join our “Nuremberg to The Hague”summer school in Europe focusing on International Criminal Law and the Holocaust. www.creighton.edu/law/law-clin...
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Thanks @juristnews.bsky.social for publishing my piece on Trump’s Friday night massacre of Inspector Generals. #Constitution #RuleOfLaw www.jurist.org/commentary/2...
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Firing Inspectors General Begins Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law
After sundown Friday, a new crack appeared in the wall of America's rule of law. A wall that protected us for two and a half centuries, but that's showing signs of strain. It is axiomatic that corrupt...
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump fired our Watchers on The Wall in a midnight purge, thus eliminating those who might stop what his new appointees are about to unleash within their departments. The ground is being set for a takeover from within. Winter is coming. www.politico.com/news/2025/01... #InspectorsGeneral #RuleOfLaw
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Kudos to WSJ for pointing out CEO of TikTok sitting right next to Trump’s Intelligence Chief designee at the Inauguration. Didn’t Congress just shut them down as a national security threat? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #TikTok
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Uh. No bueno, Elon. No bueno. #NaziSalute
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Michael J. Kelly @michaeljkelly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Trump’s promised return to a Golden Age is actually a return to the Gilded Age. He invoked President McKinley, whose backers were JD Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and other robber-barons. Today’s digital robber barons lined up behind Trump. The American oligarchy isn’t arriving; it’s resurrecting.
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