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Cathy Gellis

@cathygellis.bsky.social
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Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: www.techdirt.com/user/cathy I also post silly things too.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h
This term I’m teaching in Strasbourg and staying at a Chateau in which Nazis housed officers during the occupation. When the AfD won in Saxony-Anhalt I thought “that’s bad, but they’re not going to invade Strasbourg any time soon.” Now this.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7h
Always be impeaching. ALWAYS be impeaching.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 03/10/2026
NEW: Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies involved in developing a rival satellite network to Starlink. He told me China was working with Russia on the tech and that Rassvet could become operational by “the end of the year, beginning next year”
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump to block Russia and China’s Starlink rival
Ukraine’s president says he requested his US counterpart to impose sanctions on companies involved in developing ‘Rassvet’
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Nicholas [redacted] @borninawar.bsky.social · 2h
Big “keep big government out of my Medicare” vibes.
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Derek Miller @visualizingbroadway.com · 16h
No one in the Democratic leadership really believes he's a danger to Republic. They just don't act like it. They say it sometimes. But they never act like they mean it. Ever.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h
Rare police raid of Taipei gay bar sparks angry protest reut.rs/4hXLoiR
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Rare police raid of Taipei gay bar sparks angry protest
Around 100 members of Taipei's LGBTQ+ community protested on Sunday after police raided a gay bar the day before and ​detained its customers, a highly unusual move given Taiwan prides itself ‌on its liberal image and legal support for sexual minorities.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 03/10/2026
It's really hard to understand how people can promote continuing to use the same strategy that has catastrophically failed for 10 straight years. Pelosi-Jeffries-Schumer's best ideas got us a fascist takeover, the complete collapse of our democracy. It's time for a new approach.
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 10h
Catching up on this: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b... My view: it is presumptively censorial when a government official demands an examination of a newspaper's editorial processes to identify possible editorial bias papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Florida Files Lawsuit Against The New York Times
The state’s attorney general demanded access to company records to examine how the newspaper’s board oversees editorial standards amid claims of anti-Israel bias.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 03/10/2026
You know the president can veto legislation, right? You know this president breaks the law whenever he feels like it, don't you? Passing new laws for him to break achieves nothing. You haven't thought any of this through. #ImpeachConvictRemove
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 6h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h
Big election today and a real crisis decision for Brazil. And the world.
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What to know about Brazil's election pitting Lula against Flávio Bolsonaro
Polls suggest the election will be a closely run contest between the left-wing incumbent and his right-wing rival.
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Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 8h
Local reporting seems to suggest it’s because they’re creating nuisances, impeding traffic for local businesses and such: www.livingstonenterprise.com/news/filming...
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Filming of movie paused downtown after residents voice concerns
City commissioners voted Saturday morning to temporarily suspend production of a film being made in downtown Livingston.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
Love to see Republicans embrace automatic enrollment. Boosts participation from 5% to 100%. Now let’s just do it with actual safety net programs. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Most American Children Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Trump Accounts. What to Know.
The Trump administration may have just signed up your child — and more than 60 million others — for a 530A savings account (if you haven’t already done so).
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 8h
“The young people of the nation…must remember that freedom is not a static acquisition; it is an unending task in which each generation must ensure its continuous re-creation.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938. Image: Public domain.
This black and white photo shows a clean-shaven man, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing a suit coat and tie. He looks up and just to the right of the camera.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 16h
Dems worried last year that this delayed implementation of the deep Medicaid cuts in the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' would defang their attacks on the campaign trail, leaving voters unmoved by the message that a health care apocalypse was just around the corner. But for many, it has already arrived.
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Republicans tried to punt health care cuts until after the midterms. It didn’t work.
While most GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs won’t happen until 2027, Democrats are speaking to the voters already feeling the squeeze.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 8h
This is awful. More outlets are doing things like this—not limiting reporters’ recordings to their intended purpose. I was contacted by one publication, years after an interview, telling me—not asking—that that recording was going to be used in a new, unrelated podcast the publication was doing.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
“.. The cost to insure the debt of both companies against default .. is increasingly moving in lock-step, a sign investors are beginning to treat the two credits as intertwined. “.. You have to consider your total Larry Ellison risk,” Goodman said. $ORCL $PSKY www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 8h
Er... Shapiro is awful, but pulling the permit doesn't seem particularly constitutional.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 15h
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mike Rogers and Abdul el-Sayed are having a flame war about the firefighters endorsement over on Xitter. Of note: AES has more followers than Rogers (307.5K v 73.4K), and his side of this flame wars is getting more views.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
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They didn’t endorse you, habibi. But this last sentence you wrote there is crazy work coming from a dude who voted to deny 9/11 first responders healthcare NINE times:

“I will always stand with the brave men and women who run in while others run out”

You “stand” for nothing.
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🚨 ALERT: ABDUL LOSES ENDORSEMENT

“Mike Rogers, a veteran and retired FBI agent, will continue to serve this country and represent Michigan well. President Sahr and MPFFU leadership need to learn quickly the importance of crossing party lines when necessary.”

[screen cap of headline describing firefighters union endorsement of Abdul was clerical error]

I will always
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 21h
I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room, anybody, anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting right over there. She's a housewife. But she's very good…She perhaps knows more than I do, but I actually don't think so."
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 9h
This isn’t fair but the difference is Biden is the kind of senile where he asks where his glasses are and u say on his head and he looks sheepish & apologizes and says oh yea, Trump is the kind of senile where that happens & he yells at your he’s never worn glasses. In fact glasses don’t exist. &…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h
I dunno, Yale... Are you actually envious of Cornell and Columbia? Think things are going well for them at the moment? That appeasing fascist demands has yielded positive results for them? And the Trump regime is on the upswing, so better hurry up and forfeit core university values now? You sure?
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 9h
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 11h
Okay, George Lucas remains a schmuck but his wife is pure class. She made him make the museum souvenirs and food cheap so that schoolchildren without much money can still have a good day, because she says she remembers how bad it felt to go on expensive field trips. It DOES.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 14h
what the fuck is wrong with the teamsters man Roger Marshall is a ghoul who sued his own patients and threw them in prison!
Kansas Teamsters Back Pro-Labor Candidate for U.S. Senate
Press Contact: Kara Deniz Phone: (202) 497-6610 (Topeka, Kan.) - Today, Teamsters Local 696 endorsed Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) for re-election to the U.S. Senate.
"Sen. Marshall has proven time and time again that he is a friend of labor," said Teamsters General President Sean M.
O'Brien. "As a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Sen. Marshall has been eager to partner with us on legislation that protects workers, even when it requires breaking rank with his own party. We look forward to continuing to work together with Sen. Marshall to fight for the rights of hardworking Americans."
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Nancy Docken📎 @mimadocken.bsky.social · 10h
They should wait to vote until they cash those checks.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 12h
We literally fought a whole danged American Revolution for one basic principle: how we spend the government’s money is the province of the most democratic body in our government: Congress.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 12h
As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...
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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since taking office, Ken Paxton has spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on luxury travel, including to: — China — Israel — India — Italy — Malta — Taiwan — Albania — Greece — Palm Beach — South Africa — Dominican Republic — 25 trips to California — The 2024 Kentucky Derby
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 14h
I don’t think the ad is especially helpful to Paxton (hey, the wife I cheated on says if she can vote for a scumbag, you can, too). But it’s more than fair to investigate whether her support for him is a chit in their divorce settlement negotiations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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As She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for Him
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.”
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14h
Love this 👇
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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social · 17h
Since at least 2017, my impression of POTUS’s character has been: if he’s going down, he wants to bring everyone else down with him, & I’ve consciously drawn the Hitler analogy. So I both agree with Conway & am not surprised to see people with personal knowledge of the man’s character saying this.
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 13h
I made a big deal this spring over Kotlikoff’s refusal to take responsibility for hitting a student with his car, and the Board’s unwillingness to do so either. This is why. An administrative culture of “not our fault” is how you botch a rape investigation. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff Makes the Rules; He Needs to Follow Them Too
Cornell Law Professor James Grimmelmann analyzes and discusses the legality of the incident between students and President Kotlikoff following the April 30 Cornell Political Union debate.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 16h
Beatty's attys say defendants take the position that all communications with Trump—even in his capacity in the voluntarily assumed post of Kennedy Center chairman—are protected by executive privilege &/or presidential communications privilege. 2/2
Defendants Withheld Swaths of Relevant Information Via Executive Privilege
These concerns about the systemic deficiencies in Defendants' responses to written discovery requests—which are exemplary rather than comprehensive-are compounded by the fact that Defendants have improperly withheld swaths of material based on blanket claims of potential Executive Privilege, in ways that are plainly inappropriate.
Plaintiff intends shortly to file a motion to compel with respect to Executive Privilege.
Plaintiff briefly mentions her concerns with respect to Executive Privilege now to demonstrate how the sum of the two issues outlined in this statement has essentially left her without meaningful discovery in this important matter, absent extension of existing deadlines (in particular, briefing and resolution of summary judgment). Among other things, Defendants have instructed one witness already not to answer any questions regarding the substance of communications involving the Chairman. They have told Plaintiff's counsel that they will instruct Mr. Floca similarly not to answer any questions about conversations with the Chairman (despite relying on Mr. Floca's testimony regarding conversations with the Chairman in their summary judgment motion). Meanwhile, Defendants have asserted a blanket privilege over any written document that "mav have the effect of seeking information protected by the presidential communications privilege."
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 16h
In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h
😍😍😍
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15h
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h
If you’re not on X you won’t appreciate the extent to which virulent racism against Indians has become THE rallying call of the far right.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21h
Trump: - Starts war without consulting allies - Screams at allies for not joining the war - Creates oil crisis - Crisis damages allies’ economies - Insists allies release strategic reserves because this is all unfair to US farmers. 🤔
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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 18h
Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 18h
For all of the Mamdani team's brilliance with social media, this is the most basic thing in the political playbook: Do good things for your constituents, then tell them about it. It shouldn't be as startling as it is! It's the job!
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 18h
Great art reveals itself by degrees. I just discovered Trump wrote that current law means “turning Clocks back twice a year”
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Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog @glowlaw.org · 17h
New GLOW special report: “Trial by Press Conference.” We document dozens of public statements by six senior DOJ officials — Bondi, Blanche, Dhillon, Martin, Patel, and Pirro — that appear to violate the rules against trying cases in the press. 🧵
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Trial by Press Conference: Extrajudicial Statements by Senior Department of Justice Officials – Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 21h
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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