Reposted by Matt CateRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026sincerely, fuck that 1565458
Reposted by Matt CateJason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 06/09/2026Somewhere in Baton Rouge right now is a guy who is drunker than anyone since Noah left the ark 1036931
Reposted by Matt CateJeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.comanyhumanever.comAny Human EverOne life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived. 94461163
Reposted by Matt CateJohn Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Governor Newsom needs to sign this bill to bring transparency to private detention facilities. bsky.app/profile/free..., x.com/FreedomofPre...x.comFreedom of the Press Foundation (@FreedomofPress) on XDozens of immigrants have died in private detention facilities. Many suffer medical neglect. There's fear journalist Richard Parias may need his arm amputated after ICE shot him. How bad is it? We d... 217750
Reposted by Matt CateArkansas Advocate @arkansasadvocate.com · 02/09/2026Judge denies effort to block Arkansas outlets from publishing details about data center agreement arkansasadvocate.com/2026/09/02/j...arkansasadvocate.comJudge denies effort to block Arkansas outlets from publishing details about data center agreement | Arkansas AdvocateA federal judge rejected an effort Wednesday to block two Arkansas news outlets from publishing details about an agreement regarding a West Memphis data center, in a case that alarmed free speech grou... 12515
Reposted by Matt CateFreedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/09/2026It’s a relief the judge got this right, FPF’s @seth-stern.bsky.social told the @arkansasadvocate.com, but it’d be better if judges would “sanction litigants and lawyers who waste the time and resources of both the judiciary and the press with these unconstitutional demands to gag journalists.”arkansasadvocate.comJudge denies effort to block Arkansas outlets from publishing details about data center agreement | Arkansas AdvocateA federal judge rejected an effort Wednesday to block two Arkansas news outlets from publishing details about an agreement regarding a West Memphis data center, in a case that alarmed free speech grou... 04825
Reposted by Matt CateFreedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/09/2026This hearing should have been four minutes, not four hours. Of course a court can’t restrain the press from publishing documents the government mistakenly released. Let’s hope the judge was listening in his first-year constitutional law class.arktimes.comIn a panic over mistakenly shared documents, Entergy lawyers ask judge to restrain journalists - Arkansas TimesFederal Judge Lee P. Rudofsky said he will rule Wednesday on a request for a temporary restraining order sought by Entergy relating to stories about its relationship with Google. 23016
Reposted by Matt CateArkansas Times @arktimes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Entergy wants to stop the presses on stories about its secret relationship with Google.arktimes.comIn a panic over mistakenly shared documents, Entergy lawyers ask judge to restrain journalists - Arkansas TimesFederal Judge Lee P. Rudofsky said he will rule Wednesday on a request for a temporary restraining order sought by Entergy relating to stories about its relationship with Google. 12010
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Hey, @rcfp.org and @freedom.press: Unusually, this district judge (Rudofsky) actually has a standing order proactively inviting submission of amicus briefs. 243
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is also another great example of why we need a federal anti-SLAPP statute. 074
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026As a DemGaz alum who now helps fight against these very sort of things, I hope it and the @arktimes.bsky.social fight back hard against this effort to obtain an unconstitutional prior restraint against their coverage of an issue of critical public concern.arkansasonline.comEntergy Arkansas asks federal judge to stop Democrat-Gazette from publishing data center info | Arkansas Democrat GazetteEntergy Arkansas is asking a federal judge to prevent the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, one of its reporters, and the Arkansas Times from publishing details of an agreement with Google about data centers... 272
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Color me surprised. If this can happen in Knox County, it can happen just about anywhere. 1145
Reposted by Matt CateKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment when it used security-related justification to revoke the legal status of students who expressed views it didn't like. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 5040701208
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A lot to digest in this ruling, but this is a great outcome and big 1A win in the Stanford Daily v. Rubio case--where students correctly said our government's retaliatory actions against Rümeysa Öztürk, Mahmoud Khalil, and others was chilling student journalism and related speech.storage.courtlistener.comMemorandum & Opinion – #108 in Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation v. Rubio (N.D. Cal., 5:25-cv-06618) – CourtListener.comMEMORANDUM OF DECISION PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(1) signed by Judge Noël Wise on 8/28/2026. (akw, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 8/28/2026) 100
Reposted by Matt CateAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 17745331583
Reposted by Matt CateRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Good riddance to a garbage human being. Unfortunately, our state is also about to be run by Marsha Blackburn. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...nbcnews.comRep. Andy Ogles loses his Republican primary in TennesseeOgles lost despite having President Donald Trump’s endorsement, NBC News projects. Former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher will be the GOP nominee. 461234158
Reposted by Matt CateKristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026New rule: if the indictment gets a press conference, the dismissal gets one too 24481001607
Reposted by Matt CateElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/07/2026Join EFF's Cooperating Attorneys List! This mailing list is where we post short case descriptions, and interested attorneys simply drop us a note to get connected with the client. Interested in joining? Send an email to info@eff.org with a subject that says: "Add Me to Cooperating Attorneys." 03415
Reposted by Matt CateAdam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Listen as a New Jersey judge orders a newspaper (New Brunswick Today) to delete a security video the school district wanted deleted from the internet -- and orders the newspaper not to write about it *at all.* This is a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment. 28876288
Reposted by Matt CateSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Reporting on Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire should be done with the same general tone as a lethal virus escaping containment, not as an awesome achievement. 342945630
Reposted by Matt CateGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government. 553757839
Reposted by Matt CateMike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/05/2026We need every state to have a strong anti-SLAPP law and for there to be a federal anti-SLAPP law. 627542
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This, and last spring’s ban list, is maddening. I’m increasingly finding that the only thing that exceeds the shame I feel over what has become of the place of my birth and raising is the comfort I find in no longer calling it my home. 000
Reposted by Matt CateJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...404media.coYour AI Use Is Breaking My BrainAI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy. 531776512
Reposted by Matt CateJohn Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 02/05/2026ive watched this part like a dozen times now 92111712295
Reposted by Matt CateGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot. 312733653
Reposted by Matt CateMark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This is an affront to the rule of law and everything decent in American society. The Justice Department lawyers should be ashamed of themselves. apnews.com/article/trum...apnews.comJustice Department settles lawsuit from Trump ally Michael Flynn for $1.2 million, AP source saysThe Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s firs... 42873310
Reposted by Matt CatePatrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 19/03/2026When the president is rude & insane & insulting, he is rude & insane & insulting in our name. All of us. This isn’t a random senile old crank spouting insults. He’s the president of the United States of America. Regardless of your vote, he represents us. And he’s destroying us. All of us. 28912239
Reposted by Matt CateRyan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 25/02/2026what are we doing www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...investigativepost.orgBlind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week. 510634
Reposted by Matt CateAmerican Oversight @americanoversight.org · 24/02/2026DOJ withheld some Epstein files related to accusations against Trump, reports NPR. Trump’s DOJ is also trying to remove basic facts — like information drawn from public statements and reporting — from our lawsuits related to the Epstein files. americanoversight.org/motions-to-s...americanoversight.orgThe Trump Administration Is Using a Rare Legal Trick to Avoid Damaging FactsThe government is asking courts to delete basic facts from our lawsuits. 11712
Reposted by Matt CateChris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 20/02/2026This is such sad news. Wes worked so hard. He always talked so much about his family. Prayers with them. 419228
Reposted by Matt CateThe Gregory Brothers @gregorybrothers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026was Pam Bondi trying to un-hibernate Auto-Tune the News? 18650186
Reposted by Matt CateRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/02/2026"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -- Mark Twain 18757200
Reposted by Matt CateMdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/ 8452182637
Reposted by Matt CateT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is another very important and revealing exchange. Rep. Scanlon is making a crucial point, one well worth listening to. And she does it calmly. But Trump has created a market for obnoxious, childish defiance of Congress. The Attorney General‘s response is outrageous, even impeachment-worthy. 532117575
Reposted by Matt CateRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us. 361696490
Matt Cate @matthewcate.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Great news and the right outcome. Shame he had to sue. 000
Reposted by Matt CateBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch. 1095384199486
Reposted by Matt CateTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight. 673329964
Reposted by Matt CateRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him. 11655871842
Reposted by Matt CatePhilip Bump @pbump.com · 24/01/2026Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless. 13993101965
Reposted by Matt CateJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Violent, cosplaying Bovino is flat-out lying. In this case with multiple videos showing the exact opposite of what he is claiming. 2627175
Reposted by Matt CateBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026To repeat: Abolish ICE. 13156341350
Reposted by Matt CateAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous. 148179032999
Reposted by Matt CateDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b... 5236711423
Reposted by Matt CateSubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Verbal assault or, as it's legally known, "not assault" 1454944820
Reposted by Matt CateDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do. 8779862596
