@cathygellis
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: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/ I also post silly things too.
“Young people still have human rights, and that includes the right to access information and to associate with other people and to speak to the world. These laws are designed to diminish those rights,” EFF’s David Greene told @TheIntercept. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/...
FBI Director Kash Patel fired agents and staff members who once had ties to an investigation into President Trump. Among them were agents who specialized in addressing threats from Iran and its proxies.
Three days after the firings began, the U.S. was bombarding Iran. https://wapo.st/4spt8kJ
Counterpoint: This is exactly not what unconditional surrender means.
No career lawyers on the brief, typically a sign that the arguments therein are indefensible
This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.
First of all, my post was about loudmouth Platner defenders, not Mainers. Second--and I'm gonna say it once and hope it sticks: Every voter has the right to weigh in on every Senate race. None of this "Stay out of it unless you live here" bullshit. The composition of the Senate affects all of us.
A musical improv class!
… NBC News, WSJ (and probably others I haven’t seen) also reporting that US investigators believe it was a US strike that hit the girls school Saturday.
Wow. Trump treats Doocy the way he normally treats Kaitlan Collins.
Trump is giving Russia a pass to sell sanctioned oil, helping fund its war against Ukraine, because his own war of choice has driven oil prices higher.
Meanwhile, Russia is assisting Iran in targeting American troops.
Absolutely shameful.
Breaking news: AG Rayfield wins court order requiring billions in funding for disaster mitigation to be restored
“The court has now said twice that the Trump administration can’t simply walk away from this program, and today’s order puts real teeth behind that. This is the work that happens before the flood waters rise, or the fire season starts, and Oregon communities deserve the preparation and the projects they were promised.”
BREAKING NEWS: We just won a court order requiring the Trump administration to restore billions in funding for disaster mitigation projects – including in Medford, Grants Pass, and Clatsop County. #orpol #breakingnews
Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Combine this with the Treasury Secretary updating us on military planning, and we can clearly see just what kind of multifaceted Renaissance men currently occupy Trump’s cabinet.
Lol, it's hard to comply with the terns of release when you don't even acknowledge their jurisdiction over you.
The secret to never getting caught with hallucinations in your briefs is to NEVER USE generative AI to write your briefs. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
This story is wild. As far as I can tell from the body camera clips I watched, the footage shows MPD special operations strategizing their forcible entry into private property without a warrant, based on the say-so of a political appointee with nothing more than a stack of print outs.
Platner’s supporters are weird DC isniders, white male populist marks, and red-brown Nazbol shitlickers. Fuck him and them.
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He says approximately 57 things that would have ended Joe Biden’s presidency daily.
After the DOGE group showed up but before MPD arrived, the USIP building had been placed in lockdown mode, meaning all interior doors were locked and elevators were no longer operable. So once in the building, MPD needed to manually break down interior doors to give Trump's team full access.
MPD used an extensive locksmith set to break open doors in the USIP building—included knives. At one point in the footage, there were two knives on one lock simultaneously, creating what appeared to be a dangerous situation. Fortunately no one was hurt.
It's past 6:00pm Eastern Time.
ICE once again failed to release congressionally-mandated detention statistics on its typical biweekly schedule.
The last update was on February 12, 2026. Four weeks ago.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
Almost a given, wouldn’t you say?
Is that new user actually new, or just hiding behind an email alias? Wu et al. expose massive identity confusion between email providers and platforms. Exploiting inconsistent alias rules, attackers are spawning endless fake accounts from a single address. www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/o...
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
This is interesting. But it is more interesting that Trump is rewarding Moscow for doing this by helping Russia sell oil, repeating Russian propaganda points, and senselessly burning through weapon stocks.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
How about this? www.abajournal.com/news/article...
I joked that I was thrilled to be doing a presentation on something so cutting edge...
The administration just kicked off an illegal regional war across the Middle East.
Meanwhile, POTUS and SecState:
This Rhodes-scholar-playing-good-ol'-boy machine goes up to 11