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Cathy Gellis@cathygellis.bsky.social |
6984 followers 672 following 6149 posts
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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The New York Times
@nytimes.com
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Breaking News: The reformist Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s presidential runoff election, reflecting discontent with hard-line policies. The special election was held after former President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
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Popehat
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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off
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ChrisInParis
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It's only a matter of time before the loony parts of the US start doing similar with their favorite orange clown. I guess it at least let's you know which places to avoid.
Milan airport to be renamed Silvio Berlusconi airport
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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Steve Silberman
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I spoke to a friend I knew in high school who told me he "doesn't follow politics." I asked him what he thought about the election. He said, "I hear Biden's a senile wreck." He also said he hadn't heard of SCOTUS granting Trump immunity and has never heard of Project 2025. Media's doing a great job.
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Celeste Pewter
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Gabe Rusk
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Yikes
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Cathy Gellis
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I'd resent what they're doing to Biden if they were doing it to the other guy too. If these issues are so important, shouldn't we know how they affect BOTH choices? (Biden at the debate even reminded that Trump is only 3 years younger than him. Instead of dunking on Biden, maybe listen to him?)
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RichardLPastore 🏳️🌈📚
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I personally love how nearly every Hollywood version of hacking is: someone grabs a keyboard, types furiously, then announces, “I’m in!”
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Howard Eissenstat
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I had forgotten how bad television news is.
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Mike Gonzalez
@mestizoqueso.bsky.social
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“Those who disagree with me deserve to die” said the self proclaimed free speech absolutist.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy
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Andy Craig
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To be clear, this bill is nonsense, and he is straight-up calling for the murder of every Democrat in Congress. It is already illegal, as a matter of federal law, for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. This doesn't change that. What it does is a national ID mandate for voter registration.
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Willow
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Goodnight everybody. Try to be less stupid in the morning.
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post malone ergo propter malone
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one kind of perverse effect of this focus on Biden's fitness is that I and I suspect a lot of other people are watching way more Biden than before. earned media!
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Cathy Gellis
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I'm sorry, the reporters are all too busy trying to undermine Biden's candidacy to ask any useful questions of his opponent.
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Daniel Gilmore
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Joe Biden has done 9 public events and counting since last Thursday. The Stephanopoulos interview will be 10. At a certain point the “gotta get Biden out there” ppl are just telling us that they aren’t looking and aren’t interested in looking.
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Stephen Webb
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Props to the AP for a headline that contains the whole story
apnews.com/article/trum...
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post malone ergo propter malone
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Like, look. I also was extremely worried that Biden was incapable after the debate, which I watched in entirety, twice. I have since watched or listened to ~everything he’s done since that I can find. I don’t think he’s senile.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Voters just blame whoever is President for whatever happens during their Presidency, which is a major reason why allowing the situation where the Supreme Court absurdly gets to make policy across whatever issue they want to persist is so deadly to Democrats
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Cathy Gellis
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Not surprised that they would do this but it's the dumbest legal argument yet, since it is all related to acts after leaving office. But Cannon is dumb enough to buy it. (Although if she does, then the 11th comes back into play.)
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Joe Katz
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Cathy Gellis
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There were issues with it, yeah. But it comes to mind - we've seen how politics can be distorted by accusations like these.
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Derek Powazek
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You’ll never guess which of the two candidates is a convicted rapist.
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Ashton
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The consistent through line in all my friends panicking is that they think the NYT is a fair broker.
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Taniel
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The Telegraph reports that Keir Starmer, on his first day as Prime Minister, is scrapping the "Rwanda scheme,' the Tory plan to deport all asylum seekers & undocumented immigrants to Rwanda wherever they are from.
(This was a Starmer platform promise.)
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Laurel Krahn
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Last I checked Powecoms are still one of the most highly rated KN95s & this is the best place to get them. They sell some colors individually wrapped if you prefer that. Good for handing out to people. (N95s protect better than KN95s but people are more likely to actually wear earloop masks.)
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Cathy Gellis
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This is one of mine:
bsky.app/profile/cath...
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nsqe
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This has actually been my example since the whole "OMG BIDEN SHOULD DROP OUT" bullshit began: You know the Rolling Stones are touring, right? Do you think they should stop? Go google Mick Jagger's age and then go google Joe Biden's, I'll wait.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Morning Joe has, all in all, been a lone voice of sanity in the media mob's rush to ride Biden out of town. Mika has been wonderful: a voice of calm and perspective and I suspect she had some words for Joe, who metered his tone from last week and urged taking time before rushing to judgment.
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Cathy Gellis
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Any implication with the origin being Canada?
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Derek Fox
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Intrigued by this idea of holding ex-Presidents accountable under the law, tell me more Brazil
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Chip Stewart
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It is. And hard to watch when political media seems so eager to participate in slaying Biden while they pull punches on Trump & the GOP in the name of “balance.”
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Jim Zub
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This photo is pure 2024.
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Cathy Gellis
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I absolutely love New Jersey.
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It's ME(Jaime)
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If you would like to donate to Josh Stein, who's running against this guy, you can do so on ActBlue here: secure.actblue.com/directory?qu...
You can see opportunities to volunteer here: www.ncdp.org.
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Cathy Gellis
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It's suspiciously well-capitalized too.
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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I know people think that the Presidency makes you superhuman, but it does not. Ask anyone in emergency services what their sleep schedule is like, and they'll tell you they always need more. There are guys at the firehouse who sleep through half the shift waiting for a call.
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David S. Bernstein
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The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus
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Alex Newhouse
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my hot take is that the president should be and live like a normal human, and so I reject the premise that the president must work 130 hour weeks and never be well-rested. he has dozens of staffers who can cover shifts!
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Cathy Gellis
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"We can assume" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.
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Cathy Gellis
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It's early, and there are down-ballot elections to support.
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The Conversation U.S.
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Converting abandoned, post-pandemic office buildings into residential apartments is making our cities better Read more from an architect:
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Cathy Gellis
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If you see this, post a picture of Huey Lewis. Happy Birthday, Huey! (July 5)
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
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According to Reuters: "Hamas informed its ally Hezbollah it had agreed to a proposal for a ceasefire." Whether Hamas actually agreed or again submitted a counteroffer remains to be seen.
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Cathy Gellis
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This fact has been way too easily ignored. In fact, Biden is going to end up nominated BEFORE the convention because Ohio wouldn't let the Democratic nominee on the ballot otherwise (claiming it would be "too late" for their arbitrarily early deadline).
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luke the myoclonic jerk
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Ok everyone start checking Newskies and dig out your welcome packets
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Michael Geist
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Grateful to The Hub for posting my piece on the escalation of antisemitism in Canada over past 9 months becoming normalized as the shock value from even synagogue attacks wane and silence from the broader community becomes impossible to explain away.
thehub.ca/2024/07/05/m...
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