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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 11h

I'm missing Vermont, Maine, and Hawai'i. Spent time in all the others, in part because I traveled extemsively by bus in my youth. Traveling by bus, you spend a lot of time in every state you pass through, but it's rarely quality time.

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 19h

This is a pretty detailed map... Lived in, slept in, driven through, touched down.

I get 45 (43 if you don't count airport layovers)

A map of the United States. Blue is states I've slept in. Yellow is states I've lived in. Red is states I've merely driven through. Seafoam is states I've only touched down in on air travel (that's Hawaii, and Alaska), and grey are the four states (Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,and Alabama) where I've not so much as dipped a toe past the border

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 15h

Caroline, I would buy, frame, and hang on my wall a print of this photograph, if you're up for printing and signing one.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

"It should be an easy decision for college presidents not to stick their institution’s neck into this retroactive push-button guillotine."

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 1d

It is the top of the 15th. I am watching a cricket fan complain about the length of this baseball game.

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 2d

Im sorry what the fuck?????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

Four tweets from X, text:

[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

[user] Sep 20
Replying to
@AlexNowrasteh
Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
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Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
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Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: "

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@David_J_Bier
The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

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President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
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Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 3d

That's an outfit worthy of David Hartwell himself, or maybe a step beyond Hartwell.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

It's entirely routine after a journalist, local lawmaker or citizen activist with a phone gets roughed up for DHS to claim that person had assaulted or obstructed agents. It's often hard for outsiders to weigh the conflicting stories (and especially, of course, if footage is unavailable!) /5

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

Explicit agency acknowledgment of a right to record would make a vital first step in turning around abusive informal cop culture. As federal courts have found, filming police serves goals of truth, public information, and accountability that are central to First Amendment law and a free republic. /6

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

My piece quotes the Supreme Court in the 1987 case of City of Houston v. Hill: “The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” /7, end

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 3d

Well, it has seemed like much more than a year to me.

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 3d

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

View from a coffeeshop with wall-length windows

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

"Numerous reports from raid scenes," I wrote, "suggest that ICE agents are already informally 'enforcing' their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by shoving, beating and even shooting (with less lethal munitions) journalists, freelance photogs, and others." Is "less lethal" outdated already? /3

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I could say I'd compiled some sort of grand list of ICE assaults on persons using cellphones or cameras, but there are just too many reports of such attacks for me to hope to keep up. My piece does link to the TRO in the Los Angeles Press Club case which aggregates some L.A. instances. /2

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 8d

At the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies we are offering 10 fellowships for scholars at any stage in their careers to stay with us for up to 6 months (PhD candidates and senior academics) or 12 months (postdocs) to complete a research project:

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/pdf-f...

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4d

It's out at the Dispatch:

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 4d

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 4d

Democracy can die in broad daylight, too.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded.

“A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected.

“Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed”

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Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 5d

Portland: not on fire.
Seattle: not on fire.
Chicago: not on fire.
New York: not on fire.
House of judge who ruled against Trump: burned down.

Gulf of Mexico. Department of Defense. Rule of law. No secret police.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5d

The last judge the Trump regime targeted had her home burned down the next day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

COLLINS: Which local officials in Portland have said that the National Guard is needed there?

LEAVITT: The judge's opinion is untethered in reality and the law

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