Matt Cate
@matthewcate.bsky.social
First Amendment + Media lawyer
www.matthewcatelaw.com
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Todd Snider’s genius burned so bright while we had him here. Rest in peace, rhythm, melody & unending charm… as you were in life. 😢😭💔❤️🩹☮️
Aw man.
RIP to an extremely gifted songwriter. And a neighbor.
RIP to an extremely gifted songwriter. And a neighbor.
RIP to Todd Snider, arguably the greatest American songwriter of the last 30 years.
If you’ve never heard of him, listen to this track written from the perspective of a dude in Mike Tyson’s entourage. Sheer perfection.
If you’ve never heard of him, listen to this track written from the perspective of a dude in Mike Tyson’s entourage. Sheer perfection.
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Todd Snider’s genius burned so bright while we had him here. Rest in peace, rhythm, melody & unending charm… as you were in life. 😢😭💔❤️🩹☮️
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Highly recommend Death By Lightning on Netflix about the Garfield presidency and assassination —
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...
Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix
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November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Highly recommend Death By Lightning on Netflix about the Garfield presidency and assassination —
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...
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Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
My name is Pagliacci, Clown of Clowns. Look on my works, ye doctors; I despair.
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
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Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.
Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee
Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.
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Even for Trump World, this is a shocking outrage. Everything about this—from LEOs threatening, then arresting this citizen (who committed no crime), the judge setting a mind-bogglingly inappropriate bond, then delaying the hearing five more weeks—is legally and morally wrong, and wholly un-American.
MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting
A Middle Tennessee sheriff is defending the arrest of a man for posting an online meme quoting President Donald Trump.
www.newschannel5.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Even for Trump World, this is a shocking outrage. Everything about this—from LEOs threatening, then arresting this citizen (who committed no crime), the judge setting a mind-bogglingly inappropriate bond, then delaying the hearing five more weeks—is legally and morally wrong, and wholly un-American.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.
🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is an excellent brief in the Stanford Daily's lawsuit against Marco Rubio. The Trump administration insists there's no chilling effect whatsoever from targeted detentions. This brief shares the stories of student reporters and editors who fear being the next Rumeysa Ozturk or Mahmoud Khalil.
Proud to help @splc.org, @collegemedia.bsky.social, Associated Collegiate Media, and 55 student newsrooms/leaders raise their voices to support @stanforddaily.com.web.brid.gy's case vs the govt over its attack on international students' 1A rights through visa revocations and deportations.
SPLC, coalition amicus brief highlights chilling effect
A Student Press Law Center-led coalition filed an amicus brief in a federal lawsuit to highlight the widespread chilling effect on student voices caused by recent immigration enforcement actions.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Proud to help @splc.org, @collegemedia.bsky.social, Associated Collegiate Media, and 55 student newsrooms/leaders raise their voices to support @stanforddaily.com.web.brid.gy's case vs the govt over its attack on international students' 1A rights through visa revocations and deportations.
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🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨 NEW: We filed an amicus brief joined by 55 student newsrooms and leaders to defend student speech rights. Learn more: https://loom.ly/_aBsitk
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
The Stanford Daily's lawsuit challenges the use of immigration law to revoke international students' visas and deport them for protected speech.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.
Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all.
The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.
The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.
October 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.
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Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”
— Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
— Dave Chappelle, doing his shtick in front of a whooping, cheering crowd in … Riyadh.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...
At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Today marks the 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
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404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS, demanding that it hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.
🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-an...
🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-an...
404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS, demanding that it hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.
🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-an...
🔗 www.404media.co/404-media-an...
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New: 404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS. We're seeking a copy of a data agreement that is giving ICE the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients. This is on top of our other lawsuit seeking ICE's $2 million spyware contract
www.404media.co/404-media-an...
www.404media.co/404-media-an...
404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New: 404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation are suing DHS. We're seeking a copy of a data agreement that is giving ICE the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients. This is on top of our other lawsuit seeking ICE's $2 million spyware contract
www.404media.co/404-media-an...
www.404media.co/404-media-an...
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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The public can't engage in secretive government. That's why we filed 3 new FOIA lawsuits this week.
We'll keep challenging capricious threats to press freedom — and show up in court to prove it.
Read more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds.
We'll keep challenging capricious threats to press freedom — and show up in court to prove it.
Read more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds.
We sued the government over excessive secrecy three times this week
Plus: New report shows classification mistakes are rampant
freedom.press
September 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The public can't engage in secretive government. That's why we filed 3 new FOIA lawsuits this week.
We'll keep challenging capricious threats to press freedom — and show up in court to prove it.
Read more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds.
We'll keep challenging capricious threats to press freedom — and show up in court to prove it.
Read more in our weekly newsletter, The Classifieds.
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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.
Because the light of transparency doesn't spark itself, I'm proud to help @freedom.press and @404media.co bring these important FOIA suits to advance the public's knowledge of what's being done in our name.
Today, @freedom.press filed three FOIA lawsuits seeking records on:
1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app
2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests
3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)
1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app
2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests
3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)
Three new FPF FOIA suits target threats to transparency, press freedom
Because the public can’t participate in a secretive, censorial government
freedom.press
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Because the light of transparency doesn't spark itself, I'm proud to help @freedom.press and @404media.co bring these important FOIA suits to advance the public's knowledge of what's being done in our name.
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Today, @freedom.press filed three FOIA lawsuits seeking records on:
1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app
2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests
3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)
1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app
2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests
3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)
Three new FPF FOIA suits target threats to transparency, press freedom
Because the public can’t participate in a secretive, censorial government
freedom.press
September 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Today, @freedom.press filed three FOIA lawsuits seeking records on:
1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app
2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests
3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)
1. Efforts to prosecute CNN for reporting on ICE agent tracking app
2. Firing of FOIA official who handled one of our requests
3. ICE's access to data on ~79M Medicaid enrollees (filed w. @404media.co)
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As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
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September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As I was saying…
Proud to work with 404 Media on this important FOIA suit to shed light on this relatively "small" contract with potentially significant ramifications.
NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
www.404media.co
September 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Proud to work with 404 Media on this important FOIA suit to shed light on this relatively "small" contract with potentially significant ramifications.
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NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
www.404media.co
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
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It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know.
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/
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The world is crumbling BUT new Slow Horses
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The world is crumbling BUT new Slow Horses