Kate Schaefer

They won, 3-1, in a perfectly normal number of innings, like perfectly normal baseball team. Can that be right?

2-1 Mariners in the top of the 7th. They're doing pretty well for a bunch of guys who should be totally exhausted from Friday night.

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.

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

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 ...

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."

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

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

Im sorry what the fuck?????

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] · Sep 19 The next group that @realDonaldTrump needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute [user] · Sep 19 Replying to @David_J_Bier we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: " [user] · 11h Replying to @David_J_Bier The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization. [user] · 11h President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization Quote The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh · Oct 8 Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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.

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

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

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

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree. Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree. Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

It's out at the Dispatch:

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

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’

Democracy can die in broad daylight, too.

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.

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

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.

“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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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.

No self-respecting reporter or news organization should misinform the public by referring to government agencies and officials by their pretend names and titles to humor, placate or curry favor with those in power.

SLED investigating fire at SC circuit judge's Edisto home, 3 injured The S.C. Law Enforcement Division is investigating a residential fire at a home near Edisto Beach in Colleton County that began the evening of Oct. 4.

Law enforcement investigates fire at South Carolina judge's home

I'm on my way down to Santa Cruz! Please don't let me be lonely this evening.......