Ryan Doerfler
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
Professor at Harvard Law
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We are winning, but the ethnic cleansing is continuing. We need to stay locked in and protect our neighbors.
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:31 PM
We are winning, but the ethnic cleansing is continuing. We need to stay locked in and protect our neighbors.
Also prosecutions.
Okay, but still no funding for DHS. It is essential to keep pushing. Otherwise this just comes back.
January 26, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Also prosecutions.
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One of the first lessons I learned in organizing is that you celebrate victories as they come, even if they’re incomplete. Border Patrol being pulled off our streets is a massive victory for and by the people of Minnesota. It doesn’t make our work less urgent or needed, but it’s a big-ass win.
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
One of the first lessons I learned in organizing is that you celebrate victories as they come, even if they’re incomplete. Border Patrol being pulled off our streets is a massive victory for and by the people of Minnesota. It doesn’t make our work less urgent or needed, but it’s a big-ass win.
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Hey all, if you're like me, you've probably been wondering how you can help people in Minnesota. A reached out to some friends and they recommended giving money to either the Immigrant Law Center or any of the mutual aid orgs listed on Stand With Minnesota. I'll be giving to both. Links below
January 26, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Hey all, if you're like me, you've probably been wondering how you can help people in Minnesota. A reached out to some friends and they recommended giving money to either the Immigrant Law Center or any of the mutual aid orgs listed on Stand With Minnesota. I'll be giving to both. Links below
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As a college instructor, I’m more convinced than ever: we need great high schools
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
As a college instructor, I’m more convinced than ever: we need great high schools
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Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Abolish ICE is not enough.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.
We need prosecutions and trials.
Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
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seems like a widespread problem
January 26, 2026 at 3:22 AM
seems like a widespread problem
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Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25
January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...
docs.google.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 9:01 PM
the moment the second person comes into the frame to stand with his neighbor is so incredibly beautiful
This statement seeming anything other than incoherent is an indictment of our political culture.
Tim Walz: "We're no longer having a political debate. We're having a moral debate."
www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...
Tim Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness - the side of a mother whose last words were 'I'm not mad at you.'"
January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
This statement seeming anything other than incoherent is an indictment of our political culture.
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There isn't a perfect playbook for defeating authoritarianism, but we know from other countries that democratic resurgence is possible. I wrote for @slate.com about some of what we're seeing in Minnesota and why I believe, even now, that we will win.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
In Minnesota, the Fight Against ICE Is Also the Fight Against Authoritarianism
The community is pulling together. It has been eye-opening.
slate.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:48 PM
There isn't a perfect playbook for defeating authoritarianism, but we know from other countries that democratic resurgence is possible. I wrote for @slate.com about some of what we're seeing in Minnesota and why I believe, even now, that we will win.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
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“this ICE situation” is a wild way for any journalist to describe what has transpired
January 24, 2026 at 9:51 PM
“this ICE situation” is a wild way for any journalist to describe what has transpired
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Alex Pretti… This is who Trump’s secret police killed today in Minnesota. He was a VA nurse.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Alex Pretti… This is who Trump’s secret police killed today in Minnesota. He was a VA nurse.
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if even Seth Moulton is saying this...
January 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM
if even Seth Moulton is saying this...
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they lie and lie and lie and don’t even care enough to craft plausible ones
January 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM
they lie and lie and lie and don’t even care enough to craft plausible ones
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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Graphic video of the latest ICE murder in Minnesota
January 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Graphic video of the latest ICE murder in Minnesota
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This is an execution.
At least 7 ICE agents versus one man on the ground. They pistol whip the man on the ground multiple times before shooting him once, pausing, and then shooting him multiple times in quick succession.
2 executions in 17 days.
At least 7 ICE agents versus one man on the ground. They pistol whip the man on the ground multiple times before shooting him once, pausing, and then shooting him multiple times in quick succession.
2 executions in 17 days.
This video on Reddit shows ICE agents in Minneapolis in the process of detaining a man who is struggling with them. Suddenly, one agent fires their gun, and then other agents repeatedly unload bullets into the body which becomes motionless. This is horrific to watch.
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts
www.reddit.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM
This is an execution.
At least 7 ICE agents versus one man on the ground. They pistol whip the man on the ground multiple times before shooting him once, pausing, and then shooting him multiple times in quick succession.
2 executions in 17 days.
At least 7 ICE agents versus one man on the ground. They pistol whip the man on the ground multiple times before shooting him once, pausing, and then shooting him multiple times in quick succession.
2 executions in 17 days.
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Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
January 23, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
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ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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The US has an opposition party that does not act like one. If reining in lawless, masked men and keeping them from snatching our neighbors off the streets isn't a reason to work together to block funding for this enterprise, then what sort of democracy are you defending?
The House narrowly passed $1.2 trillion in government funding Thursday, overcoming intense Democratic opposition to funding ICE as the agency surges operations in Minneapolis and other cities.
House passes DHS funding bill despite Democratic opposition over ICE
Lawmakers are still on track to prevent another government shutdown at the end of the month.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 PM
The US has an opposition party that does not act like one. If reining in lawless, masked men and keeping them from snatching our neighbors off the streets isn't a reason to work together to block funding for this enterprise, then what sort of democracy are you defending?
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The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
Analysis by The Marshall Project of ICE data obtained by the Deportation Data Project found that the Trump administration’s revival of family detention has swept thousands of children into ICE custody. At least 3,800 children under 18, including 20 infants, have been booked since Trump took office.
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.
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The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The executive director of a food pantry reports ICE tailing volunteers and showing up at her house www.kare11.com/article/news...