Ryan Doerfler
@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
Professor at Harvard Law
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
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The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
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“veto power over tenure cases is increasingly being exercised by higher-level faculty committees or by administrators, rather than by the departmental colleagues of the junior professors who go up for review”
Wooooo boy
Wooooo boy
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“veto power over tenure cases is increasingly being exercised by higher-level faculty committees or by administrators, rather than by the departmental colleagues of the junior professors who go up for review”
Wooooo boy
Wooooo boy
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
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The Immigrant Law Center provides free legal services to low income immigrants in Minnesota. No small organization with little funding can fight an illegal federal military occupation. Collective support is of vital importance for those people who access these critical services www.ilcm.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Immigrant Law Center provides free legal services to low income immigrants in Minnesota. No small organization with little funding can fight an illegal federal military occupation. Collective support is of vital importance for those people who access these critical services www.ilcm.org
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If we rejected the idea that climate change is best thought of as an externality, how would it our approach to regulation:
![Text reading: in many ways, unlearning externalities-thinking is just rediscovering what we knew in 1970. The Congress that passed the Clean Air Act expressly rejected the use of economic analysis in designing air pollution regulation. The Act’s Senate Report explained that “the health of people is more important than the question of whether [the achievement of air standards] is technically feasible… therefore… existing sources of pollutants either should meet the standard of law or be closed down.” The Supreme Court concluded that the Clean Air Act was a “drastic remedy,” “expressly designed to force regulated sources to develop pollution control devices that might at the time appear to be economically or technologically infeasible.” What this statutory design recognizes is that corporations don’t just act in markets, they control them. They can bring entire technologies, entire new compounds, into being. Asking a regulator or judge to assess the costs and benefits of limiting pollution—or expecting an affected individual to bargain in this situation—makes no sense. Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5m2cxxh65t5tkpn56cnyjr2b/bafkreia4htqp3owielcbb6y2mkw42axhjhnkurl3n7v25q5sdujuujgf6m@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
If we rejected the idea that climate change is best thought of as an externality, how would it our approach to regulation:
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We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern.
As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.
Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.
As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.
Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern.
As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.
Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.
As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.
Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.
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Climate change "hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Climate change "hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices."
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
@katearonoff.bsky.social with a post-mortem on the IRA and the hopes it pinned on an elusive green capital coalition.
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
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“Amelia calls the term e-bike “a play on words.” If the machines were called motorbikes..they would be far less popular. “But the fact that it’s called an e-bike” — evoking such everyday stuff as email, e-books…“makes it accessible.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
The Shocking Crash That Led One County to Reckon With the Dangers of E-Bikes
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Amelia calls the term e-bike “a play on words.” If the machines were called motorbikes..they would be far less popular. “But the fact that it’s called an e-bike” — evoking such everyday stuff as email, e-books…“makes it accessible.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/m...
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Okay, so this exists now! 😬
Inside, you'll find: the IWW, Tom Mooney, the First Red Scare, labor juries, the ILD, the Gastonia Strike, Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Scottsboro, riots at the Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston, Pauli Murray, the Worker's Defense League, FDR using a racial slur . . .
Inside, you'll find: the IWW, Tom Mooney, the First Red Scare, labor juries, the ILD, the Gastonia Strike, Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Scottsboro, riots at the Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston, Pauli Murray, the Worker's Defense League, FDR using a racial slur . . .
In his Article, @tframpton.bsky.social explores the history of advocacy for juries that represent a fair cross-section of the community. He recovers the forgotten stories of the radical litigants, criminal defendants, and social movements whose decades-long work reshaped the jury.
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Okay, so this exists now! 😬
Inside, you'll find: the IWW, Tom Mooney, the First Red Scare, labor juries, the ILD, the Gastonia Strike, Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Scottsboro, riots at the Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston, Pauli Murray, the Worker's Defense League, FDR using a racial slur . . .
Inside, you'll find: the IWW, Tom Mooney, the First Red Scare, labor juries, the ILD, the Gastonia Strike, Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Scottsboro, riots at the Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston, Pauli Murray, the Worker's Defense League, FDR using a racial slur . . .
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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A university called Northwestern should have a compass.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
A university called Northwestern should have a compass.
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
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The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"
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This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is a really sick story.
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...
From everything I know, Boston’s Logan Airport is a legitimately dangerous place to travel through.
abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-c...