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Deborah Ahrens

@deborahahrens.bsky.social
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Crimprof, evidence curmudgeon, former public defender, Seattle University School of Law professor, true crime enthusiast, parent of many, fan of bitter food.

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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I started at Brown in 1990, which was the fall when a bathroom at the library became the place women wrote about campus rapists. We’re still here, 36 years later.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kid #4 and I went hiking yesterday. We pulled into a strip mall afterwards and were trying to decide where to eat based on “which place isn’t using AI on its signs” only to see that every single place was using AI on its signs.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Guess what, got worse.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I just had a call from a colleague about this. As @djsziff.bsky.social posts also, all of the students are in Yakima for this (about a 2.5 hour drive from the Seattle area, where 2 of the 3 WA law schools are located and likely the majority of test-takers); they are in hotels out there.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Post a perfect album from the album 1990s.
Sleater Kinney’s album Dig Me Out.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Still trying to deal emotionally with having a team I was rooting for in a match win.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I am going to lose it.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My [solidcore] coach ended today with “go, Spain” which eased the pain of obliques slightly.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What is this?
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Turns out this watch party is definitely for the Swiss
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Welp.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m here, soccer friends!
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Game on!
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I am officially “I had to explain Bebe Neuwirth to my solidcore instructor” years old.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I am alive for this.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I only have soccer patriotism.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As the parent of a trans daughter this is a rough morning, both substantively and in terms of seeing some members of the nation’s highest court talk about trans kids as they do. Yes I knew this was as coming, but still awful to see in print.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Paraguay and Morocco and I am teaching what tomorrow in night school?
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I CANNOT
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
THAT WAS WILD
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We’re calling that a 0-0 win.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
At a huge public watch party in Seattle, boos for RFK Jr almost as loud as cheers for the goal.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Have to get anywhere in San Francisco? Hill issue.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The process is the punishment.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
In Seoul for a week and what I would not give to have this subway system.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
No better time for Canvas to be down than when my students are studying for my finals.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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a group of people are playing a game on the sidewalk and one of them is screaming , `` suffer ! ''
Alt: High school senior hazes incoming freshmen with condiments.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Goodfella.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cats are such graceful, majestic creatures.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
My youngest just tried to insult me by reminding me of how cringe it is to be an elder millennial like me but my child I was born in 1972.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’m a Brown alum and PWHL season ticket holder and no one has ticked me off more in the past 36 hours.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Causal inference is my passion.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I was at a women’s sports bar watching the hockey final and we were screaming for Amber Glenn on a side screen. Alyssa Liu’s brilliance and autonomy gives me hope for my sports kids, and heals something in the former me that trained in ballet. At the risk of sincerity, what an Olympic day.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 17/02/2026
NEW: Today, an immigration judge terminated removal proceedings for Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student, Palestinian activist, and U.S. permanent resident whom the Trump administration arrested in April 2025 and attempted to deport under the foreign policy provision.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Age verification? The Love Boat promises something for everyone.
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mfeebeling.bsky.social @mfeebeling.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Pray for me, a professor teaching a morning class in Seattle today.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The cowardice of so many elites has led us to this moment
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Evidence folks may be interested in today’s WA Supreme Ct case: Court was asked if the rule of completeness can admit testimonial hearsay against the defendant, but concluded that it didn’t need to answer that question bc the statements weren’t testimonial hearsay: www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
NEW: It's a BFD reform in New Jersey. The state has some of the entire nation's harshest rules when it comes to excluding people from jury service. It has resulted in very distorted jury pools, to the detriment of Black defendants. Murphy just opened jury service to over *300,000* people.
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In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions - Bolts
On Sunday, coming up on his last full week in office, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy stood at the lectern of the New Hope Baptist Church in East Orange to... Read More
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Anna Arons @annaarons.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Also worth adding that officers misrepresenting their authority to enter a home (i.e. "you must let me in," "you're required to let me in under the law") itself invalidates consent to the search, under a line of cases going back to Bumper v. North Carolina.
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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
How I feel sometimes: Me: Impeach. Elected Dems: Impeach. Me: The. EDs: The. Me: President. EDs: President. Me: Impeach the President. EDs: Confirm his nominees! Cc: @senategabe.bsky.social
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One of the things I stress to people about my time as a public defender is that “there’s a video” doesn’t settle things the way you might think.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Walking down Bleecker in the village and passing Steve Tyler who was passing me in the other direction who nodded at me while singing to himself.
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Donovan Orville Gidcomb, The Celebrated D.O.G. @thecelebrateddog.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
For those of us who can’t get through the WSJ pay wall, here’s the nuts and bolts of what in any other era would be the greatest presidential scandal in history. boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
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Trump pardons "start at $1m," reports WSJ
A simple process: you give a lobbyist the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then Trump pardons you.
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Deborah Ahrens @deborahahrens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I mean professors got fired for posting Charlie Kirk’s own words in a manner deemed disrespectful.
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