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Ryan Doerfler

@ryandoerfler.bsky.social
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Professor at Harvard Law

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Excited to read this new paper by @jmichaels.bsky.social! I already love the title! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Bowsher Presidency
<div> The power of the purse is the principal source of Congress’s political l<span>everage over the executive branch. Yet in recent years, presidents have&nbs
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This week marks 10 years since I had an abortion. It wasn’t traumatic or heart wrenching—I just didn’t want to become a parent while 24 and living in a shoebox in Brooklyn. I will never be able to convey the rage I feel at the men who have spent the last decade making women less free and less equal.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sorry being told I need to focus on dentists.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The case won't be argued until December, and a ruling might not be issued until June 2027. Flights can resume until judgment. Damn.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
It's remarkable (in a very good way) to see an elected member of the Democratic Party saying this. For decades, the Party has treated public higher education as a jobs training program, not a site for cultivating democratic habits of mind. I deeply hope that things are changing.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guys, what if Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray are actually ... auteurs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/m...
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‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant
The reception to Paul Verhoeven’s lurid 1995 melodrama starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon was humiliating, but it’s since become a thought-provoking camp favorite.
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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I MEAN
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was explaining this at a political meeting last night. Stephen Miller has smartly decided to fly below the radar after the backlash to Minneapolis, Chicago, and other outrages. But by many measures things have gotten worse.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh. My. God.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*because
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Academic freedom cannot survive in a world in which “financial exigency” are magic words. This is the fight of the next decade.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One fears though embracing AI is a prerequisite for any of these jobs.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No this take is DOA.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NYT: In Fits and Starts, the Supreme Court Stands Up to Trump

The justices take their time and pick their spots, but they have rejected presidential initiatives on tariffs, citizenship, the National Guard — and now the coming election.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Not to make homework out of a joke, but it would be so helpful for someone to walk through the way the two a driven by the same or different people. Like I keep thinking about how the current attack is mostly but not entirely an inside job. But how that relates to the AI push is also complicated.
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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Took me forever to even see the second number it was so implausible.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
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