Deborah Ahrens

Deborah Ahrens

@deborahahrens.bsky.social

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

2,034 Followers 1,594 Following 613 Posts Joined Aug 2023
20 hours ago

I made it 15 minutes and switched it off.

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23 hours ago

Like a lot of us I have my students fill out bios before class starts. I have my 1Ls as their last question tell me their walk-out song, and my music-nerd kid #2 and I listen to the songs the night before class starts. It’s a fun weird house tradition!

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2 days ago

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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5 days ago

This is too real.

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6 days ago

I was an only child and my parents (who had high school degrees) got by on … two incomes (my father worked full-time during the day and worked nights as a security guard). My grandmother and aunt paid for a lot of my dance lessons.

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1 week ago

You can’t swing a cat here without sending it down one of those slides and I live in big bad Seattle.

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1 week ago

With the caveat that I am not 100% sure because I didn’t meet either, one was a truck mechanic and the other was a farm worker who started driving trucks eventually.

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1 week ago

I don’t know how much spine it takes to stand up when you are confident of success.

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1 week ago

I follow a cheese tiktok account and my favorite series is “unhinged pairings,” where she finds the best cheese pairings for gummy bears or oreos. Even hinged cheese pairings would be great.

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2 weeks ago

I am just pointing out that if you had *stayed here* you could enjoy her :P.

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2 weeks ago

And I want to point out she was at the Torrent game last night supporting women’s hockey and still manages to do her actual job.

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2 weeks ago

bsky.app/profile/jaya...

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2 weeks ago

Streisand effect though (immediately went to find the name of the extern).

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2 weeks ago

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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3 weeks ago

Causal inference is my passion.

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3 weeks ago

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3 weeks ago

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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3 weeks ago

Those waffles were the only thing I could get down for months when pregnant with kid #2 in South Carolina.

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3 weeks ago

“Gadflies.”

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3 weeks ago

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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3 weeks ago

“That’s my jam” and it’s Erasure at the QFC.

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3 weeks ago

Thanks to this, just did! That felt great actually.

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1 month ago

If they need a data point, my two oldest kids applied there (ended up ay other small liberal arts colleges) and based on this alone I would advise my other kids against considering Bard.

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1 month ago

It is near happenstance that I went to an Ivy rather than my state public flagship and glad to know people think my education should be radically different based on whether or not my parents relented on me leaving the state.

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1 month ago

With a side of “the real problem here is not the rape, but the victims saying anything about it.”

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1 month ago

My dog has more self-respect than this and my dog is on point of fact a pug.

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1 month ago

Honestly my first reaction.

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1 month ago

Age verification? The Love Boat promises something for everyone.

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1 month ago

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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1 month ago

Pray for me, a professor teaching a morning class in Seattle today.

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