Ryan Doerfler

RIP Frederick Wiseman <3 <3

The SAVE act will provide deeply flawed proof-of-citizenship data for the upcoming election. It is a thinly disguised platform for purging voters--and of course, if the DOJ gets voters rolls with all of the data, they don't even have to guess or use demographic proxies to target Dems in particular.

And I want to add that @veenadubal.bsky.social, who led this litigation, is a literal hero.

UpStairs on the Square to Close at the End of the Year Food news and dining guides for Boston, Massachusetts.

boston.eater.com/2013/10/18/6...

I believe this is Upstairs on the Square (RIP).

"Restraint" is being kind, but yes. And yes, absolutely.

Weird not to mention the justices' contempt for lower courts. Probably just an oversight.

Slop Machine: Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research From the bulldozing of the White House to the rise of ICE Barbie, the visual regime of contemporary American fascism merges violent delight in destruction with nouveau riche vulgarity, middle class me...

Chicago!

thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events...

Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!

Lol quick backpedal from AI will solve climate. Even utopianism has its limits I guess.

Whistling at the Edge of Law The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment.

lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

This is why Minnesotans are begging folks outside the state to keep talking about us.

Please don’t let the world forget we are still in danger.

One thing I wonder is how much AI apocalypse discourse is displaced climate anxiety.

Just amazing that this affidavit got a federal magistrate judge to approve an unprecedented federal seizure of ballots in Fulton County.

The time to prep for similar shenanigans from the feds in 2026---before ballots are fully tabulated and any recounts/contests done---is now.

Important piece on the history of the US government's ideological deportation policies in light of the outcome in AAUP v. Rubio, including crucial quotes from the courtroom testimony of AAUP-Harvard member Bernhard Nickel:

Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.

"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not" is exactly right. (This op-ed from Arne Duncan and David Pressman is excellent; I hope university leaders will read it.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

legit respect for using his platform like this!

excited to share that I am *officially running* to represent Massachusetts state employees on the MA public pension board!

I'm running because public pensions are *ours* and should serve the interests of state workers and our communities

I'm endorsed by @massteacher.bsky.social

www.mapension.com

People should pay attention to this story. Trump actually tries his "you're fired" shtick, directly!! But it's mere words!! Because the guy has a (good) union (which is smartly making a symbol of this story)

Ford meanwhile suspended him immediately and surely would have fired absent union action

Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program:

Massachusetts.

Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

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.