Ryan Frei
@ryanfrei.bsky.social
Patent litigator | PhD biochemist | Science, law, and politics—especially where they collide. Based in Portland; outside whenever I can be. He/him.
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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For reasons you umm, may have heard*, today is a great day to become a sustaining member of @opb.org!
[*we just lost $5 million a year, 9% of our operating budget 😅]
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[*we just lost $5 million a year, 9% of our operating budget 😅]
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July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For reasons you umm, may have heard*, today is a great day to become a sustaining member of @opb.org!
[*we just lost $5 million a year, 9% of our operating budget 😅]
Click here to contribute:
[*we just lost $5 million a year, 9% of our operating budget 😅]
Click here to contribute:
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Five things to remember about war:
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Five things to remember about war:
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
It’s always startling to see the lack of women in public in pictures from Iran.
June 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It’s always startling to see the lack of women in public in pictures from Iran.
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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
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Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
May 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes.
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
April 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes.
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
Paul Weiss 40M
Cadwalader 100M
Milbank 100M
Skadden Arps 100M
Willkie Farr 100M
A&O Shearman 125M
Kirkland & Ellis 125M
Latham & Watkins 125M
Simpson Thacher 125M
Not often I agree with Rand Paul.
Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
April 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not often I agree with Rand Paul.
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🚨This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🚨
March 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚨This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🚨
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.
January 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.