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Bridget Dooling
@bridgetdooling.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University. How firm thy friendship. Admin law, Legislation & Regulation. Former OMB/OIRA GWRegStudies GWLaw.🐝keeper. My views only.
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You know I’m working on my tenure dossier if I have to get these bad boys out.
A box full of 20+ years of planners.
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Sunny knows how to Sunday.
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Take it from @kellyclancy.bsky.social, writers, you have infinite hearts. ❤️💕
A pic of Kelly's substack that says "This isn’t one of those games from when we were kids where you get to the last bad guy and screw up and forget to duck and you lose your last hearts and bam! You’re back at the beginning of the level. Lucky for all of us, writing isn’t like that. If you start off strong and then all of a sudden your basement is flooding and you have all of these AI cheating cases to adjudicate and there’s a blizzard and you need to shovel your elderly neighbors’ driveways and then you realize a week’s gone by and you didn’t write a word…guess what? You can just start writing again. You have infinite hearts—you start exactly where you left off, and we’ll be super excited that you’re back."
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I’m still on the road. Dispatch from home. I miss my best girl!
White dog with ears up, paws crossed, and tongue up and over her snoot.
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Teaching major questions doctrine today. I start with Brown & Williamson, then WV v EPA then Biden v Nebraska. I try to map the evolution across these 3 cases and my view is that reading from left to right it’s basically this:
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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As a person of a certain age, it’s physically impossible to be here and not sing it.
October 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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A little affirmation from a stranger’s index card on the bus floor.
Photo of the floor of a bus with a pink index card that says “You are Loved”
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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See also
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Hey you know what’s great? State parks! @odnr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Headed to DC this weekend so my husband can run the Army Ten-Miler ……. oh wait.

We’ll know tomorrow if the race is on or if it’s a casualty of the shutdown.
October 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Writing ✅
Football loading….
October 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Headed into shutdown day 1 like
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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I mean srsly.
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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What is it about a dog in a kerchief? My word.
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Just a very serious law professor over here using her Wendy’s Wednesday spoon for her snack.
September 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Did we break the AALS website by all clicking the email that said registration is open?!

I just want to know where, exactly the conference will be held, does anyone know? 😢
Error message from aala.org saying "error establishing a database connection"
September 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Shutting down over here as well.
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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O-H!
August 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Hmmmmmm looks ok from here 💅
August 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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How firm thy friendship…..BRACELET
August 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Regarding the CDC head firing, I just read a 2019 approps bill (good times, TGIF!). This bill doesn't apply to HHS/CDC, but it says no $ for pay of any officer/employee who interferes with others' communication with Congress.

Full text in pic.

www.congress.gov/116/statute/... (p.177-78 of PDF)
No part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be available for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal Government, who— (1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or employee of the Federal Government from having any direct oral or written communication or contact with any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the employment of such other officer or employee or pertaining to the department or agency of such other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of whether such communication or contact is at the initiative of such other officer or employee or in response to the request or inquiry of such Member, committee, or subcommittee; or (2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any employment right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of employment of, any other officer or employee of the Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to such other officer or employee, by reason of any communication or contact of such other officer or employee with any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the Congress as described in paragraph (1).
August 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The hell you say!
Screenshot of Google AI saying that Travis Kelce didn’t really propose to Taylor Swift.
August 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Your moment of zen (sound on)
August 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Folks what is happening the people on the bottom left? Mom plans to snap her neck and the baby is held down by his feet? What is happening.
August 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Oh hello
August 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM