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Doug Lindner

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Democracy nerd, DC politics guy, public-interest lawyer, Jewish American. Live Free or Die. Views and puns solely my fault; everything else is fedsoc’s fault.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · Dec 20

🧵HOW TO CALL CONGRESS AND FIGHT FASCISM 🧵

The US Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Save that number in your phone.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 10h

Have never played an assassin’s creed game but would have bought that one!

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 1d

🚨The Election Assistance Commission needs to hear from you!

Anti-voter groups are petitioning to make Americans registering to vote with the EAC's federal form show documents like a passport, which millions don’t have.

Learn more & take action to protect our #VotingRights 📲: bit.ly/42tPHua

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 16h

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the
Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to
create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1
Indeed, in the past few days, the President has
repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize
National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day,
Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President
has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and
dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office
that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful
troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself
posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed.
These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s
National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new
deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration
of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention.

The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we
have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops
and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against
defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S.
military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Well then congrats on those royalty checks

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

A classic gift but sadly not a classic book because it exists to be gifted, not read

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Three (3) different people gave me copies of Great Jews in Sports for my bar mitzvah despite my having never demonstrated any interest in sports

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

I’m the same age as Taylor Swift

Netflix suggested witty midlife crisis tv comedies

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

This + The John Roberts Doctrine™: presidential power is good when the guy i voted for is president

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Winning Congress is *hard,* and moving things through it is thankless drudgery

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that they would have invented antifascism in [checks notes] the Weimar Republic

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible that “protect presidential power” was a bipartisan thing for so long, with nobody trying to protect congressional power

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

No rational person could read the Declaration of Independence and believe the founders intended for our head of state to be as powerful as Trump is in 2025. No one who says they did should be taken seriously. Especially if they’re a supreme court justice.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Normal brain: the senate should have convicted Trump for doing 1/6

Big brain: the senate should have convicted Trump for doing the Ukraine/Biden extortion

Biggest brain: the senate should have convicted Andrew Johnson for firing the war secretary in defiance of a law passed by Congress

Bipartisan measure to restrict Trump’s war powers fails in Senate

A bipartisan Senate resolution to restrain Trump’s ability to wage war against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers failed in a 48-51 vote.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

See I just assumed he’s learned over time that nothing is a scandal if he does it out in the open

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

When the patient’s entire being is malignant

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

“plenary authority”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enablin...

The Enabling Act of 1933 (German:
Ermächtigungsgesetz, officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich') [1] was a law that gave the German Cabinet-most importantly, the chancellor, Adolf Hitler-plenary authority or the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg. By allowing the chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act of 1933 was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 2d

While the Trump Admin is working to make it harder to vote, LCV’s partners are defending our democracy nationwide.

See what's happening in your state:

Memo: LCV State Partners Continue to Stand Up for Democracy and Against Authoritarianism

Here are the most important state democracy wins so far this year, and how LCV and our state partners in the Conservation Voter Movement helped make them happen.

lcv.org

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

We (Democrats, reporters, society in general) should and should be able to make this into a big story.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

However, on the other hand, Kamala has pronouns in her bio

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

If there is one thing the American mainstream media simply cannot resist, it’s a “Relax, the Libs are overreacting again!” take that presents a wildly disingenuous version of what is actually going on in MAGA land to launder the Right and chide “the Left” for being hysterical.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

Getting this far down the thread and remembering where we started has to violate some kind of posting rule

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

Presumably nobody wants to be first

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

Would help if we had more one-off lawyers arguing before SCOTUS once. If SCOTUS practice is your main thing, you have a professional incentive for these nine specific people to like you.

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