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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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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2h

Well then congrats on those royalty checks

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

I’m the same age as Taylor Swift

Netflix suggested witty midlife crisis tv comedies

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 3h

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

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3h

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

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 3h

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 5h

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 · 4h

When the patient’s entire being is malignant

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 15h

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 16h

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

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

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 · 16h

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

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 16h

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 · 1d

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

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably nobody wants to be first

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

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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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Also important:

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 5d

There are real courts with good judges doing actual law. Just not the current SCOTUS majority.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

We must end the shameful scourge of people not adding me to their starter pack

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

When all my followers don’t like every single one of my posts, I feel like it’s kind of “toxic” in a way because my ego is insatiable

Darrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 2d

Hey, I'm trying to learn more about toxicity on Bluesky. How often do you see toxicity on here? Where in the app do you see it?

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if a 2007 chain email full of size 36 blue comic sans 9/11 truther content became a person, and then we gave that person the nuclear codes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

Sanctimonious Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the biggest “joke” in the United States Senate, is at it again! “Dick” lied until the midpoint of his political career, convincing everyone, in particular the Fake News Media, that he was a great “War Hero” who lived on the precipice of death in the jungles of Vietnam. He would talk about his life in the military in almost every speech, in particular the death defying dangers he faced in his many years “fight for freedom” while in Vietnam. He stated that “the battles were violent and long, but there was no going back” - And then it happened, Blumenthal was found out to be a FRAUD. The soldiers in his so-called “platoon” came forward and said that they had no idea who this guy was. He was revealed, broke down and admitted, tears flowing from his eyes, that he LIED, a Whopper, one that lasted 20 year. This guy shouldn’t even be in the U.S. Senate. It should be investigated, and Justice should be sought. Right now there is a Congressman sitting in prison for lying about his past during a campaign. Well, those lies were nothing compared to those of Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal, perhaps the greatest phony in the history of the United States Senate. He should be allowed to speak no longer!

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Speak out. Go to peaceful protests including No Kings on 10/18. Tell every Democrat seeking federal office they need to expand and rebalance SCOTUS. Our freedoms are on the line.

(This should go without saying but violence only makes things worse so don’t do that)

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Did he take turkish airlines

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