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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 · 9h

“DC may be okay with…”

No, stop that, DC is under military occupation.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 9h

I am once again asking you to stop conflating federal politicians you hate with Washington, DC, a 90% Democratic and plurality black city that doesn’t get a vote in Congress but is uniquely vulnerable to federal meddling

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 12h

Find a protest: lcv.org/nokings

Change your avatar: resistanceyellow.com

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13h

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 13h

Recent polls, Trump approval, drop since last poll:

Ipsos/Reuters 40%-58% (-18) 1 pt ⬇️
Econ/YouGov 39%-56% (-17) 2 pts ⬇️
CBS 42%-58% (-16) 4 pts ⬇️
Civiqs 40%-56% (-16) 4 pts ⬇️
Morn Cons 45%-53% (-8) 2 pts ⬇️

So far shutdown ain't working for Trump.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17h

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h

This is a good summation of it.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve been thinking about people like Weiss, who seem largely motivated by a belief that (1) everyone should hear what they have to say, and (2) if you don’t want to hear it, that’s oppression, and (3) this does not extend to all speech.

People like this will always support MAGA eventually.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 19h

Has he considered not killing 14 million people by destroying USAID

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

ICYMI — “I don’t think there’s anything that will get me into Heaven. I think I’m not, maybe, Heaven-bound.”

Trump confesses on Air Force One

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 21h

Sure NYT could do better in covering fascism but they could also do better in writing Connections categories

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm maybe we shouldn’t have reelected the guy who told us to inject bleach during covid

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 2d

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

Also there was never a Biden FBI. A Trump appointee was FBI Director in the Biden era. No Democrat has *ever* directed the FBI.

Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 2d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

Also there was never a Biden FBI. A Trump appointee was FBI Director in the Biden era. No Democrat has *ever* directed the FBI.

Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 2d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so old i remembered when the internet wasn’t a surveillance machine

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 2d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 5d

🚨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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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

"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 · 5d

Well then congrats on those royalty checks

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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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