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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 · 19h

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

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

'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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 1d

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

“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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 4d

🚨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 · 3d

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

"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 · 4d

Well then congrats on those royalty checks

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

I’m the same age as Taylor Swift

Netflix suggested witty midlife crisis tv comedies

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 4d

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

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

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

Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 4d

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

When the patient’s entire being is malignant

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

“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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