Doug Lindner

Doug Lindner

@douglindner.bsky.social

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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I would love to see this guy debate Abdul El-Sayed about science

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

Too many conflate "affordability is the #1 issue" with "affordability is the only issue". We keep seeing top-ticket Dems in battleground states say the loud part loud in a way certain beltway insiders wouldn't recommend, but the candidates are the ones who know their states.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

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Whether it’s Republicans openly demanding bribes or Democrats investigating the payment of bribes, both parties have created a tense and politicized environment for CEOs.

Trump used to be funny, and while that ship mostly sailed a decade ago, openly retaliating against an allied nation for not giving you a *peace* prize is darkly hilarious. Especially after two (2) regime-change attacks this year.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Norway: "I didn't get the Nobel Prize so I don't want anybody from Norway. I don't want anything to do with Norway…Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually."

I'm sure everyone will be just as mad about this as Biden doing too little to rein Netanyahu in

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

JUST IN: Trump reposts his endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu, urging Israelis to vote for Netanyahu so the war against Iran can continue. “We have to finish the job that we started!”

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Brazil is… wow. Nationally, regionally, hemispherically, globally important election result. A choice against democratic backsliding. May it be a significant point in an international trend.

We fought a war over this. 1 of every 30 Americans died. And then we amended the Constitution to add “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Q: Amy Acton's stepfather was indicted for rape. Now that you know all that, sir, do you change your mind about the ad? Trump: No. I don't care

Thoughts and prayers to Pam Bondi, whose record for “most depraved Attorney General” was broken so quickly

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: The worry is that we end up in a situation where President Trump tries to overturn the election and the result of that could be like what we saw after January 6-- BLANCHE: Stop it! You gotta stop it with that! That's crazy BASH: This is a president who has a history

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Replying to @andycraig.bsky.social

What happens to these criminals will determine whether, at some point in the near future, some not-huge number of years down the line, this country is a liberal democracy or else has a consolidated authoritarian regime and/or collapses into civil conflict. That's not hyperbole, it's what's at stake.

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Replying to @andycraig.bsky.social

We'll see how far the attempt goes, even if it will clearly fail. But a constitutional system that sees such an attempt by its chief executive and then leaves him in office has already been shattered. Merely trying is betrayal enough and places him outside of constitutional or democratic legitimacy.

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That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

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Replying to @murshedz.bsky.social

The reports of the Trump regime contemplating massive pardons for junior staffers for committing potential crimes is another reason why rebalancing and restructuring the Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS needs to be in the HR1 in 2029 if the Dems control both the WH & Congress.

Well at least he’s not a government contractor

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. The world’s richest man poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress, recent election filings show.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...

In Somalia, getting shot is the #1 cause of death in children. Wait, sorry, that’s America. My bad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says of Somalia that "all they have is people that shoot you all the time ... it's a shit house country"

Wikipedia exists because a massive army of volunteers supported by a nonprofit organization have spent decades building and maintaining an unprecedented, mostly high quality repository of humanity’s general knowledge available free, instantly, to everyone.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Should you cite Wikipedia in academic papers? Maybe not. But Wikipedia deserves your time and attention more than basically anything else in this blue-lighted rectangle glued to your hands and eyes.

One thing we can all agree on before the midterm is that candidates who win by 0.1% did everything right, candidates who lose by 0.1% did everything wrong, and all their staffers and consultants are geniuses/morons who should be set for life/banished forever.

In all seriousness, the fact that this is how we evaluate political actors and strategies reflects a profound lapse of judgment that pervades elite circles as much as the nation at large

Republicans haven’t lost a Senate race in North Carolina since 2008, and yet!

VoteHub@votehub.com

Per @AdImpact_Pol, Michael Whatley’s U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolina hasn’t aired a broadcast ad in 16 days, while Democrat Roy Cooper’s campaign has aired more than 9,000 broadcast spots without a response from Whatley.

This is yet another fascist power grab

Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social

With citizenship approvals slowing, would-be voters are left in limbo: backlogs in naturalization applications rose from about 500,000 cases at the start of the second Trump administration to more than 800,000 as of August www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

NH is a largely white state, so NH Republicans’ voter suppression focuses largely on college students, accusing their young fellow citizens of being intruders from south of the (Massachusetts) border. SCOTUS Republicans, as usual, are helping their fellow Republicans suppress voters.

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On the one hand, this merger rests on the lawless corruption of a fascist trillionaire CEO buying the Republican Party and usurping the Constitution to illegally decimate all the agencies that regulate his businesses. But on the other hand, it’s a massive threat to national security.

The new Jared Kushner piece is quite a thing--would be quite a movie--but what else would we expect from the favorite son of the Isaac Newton of corruption

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Republicans have long made a major issue that George Soros has been a donor to Democrats, spinning insane lies about him to make that a bad thing Elon Musk is a *much* bigger donor to Republicans and there's no need to invent lies about him. Just tell the truth about the evil shit he says and does

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance's main line of attack on Dan Osborn is SOROS!

No reason to do this 12 days before the midterm if you're acting in good faith. I don't know anything about Louise Lucas' weed business but we all know plenty about MAGA DOJ's fascist attempts to persecute political opponents.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Major news this morning. Louise Lucas, a chief antagonist of Trump and Virginia Republicans (and one of the most vocal proponents of gerrymandering the state earlier this year) is criminally charged by the feds over her marijuana business:

On the one hand, this merger rests on the lawless corruption of a fascist trillionaire CEO buying the Republican Party and usurping the Constitution to illegally decimate all the agencies that regulate his businesses. But on the other hand, it’s a massive threat to national security.

“Analysts and investors said the deal will probably face regulatory scrutiny internationally, though some see Musk’s close relationship with the Trump administration as an asset to getting approval.”

Elon Musk has engineered ties between Tesla and SpaceX that are hard to break, and now he wants to fuse them together permanently.