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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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Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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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.
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."
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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”
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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Thoughts and prayers to Pam Bondi, whose record for “most depraved Attorney General” was broken so quickly
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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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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“Anyone wanting to lead the [Democratic] party is going to have to be willing to take on this court and rebalance the scales. If they don’t, their constituents won’t stand for it.” @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Well at least he’s not a government contractor
“.. 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...
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?
Republicans haven’t lost a Senate race in North Carolina since 2008, and yet!
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.
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.
SCOTUS weighing in to help Republicans keep the Senate: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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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.
Musk's political baggage clouds prospects for SpaceX-Tesla deal reut.rs/4BlSq8E
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News just broke that Elon Musk made a $1 billion investment in the Ellison family's Skydance, which owns CBS and CNN. Anoher step toward right-wing "media capture," as I wrote about recently in my Stop the Presses newsletter.
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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.
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.
Musk's political baggage clouds prospects for SpaceX-Tesla deal reut.rs/4BlSq8E
“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.