Doug Lindner

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Weird how websites didn’t have “necessary cookies” to display text in 1999, and yet

Can’t believe this has to be said but “it looks like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” is a dunk on Saddam Hussein, not the Cheesecake Factory

full video with @douglindner.bsky.social here! youtu.be/W1aqkAtqHic?...

I *always * text Meagan back about going on Text Me Back. The most fun pod to do

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

I know ragebait gets clicks but if you give your piece a ragebaity title you can’t act surprised when people get mad

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.

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...

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.

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

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”

We’re gonna build a free world and make the oligarchs pay for it.

Did Vince McMahon turn them down?

He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice

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

Trump would never ridicule someone

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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

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

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

This is yet another fascist power grab

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.

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.

literally illegal

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.