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.https://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mm2usfb7tc2vIn my first semester of law school, they told us it would be malpractice not to manually check every single case you're citing to make sure it's still good (valid, not-obsolete) law. That's way beyond merely confirming the sources exist. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2usfb7tc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mm2ujggruk2vHard to take this seriously from a former senator who says it while selling a book in 2026 but didn't endorse Harris in 2024 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2ujggruk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mly4maj2s222Weird how we don’t see a lot of “in this Detroit barber shop…” pieces [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 May 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mly4maj2s222https://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlwitjaouc2lWow can’t believe the Roberts Court is doing a thing that helps Republican power [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 23:37 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwitjaouc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlwimklyms2llol imagine believing this administration cares about ethics [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwimklyms2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlvz7jdfrk22Never occurred to me that a circumcised executive would help the separation of powers but sure, pick a Jewish president [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlvz7jdfrk22https://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mltpq65uyc2oUgh yeah why can’t Dem senators just get over the time Trump tried to assassinate them? [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltpq65uyc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlto76rnxk2wQ: What do Kamala Harris, Ruben Gallego, and Ro Khanna have in common?14 May 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlto76rnxk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mltd2he3gk2uX didn't become an algorithmic MAGA cesspool because we left. We left because X became an algorithmic MAGA cesspool.14 May 2026 17:16 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltd2he3gk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mltcsad2pc2cWell at least we have a president, congressional majorities, and SCOTUS majority who are fully tethered to reality and care about Americans' financial situation, right [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltcsad2pc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mltc4j7ax22jLouisiana v. Callais is an attack on Black voters' power. DC Statehood is a key strategy to fight back. New from @lcv.org and @dcvote.bsky.social: https://www.lcv.org/blog/why-d-c-statehood-is-even-more-critical-after-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act/14 May 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltc4j7ax22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlrloxo5y22oThis is actually not how alcohol works [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrloxo5y22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlrkwuwjnk2oLooking forward to the future day when everyone at SPLC can enjoy the street cred of having been the fascist regime’s most hated NGO. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 00:32 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrkwuwjnk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlr5bmc5os26Some say college protestors are a threat to free speech. Others say a president wielding the power of the state to violently repress dissenters is a threat to free speech. But we should all be able to agree that if someone disagrees with me personally, they should be scolded in the New York Times.13 May 2026 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr5bmc5os26https://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlr47uy2ws26Lincoln expanded SCOTUS. We should too. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 20:08 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlr47uy2ws26https://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlq7atpkjc2cHmm wonder why the party whose main thing is taking from the poor and giving to the rich would struggle with this [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlq7atpkjc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlpca4g7tc2eWhat i don’t get about the anti-bluesky, go-back-to-X people is: what would we do about the algorithm? 🧵13 May 2026 02:50 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpca4g7tc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlpant5gek2lOLC under Nixon wrote a memo that said DOJ can't prosecute incumbent presidents (why would the *Nixon* Admin do this?), and then, although these things are just memos, generations of DOJ prosecutors including Robert Mueller just let A Lot Of Stuff slide [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpant5gek2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlp7q4fzk227If you learn one (1) thing about American politics from this website, please let it be that the Supreme Court's MAGA Justices are part of problem you're mad about, and every solution you want requires adding seats to change SCOTUS' majority13 May 2026 02:06 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlp7q4fzk227https://bsky.app/profile/douglindner.bsky.social/post/3mlp76wyzqk27If your reply to a Jewish American's post about Jewish American Heritage Month is vitriol about Israel/Palestine, that is, in fact, antisemitism.13 May 2026 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:iomggbot2behsfuzdyellato/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlp76wyzqk27