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The right has weird ideas about their ideological enemies: we're "groomers," we're secretly on a billionaire's payroll, we hijacked education to promulgate revisionist histories, we steal elections, and, of course, w're plotting to take over America and subjugate them. 1/ A page from the Jack Chick tract 'Dark Dungeons,' depicting
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/10/ten… 2/
The weirdest thing about this is that it's the right that engages in revisionist race-history:

teenvogue.com/story/the-myth…

And it's the right who stole a presidency:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Br…

Election-rigging is a right-wing specialty:

pluralistic.net/2023/02/23/sta… 3/
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1.6 BILLION

A TSUNAMI of DARK MONEY is flooding our justice system — and it's only getting worse

A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor…The source of the money was #BarreSeid

#MOG
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The beneficiary of that unprecedented sum is a newly-created political group controlled by #LeonardLeo, a right-wing activist with deep connections to Republican donors and politicians, as well as conservative forces within the Roman Catholic Church… he STACKED the SUPREME COURT
To say that Seid's donation will allow Leo to double down on that effort may be an understatement. (Can one "quadruple down"?) The Times noted, moreover, that the source of these funds is "difficult to trace through public records."
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The more that resident fascist #LeonardLeo—the radical Catholic Oz behind the SCOTUS curtain—appears in the news, the less effective his byzantine operation becomes.

Yesterday he killed his Twitter account (h/t @GoddessOfOdness).

EVERYONE has to know who he is & what he does.
This is important because Barre Seid just gave Leo $1.6 billion, billion with a B, to ratfuck democracy.

(Seid is 90 years old. His parting gift to the country is to destroy it. May his name live forever in infamy and shame.)

propublica.org/article/dark-m…
What Leo is really good at is spreading that money around his network of non-profits & PACs & other orgs to maximize political spending & pay as little in taxes as possible.

You know, like they teach you in Church.
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Ma chronique #weekend à lire sur @Lesjoursfr
J'ai oublié de vous dire😉..
En 2016-17, pour bloquer la nomination de Garland par #Obama à la #CourSuprême et promouvoir celle de Gorsuch par #Trump, le Judicial Crisis Network conservateur dépensa 17 millions de $ d'origine anonyme.
2) Ah oui, j'ai encore oublié de vous dire... au coeur du réseau Judicial Crisis Network qui dépense des millions de $- de source anonyme- pour soutenir la nomination de juges conservateurs à la #CourSuprême et autres cours, Leonard Leo qui propose les juges à nommer à #Trump...
3) Lire sur #LeonardLeo, qui a parlé à Gorsuch du poste à la #CourSuprême avant même que #Trump ne l'y nomme, cette formidable enquête du @washingtonpost en 2019 et ces données financières recoupées par @OpenSecretsDC.
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
opensecrets.org/news/2020/01/s…
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#LeonardLeo
“Last week, five Democratic senators sent disturbing missives to three Trump admin officials about secret forces transforming the US courts and about one very powerful American lawyer in particular, Leonard Leo.” qz.com/1816542/senato…
#LeonardLeo
“Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Durbin, Sherrod Brown, Richard Blumenthal, and Mazie Hirono signed on, saying Leo’s involvement in nominating jurists while likely profiting from related fundraising activities raises concerns about conflicts of interest.”
“The Federalist Society’s Executive VP, Leonard Leo, has been linked to a million-dollar contribution to the NRA’s lobbying arm, and to a $250 million network largely funded by anonymous donors to promote right-wing causes and judicial nominees,” the lawmakers wrote.
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🔥BadassDAG🔥

Did Trump’s tweet give RU the green light to interfere in US Elex again?

Trump still accept’s Putin denial RU interfered in the 2016 over our own intel community.🙄

Justin Kennedy was one of Trump’s most trusted associates for 12 years while at Deutsche Bank.
🔥BadassDAG2🔥

is the crackdown on illegal migrants an intentional distraction from NatSec threats, child pornography & TOC?

Hmmm...”if your son is working for a bank moving dark money around and you write a Supreme Court decision about dark money, is it still valid?”(EG)
🔥BadassDAG3🔥

Special counsel eyeing Russians granted unusual access to Trump inauguration parties

Manafort is begging the DC Circuit to let him out of jail while his appeal is pending, Nope!

North Korea continues work on nuclear facility despite agreement
Anyone surprised?
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