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Jul 9 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
She just hugged the oligarch and Chris Fowler said, “he’s the head of the Tennis Federation” and that was it #Wimbledon2022
How can I combine my love of tennis and loathing of political corruption.
Earlier this year a Labour MP “called out businessman Bulat Utemuratov over his role in the Nazarbayev regime as his former chief of staff. Utemuratov made his fortune in 2007 when Italian bank UniCredit purchased 92% of Kazakhstan's ATF Bank for $2.1 billion.”
Link: forbes.com/sites/daviddaw…
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Jul 7
I know there's a lot of attention on this story, but if you think this is the *only* deep connection the Supreme Court justices have with Christian right legal organizations that have business before the Court, you have not been paying attention.
For example, as I reported -- for Rolling Stone! -- two years ago, Amy Coney Barrett has served on the faculty of Alliance Defending Freedom's fellowship program for law students. ADF has cases (and not just amicus briefs!) before the Court all the time.

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
I get the shock value of these activists praying with SCOTUS justices inside the Court. (If it happened; that's unclear.) But agreeing to comply with the "lexicon," and therefore buying into (or appearing to buy into) an organization's entire worldview is far more problematic.
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Jul 7
There's an anecdote in @milbank's column this morning, on the spate of stories on Dem dissatisfaction with Biden, that I had forgotten about.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
And it's just absolutely astonishing that the media, and a high-ranking member of Biden's own party, scolded him for this comment. Oh, the pearl-clutching!
Remember when Trump would say something outrageous every day?!? And the press found it delicious to cover, but usually not to scold. And certainly no Republicans--then or now, with vanishingly small exceptions--scolded Trump. And he was therefore covered as a strong leader.
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Jul 6
These Pew numbers on approval/disapproval of Dobbs tell a story: our public policy is increasingly dictated by the views of white evangelicals:

pewresearch.org/politics/2022/…
A slim majority of Catholics disapprove of the Dobbs decision. A majority of the Supreme Court is Catholic, including 5/6 of the 6 justices who signed on to the majority opinion.

They are not representative of the views of their co-religionists, or all Americans.
There aren't any white evangelicals on the Supreme Court, yet their views are more strongly represented there than any other religious view; the Court's Catholics are not as evenly split as America's Catholics; the Court tilts much further right.
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Jun 30
"Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth."

apnews.com/article/aborti…
Alabama AG argues that gender affirming care is not “deeply rooted in our history or traditions,” and therefore the state can ban them.
Thanks, Alito.
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Jun 30
"The Florida Department of Education is leading the workshops, which were developed with the help of Hillsdale College and other groups."

@kathrynajoyce wrote a 3-part investigation of Hillsdale a few months back. Links in next tweets:

miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
First:

salon.com/2022/03/15/how…
Second:

What's happening in that Miami Herald article is part of a plan, as @kathrynajoyce presciently reported in March:

salon.com/2022/03/16/com…
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Jun 30
Reading this story in the Washington Post right now, about anti-abortion groups (specifically Thomas More Soc. and Nat'l Ass'n of Christian Lawmakers) wanting to press for state laws to prosecute people who travel from a state where abortion is banned to one where it is not.
Link:
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
They also want to add a Texas-style enforcement mechanism (e.g., deputize private citizens to snitch on people and get a monetary reward). Which would add even more vigilantism to this crossing state lines prosecution scheme.
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