Roger Stone’s Florida church, Coral Ridge Ministries, sued the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after SPLC called it an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group. Coral Ridge asked SCOTUS to review their case, but only one justice felt they shld do so: Clarence Thomas. 1/ thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/06/claren…
3/ Jacob Engels is Roger Stone’s longtime assistant. He’s had a warrant out for his arrest since September. Here’s a photo of the two men outside Coral Ridge.
@granisnark12 5/ Here, Roger Stone says that, although he was baptized Catholic and still considers himself Catholic, he’s now a “parishioner” of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale (the church designated as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center).
@granisnark12 6/ Far right personality Chris Nelson (an associate of Roger Stone) seems to be a fan of Coral Ridge too. See post 7.
@granisnark12 7/
@granisnark12 8/ Eric Metaxas emceed the pro-Trump “Jericho March” rally on 12/12/20 in DC. The rally included Mike Flynn, convicted former Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, Black Robe Regiment pastor Tim Cook, and other far right religious leaders.
@granisnark12 14/ Here is Thomas’s dissent stating that he would have granted cert to revisit the “actual malice” requirement that public figures must satisfy in order to sue for defamation. supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
@granisnark12 15/ Coral Ridge Ministries is apparently now called D. James Kennedy Ministries after its founder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._James_…
@granisnark12 16/ The President and CEO of D. James Kennedy Ministries (aka Coral Ridge Ministries), Roger Stone’s church, is Frank Wright who sits on the Board of Governors of the Council for National Policy (CNP), per the CNP’s 2020 directory. h/t @mariofotos documentcloud.org/documents/7273…
@granisnark12 @mariofotos 17/ Detailed article about Coral Ridge - apparent funding ties to DeVos. desmog.com/d-james-kenned…
@granisnark12 @mariofotos 19/ The Chairman of the Board of D. James Kennedy Ministries (Coral Ridge), William T. Allen, may be a current or former member of the Council for National Policy too, per TrumpFile, although I haven’t found him yet in an actual directory. h/t @mariofotos
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The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt…
Pete Hegseth attends a church that belongs to the CREC, the evangelical denomination founded by Christ Church pastor Doug Wilson. This guy. 👇 h/t @ExaminingMoscow 1/
3/ Doug Wilson founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, formerly known as the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). Pete Hegseth attends a CREC church as discussed in the USA Today piece.
“Something interesting has been going on with Tesla Cybertrucks. Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs, seemingly a lot of them.” 12/29/24 1/ cleantechnica.com/2024/12/29/tes…
👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its own “nation”. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland for Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as Denmark ambassador & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled…1/
2/ This is a reply to Dryden’s post (above). Note Dryden’s response.
3/ Peter Thiel backs Praxis through Pronomos Capitol.