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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Terrific post by @LuluFriesdat of @Smart_elections —which seeks a hand recount of the presidential election in Rockland County, NY—in which they correct those who have wrongly suggested that Smart Elections’ legitimate concerns & findings thus far amount to “proof” that the election was rigged for Trump.
THIS is what credible election integrity messaging looks like: “Are we concerned about all the software updates they released? You bet we are. Can we say conclusively that there was some kind of malware in those updates that changed vote totals? No we cannot. That’s why we’re in court. To get that kind of information.”
👏👏👏👏 1/ open.substack.com/pub/smartelect…
Those of you who have followed me for years know that I spent about four years of my life focusing on election security. (See my article below.) 2/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/trump-…
3/ After the Big Lie, I felt that the movement had been so discredited—by people improperly conflating vulnerabilities with “proof” of fraud & then using that non-existent “proof” to justify violence—that I could no longer effectively advance this ball.
“As of three weeks ago, 172 of these individuals [pardoned by Trump] had pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. By their own admission, they assaulted police. About 140 officers were injured, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day. Four officers who responded that day have since died by suicide.” 1/25/25 (Link in post 2.)
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Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”
(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/
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…