Tom Carter

@thcarter123.bsky.social

Tom Carter has been the source of a wealth of material & insight [on Leonard Leo] - Gareth Gore Much of what we know about Leonard Leo is through the work of Tom Carter - Lisa Graves Tom follows Leo the way other people follow the Mets - Greg Olear

the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a Christian Right group backed by conservative legal activist and Trump “judge whisperer” Leonard Leo. EPPC originated the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to refer to gender-affirming care assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

New HHS Report on Gender-Affirming Care Rife With False Information - Assigned Media

“As soon as you politicize any sort of healthcare it's a really slippery slope.”

assignedmedia.org

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

Bild

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

If a White House reporter sees a friend and colleague being attacked by a bully, does he/she step in and risk losing job? So far? No! Cant risk losing invite to nerd prom or ride on AF1. Not people I want in my trench. Got ur back? Nope. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

White House launches personal attack on CNN reporter over question to Trump

CNN says attack ‘beneath the office’ after Kristen Holmes asked president about Jon Ossoff’s comments on key aide

theguardian.com

As Catholic Leonard Leo Supreme Court abandons originalism, it turns to natural law. Habermas of course rejected Natural Law, the medium of Catholic philosophy, outright, “devoid of any and every convincing philosophical justification”, as he damningly put it. villagemagazine.ie/our-greatest...

Our greatest intellectual is gone - Village Magazine

For more than six decades, Jürgen Habermas defended the power of reasoned dialogue against authoritarianism, consumerism and political cynicism

villagemagazine.ie

Last 3 years. @propublica.org reposts old story every 2-3 weeks. @andykroll.bsky.social Is it normal to repost old stories over and over? Good for clicks? 🤷‍♂️ Writing from the clips & zero new reporting, @propublica.org introduced Leonard Leo to a new audience. It could have been so much more.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago

The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system. (Published Oct. 2023)

Check the vaccination rates at your child or grandchild’s school. Another reason to move from red states death zones. Usually its smoking, drinking, fentanyl, obesity, etc killing adults. MAGA discovered a way to murder toddlers. No vaccine exemptions at my Thanksgiving. wapo.st/4bX1BSa

U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.

Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.

wapo.st

In 2004, thanks to Heidi Beirich & SPLC, I became aware John Tanton’s anti immigration web in DC. They are quoted daily by MSM these days as legitimate experts, but never identified as racists. Tanton published Camp of the Saints in English, in 1987. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-dystop...

The Dystopian Novel Fueling the Far Right’s Migration Myths

From Ceuta to Washington, hard-right leaders regularly cite Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel to transform real-world border events into apocalyptic threats to Western civilization.

thebulwark.com

At the famine cemetery overlooking the village of Dingle, Ireland. there was a soup pot used by Protestants to proselytize starving Catholics. By some estimates 10,000 people perished in Dingle 1845-1852. Most in unmarked graves.

BildBild