Chuck Darwin<p>Amy Klobuchar calls on Supreme Court to hold Trump officials in contempt</p><p>Senator Klobuchar warns of US getting ‘closer to a constitutional crisis’ <br>-- as Samuel Alito’s dissent signals deference to Trump</p><p>On Sunday Minnesota senator <a href="https://c.im/tags/Amy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Klobuchar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Klobuchar</span></a> warned that the US is “getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis”, but the courts, growing Republican disquiet at Trump administration policies, and public protest were holding it off.</p><p>“I believe as long as these courts hold, <br>and the constituents hold, <br>and the congress starts standing up, <br>our democracy will hold,” </p><p>Klobuchar told CNN’s State of the Union, adding <br>💥“but Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.”</p><p>Klobuchar said the US supreme court should 👉hold Trump administration officials in contempt if they continue to ignore a court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García from El Salvador, <br>the Maryland resident the government admitted in court it had deported by mistake.</p><p>Klobuchar said the court could appoint a 👉special prosecutor, independent of Trump’s Department of Justice, <br>to uphold the rule of law and charge any officials who are responsible for Ábrego García’s deportation, <br>or have refused to facilitate his return.</p><p>The senator’s comments came hours after supreme court released justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Samuel</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/dissenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissenting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opinion</span></a> on the court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting more Venezuelans held in north Texas’s Bluebonnet detention center .</p><p>In his dissent, Alito criticized the decision of the seven-member majority, <br>saying the court had acted “literally in the middle of the night” and without sufficient explanation. </p><p>The “unprecedented” relief was “hastily and prematurely granted”, Alito added.</p><p>Alito, whose dissent was joined by fellow conservative justice <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, said there was “dubious factual support” for granting the request in an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union <br>to block deportations of accused gang members that the administration contends are legal under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.</p><p>The majority did not provide a detailed explanation for the order released early on Saturday, <br>only that the administration should not to remove Venezuelans held in the “until further order of this court”.</p><p>The court has said previously that deportations under the 1798 law can only proceed if those scheduled to be removed are offered a chance to argue their case in court and were given “a reasonable time” to contest their pending removals.</p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/amy-klobuchar-samuel-alito-trump-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/20/amy-klobuchar-samuel-alito-trump-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
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Bohemian Peasant<p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> moved with urgency late last night, intervening in the Alien Enemies Act cases and blocking <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a>. It appears that a majority on the court finally figured out they were being "played" by the govt who seems to have been moving detainees around to avoid court orders and giving the detainees less than full access to due process. </p><p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> and <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>, the leading sociopaths on the court, dissented ... of course.</p><p><a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACLU</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/AARP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AARP</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-sup</span><span class="invisible">reme-courts-late-night</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Red-Tory MP who smeared Corbyn as mate of Putin and Farage deletes libellous post”</p><p>by Skwawkbox <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@skwawkbox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>skwawkbox</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UKLabour</span></a></span> </p><p>“[Plymouth Moor View MP] Fred Thomas meekly deletes post after warning from Corbyn and widespread mockery”</p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/04/19/red-tory-mp-who-smeared-corbyn-as-mate-of-putin-and-farage-deletes-libellous-post/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/04/19/red-t</span><span class="invisible">ory-mp-who-smeared-corbyn-as-mate-of-putin-and-farage-deletes-libellous-post/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Corbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corbyn</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Smears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smears</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RedTory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedTory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryContinuityParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToryContinuityParty</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hypocrisy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lies</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> Labour <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WFA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeGearKier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeGearKier</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BenefitsHarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BenefitsHarmer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KidStarver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KidStarver</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RachelThieves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RachelThieves</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreezeAndStarve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreezeAndStarve</span></a></p>
Dagblad Van het Noorden RSS<p>[19:14] Rembrandt met 75 werken groots aanwezig in 750-jarige hoofdstad</p><p> Het is niet de eerste keer dat H’Art pronkt met werken van Rembrandt van Rijn. Maar het museum in 750-jarig Amsterdam pakt de komende maanden nog groter uit met schilderijen uit de 17de eeuw dan in 2023. Dat is te danken aan de New Yorkse kunstverzamelaar Thomas Kaplan.</p><p> <a href="https://dvhn.nl/cultuur/beeldende-kunst/Rembrandt-groots-aanwezig-in-jarige-hoofdstad-in-museum-H%E2%80%99Art-46162329.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dvhn.nl/cultuur/beeldende-kuns</span><span class="invisible">t/Rembrandt-groots-aanwezig-in-jarige-hoofdstad-in-museum-H%E2%80%99Art-46162329.html</span></a><br> <br> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/eerste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eerste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/RembrandtvanRijn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RembrandtvanRijn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/750_jarigAmsterdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>750_jarigAmsterdam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/17deeeuw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>17deeeuw</span></a> #2023 <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/NewYorkse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a></p>
Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️<p>The second episode of Dark Money Games by Alex Gibney on HBO features journalist Jane Mayer discussing the conservative Christian agents Leonard Leo and his puppet Supreme Court justices overturning human rights, rule of law and US constitutional democracy. Some of this is based on the recent Court reporting by ProPublica. Ideal for your high school civics class.<br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/repent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DarkMoneyGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkMoneyGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Kavanaugh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kavanaugh</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a></p>
Tom :damnified:<p><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thomas</span></a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/metalheadclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metalheadclub</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metalhead.club/@treuss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>treuss</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metalhead.club/@derthomas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>derthomas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metalhead.club/@t4s" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>t4s</span></a></span> cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://metalhead.club/@Kitty" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kitty</span></a></span></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>heidilifeldman</span></a></span> </p><p>copy-pasta of mine, earlier:</p><p>"<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardLeo</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalistSociety</span></a> hired <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JusticeRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeRoberts</span></a> to do one thing, and one thing only</p><p>To re-write the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnitedStatesConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesConstitution</span></a> in full service to Leo's <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnitaryExecutive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitaryExecutive</span></a> pipedream</p><p>So far <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> is performing according to script </p><p>Aided and abetted by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> of course"</p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@samlitzinger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>samlitzinger</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LeonardLeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardLeo</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FederalistSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalistSociety</span></a> hired <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/JusticeRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeRoberts</span></a> to do one thing, and one thing only</p><p>To re-write the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnitedStatesConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesConstitution</span></a> in full service to Leo's <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UnitaryExecutive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitaryExecutive</span></a> pipedream</p><p>So far <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a> is performing according to script </p><p>Aided and abetted by <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> of course</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a></p>
EmB Philo<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@MNSpy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MNSpy</span></a></span> </p><p>In <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> history accounts, the conservative (traitorous) members of the current SCOTUS will go down as despicable, self-serving monsters. The US probably will not have future accounts of history because it will be a <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dystopian</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/trashheap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trashheap</span></a> forever. Worldwide, though, the names, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roberts</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> will be synonymous with ignorance, selfishness and cowardice.</p>
Frankie ✅<p>Federal courts won’t refer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to attorney general over ethics </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ethics-clarence-thomas-f9c9fee5554e5859e7f6185698fb4f76" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/supreme-cou</span><span class="invisible">rt-ethics-clarence-thomas-f9c9fee5554e5859e7f6185698fb4f76</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOPCult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOPCult</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thomas</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Through his role in securing the nominations of Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, and Samuel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> to the Supreme Court, <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a>’s political cachet began to grow. </p><p>An avid networker, he cultivated friendships with other members of the court, <br>spending a weekend in Colorado hunting with Judge Antonin <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scalia</span></a> <br>— himself a devout Catholic and, like the Corkerys, close to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dei</span></a>. </p><p>Surrounded by such religious zeal, it didn’t take long for their example to reawaken his own Catholic faith, and Leo soon began tapping his network of <a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darkmoney</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/backers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backers</span></a> to support religious causes. </p><p>He twice bailed out the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Becket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fund</span></a>, a nonprofit named after a twelfth-century English martyr, that officially worked to protect religious freedoms, <br>especially those that were important to conservative Catholics. </p><p>He reveled in his reputation as the financial savior of this important community. </p><p>Soon afterwards, President Bush picked Leo as his representative to the "United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,"<br>a federal agency set up to police religious freedom around the world. </p><p>Despite its lofty aims, the commission had a tiny budget and its commissioners were unpaid. </p><p>Within Washington circles, many saw it as nothing more than an office for amateurs who meddled in foreign policy. </p><p>Undeterred by the skeptics, Leo made the most of his time at the commission to push his own Catholic agenda <br>— traveling to places like Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, and Vietnam to investigate allegations of religious persecution. </p><p>His own faith seemed to grow during that time, <br>with Leo occasionally reprimanding his staff for putting him in a hotel too far from a church, <br>making it difficult for him to attend Mass. </p><p>Some colleagues began to note a particular bias in the way he carried out a role that conflicted with the commission’s stated aim of championing the freedom of all religions. </p><p>He became embroiled in a lawsuit after one former colleague accused him of ❌firing her because she was Muslim. </p><p>Several staff members resigned because of the controversy, <br>and Leo was fired not long after. </p><p>Despite the scandal, his time at the commission deepened Leo’s faith and helped him cultivate his image as a serious political figure. </p><p>By the time of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a>’s twenty-fifth anniversary dinner in November 2007, <br>his influence was clear. </p><p>Leo shared the stage with the president and three sitting Supreme Court Justices <br>— Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. </p><p>Chief Justice John Roberts sent a video message. </p><p>“Thanks in part to your efforts, a new generation of lawyers is rising,” President Bush told the assembled members. </p><p>At the time of this dinner, Leo was still recovering from the sudden death of his daughter Margaret just a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday <br>— an event that had a profound impact on him. </p><p>Margaret had been born with spina bifida and used a wheelchair. </p><p>Events around her death had reinforced Leo’s faith. </p><p>The previous summer, during a family vacation, Leo had promised Margaret that he would try to go to Mass more regularly. </p><p>Over the years, Margaret had developed an obsession with anything religious, and would nag her parents to take her to Mass. </p><p>She especially loved angels <br>— and priests, insisting on a hug every time she saw one. </p><p>The day after they returned from vacation, Leo got up early to go to Mass <br>— as promised — and looked in on Margaret. </p><p>As he was walking down the hall, she started gasping for breath and died shortly afterward. </p><p>“I will always think that she did her job,” he later said. “She did her job.”</p>
Chuck Darwin<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Leo</span></a> was born on Long Island in the mid-sixties. <br>When he was only a toddler, he lost his father — a pastry chef — to cancer. <br>At the age of five, his mother remarried, and the Leos moved to New Jersey, where he attended Monroe Township High School. <br>Leo was chosen as the “Most Likely to Succeed” <br>a distinction he shared with classmate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sally</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schroeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schroeder</span></a>, his future wife. <br>In the yearbook, the two were shown sitting next to each other, holding wads of cash and with dollar signs painted on their glasses. <br>He was so effective at raising money for his senior prom that his classmates nicknamed him the “Moneybags Kid.” <br>Throughout his life, he remained steeped in the deep Catholicism of his grandfather, who had emigrated to the United States from Italy as a teenager; <br>his grandparents attended Mass daily, and encouraged the young Leonard to follow their lead. <br>After high school, Leo went to Cornell University, studying under a group of conservative academics in the university’s department of government <br>and with the wider national backdrop of iconoclastic scholars led by Yale University’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Robert</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bork</span></a> and the University of Chicago’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antonin</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scalia</span></a>, who were building the case for a novel legal doctrine known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/originalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalism</span></a>. <br>He got a series of internships in Washington, D.C., during the final years of the Reagan administration, <br>then returned to Cornell to join the law school, where in 1989 he founded the local chapter of a student organization called the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a>. <br>That group had been set up by three conservative-leaning students from Yale, Harvard, and Chicago seven years earlier as a way of challenging what they saw as the dominance of liberal ideology at the country’s law schools. </p><p>After graduating, Leo married Sally, who had been raised as a Protestant but who used to go to Catholic Mass five times every weekend because she played the organ. </p><p>She decided to convert not long before her marriage. </p><p>The couple moved back to Washington, where Leo clerked for a judge on the court of appeals and became close with another appellate judge who had recently been appointed to the D.C. circuit <br>— a man from Georgia called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, <br>who had toyed with becoming a Catholic priest. </p><p>Despite being ten years older and from much more humble origins, <br>Thomas shared Leo’s conservative outlook, and the two soon developed a deep friendship that would endure for many years. </p><p>During this period, Leo was asked by the Federalist Society to become its first employee <br>— although he delayed his start date so that he could help his good friend Thomas through his contentious confirmation process for the Supreme Court. </p><p>Despite accusations of sexual harassment hanging over him, Thomas won Senate confirmation by a slim margin. </p><p>It would be the first in a series of fights in which Leo would have to put aside the teachings of his Christian faith as he focused on the greater goal of pushing through a conservative revolution of the courts and of society at large. <br><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rollingstone.com/politics/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics-features/opus-dei-leonard-leo-supreme-court-moneybags-kid-1235115538/</span></a></p>
Normal Guy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cannon</span></a> fits right in with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a>. They are f’ing crooked! 🖕🤬</p>
Wokebloke for Democracy<p>"The US supreme court will allow the Biden administration to withhold millions of dollars in grant money from the state of Oklahoma over its refusal to provide information about abortion providers to patients who seek it. <br>Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch were the three who would have granted Oklahoma’s application for relief."<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/03/us-supreme-court-oklahoma-family-planning-fund" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/sep/03/us-supreme-court-oklahoma-family-planning-fund</span></a><br><a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/RobertsCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertsCourt</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Gorsuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gorsuch</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://libretooth.gr/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a></p>
BinaryHawk<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alito</span></a> as well as the other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> justices are an insult to the terms <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EqualJusticeUnderTheLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EqualJusticeUnderTheLaw</span></a>! These "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservative</span></a>" justices are extensions of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MoscowMitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MoscowMitch</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> agenda and FAR from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FairAndUnbiased" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairAndUnbiased</span></a>! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExpandSCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExpandSCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VoteBlueUpAndDownBallot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteBlueUpAndDownBallot</span></a></p>
Megan Marie Hart<p>OPEN-AIR-KONZERT<br>Start der Saison 2024/2025</p><p>🗓️ August 31<br>🕕 18:00<br>📍 Georg-Büchner-Platz, Darmstadt</p><p>Soprano: Megan Marie Hart <br>Soprano: Jana Baumeister<br>Mezzo-soprano: Lena Sutor-Wernich</p><p>Staatsorchester Darmstadt under the baton of Maestro Johannes Zahn</p><p>Hosted by Gernot Wojnarowicz</p><p>Works by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rossini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rossini</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gluck</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Auber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auber</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dvořák</span></a>, Ambroise <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Verdi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verdi</span></a> and more!</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/open-air-konzert.961/#event-10358" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">staatstheater-darmstadt.de/ver</span><span class="invisible">anstaltungen/open-air-konzert.961/#event-10358</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EintrittFrei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EintrittFrei</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/concert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>concert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Darmstadt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darmstadt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hessen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openAir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openAir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opera</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classical</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operaSinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>operaSinger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>audio</span></a></p>
ABY BUT IN ALLCAPS<p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/lgbtiqa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtiqa</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a></p>
Adrian Roselli<p>Someone has tracked “…All The Ethics Scandals Involving The Supreme Court Justice Amid New Harlan Crow Trips”<br><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/08/05/clarence-thomas-here-are-all-the-ethics-scandals-involving-the-supreme-court-justice-amid-new-harlan-crow-trips/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/</span><span class="invisible">2024/08/05/clarence-thomas-here-are-all-the-ethics-scandals-involving-the-supreme-court-justice-amid-new-harlan-crow-trips/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/SCotUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCotUS</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a></p>
Adrian Roselli<p>Since that October post, we found Thomas had still failed to list items, which lead to two Congressfolk asking for a special counsel (<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clarence-thomas-special-counsel-senate-democrats-merrick-garland/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/clarence-thom</span><span class="invisible">as-special-counsel-senate-democrats-merrick-garland/</span></a>) and another filing Articles of Impeachment (<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/aoc-files-articles-impeachment-supreme-court-justices-clarence-thomas-rcna161121" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-c</span><span class="invisible">ourt/aoc-files-articles-impeachment-supreme-court-justices-clarence-thomas-rcna161121</span></a>).</p><p>Nothing happened.</p><p>Today we find Thomas had more gifts he again failed to disclose:<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html</span></a></p><p>Meanwhile, Gorsuch busily warning (<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/04/gorsuch-biden-supreme-court-proposals-00172574" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2024/08/04/g</span><span class="invisible">orsuch-biden-supreme-court-proposals-00172574</span></a>) against, well, any fixes I guess?</p><p>Ugh.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/SCotUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCotUS</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cafe/tags/Clarence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Clarence</span></a></p>
SherBeareth<p>Justice <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thomas</span></a> has been a much badder boy than we realize. New Zealand? Props to Sen Wyden for being the detective.</p>
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