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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · Mar 17

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Leonard Leo & the Stained Glass Curtain He’s Hiding Behind

“Pay no attention to the roly poly bat faced boy behind the alter”

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 11m

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LIVE NOW: John Roberts’ Quiet Coup | First Draft with Susan Demas with Guest Lisa Graves

Lincoln Square on Substack

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1h

Got my flu and Covid vaccine today.

Fvck you RFK, you ignorant, murdering POS.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 3h

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 4h

Bari Weiss interviews Leonard Leo - the journalism dictionary definition of soft ball, Valentine or in newsroom vernacular - a BJ.

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The Man Who Stacked the Supreme Court | Leonard Leo Meets Bari Weiss

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 6h

Who said it best? Catholic Nazi Carl Schmitt or the Leonard Leo-Opus Dei Supreme Court.

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Carl Schmitt Quotes (Author of The Concept of the Political)

213 quotes from Carl Schmitt: 'The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the cru...

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 17h

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Conservative Pundit Points Finger at Another Man to Deflect From Kavanaugh (Published 2018)

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 17h

EPPC -DC’s far right Catholic think tank & Leonard Leo front. Princeton’s Robbie George on board. Mary Hasson, wife of founder of Becket Fund (Leo sits on board) is a fellow & board member of Napa. Google Ed Whelan & Christine Blasey Ford

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The Anti-Abortion Machine Again Tries to Use Fake Science to Take Down Mifepristone

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The Dark Money Game | Official Trailer | HBO

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

Near as I can tell the New Digest is a place for Leonard Leo- Opus Dei-Catholic Integralists, who see Nazi Catholic Carl Schmitt as some sort of legal saint. There is no atrocity that cant be justified by wormy (look up latin origins of Vermeule) sophistry.

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Lawful Proscription: Designation of Antifa as a Domestic Terror Organization

What Trump’s Executive Order means and how the law must change for it to mean anything more.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

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FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime

From ICE Gestapo raids to vaccines, from economic policy to Epstein files, the Administration's priorities are summed up perfectly in those three words. #FTK.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

I reported on the Canadian residential Catholic schools abuses of First Nations people. I learned every diocese and church was a distinct legal entity - this protected the larger church from legal responsibility and financial liability. If a local church went bankrupt - tough beans. No one to sue.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

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Larkin Poe - Preachin' Blues - 11/10/2017 - Paste Studios, New York, NY

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

Opus Dei #13

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The Richest Churches In The World 2026

The religion continues to shape the global economy through powerful institutions with immense wealth and influence. The richest churches in the world 2026 manage vast networks of real estate, investme...

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

There is no such thing as post-liberal. Its a rebranding of Catholic Integralism. A marketing ploy. Like Datsun to Nissan. Every time someone says post-liberal an Inquisition Crusader gets its wings.

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Patrick Deneen and the Right's War on Freedom

The Post-Liberal Right threatens to roll back American liberty.

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

If you read my bluesky posts, you might think Im an obsessed Leonard Leo wide-eyed, obsessive, fanatic. To some extent true.

I post this to show I have a life beyond all the bullshit political sewage we swim in all day.

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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

The Soybean Crisis Nobody’s Talking About

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

Just back from a month in Europe. Everyone extremely nice and sympathetic re living under the gun in US. Why do you stay there, I heard 100 times. Move here. Life is better. 100% true!

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George Clooney Says His Kids 'Have a Much Better Life' Living in France Than If They Had Grown Up in Los Angeles

During a conversation with 'Esquire,' George Clooney shared a glimpse into his life living in France with his wife Amal Clooney and their twins Alexander and Ella. George told the outlet that he's "ve...

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

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Is Catholic Integralism Just Fascism?

JD Vance, Leonard Leo, Kevin Roberts, Project 2025, the Leo Supreme Court, Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermuele, Opus Dei, Nazi legal theorist…

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 1d

Hey genius legal analyst. Get it thru your thick skull. This is NOT trump’s court. It is not Robert’s It is Leonard Leo’s Catholic Integralist court.

If the term is unfamiliar, google it.

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