Tom Carter

Tom Carter

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I write about Leonard Leo, Opus Dei, MAGA Catholic politics - and the DC reporters who refuse to report on Leo MAGA Catholics. @ https://medium.com/@thcarter123 Leonard Leo was my political appointee boss 2009-2012. I’ve been warning about him since 2010.

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Tom Carter
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JFC

Jake Scott, MD@jakescottmd.bsky.social

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

cidrap.umn.eduCIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS says it wants better evidence on vaccine injuries. It’s building a system that will produce the opposite.
Tom Carter
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More far right Leonard Leo Catholic anti Muslim bigotry. MAGA Catholics are astonishingly vile.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Tom Carter
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If you love fish and chips (I do) and happen to be in Swansea, visit Johnnie’s in Mumbles. On my top three all time list. And you might run into Catherine Zeta Jones.

Tom Carter
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Whenever you read trans rights are an issue, remember where it started. Who fueled the hatred. Far right Catholic Nationalists. Evangelicals piled on, as infantry does, but it was Leonard Leo Catholics generals, w below the belt politics, who created the issue. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

theguardian.comRightwinger Leonard Leo helped fuel Bud Light boycott, tax filings showExclusive: Documents reveal group linked to Leo gave money to another group that played central role in boycott
Tom Carter
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It really is quite something to see so many Chinese electric vehicles on roads in & around Puerto Vallarta. Nice cars. Cheaper than anything US made. If they do collect my personal information, is that any different from my Iphone, credit card company or Amazon browser spying? wapo.st/4zh1PNu

wapo.stColumn | I saw the future of driving in Mexico. It’s off-limits to Americans.Mexico is a showroom for electric cars you can’t buy in the United States, with a growing fleet of sleek new vehicles from Chinese brands unknown to Americans.

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Jenny Cohn
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“The nonprofit that helped get Cornel West on presidential ballots in 2024 received all of its funding that year through a conservative political network that has been bankrolled by Elon Musk, tax records reviewed by Sludge show.” 10/27/26 … 1/ share.google/s1Keh9Qx6ZDV...

share.googleMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.
Tom Carter
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“While, we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship…rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawyers, and civil servants trained in the law…” The Law in Nazi Germany: Berghahn Books 2013 truenorthresearch.org/2025/07/true...

truenorthresearch.orgTrue North Issues New Primer on the Authoritarian Infrastructure in the U.S. —By Lisa Graves and Alyssa Bowen A partisan Supreme Court, a complicit political party, and an ongoing assault on key pillars of civil society are some of the factors contributing to the rise of author...

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Angry
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Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

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Infoweaver
@infoweaver.bsky.social

“1) Identify issue. 2) Create front groups to make noise. 3) Fund GOP in Congress & GOP AGs’ law suits. 4) Lose at the lower court level. This is key. 5) Move case to SCOTUS 6) Front groups flood SCOTUS w/ amicus. 7) 6 conservative justices craft rulings based on Leo amicus. 8) Another Leo win.”

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medium.comLeonard Leo’s Mifepristone “Scheme”Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (RI Democrat) has done more than anyone documenting in books, press releases and on the Senate floor the Leonard…

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Jenny Cohn
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Woah. It appears that the anti-abortion “Ethics and Public Policy Center”—whose board includes Catholic Right SCOTUS “puppet master” Leonard Leo—is spearheading the push to strip the American Bar Association of its accreditation authority. 1/

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9/ Roger Severino—who wrote the Project 2025 HHS chapter about using the FDA to ban mifepristone—is also connected to Leonard Leo. He and his wife, Carrie Severino, both worked for the Becket Fund where Leo is on the board. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18093...

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Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/

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If you see the word mifepristone in the news, think Leonard Leo. This article is good, but from 2024. Needs an update. This is all to get mifepristone cases before the Leonard Leo Catholic Supreme Court, to concoct legal theory to ban it, according to Catholic theology. 19thnews.org/2024/01/leon...

19thnews.orgDark money is flowing to groups trying to limit medication abortion. Leonard Leo is again at the center.Tax filings shed light on the conservative activist's role in the network of groups challenging FDA regulation of mifepristone in a case set to go before the Supreme Court.
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What was it George Orwell said?

Dr. Bradley Onishi@bradleyonishi.bsky.social

Greg Abbott says Gina Hinojosa, gubernatorial candidate in Texas, is for Sharia law. She’s Catholic. Not the first time we’ve seen this. A month ago we covered Lance Wallnau saying Talarico is Al-Qaeda.

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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Ronan Farrow reported in a 2023 New Yorker piece that the Pentagon signed a contract to keep Musk from cutting off Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity at will. Colin Kahl described it as a way to lock in service so Musk couldn’t just flip the switch, considering Musk's known antipathy towards Ukraine

newyorker.comElon Musk’s Shadow RuleHow the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

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Erin Reed
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Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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Walker Bragman
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Despicable.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

Tom Carter
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Nicholas Eberstadt, married to Mary Eberstadt, a far right Catholic, closely affiliated w K ST Opus Dei. Listen to this as a “soft” counterpart of Opus Dei Heritage Foundation’s “family” push, led by Opus Dei Kevin Roberts & Roger Severino. Also - ICE is good? www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/mak...

washingtonpost.comOpinion | Nicholas Eberstadt: Can America survive population decline? - The Washington PostIs the United States heading toward an unprecedented era of population decline? In this episode of "Make It Make Sense," Damir Marusic sits down with Nicholas Eberstadt, the American Enterprise Instit...