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Memoirist and exposé writer revealing the hidden machinery of far-right Catholic power. “Staggeringly Disrespectful”.

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After Years Of 'Hold My Beer' Moments, Supreme Court Confidence Hits New Low - Above the Law Public trust in the Court has been falling since Bush v. Gore. Now it’s worse than ever.

Leonard Leo did this.

abovethelaw.com/2026/03/afte...

12.03.2026 00:40 👍 30 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 2
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Catholic Integralism Replacing Evangelicals? Are Integralists, who want a Catholic confessional state, and their populist fellow travelers, displacing Evangelicals as the main political energy on the political right?

Are Leonard Leo MAGA Catholics running the show?

Ha. That cow has been out of the barn for decades. Pleased the intellectual poohbahs have started to notice.

juicyecumenism.com/2026/03/10/c...

11.03.2026 13:30 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
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Never underestimate the power of chicken and dumplings, and punching up.

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The clandestine network of a Catholic order In early October a jeremiad entitled “Response to Gareth Gore’s book ‘Opus’” appeared on the website of the famously secretive Catholic sect Opus Dei. The

Opus is a genuine exposé, an authoritative account backed up by 100 pages of footnotes. It seeks to lift the veil on an organization whose secrecy masks, a clandestine political operations that has culminated in the Trumpist takeover of the US Supreme Court

www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...

10.03.2026 21:13 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.

“Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell told NPR in an emailed statement on Saturday that [Pete] Hegseth is a ‘proud member of a church affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches [CREC], which was founded by [Doug] Wilson.” 8/9/25 … 1/ www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

07.03.2026 22:28 👍 155 🔁 109 💬 18 📌 9
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Axel Springer buys Telegraph in £575mn deal German media group scuppers proposed acquisition of UK newspaper company by Daily Mail owner

The German trumpers who own Politico.

www.ft.com/content/e5cb...

06.03.2026 14:57 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Catholicism and the American Founding

Heritage leaning hard into its Fuentes/Opus Dei/Paul Weyrich pivot under Kevin Roberts.

www.heritage.org/religious-li...

05.03.2026 12:28 👍 23 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
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Hegseth & Evangelicals framing aggression vs Iran as End Times - oh goody Jesus comin back - highlights the differences between Protestant Nationalists & Catholic Leonard Leo MAGA Nationalists.

MAGA Leo Catholics are not interested in end times.

They want a Catholic version of Muslim Shia Iran.

04.03.2026 01:54 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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How the Supreme Court Enabled Trump’s Latest Free Press Assault Something profound is happening to the right to gather news.

Leonard Leo Supremes have one Master. Leonard Leo.

Leonard Leo has two. Big oil oligarchs & Natural Law theory of Thomas Aquinas.

Freedom of the press is part of the 250 year old Catholic heresy that is US democracy. The Leo Supremes are helping roll that back.

Amen!

slate.com/news-and-pol...

24.02.2026 19:31 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
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Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP source says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract.

This is chilling!

Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP source says

apnews.com/article/anth...

24.02.2026 20:24 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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SCOTUS will hear Exxon’s effort to crush climate lawsuits Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.

@thelisagraves.bsky.social

www.exxonknews.org/p/scotus-wil...

24.02.2026 14:44 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find...

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

21.02.2026 00:49 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Live with Gutter Catholic Daily Digest
Live with Gutter Catholic Daily Digest Today we talked about Leo rejecting T's "Board of Peace", Bannon, Epstein AND we made a roasted chicken! Thanks so much for being here! https://shannonvavich.substack.com/p/live-with-gutter-catholic-daily-digest-e95?utm_source=youtube

"Live with Gutter #Catholic Daily Digest"
The Flying Kitchen by Shannon Vavich @theflyingkitchen.bsky.social
20 Feb 2026 [1:56:45]
#Catholicism #Cult
https://s.cultpodcasts.com/ZZk62ZXSo0eY0535M22vPw

21.02.2026 00:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pope Leo Joins U.S. Allies in Major Trump Snub The Chicago-born pontiff has been a fierce critic of President Trump’s signature policies.

There is no trump election in either 2016 or 2024 without Leonard Leo and MAGA Catholics.

The entire trump regime collapses without MAGA Catholics.

6 Supremes, Heritage, JD, Rubio and 35-40% trump cabinet.

When does Pope Leo point out the obvious?

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-joi...

18.02.2026 12:22 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 2
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ProPublica Blows Leonard Leo Story Afraid to report on Leonard Leo’s rightwing Catholic web and his faith driven politics

@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social
are reposting their nearly 3-year old story on Leonard Leo all over social media this week? Is that normal? PP made numerous promises to me to secure an interview. It went 5 hours long. PP broke every promise.

thcarter123.substack.com/p/propublica...

17.02.2026 12:17 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
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A summary of "The Unbearable Intellectual Lightness of the Post-liberal Being" Linked here is a very long opinion piece, published today by Andrew Koppelman. Here is my summary of its main points. Authoritarian thinkers (e.g. Patrick Deneen and Adrian Vermeule) and authoritarian...

Post Liberal is a marketing ploy, a velvet glove rebranding of Catholic Integralism, but Catholic Christofascism just the same. Using fascist terminology, like post liberal, gives the Christofascist a huge advantage. Words have meaning.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

17.02.2026 12:27 👍 13 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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The Unbearable Intellectual Lightness of the Postliberal Being Its case that liberalism must turn into its opposite is based on feelings, not theory or real world evidence

Im getting tired of saying this. Post Liberal is Catholic Intgralism - Catholic Christofascism.

open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

16.02.2026 22:45 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Far right extremist Catholic Aquinas “natural law” requires revelation.

So any white man, and it is always white men, talks to God and what He and he says is law - natural law.

Catholic sharia in the Leonard Leo Supreme Court, as applied by Catholic Taliban.

archive.ph/CEQjn

16.02.2026 21:20 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
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Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

Epstein & Kavanaugh

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

16.02.2026 12:41 👍 28 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 3
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Integralism by Another Name – James M. Patterson Postliberals would much rather spar over definitions than over the ideas and their implications.

“Postliberalism” as a term is really a rebranding of Catholic integralism.

I’ve posted this before, but worth reposting. “Post Liberalism is a marketing ploy, designed to introduce Catholic Christofascism without the historical fascism baggage.

lawliberty.org/integralism-...

15.02.2026 15:34 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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EXCLUSIVE: Susan Collins Backs SAVE AMERICA ACT -- But Won't Break Filibuster U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is throwing her weight behind the House-passed SAVE America Act, saying the revised bill strikes the right balance between election security and voter access — while ...

Leonard Leo’s poodle is concerned about non existent voter fraud. Sit! Roll over! Remains on Leo’s leash.

www.themainewire.com/2026/02/excl...

14.02.2026 13:48 👍 20 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1
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"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness" Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.

@lkatfield.bsky.social
@kathrynajoyce.bsky.social

Two of the most measured and insightful analysts out there re today’s fascist mess.

inthesetimes.com/article/laur...

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Samuel Alito Opens Up About Antonin Scalia and the Path from Roe to Dobbs In an exclusive interview, the Supreme Court justice remembers a friend and conservative icon’s legacy.

Another crack at canonization for Opus Dei adjacent Scalia, via an interview w Opus Dei adjacent Alito, by far right Newsmax reporter, in German owned trumper publication.

Were Scalia, Alito or Rosen in Epstein files? Just asking 🤷‍♂️

Kneepads sold out all over DC.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

10.02.2026 12:18 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0
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Heritage Enhances Free Enterprise Efforts with New Initiative and Expanded Team WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation today launched the Free Enterprise Initiative, expanding the success of its Capital Markets Initiative and adding new staff to advance and defend economic freedom.

Someone needs to research these new Heritage hires.

Who would join a blatantly antisemitic, extremist Opus Dei adjacent Catholic think tank, that just lost 60 employees to public resignations?

Who aligns themselves w Paul Weyrich, Pat Buchanan & Nick Fuentes?

www.heritage.org/press/herita...

03.02.2026 12:32 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
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Live group huddle tomorrow at 12 noon eastern! Fb and YT!

03.02.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda “Wars are won by teachers.” –Vladimir Putin * In a prescient 1995 address at Howard University titled “Racism and Fascism,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison warned of forces within t…

H/T @kenny0911.bsky.social

The religious war re education goes back to Brown v Ed (1954) requiring white kids sit next to black kids. White flight created a network of church schools.

And Bob Jones (1970) that took tax exemption away from racist church schools.

lithub.com/how-the-far-...

01.02.2026 12:19 👍 24 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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The Gutter Catholic Goes Home: Chapter 12 — The Undeserving Worthiness, Expulsion and Family Culture

This chapter explores worthiness, belonging, family culture, and expulsion—who gets labeled undeserving, and why. I write about cooking as more than food: as matriarchal care, culture-making, and love given without conditions.

🔗 Chapter 12: substack.com/@shannonvavi...

01.02.2026 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Biography of a Corrupted Court | Los Angeles Review of Books Lisa Graves’s new exposé of Chief Justice John Roberts deconstructs the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court.

“Her biggest bête noire is Leonard Leo, longtime vice president of the Federalist Society, who raised vast sums to support it. He has more entries in her index than any other subject.”

If you havent read @thelisagraves.bsky.social book, you dont know Jack.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/john...

01.02.2026 11:07 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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20 years since Leonard Leo put Opus Dei adjacent Sam Alito on the Supreme Court.

Despite being a so-called Originalist, his opinions are drawn primarily from Aquinas and medival natural law Catholic Christofascism.

A prefect example of watch what I do, not what I say.

archive.ph/D56EX

31.01.2026 15:30 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1