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cdarwin, to kevin
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Leonard Leo’s ambitions extend beyond the courts.

Organizations within his network have reportedly funded at least 40 groups advising Project 2025, per NBC News.

Leo is also linked to Project 2025 co-author #Roger #Severino
—VP of Domestic Policy at Heritage
—who served as the Director of the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under Trump.

Severino began his career at the “Becket Fund for Religious Liberty” where Leo sits on the board of directors.

Severino is one half of a “Catholic Right” power couple.
The other half is Leonard Leo protégé Carrie Severino, who previously clerked for Becket and Clarence Thomas.

It was Roger Severino who wrote the section of Project 2025 outlining a plan to withdraw the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill (mifepristone),
which is also under attack in a case pending before the Supreme Court.

If the religious right fails to convince the Supreme Court, Project 2025 is their “Plan B” (pun intended).

Leo and his network are also linked to #Kevin #Roberts,
a rabidly partisan fundamentalist Catholic activist,
who has served as president of Heritage since 2021.

In 2020, Roberts had been featured on the Resources page of “WhereYouAre,” which calls itself a “collaboration of people in touch with … centers of Opus Dei in Texas.”

#Opus #Dei is a “small but powerful” group “within the Catholic Church” whose members “abide by strict conservative teachings''
and “believe they are called to serve God” not only in their personal lives, but also in their professions, per the Australian Broadcasing Center.

Many of Opus Deis’ members keep their membership a secret.

Leo reportedly belongs to Opus Dei.

Leo also sits on the Napa Legal Institute’s board of directors,
a faith based organization whose chairman of the board is #Timothy #Busch,
one of Leo’s closest allies.

Bush co-founded Napa Legal’s sister organization, the Napa Institute, whose annual conference in July 2022 included Kevin Roberts as a speaker. Leo is a Napa Institute donor.

In December that year, Busch announced that the Napa Institute would open an office near the U.S. Capitol within the headquarters of the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN),
a global Catholic-themed television and radio network.

The month before, Kevin Roberts had been interviewed during an EWTN broadcast where he called himself an abortion “purist”
and said that he wanted “not a single abortion happening in this country.”

Roberts reconnected with Leo’s network in 2023 when he spoke during “A Duty to God and Country,”
an event organized by the Catholic Information Center (CIC) and Napa Institute.

As noted, Leo sits on CIC’s board of directors.

Meanwhile, Project 2025 (Heritage) Director #Paul #Dans belongs to the New York chapter of the Federalist Society, which is co-chaired by Leo at the national level,
while #Steve #Bannon, Project 2025’s unofficial media partner, has served with Leo on the board of directors of Reclaim New York (founded by #Rebekah #Mercer).

Bannon, you may recall, has closely aligned himself with proponents of the so-called “rad trad” (radical traditional) Catholicism movement
and specifically said that he wants to destroy the administrative state,
an express goal of Project 2025.

As observed by Media Matters, Bannon has repeatedly used his War Room perch to normalize Project 2025’s radical agenda.

https://crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-right-observer-weekly-volume-fd1

cdarwin, to random
@cdarwin@c.im avatar

Peter Thiel, who is “taking a break from democracy,”
will be keynote speaker at a
Culture, Religion, and Technology Fireside chat April 19.

He will be joined by #Bambi #Francisco #Roizen,
who organized the event,
and writes on the Unequally Yoked website: “We were yoked together in 1776, when our united goal was to be a nation under God. But that God-fearing identity has been shattered.”

Joining Thiel and Francisco Roizen will be
“Christian Nationalist” and Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Education #Ryan #Walters,

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, MAGA millionaire and aspiring oligarch #Paul #Martino (who has public education in his crosshairs),

anti-(teachers) union Freedom Foundation President #Aaron #Withe,

and #James #Lindsay, who the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as “a leading voice in the reactionary anti-student inclusion, anti-LGBTQ, and conspiracy propaganda movements

https://crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-right-observer-weekly-volume-fd1

zoom_earth, to random
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Tropical Cyclone #Paul has formed in the Coral Sea.

See the latest details here: https://zoom.earth/storms/paul-2024/

zoom_earth,
@zoom_earth@mapstodon.space avatar

Tropical Cyclone #Paul this morning in the Coral Sea

#CyclonePaul #weather #WX

Animated satellite imagery

zoom_earth,
@zoom_earth@mapstodon.space avatar

Tropical Cyclone #Paul in the Coral Sea earlier today

#CyclonePaul #weather #WX

Animated satellite imagery

zoom_earth,
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Tropical Cyclone #Paul at sunset in the Coral Sea. Wind speed near 95 km/h.

#CyclonePaul #weather #WX

Animated satellite imagery

gileri, (edited ) to random French
@gileri@mastodon.xyz avatar

#Paul, grande chaine de boulangerie utilisent gratos l'infra #OpenStreetMap, ne respectent pas la seule contrepartie (créditer les contributeurs OpenStreetMap), et après, se plaignent d'être bloqués 9 mois après avoir reçu et lu une demande de correction...

Ils demandent même de leur redonner accès aux cartes avant de corriger le problème pour "ne pas affecter leur activité" 😂

Edit : Ils ont corrigé l'attribution aujourd'hui, et se sont fait débloquer dans le quart d'heure (!).

khaliperius, to random Polish
hanse_mina, to Ukraine

The #Senate is working to pass a $95.3 billion foreign aid bill with assistance for #Ukraine and #Israel, but it may be days until a final vote as #GOP Sen. Rand #Paul of #Kentucky has vowed to use arcane and complex chamber rules to slow the pace of passing a bill.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/09/politics/rand-paul-senate-foreign-aid-package/index.html

#Russia #US

hanse_mina, to Ukraine

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American Republican politician and senator, Rand #Paul (@RandPaul). He's best-known for being the son of Ron Paul, for supporting pro-#Kremlin narratives, and for voting against both aid to #Ukraine and sanctions on #Russia.

🧵 https://nitter.net/P_Kallioniemi/status/1752636990921621687

#US #GOP

scunning, to animals
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Robocop - starring Peter Weller & Nancy Allen, directed by Paul Verhoeven - 1987 (movie-web.app)

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex...

"For the first time ever, I'm teaching a real auteur theory course this fall. I ended up choosing Paul Thomas Anderson." (twitter.com)

"Can't wait to dig into the filmography of one of America's greatest living filmmakers over the next few months. Not only will there be great films, but there will be some incredible guest speakers as well."

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