The Invisible Hand: How #DarkMoney Is Inventing Prestige for #rightwing #Academics. The Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) sounds #prestigious, but is it really? #science #vaccines #pharma #trump #leoleonard #synthetic #prestige https://drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-invisible-hand-how-dark-money #academia #research #science
The Invisible Hand: How Dark Money Is Inventing Prestige for Right-Wing Academics

The Academy of Sciences and Letters sounds prestigious, but is it really?

The Skeptical Scientist

#Election2024 will be no laughing matter. Get out the #BlueVote and let’s make it a #landslide, with no room for doubt. Time for us to get the crazies out of politics

#election #vote #kamalaharris #kamalaharris2024 #democracy #fascism #ChristianNationalism #billionaires #musk #leoleonard #trump #jdvance #weird #mastodonforharris #x #twitter #senate #congress #scotus #supremecourt

First He Went After #AnitaHill. Now He’s Coming for #ClarenceThomas. As a young #conservative, #DavidBrock smeared Hill, who accused the #SupremeCourt #justice of #sexualharassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past. #MAGA #LeoLeonard #corruption Constitution #SCOTUS #federalistsociety #GOP #judiciary #courts #legalresearch #politics https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/books/review/david-brock-stench-clarence-thomas-anita-hill-media-matters.html
Years After He Smeared Anita Hill, David Brock Has a New Book, ‘Stench,’ Denouncing Clarence Thomas

As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.

The New York Times

"Since 2021, Leo’s network and groups that have gotten funding from it have funneled over $50.7 million to the groups advising the 2025 Presidential Transition Project as part of its “Project 2025 advisory board,”

#project2025 #heritagefoundation #republicans #trump #fascism #leoleonard
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/leonard-leo-koch-networks-pour-millions-prep-potential-second-trump-ad-rcna144360

Leonard Leo, Koch networks pour millions into groups prepping for potential second Trump administration

Huge funding from influential conservative donor networks is flowing into a conservative venture aimed at creating a Republican "government-in-waiting."

NBC News
Proof that #MAGACult #GOP #republican leaning #SupremeCourts countrywide are highly corrupted & compromised by dark money lead by #LeoLeonard & the Federalist Society..
We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next. You can also listen to the "We Don't Talk About Leonard" podcast here. Episode 3 coming this Friday:

Post News
Know him.. #LeoLeonard, the mastermind behind all the shenanigans and schemes of the far-right #republican #MAGACult party including the now corrupted #SupremeCourt.
https://x.com/thejackhopkins/status/1712127372508475694?s=12&t=pVt3CvcJ9iXNtaLSZWjgBw
Jack Hopkins on X

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority - ProPublica https://t.co/EYY0l5JmuU

X (formerly Twitter)
What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement https://politi.co/3ExpGO9 via @politico #scotus #clarencethomas #ginnithomas #leoleonard #citizensunited
What Ginni Thomas and Leonard Leo wrought: How a justice’s wife and a key activist started a movement

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a trove of so-called "dark money" was about to be unleashed. Two activists prepared to seize the moment.

POLITICO
Really American 🇺🇸 on Twitter

“🚨🚨 UNBELIEVABLE CORRUPTION! The Judge overseeing Trump's classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, was gifted a luxury trip by the Leonard Leo-backed Scalia Law School. This is actually INSANE. A new report by the Guardian reveals that in 2021 Judge Cannon accepted a luxury…”

Twitter
Hey #Alito !! Tried to get ahead of the story? Well, the fact is I have always seen you as the corrupt, unethical scoundrel that you are. Long before you took this bribe in the form of a fishing trip recently revealed.. #LeoLeonard has been feeding you bribery contributions for years. Long before he became a Corruption Officer for #TheFederalistSociety
#SCOTUScorruption
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

ProPublica