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The fashion industry’s emissions increased about 14% in two years
The fashion industry’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed in 2023 and 2024 due in part to increased global production…
#Environment #clothingproducer #company #émission #Energy #fashionemission #FashionIndustry #fiber #Institute #kurtkipka #Material #newreport #oil #polyester #sector #year
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The fashion industry’s emissions increased about 14% in two years https://www.byteseu.com/2351163/ #ClothingProducer #company #emission #Energy #environment #FashionEmission #FashionIndustry #fiber #Institute #KurtKipka #Material #NewReport #oil #polyester #sector #year
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THE MAJORITY OF #poles OPPOSE ACCEPTING #ukrainian #refugees : The Center for Public Opinion Research (CBOS), a #polish polling #institute, published a #poll on July 17 revealing that, for the first time since 2014, 52% of Poles oppose accepting Ukrainian refugees.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SonicReducer
Institute:
🎵 Why Are These Men Still Alive?https://institute.bandcamp.com/track/why-are-these-men-still-alive
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A New Learning Strategy: The IEMV Music in Colors Method
Philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg and his talented wife, Professor M Zuckerberg, created the IEMV Music in Colors Method by combining a new musical notation based on the colors of the color wheel and neuroscience focusing on modifying brainwave frequency ranges through different musical genres. -
Russian strikes ruin two buildings at Ukraine's century-old Palladin Institute of Biochemistry
https://1ban.news/ukraine-palladin-institute-destroyed-russian-strikes/
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Opposing Modes of Production? Is There Really a Struggle Between Capitalism and Socialism?
There is already talk of a new global economic model, the product of a series of unfortunate events. Some consider it the Sixth Republic, others the Scientific Revolution. What is certain is that it is a Humanist Revolution that pursues the well-being and social justice of all human beings and was proposed by Delcy Rodríguez at the Global Revo Union. Later, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Claudia Sheinbaum, Pedro Sánchez, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and Gustavo Petro joined the movement.https://institutoemv.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/opposing-modes-of-production/
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A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe ← shared technical media article
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
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[glorious resource!]
“The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
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“The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
“I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
#BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
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#Ai #Tüv-verband #Security #Institute #GlobalFeed #News #DE
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President @Abdirahmanirro has inaugurated the International #Institute for #Independence #Recognition of Somaliland (#IRI), a new #diplomatic & #research center aimed at strengthening #Somaliland’s #legal & #historical case for #InternationalRecognition.
https://saxafimedia.com/president-irro-inaugurates-institute-recognition/
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#institute : an organization with a common purpose
- French: institut
- Italian: istituto
- Portuguese: instituto
- Spanish: instituto
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Saint Luke’s Rehab patients enjoy time in the sun at garden party https://www.allforgardening.com/1769607/saint-lukes-rehab-patients-enjoy-time-in-the-sun-at-garden-party/ #Active #BeautifulOutdoorSpace #EmptyGardenBed #flower #FreshAir #garden #GardenParty #gardening #help #institute #LauraMontgomery #outdoors #outside #patients #Recovery #Rehab #RehabInstitute #RehabPatient #rehabilitation #RehabilitationInstitutePatient #RehabilitationTherapy #SaintLuke #SaintLuke's #sun #sunshine #therapist #therapy #time
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“Israel’s organ theft scandal exposes a culture of desecration”
by Robert Inlakesh in The Cradle
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@iran“With a wealth of evidence and accusations indicating that Israel has been implicated in the systematic harvesting of organs during its genocide, it begs the question as to why no independent international investigation has yet been opened.
As in the early 1990s, Palestinian evidence is again being buried beneath western political protection, fear of Israel lobby retaliation, and the standing presumption that Israeli institutions can investigate themselves”
https://thecradle.co/articles/israels-organ-theft-scandal-exposes-a-culture-of-desecration
#Press #SocialMedia #Israel #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #OrganHarvesting #OrganTrafficking #OrgsnTheft #Prisoners #Torture #Evidence #Palestinians #Genocide #Transplants #AbuKabir #Forensic #Institute #MatnatChaim
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CW: uspol
Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums natio...
#american-library-association #dc-bureau #federal-funding-libraries #institute-of-museum-and-library-services
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/24/repub/trumps-budget-would-gut-local-libraries-and-museums-congress-is-not-on-board/ -
Der #Welttag_des_Labors findet jährlich am 23.April statt.
Am Welttag des Labors rufen #Institute auf der ganzen welt auf, sich an diesem Aktionstag zu beteiligen. Es gibt #Beratungen, #Führungen, #Vorträge und viele andere #Aktivitäten rund um das #Labor, um das es und seine #vielfältigen aufgaben öffentlich bekannt zu machen.
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La bonne nouvelle : les solutions existent déjà. En 2024, le #NIST ( #National #Institute of #Standards and #Technology) a finalisé ses trois premières normes #post- #quantiques ( #PQC) : #ML- #KEM pour encapsulation de clés, #ML- #DSA et #SLH- #DSA pour les #signatures.
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Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
“do the Wendell Berry thing”
in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.
He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.
Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.
Women would not be allowed to vote
—instead, men would vote for their households.When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.
“I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
“I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
or Judeo-Christian worldview,
or Judeo-Christian whatever,
and really eradicate that from our thinking.Because if we say that America is a
Judeo-Christian country,
then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”What role, I asked him, would Jews play?
After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”
We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
"America as a people".The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”
America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
—as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.
“I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
and to seek to restore that,” he said.“This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"
In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
“an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,
and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.
As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”
Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/theobros-jd-vance-christian-nationalism/
#Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift
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William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.
The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.
As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”
Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.“If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”
William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
but in mainstream conservative outlets,
it was #Stephen #Wolfe
(no relation to William)
who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
(Sound familiar?)He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”
#Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift
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One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro #Andrew #Isker
—the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church,
studied divinity at New Saint Andrews,
and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with #Andrew #Torba,
the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform #Gab.In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee.
Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion,
not to mention how hospitable the state has been to #refugees.“Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.
That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the
“war on white America”
alongside #Paul #Gottfried,
the mentor of prominent white nationalist #Richard #Spencer.The conference was hosted by the "True Texas Project",
a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.Like many TheoBros,
Isker sees much to like in Vance.In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as
“Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).”In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers,
“You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse.
Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them.
She wants them destroyed.
She wants you to never be able to have this.
She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to.
Enter #William #Wolfe,
the founder of the
"Center for Baptist Leadership", which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it,
the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States,
has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism.Baptists are only the beginning.
Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream,
which he and other TheoBros refer to as “#Big #Eva.”In August, he posted on X,
“Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation
than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”#Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift
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An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is
#Josh #Abbotoy,
executive director of "American Reformer"
and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called "New Founding".A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the #Claremont #Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a #Project2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session”
hosted by the right-wing think tank the #Heritage #Foundation.Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist #Chris #Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher.
In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the #Rockbridge #Network,
a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker #Leonard #Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire #Peter #Thiel.Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network?
None other than
JD #Vance.Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement.
Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign.
In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate,
Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director,
#Josh #Clemans:
a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers.The caption read “Our guy.”
New Founding lists as a partner the "Society for American Civic Renewal",
a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron #Charles #Haywood,who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “#warlord.”
According to founder #Nate #Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime”
and that its members
“understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.”But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities.
Promotional materials describe a community of
“unmatched seclusion”
where
“simple country faith”
protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime.Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay.
“Who’s going to grab the land?
Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring,
something authentic to the region’s history,
or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”#Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift
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♦️Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s second child, #Dick, born in 1945, grew up in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Bluff and got the same sort of blue-blood education
(Phillips Andover, Stanford)
as his father (Hotchkiss, Princeton).Amid the social upheavals of the ’60s, #Dick #Uihlein didn’t waver:
He married Liz before graduating from college in 1967,
joined the family business and immersed himself in conservative politics.He worked on the 1969 Illinois congressional campaign of Phil Crane, who won a crowded Republican primary in an upset on a hardline anti-tax and anti-communist platform.
In one of the only interviews he’s ever given, Dick Uihlein told National Review in 2018 that he got his politics from his father,
who often went by Ed.At the family breakfast table growing up, Uihlein recalled,
“My father would talk about the importance of capitalism and the evils of socialism.”Dick said that same year that
“my father shared many of the same values that I have, conservative values.”Dick and Liz Uihlein continue to revere Edgar Jr., who died in 2005.
Dick Uihlein named the family foundation after his father, and it now sends♦️ tens of millions of dollars to right-wing institutions.
Among the recipients of the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation’s grants are the
♦️ #Federalist #Society and think tanks that have pushed misleading claims about the 2020 election, such as the #Conservative #Partnership #Institute
and the
#Foundation #for #Government #Accountability,
as the Daily Beast reported.Tucked in toward the back of the Uline catalog released this summer,
sent out to millions of homes and businesses,
was a long tribute to the “wise” Edgar Uihlein Jr.“Father Uihlein, the head of the family, had a towering presence, and we respected his values,” wrote Liz Uihlein under a picture of her husband and father-in-law,
recalling “frequent dinners at his house, where business, issues of the day, fishing muskies and, always, politics were discussed.”She ended on a note of nostalgia tinged with bitterness:
“Living your life and raising your kids were easier in an easier time.
There was no legalized marijuana, defund the police or social media.We, like so many families, were raised with a sharp moral compass.
The rules were the rules, but it was OK.”
The Uihleins’ political giving reflects these longings for a bygone era.
Dick Uihlein is a major funder of the #American #Principles #Project,
which runs ads attacking what it calls “#transgender #ideology,” #abortion and the teaching of “#critical #race #theory.”Last year, Uihlein weighed in on ♦️recalling four school board members in a small town north of Milwaukee because of their support for COVID-19 #safety #protocols and “#equity” training for teachers.
More recently, in his home state of Illinois, Uihlein has spent more than♦️ $50 million to back the Republican gubernatorial candidate #Darren #Bailey, who has drawn criticism for saying the #Holocaust “doesn’t even compare” to the toll of abortions and for accusing Democrats of “putting #perversion into our schools” for adopting a sex ed bill that includes information about gender identity and same-sex couples.
The Uihleins were huge beneficiaries of a tax provision promoted by Sen. #Ron #Johnson, R-Wisc., that was included in the Trump tax overhaul and are continuing to support the Wisconsin senator and fund attack ads against his opponent.
For all the Uihleins’ dismay at the disorder they see consuming the country, there is one domain where they can exert near total control.
Former employees of Uline told ProPublica the couple’s traditionalist politics govern the smallest details of how the company is run.
For new staffers, it begins with the #dress #code in the employee handbook:
Women are not permitted to wear pants except as part of a pantsuit or on Fridays;
hose or stockings must be worn except during the warmer months;
dresses “that are too short” and corduroy of any kind are strictly prohibited.The handbook defines “tardy” as one minute past an employee’s scheduled start time.
Just four personal items are allowed on employees’ desks,
with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches.One former staffer at Uline’s headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child.
“Liz would walk up and down the aisles, and if your desk looked off, you’d be written up,” he recalled.
#Uline #Dick #Liz #Uihlein #Doug #Mastriano #Jim #Marchant #election #falsehoods #antisemitic #speech #Edgar #John #Birch #Society #fluoridation #segregation #Edwin #Walker #George #Wallace -
Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links
A senior aide to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance, once worked for a far-right political consultancy that touts its capacity for “#clandestine #actions” and has links to a network of extremist groups and think tanks, the Guardian can reveal.
#Parker #Magid was recently appointed as Vance’s press secretary
His employment history links Vance and his circle to elements of the extremist right far outside the mainstream of American politics.
Vance’s staffer links him to 🔸Beck & Stone🔸 (B&S) and its subsidiary political consultancy 🔸Knight Takes Rook🔸 ( #KTR ).
The brand consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right #Claremont #Institute,
the serial Arizona political candidate #Blake #Masters and the
“#counter-#revolutionary” magazine IM–1776.B&S was founded in 2014, according to statements by its founders, #Andrew #Beck and #Austin #Stone. Initial company filings in Florida date from April 2015. Its current Florida filings give an address that is a UPS store in New York City.
Beck, also 🔸a Claremont co-founder🔸, is closely involved with the ♦️Society for American Civic Renewal♦️ ( #SACR ), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge that has been the subject of extensive previous reporting in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/28/jd-vance-far-right-aide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Republican AGs play the critical role.
They are the people who, under their own authority, can bend the law to their will and weaponize it against vulnerable communities.
There are currently 27 of them, and they include future Newsmax hosts like
Kansas AG Kris #Kobach, who finds his joy in suing to stop Joe Biden’s student debt relief program;
Florida AG Ashley #Moody, who spends her days fighting whatever “wokeness” conspiracy exists in her head at any given moment;
and Texas AG Ken #Paxton, who has effectively decided to make up his own immigration laws and enforce them at the point of a gun.Republicans realized long ago that state AGs represent the steel gauntlet inside the velvet glove of states’ rights.
They also realized that they needed an organization to help them make that vision real,
so in 1999 they created one: the
💥Republican Attorneys General Association.💥Much like the Democratic National Committee or the Republican National Committee or any number of partisan-affiliated outfits,
#RAGA identifies candidates, supports their efforts to win elections, and imposes national Republican priorities at the state level
—though that’s far from all it does.The association sees its mission as “Defending the Rule of Law. Keeping America Safe”
and hails itself as “America’s last line of defense.”You’d think that means keeping states safe from criminals and fraudsters,
but in most cases RAGA AGs think they’re “defending” us from transgender kids who need to use the bathroom or Uber drivers who take people across state lines to get abortions.RAGA prosecutors share a hatred of reproductive rights, a love of guns, and an obsession with persecuting the LGBTQ community.
You probably didn’t need me to tell you that, though:
Hating women and gay people while using a .450 Bushmaster as a masculinity supplement when the testicle tanning wears off is simply standard GOP operating procedure these days.But RAGA AGs are also committed to doing the dirty work for every other hellish Republican policy idea,
from destroying the environment to gutting voting rights to undermining vaccines, because apparently states need “defending” from science, facts, and public health.No matter what awful thing they’re doing, the AGs always have enough money to do it.
RAGA is incredibly well-funded.
Federalist Society Svengali Leonard #Leo is a donor,
as are all the usual GOP donor-class supervillains,
including #Koch Industries, the #National #Rifle #Association, the #American #Petroleum #Institute, and a bunch of corporations, from #ExxonMobil to #CVS.In exchange for this largesse, these corporations get more than one-off lawsuits or the occasional friendly AG.
Beyond backing individual officials, RAGA is involved with bigger, broader strategies.
RAGA attorneys general work hand-in-hand with preferred Trump judges to shape our national laws through targeted cases designed for appellate and eventually Supreme Court review.They make rulings that trigger nationwide injunctions.
In recent months, RAGA AGs in 19 states have asserted their right to get access to the private medical records of patients seeking care out of state
—most likely so they can be prosecuted for receiving an abortion when they come back home.In 13 states, RAGA AGs have threatened to sue companies over their diversity and inclusion programs.
Most of the time, the law is hiding in shadows, obscured under thick layers of jargon and confusing rules of procedure.
But RAGA attorneys general are not trying to hide the ball. They’re proud of their work.
These people are elected officials (many with ambitions for higher office), so when they menace a vulnerable community, they want you to know about it.
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If one is investigating how the #Claremont #Institute, the California-based think tank, came to be such a hotbed of Trumpists and Trumpism
—think about such notorious Claremont fellows as #Michael #Anton and #John #Eastman, and #Victor #Davis #Hanson , on whom Claremont bestowed its annual statesmanship award
—following the money is a useful strategy.One major source of Claremont’s money is #Tom #Klingenstein, chairman of the institute’s board of directors and its biggest individual funder.
Klingenstein is a partner in the Wall Street investment firm Cohen Klingenstein, which manages a portfolio worth around $2.5 billion, according to its most recent Security and Exchange Commission filing.
IRS figures compiled by the Guardian show that Klingenstein has donated more than $19 million to the Claremont Institute since 2005, with a $2.97 million donation in 2021, his most generous contribution to date.Klingenstein is also one of the Claremont Institute’s intellectual impresarios, having put out a multipart presentation in 2021 about America’s 🔸“cold civil war” 🔸and 🔹“the existential threat of the woke regime.” 🔹
It is just as reasonable, measured, and temperate as you’d imagine.
Then, in 2022, Klingenstein delivered an encomium titled ♦️Trump’s Virtues.♦️
He was arguing—two years before the presidential primaries, mind you—that the best candidate whom the Republican party could put forward would be Donald Trump.
Trump, Klingenstein said,
"was born for the current crisis: the life and death struggle against the totalitarian enemy I call “woke communism.”The “woke comms” clench the Democratic party by the scruff of its neck. They tell us lies and silence those who challenge the lies.
Like most totalitarian regimes, they have a scape goat [sic] (white males).Trump, he continued, “is a manly man.”
(I swear I am not making this up.)“In present times, when manhood is being stripped of its masculinity, traditional manhood, even when flawed, has much appeal.”
And so on and so forth, in a gusher of praise, some of it veering into the homoerotic, some into the sadistic:
Trump, that pillar of manliness, “smoked rats out of their hiding places” and “ripped apart people he thought were weak.” (What the hell?)
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Revealed: US professor Scott Yenor
was behind extremist site that spread conspiraciesBoise State University (BSU) professor and #Claremont #Institute scholar #Scott #Yenor was the hidden hand behind #Action #Idaho, a far-right online media platform that featured inflammatory rightwing commentary on politics in that state, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that 💥Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D #Klingenstein.💥He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, #Pedro #Gonzalez, to lead the initiative.
Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about #antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020.They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal ( #SACR ), a secretive fraternal #Christian #Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.
Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the 💥potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.💥
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SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.
The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.
SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
they corrupt the sinews of America.”“They have alienated men from family, community, and God.
We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
true to his nature and calling,
rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.
Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
— it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
— in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.“The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.“How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”
SACR may be his answer.
In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.
Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
“The Super Afrikaners,”
a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.“That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.
“That’s the one,” Kressin replied.
South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.
The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.
Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.
The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.
But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.
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Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.
Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”
“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”
Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”
To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.
The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.
At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.
Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.
After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.
Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”
“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”
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If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.
Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”
Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.
The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.
In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”
“We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.
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A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.
🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?
🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?
🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.
🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.
🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there
Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
#virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
#influence,
#capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
#lawfare;
#cybersecurity”),
or #wealth.#Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.
The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”
“Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.
“Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
— as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”#Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.
The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.
Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.
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Under Williams’ leadership, Claremont has become well-known for a vision of America in which the country as we know it is all but lost, set to be replaced by a “regime” that its leaders hope to craft to come after the current, “cold civil war” concludes.
While introducing another podcast discussion between Haywood and Anton, Williams called Haywood a “friend of recent years” who was willing to discuss the country’s “decaying republic.”
“The phrase #cold #civil #war is chosen deliberately,” Williams told TPM. “I hope it remains cold indefinitely.”
It’s not only about the republic. Internal SACR messages show that the group envisions itself as stewards of a hard brand of Christianity.
Yenor, in one message that he planned to use for recruitment, summed it up:
“Our belief is that the country’s track is unsustainable, and the only way to secure a future for Christian families is to keep and take back space now closed to Christians.”#Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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On the blog where he explains these ideas, Haywood refers to himself as “#maximum #leader.”
In October 2022, Haywood appeared on a podcast with with former Trump official and “Flight 93” essay #Michael #Anton and others for a discussion about #caesarism
— the idea that a strongman is needed to solve America’s problems.After referring to an unspecified “secret event” that brought the group together, Haywood said that he “wholeheartedly” endorsed “#national #divorce” as a solution to the country’s problems.
Since selling his shampoo manufacturing firm in September 2020, Haywood has mobilized. His nonprofit, the
"Howdy Doody Good Times Foundation", began to contribute to the Claremont Institute.Howdy Doody has contributed money to SACR as well. Over the following year, a chapter in Dallas, Texas, and three in Idaho were founded.
Haywood has said that additional chapters exist; Williams put the total number at beneath one dozen.
Among the emails obtained by TPM are ones that show the organization’s reach.
In one January 2023 exchange, Haywood cc’ed a group of people while asking for a board meeting to discuss SACR finances.
The men on the exchange do not appear to be down on their luck.#Fischer, a venture capitalist who leads the group’s Dallas chapter, graduated from Harvard Law. Fischer has described leading a private equity career investing in apartment complexes distressed after the 2008 financial crisis.
Also cc-ed was #Williams, the Claremont president. Williams confirmed his involvement in the group on Friday on Twitter, writing, “may 1,000 chapters bloom and flourish.”
Claremont came into national consciousness in 2021 because it was where Trump co-defendant and co-conspirator #John #Eastman, the attorney who played a key role in the 2020 election subversion effort, works as a senior fellow.
#Charles #Haywood #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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What sets SACR apart is that its members come from and are recruited from the upper crust of American society.
They are wealthy — independent wealth is a requirement for membership, per documents TPM obtained. And they are credentialed.
SACR offers a redoubt for powerful people who take the culture war extremely seriously and believe in their bones that hemorrhaging church membership, the Obergefell decision on same-sex marriage, and the ebbing status of Christian men in American society are an existential threat to their vision for America, and who have the means to build a society on a different path.
Organized as a 501(c)10, Williams described SACR as analogous in structure to the Masons or Moose lodges
— a national superstructure with chapters around the country, some public and some not.Its members are, as a rule, secret. But those members who have incorporated chapters, as TPM discovered, end up identified in public records.
In an interview, Williams told TPM that SACR emerged from conversations between himself, self-described “industrialist” #Charles #Haywood, and others around Claremont in 2020.
Skyler Kressin, an Idaho accountant, and Fischer, also participated.
The idea, Williams said, came about amid conversations about “civic projects and constitutionalism and the state of America.”
“Part of the scholarly project of the Claremont Institute has been to lament the rise, really since the late 19th century, of a certain different way of thinking about politics and how to do government outside, we would argue, the American constitutional tradition,” he said.
Haywood, a University of Chicago-educated attorney, incorporated SACR and sits on its board. He did not respond to requests for comment from TPM.
Haywood has laid out an elaborate cosmology of America’s place in time, and his own place in America, through hundreds of blog posts he’s written on his website,
The Worthy House.To Haywood, American government is a house of cards waiting to be blown over
— run by a cabal that he describes as the “brawndo tyranny,” referring to the energy drink from the 2006 cult classic movie Idiocracy.Haywood says he can see what will likely come next:
a new #feudalism,
an archipelago of local “#armed #patronage networks,”
a vision inspired by the groups white settler farmers formed in South Africa as Blacks struggled for majority rule.#Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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Nate Fischer, a SACR member in Texas, posted a tweet Thursday evening warning of an imminent story from The Guardian and outing himself as a member.
Fischer said that SACR’s previous practice of secrecy was due to “the environment of 2020-21” when the group was first being organized.
The prospect of impending news stories — and Fischer’s tweet — spurred other group members to also reveal themselves on Twitter into Friday.
That included Ryan P. #Williams, president of the Claremont Institute and a SACR board member, and Andrew #Beck, a brand consultant.
In a Friday phone call with TPM, Williams denied that the group was “some cabal with the aim of taking over the federal establishment” and said that it only sought to create a “common citizenship” of the “#Americanized and #assimilated as the best recipe for a large, multiracial, multi-ethnic republic.”
When asked why SACR documents show that it aims to staff an “aligned future regime” with members, Williams said that the new regime would be a “U.S. Constitutional order brought much closer to its origins after about a century of what we regard as its corruption and undermining by progressivism, which I regard as anti-constitutionalist in its roots and its evolution.”
“This shouldn’t be regarded as anything radical or new,” Williams said. “It’s in a long line of tradition of American civic organizations of like-minded men worried about the direction of their country.”
“Certainly the activity of any members of SACR or any chapters are always meant to be well within the law and constitutional norms of American politics,” he added.
“There’s nothing subversive about it. It shouldn’t be regarded that way.”
The self-outing by key figures in SACR did not make public all of the materials that TPM obtained through its reporting, including the trove of Yenor emails and certain internal organizational documents. What follows is what TPM learned from that reporting, and interviews with some of the SACR figures who appeared in the documents
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Using the Yenor email trove as a starting point, TPM was able to confirm that Yenor is a SACR member,
to identify other members of SACR, including prominent people like the president of the Claremont Institute,
and to map other chapters of SACR around the country and locate incorporation papers for them,
which yielded the identities of other potential SACR members.The Yenor emails also included a #mission #statement for SACR, membership criteria, and copies of #prayers used by the group in different settings.
The emails include extensive internal discussions about the group, its organizing principles, its aims, and its methods for recruiting and expanding nationwide.
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#Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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An early reporting breakthrough came when we were able to identify a Boise State University professor and Claremont official named #Scott #Yenor as a possible member of SACR because he appeared on incorporation papers for the group’s Boise lodge.
Yenor is a character in his own right, attracting public attention for a November 2021 blow-up when he suggested that elite professions like law and medicine 👉stop recruiting women into their ranks.
Because Boise State is a public university, TPM was able to obtain via public records requests in January and February a trove of Yenor’s office emails that mention SACR. The trove included internal SACR correspondence, documents, and other materials from when the group was first being conceived in late 2020, was founded the following year, and began to grow.
The trove reveals SACR’s core mission:
to create a #mini-#state within a state, composed entirely of Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox #Christian #men.It’s explicitly #patriarchal, demanding that group members assume a dominant role at home, and celebrates the use of #force and existence of #authority.
Amid all the hearkening back to the founding fathers, America’s first principles, and patriotism, there are few mentions of #democracy in the materials TPM reviewed.
#sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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If you have never heard of the "Society for American Civic Renewal" (the acronym is pronounced “#sacker” by its members), it’s because they’ve been trying to stay under the radar.
Now that they are getting uncovered, they are attempting to manage the news coming out about them.
They are working to fundamentally reshape America to their vision. It sounds like a classic conspiracy theory — a bunch of rich white men on a mission from God? Really?
The thing is, there’s something about people who have managed to accumulate wealth, whether in business or by other means (like inheritance) that practically breeds hubris.
The prosperity gospel preaches that wealth is a sign that God has especially favored you, and you are privileged to rule over others by virtue of that wealth.
Kovensky has been able to unearth some details on what #SACR is about.
What is it? Among other things…
...The men TPM has identified as behind this group — and they are all men — have a few things in common. They’re all a certain kind of devout #Christian #traditionalist. They are #white. They have means, #financial and social, and are engaged in #politics.
...The members identified by TPM don’t necessarily fit the profile of the disaffected, disgruntled loner or the amped-up, testosterone-fueled militia types often found on the paranoid right-wing fringe. TPM’s reporting has identified as SACR members the president of the influential, Trump-aligned #Claremont #Institute, #Harvard #Law grads, and leading businessmen in communities scattered across America.
...Group members hold a distinct vision of America as a latter-day ancient Rome: a crumbling, decadent empire that could soon be replaced by a Christian #theocracy.
To join, the group demands faithfulness, virtue, and “#alignment,” which it describes as “#deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of #patriarchal #leadership in the household, and acceptance of traditional #Natural #Law in ethics more broadly.”
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US conservative thinktank’s links to extremist fraternal order
The president of the rightwing #Claremont #Institute and another senior Claremont official are both closely involved with the shadowy 🔹Society for American Civic Renewal🔹 ( #SACR ), an 🔸exclusive, men-only fraternal order which aims to replace the US government with an #authoritarian “aligned regime”, and which experts say is rooted in extreme #Christian #nationalism and religious autocracy.🔸
The revelations emerge from documents gathered in public records requests, including emails between several senior members of SACR:
Claremont president Ryan P #Williams;
its director of state coalitions and Boise State University professor Scott #Yenor;
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#Alabama #justice's ties to #farright #Christian #movement raise #concern.
"The #SevenMountains is a #structured #outline for #Christian #supremacy," said #MatthewTaylor, senior scholar at the #Institute for #Islamic, #Christian and #Jewish #Studies in #Baltimore.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1233968467/alabama-supreme-court-ivf-treatment-christian-nationalist
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US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network
The founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, #men-only, #invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently speculated about his future as a #warlord after the collapse of America, a Guardian investigation has found.
Federal and state tax and company filings show that the Society for American Civic Renewal (#SACR) and its creator, #Charles #Haywood, also have financial ties with the far-right #Claremont #Institute.
SACR’s most recent IRS filing names Haywood as the national organization’s principal officer. Other filings identify three lodges in Idaho – in #Boise, #Coeur d’Alene and #Moscow – and another in #Dallas, Texas.
The “possibilities involving violence” that his "#Armed #Patronage #Network" might face, Haywood writes include “more-or-less open #warfare with the federal government, or some subset or remnant of it”.
Further on, Haywood writes: “At this moment I preside over what amounts to a extended, quite sizeable, compound, which when complete I like to say, accurately, will be impervious to anything but direct organized military attack”, adding that “it requires a group of men to make it work … what I call ‘#shooters’ – say fifteen able-bodied, and adequately trained, men.”
These “shooters”, Haywood explains, “can operate my compound, both defensively and administratively”, meanwhile, “I have the personality, and skills, to lead such a group.”
