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  1. Looks like #KochBrothers got their money's worth!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events

    Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023

    "The Koch network is among the largest and most influential political organizations of the last half century, and it’s underwritten a far-reaching campaign to influence the course of American law. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this coming term, the justices could give the network a historic victory: limiting federal agencies’ power to issue #regulations in areas ranging from the #environment to labor rights to consumer protection. After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent. (Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent years.)"

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
    #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ScrotusSunday #EnvironmentalRegulations #EPA #Chevron

  2. Advancing White Supremacy Through Academic Strategy

    ... The report’s chapters describe the interwoven infrastructure of neo-confederate scholars, funded by the Charles Koch Foundation, who are training and recruiting the next generation of anti-civil rights Austrian economists. We explore the dangerous ideologies involved in this network, past and present, including recent influence on the violent Alt-Right and Neo-Nazis.

    Other chapters highlight the Koch family’s involvement in Nazi sympathizing, efforts to oppose the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and the present-day Koch network’s effort to roll-back opposing civil rights.

    We believe that understanding the Charles Koch Foundation’s material support for, and ideological confluence with, a network of Neo-Confederate and white nationalist scholars is integral to understanding the Koch-network’s past and present efforts to resegregate our nation’s schools, dismantle voting rights, and expand the prison industrial complex -- all at the expense of people of color. ...

    unkochmycampus.org/los-preface

    #KochBrothers #CharlesKoch #KochFoundation #KochIndustries #WhiteNationalism #WhiteNationalists #CharlesKochFoundation #NeoConfederatcy #KochNetwork #GeorgeMasonUniversity #MercatusCenter #ALEC #HeritageFoundation #CatoInstitute