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Leonard Leo - my boss 2009-2012. 25 years print reporter. I write about Leonard Leo, Opus Dei & MAGA Catholic politics. @thcarter123.bsky.social

Washington, DC
Joined September 2026
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Mostly Catholic inside baseball, but interesting for DC politics and MAGA Catholics appear to be losing ground. The rightwing glaciers have not melted and fallen yet. But they will.
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Leonard Leo’s “genius” is tenacity. Over time, termites, w only one goal, you can do a lot of damage, if no one notices. Leo’s genius is like the rotting pitbull head in Double Whammy. He never let’s go. floridabar.org/the-florida-b…
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Indeed.
Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein
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Does anyone know who the "William Barr" is who is mentioned in the FBI chart on page 22 of the House Dem staff Epstein report? democrats-judiciary.house.go…
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Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein
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That’s one way for Catholic bishops and archbishops to dispel the pedophile accusations: pray with a pedo. 🙄
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This exactly the trouble w legacy media, especially NYT, these days.
Legacy media strikes again. Obama's "Cheesecake Factory" jibe is front page news at the Times. Fresh allegations about Trump and Epstein raping women together? Not so much. saltypolitics.substack.com/p…
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Wheels seem to be coming off over at Team Collins. Dems are experts at this kinda infighting -- even when winning! -- but pretty rare to see this sort of fissure within a GOP campaign...unless things are going south. Patten had a Collins-hugging column in PPH 9/24. #MEpolitics
Former Susan Collins staffer & Maine Wire editor Sam Patten just eviscerated Collins over her latest ad attacking Troy Jackson. “The race is over.”
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Former Susan Collins staffer & Maine Wire editor Sam Patten just eviscerated Collins over her latest ad attacking Troy Jackson. “The race is over.”
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When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan whether he was a socialist, Sagan offered an answer that captures the true meaning of a civilized society.
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House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.go…
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Steve Collins with the most important Maine political column of the year. Big credit to him for covering a dark story the rest of the Maine press is studiously ignoring. Couldn't have been easy for him -- he was boosting Susan Collins as recently as last year. #MEpolitics
One of the saddest developments of this year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Maine has been watching Susan Collins, a senator once renowned for civility and decency, embrace the Maine Wire’s sickening racism and vulgar politics. pressherald.com/2026/10/26/s…
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