Associate Justices Samuel Alito is the most blatantly biased justice in the history of the United States, and Clarence Thomas is the most corrupt. And yet nothing is being done to hold either of them to account. It is all part of the christofasccist effort to destroy the integrity of our democracy in order to get voters to end it.
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the most corrupt justice in the history of the United States Credit: npr
Supreme Court justices have received nearly $5 million in gifts since the early 2000s, and one justice in particular, Justice Clarence Thomas, accounts for nearly all of it.
Data released Thursday by watchdog group Fix the Court unveils a list of gifts justices have received since January 2004. The dataset was released ahead of an expected release of the justices’ financial disclosure reports Friday.
Thomas, nominated to the high court by former President George H.W. Bush,made headlines last year after an investigation found he had taken dozens of trips paid for by separate billionaire friends.
According to the data compiled by Fix the Court, since 2004, Thomas has accepted $4,042,286, or 193 gifts. The group reported that, for Thomas, there’s an additional 126 “likely but not confirmed gifts.”
Of the nearly 200 gifts, the group said Thomas only reported 27 of the gifts on his financial disclosures.
The dataset included current and former justices dating back to 2004, tallying their gift totals, including Thomas’s, to be about $4.7 million.
China is cleaning Americas clock on EVs and hybrids. Here is their latest offering, and look at the price.
1,305 Mile range BYD Qin Credit: BYD.
People, here’s a story that could alter the landscape for non-traditional automobiles — a plug-in hybrid from BYD that has a claimed total range of 1,305 miles. According to Autoblog, the latest versions of the BYD Qin L and Seal 06 sedans feature the Chinese automaker’s latest plug-in hybrid technology. With a fully charged battery and a full tank of gas, the technology can provide a driving range of 2,100 kilometers (1,305 miles), according to BYD chair Wang Chuanfu. The company’s PHEV technology, now in its fifth generation, achieves a record low fuel consumption of 2.9 liters per 100 km (62.1 miles), even after the batteries have been depleted. Google says that translates to 0.776 gallons. Divide that into 62 miles and you get a fairly astonishing figure of 80 miles per gallon. Wow!
Yahoo also ran the numbers and came up with 80 mpg, so that seems to confirm my calculations. If so, this is a very impressive achievement by BYD. We do not know what standard […]
MERIDITH MCGRAW and JESSICA PIPER, Staff Writer - Politico
Stephan:
I am simply amazed that the oligarchs are literally trying to buy the government they want with criminal Trump as their easily manipulated “leader” and most of the Trump followers don’t seem to comprehend what that is going to mean for them. If we become Hungary the era of United States leadership will be over and the decline in the social wellbeing of ordinary American voters who made it happen will be dramatic.
Criminal Trump, convicted rapist, and 34 count convicted felon begins his West Coast swing to rake in more millions from the oligarchs who want to buy the non-democratic government they want. Credit: Joe Raedle / Getty
Former President Donald Trump once declared California a “symbol of our nation’s decline” — but he sure likes its cash.
A week after he was convicted in a wide-ranging hush money trial, the former president is making a fundraising swing through the West Coast with stops in San Francisco — his first visit to the city in more than a decade — and Los Angeles. Trump is already raking in cash and trying to close the fundraising gap with President Joe Biden. His campaign and the Republican National Committee said they raised $141 million, while an associated super PAC took in $70 million, in May.
Trump’s visits to San Francisco, Beverly Hills and Newport Beach over the next three days for private events are expected to bring in millions. Top tickets for the Thursday fundraiser, hosted by Silicon […]
With the Dobbs decision and states laws passed in Republican controlled states immediately after its announcement, the Great Schism Trend that has been breaking the United States into two countries in a single nation has taken on a much more emphatic and dramtic dimension. Healthcare for women is being determined on the basis of religious and philosophical grounds with no consideration for good medical practice, and it is already clear that the effects are going to be much more complex than was at first apparent and are extending far beyond the abortion issue. And what is next? On the 5th of June 2024, just to test that question, the Democrats in the Senate introduced a Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of S.4381, the Right to Contraception Bill. It required 60 votes to go forward with the bill. The vote was 51 Democrats voting for the Motion, 39 Republicans voting against letting the bill to protect contraception go forward. The saga of politicians, not physicians making medical decisions is far from over.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception, arguing that the bill was just a political stunt as Democrats mount an election-year effort to put GOP senators on the record on reproductive rights issues,
The test vote won a 51-39 majority, but that was well short of the 60 votes to move ahead on the legislation.
It came as the Senate has abandoned hopes of doing serious bipartisan legislation before the election. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democrats are trying to instead spotlight issues they believe can help them win the presidency and keep the Senate in November. A similar vote on ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization is expected next week.
That bill is expected to similarly stall in the Senate, where Democrats need 60 votes to move forward on legislation. Schumer said Tuesday that Democrats will “put reproductive freedoms front and center before this chamber, so that the American people can see for themselves who will stand up to defend their fundamental liberties.”
The effort comes as Democrats worry that reproductive rights will be further threatened after the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion two years ago and as they continue […]
DAN WITTERS, Staff Researcher - The Gallup Organization
Stephan:
Fears over the integrity or Medicare and Social Security are, I think, a major part of the fear that so infects American voters. And they should be worried. If criminal Trump and his Republican minions in the Congress come to power in November, I think both of these programs will suffer degradation and reduction, as will a woman’s right to control her body, the protection of libraries, and the very basis of American democracy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seventy-three percent of U.S. adults under the age of 65 report that they are “worried” (41%) or “extremely worried” (32%) that Medicare will not be available when they are eligible to receive it, a six-percentage-point jump since 2022, according to a new study by West Health and Gallup. The increase in concern is sharpest among those aged 50 to 64 (up 13 points to 74%) and 40 to 49 (up nine points to 83%, the highest level of all age groups).
Worries over Social Security are even higher and have also grown significantly — 80% of respondents report that they are worried (33%) or extremely worried (47%), compared with 75% in 2022. Among those aged 50 to 61 — the group closest to being eligible for Social Security — 81% are now worried, compared with 72% in 2022, a nine-point increase.
The West Health-Gallup 2024 Survey on Aging in America was conducted by web and mail Nov. 13, 2023-Jan. 8, 2024, with 5,149 adults aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of […]
