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ashley greb photoRevisiting my first Freedom Sounds Festival...Not the first time I'd seen Stone Foundation live, nor the last. A brilliant live band, both then and now, whose music and shows I will never stop recommending.Gebäude 9 - 21.April.2017<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stonefoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stonefoundation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/soul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soul</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/funk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fsf2017" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fsf2017</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedomsounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedomsounds</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/festival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#festival</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/k%C3%B6ln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#köln</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cologne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cologne</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livemusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#livemusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a>

InkicanOoh ... Neil Gaiman. Yikes 😳 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neilgaiman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neilgaiman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vulture</a>

Marilla Carruthers 🌺I'll be right here <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Breen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Breen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeilBreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeilBreen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Laptops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Laptops</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NonTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NonTech</a>

Chuck DarwinBacked by a cabal of wealthy conservative patrons like industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Koch</a>, banker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Richard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scaife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scaife</a>, and the devout Catholic entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frank</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanna</a>, the Federalist Society under Leo became a breeding ground for conservative judges who were recruited at law school, groomed through the society’s program of events and talks, and then bound together through their careers. “The key was to figure out how to develop what I call a ‘pipeline’ — basically, where you recruit students in law school, you get them through law school, they come out of law school, and then you find ways of continuing to involve them in legal policy,” Leo later explained. In 2005, the Federalist Society began openly advocating for <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> — a former member — to be nominated to fill a vacant seat at the Supreme Court, the first time it had campaigned publicly for a particular candidate. A few months later, its sway had grown so much that it torpedoed President George W. Bush’s own preferred candidate for another vacant seat on the Supreme Court — <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harriet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harriet</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miers</a>, a judge and close friend of the president who wasn’t a member of the Federalist Society — and pressured him to nominate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alito</a>, one of its members, in her place. Leo worked closely with the "Judicial Confirmation Network", a new nonprofit organization set up using funds from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arkley</a>, a California businessman known as the “foreclosure king,” who had made billions buying up mortgages of people in financial difficulties. The idea for <a href="https://c.im/tags/JCN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JCN</a> had been hatched at a dinner in Washington attended by Leo and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shortly after Bush’s reelection in late 2004. JCN spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on radio and online advertisement to shape public opinion. It was run by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ann</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corkery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corkery</a>, a couple who had been members of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Opus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dei</a> since at least the eighties. Neil had been a critical figure in getting a new residence for male, celibate members of the Catholic movement built in Reston, Virginia. “Opus Dei members preach their faith through their work as well as the friendships they develop,” Ann explained. She and her husband would later preach their faith by becoming central figures in a series of nonprofits that would channel dark money for Leo’s efforts.

TunesListRolling Stone names "top 250" guitarists of all time ~ oh my that's a lot of guitar wankage<a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/MollyTuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MollyTuttle</a> at 222 nice treat (although will go higher) <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/GrantGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GrantGreen</a> only 203 is a scandal <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/JerryReed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JerryReed</a> 198 is practically criminal <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/AdrianBelew" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AdrianBelew</a> at 118...hmmm maybe <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/NelsCline" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NelsCline</a> at 115 low <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/LouReed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LouReed</a> at 89 songwriting great yet too high <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/DerekTrucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DerekTrucks</a> at 80 cmon on <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Trey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trey</a> at 53 <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Jerry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jerry</a> at 34 <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Neil</a> at 30 no <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/BillyStrings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BillyStrings</a> at alltop 50 mostly a predictable popularity contest <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/</a> <a href="https://shakedown.social/tags/RollingStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#RollingStone</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"And then there is Justice Neil Gorsuch, who managed to unload a property he owned with two other partners for nearly $2 million after he became the Leonard Leo/Donald Trump consortium’s first appointee to the Supreme Court. The buyer was the managing partner of a law firm that regularly appears before the Supreme Court."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> Gorsuch /4

Chuck DarwinFor nearly two years beginning in 2015, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gorsuch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gorsuch</a> sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a <a href="https://c.im/tags/lifetime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lifetime</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/appointment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#appointment</a> on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the high court. Gorsuch owned the property with two other individuals.Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank.Since then, Greenberg Traurig has been involved in at least 22 cases before or presented to the court, according to a POLITICO review of the court’s docket.They include cases in which Greenberg either filed amicus briefs or represented parties. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-property-sale-00093579</a>

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