Steve Brodner

1 week ago | thenation.com | Steve Brodner

Be part of 160 years of confronting power  Every day, The Nation exposes the administration’s unchecked and reckless abuses of power through clear-eyed, uncompromising independent journalism—the kind of journalism that holds the powerful to account and helps build alternatives to the world we live in now. We have just the right people to confront this moment.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Steve Brodner

America has trust issues with the high court. Its billionaire “friends” have helped push the law and the court’s makeup to the right. Some have showered the justices, particularly Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., with lavish gifts and VIP treatment, disclosed, for the most part, only after Pro Publica and other news media uncovered the details. Both justices, and their benefactors, deny wrongdoing. The Supreme Court remains the only court in the nation without a binding ethics code.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Steve Brodner

(Clockwise from top)"A."Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Martha-Ann Alito Gift vacations tanked ethical norms. Martha-Ann Alito, the justice's wife, flew the Stars and Stripes upside down (an insurrectionist symbol) on their flagpole. "B."Harlan Crow, real estate magnate Treated “just friends” Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, to posh vacations, a $19,000 Bible, property deals and more.

2 weeks ago | thenation.com | Steve Brodner

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2 weeks ago | stevebrodner.substack.com | Steve Brodner

Please join us and your friends our and loud on Saturday. It is our only chance to save this country. We need to be a bigger story than his ridiculous parade. At they end so this post, please find a wonderful Joe Ciardiello image. Joe, one of our greatest illustrators, is making this image a free download to all. See ou Saturday. Here is the distilled version of how this all started. I hope you come away feeling, as I do, that these are not masterminds or supermen, but clowns with guns.