Just like Project 2025 told him to. Fourteen hundred staff laid off. Programs frozen. Funding reallocated. Civil rights protections buried under paperwork. One less obstacle in the way of their war on public schools. An illegal executive order that the SCOTUS, staffed well by Leonard Leo, upheld just yesterday.
Speaking of The Federalist Societies goals… they even brought back the 1776 Commission to “end racial indoctrination in K12 schools.” Dusted off from the last time Trump tried to erase history. Now it’s an official federal curriculum.
This is not government form. This is an authoritarian regime.
Leonard Leo didn’t draft the plan. He didn’t need to, because he’d built the legal infrastructure that lets it live. His SCOTUS judges make it untouchable. His clerks whisper its defense. His money (which continues to come from rich billionaires who don’t want to ever lose a dime) moves through “non-profits” like blood through arteries. You don’t see it but it is everywhere.
Together, they did not create Heritage. They just plugged into it like a command line. Leo brought the doctrine. Thiel brought the tech. Heritage had the servers. And those in the Heritage Foundation used Trump to click “execute.”
What we are living through is not a comeback story. It’s not Trump’s second act. It’s a hostile takeover of the American state by two converging forces. One speaks in Bibles and court decisions. The other speaks in code and capital. One wants to resurrect the 1700s. The other wants to replace us with machines.
This was never about one man. It was about 83 billionaires who care more about their portfolios than the people clawing to survive.
♥ Note From The Author:
Leonard Leo is not trending. Peter Thiel is not viral. That’s not an accident. They move in the margins. They build from the shadows. They don’t run for office. They install the people who do.
This is what a modern coup looks like. It doesn’t march down Main Street. It signs executive orders from a fake school set. It writes policy in thousand-page blueprints and floods the courts with men who believe we need to go back the year 1791.
I don’t write for clicks. I write to record what they want erased. I follow the money. I name the names. I publish it all, because if we don’t understand how we got here, we’ll never find the way out. I am not another influencer following the latest trend. I am an investigative journalist following what they don’t want you to know.
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How Leonard Leo and Peter Thiel Handed Trump to the Heritage FoundationInside the billionaire pipeline that turned a think tank
Leonard Leo is the man who handpicked half the Supreme Court. The other half he helped. Starting with his friendship with SCOTUS Judge Clarence Thomas in the 1990s. Leo has never argued a case, never worn a robe, and never held public office. But his fingerprints are all over the death of Roe, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and the rise of a court infiltrated by Trump loyalists.
Peter Thiel, meanwhile, is Silicon Valley’s vampire libertarian.. the billionaire who funds AI surveillance for ICE, bankrolls neo-reactionary Senate candidates, and dreams of a world where democracy is optional and oligarchy is optimized. The same man who helped place JD — a man who once referred to Trump as Hitler — as Vice President.
Together, they are not just players in the American collapse. They are co-authors, and the Heritage Foundation is the bridge that turned far-right fantasy into federal reality.
So, Who Is Leonard Leo?
Leonard Leo was born in Long Island in 1965, and from the beginning, he seemed to embody the myth of the all-American overachiever.
His father died when he was a toddler. His mother remarried, and Leo was raised in the bland suburbs of New Jersey. He wore ties to school, spoke in polished phrases, and built his identity around Catholic conservatism and raw ambition. His classmates called him the "Moneybags Kid" because even as a teenager, he knew how to raise cash, curry favor, and run a room.
But this was no harmless prep school hustle. That reputation for fundraising and calculated charm would become the foundation of one of the most powerful political influence operations in modern American history.
Leonard Leo at a Federalist Society event, N.D.
He went on to Cornell University and then Cornell Law School, and when he realized Cornell didn’t have a chapter of the new Federalist Society, he started one. One that he briefly put on pause to help his friend, SCOTUS Judge Clarence Thomas, secure his seat on the Supreme Court in 1991.
That experience was a turning point. It showed Leo how judicial politics could be waged like a campaign.
Shortly after, while interning in D.C., Leonard Leo heard Reagan’s Attorney General, Ed Meese, preach the gospel of originalism a legal philosophy that would become Leo’s holy text.
Originalism, at its rotten core says, “Let’s interpret the original Constitution based only on how it was understood when it was written in the 1700’s.”
Why does every power-hungry white guy use a half-baked cult doctrine to justify their empire of evil?
It’s kind of ironic because originalists don’t even follow just one “original” Constitution. They cherry pick which amendments they believe in.
One day it’s 1789 to limit voting rights. Another day it’s 1791 to protect guns. They say it's about the Founders, but it’s really about keeping power out of your hands and in the hands of white, rich men. They treat gun rights as sacred because people in 1791 had muskets but abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, and voting protections don’t count, because those didn’t exist in 1868. They think the EPA and CDC are unconstitutional, but billionaires pouring money into elections is just “free speech.”
Even birthright citizenship is up for grabs if it involves immigrant families.
This lead to him being known as the “judicial kingmaker.”
Although never sitting on the bench himself, Leo handpicked Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Before that, he’d helped pick or confirm the court’s three other conservative justices Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
Leonard Leo, much like the Heritage Foundation, has been playing the long-game of conservative politics. Using “boring” lawfare to rise to the top, and Peter Thiel became one of his ideological foot soldiers during his college years when he joined Stanford’s Federalist Society branch.
Who Is Peter Thiel?
Thiel is the PayPal Mafia billionaire who originally left Stanford with a J.D. in 1992, but what Thiel really took with him was a worldview. As a member of the Federalist Society, he wasn’t just taught how to interpret the Constitution. He was taught how to weaponize it. Not to serve the people but to subdue them.
Long before the blood money from the U.S. military and ICE, before Palantir and Palaces of Surveillance, Thiel was already studying how power works not how to share it, but how to concentrate it in ways to benefit himself.
Peter Thiel, during his recent interview with the New York Times where he hesitated to answer when asked if he believes the human race should survive (July 11, 2025).
The Federalist Society didn’t just shape his legal views. It gave him the script. He just rewrote it for the digital age. That worldview didn’t fade after law school but instead it grew.
Over time, Thiel stopped pretending the Constitution mattered at all:
“I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” — Peter Thiel, 2009
Now, while Thiel was a member of the Federalist Society, it was never his holy text. Unlike like Leonard Leo, Thiel’s guiding philosophy wasn’t originalism.
It was the Dark Enlightenment.
A techno-feudalist fever dream hatched by Curtis Yarvin, a racist blogger turned pseudo-intellectual who believes civil rights turned America into “absolute human garbage.”
This is not surprising as Peter Thiel was raised in Apartheid Africa, where they followed the racist beliefs of Nazi Germany until the regime collapsed under global pressure in the early 1990s… decades after the Third Reich fell.
Thiel truly believes that democracy is “slowing down innovation” and empowering what he saw as weak-minded majorities. He openly calls for a society ruled by smart, wealthy elites and of course, he assumes he is one of the elite.
As if getting rich off PayPal and hiding behind Palantir made him Plato. In reality, he’s just a billionaire with a God complex and a surveillance fetish, mistaking power for wisdom and control for brilliance.
You can read more about Peter Thiel in my three-part investigative series you can find by clicking here. I published this shortly after launching this SubStack. It covers his ideology, influence, and the disturbing blueprint he’s helping to build.
But Thiel isn’t just building the technology. He’s also shaping the politics. He bankrolled the campaign of Vance and Trump. He personally placed JD “Never Trump Guy” Vance in the Oval Office.
Perhaps a favor for Leonard Leo?
Thiel also funds the Claremont Institute, a far-right “think tank” that promotes the idea that America is already in a state of civil war. Claremont writers helped justify the January 6 insurrection and continue to push theories that would give state legislatures the power to override election results if they didn’t like who won.
Enter The Heritage Foundation
No, Leonard Leo and Peter Thiel didn’t build it. They just knew exactly how to use it.
Heritage was originally born in 1973, created by reactionary businessmen and Beltway ideologues as a factory for conservative policy. It was never grassroots. It was engineered from the top down to weaponize research, polish up extremism, and sell corporate theology as intellectual rigor. By the time Reagan took office, Heritage had moved from the margins to the motor. They ghostwrote speeches. They staffed agencies. They drafted executive orders and treated them like scripture.
Reagan was the face. Heritage was the hand on the pen and when the Cold War ended, and the world moved on, Heritage stayed. It burrowed deeper.
Then came Trump.
Heritage saw in Trump what Leo and Thiel did. Not a thinker or a planner but a weapon. An empty vessel for a full agenda. Trump is the figurehead. The Heritage Foundation is who is really in control.
In 2023, Heritage first published Project 2025. Another in their series of “plans” for presidents. A document almost a thousand pages long.
It wasn’t something that contained theories but instead was a manual for seizing the federal government from the inside. Fire the civil servants. Strip agencies of independence. It called to centralize power under the presidency while they eliminate regulatory protections, criminalize disobedience, and replace law with loyalty and rule with “Christian values.”
It read like a fantasy. A 4Chan-ers wet dream. Then it actually started happening.
Executive Order 14215 gave Trump veto power over any regulation, no matter how minor.
Executive Order 14158 created a new department called the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE. A joke of a name for a real internal surveillance mechanism.
DOGE’s real job was similar to the job of the The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (April 1933) in Nazi Germany. The real job was to monitor, report, and remove anyone disloyal to the administration while shrinking the federal government, leaving only loyalists, turning it into something they could control.
Donald Trump signed the executive order to dismantle the Department of Education on a set he’d staged to look like a school complete with American flags, chalkboards, and handpicked children in uniform. It was pure political theater. A make-believe classroom for a made-for-TV authoritarian. No joke. He gutted public education while pretending to celebrate it.
An old sunken path, worn down by foot, hoof and wheel over the centuries. We call these holloways, earth remembering the tread of folk long gone. These green corridors were once the lifelines between hamlets, fields and sacred places.
The word holloway comes from Old English hol weg, literally “sunken way” or “hollow path.” Such paths were sometimes known as herepaths, military roads used by Saxon armies and the fighting ranks, now softened by time and tangled with green. For thousands of years, drovers made use of these holloways, guiding sheep and cattle along their worn, sunken tracks. Many follow ancient burial routes or run beside barrows, weaving the living and the dead together.
These are not just roads, but echoes carved in the earth, places where time pools.
This one held butterflies in the heat. A stillness. As if the path itself was listening.
But not all who walk them walk alone. Folklore warns these are not paths to linger on after dark, wights, will-o’-the-wisps, and older things are said to haunt these ways, drawn to the memory of old footsteps.
-Woodlarking
Most of the world we live in is invisible to the human senses. As humans, we’re only able to detect a very narrow slice of reality and there’s so much beyond what we can see and hear.
Visible light, the range of wavelengths we can see, spans between 430 THz and 790 THz. However, there’s an entire electromagnetic spectrum beyond that, including radio waves, microwaves, and X-rays, that our eyes simply can’t perceive. We’re surrounded by signals, energies, and phenomena that are hidden from our sight.
Our hearing range is just as limited. Humans can hear sounds from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, but sounds outside this range, such as ultrasonic that is higher than 20 kHz and infrasonic that is below 20 Hz, exist all around us, though we can't hear them. Animals like dogs and dolphins can hear frequencies far beyond our range, while some creatures can sense electrical fields or vibrations we’ll never feel.
The fact is, there’s a whole world beyond our natural sensesa hidden universe of phenomena that science continues to explore. So, next time you think you’ve seen it all, remember: the universe is much more than what meets the eye.
Tomorrow night (July 16, 2025), the Moon, Saturn, and Neptune will shine together in the same patch of sky. Look up after sunset: Saturn will glow golden next to the Moon, while faint Neptune may reveal itself through binoculars. A rare and beautiful sight — perfect for a photo!
Sunday, July 13, 2025
On June 23, 2025, a German startup, The Exploration Company (TEC), launched the Nyx capsule as part of the "Mission Possible" program, carrying the ashes of 166 people, with support from Texas-based Celestis, a space burial company.
The capsule completed two successful orbits around Earth before crashing into the Pacific Ocean due to a re-entry anomaly.
Celestis confirmed the ashes are unrecoverable, with CEO Charles M. Chafer emphasizing that while the technical milestones were notable, they cannot replace the personal significance for the families involved.
The incident has left the contents dispersed at sea, prompting ongoing investigations into the failure.
The establishment views this as a setback for the growing space burial industry, with TEC labeling it a "partial success" despite the crash, focusing on lessons for future missions.
They know when it’s unfair and they won’t stand for it. In a groundbreaking new study, bonobos one of our closest primate relatives refused to participate in tasks when they were given worse rewards than their partners. Unlike chimpanzees, their reaction wasn’t just disappointment in the human handing out the treats. Even when a machine gave out the unequal rewards, they still protested.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Utrecht University tested the bonobos in two experiments. In both cases, the bonobos clearly recognized inequality and often withheld cooperation when faced with unfairness. This behavior is known as inequity aversion a trait long debated in animals and seen as crucial to the development of cooperation and fairness in human societies.
But here’s where it gets even more interesting: when the bonobo getting the better deal was a close social partner someone they had groomed more often the reaction to unfairness was significantly reduced. Just like humans, strong social bonds softened their sense of injustice.
This study adds compelling evidence that the roots of our own sense of fairness may stretch deep into our evolutionary past.
Bonobos don’t just expect fairness. They demand it.
