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Bohemian Grove Again Links Clarence Thomas to Likely Ethics Violation, This Time With Koch Brothers

ProPublica continues hammering away at investigating Clarence Thomas, and now they've uncovered at least two donor events hosted by the Koch Brothers in recent years that Thomas attended — all while the Kochs and their advocacy group Stand Together have had cases before the Supreme Court.

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Infamous, Secretive All-Male Bohemian Grove Retreat Now Underway In Sonoma County

Fire up your conspiracy theories, as the men-only rich guy retreat Bohemian Grove is now happening up in Sonoma. We don't know if Clarence Thomas went there, but House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reportedly did.

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Clarence Thomas's Trip to Bohemian Grove Figures Into New Report About Undisclosed Gifts From a Billionaire

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has tried to cultivate a public persona of down-home simpleness. But a new exposé by ProPublica finds that he's been accepting, and not disclosing, lavish yacht trips, vacations, and private jet flights from a conservative billionaire pal for years.

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Sonoma County Supervisor To Bohemian Grove: Admit That It's Weird, and Sexist

Last week we learned that there's some new pushback from the female-majority Sonoma County Board of Supervisors about providing County services, namely security by sheriff's deputies, to the male-only Bohemian Grove.

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Female-Led Sonoma Board of Supervisors Pushes Back On Providing Cops For Male-Only Bohemian Grove

The notorious and mysterious Bohemian Grove retreat, tucked among the redwoods of western Sonoma County, has been contracting with the county for security services for the past 15 years. But if two county supervisors have their way, that may come to an end soon.

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Bohemian Grove Employees Get $7 Million In Wage Theft Settlement

Valets at Bohemian Grove, the ultra-elite private resort in the redwoods of Monte Rio owned by the Bohemian Club, just won a significant settlement from the 144-year-old private gentlemen's club. As the Chronicle

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This Week in Willie Brown

The Chronicle ran the "Serious Willie in a Trench Coat" photo alongside Willie's Sunday Column this week. You might think that was because of all the rain last weekend, but you'd be wrong.

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Bohemian Grove Attracting Fewer Protesters These Days

There was a time when tons of protesters would gather outside the Bohemian Grove enclave in Monte Rio, organized in part by Sonoma County resident Mary Moore, to call attention to the great

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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Over here at SFist's fortress of solitude (above Jerry's Tattoo and Java), we've just been informed that "Big" Dick Cheney is currently ensconced at the Mandarin Oriental downtown, and an entire block of

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