DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 20, 2019

Mountaire Poisoning Sussex County?  While this piece is for subscribers only, it refers to a ‘Young Turks’ investigation. Here’s some fair use:

It is hosted by Emma Vigeland, a correspondent and producer for The Young Turks. 

In the video, she accuses Mountaire of giving its residential neighbors tumors and asthma, as well as causing deaths. The Sussex County company is one of the largest chicken producers in the United States.

“They’ve basically been spraying contaminants into these open farm fields for around two decades now,” Vigeland says in the video, which was filmed in Sussex County. 

Vigeland also says Mountaire was President Donald Trump’s fifth-largest donor in the 2016 election, a fact supported by multiple media reports and campaign filings.

Montaire calls it ‘fake news’. The courts will decide. Yes, they’re being sued. Which isn’t ‘fake news’.

State Department Official Who Negotiates With Russians Had Undisclosed Ties To Russian Spies.  You just have to read this. Don’t think even Trump can save her:

“When the person who marries you gets into trouble with the Russians and your job is to negotiate with the Russians, you have to disclose that,” a senior administration official told me. “Everybody with an intelligence clearance knows that.”

Trump Tax ‘Glitch’ Screws Vegas Billionaires, Helps Workers.  And the House is in no hurry to come to the aid of the billionaires. Cool.

How Rethugs Stopped Caring About the ‘Right To Vote’.  About the time that the word on every Rethug’s lips was ‘ACORN’, if I recall.

How ‘Teach For America’ Was Really A Tool Of The Charter Schools Movement.  Funded by the Walmart heirs.