NCC Council Approves Height Limits On Landfills. The vote was unanimous, with two abstentions. A tip of the sombrero to Matt Meyer and to Council. It’s about time someone, anyone, challenged Delaware’s casual environmental racism. Couldn’t find out who abstained on the County website. Who were the two miscreants? Nancy, were you there?
Trump Moves To Expand Logging In Alaskan Wilderness. Hey, anything Bolsonaro does, Trump can do even worse. Someone needs to look into Russian interference in the Brazilian elections.
Trump Guts FEMA Funding For More ICE Detention Centers. Then complains about tropical storm that could hit Puerto Rico.
Top Trump/McConnell Financier Driving Amazon Deforestation. One Steven Schwarzman, a founder of Blackstone. Did I say an ally of Trump and McConnell?:
In 2018, he was paid at least $568 million, which was, in fact, a drop from the $786 million he made the year before. He has been generous toward McConnell and Trump with that wealth. In 2016, he gave $2.5 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, McConnell’s Super PAC and put Jim Breyer, McConnell’s billionaire brother-in-law, on the board of Blackstone. Two years later, Schwarzman kicked in $8 million to McConnell’s Super PAC.
Blackstone employees have given well over $10 million to McConnell and his Super PAC over the years, making them the biggest source of direct financing over McConnell’s career. McConnell’s Senate campaign declined to comment.
Schwarzman is a close friend and adviser to Trump, and served as the chair of his Strategic and Policy Forum until it fell apart in the wake of the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally, in which Trump famously praised “very fine people, on both sides.” In December 2017, as the final details of the GOP tax cut were being ironed out, Schwarzman hosted a $100,000-a-plate fundraiser for Trump. Some of the president’s dinner companions complained about the tax bill, and days later, Trump slashed the top percentage rate in the final package from 39.6 to 37.
There has to be a special place in Hell for the whole lot of them.
Pool Boys, Personal Trainers: The Dubious Financial Shenanigans Of Jerry Falwell Jr. And Liberty University. Sure looks like moral rectitude takes a back seat to…erectitude.
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