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“Ethics experts have questioned why Mr. Bernhardt was given approval to take part in the Endangered Species Act decisions on the delta smelt, since Westlands would be among the largest beneficiaries of the policy change”

nytimes.com/2019/11/09/cli… via @NYTimes
“Four other former @Interior officials described the exchanges between Mr. Bernhardt and the ethics lawyer who reports to him as “extraordinary,” “atypical” & “intimidation.”

Via @CoralMDavenport
After McDonnell cleared Bernhardt to attend the ... White House meeting on the delta smelt, Daniel Jorjani, @Interior’s top lawyer, thanked the ethics lawyer.

“Ed—Superb value creation. Much appreciated,” wrote Mr. Jorjani

Value creation is not usually an ethics lawyer’s job.”
“...after Trump had nominated Bernhardt to be deputy interior secretary, Bernhardt forwarded the White House news release to a @Westlands_Water official, Johnny Amaral...

Amaral replied, “Dream Team … with Bernhardt as the QB.””

#SuperbValueCreation

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Jon Rosenfield
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Thing I’ve been hearing a lot recently: “Real Time Fish monitoring should dictate when the CVP & SWP export pumps are turned off to protect #endangeredspecies. See fish-pump off...no fish-pump on”.

There is *so* much wrong with this, it will require a #thread to unpack.
2a) Real time monitoring is not individual surveillance. Ecological monitoring will always miss individuals, esp. for rare species. (ie, we call it “sampling” & use statistics).

Monitoring will likely miss rare species & the early/late migrants that populations depend on.
2b) This point — the need to maintain life history diversity to prevent declines — can’t be overstated. Just protecting a narrow slice of these species’ diversity is a recipe for further decline & loss of resilience.

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
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Jon Rosenfield
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(Thread) A scientist’s view of the urgent need for @GavinNewsom to sign SB#1, written by @sentoniatkins.

Like every scientist concerned with preventing #extinction of #SFBay’s fish species, I want #endangeredspecies management to use only the best available science. 1/
@GavinNewsom @SenToniAtkins I supported then-Secretary @sallyjewell's call to review #endangeredspeciesact safeguards for the Bay’s imperiled fish species. Those reviews were necessary bc endangered fish continued to decline; Jewell wrote that she expected the review to lead to increased protections. 2/
@GavinNewsom @SenToniAtkins @sallyjewell Then science-denialists in the Trump Administration manipulated the scientific process used to develop @NOAAFisheries scientific review and tried to bury the best available science. latimes.com/environment/st…
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🍑Impeachment🍑

On 3/4 Nadler announced an inv’n into “the alleged O of J, public corruption, & other abuses of power by Trump, his assocs & members of his Adm.”

8/8, “This is formal impeachment proceedings.”

8/5, In late fall, we will decide to report articles of impeachment.
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There Were ‘Serious Irregularities’ at Federal Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Died, Barr Says

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Western Priorities
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LIVE THREAD: We're watching @SecBernhardt testify in front of @NRDems and @NatResources. The @Interior budget is on the agenda, but expect lots of questions about ethics and Bernhardt's vanishing calendars.

Live stream:
@SecBernhardt @NRDems @NatResources @Interior @SecBernhardt's opening statement is underway. Directly behind him are four people in bright green #FundLWCF t-shirts.
@SecBernhardt @NRDems @NatResources @Interior ...and @DOISwamp is in the room.
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Curse
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1. In the 1890s, there was a popular saying among German Socialist Democrats: "anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools." This was inspired by Karl Marx's theory that socialism is immune to exploitation by Jewish capitalists, and hatred of Jews was actually hatred of capitalism.
2. According to Marx, anti-capitalist ideologies like socialism and communism are immune to Jewish exploitation because the means of production are stripped from Jewish capitalists and collectivized.
3. Ironically, during the Bolshevik Revolution, Jewish capitalists simply handed over the means of production to Jewish bureaucrats. But after the fall of the USSR in 1991, the means of production fell right back into the hands of Jewish capitalists. But I digress.
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The confirmation hearing for David Bernhardt, who has been nominated to lead the Interior Department, is today. We've been investigating Bernhardt, a former oil industry lobbyist, since former Secretary Ryan Zinke stepped down: americanoversight.org/documents?fwp_…
The @WashingtonPost reported that Bernhardt has “so many potential conflicts of interest he has to carry a small card listing them all.” washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
We sued Interior for records of his compliance with ethics requirements and to find out if he's been in contact with his former clients: americanoversight.org/new-lawsuit-se…
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Ali Adair
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Part 1. Why are the Kochs so involved in politics? Why are they funding this push for a Constitutional Convention? Why are they spending all this money? Yes, they have this agenda from the Libertarian 1980 platform that I made and people post. But most of those items are peanuts.
As a privately, held company, Koch Industries, Inc. does not have to report annual profits and revenues. According to Forbes Magazine at the fiscal end of 2016, Koch Industries was ranked #2 in “America’s Largest Private Companies” with an estimated worth of $100 billion.
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In 2017, the Republican-controlled Congress introduced at least 63 separate pieces of legislation that would strip federal protections for specific threatened species or undermine the U.S. Endangered Species Act (once every 6 days)
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