.@axios has a good summary of IPCC climate report. This is bad. Bad. Enough bulls**t from fossil fuel industry, pretending it supports action while hiding its obstruction funding. Start by telling the truth about your political dirty work. axios.com/un-climate-rep…
Enough bulls**t from Republicans hip deep in fossil fuel money, whose home state universities warn about this, but who will blockade anything serious.
Enough bulls**t from corporate America, spouting greenwash while refusing to switch on its immensely powerful political apparatus to do anything on climate. Not ONE major trade association is activated.
We are going to have to do this on our own, in reconciliation. So we will. And when they predictably claim that it’s “partisan,” remember who lied, who denied, who obstructed, who greenwashed, and who opted out of working for any real solution.
PS — Who decided corporations should be in our politics at all, let alone all-powerful? Oh, right: Republican Supreme Court justices. Some originalism.
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The bipartisan infrastructure deal will create millions of jobs, protect wages & worker conditions & invest in American manufacturing. Pair this with an even bolder reconciliation package & you have a historic deal. But… what exactly is in the bill?
The bipartisan infrastructure bill will deliver for Rhode Islanders. I helped craft the section that will send Rhode Island federal funding to repair highways, roads, and bridges. The bill also sends our state much-needed funding for broadband internet.
On climate/oceans, all eyes are on reconciliation, but this bill does have some wins. A few priorities of mine that will receive funding:
1⃣ My National Oceans & Coastal Security Fund
2⃣ Transportation infrastructure resiliency
3⃣ Grant program established by my SOS 2.0 bill
This long-delayed answer confirms how badly we were spun by Director Wray and the FBI in the Kavanaugh background investigation and hearing. whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/a…
It confirms my suspicions that the “tip line” was not real and that FBI tip line procedures were not followed. There are FBI tip line procedures. They were not followed.
So when Wray said they followed procedures, he meant the “procedure” of doing whatever Trump White House Counsel told them to do. That’s misleading as hell.
Nobody elected them anything; their former President nearly wrecked the country; they don’t wish us well; and they likely won’t deliver — can we move on? politico.com/news/2021/05/2…
Until now, it seemed pretty clear that the infrastructure negotiations were about what would be bipartisan, with no cap on what else we might do via reconciliation. This seems to change that and offer a cap on infrastructure investment. If so, that’s new.
It also seems to kick climate to the curb, with only specific climate-related investments mentioned, not the overall urgency to get on a 1.5 degrees trajectory. This suggests a separate climate bill must come later. If so, that’s new.
Leonard Leo operated the dark-money court capture operation from his @FedSoc perch. It was a $250 million dark-money operation.
Down the hall (literally) was the Judicial Crisis Network, which took anonymous $15-17 million donations to fund campaign ads for the Supreme Court nominees the FedSoc-hosted operation selected.
When the @washingtonpost outed Leo and Trump polling tanked, Leo jumped ship to “Honest Elections Project” to move from court capture (which needs a Republican president) to voter suppression (to make good use of those judges).