holy hell

well damn, you know i shoulda been prepared for this one after the hoseok ask, but your girl still had to do some thinking and digging 🤣

here goes nothing:

5. Mic Drop

swagger off the charts. body and face serving fuck you but doing it cute because yoongi amiright? I don’t always go for the bandana looks but dammit, when it works it works (yes, i am also looking at you grammy night kim taehyung)

4. Whenever the hell this was

end me, barista yoongi. take me right to my grande, half-caf, shot of cinnamon flavoring heavy on the whip death. everything is working in these pictures, the slightly feathered hair and the turtleneck and the blazer and the glasses. this was absolutely the inspo for greedy yoongi.

3. Dior Yoongi

y’all caught me slipping last time but it won’t happen again OKAY. he served look after look on the shadow video but the dior vest and thick chain were the stars of the show. shoutout to his pretty pewter hair because sob.

2. Mint Yoongi

everything works. the fluffy green hair and the soft pout and the delightfully thick nerd glasses. this is the boyfriend fantasy and yoongi in glasses is my ultimate weakness. which way is the library, sir?

1. Daechwita

Maia Boakye

https://theintercept.com/2019/08/27/amazon-rainforest-fire-blackstone/

“The companies have wrested control of land, deforested it, and helped build a controversial highway to their new terminal in the one-time jungle, all to facilitate the cultivation and export of grain and soybeans.”

“Schwarzman, a founder of Blackstone, owns roughly a fifth of the company, making him one of the world’s richest men. 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 [t]rump 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 [t]rump, 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 [t]rump 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 [t]rump. Some of [trump’s] dinner companions complained about the tax bill, and days later, [t]rump slashed the top percentage rate in the final package from 39.6 to 37. 

…"Bolsonaro has plans to pave significantly more roads in the Amazon that have otherwise been impassable much of the year, a project made feasible by international financing.

…"Of course, Hidrovias is also involved in paving B.R.-163 and other development projects in the region. Those projects, such as the paving of the highway, have additional indirect — though entirely predictable — consequences, as they spur side roads that make previously difficult-to-reach areas of the Amazon accessible for mining, logging, or further deforestation.

…"A Blackstone spokesperson noted that the fund only owns 9.3 percent* of Hidrovias. But that ignores the 55.8 percent of Hidrovias that is owned by Pátria Investimentos. On Hidrovias’s website, Pátria is described as a company ‘in partnership with Blackstone,’ and it is known in the financial industry to be a Blackstone company.”

*Pay no attention to claimed percentages of ownership. What goes on behind ownership curtains is fluidly incestuous. For example, from April 2019:

“Blackstone transferred its 35% stake in Brazilian real estate developer Alphaville Urbanismo to its partner Pátria Investimentos. Blackstone and Pátria originally invested R$1.4b in June 2013 for a 70% stake in the company. The two firms formed a partnership in 2010 and Blackstone retains a 40% stake in Pátria.”

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Keep in mind,

It’s not like this graft flows directly, or just one way.

Every American farmer who has lost their Chinese market for soybeans should be questioning exactly why trump “woke up” one morning with his great idea of his trade war. Did Schwartzman tell trump the road and terminal for transporting soybeans from Brazil was ready?

It’s the Basic Ball! A ball for the rest of the LGBT-cuties.

Iconic: a 10-year-old girl parodies celeb photos 📷