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🚨"Please declare an emergency declaration—save our kids!" -sick #EastPalestine residents shouted at OH statehouse as they were REMOVED. "If @GovMikeDeWine does not [declare emergency], there a lot of residents who can't get help."

4 months after Norfolk Southern DETONATION...
@GovMikeDeWine #EastPalestine residents continue to suffer from bloody noses, nausea, dizziness, burning eyes, chemical burns, sinus issues, headaches, sore throat, numb lips & tongue, fatigue and even blood coming from their rectums...
@GovMikeDeWine Yet, the EPA continues to tell residents air, water, and soil testing are producing safe levels (despite EPA officials acknowledging their equipment can't detect all contamination levels). And Gov. DeWine, inexplicably, refuses to declare a state of emergency...
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Amazing day in the field!

Did the 7 hour drive and put 7 hours of field work in, day 1.

Our 6th research visit to #EastPalestine #Ohio area has begun.

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Sulfur Run, where the chemicals first entered waterways from The Norfolk Southern #disaster is practically free of water in some places.

Some places are flowing others seemingly with stagnant pools. Image
Sheen still exudes from the Sulfur Run creek banks in places where we visited.

We did see free floating sheen (not from us disturbing) after the confluence of Sulfur Run and Leslie Run.
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The US banned Hawaiian language, poisons our water, devastated our universal healthcare, overthrew our country, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon, but the destroyer of independence.
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water ImageImageImageImage
Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. ko-fi.com/silverspook
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Ohio is Israel

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The Forgotten Palestinians

2/22/2023 👉 222
Trump hands out water to the ‘forgotten’ residents of East Palestine.

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Located in Palestine, the Sea of Galilee, is where Jesus was said to have walked on water.
#Ohio
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The Ohio River became known to be as the “River Jordan.”
Symbolizing the path to the promised land.

The Jordan River flows through the Sea of Galilee & on to the Dead Sea.

Jordan & the Golan Heights border the river on the East.

#Palestine
#Ohio
#OhioRiver
#JordanRiver
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March 25, 2019
President Trump recognizes the Golan Heights as a part of the State of Israel.

In return, Benjamin Netanyahu names a new settlement in Golan Heights, “Trump Height”.

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The US banned Hawaiian language, poisons our water, devastated our universal healthcare, overthrew our country, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon, but the destroyer of independence.
Hawaii is a Disneyland-like resort built over our indigenous communities & ancestor's graves, made to do bastardizations of sacred dances, in 'sexy feather headresses' & entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hrs a day 7 days a week, drinking jet fuel poisoned water ImageImageImageImage
US-occupied Hawaii is living sardine-packed 20-to-an-apartment next to methlabs, paying $3k / month, getting raped by Americans in tacky hotels, especially US soldiers. And then be arrested for speaking your own language, dying in prison, or of diabetes at age 39. ImageImageImageImage
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Is Paris #INC2 is a feast, you need to read 3 excellent written essays on #plasticpollution 🧵

#PlasticsTreaty
1️⃣ Rebecca Altmant :
On Vinyl: A brief history of #EastPalestine toxic train disaster

#PlasticsTreaty

orionmagazine.org/article/east-p…
2️⃣ Mark O’Connell: Our Way of Life Is Poisoning Us

#PlasticsTreaty

nytimes.com/2023/04/20/opi…
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"This is the first time in my life I think I've ever been afraid," - #EastPalestine's Eric Cozza. His urine tested for high levels of Vinyl Chloride. He's had nosebleeds and more since the train derailment.

As we broke, CDC is recommending doctors NOT TO TEST residents for VC
WATCH @JordanChariton's interview with #EastPalestine resident Eric Cozza.
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NEW: Acrylate Water Safety Emergency Hits Philly; Residents Scramble for Bottled Water #Philadelphia #water #pollution
unicornriot.ninja/2023/acrylate-…
Philadelphia authorities warned the city water supply could be endangered -- people started stocking up on water within minutes.
A warm & sunny Sunday afternoon was suddenly interrupted by an emergency phone alert:
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Philadelphia authorities warned the city water supply could be endangered & everyone should cease using drinking water after 2 p.m.
City map showed most areas "potentially impacted" public safety messagemap of potentially impacted areas in philadelphia
Within minutes, people headed to grocery, corner and beer stores to grab water jugs and bottles. By 4 p.m. a couple stores Unicorn Riot checked were mostly picked over.
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C Video: My 1st trip to #eastpalestine Ohio in Sulphur Run where I tested, in my initial screening, the creek bank sediment and water for #Dioxins & a full spectrum of chemicals. Results from this 1st trip (Feb 22-24) screening are now in and have been provided to the community… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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BREAKING: In an emergency alert, #Philadelphia residents (~1.5M people) have been warned to not drink the city water due to a new chemical spill upstream into the Delaware River.
All over the city people are rushing to stock up & stores are limiting purchases. City of Phila emergency warning re water departmentMap showing most of Philadelphia east of Schulykill river isPeople are lined up with two cases of bottled water during tA Philadelphia Water Department truck
NEW: Philadelphia city OTIS Deputy Managing Director Mike Carroll said the chemical spill "included ethyl acrylate, MMA (methyl methacrylate), and butyl acrylate — which was also found after the recent train derailment in #EastPalestine, Pa." (source: billypenn.com/2023/03/26/phi… )
Learn more about the #EastPalestine chemical disaster in our deep dive report [Feb 13] .. Philly updates to follow unicornriot.ninja/2023/like-the-…
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🟢Back to the Area 🟢 to collect follow up samples in & around #EastPalestine #Ohio. This is our team's 4th trip to the area since mid-February. Updates will be posted below.

Also looking forward to the #science & community sharing event in the coming weeks (in the works).

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Visited a home today along Sulfur Run.

It’s still contaminated.

After moving rocks, the PID read 2.1 ppm (not ppb) coming off the creek.

Background in air was 0-3 ppb
Contractors (paid by someone) seem to have left garbage in Sulfur Run. They didn’t clean up. You can’t tell me the sorbent pad is going to be used again.

Who is overseeing them?

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#EastPalestine, #Ohio #NorfolkSouthern train disaster:

Dioxin levels incredibly unsafe.

I continue to question why we can only get solid reporting on Ohio from Britain.

#dioxin

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
#DemocracyNow has been reporting on #EastPalestine, Ohio, but often following The Guardian because the best information is there.

NPR unable to make links between East Palestine and #CopCity in Atlanta, so they're reporting is almost useless.

On TikTok, #NickDrom has good info.
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Unsurprisingly, nobody wants the waste from #EastPalestine ... a 🧵reuters.com/world/us/epa-t…
Nearly 7 million gallons of waste water and 9.2 million pounds of soil and solid waste have been shipped off site. ema.ohio.gov/media-publicat…
another 53 million pounds of soil are piled up, and urgently need to be out of town, where residents still suffer from headaches, "burning of the skin", respiratory issues, and anxiety. ema.ohio.gov/media-publicat…
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🧵Stitching together the truth. One thread at a time. 🚨On the Board of Directors for the company that makes #Moderna's #COVID19 vaccine are many names I've looked into. One name I hadn't yet investigated is one of MOST important: Mitch Daniels Jr.🔍
1/8🧵If you're from Indiana, you probably already know Mitch Daniels. Listed as a founding director for Resilience, he's best known for being the 49th Governor of Indiana but tbh that's the least important detail of Daniels.
2/8🧵 His position as director for Moderna's manufacturing company couldn't be more sinister. Here's 5⃣ main reasons why: 1.) He started the first 13yrs of his career working for Senator Richard Lugar, of bio-lab/Lugar Center in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Today, at 10am EST the U.S. Senate @EPWCmte holds a hearing about the #chemicalspill #fires #disaster caused in #EastPalestine #Ohio in Room SD-406

Will officials by asked why they’re not testing for chemicals we found? Officials lack full transparency.
epw.senate.gov/public/
This isn’t a classic chemical spill. Officials set hazardous chemicals -on fire- likely creating 100s-1000s of other materials.

You have to throw the kitchen sink at the chemical screening /identification problem. They have not done that, yet.

Officials must course correct.
When you review the county drinking water well testing data they didn’t test for a number of the chemicals in the creek.

So, what was the purpose of testing? Spending that $? Telling residents water is safe?

Why did these agencies choose not to be thorough in their approach?
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🚨 Field Work, March 3-4, 2023 🚨

This week @PurdueAg @PurdueEngineers Prof. @caitlin_h2o, as well as students Rasul & @aliya_ehde visited the #Ohio and #Pennsylvania to sample creeks and understand "what's changed since last week".

Observations are below.

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During the trip, the team collected creek water from creeks upstream of the train derailment site, including in #Pennsylvania.

They also went to several other creeks in Ohio, no "sheens" were observed there.

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It was pouring out....

Kudos to Professor @caitlin_h2o for leading the team...

....in the #rain! 🌧️

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Today, I asked @OSHA_DOL to deploy #worker safety teams to evaluate past/ongoing chemical exposures to cleanup workers in #EastPalestine #Ohio.

Worker and local air monitoring should be considered.

Review our Twitter thread for images and videos: Image
Unfortunately, there are some typos. I apologize.

I'm running on 4 hours sleep, but felt it was important to get this to OSHA ASAP.
FYI @smartunionworks, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, @BMWEDIBT, @BLET, Brotherhood Railway Carmen, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, @IBEW, @TCUnionHQ, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, @transportworker
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On Feb. 3, #EastPalestine abruptly changed when a #NorfolkSouthern train carrying 151 cars derailed.

Here is a timeline of the train derailment and the aftermath: theepochtimes.com/timeline-of-oh…
Feb. 3
Around 9 p.m., a Norfolk Southern train carrying 151 cars derailed in East Palestine.

Fifty cars derailed, the @NTSB reported. The crash sparked a fire, and 11 of the cars contained hazardous chemicals, which soared into the air and onto the ground.
Feb. 4
#EastPalestine Mayor Trent Conaway declared a state of emergency.

Residents in East Palestine and surrounding communities were asked to leave the area.
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The @OhioEPA should comment on this ASAP.

#EastPalestine OH is one of the most vulnerable areas of the county for Ground Water Pollution Potential.

Short version: yellow on map means you are MORE susceptible to ground water pollution from surface sources. Source: Ohio DNR
#EastPalestine is YELLOW bigly. That means VERY susceptible to ground water pollution.

TRUST THE SCIENCE Original document here 👇:
ohiodnr.gov/static/documen…

This conclusion was derived using the D.R.A.S.T.I.C. method which accounts for:
But the EPA gonna gaslight you like you're a dumb person.
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CDC updated its toxicological profile for vinylchloride right before train derailment and chemical spill of that same chemical in #EastPalestine,Ohio.The changes that been made was removal of PublicHealthStatement,which details the health impact of this toxic chemical🙏👇
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East Palestine - Local Chickens Laying Eggs with Purple Hue, Over 44K Animals Wiped Out🙏👇
Over halfmilliongallons of what's being called toxicwastewater has been brought from East Palestine,Ohio to Houston,Texas,with plan to ship up to 2 million gallons.
People in Ohio have been told water is safe to drink and use,and yet it's being transported to toxic wasteplant🤔🙏
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Why is Frank so focussed on the groundwater? Creeks interact with aquifers (underground water).

My dummy interpretation of this geological information is that there is direct interaction between the creeks and the water aquifer under #EastPalestine P49
ohiodnr.gov/static/documen…
Please keep in mind, I'm not a geologist. But I can read. So I am sharing my readings with you. Do your homework. Ask the questions. Hold people accountable. They haven't been truthful so far.
Oops another #EPA typo ! The Potable City water pump intakes may be 56-83 feet below surface, but the ground water is only 18 feet below surface. How do I know? US Geological Surveys. nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/gwlev…
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Sect Buttigieg was in #EastPalestine Thursday. Here's a fact-checking thread.
During Trump's presidency,there were 5,103 train derailments in the US. Neither Trump nor Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao visited any sites of those derailments. Not one. Unlike Buttigieg.
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During Trump's presidency there were 58,920 transportation-related hazardous waste leaks/spills resulting in 26 deaths and many additional injuries.
Neither Trump nor Chao went to these accident sites. Trump didn't call in FEMA, like Biden has, either.
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Fox News fact-checked Trump and points out Trump officials never visited train derailment sites and notes accidents that resulted in fatalities during Trump years.
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msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa…
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