Thread by @JordanChariton

On #WorldWaterDay, Flint activists deliver petition w/ 15K signatures demanding help NEARLY 5 YEARS LATER. As reminder, @StatusCoup broke last year that MI's environmental agency MANIPULATED water lead testing/data in dozens of homes from 2016 through 2018

https://twitter.com/JordanChariton/status/1058000746829041665

As @ErinBrockovich told @Statuscoup for our report: “Falsifying a federal and state regulatory compliance test: that is a crime" and "Flushing is cheating.” She said even if a small number of tests were manipulated (we found 35)---the entire 2-year testing from Michigan Dept of

Environmental Quality should be invalidated and testing should be redone. The corporate media REFUSED to cover this environmental scandal @StatusCoup uncovered (by knocking on 450 doors in Flint) because it does not involve Trump or Russia.

.@vicenews + @Newsweek both KILLED our story the week it was set to be published for completely absurd reasons. But our reporting---which TO BE CLEAR---shows that the water lead testing was compromised and there's no accurate way of CURRENTLY knowing what lead levels are in Flint

But despite the media's complete dereliction of duty on this environmental scandal--@RoKhanna @TulsiGabbard along w/ high-profile celebrities have called for investigation. And I'm happy to report that @StatusCoup met with the Solicitor General of Michigan to discuss our findings

Can't go into further details on that--but it's good news. Beyond what @StatusCoup broke regarding MDEQ manipulating testing and data--during "the buck stops with me" Governor @onetoughnerd's term---we have been on the ground several times last year following up with residents

STILL getting rashes from water, STILL losing their hair from water, STILL experiencing burning or itchy eyes when they shower, and STILL experiencing worsening health conditions from being poisoned...and NO #MedicareForAll for the health problems their GOVERNMENT CAUSED

The border wall is not an emergency. Russia is not an emergency. Whether Joe Biden will run or not run is not an emergency. #FlintWaterCrisis IS AN EMERGENCY--journalists, pundits, and all of those numb to this need to WAKE UP. The people of Flint are STILL at risk--and the water

testing that declared water "restored" was COOKED...and @StatusCoup broke the story that meticulously showed so. Demand your Congressman and Senator take action NOW to fund new testing from NON-GOVERNMENT AGENCIES and to make sure residents have the healthcare, psychological, +

crisis-related services they need and deserve. Also, in April, @StatusCoup will release our first documentary produced by @tommie_tyhefe that shows the entire process of us reporting this story and breaking it--old-fashioned, door-knocking journalism. Our members will get

it first and free: statuscoup.com/join/