I know the Resistance crowd wants journalists to be good lil boys and girls and not dare ask obvious questions to @JoeBiden and I will be accused of “helping Trump.” But these are just SOME of the things media let slide in the primary that Trump/RNC will be going to TOWN ON
By ignoring these things and not pressing Biden on them (should have during the primary)—they are providing Trump and the Republicans a long runway to just destroy Biden in the fall
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🧵I know there's a lot going on right now, but I hope you will take a few minutes today to to mark the DECADE Anniversary—DAY 3,653—of the ONGOING poisoning of Flint. In my 8 years reporting in Flint, this moment below still gives me nightmares...
6 years ago, we were knocking on doors for @StatusCoup investigating ex-MI Governor Rick Snyder's administration falsifying/manipulating water testing & data to report low water lead levels & declare the water crisis over. As I walked up to Jasmine Lee's front porch, I saw her...
1-year-old daughter on her lap...ravaged by white sores/rashes. B4 they moved into their Flint home weeks earlier, Jasmine's daughter's skin was clear. But after bathing in Flint's water, she broke out in rashes. AT THE SAME TIME, Gov. Snyder declared Flint's water "restored"...
🧵For the libs and journalists melting down that Katie Porter called her election “rigged.” She is absolutely right. You have just normalized the buying of elections by billionaires and Super Pacs as the normal democratic process…
When groups like AIPAC give $5 million to Adam Schiff, along with all the other big money he got, & he then spends it on ads to BOOST the Republican over Porter—that is not a Democratic process. It’s a rigged process skewed toward oligarchs & plutocrats. When special interests…
And their money carpet bomb TV in an EXPENSIVE media market to flood voters with positive Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey ads-that DOES rig the process. Not only against Katie Porter, but a deserving candidate like Barbara Lee…who can not compete as they are not corrupt enough…
-After firing the original Flint special prosecutor who was building momentum in the case— Nessel appointed "amateur" prosecutors she knew and had donated to her AG campaign.
“It was a shit show,” a source with knowledge of what transpired internally in Nessel’s office’s Flint investigation tells Metro Times. “They weren’t prepared for what was coming. If you place amateurs in there to play in the big leagues, they’re probably gonna get their asses kicked.”
-Nessel's office also misled Flint residents about the justification for Nessel firing most of the original Flint water investigative team--including special prosecutor Todd Flood, chief investigator Andy Arena—who helped bring down the Gambino crime family—and others...
😡 THREAD on crimes & coverups corp media loves to cover vs ones they bury: here u have @msnbc reveling in the "mafia" & "Gambino crime family"-esque Trump classified docs crime & cover-up.
But let me tell you about a BIGGER COVER-UP the network & rest of corp media ignored...
@MSNBC A decade ago, then-MI Gov. Rick Snyder was warned by officials that if Flint used the Flint River as a water source, it would pose “an increased microbial risk to public health" & increased risk of carcinogens in the water. A year later, he allowed Flint to switch to Flint River
@MSNBC Right before 2014 Flint River switch, Snyder's officials conspired w/ others to concoct a fake emergency that granted Flint—already at its borrowing limit—an exception to borrow $85 million to join a proposed privatized water pipeline (& use Flint River while it was constructed)
🧵At a wedding yesterday, I talked w/ an older conservative dude who was union electrician b4 retiring (this was 3 whiskies in). He watches Tucker Carlson & thinks transgender teens/drag queen story hour is a major threat. I asked if he made a lot more $ upon retiring vs 30s-50s.
He told me he was actually making less than 20 years ago bc companies were blackballing union electricians in favor of less-skilled non-union work. He actually had to start driving Lyft in his 60s to make more bc his union gig wasn't enough to get his kids through college...
I forget if it was 3 or 4 whiskies in, but I said something along the lines of "After breaking your back all day you had to drive people around to earn what you did 20 years ago and you think a drag queen reading green eggs and ham to a kid is the biggest problem in America?"...
🧵on SVB: whether you think vulture capitalists and SV titans are getting a bailout or not (they are), the bigger picture here is what the IMMEDIATE govt response says about our political system: when plutocrats are threatened, govt acts in 48 hours. When ppl of East Palestine...
Flint, poor Black & brown communities, and name-your-Native-American reservation are poisoned by their govt and/or corporate America--politicians hide behind bureaucracy, red-tape, and legal excuses to basically do nothing...while regurgitating BS "all clear" declarations from...
the EPA, state environmental agencies, etc. Think about this...a month from now is the 9 year anniversary of the ONGOING #FlintWaterCrisis & residents STILL get rashes, receive smelly water, & have burning eyes in the shower. And ALL THE DESTROYED PIPES haven't been replaced...