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@JordanChariton

Jan 28

🚨UPDATE on Lithium plant fire near "Salad Bowl of America" (produces 70% of U.S. greens): 2 weeks later, scientists find big spike in Nickel, Manganese, & Cobalt in soil 2 miles away.

NYU toxicologist tells me at high levels, metals "can get into certain produce or fruit"

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Days after the fire, a Monterey County health official said it was not "prudent" to test for soil because "we don't necessarily know what we're looking for at this time."

Residents I've interviewed have suffered from nosebleeds, headaches, lung burning, asthma, fatigue, metallic taste in mouth (among other). On heavy metals being found in soil near plant, hazardous waste expert Sil Caggiano tells me...

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@JordanChariton

Jan 22

🚨UPDATE on CA Lithium Battery Plant fire near "Salad Bowl of America" (produces 70% of our greens)

-Residents have nosebleeds, lung burning, headache, rash, metallic mouth taste

-Health official says not testing soil bc "we don't necessarily know what we're looking for"

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Other concerning developments:

-Several sources tell @StatusCoup they have observed environmental officials conducting air quality testing by slightly rolling down their car windows and sticking out a handheld device for less than a minute.

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-Vistra, owner of the Northern CA Lithium Battery plant, is using CTEH as its contractor to conduct air testing. Controversy has followed CTEH for over a decade as its testing practices and data have been called into question related to BP oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, and more motherjones.com/environment/20…

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@JordanChariton

Nov 27, 2024

🧵Unlike 99% of corporate pundits bloviating that "Dems just need their own Joe Rogan," I leave the studio & have reported on-the-ground & have interviewed thousands of working class people across the U.S. for a decade...

Dem lost not bc of what podcasts they do or don't do...

They also didn't lose bc their "messaging" failed—the go-to spin of wealthy, out-of-touch pundits for as long as I've covered politics. Routinely talking to working class people--on the left and right--I can tell you why Dems:

-Lost in 2016
-Nearly lost in 2020
-Lost in 2024

It's actually pretty simple in two charts...

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@JordanChariton

Nov 7, 2024

🧵MAJOR takeaway ignored by Dems in losing to Trump twice in 8 years:

Combined Millennial/Gen Z turnout—age 18-44—declined by 7% from 2016 (44% of voters) to 2024 (37% of voters). This was age group @BernieSanders won & galvanized—but Dems & media took him out by the knees.

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@BernieSanders 2016 (Bernie wave)

18-44
44% of voters

18-29
19% of voters

@BernieSanders 2020

18-44
40% of voters
(4 point turnout drop vs 2016)

18-29
17% of voters
(2 point turnout drop by 2016)

***Lots of young voters felt Dems came together to stop Bernie from winning Dem primary

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@JordanChariton

Nov 6, 2024

Of course, the limousine liberals on Morning Joe are concluding Harris lost bc Dems went too "woke" & push "cancel culture." REALITY why she lost:

🚨75% voters said inflation had severe or moderate impact
🚨73% voters said dissatisfied or angry about way things are going

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🚨Contrary to decades-long corporate media propaganda of a"strong economy"—citing Wall Street, not Main Street metrics like stock market, unemployment #, GDP— 67% of voters said economy is not so good or poor

🚨45% of voters said family financial situation worse than 4 years ago

🚨Trump got 45% of the Latino vote,➕25 point gain from Trump (best # for a Republican since George W. Bush in 2004)...

@BernieSanders won Latinos in 2020 Dem primary on bold, progressive economic message; Harris/Dems message to Latinos was on Trump sabotaging border bill

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@JordanChariton

Sep 11, 2024

🧵BEYOND HORSE RACE: As media does post-debate narrative—Kamala strong (yet substance-less) vs Trump unhinged, here's the ACTUAL CRISES' ignored at debate:

🚨64% live paycheck to paycheck
🚨37% can’t afford $400 emergency
🚨Homelessness⬆️12%
🚨Top 1% own over 1/3 of U.S wealth

🚨Water poisoned across U.S.
🚨Growing list of environmental sacrifice zones (Flint, East Palestine, Kalamazoo, etc)
🚨U.S. life expectancy down while other countries up
🚨Record level of corporate $ purchasing politicians/elections

🚨As U.S. labor sees a resurgence, mass corporate union-busting goes unpunished
🚨Big oil continues ramming dangerous pipelines through poor indigenous/Black/brown communities
🚨 Private and public colleges grossly gouging tuition costs creating generation of youth debt slaves

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