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Sep 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
So many questions. Who is ‘they’? Where is the valve? How does the beautiful water save the tiny fish?
I am now googling combinations of smelt / valve / water / tiny fish / in an attempt to find out what he might be referring to.
Turns out it’s a sort of first grade account of his attempt to undermine environmental regulation in Northern California theguardian.com/environment/20…
So actually not so much deranged as absurdly simplified. There is a valve. In the north (of California) and the tiny fish is a smelt.

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