THREAD: After state of Michigan & Flint taxpayers paid $8.5 million for millionaire Gov. Rick Snyder's criminal defense attorneys related to the #FlintWaterCrisis while he was governor, the state just approved ANOTHER $1.45 million for Snyder's defense.
In July, me + @JennElizabethJ broke major story on the Flint water cover-up showing Snyder's top officials destroyed/tampered with evidence and Snyder himself obstructed justice. To this day, not one national or MI media outlet has covered the scandal.
In January, me and @JennElizabethJ broke major story obtaining Snyder's phone calls w/ his top officials in Oct. 2014 months after Flint water switch. Criminal prosecutors concluded the calls showed Snyder covering up deadly Legionnaires Disease outbreak theintercept.com/2021/01/13/fli…
not one national or Michigan media outlet covered that either.
Without equivocation and zero dramatization, there has been a CLEAR cover-up of the Flint water cover-up...led by the current Democratic MI Gov/AG and the media who has swept it under the rug.
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THREAD on @ninaturner loss: Unlike the phony leftist tweeters celebrating Turner's loss, I was on-the-ground in Cleveland-Akron & spoke w/ campaign folks & witnessed w/ my own eyes.
She didn't lose bc "she ran as a Democrat" (would have lost by 50 if she ran as Green Party)...
She didn't lose bc she "tried to court conservative Democrats" instead of running scorched earth against @JoeBiden and the Democratic Party (Biden beat Trump by 30+ points in this district; the area is majority Black voters who don't hate the Dem Party like YT hosts do)...
She didn't lose bc of "The Squad" of Force The Vote—a laughable claim considering the majority of voters in this district wouldn't be able to tell you which politicians are even in The Squad...
#FlintWaterCrisis EXCLUSIVE: Top officials in Rick Snyder's admin had phones "wiped" or altered w/ no messages on them from 18-month period Flint used Flint River.
Snyder also refused to give key Flint documents to prosecutors. By me + @JennElizabethJ
"When I turned in my phone, it got wiped,” Snyder's press sec Sara Wurfel told Flint prosecutor about her phone being wiped when she left job in Nov. 2015—shortly before launch of the Flint criminal investigation.
“That is not standard,” ex-state official told The Intercept.
Prosecutors discovered that top officials w/ MI Dpt. of Health and Human Services-including chief medical executive Dr. Eden Wells and MDHHS chief deputy director Tim Becker-had no messages on their phone before Oct. 2015 (Flint used Flint River from Apr. 2014 through Oct. 2015)
THREAD: The corp Dem establishment & its media allies are LOVING THE current divide & Conquer/mass cancellation/neverending war among indy media.
To rightfully politically frustrated progressives giving this oxygen for a month now at expense of all else...THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT
In reality, this goes back far earlier than this year and the current online war bw hosts and channels...I started seeing this in 2016 after @BernieSanders endorsed @HillaryClinton. Rightfully disappointed and frustrated progressives' began turning on Bernie & diving head first..
into a political nihilist mentality that believes ANY politician--whether or not you agree with them on policy/morality--that takes a direction or makes a policy or strategic choice you don't agree with is a "sell out" or "fraud." Now this has extended to YouTube hosts...
THREAD: On the 7th anniversary of the disastrous Flint River switch, Flint STILL does not have clean water, #MedicareForAll for its citizens, all of its lead service lines replaced, residents' damaged interior plumbing fixed, & no state or city government official is in prison...
The #FlintWaterCrisis is a story w/ a lot of layers: environmental racism, water privatization gone horrifically wrong, greed, corruption, etc....but it is as much a story of national and local mainstream media completely abdicating its responsibility to cover and INVESTIGATE...
With MUCH LESS resources than larger outlets, I've reported in Flint 17 times since 2016. I've interviewed 100s of residents. I've dug through 1000s of documents. In this time, I, along w/ @JennElizabethJ, uncovered:
1) Gov. Rick Snyder was involved with massive cover-up...
Having been in-the-field at more Trump/right-wing rallies that I care to remember, I HAVE SEEN UP CLOSE the power of dangerous misinformation like "Stop the Steal" and Qanon. I personally think the media hosts and channels that push these things to be contrarian or get clicks...
are pretty horrible and doing great damage to an already severely misinformed and uninformed country. BUT if those hosts and channels are not directly calling for people to commit violence, it is their right to spew misinformation and/or conspiracies dressed up as journalism..
THREAD: Hey @YouTube@TeamYouTube-now you've taken down @StatusCoup & @JonFarinaPhoto's HISTORIC footage from Capitol attack claiming it's SPAM or "advances false claims" of widespread fraud, errors, or glitches in the 2020 election.
ARE YOU KIDDING!?!?!? .....
Freelance journalist @JonFarinaPhoto put his health & safety (COVID + armed militia men storming Capitol) at risk to shoot historic footage of thousands brainwashed to try & "Stop the Steal." @StatusCoup FOR MONTHS DEBUNKED "false claims of widespread election fraud"....
I know your algorithm is meant to suppress independent media channels but let me break it down for you: JOURNALISTS shooting a violent mob brainwashed into thinking the election was stolen is not content that "advances" false claims of widespread election fraud...