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Feb 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Lots of things going on in North Carolina right now

typical for a swing state in this anti-democratic, pro-violence Republican Party era...

Dems are appealing the ruling allowing GOP gerrymandered maps to stand. NC Supreme Court to hear the case tomorrow
wfae.org/politics/2022-…
this is a weirdly-worded indictment: Christopher Arthur (of Tackleberry Solutions) taught ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL (who??) how to use explosives to plan an attack on federal law enforcement
justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/n…
Biden's nominee, Michael F. Easley, Jr. is the new US Attorney for Eastern District of North Carolina and he made the announcement in the above explosives training indictment

Easley is the son of Democrat and former NC Gov. and former AG Easley
justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/m…
Fire at a fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem! Hope there's not an explosion. Thousands have had to evacuate

the 600 tons of fertilizer currently at the site is 2X-3X the amount in the West, TX fertilizer plant explosion in 2013
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02…
the ammonium nitrate in fertilizer is mixed with components that discourage explosions,

however, large fires can initiate explosions... when it reaches a sufficient temperature Image
Going to be interesting learning how this fire on the loading dock started...

911 was called at ~6:45pm. "When firefighters arrived, they found “heavy fire” that had spread to the building itself, which became engulfed in flames and collapsed, officials said."
an unmanned fire truck is spraying the building down and firefighters are using drones to monitor the area every 15 minutes

how times change since West, TX in 2013... of course, in Texas, I think the explosion happened within 20 minutes of the 1st 911 call Image
the weather in Winston-Salem, NC in January is about 30-40 deg colder than West, TX on April 17, 2013 - does every degree count or was the latter tragedy deliberately set?

the West Fertilizer explosion, coincidentally, was a few days after the Boston Marathon Bombing ImageImage

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Feb 3
if you've been wondering why you haven't heard much about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill funding translated into shovel-ready projects in your state, here's the answer:

Appropriations in a 50-50 Senate funded by continuing resolutions is a slog!
washingtonpost.com/transportation…
“A significant portion of our highway, transit & safety programs are limited” by caps in existing federal budget, said Carlos Monje Jr, DOT’s 3rd-highest official. “Without Congress actions, we aren’t going to be able to move on many of the new programs funded in the bill”
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"Among them is $1.2B to help reduce carbon emissions & $1.4B to protect roads & bridges against effects of climate change. Although the Federal Railroad Administration is in line to receive $66 billion in the next 5 years, Monje said the agency can’t hire the staff it needs "
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Feb 3
DeJoy tried to sneak the USPS sweetheart deal to Oshkosh Defense for dirty gas mail trucks using super flawed & lazy analysis

Not gonna happen on Biden's watch 🇺🇸

Biden officials push to hold up $11.3 billion USPS truck contract, citing climate damage
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
USPS contract is for 165,000 vehicles, which is 1/3 of the US Gov't fleet

just imagine the market making power if all of those new trucks were EVs!
DeJoy and his USPS minions really screwed the pooch on this Oshkosh Defense deal...

"As noted, USPS has already awarded a vehicle acquisition contract and funded as much as $482 million to the vendor prior to initiating the NEPA process―exactly what CEQ regulations prohibit."
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Feb 2
Besides the obvious mass arrests & prosecutions (which we’ve all been patiently waiting for) for Jan. 6 evildoers who were out to overthrow US Democracy,

What’s on your Pro-Democracy wishlist for 2022?

What would really pushback against Putin and Global TOC’s war on Democracy?
Serious reforms in US are happening slowly thanks to the narrow 48+2 Senate, the filibuster,

and 50 MAGA R Senators plus Governors & assorted miscreants, and a stacked Dark Money 6-3 majority SCOTUS doing their damnedest to f*ck all kinds of important $hit up everywhere
Not to mention DOJ trying to prosecute Watergate on Steroids Jan. 6 conspiracy

along w/unprosecuted & pardoned remnants of Rosenstein/Barr f*cked up Mueller Report (which wasn’t even well targeted to begin with) domestic-foreign hybrid war attack on Democracy which is ongoing!
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Feb 1
Too many secrets, overclassification, and an outdated declassification system means we may finally see a lot of secrets revealed so the USG doesn’t run out of storage?

DNI Avril Haynes wants reforms

Let’s start with Hoover’s FBI and all the crazy CIA Ops
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
in 2019, a top US official warned USG was creating petabytes every month & the system was “unsustainable, & desperately requires modernization”

In 2020, federal board warned of an “explosion” of digital data now underway — & a “tsunami” in years to come
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The USG is drowning in its own secrets.

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Jan 18
How a Powerful Company Convinced Georgia to Let It Bury Toxic Waste in Groundwater

@propublica: Georgia Power & GOP leaders in GA have been working for years to bend the rules

is there no limit to their greed & reckless disregard for the environment?
propublica.org/article/how-a-…
"Georgia Power reps argued that state regulators could narrowly interpret the definition of a single word — “infiltration” — in the federal coal ash rule. The company believed this interpretation would allow millions of tons of waste to be left submerged in groundwater."
"Georgia Power hoped to store coal ash in a way that only prevented water — such as rain falling from the sky — from seeping through a cover over the dry ash. They hoped regulators would disregard the presence of any groundwater that would soak the dry ash..."
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Jan 17
hard to know what's going on in Flint Water prosecution, but allegations by muckraking journalists supported by Soros' Open Society Foundations

are explosive 🔥

was fmr. GOP AG Schuette's team preparing a RICO prosecution and Dem AG Nessel stopped it???
theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j…
"Shortly after Nessel won the attorney general race and took office, her administration fired the top prosecutors and investigators working on the Schuette-launched investigation and restarted the prosecution with a new team."
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