🚨"Please declare an emergency declaration—save our kids!" -sick #EastPalestine residents shouted at OH statehouse as they were REMOVED. "If @GovMikeDeWine does not [declare emergency], there a lot of residents who can't get help."
4 months after Norfolk Southern DETONATION...
@GovMikeDeWine#EastPalestine residents continue to suffer from bloody noses, nausea, dizziness, burning eyes, chemical burns, sinus issues, headaches, sore throat, numb lips & tongue, fatigue and even blood coming from their rectums...
@GovMikeDeWine Yet, the EPA continues to tell residents air, water, and soil testing are producing safe levels (despite EPA officials acknowledging their equipment can't detect all contamination levels). And Gov. DeWine, inexplicably, refuses to declare a state of emergency...
🚨MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: @JonFarinaPhoto was the first video journalist LIVE on 1/6 streaming for @StatusCoup as Trump supporters breached the Capitol. SC had 30K live viewers at one point. YouTube then took down the footage claiming a NEWS OUTLET providing historic footage was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@JonFarinaPhoto We were told by YouTube that "US-specific elections misinformation policy change we made impacts content policy on a go-forward basis and not past uploads. If you still have the footage, you are able to upload it again." When I made the point that I can't re-upload it bc YouTube… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@JonFarinaPhoto Regardless of ones views of 1/6, most objective people would believe some of the first footage of the breach at the Capitol would be invaluable from a historical perspective--not to mention legal perspective both for the government and defendants. For @JonFarina...
🧵"I'm still in shock they dropped all charges, that they're not going to do anything about this...this is America?!? -Flint's Christina Sayyae blasts MI AG @dananessel after all #FlintWaterCrisis charges were tossed by MI Supreme Court.
"They're just traumatizing people..."
@dananessel Christina, whose kids, her, and her ex-husband were all sickened due to drinking Flint's poisoned water, revealed Nessel's handpicked prosecutors—after she abruptly fired the original Flint criminal team—"yelled at me for crying."
@dananessel After all charges against ex-MI Gov. Rick Snyder and 8 other defendants were dismissed by MI Supreme Court--after Judges ruled Nessel's prosecutors violated MI constitution in bringing Flint indictments through a one-man grand jury--Nessel's office has failed to explain to Status… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🧵"I lost my 17-year-old daughter to an asthma attack; my 32-year-old son is on life support," - Kalamazoo MI resident Deann. Her poor Black neighborhood is being POISONED by multi-billion dollar corporation Graphic Packaging - who's releasing 30+ toxic & foul-smelling gases… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The smell from the gases is so bad kids at the local school don't go out for recess or play in neighborhood. Parents can't open the windows at home. Residents have asthma, COPD, burning eyes, stomach aches, headaches, and other symptoms. At night, the smell gets MUCH WORSE...
In 2021, MI @GovWhitmer's admin approved $125 million bond deal that allowed Graphic Packaging to EXPAND THIS PAPER MILL IN KALAMAZOO DESPITE HER HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEPARTMENT receiving complaints from residents for years. Kalamazoo Mayor has also ignored residents.
"It's still very much a crisis, a lot of people think that [it's been solved] bc the stories have gone away, the attention has gone away, mainstream media has gone away...you said it right, this is WATERgate right here in Flint," -ex Flint Mayor Karen Weaver on #FlintWaterCrisis
9 years into #FlintWaterCrisis, Weaver says there's STILL issues with the water: "You haven't completed the pipe replacement, what do you think is going to happen when you're leaving these old lead and galvanized pipes in the ground" ...or address people's INTERIOR HOME PLUMBING?
"The chemical shower I got today is burning my skin, my makeup actually burns right now, everything is on fire; it gets real hard to pay for ur poison & watching them lie saying [the water] is fine" -@FlintGate on 9-YEAR-ANNIVERSARY of #FlintWaterCrisis.
THREAD...
@FlintGate You can watch the FULL hour-and-a-half interview w/ Flint activist Melissa Mays and our @JordanChariton—who is now in Flint for his 19th reporting trip since 2016—below.
@FlintGate@JordanChariton READ/SHARE @JordanChariton's deep dive on where things stand on the 9-year-anniversary of the water crisis—or DAY 3,287—the water is STILL CONTAMINATED, there's STILL a COVERUP, and it's highly unlikely anyone goes to prison.