🧵"I'm angry we are living through this...I don't want to know someone a year from now who died from cancer from being exposed to [toxic chemicals], I'm begging you to do something," -#EastPalestine's Lonnie Miller begging EPA & Norfolk Southern to relocate residents who want it
90 days of "excruciating unexplained muscle pain," 30 doctors visits, 6 antibiotics, 3 steroids, daughter "can't stop puking," -Lori, 3.4 miles from derailment, on family's health since derailment.
Husband also diagnosed w/ rare breast cancer post-derailment. Dogs also sick.
"I get these rashes, my eyes burn, burning in my mouth, the headaches, I get really bad sweating spells to where they smell like chemicals...my grandkids come over and their fine. Next morning they're congested & complaining of stomach problems," #EastPalestine's Chris Davis
If you have 2 hours this week/weekend, PLEASE WATCH/SHARE this whole #EastPalestine community meeting. One of the most powerful, heart wrenching, infuriating things we've covered. Reporting by @louisd, video by @JonFarinaPhoto
@louisd @JonFarinaPhoto SUPPORT our ON-THE-GROUND reporting. This is SC and @louisd217's 4th reporting trip to EP. Sadly, there was only 1 other media outlet present covering this. Majority of media has abandoned East Palestine. We will not but need funding to keep going back: StatusCoup.com/Join
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🚨 In stunning exchange, NTSB chair told @JDVance1 Norfolk Southern not only ignored REPEATED warnings from owner of TOXIC vinyl chloride rail cars that it was UNNECESSARY TO DETONATE 5 cars over East Palestine—Norfolk hid this from @GovMikeDeWine & EP fire chief b4 detonation.
@JDVance1 @GovMikeDeWine .@JDVance1 asked did NS detonate cars "not because it was necessary but because it allowed them to move traffic & freight more quickly?”
When challenged in February by our @louisd217 whether NS officials should be criminally charged, he said he needed to see "more evidence"...
@JDVance1 @GovMikeDeWine @louisd217 At hearing, NTSB chair confirmed that the temperatures of the 5 TOXIC vinyl chloride cars that NS detonated were GOING DOWN & were chemically STABILIZED—indicating the cars did not need to be detonated over East Palestine (which has sickened residents & nearby PA residents)...
🚨Contrary to NYPD & its media allies, our @JonFarinaPhoto's footage CLEARLY shows Ceasefire protesters were clearing the street to allow an emergency vehicle through when an NYPD office violently dragged a protester—who was WALKING AWAY FROM HIM—in front of emergency vehicle...
@JonFarinaPhoto Also, separate from normal procedure, the emergency vehicle was not audibly blaring its sirens nor issuing audible commands through megaphone ordering protesters to clear the road. SEPARATELY, a protester was PUNCHED by NYPD.
"The NYPD punched me, that's why my lip is bleeding!"
@JonFarinaPhoto "Are you out of your fu*king mind? I'm a fu*king legal observer" -a protester/legal observer shouted as police continued violently brutalizing Ceasefire Now protesters
🚨"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…