🧵For the libs and journalists melting down that Katie Porter called her election “rigged.” She is absolutely right. You have just normalized the buying of elections by billionaires and Super Pacs as the normal democratic process…

https://twitter.com/kfile/status/1765545087151317177

When groups like AIPAC give $5 million to Adam Schiff, along with all the other big money he got, & he then spends it on ads to BOOST the Republican over Porter—that is not a Democratic process. It’s a rigged process skewed toward oligarchs & plutocrats. When special interests…

🧵NEWS: My latest INSIDE MI AG Dana Nessel's "Shit Show" Flint water investigation:

-Ex-Gov Snyder's chief of staff secretly testified—likely against him—but case was thrown out.

-Nessel's office ignored MAJOR legal warnings & MISLED Flint residents...

metrotimes.com/news/inside-da… -After firing the original Flint special prosecutor who was building momentum in the case— Nessel appointed "amateur" prosecutors she knew and had donated to her AG campaign.

“It was a shit show,” a source with knowledge of what transpired internally in Nessel’s office’s Flint investigation tells Metro Times. “They weren’t prepared for what was coming. If you place amateurs in there to play in the big leagues, they’re probably gonna get their asses kicked.”

😡 THREAD on crimes & coverups corp media loves to cover vs ones they bury: here u have @msnbc reveling in the "mafia" & "Gambino crime family"-esque Trump classified docs crime & cover-up.

But let me tell you about a BIGGER COVER-UP the network & rest of corp media ignored... @MSNBC A decade ago, then-MI Gov. Rick Snyder was warned by officials that if Flint used the Flint River as a water source, it would pose “an increased microbial risk to public health" & increased risk of carcinogens in the water. A year later, he allowed Flint to switch to Flint River

🧵At a wedding yesterday, I talked w/ an older conservative dude who was union electrician b4 retiring (this was 3 whiskies in). He watches Tucker Carlson & thinks transgender teens/drag queen story hour is a major threat. I asked if he made a lot more $ upon retiring vs 30s-50s. He told me he was actually making less than 20 years ago bc companies were blackballing union electricians in favor of less-skilled non-union work. He actually had to start driving Lyft in his 60s to make more bc his union gig wasn't enough to get his kids through college...

🧵on SVB: whether you think vulture capitalists and SV titans are getting a bailout or not (they are), the bigger picture here is what the IMMEDIATE govt response says about our political system: when plutocrats are threatened, govt acts in 48 hours. When ppl of East Palestine... Flint, poor Black & brown communities, and name-your-Native-American reservation are poisoned by their govt and/or corporate America--politicians hide behind bureaucracy, red-tape, and legal excuses to basically do nothing...while regurgitating BS "all clear" declarations from...

🧵FYI this is the time, after 2 weeks of coverage, when mainstream media moves off of a catastrophic story like #EastPalestineOH—when the cameras leave & coverage shifts from hourly/daily to occasional updates to abandon the story altogether. This happened w/ #FlintWaterCrisis. Mainstream media outlets typically only care when they deem an URGENCY to a catastrophe—when it's new and the flames, or poison water, or adverse health symptoms seem most dire. In my experience, once they predictably stop covering and caring, is when the REAL coverup begins...

🧵UPDATE: I just spoke with an East Palestine OH resident who’s house was deemed too toxic for her family to return to. “We are getting sicker and sicker. An entire community is being poisoned slowly in front of the nation.” #EastPalestineOH

…. Norfolk Southern has repeatedly offered her to pay for her relocation—AFTER she spoke out to national news. She told me her whole family is sick as are her neighbors throughout the town. Bronchitis, vomiting, nosebleeds, dizziness, splitting headaches to name a few symptoms…

Toxic fumes from East Palestine train explosion can be smelt 30 MILES AWAY. Hundreds of fish found dead miles away. Sick horses evacuated miles away. EPA PM2.5 particulate pollution monitor 22 miles away in Youngstown, OH spiked from 12.6 to 34.5

https://twitter.com/tardis_someday/status/1623864370252992513

https://twitter.com/wagonerachel/status/1623060996880232463

As media & Americans react w/ horror at toxic chemicals released in Ohio train explosion, here is Kalamazoo MI—where paper mill Graphic Packaging has been releasing toxic gas and chemicals in the air for over a decade. MI govt knew about it, ignored, and gave company more $! Residents in the area have CHRONIC lower respiratory diseases---7% above the U.S average

🧵Unsurprisingly out-of-touch pundits are drooling over Biden's State of the Union. But here's a short list of promises he ran on that he not only hasn't delivered on but quickly abandoned, hasn't fought for, or didn't fight to extend. Despite Resistance ghouls quick 2 make excuses for @JoeBiden, Biden could've put $15 min wage into original CARES Act reconciliation package. Parliamentarian isn't an elected official & her opinion is advisory. Trump fired his. At this point, $15 min wage is conservative position

THREAD: After 30 years of gaslighting by politicians and media, people are finally realizing the U.S. economy is not "strong" or "thriving" based on artificial #s like unemployment or GDP—no matter the pom poms from @JoeBiden. The U.S. economy is actually a massive bank robbery @JoeBiden That's why despite @JoeBiden & Dems trying to sell 💩as gold—an infrastructure deal that's privatization on steroids & an inflation reduction act that trims around the edges—Biden is polling so badly. The fed min wage is still an unconscionable $7.25 as costs for everything soar

It's clear the Twitter circus Elon Musk is creating is meant to juice up the user base-kind of like train wreck TV hooking people to keep coming back for more mess. So he's creating chaos to enrage liberals while luring the right to get their popcorn mediaite.com/tech/elon-musk… It will work for short term media coverage of Twitter, but it will eventually lure enough advertisers away that Musk will see no choice but to start shifting Twitter to a subscription service where everyone pays a monthly/annual fee--which will ultimately tank the business.

TWITTER FILES: just got around to reading (crying newborn kept me busy this weekend!). To me, this is less about Hunter Biden, who is your dime-a-dozen spoiled kid of a politician who enriched himself off of his parent's name (see Ivanka Trump, Chelsea Clinton, Bush daughters)... The story on Hunter Biden/his laptop obviously shouldn't have been censored. In reality, if it wasn't—despite Fox News brain—it wouldn't have made a difference in the 2020 election as the cake was already baked and Trump was going to lose predominately bc of his horrendous...

NEWS: 2 co-chairs of the @dnc resolution committee recommended that the motion for the DNC to stop taking dark money NOT move forward-meaning there was no vote & it won't go to full DNC. The committee also refused to move forward a vote against the Mountain Valley Pipeline... @DNC Besides the obvious corruption of the "party of the working class" taking corporate & dark $$, the Mountain Valley Pipeline is one of the most dangerous "natural gas" pipelines that would be placed underneath steepest slopes in America along the Appalachian Trail..

🚨🚨THREAD: Just like what happened in Flint, around now—about a week of major coverage—is when national media will stop covering the #JacksonWaterCrisis & begin lazily regurgitating cherry-picked/manipulated water data and PR coming from the state govt that caused the crisis... They will move from broadcast/digital coverage to occasional news article updates--which will become less & less frequent until the story is completely out of the news. The void of news, interviews w/ residents, or investigative reporting into...

🧵With the full expectation mainstream media will soon move on from #JacksonWaterCrisis—like they did for ONGOING #FlintWaterCrisis—here's list of other cities across U.S. w/ serious water quality issues

🚨Detroit
🚨Chicago
🚨Milwaukee
🚨Pittsburgh
🚨Newark
🚨Wilmington NC 🚨Philadelphia
🚨Denmark SC
🚨Benton Harbor MI
🚨 Gadsden AL
🚨 MULTIPLE cities/towns in Texas
🚨MULTIPLE cities/towns in California

Trump demanding he be retroactively declared president 21 months after leaving office and/or a new election be held now is part of a larger plan currently in motion for the GOP to steal the next election.

THREAD...

mediaite.com/trump/trump-re… There has been a lot of focus on January 6th but not much on the fact that Republicans across the country have been systematically trying to remove election officials who certified election for Biden with Trump loyalists washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

In 7 days reporting on the road, every person I've spoken to is struggling: from homelessness, to facing eviction, to scrounging for change to fill up car, to selling home to keep business open, to shutting down a business OPEN FOR 90 YEARS. Stop the BS.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1551288818648719361?s=20&t=Cr4ttuhsXWcGobAnYlUx0g

In the wealthiest country on earth, we have poor people in West Virginia—who are living in slums with black mold, caving in floors, and human feces coming through the ceiling—getting abrupt eviction notices w/ no recourse

#BREAKING THREAD: As I warned, #FlintWaterCrisis charges against ex-MI Gov. Rick Snyder and 7 other defendants have been dropped due to MI AG Dana Nessel’s stunning bungling of the case…abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wir… REMINDER: From 2016 through 2018, an independent Flint special prosecutor & lead investigator (former head of Detroit FBI office) had built a widespread crim prosecution charging 15 state and city officials with crimes ranging from involuntary manslaughter to financial fraud…

THREAD: Despite disingenuous right-wingers and pseudo leftists trying to absolve Tucker Carlson in the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting on the narrow point he's not DIRECTLY responsible, the importance of criticizing him isn't about whether he is directly responsible... From the perspective of someone who has traveled America for 7 years and likely covered over 100 right-wing rallies and events—from Trump rallies, to Proud Boys, to right-wing counter protests, and many more—you would have to either be willfully blind or a willful liar not to...

#BREAKING: Multiple people shot at a church in Laguna Woods, California. OC Sheriff says they've detained one person and recovered weapon...