Big news! In a long overdue step, the EPA just set binding caps for six forever chemicals in drinking water. The limits for the two most notorious, PFOA and PFOS, are 4 parts per trillion each, the lowest level that can be reliably detected. 1/ apnews.com/article/foreve… Notably, the EPA set the health-based goal for these substances at zero, meaning no level of exposure can be considered safe. 2/

I had the privilege of spending a year at @Harvard on a journalism fellowship and found it eye-opening to meet so many bright people who had been conditioned to believe they were destined to accomplish something big. The self assurance it gave them was incredibly powerful. 1/ I don’t mean to imply that they were arrogant; the ones I got to know were lovely, accepting, and down to earth. It’s just that they moved through the world with a quiet confidence that doors they needed to open would open and hurdles they wanted cleared would be cleared. 2/

Let’s be clear. @MrAndyNgo & his ilk are engaged in a twisted propaganda campaign designed to make people believe Nazis, facists & violent white nationalists are not the real problem, that radical resistance to them is. This is an good example of their methods. 1/

https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1175850130576003072

Ngo’s tweet, with its reference to “weapons,” makes Jepson sound like a violent criminal, but the booking sheet Ngo attached lists two alleged infractions: resisting arrest and criminal mischief III (meaning tampering with another person’s property). Neither involves violence. 2/

Robert Mueller’s testimony isn’t the only important event happening Wednesday. The House is holding hearings on industry’s Big Tobacco-style campaign to suppress data on the health effects of #PFAS. Bucky Bailey (pictured below) is the first witness. images.app.goo.gl/M4TofNt2NZPGNK…? 1/ Bucky is not the only American touched by #PFAS. More than 99% of us have #PFAS—chemicals linked to cancer, thyroid disease, immune suppression, reduced penis size, low birth weight—in our blood. Also some of these health effects occur at general-population levels of exposure. 2/