🚨 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"...

🚨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!"

🧵"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.

🚨"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...

.@JordanChariton: The indictment itself says he told his lawyer to lie to DOJ

Trump supporter: I didn't read the indictment, I didn't read the 37 counts

Jordan: So ur just defending him w/out reading the indictment or knowing anything about it?

Supporter: You know what....yea @JordanChariton Supporter: Jan. 6 was Trump supporters asking Congress to "take a step back" and analyze questions about 2020

Jordan: Ur describing it like they calmly asked them for tea

@JonFarinaPhoto-who was there shooting HISTORIC footage--tells her they were not there "asking questions"

🚨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…

🧵"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."

"The whole room erupted and they were like 'why… 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… https://t.co/N0ebx3aLiqtwitter.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...

"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.

"This is the first time in my life I think I've ever been afraid," - #EastPalestine's Eric Cozza. His urine tested for high levels of Vinyl Chloride. He's had nosebleeds and more since the train derailment.

As we broke, CDC is recommending doctors NOT TO TEST residents for VC Read the FULL STORY here: statuscoup.substack.com/p/leaked-audio…

NEWS: Weeks after the #EastPalestineOH "controlled burn," residents are experiencing rashes, nosebleeds, & other symptoms.

"My face was burning but it didn’t freak me out until I looked in the mirror,” -EP resident Kristin Bagglia told us.

SUBSTACK: statuscoup.substack.com/p/they-said-it… Kristin also had rashes on her leg/foot after showering. Her 8-year-old son has also been sick--she took him to ER last week for nosebleeds. Both of them were diagnosed w/ chemical inhalation. **HER WATER IS CONNECTED TO EP CITY WATER— which the governor and EPA declared safe.

On Saturday, Neo-Nazis, White Lives Matter, and anti "groomer" demonstrators protested at an Ohio Drag Queen Story Hour—physically attacking and harassing LGBTQ+ attendees and their children.

Video via @JonFarinaPhoto @JonFarinaPhoto "Are you f**ing serious! As we're escorted he attacks us," -attendee of drag queen story hour screams at police as they fail to arrest anti "groomer" protester who attacked them. Police then arrested man wearing rainbow-colored jacket after HE WAS ATTACKED and defended himself...

The EPA and Norfolk Southern think they can "just come in and just mow these people in #EastPalesitneOH down and then baffle them with bullshit" -Bob Bowcock, water treatment expert and @ErinBrockovich's partner @ErinBrockovich On a temporary dam Norfolk Southern erected filled with contaminated water overflowing VERY close to the groundwater, Bowcock said "they are basically flooding it out and blowing it out...boy if you ever want a coverup this is how you do it."

EPA is "making a really bad situation and actually making it worse; the community has 5 groundwater wells...this water that's in this creek can end up in groundwater wells in literally days...there will be a chronic contamination for decades," water treatment expert Bob Bowcock Bowcock, who has 30 years of water treatment experience and partners w/ @ErinBrockovich, told @louisd217 the EPA's response to the #EastPalestineOH derailment & explosion has been "haphazard" and "uncontrolled"

BREAKING: A temporary dam erected by Norfolk Southern in #EastPalestineOH —with contaminated water—is overflowing AGAIN where Leslie Run and Sulphur Run creeks meet. There are 5 water wells in close proximity drawing from groundwater. This is at edge of East Palestine City Park. The flooding is going into The Original Roadhouse restaurant parking lot where a lot of locals eat and drink. Pics taken by local resident Neko Figley, who posted on Facebook that he was told by contractors to leave because it was “super dangerous to be here right now.”

"My grandkids have been sick for 2 weeks...they were diagnosed w/ chemical burns on their skin & throats; diagnosed my daughter w/ chemical bronchitis," -Stella, #EastPalestineOH resident. Norfolk Southern would only reimburse daughter's hotel for 4 days. "I am absolutely livid." After going downtown 2 days ago, Stella, 68, got really dizzy and had a headache ever since. "I was up all night in the bathroom sick to my stomach. My feet are numb, around my lips are tingling," she told @TinaDesireeBerg @RonPlacone

"Like we're not going through enough!"-#EastPalestineOH resident who along w/ others waited on line all morning for reimbursement from Norfolk Southern—but was turned away for not having their Social Security cards...which they weren't told they needed. "Why do they need Social Security cards for everyone in my house?...My one foster child has a bloody nose, Saturday morning when we woke up she couldn't breathe, my little dog—we have a Shichon— could not breathe," -Sherry tells @louisd217

🧵ALARMING: The EPA says #EastPalestineOH's air & water are safe, but its NOT testing for dioxins—"one of them is the most toxic chemical ever tested in the U.S." -science director Steven Lester

Dioxins cause cancer, reproductive/developmental/immune problems, diabetes, etc... "EPA had to know when they were going to burn vinyl chloride that dioxin would be formed. It's CRIMINAL that they didn't come forward w/ that. It's in some ways up to folks in this room & town to hold them accountable," -Steven Lester, science director Center for Health &… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

EXCLUSIVE: Students at #EastPalestineOH middle school revealed school is allowing kids to drink from water fountain after train explosion (parents granted permission for interview).

"We've all been having runny nose & headaches...when we go out of town we feel better" -Kylie Despite Gov. Dewine & EPA claiming water in #EastPalestineOH is safe, many water experts warn it is too soon to declare water safe. Bob Bowcock, a water treatment engineer with 30 years of experience, told SC schools should be taking extra precautions...

"Are one of my children gonna have to drop dread?"-Candice, #EastPalestineOH resident w/ 5 sons who have rashes & other symptoms after explosion. Sons had to take DECONTAMINATION SHOWER before DR—who couldn't diagnose them w/ chemical burns w/out guidance from health dpt.🧵THREAD "Every time I get a shower for two hours it's like my body is on fire: why have I never experienced that for the 44 years that I've lived in East Palestine?" -Candice DeSanzo says. Her kids are also having diarrhea, nosebleeds, coughing, headaches, and sore throat...