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[Jamaal Bowman @RepBowman]

Nearly 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride were on this train. Now, the EPA has confirmed it's entered the Ohio River basin which is home to 25 million people.

This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Where is a statement from @USDOT or @SecretaryPete regarding the train derailment and subsequent ecological disaster in East Palestine, Ohio?

How can something like this happen and federal officials remain silent?

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

I spoke with the people of East Palestine, Ohio.
The government's deference to Norfolk Southern has left people lost, relying on each other instead. They have alarming symptoms. Their pets are dying. Some are even packing up to leave a place they love.
https://t.co/M1YEUMzbBW

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

A brief explainer on why people might not like the British

[Q @Qban_Linx]

Pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of global carbon emissions, and is currently the country most drastically affected by the catastrophe we are already living through

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. What's happening in Atlanta today should be national news. Under the guise of "humanitarian" intervention, the local Democratic Mayor, reversing his own attempts to close horrific local jail, is attempting to make cash by "leasing" out jail to cage more people for $$$.

[Clarissa Adjoint @ClarissaAdjoint]

Iiiiiit's starting

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Late last night, something alarming happened. House Democratic leadership shocked everyone and is trying to force through billions for 100,000 more cops and big expansion of surveillance by *coupling that bill with the assault weapons ban.* Vote is now at 10am.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Officer John Cox in Texas assaulted an unarmed man for no reason and then lied about it. The police chief of Humble, TX said "at no time did the officer strike the suspect" but this footage shows a cop committing assault and then slamming the victim's head on the ground at 0:26.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

Chipotle has closed the first store where employees tried to unionize.

Last year Chipotle gave its CEO a $24 million raise and paid him 2,898x more than their median employee. Then the company raised prices and blamed employee pay (the average worker makes $13,100).

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

i made a little presentation

[rebekah @rebekah_e_s]

The way culture has become the measure by which some view class is disturbing.

The right wants you to believe a car dealership owner who listens to country is working class, but a blue-haired Starbucks barista w/student debt unionizing their store is some kind of woke elite.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Amy’s Kitchen is closing its San Jose factory where workers have been in the process of unionizing.

@UNITEHERE filed multiple charges against Amy’s in June for union-busting & firing organizing workers.

Amy’s sent this letter Monday firing all ~300 workers at the plant.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Something important just happened. People illegally caged pretrial in Prince George's County, MD risked retaliation & *sued* the jail where they're *currently jailed.*

The lawsuit is powerful. One of clearest I've read. Reads like a Twitter thread. I've posted it for you below.

[JOE DANA @JoeDanaReports]

1/7 BREAKING: Facing a “historically tight labor market” and a “dire teacher shortage”, AZ Superintendent Kathy Hoffman formally asks Governor Ducey to call a special legislative session right now to lift AEL constitutional spending cap on school districts.
@12News

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

On Saturday - police in San Bernardino, California, shot and killed 23-year-old Black man Robert Adams as security footage shows an officer firing just seconds after arriving in an unmarked vehicle. Unreformable.

https://t.co/be9bzfHRUT

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Robert Adams was on the phone with his mother when San Bernardino police pulled up and killed Robert, execution style. Truly devastating.

You cannot reform this system. Stories like this will continue to be repeated. Abolition is the only way.

[Rebecca Kavanagh @DrRJKavanagh]

Police, firing into a crowd, shot a man in the back who was walking away from them, and 5 other people, Sunday morning in downtown Denver.

Cops claim the man was armed; witnesses say they didn't see a gun on him and the only shots fired were by police.https://t.co/fxJNlLULzT