JFC, thank you for this! This tweet sums up the facts. The derailment is a mess, but ffs, it is not another Chernobyl. Blame on both sides of the political aisle, but mostly a private corp to blame. Once again, an awful event that should be bringing us together, is not.
Regarding the Palestine, Ohio Environmental mess:
- Yes, it's bad
- No, It's not even close to a "chernobyl"
- Yes, Norfolk Southern is almost entirely to blame
- Yes, Pete Buttigieg could have said more publicly
- Yes, Biden offered Fed assistance
- Yes, DeWine declined Fed assistance
- No, Buttigieg couldn't have prevented the disaster
- No, Buttigieg is NOT responsible for the clean-up
- No, Democrats didn't order the train cars be burned
- Yes, Gov. DeWine ordered the train cars be burned
- Yes, The Norfolk Southern CEO donated to DeWine
- Yes, Trump removed safety standards
- Yes, Trump weakened the EPA
- Yes, we ALL should be working together to make sure this doesn't happen again!
Drug decrim means people who use drugs will never go to jail just for using/possessing drugs.
10 years ago this month, I was a full-time paramedic student on the dean’s list, working at Domino’s Pizza, earning income and military education benefits. I was addicted to heroin.🧵
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
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It is never not astonishing to me that people who are supposedly comedy professionals can’t remember that comedy is the art form that ages the most poorly https://t.co/UnKCXnqeJX
Local school board meetings are painful. If you want to feel good about America's ability to reason w each other on different viewpoints and ACTUALLY self-govern themselves, don't go to a school board meeting lol.
Tennessee teenager Grady Knox stood up in a board meeting to call for face masks in schools, referencing his grandmother who died of COVID-19.
Adults in the meeting laughed and heckled him.
https://t.co/9ww8UtR2qT
Big Pharma says they need to charge astronomical prices to pay for research and development. Yet, the amount they spend on manipulating the market to enrich shareholders completely eclipses what's spent on R&D. Today, I confronted a CEO about the industry's lies, with visuals ⤵️