Alan Shaw looks like an idiot who doesn't know right from wrong as Ed Markey queries compensation for property write downs in East Palestine. "I'm committed to do what's right" but doesn't know how after $10B in buybacks. Bernie notes Shaw sounds like a politician. #norfolksouthern #eastpalistine

"Either 21 Republican lawmakers charged with oversight of our government don’t know how the government works and didn’t care to find out, or they are deliberately misleading their loyalists."

Another careful, informed and illuminating take on current events from historian Heather Cox Richardson.

#NTSB #EastPalistine #TrainDerailment #USPolitics

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2023

February 25, 2023

Yesterday, the chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, Pete Sessions (R-TX), the chair of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Glenn Grothman (R-WI), and the chair of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, Nancy Mace (R-SC), along with seventeen other extremist Republican members of Congress, sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.

Letters from an American

@barb

I have no sh^ts to give for this loser monopolizing cable news.

There's just so much more that is so much more important right now. #ukraine #eastpalistine #wisconsin #georgia #climatechange #weather #getabooster #womensrights #enfantdeaths #everythingeslebutthisjerkaddictlawyer

The real travesty is that the GOP is constantly trying to weaken regulations on industry and specifically those concerning safety, but are the first to get outraged when the obvious happens. #eastpalistine #epa
@JDS Does not look like safe air to me. BTW - thanks to the GOP for weakening federal rules for train brakes. #eastpalistine

Enkele dagen na het ongeluk. 112 km bij de ramp vandaan. Auto's corroderen na een regenbui.
#Ohio #EastPalistine

https://twitter.com/me__0070/status/1623115651144466432?t=_Q1ISadUMpYn-NpPeVqJTQ&s=09

•••• on Twitter

“@CastiglioneFrnk Breaking my 2yr Twitter silence bc I’m sick about how this is so clearly downplayed by officials and “journalists”. This is my car today after driving through a spurt of rain…70+ MILES SE OF THE INCIDENT. My car was spotless at 3pm today.”

Twitter

Treinongeluk op 3 februari. Autoriteiten houden de feiten stil. Grond, lucht en water zijn zwaar vergiftigd.
#Ohio #EastPalistine

Life after the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/170570/life-ohio-train-derailment-trouble-breathing-dying-animals-saying-goodbye

Life After the Ohio Train Derailment: Trouble Breathing, Dying Animals, and Saying Goodbye

After a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, leaked noxious chemicals, residents in the area are still trying to recover.

The New Republic
I don’t know about you, but if I ran a rail road company that just poisoned a three hundred mile radius I would very much be three things. 1. Apologizing nonstop. 2. Giving 100% of the profits to make it right. 3.Afraid for my personal safety. The third being inversely proportional in intensity to the first two. #eastpalistine

The EPA just notified Norfolk Southern that three dangerous chemicals were also on board the train in the East Palestine, Ohio disaster.

“We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open,” said Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist.

#eastpalistine #ohio #disaster