Felony Charges Filed After Flint Township Officers Find Children Alone for Days

Flint Township officers say two young children were left alone in severe conditions for multiple days. The children are now safe, and prosecutors have authorized felony child abuse and abandonment charges.

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Help Me Give Back | Mari Copeny

Mari Copeny

> ... shrinking big government is not really the point. The oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people. This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly expanding police powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
> ... in Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like poisoned water...

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
#LynnParramore #BigGovernment #OligarchyGovernment #FlintMichigan

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Institute for New Economic Thinking

This is a thing I've been trying to make happen for a while.

#PostmodernJukebox #flintmichigan

Neighborhood in eastern Colorado becomes hazmat scene due to toxic sludge in drinking water

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Flint’s Toxic Water Poisoned Mental Health, Too

A decade after the water crisis emerged, residents are struggling with higher-than-average rates of post-traumatic stress disorder.

by Joseph Williams April 25, 2024

"Rarely do we connect the psychological disorder [of #PTSD] with turning on the faucet in the kitchen sink.

"Yet that’s what #FlintMichigan residents have experienced since April 25, 2014, when the city registered its first complaints that the drinking water looked, smelled, and tasted foul. Research has shown city residents suffer from extraordinarily high rates of PTSD and #depression as a result of the crisis, even though the water infrastructure is in the midst of a massive, system-wide upgrade.

"They still don’t know if it’s safe to drink the water. "

https://wordinblack.com/2024/04/flints-toxic-water-poisoned-mental-health-too/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#WaterIsLife #Flint #BlackLivesMatter #EnvironmentalRacism

Flint’s Toxic Water Poisoned Mental Health, Too

A decade after the water crisis emerged, residents are struggling with higher-than-average rates of post-traumatic stress disorder. 

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10 years later, Flint’s and America’s water remains unnecessarily hazardous

We the people are demanding stronger regulations and enforcement measures to protect the most vulnerable members of our society.

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Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/flint-michigan-water-crisis #WaterIsLife #FlintMichigan #lead #water #PublicHealth
Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’

Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice

The Guardian
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LIVE From Flint: SURGING Cancer, Water STILL TOXIC 10 Years Later

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