In a way Carlson/MAGA Neo-Kayfabe GOP may have a point - rural poor white Americans are forgotten. They reframe the narrative with politicians and media they own for profitable race-based grievance divisiveness purposes clouding business as usual settlements, fines, or fees attempting to make communities whole again paling vastly in comparison to billions upon billions in factual reality profits.

#RailDisaster #Derailment #ChemicalFire #ControlledBurn #OhioTrainWreck

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/26/trump-fox-news-east-palestine-ohio-right-wing-race-baiting

‘You’re not forgotten‘: how the right racialized the Ohio train disaster

Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine’s plight, citing residents’ whiteness as the reason

The Guardian

My sense is that these two things are not mutually exclusive: “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.”

#Politics #History #Oversight #Transportation #NTSB #OhioTrainWreck #LettersFromAnAmerican

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
We need to understand of the chemical breakdown of vinyl chloride. Most burns into hydrochloric acid which is bad to rain down on you, but reacts quickly as an acid forming various salts. Most probably reacts to form Calcium Chloride, which is in fact very soluble in water. But it is relatively non-toxic to plants and soil. (It is used as a food additive). Magnesium Chloride is another likely salt. It is used in road de-icing, but not in the concentrations like this zone. #OhioTrainwreck

#ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has called on governor Mike DeWine to declare a state of emergency in East Palestine after a catastrophic derailment bled chemicals into the water, air and earth - The Independent

#breaking #breakingnews #news #OhioTrainWreck #sherrodbrown #politics