If the East Palestine derailment and fire had been the work of a foreign terrorist group, we would already be at war with some poor country full of brown people.

But because Wall-Street executives are the ones who took the decisions that led to this, and because they are aided by a ruling class that is motivated by corporate election funding...

This is brilliant data-infused journalism:

Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/

Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them.

Of course, they're proud of it.