would pick up the story---unfortunately, if it's not Trump/Russia/or porn stars, they don't care. In fact, @vicenews + @Newsweek both agreed to run the story before killing it the week it was supposed to run. But @StatusCoup did not give up. We contacted just about every lawmaker
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We contacted every media outlet. And we contacted the new AG's office in Michigan. In February, we were invited to meet with officials from the AG's office, where we presented our reporting and evidence showing Snyder's environmental agency manipulated water samples by flushing
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residents' water lines before taking samples--in some cases, for 10-15 minutes. This is a blatant violation of EPA testing regulations (the EPA of course did nothing and stood by MI's cooked testing bc the EPA itself is corrupt). Well, today it came out that the new AG's office
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has seized Governor Snyder's government phone, iPad, and computer hard drive. Obviously
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and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality did have some coordination when we reached out to both about our evidence that state environmental officials manipulated the testing and data.
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A high-level source told
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THANK YOU Jordan for all your hard work & dedication to this critical story. I remember the young black girl who had great grades & was set to be the 1rst in her family to graduate but is now mentally ill thanks to the led poison!
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Lead not led geesh me!
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People should ask themselves why
#Corporate#Media &#Politicians barely reported/spoke about this. As they pretend to care so much about issues the most critical that effect us all are always ignored. They don't care one bit about us we are their products & useful idiotsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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