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U.S. drinking water widely contaminated with 'forever chemicals': environment watchdog
The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made "forever chemicals" is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group.
The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the environment, are known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Some have been linked to cancers, liver damage, low birth weight and other health problems.
The findings here by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) show the group's previous estimate in 2018, based on unpublished U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data, that 110 million Americans may be contaminated with PFAS, could be far too low.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @01:03AM (9 children)
All have large negro populations and therefore high drug usage. Are these chemicals byproducts of crack production?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:41AM (8 children)
He began his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech disparaging Mexican immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”
He uses the gang MS-13 to disparage all immigrants. Among many other statements, he has suggested that Obama’s protection of the Dreamers — otherwise law-abiding immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — contributed to the spread of MS-13.
In December 2015, Trump called for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” including refusing to readmit Muslim-American citizens who were outside of the country at the time.
Trump said a federal judge hearing a case about Trump University was biased because of the judge’s Mexican heritage.
In June 2017, Trump said 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa.
At the White House on Jan. 11, Trump vulgarly called for less immigration from Haiti and Africa and more from Norway.
Trump regularly demonized dark-skinned immigrants before the 2018 midterm elections, and his campaign produced an ad — about a caravan of migrants traveling through Mexico — that was so racist even Fox News declined to air it. He claimed that the same caravan included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.”
During a White House meeting in 2018, he referred to some undocumented immigrants as “animals” and later said they would “pour into and infest our country.” He also claimed, without evidence, that migrants were bringing diseases into the country.
Obama As Unqualified, Lazy and Un-American
An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2012
He spent years suggesting that the nation’s first black president was born not in the United States but in Kenya, a lie that Trump still has not acknowledged as such.
Trump called Obama (who was editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review) “a terrible student, terrible.”
Obama has admitted that he spends his mornings watching @ESPN. Then he plays golf, fundraises & grants amnesty to illegals.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2014
Trump frequently claimed that Obama did not work hard as president.
Trump falsely claimed that President Obama “issued a statement for Kwanzaa but failed to issue one for Christmas.”
Urban America As a Hellscape
He often casts heavily black American cities as dystopian war zones. In a 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said, “Our inner cities, African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.” Trump also said to black voters: “You’re living in poverty; your schools are no good; you have no jobs.”
He frequently offers false crime statistics to exaggerate urban crime, including about Oakland, Philadelphia and Ferguson, Mo.
Just out report: "United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror." Not good, we must keep America safe!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 20, 2017
He is quick to highlight crimes committed by dark-skinned people, sometimes exaggerating or lying about them (such as a claim about growing crime from “radical Islamic terror” in Britain). He is very slow to decry hate crimes committed by whites against dark-skinned people (such as the killing of an Indian man in Kansas last year).
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 28 2020, @02:50AM (5 children)
Modding this up so it gets seen, because it happens to be both informative (so +1 Informative)! and relevant.
If you post this again, alter the wording a bit and change the order of some of the facts, maybe write an intro and an outro, so someone doesn't Spam mod it. Remember, this place is up to its eyeballs in RWNJs, the kind of sociopath who will sodomize the spirit of the law with the letter of the law until the former is bleeding and the latter is bent.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @04:00AM
Nah, I'll follow the hypocritical Code of Conduct a certain admin is so fond of.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @08:26AM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @06:49PM
Lol, what kind of weird reasoning is this? I could be one of the hundred of millions of Americans who think Trump is a criminal that should be removed.
OH NO A PSYOP TO MAKE TRUMP LOOK BAD! Shocking development, it is ACTUALLY A TRUMP SUPPORTER!
Seriously, wtf level of crazy pills they have you on? What possible conspiracy scenario could you be imagining that would make your point have any sense at all?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 29 2020, @01:07AM
Enlighten me :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by slashnot on Tuesday January 28 2020, @09:36PM
Without taking sides, the post is NOT relevant to this topic and does not belong on this forum. I'll go to FOX or MSNBC if I want to see political FUD. I come to Soylent to avoid it.
Keep it on-topic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @03:52AM (1 child)
One piece of information that breaks your narrative:
Trump has given more money to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) than any other president.
https://www.wusa9.com/mobile/article/news/verify/verify-has-trump-given-more-money-to-hbcus-than-any-other-president/65-543185506 [wusa9.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 28 2020, @06:29AM
You mean did not cut their budget as much, and that was a troll move to get around separation of church and state objections. One rep said they appreciate the money but were concerned about other education cutbacks that would hurt students more than that HBCU reprieve would help.
If that is your best example to counter all of his shitty actions and words, well weak sauce dooder.