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demmiblue's JournalMidwest flooding threatens the water safety in 1 million wells
The 10 states include: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
"The most immediate concern is that the flood waters are contaminated with anything they have picked up and moving across the ground," said Chuck Job, NGWA's regulatory affairs manager.
Floods carry health concerns
The high waters can carry bacterial contamination from flooded waste water treatment plants, septic tank systems, or animal waste from farms. Pesticide residues, oil and gasoline can also be mixed into the waters. "Depending on the extent of the severity of the flooding, those flood waters will contain a lot of potentially harmful chemicals as well," said Kevin Masarik of the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Masarik is a groundwater outreach specialist at the school's Center for Watershed Science & Education.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/27/health/flooding-threatens-one-million-wells/index.html?utm_content=2019-03-28T11%3A18%3A28&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1111226045586460673
Pete Buttigieg just got his best national poll so far
Buttigieg just scored his highest Democratic primary national poll number to date at 4% of Democrats and Democratic leaning registered voters, according to Quinnipiac University. That easily beats his old high of 1% in a live interview national poll. A jump of 3 points may not seem like a lot, but, because the margin of error shrinks significantly the closer you get to 0, the move from 1% to 4% is likely statistically significant.
Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to lead the Democratic field in the Quinnipiac poll at 29%, with Sen. Bernie Sanders at 19%, former US Rep. Beto O'Rourke at 12% and Sen. Kamala Harris in fourth at 8%.
Buttigieg's standing lands him at fifth and tied with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Buttigieg is ahead of both Sens. Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar, who are each at 2%. In other words, the current mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is polling in the same area as a number of candidates who are regarded as having a legitimate chance of winning the Democratic nomination.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/pete-buttigieg-best-national-poll-so-far/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_medium=social&utm_term=image&utm_content=2019-03-28T10%3A54%3A01
Florida Mayor Wayne Messam announces 2020 presidential bid
Messam, in a highly produced video released to CNN, tells voters that he is running for president and rails against what he calls a "broken" federal government in Washington, DC.
"When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken. When our scientists are telling us if we don't make drastic changes today, the quality of our air will be in peril, Washington is broken," Messam says in the video. "Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country."
He adds: "America belongs to all of us. The promise of America belongs to all of us. That's why I'm going to be running for president. To be your champion."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/wayne-messam-announces-2020-bid/index.html
Sen. Graham: "President Trump has been good to me in the sense that he's allowed me in his world."
https://twitter.com/ToluseO/status/1110933832994308097
Good lawd.
i cannot believe this is my city's news station...i cannot believe this is real
https://twitter.com/G0NEGIRLLL/status/1110968428100288513
Facebook to ban white nationalist or separatist posts
Source: The Hill
Facebook will begin banning white nationalist or white separatist content on its platform starting next week, the social media giant announced on Wednesday.
Facebook officials formally decided to ban "white nationalism" and "white separatism" on the platform at a content moderation meeting on Tuesday, according to Motherboard.
The significant policy shift comes a year after Motherboard, a tech news outlet, reported that Facebook's content moderation had allowed "white nationalism and separatism" on the platform, though it barred explicit "white supremacy."
Facebook in training documents for moderators last year wrote that white nationalism "doesn’t seem to be always associated with racism (at least not explicitly)," incurring immediate backlash from civil rights groups and experts.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/436055-facebook-to-ban-white-nationalism-white-separatism
How long before Trump criticizes this move?
EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Warren lays out plan to target corporate agriculture, support family farms
The Democratic presidential candidate's plan, released exclusively to the Des Moines Register before it was unveiled Wednesday, would address consolidation in the agribusiness industry, "un-rig" the rules she says favor its largest players, and elevate the interests of family farmers.
"We can make better policy choices — and that means leveling the playing field for America's family farmers," Warren wrote in a Medium post outlining her proposal.
Warren has not shied away from confronting those affected by her policies, delivering them directly to those industries' doorsteps. Just as she announced her plan to break apart the nation's largest tech companies before heading to one of the industry's largest gatherings, Warren is announcing her plan to take on corporate agriculture days before traveling to Iowa to speak at a rural issues forum.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2019/03/27/2020-election-iowa-caucuses-elizabeth-warren-agribusiness-family-farmers-rural-issues/3277185002/
U.S. Senate fails to advance resolution calling for debate on #GreenNewDeal.
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U.S. Senate fails to advance resolution calling for debate on #GreenNewDeal.
0 - Yea
57 - Nay
43 - Present
Full video here: https://cs.pn/2WwAvZ1
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1110645979160682497
Manchin, Sinema, King and Jones voted nay.
Betsy DeVos: Deep cuts to Special Olympics, student programs are warranted
Source: The Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday defended deep cuts to programs meant to help students and others, including eliminating $18 million to support Special Olympics, while urging Congress to spend millions more on charter schools.
"We are not doing our children any favors when we borrow from their future in order to invest in systems and policies that are not yielding better results," DeVos said in prepared testimony before a House subcommittee considering the Department of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year.
It was the first time that DeVos, a wealthy former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and school choice advocate, had been called before a Democratic-led panel in the U.S. House to explain President Donald Trump's spending priorities.
While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos's budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget.
Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/26/betsy-devos-special-olympics/3278388002/
Asshole.
"the mueller report is in and i wanted to do something special for all the imaginary sources..."
https://twitter.com/ManInTheHoody/status/1109658052808986625
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