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More bad news for (East) Palestinians.

https://wapo.st/3SIwPTL

“I want a response from Norfolk Southern that we can look back five years from now, 10 years from now, [and] we can be proud,” Alan Shaw, the company’s chief executive, said in an interview with local reporters in January.

In the nation’s capital, however, Norfolk Southern often has sounded a more defiant note: It has joined some of the nation’s leading freight railroads in a bid to weaken newly proposed safety legislation, threatening to leave millions of Americans nationwide at risk of deadly derailments and dangerous chemical spills.

The target of the lobbying is a bipartisan proposal from Ohio’s two senators: Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, and J.D. Vance, a Republican. Unveiled last spring as a direct response to the accident in East Palestine, the Railway Safety Act aims to toughen rail inspections, improve derailment-detection technology and ensure greater safeguards for hazardous materials.

Publicly, Norfolk Southern and its peers have pledged to work with lawmakers on the bill. But the companies have still labored to severely weaken or eliminate some of its core provisions, according to 15 lawmakers, congressional aides, union officials and others, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

 

And let's not forget: they made their locomotive crews shit in plastic bags!

 

How did we all get so cynical. Illegal immigrants can’t vote in federal elections. There is no way around that.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1753852898323132686?s=46&t=f1bCJ9Ncf7mPQzqE8-YWxQ

 

Agreed

 

Why does he think people can just come here and suddenly be able to vote?

It’s simply not possible. There’s no way around it.

 

https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/1753883929608671740?s=20

When democracy is at stake, decline a conversation with the American people.

 

Let me think, maybe the country Musk came from has something to do with his skewed ideas.

 

LOL

 

You mean the kid who grew up in Apartheid South Africa might harbor racist views? I can't for the life of me believe that!