Phonin’ It In! [DOT 29/7/23]

29/7/23 MegMegMcGee 24

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m on a little vacation to NC so y’all are going to have to fill us in on what is going on.

Sprots!

Stonks!

Russia/Ukraine

Mitch McConnell dead yet

Cheese

The heat

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Cute

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  2. Supreme Court Corruption:

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/alito-gets-softball-wsj-interview-with-attorney-on-key-tax-case-before-scotus

    Alito ran to the the Wall Street Journal for a tongue bath, and the lead writer was a right wing attorney with a pending case before the Supreme Court. No conflict there!

    Alito claimed Congress had no authority to regulate the Supreme Court, despite the plain language of the Constitution saying Congress can do it, plus the history of the Court which includes multiple regulations from Congress.  Justices used to have to ride around the country ruling on cases!

    (The same Wall Street Journal which let him offer a lyin’ response to the ProPublica article about his corruption before they had even published it.)

    • I don’t think my Brita water filter will actually remove those.

      Honestly for myself I’ve given up on worrying about PFA exposure. They’re in tampons. They’re in clothing. They’re on food from packaging. They probably leached out of my IUD directly into my uterus for 5 years.

        • Yeah I’d love for it to be handled at the municipal water source level, but alas, this doesn’t inspire confidence.

          Non-enforceable standards from the EPA. Not regulated in my state. The worst part is the health advisory levels are below the level of detection and quantification, so yeahhhhh.

          “Missouri American Water has performed voluntary sampling to better understand the occurrence of certain PFAS in drinking water sources. This sampling allows us to understand how our water compares against the non-enforceable health advisory level set by U.S. EPA. Sampling also allows Missouri American Water to be better prepared as U.S. EPA has proposed drinking water standards for six PFAS. Missouri American Water will take appropriate actions to meet new regulations.

          Our PFAS results are included in our Consumer Confidence Reports, which are available here. You can find the report for your water system using the Zip Code Search or by clicking on the system name.

          PFAS are not regulated in Missouri. In 2022, U.S. EPA set non-enforceable health advisory levels for four PFAS chemicals – PFOA (0.004 part per trillion (ppt)), PFOS (0.02 ppt), GenX (10 ppt), and PFBS (2,000 ppt). The health advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS are below the level of both detection (determining whether or not a substance is present) and quantitation (the ability to reliably determine how much of a substance is present). This means that it is possible for PFOA or PFOS to be present in drinking water at levels that exceed health advisories even if current testing indicates no level of these chemicals. Finally, PFAS chemicals are unique, so two PFAS chemicals at the same level typically do not present the same risk. Therefore, you should not compare the results for one PFAS chemical against the results of another.”

          https://www.amwater.com/moaw/Water-Quality/pfas

    • The Missouri stats are like 32000 kicked off in the month of June, over half of that being children.

      Paperwork issues like “parents forgot a form” or “could not locate parents during review period” were common. So like… fuck them kids, as usual, for the GOP.

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