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Great segment on our investigation into how US battery manufacturers increasingly relying on lead recycled in Nigeria, poisoning entire villages. In partnership with @examinationnews

old school, pre-crytpo/AI chips way to do business

How Nigerian communities are being poisoned by factories that recycle lead for U.S. car batteries - major investigation by @petersgoodman @WillFitzgibbon and Samuel Granados https://t.co/LwBqRnpsSX

America has come to understand just how damaging lead poisoning is to human development. Now we've just exported it to Africa. Devastating reporting by @petersgoodman & @WillFitzgibbon, incredible photos by @finbarroreilly https://t.co/ZQklCWghx4

Note @Benioff at the dinner, which means MBS is now a “stakeholder”

“It’s a bad investment unless you’re dirty.” Horrifying report from @petersgoodman on how the opaque supply chain for “clean” recycled lead in car batteries has created a massive public health crisis. https://t.co/xFaJDnoeK8

People inhale invisible lead particles and absorb them into their bloodstream, their brains, wreaking havoc on their nervous systems. Toddlers ingest the dust by crawling across floors, playgrounds then putting their hands in their mouths. @petersgoodman

@WillFitzgibbon @examinationnews 8/ But, she added, they have money for one meal a day, leaving nothing for toys or other distractions. She does what she can, but there it is. This is the context for the lead coming into the US, where we use it to make car batteries found under the hoods of millions of cars.

@WillFitzgibbon @examinationnews 7/ As a dad, I can't shake one simple experience. I watched a four-year-old girl who lives right next to one of the worst lead smelters playing in the dirt with a broken plastic spoon, then putting it in her mouth. Her grandmother told me she knows the dirt is tainted...

@WillFitzgibbon @examinationnews 6/ The people in the villages we visited do not have that option. We commissioned scientists to test their blood and found alarming levels of lead -- especially in children, where the neurological harms can be irreversible.

@WillFitzgibbon @examinationnews 5/ The supply chain for lead batteries is so complex and involves so many different players that it has effectively been engineered to avoid accountability. Every link in the chain may plausibly claim that poisoning people in Nigeria was someone else's fault.

4/ We've been working on this investigation for a year with an extraordinary reporting partner, @WillFitzgibbon at @examinationnews. Between us, we took several trips to Nigeria, and unraveled the supply chain in the US -- from the Baltimore, to an auto battery factory in Penn

3/ Here's a video we made of the supply chain:

2/ https://t.co/4vgOvkoG6t

The auto industry will tell you the lead battery is the ultimate example of successful recycling. Here is the part they would prefer you not see -- lead poisoning in villages around the globe to make car batteries in the US and other rich countries. Our investigation. Link below

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (More: https://t.co/zHGpWi5l7r)

"Banks in China are asking clients to take out loans and then immediately repay them, with the bank covering the interest, in a practice known as "quick-lend-and-recover. The practice is spreading as banks come under pressure to hit government-set targets that can't be met by

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Must Read on Campus Antisemitism "According to the report, only one of 102 antisemitism complaints the authors reviewed raises antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel." https://t.co/hUqKZcgt2z @mehdirhasan @PeterBeinart @Shanfaraa @BayoumiMoustafa