How the right racialized the Ohio train disaster | First Thing

Fox News, Trump and JD Vance claim Biden overlooked East Palestine's plight, citing residents' whiteness as the reason. Plus, what should New York do with its billion-dollar weed mountain?

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Three weeks into the Ohio train disaster, a new set of headlines has started to billow up from rightwing outlets and commentators. Now the tragedy of East Palestine has morphed into a racialized lament for the forgotten" people abandoned by the uncaring woke" Biden administration.

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