Residents in East Palestine, Ohio reported rashes and headaches following the massive toxic chemical explosion in their town earlier this month.

State, government, and railroad officials approved a plan to blow up six rail cars of toxic vinyl chloride that formed a mushroom cloud in the sky before it rained down on the city and surrounding area.

Residents reported dead chickens and pets. Dead fish and salamanders washed up in the local stream and river.

The state’s Department of Natural Resources estimated that 44,000 animals have died from the toxic contamination.

Despite reports of illnesses and dead animals, the Biden Regime and local Democrat officials continue to insist the air and water are just fine after the train derailment and toxic disaster.

Now this…

East Palestine residents are reporting shocking new symptoms mere weeks after the toxic disaster.

One local resident told the New York Post his voice “sounds like Mickey Mouse” as if he inhaled helium.

Via the New York Post:

Wade Lovett’s been having trouble breathing since the Feb. 3 Norfolk South train derailment and toxic explosion here. In fact, his voice sounds as if he’s been inhaling helium.

“Doctors say I definitely have the chemicals in me but there’s no one in town who can run the toxicological tests to find out which ones they are,” Lovett, 40, an auto detailer, said in an extremely high-pitched voice. “My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It’s hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I’m drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won’t release me to go to work.”

Despite his health woes, Lovett and his fiancée, Tawnya Irwin, 45, spent last Thursday delivering bottled water to locals. They picked up new cases outside a home on East Clark Street which has become the heart of East Palestine’s homegrown campaign to fight back against the forces that upended the lives of roughly 4,700 residents and their animals.

Locals are frustrated and furious over what they say has been a lack of real information and help from both local officials and the Biden Administration. Last week, East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway ripped President Biden for heading to Ukraine for a surprise visit instead of the scene of the toxic train derailment, calling it “the biggest slap in the face.”

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The Montana House has approved a bill banning minors from attending drag shows.

The legislation would also ban drag shows from taking place in public spaces.

Republican Rep. Braxton Mitchell sponsored House Bill 359 because he said that a “sick agenda” was being pushed through all-ages drag shows.

“Why should children be at these drag shows?” Mitchell asked the Democrats who opposed the bill, according to a report from the Daily Montanan.

The bill expands the definition of a “sexually oriented business” to include venues that host drag performances.

“A sexually oriented business may not allow a person under 18 years of age to enter the premises of the business during a live nude performance or drag performance,” the bill states. “The owner, operator, manager, or employee of a sexually oriented business who is convicted of violating this section shall be fined not less than $1,000 or more than $5,000 for the first offense, not less than $2,500 or more than $5,000 for the second offense, and for third and subsequent offenses be fined $10,000 and, if applicable, the county or municipality shall revoke the business license held by the offender.”

The Daily Montanan reports that “as of Thursday morning, 149 constituents had messaged legislators in support of the bill and 270 constituents had sent messages in opposition. Opponents outweighed supporters when the bill was heard in the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month.”

Transgender Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr said they are personally hurt by the legislation.

When asked why children should be allowed to attend drag shows, they said the older LGBTQ community had survived the AIDS epidemic and now had families.

“And now we’re taking some of our children and sharing an art form that’s valuable to our community in a way that is age appropriate to them,” she said, according to the DM report. “And to answer the sponsor’s question directly, ‘Why should children be there?’ That’s why. Because it matters to us and our community. Because we lived.”

Republican Majority Leader Rep. Sue Vinton reminded Zephyr that the current bill has nothing to do with transgender people.

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