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Jim McDonald retweeted
I’ve known Haley Stevens for a long time. Until now, she has always had staff to protect her, prop her up, and keep her safe from her own irrational behavior. What we’re seeing now? This is just raw, unfiltered Haley.
The Haley who flip-flops and goes from thought to thought without rhyme or reason. The Haley that calls you at 3 AM to yell at you, and then calls you back at 5 AM oblivious to the fact that she even spoke with you at 3 AM. The Haley who bends to the last and loudest voice that tells her something.
More often than not that last voice is now her fiancé. And as you can see by what one of her former staff people posted earlier here on X, that appears to potentially be a really troubling relationship.
Up until this point, other than a joke I made on X a few days ago, I wasn't going to say anything public about Haley Stevens or how she has comported herself since the primary. It not only wasn't appropriate, I would never, ever want anyone to think I was speaking for or on behalf of my wife. But Haley's erratic choices mean I can no longer be silent about my interactions with her since the primary ended.
I approached Haley in the middle of September about putting her name to an Op-Ed attacking Mike Rogers for his unwillingness to denounce the antisemitic members of his own team, the $10 million in support he's received from Christian nationalist Tim Dunn, and his steadfast opposition to a woman's right to choose. The goal of the Op-Ed was to remind members of the Jewish community that Mike Rogers doesn't align with our values. The proposed Op-Ed never mentioned Abdul. The only thing it asked for was to not vote for Mike Rogers.
Initially she was very interested in it.
Then she wasn't.
Then she was again.
Then she wasn't.
She never signed it.
Literally the bare minimum - attack MAGA Mike Rogers, the guy who would have been running against you had you won the primary. And that was over a month ago. This is nothing new. This is just who Haley is. By the way, here's the Op-Ed that she wouldn't let me publish.
Jim McDonald retweeted
I think Vivek Ramaswamy forgets that he isn’t a white man. Or maybe he thinks white folks will forget he’s brown if he can just be a big enough bigot.
The struggle is real.
Jim McDonald retweeted
The U.S. Postal Service has reduced mail pickup at some local facilities, which could affect when your ballot is postmarked.
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ALT Screenshot of a tool that allows you to search for your ZIP code and see if the USPS has reduced how often mail is picked up in that area.
Jim McDonald retweeted
It’s almost if the restrictive laws are the point of “tobacco control”, not the public health outcomes and certainly not the distraction of unintended consequences, which are the main consequences.
"We find no evidence that these laws reduce overall youth ENDS use, frequent use, initiation, or cig smoking. These null results are consistent with online purchasing accounting for a small share of youth ENDS acquisition even prior to policy adoption."
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Ex-CEO of $25 billion US gas export venture, launched with involvement of investor tied to the Trump family, has accused Russia's Novatek of secretly controlling the project, prompting mass exodus over fears of violating sanctions. @JamieSmythF @maxseddon ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
Jim McDonald retweeted
🎯 Russia is a failed nation, a terror state, a mafia pretending to be a country, a people infected with an imperial virus, a gas station with nukes that barely has any gas left, a Chinese vassal that needs perpetual war to stay intact. It should be quarantined, not elevated.
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
Jim McDonald retweeted
This is so engraging and inaccurate on all accounts.
Trump is pulling another "Helsinki" moment where he's defending the wrong side here.
Zelenskyy is NOT the problem.
Ukraine is NOT the problem.
PUTIN is.
And Trump is his b*tch.
Trump: My decision on Russia is a very simple one. I don't want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table.
Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing.
Zelenskyy is using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets, including those in the United States.
Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this, but Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World.
Zelenskyy doesn't care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did.
He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead. I WANT THIS WAR END!
Jim McDonald retweeted
The Commission received thousands of contributions from citizens, many with direct experience of the products under discussion. Our voices deserve meaningful consideration, not marginalisation in favour of the demands of influential institutions and NGOs
ethra.co/news/195-eu-tobacco…
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Jim McDonald retweeted
Why isn't oil at $200? Because "someone" keeps dumping oil futures all night long, and the CFTC refuses to look into it. Heck, even when it's clear-cut insider trading, the CFTC has been told to "back off," and they did. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
Jim McDonald retweeted
Only Trump can save Putin. Goodbye to US sanctions. Every GOP running for office must be confronted with this egregious act of supporting genocidal war in Ukraine, especially at the moment when Putin shifted all his fire power to killing civilians.
Trump saves the day for Putin. Just as Ukraine was changing the direction of the war by inflicting real economic pain on Putin by hitting his oil refineries, Trump steps in and agrees to buy Russian diesel. Now Trump can say that Ukraine is bombing American interests and they better stop. Up until today, there was a real chance of an unspoken aerial cease fire if Russian could no longer tolerate the pain, but that has now disappeared
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Annie Kleycamp at @foodanddruglaw:
Older adults are very underrepresented in research on ecigs and smoking cessation. NIH has little interest in funding ecig research in this population.
Jim McDonald retweeted
The last public execution in America took place in 1936 in Kentucky. The black man executed was such a public spectacle that 20,000 came to enjoy it. It was such a national embarrassment that it ended the practice. And now Pete Hegseth wants to revive it. theamericansaga.com/p/what-i…
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NEW: A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that police violated the Fourth Amendment by searching Flock and other license plate reader data without a warrant, accessing more than 50 records of a driver’s movements across multiple states over a month.
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We agree with @WeVapeUK that consumers should respond to the government consultation which closes tonight. Please read our briefing and get your submission in before midnight. nnalliance.org/nnanews/news/…
Jim McDonald retweeted
How did murdering suspected cocaine smugglers become the new normal? @ethannadelmann and I discuss the origins and implications of that bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy on Dean Becker's podcast. drugtruth.net/node/10935
Jim McDonald retweeted
Peter Thiel has the wheel: “Deputy Secty of Defense Stephen Feinberg has drafted a memo directing Defense Dept subordinates to purchase up to $243.9 M in services from…[Thiel’s] Palantir…without a competitive bidding process…The memo’s subject line is called ‘Funding Palantir’.” 8/11/26… 1/
Jim McDonald retweeted
Trump again blocks previously agreed weapons transfers to Ukraine.
Ihor Romanenko, former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces, explains that following his conversation with Putin, Trump blocked transfer of 3,000 air-to-surface missiles intended for targeting Russia's ballistic missile launchers.