Kimberly Arnold

Advisor at the intersection of #strategy #technology #partnerships #AI #operations | Founder & CEO, Escalate Solutions | RTs not an endorsement

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton reportedly took over 275 lavish trips outside of Texas while he was Attorney General.

These trips cost Texas taxpayers at least $1,900,000 in total.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room.

Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

Senator Darline Graham rode Trump’s endorsement to become the GOP Senate nominee in South Carolina, but alarm bells are sounding over the race in what was once considered a solid red state.
https://t.co/kK686KD55i

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx was mentioned only once at Democratic nominee Phil Weiser’s town hall on 9NEWS. Weiser claimed Marx made a comment appearing to blame women for the domestic violence they suffer. We found the tape. Marx said it in 2014.

[Devon Hesano @DevonHesano]

BIG NEWS: The Miami Herald, one of Florida’s biggest and most prominent newspapers, has ENDORSED @davidjollyfl for governor over Byron Donalds.

https://t.co/GGIa3sXqou

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨🎙️ Sir Alex Ferguson on the Cristiano Ronaldo & Portugal Situation

🗣️"I’ve been in this game a long, long time. I’ve managed the biggest clubs, dealt with the greatest talents, and if there is one thing eighty-four years of life and four decades in football teach you, it’s how to handle elite men. I watch what’s happening in that Portugal setup now, and frankly, it saddens me to see such poor management of a legendary figure.

You do not bring Cristiano Ronaldo into an international squad, parade him around, and then treat him as if he’s just another young lad you’ve pulled out of the reserve side.
If Jorge Jesus knew in his heart he had no intention of using him, then why call him up in the first place? To make a point? That isn't authority—that’s insecurity.

Cristiano isn’t a boy starting out. He isn't Yamal, he isn't Endrick—he is Cristiano Ronaldo. I know the boy inside out. I signed him as an eighteen-year-old kid in 2003, and I know the absolute dedication, work ethic, and obsession with winning that runs through his veins. When Jorge selected him at forty-one, he knew fine well what he was getting. Nobody expects a forty-one-year-old to run the channels for ninety minutes or sprint like he did in his prime at Old Trafford.

When you have a sportsman of that stature in your squad, you have a duty to manage him with wisdom, tact, and dignity. You don't leave him sitting on the bench simply to prove to the media that you’re the boss. A real manager doesn't need to undermine his star player to prove his own authority.

If people have forgotten what Cristiano has done for Portuguese football over the last twenty years, the rest of the world hasn't. That boy carried an entire nation on his shoulders for two decades—the goals, the records, the European Championship, the sheer belief he brought to his country. He elevated Portuguese football to the very top of the global stage.

Now, let’s be sensible about this. Cristiano is forty-one. That’s a fact of life, and time catches up with every single one of us. His minutes have to be protected. There will be matches where starting him doesn't make tactical sense. I have no issue with that at all—I had to do the exact same thing with Bryan Robson, Steve Bruce, Ryan Giggs, and Paul Scholes as they entered the final chapters of their careers. They didn't always like it, but they respected it because it was done with honesty and care.

There is a world of difference between managing an aging icon with quiet authority and publicly diminishing him. If you need him for twenty minutes to break down a stubborn defense, you prepare his mind for those twenty minutes. You make him feel vital to that specific moment. But you never allow a man's age to blind you to the sheer greatness he still possesses in key moments.

Jorge Jesus needs to step back and think very carefully here. In management, you can win a petty argument with a player on Tuesday, and by Saturday you’ve lost the trust of the entire dressing room. Managers come and go, tournaments end, but players never forget how they were treated when the light began to fade.

You don't have to give him a guaranteed starter's jersey every match, and no player is ever bigger than the team—I preached that my entire career. But after everything Cristiano Ronaldo has given to Portugal, you treat him with the dignity and respect his sacrifice demands”.

[Kimberly Arnold @escalateadvisor]

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[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon is slashing the military’s senior ranks by 20%.
https://t.co/3AcYRngb6I

[Kimberly Arnold @escalateadvisor]

Wouldn’t be surprised

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A new report from MS Now confirms that Kash Patel has been placing criminals on the FBI Most Wanted List only after knowing their arrest was imminent, already knowing the arrest was taking place, in order to “pad their numbers” to impress President Trump.

[derock @derocktoldme]

🚨🚨Zinedine Zidane blasts Jorge Jesus over the tension with Cristiano Ronaldo:

“I don’t like talking about other coaches’ dressing rooms. Usually I prefer to stay quiet. But some things you feel immediately when you have lived with a player like Cristiano.

You cannot call a man of that stature into the squad, take him to the match, warm him up, and then treat him as if he is just another name on the list. That is not managing a team. That is forgetting who is in front of you.

Cristiano is 41. Everyone knows that. I knew it when I coached him. His body is not the same. His minutes have to be chosen with intelligence. Nobody serious is asking him to run like he did at 26. That is not the discussion.

The discussion is respect.

If you select him, it is because you understand what he still represents. Not only the goals. The presence. The demand. The history he carries for Portugal. You do not use that history when it is useful and put it in a drawer when you want to show that the coach decides everything.

A coach always decides. That is normal. I decided many times at Madrid who started and who sat. Cristiano accepted it when the relationship was clear. What a player of that level does not accept is being made to look small in public.

If you need him for twenty minutes, prepare those twenty minutes. If the game changes and you do not need him, explain it like a man, before, not after he has been running on the touchline. Do not leave a champion standing there so that people understand who is in charge. Everyone already understands who is in charge.

I worked with him. I know what he gives a dressing room even when he does not play 90 minutes. I also know what it costs a coach later if a player of that magnitude feels he was used, then discarded, just to make a point.

The Nations League will pass. The next match will come. Jorge will prepare another team. Cristiano will remember how he was treated.

You do not have to start him every time. You do not have to protect his ego at the expense of the team. But after everything he has given that shirt, you owe him something simple: dignity.

A great player can accept being on the bench.
He cannot accept being treated as if his name no longer means anything.”

[Wondrous Nature @nature_c2ngn]

Highway 145 near Telluride in Colorado 😲

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

There is hope for America, as long as we still have men like this honorable man left in our country.

[Kimberly Arnold @escalateadvisor]

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[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

Após a conferência de imprensa do Selecionador Nacional, e no seguimento de uma conversa com o Presidente da Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, tomei a decisão de deixar o estágio da Seleção Nacional.

A seu tempo, direi a verdade a todos os Portugueses sobre as razões que motivaram a minha saída da equipa nacional, à qual sempre me dediquei.

Agora é tempo de desejar boa sorte a Portugal e a todos os meus companheiros de equipa, sem exceção.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Good morning to all the women who voted for Trump!

Your daughters and granddaughters will spend their lives ashamed of you. Way to go!

[Mychael Schnell @mychaelschnell]

SCOOP: Judiciary Committee staff warned Sen. Eric Schmitt's office that the Jack Smith texts were "unvetted," per source.

Schmitt used them anyway.

w/ @CarolLeonnig @KDilanianMSNOW @MSNOWNews
https://t.co/Y8wON1Me5R

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

So Trump fired Kristi Noem for spending taxpayer dollars on ads featuring her - only to have Trump spend taxpayer dollars on ads featuring him.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Trump just blocked the transfer of 3,000 critical air-to-surface missiles to Ukraine.

If Trump is not a Russian agent, he is certainly acting like one. His decisions are helping prolong this senseless war and leaving Ukrainian civilians more vulnerable to Russian attacks.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Oil executives warn US diesel prices will not return to normal for more than a year, with almost half of 100 oil and gas companies surveyed by the Dallas Fed now saying it will take more than four quarters to get back to 2025 levels, per the FT.

"Diesel is the mother's milk of the economy," one respondent says. "We are just starting to see the impact on the wider economy."

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said two weeks ago that the Great Fuel Crisis executives had warned about has arrived and that the mechanisms mitigating price and supply risk have "largely now played out."

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

SCOOP O'clock: Sen. @Eric_Schmitt was warned texts from Jack Smith's office hadn't been vetted for accuracy.
He used them anyway - to accuse Smith of perjury.
Trump @TheJusticeDept gave Sen. Grassley these texts before Smith testified, but Grassley didn't share with Democrats.
W @mychaelschnell & @KDilanianMSNOW https://t.co/01NoLvGTD2

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: A shocking new investigation from the San Antonio Current just uncovered three more cases where Ken Paxton gave plea deals allowing sex offenders to avoid jail. This guy is legitimately evil.

[Covie @covie_93]

BREAKING: Google and Apple maps to rename United States as 'Unites States'