Stephen Petit

PR guy at SiefkesPetit. Covered in dog hair, smells like horse. “You can’t stop what’s comin’. It ain’t all waitin’ on you.” 🇨🇦🇺🇸 #GoMs

[O'Hare Intl. Airport @fly2ohare]

Late Monday night, ORD Ground Crews and CDA Safety & Security helped the @shedd_aquarium with a special rescue mission of four beluga whales arriving aboard a cargo plane from Toronto. Find more details at: https://t.co/FDxx4hYG2X 🐋

Photo Credit: Shedd Aquarium/Heidi Zeiger

[Stephen Petit @truckpr]

How business owners are grappling with higher trucking costs https://t.co/D8cALu4skb

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@coleyaong Wow! We were noticing on TV and wondering what looks like. Thanks for the bigger picture!

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@hunterparker99 It was the Seventies, man.

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@ZeigerDan In Seattle! Phillies legend Pete Rose down there on the far right.

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@lindseywasson Good vibes. These pics made my day, @lindseywasson.

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@don_burnette @AlanAdler A good man and a solid professional. I’m so sorry to hear this news.

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All I know is I don’t know *what’s* going on. I hope these guys get some good PR counsel, pronto.

[Helena Bottemiller Evich @hbottemiller]

Just to clarify, because everyone now seems VERY confused:

Taylor Farms de Mexico has still been implicated in this cyclospora outbreak. The recall of shredded iceberg lettuce from last week still stands.

The false positive test was on lettuce coming over the border from Mexico that was NOT part of the recall. If that positive had been accurate, it would have meant *more* lettuce needed to be recalled.

In foodborne illness outbreaks *we often do not ever get positive tests to tie product to illness* especially for highly perishable products like lettuce. It's common to rely on other epidemiological evidence, as FDA and CDC are doing here.

Prediction: This is a public health communications nightmare that will be studied for a long time.

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@MikeDugar @hawkblogger @TheAthletic Since he’s staying I guess I’ll keep up my @TheAthletic subscription... 😎 Such a solid beat reporter. Will be cool to see a bigger audience and more opportunities for @MikeDugar

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@truckerpatty Brunch?

[John Kingston @JohnHKingston]

Last time ultra low sulfur #diesel settled this high on the CME was May 19. One irony: as much as diesel has risen, its spread against Brent was lower Friday (about 196%) than on Thursday (about 202%). But as noted the other day about the spread in general: this is not normal.

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@dartinguphill Before or after the Corn Palace? Like, could you duck in there if you had to?

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@gtconway3d @realDonaldTrump Drag strip…

[John Kingston @JohnHKingston]

A big reversal in the weekly DOE/EIA average weekly retail #diesel price. After nine straight weeks of declines, it rose 21.8 cts/g this week. But it is still less than it was just three weeks ago and about $1.04 more than where it was a year ago.

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@StephenRuhe Then comes the pickup truck. And the tractor. And the implements. A bigger chainsaw. And the trailer. And the ATV. And the barn. And the goats, chickens, horses. And all the amazing times that come with them. 40 acres! That’s awesome.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

"A moose is not a beaver."

Apparently Buc-ee's is waging an aggressive legal war against rival chains' mascots. From the WSJ:

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@Crypto_Estates @nomadgeist Or sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show.

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@dartinguphill @HySpDcHiKnFeeD2 Not shocked. Those backyard well pads are *packed*

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Thank a firefighter… #july4

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@EnragedMsFan Talk to me after we score fewer than 3 runs