Jim McDonald

Smokers invented vaping and deserve harm reduction on their own terms. Anti-drug war. Pro-immigration. AI sucks.

[ProPublica @propublica]

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[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

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.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

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 https://t.co/TqCGHGEQ1U

[Jim McDonald @whycherrywhy]

Vote Republican or the poisoned vets die -- interesting election strategy.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

[Jim McDonald @whycherrywhy]

@MichiganHHS Vaping does not cause COPD or cancer—and you know that.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 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.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

This man ran on releasing the Epstein files and now pretends anyone who cares about the issue must not be a real American.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

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.

[Jim McDonald @whycherrywhy]

@aribindi The responses to your common-sense post offer a nice cross section of people’s ridiculous beliefs about vaping.

[European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates @europethra]

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

https://t.co/g8m2tjgG2G

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

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. https://t.co/Do5mmc1YZR

[Jim McDonald @whycherrywhy]

@sound_hockey That’s not what a Bronx cheer is. Look it up.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

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.

[Arielle Selya @ArielleSelya]

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.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

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. https://t.co/UzdiZ2r6Gu

[Jim McDonald @whycherrywhy]

@NannyFreeState From 2019.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

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.

[NNAlliance @NNAlliance]

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. https://t.co/L73SIG6F07

[Jacob Sullum @jacobsullum]

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. https://t.co/l4K7cPSvgp

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

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/