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

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The U.S. Postal Service has reduced mail pickup at some local facilities, which could affect when your ballot is postmarked. To find out whether your ZIP code is affected, use our lookup tool: buff.ly/KCPFq7T
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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…
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Vote Republican or the poisoned vets die -- interesting election strategy.
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."
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🎯 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.
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This man ran on releasing the Epstein files and now pretends anyone who cares about the issue must not be a real American.
wow -- a protester directly behind Vance gets up and yells "release the Epstein files!" Vance suggest he's an illegal immigrant.
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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!
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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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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/…
Replying to @chrismartenson
If you could, is there a good tl;dr version of why the hell oil isn´t at $200 already? Not keeping up with the day to day any longer, but given the number of moving parts currently obfuscating the view, a better vantage point would be much appreciated. 🫣
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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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Jim McDonald retweeted
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.
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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/…
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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
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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/
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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.
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Fantastic commentary by Jessica Shortall and Chelsea Boyd via @RSI: rstreet.org/commentary/safer…
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"Good public policy begins with the world as it actually exists — and reaching out a supportive hand instead of a wagging finger." Via @thehill thehill.com/opinion/campaign…
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