The @American_Heart association says that cooling ingredients in e-cigarettes can lead to sudden cardiac arrest (from mouse & cell studies). Without a single human case (despite 20 years of vaping and 124M current vapers), they publish this speculative at best claim to scare people, including smokers who would have otherwise quit by vaping. Nowhere in this article does the AHA bother to compare the known cardiovascular risks of smoking (25% of all CVD deaths) with this theoretical risk from vaping. newsroom.heart.org/news/can-…

Important but troubling new reporting from @gbentley1. Through records requests, he found that 13 Massachusetts municipalities are using state-funded programs to lobby for generational nicotine (not just tobacco) bans. reason.com/2026/06/11/find-s…

Trump is constantly reporting imaginary conversations happening in his head as though they are real.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents kidnapped a U.S. citizen, while he was grabbing coffee, in Maryland. Samuel Guzmán repeatedly told agents he was born in the United States. He even offered to show his ID… and they didn’t believe him. Instead, they took his phone, wallet, and keys, shoved him in their car, illegally transported him to another location, questioned him about where he was “really” from, for 2 hours, and refused to let him call anyone. Then, once they realized he was a U.S. citizen… they let him go without explaining why he was detained. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation. And the Equal Protection principles mean the government can’t target people simply because of their race, ethnicity, or the language they speak. If you’re okay with constitutional rights disappearing the moment someone has the wrong last name, or skin color… You were never defending law and order.

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts. I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me: There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States. The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud. This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal: A presidential commission under President Donald Trump. The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena. Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government. State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud. Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems. Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud. Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud. What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud? Ask The Heritage Foundation. For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.” The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.” It covers elections going back nearly fifty years. That’s billions and billions of American votes. Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is: 1620. That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things: 1. Some individuals commit election fraud. 2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA. The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time. It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that. Stop trying to subvert our democracy. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Six weeks ago I told you they were coming for Big Bend. Yesterday a court cleared the way for border wall construction in the Big Bend National Park region. Here's what makes this so enraging: Big Bend National Park is one of the quietest stretches of the entire southern border. In FY2025, the Big Bend sector recorded just 3,096 apprehensions — 1.3% of all crossings nationwide. Border encounters there have dropped 74% since 2023. The land is remote, rugged, and brutal. It has always been its own deterrent. And yet — a 30-foot steel wall is coming anyway. What that wall will actually do: fragment critical habitat for black bears, mountain lions, and the endangered black-capped vireo. Sever one of the last wildlife corridors connecting the U.S. and Mexican Chihuahuan Desert — an ecosystem that doesn't recognize borders. Block the natural movement of over 450 bird species that pass through Big Bend. Flood one of the darkest night skies in North America with construction lights. Slice through 100 miles of the Wild and Scenic Rio Grande. To stop 1.3% of border crossings. On land that was already stopping them on its own. The administration has now waived the Endangered Species Act, the National Park Service Organic Act, and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act — all at once — to make this happen. The first time in U.S. history any of that has been done inside a national park. They awarded $4.3 billion in contracts. Steel bollards are already on the ground near Van Horn. Construction starts this summer. Who do YOU think this wall is actually for? #DemsUnited

Exactly what the Taliban did to ancient monuments in Afghanistan. I'm not shocked.

An international group of public health experts, researchers, and consumer advocates is calling on nicotine consumers across Europe to make their voices heard. snusforumet.se/en/tpd3-consu…

🔎 Audio of today's 5th Circuit oral argument in Triton v. FDA (on remand from SCOTUS), including our rough transcript of the session. 1/ 👀 theavm.org/5th-circuit-6-9-2…

The admin has now awarded $4.3 billion dollars to build border barriers through Big Bend National Park & the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River. That's enough money to fund the entire National Park Service—all 433 units & 20,000 staff—for almost two years. But instead, we're gutting funding for America's most popular & trusted government agency (NPS) & handing billions of dollars to contractors so they can permanently scar one of our crown-jewel national parks.

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids. Richardson lives in N.C. He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/a…

"Exclusive vaping in pregnancy was not associated with reduced birth weight, gestational age, prematurity rates, stillbirth, or fetal abnormality. Low birth weights and pre-term birth rates were only associated with women who smoked. Dual use..."

Once again, the obsession with manliness is and has always been insecurity. These men are pussies

Esto va contigo. La UE decide sobre los productos de nicotina de riesgo reducido y puedes influir. Tienes hasta el 15 de junio. 🧵👇 ec.europa.eu/info/law/better…

Link here: youtube.com/watch?v=wnoZczaq…

What percentage of US High School students do you believe were using e-cigarettes or nicotine pouches or cigarettes regularly (20 or more out of the past 30 days) in 2025? Guess for each one then look at the graph below for the actual percentages. tobaccocrst.org/data-briefs

You decided to do better. The government decided to charge you extra for it. 14 states tax nicotine pouches higher than cigarettes, including some at 95% of wholesale price. You're not being protected. You're being punished for trying to do better. Nobody sat you down and explained this. No letter. No warning. No vote. They just made cigarettes the cheaper choice. Quietly. Take a look at US Pouch Accessibility Index 2026: consumerchoicecenter.org/us-…

The notion that Makary resigned over the vaping policy is laughable. He was pushed out. Full stop. Anything saying otherwise is pure spin by his allies.

With FDA's Marty Makary resigning as FDA Commissioner, I wanted to share a few thoughts that I wrote about last night for AgencyIQ. 👇 - Acting Commissioner Kyle Diamantas is likely to remain in the position for quite a while. The logistics of getting a new commissioner confirmed prior to the midterms is daunting, and that's before you consider Senate politics. I can't imagine Bill Cassidy or Josh Hawley making the confirmation process easy for the next commissioner. - I suspect other officials in an acting capacity, like CBER's Katherine Szarama and CDER's Tracy Beth Hoeg, are likewise going to stick around in their current positions until a new commissioner is named (unless HHS's Chris Klomp steps in, that is). - I suspect most of the reforms that Makary enacted are likely to stick around, though they will probably be tightened up. There were lots of policies that were great in principle and deeply imperfect in execution and follow-through. - The big thing to watch is what happens to areas where Makary was leading reforms, but those reforms hadn't yet been announced. Nonprescription drug reforms are a good example: Makary wanted practically everything to be OTC. What happens to that? What about a rule to effectively ban DTC drug advertising? - What kind of leader is Diamantas? He's been a very effective foods leader (by which I mean focused, on-message, meets with stakeholders, etc). But the move from foods to leadership means he's going to need to handle some tough issues, including an upcoming decision by SCOTUS on mifepristone. He's already a Senior Counselor at HHS, meaning he might need to take a step back from his food portfolio in the coming months and lean more on other senior foods leaders. - The job of most acting commissioners is simple: Don't make bad headlines, don't rock the boat, and don't piss off stakeholders. That's going to be quite difficult for Diamantas due to the sheer number of issues facing the agency right now. He isn't exactly inheriting a stable agency with lots of experienced, tenured senior leaders. I suspect he's going to lean a lot on HHS Chief Counsel Chris Klomp for assistance and guidance in the coming months, which could include figuring out where he needs to clean house of some ineffective hires by Makary. - Who will be the next FDA commissioner? With the exception of Scott Gottlieb, Trump has a streak of hiring nonconventional commissioners. Both Stephen Hahn and Makary weren't active in FDA policy circles before they were selected. The question becomes whether Trump decides that was a mistake. It seems like the MAHA wing of Trump's coalition is losing political power, so perhaps we'll see a selection that is more conventional. Because Diamantas is a lawyer and not a medical doctor, I don't think he would have an easy path to Senate confirmation. - What are the narratives about why Makary left, and what takes hold? At present, there are a lot of stakeholder groups trying to argue that Makary was forced out due to mifepristone/tobacco/rare diseases/pharma/etc. While those arguments tend to do well on X, my best explanation is that Makary just wasn't a good executive in the managerial sense. (1) He didn't come to the job with management experience and wasn't a great manager of people or processes. (2) He frequently got in trouble with senior HHS and White House officials for things that should never have been problems in the first place; (3) His choice of senior executives in his orbit resulted in unrelenting bad headlines and he burned a lot of goodwill and political capital defending them; (4) his management of stakeholder relationships both inside of and outside of the FDA was not particularly good for the bulk of his tenure; and (5) he spent a *lot* of time appearing on podcasts and media, feeding perceptions that he wasn't actively involved in day-to-day management of his agency. - It seems likely that other senior officials at FDA will leave soon as well. Every FDA Commissioner has legions of senior advisors and executive hires brought in to help fulfill their mission. I don't know exactly who will be leaving, but I would bet that more than a few of them are updating their resumes this evening. I wouldn't expect FDA Chief of Staff Jim Traficant to stay in his position, for example, and Sanjula Jain-Nagpal and Acting Chief Medical Officer Mallika Mundkur might also be on the way out. (Pure speculation on my part, however.)

FDA Commissioner Martin Makary has been forced to resign, following a clash with the White House over vaping regulation and numerous other issues. vaping360.com/vape-news/fda-…