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Newton Kendrick retweeted
Logan Webb threw 38 innings this month
He allowed just three earned runs
He’s just the third Giants pitcher in the live ball era (1920) to throw that many innings and allow that few earned runs in a calendar month, joining:
Aug 2005 Noah Lowry
July 1933 Carl Hubbell
h/t @J_Kirshenbaum q!!
Newton Kendrick retweeted
Justice has been served. From the beginning, this was the most obvious violation of Virginia’s Constitution. Abigail Spanberger and Democrats in Richmond knowingly violated our constitution to disenfranchise millions of Virginians.
The Constitution prevailed, and Virginians will never forget this unlawful attempt to rob them of their voice in Congress.
“This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void. For this reason, the congressional district maps issued by this Court in 2021 pursuant to Article II, Section 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia remain the governing maps for the upcoming 2026 congressional elections.”
Newton Kendrick retweeted
It’s simple.
STOP letting your team hijack another creator’s content to monetize it on your behalf @bennyjohnson with no credit.
A lot of hard work and $$$ goes into producing our investigations and reports.
Two hours after your post and being called out, your team replies “great interview,” but we all know the damage is done.
I don’t usually speak out so publicly, but I can’t stand by while independent journalists and creators, like my team, suffer because some accounts wont show common courtesy and respect.
BTW A quote tweet is less work.
Creators should support each other.
Cc: @nikitabier
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Newton Kendrick retweeted
I have a favor to ask.
If my work helped you, or someone you know, please follow my biographer and good friend @joelpollak and leave a comment here in case he wants to follow up with you on DMs.
It gives me great joy to learn about any contribution I made.
I tried to be useful.
Newton Kendrick retweeted
What are you giving away about yourself?
Avinatan Or survived Hamas custody because no one leaked that he was in Israel’s elite Sayeret Matkal unit. Let that be a lesson.
Pause before you post.
Ask: Does this reveal location, timing, or someone’s identity?
Delay public posts about travel.
Strip location metadata (EXIF) from photos. Turn off automatic location tagging in your camera and remove EXIF before posting. Use built‑in app options or a metadata‑removal tool.
Turn off background location for apps. Only give location access when the app needs it right now.
Tighten social privacy settings & audit friends. Lock accounts to friends only, remove people you don’t know, and audit groups/pages that reveal affiliation.
Limit what’s in your bio. Don’t list unit names, precise job titles, or base/home locations. Keep bios minimal and generic.
Be stingy with photos. Avoid photos that show uniforms, insignia, maps, unit vehicles, or inside homes/vehicles with identifiable features. Blur or crop backgrounds.
Use unique emails and phone numbers by context. Separate personal, public, and work contacts. Use burner numbers/aliases for signups you don’t trust.
Use a password manager and turn on multi‑factor authentication everywhere.
Keep devices updated & encrypted. Enable full‑disk encryption, auto OS updates, and a strong lock screen (PIN/biometric).
Be careful on public Wi‑Fi / Bluetooth. Turn off auto‑connect and file sharing when on unfamiliar networks; use a reputable VPN for added protection.
Limit automatic cloud backups for sensitive content. Decide whether certain photos/documents should ever be in cloud sync. If not, keep them off cloud services.
Compartmentalize accounts. Keep separate accounts for friends/family, public life, work, and sensitive contacts.
Train your circle. Tell friends and family not to tag or publicly post about your movements or affiliations. One leak from someone else defeats your precautions.
Review app permissions monthly. Remove apps you don’t use and revoke permissions that aren’t necessary.
When you must communicate sensitive info, use end‑to‑end encryption, but assume all screens can and will be photographed. Keep sensitive details off chat when possible.
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Newton Kendrick retweeted
I’m going to @Mike_Taylor1972’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? teapaw.org/i/spaces/1yNGaLenarNKj
Newton Kendrick retweeted
Some of you know the United States has been funding the Taliban 40-87 million dollars a week for years. I’ve brought this to light several years ago through some of the guests in the show.
@sarahadams @AhmadMassoud @RooftopLeader @realLegendAfg
We drafted a petition that now has well over 400,000 signatures in it to stop the government from funding the Taliban.
@RepTimBurchett spear headed this bill and has brought it across the finish line in the house. It was a hell of a fight but you got it done brother! I’m proud to know you.
Now off to the senate.
I am so proud that after years of work, my “No Tax Dollars for Terrorists” bill successfully PASSED the House of Representatives.
Thank you to @ShawnRyan762 and @realLegendAfg for helping get this bill passed.
Newton Kendrick retweeted
H/t to @gnoble79 for setting this up
I’m going to @Mike_Taylor1972’s upcoming Space. Will you join too? teapaw.org/i/spaces/1yNGaLenarNKj
Newton Kendrick retweeted
Many critical thinkers came to the conclusion that the “Proximal Origin” paper was BS government cover up by as early as summer of 2020. Glad the mainstream (as per NYT oped) is somewhat finally trying to deal with that grand scale lie and cover up five years later.
Now let’s deal with the bigger shoe still to drop, so we can actually move on. Even in the NYT piece this weekend, they still say things like “the pandemic that caused so much damage.”
No, the damage to society could have been much less if people were left to solve problems locally, with a strong local public health infrastructure not overpowered with top down bureaucracy and central government mandated disinformation — and actual scientific debate and local action plans led by local doctors, nurses and care facilities innovating and reacting, then spreading best practices and emergent information from bottom up (ie free speech and free markets solving problems).
Instead, many authoritarian, incompetent top-down central response plans focused on propaganda, virtue signaling, gas lighting, fear and security theatre, and shaming actual science when it didn’t fit their power-optimizing narratives.
It is wasn’t the virus that caused so much damage to our lives (like the permanent alteration of my teenage son’s education course), but the central planning committees and their media propaganda and power grabs because of the “opportunity” it created for them to exercise power (and rent seeking).
The answer to an over-powerful central government (not just occasionally prone to engineering large scale unintended consequences, but inevitably incentivized to do so through the gravity of emergency powers and rent seeking) is to everywhere and always create seperation of powers to incentivize more localization and decentralized governance.
People are smart and resilient, unlike how the central governments and media treated us during that time. Re-localizing is what we actually need to deal with so that we can rebuild trust in institutional structures and move on.
Newton Kendrick retweeted
DEI is done at UVA. Today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted for commonsense saying NO to illegal discrimination and YES to merit-based opportunity. Students at Mr. Jefferson’s University—and across America—deserve unlimited intellectual freedom, not ideological gatekeeping.
Newton Kendrick retweeted
Thomas is absolutely right. This situation is insane. Republicans could stop wasteful or fraudulent USAID funding right now, but instead they’re simply going to fund it all again NEXT WEEK and hope you don’t notice or don’t care.
Newton Kendrick retweeted
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.
In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.
The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.
Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.
The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were “key hidden actors behind a plan” by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.
In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP’s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.” NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.
However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast “after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project.”
On December 16, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. “NDR, Germany’s public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding — b/c no report was ever produced to kill,” said Grim. “That was absurd — and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it.”
The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP’s original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, “Drew’s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,” referring to Sullivan. “If people who are going to give you information think you’re just a cop, maybe it’s a problem.”
OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.”
As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way.
OCCRP threatened to file a lawsuit against Public in response to questions we sent. “The premise of your article is factually false and defamatory,” wrote Miranda Patrucic, the Editor in Chief of OCCRP, over email. “The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that.”
But neither OCCRP nor anyone else disproved Drop Site’s allegations and Drop Site stands by them. And the evidence does not support OCCRP’s claim of journalistic independence....
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Newton Kendrick retweeted
Just fyi, @deepseek_ai collects your IP, keystroke patterns, device info, etc etc, and stores it in China, where all that data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the 🇨🇳 State.
From their own privacy policy:
Newton Kendrick retweeted
Let's talk for a minute about what the last FDA commissioner accomplished
He said misinformation was the leading cause of death, and it's cardiovascular disease, which you would think he would know, because he's a cardiologist.
He authorized the use of half a dozen boosters without running a single randomized trial powered for clinical outcomes, but on his way out said we should consider doing that. Why didn't you do it when you had the chance?
He approved a dozen cancer drugs that don't improve overall survival
In one case, sotorasib, the confirmatory trial was negative, so FDA had a duty withdraw the product, but it did not, it allows a second confirmatory trial. Thing about statistics is if you keep getting to try when you fail, but stop when you win, you inflate the p-value to basically 1.0.
The FDA commissioner recommended antivirals for covid saying they reduced the risk of long covid. This is a claim that specifically not granted by FDA.
The FDA did nothing to reduce the unnecessary animal studies that are done for drug products. These harm thousands of animals, but provide little guarantee of human outcomes.
The FDA took nearly no action on toxins in our food until the penultimate hour when they removed red dye number 3 because they knew RFK was going to do it
The FDA did not make it easier to approve generic drugs, that was done under Trump
The FDA did nothing to speed gene therapy, other than talk about how they will use uncontrolled endpoints. But we want to speed effective gene therapy, not ineffective gene therapy. The FDA had no solution for that.
The FDA took no action to stop the number of staff who go to work for the pharmaceutical industry immediately after departing. This revolving door is the core rot of the system.
It's really important to remember that most people who hold these positions are just doing it for themselves. They have no broader philosophy of regulatory science. They have no understanding of when randomized trials are needed and when they can be omitted. They are just doing this to add to their CV so that when they leave they can go to work and and consult for these companies.
Every cycle there's so much handwringing about who the nominee is. But the worst nominee is someone with no record of saying anything of substance in their entire career. Which is nearly every Biden nominee. They go on to do nothing of value, nothing to improve the American healthcare system, nothing to slow the rise of drug price, nothing too speed efficiency, literally nothing of value. Then they go off to collect a paycheck. The worst nominee is someone who you can't fact check because they never said anything of substance. I'm happy to do a post like this for every single post in healthcare in the last administration. As far as I can tell, they accomplished literally nothing of value. The FDA commissioner was particularly poor because he bungled some things beyond not improving.
Newton Kendrick retweeted
FLASHBACK: Chuck Schumer on Trump potentially issuing preemptive pardons:
“That would be a gross abuse of the presidential pardon authority”
Any comment on Biden’s preemptive pardons @SenSchumer?
Newton Kendrick retweeted
Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her department will start taking special accounting maneuvers as of Jan. 21 to avoid breaching the US debt limit: Here’s your Evening Briefing trib.al/usevtM2