Chris Boyd

Christ-follower, husband to @ssyochim, father, farmer, Product leader specializing in fintech, construction tech, and proptech

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

@901Lulu Time to find out who that judge was and get them removed

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

My mother-in-law had a pretty traumatic weekend and is recovering from a heart attack. Any prayer and support is greatly appreciated: https://t.co/dHmB7QAYar

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California is the breeding ground for voter fraud in America, as millions of people vote with no ID, month-long election processes, inaccurate voter rolls, dead people caught voting, even a dog successfully registered to vote, and voter verification is all based on your signature — not who you actually are.

In this video, I go to locations from California’s public voter rolls from the Secretary of State, and not a single location could verify the voter rolls.
- Irregularities in voter numbers per location
- 30+ people registered to one mail store
- Voters inaccurately aged at 125 years old

Without any voter ID and negligence from the state government to update their voter rolls, California’s one-party state has created a complex system where fraud is inevitable in their voting process. If you appreciate this video give it a like and share it around!

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

@douglaswils We mourn the loss here at Pilgrim Hill but praise God for His divine providence.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

“Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offense or from insults or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society.”

— Ann Widdecombe

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

@sentdefender Love your content. Disagree with your conclusion here.

[Nashville SC @NashvilleSC]

THE BOYS (W)IN GOLD 🏆

OUR FIRST TROPHY IN CLUB HISTORY

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

Heartbreaking.

[Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) @crechurches]

On behalf of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, I extend our deepest sorrow at the passing of Rev. Dr. Voddie Baucham.

Our brother was a faithful servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, who lived and proclaimed the Gospel with courage, conviction, and joy. He blessed many of our congregations with his fearless teaching on the centrality of Christ, the nurture of covenant families, and the glory of God’s grace.

We commend his soul into the everlasting arms of his Redeemer and pray that the God of all comfort would surround his wife and children with peace which surpasses all understanding. May the Lord grant to all who mourn the steadfast hope of the resurrection and the assurance that in Christ, death is swallowed up in victory.

Well done, good and faithful servant! Enter into the joy of your Master.

Presiding Minister of Council,
Rev. Dr. Uri Brito

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

UPDATES: Emergency services airlifted Charlie Kirk to a nearby hospital where he underwent emergency surgery.

Turning Point USA says his condition is critical but stable.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

@elonmusk Start a GoFundMe and we’ll support the heck out of it if we can see actual results.

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

Let's go!

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[JD™ @LostMyHats]

"MacArthur once stared at a prosperity preacher so hard their Rolex melted. He didn’t speak in tongues—Greek and Hebrew just naturally translated themselves in his presence. The U.S. Treasury once considered backing the dollar with MacArthur sermons. Calvinists used to argue about supralapsarianism—until MacArthur settled it by clearing his throat. When MacArthur did a mic check, demons fled entire zip codes. The fog machine at Grace Church quit in shame. When he walked into a Lifeway store, the Joel Osteen books self-combusted. The COVID virus avoided Grace Church out of respect. When he walked by a Baptist potluck, the jello salad repented. TSA made him empty their pockets. John Piper once tried to hug him (Piper is still recovering). Angels fact-checked their theology with his commentaries. Every time he said “biblically,” a megachurch lost its light show. You get the point.

The broader evangelical machine runs on cowardice, compromise, and Instagram filters. But John MacArthur ran on black coffee and the Book of Romans. While everyone else capitulated to the spirit of the age, he spat in its face and taught from Titus.

He wasn’t trendy. He didn’t pivot. He didn’t rebrand. If Christianity were a fashion show, he’d be the one guy in a full suit with a Bible the size of a car battery, calmly quoting Hebrews while the rest pranced around in skinny jeans apologizing for Leviticus.

And for decades, that made him the black sheep. But it also made him the standard."

Read more at Insight to Incite. Link in bio. Audio version available.

[Nashville SC @NashvilleSC]

𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 amazing night at GEODIS Park ✨

All 5️⃣ goals from tonight's win over D.C. United 📺

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

@haymes_joshua @IlhanMN I’d recommend leading with that 🙂

I’ll vote for a principled, Christian, God-fearing, third-generation American with a Hispanic or Australian or German (etc.) accent any day.

[Chris Boyd @_ChrisBoyd]

@haymes_joshua Then the basis of disqualification from your perspective shouldn’t be accent, it should be an objective indicator such as birth country (president must be natural born) or duration of citizenship.

All that said, @IlhanMN shouldn’t be in office.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Yesterday, I retired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, the @CDCgov external panel that wields the grave responsibility of adding new vaccines to the recommended childhood schedule. Over the coming days, I will use this platform to announce new members to populate ACIP. None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers. They will be highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense.

I will also be tweeting examples of the historical corruption at ACIP to help the public understand why this clean sweep was necessary.

The most outrageous example of ACIP’s malevolent malpractice has been its stubborn unwillingness to demand adequate safety trials before recommending new vaccines for our children. Today, a compliant American child receives between 69 and 92 routine vaccines (depending on brand/dictated dosage) from conception to 18 years of age. This is up from 11 shots in 1986. ACIP has recommended each of these additional jabs without requiring placebo-controlled trials for any of them. This means that no one can scientifically ascertain whether these products are averting more problems than they are causing.

Many vaccine promoters have challenged this assertion. They are always wrong. Last week, @CNN, which has devolved into a shameless propagandist for Big Pharma, triumphantly announced that it had proof that my pronouncement that “there have been no placebo-controlled safety trials for any routine vaccines” was false. CNN gleefully proclaimed that it had found 257 placebo-controlled studies for routine vaccines.

So, allow me a moment to deconstruct CNN’s claims. Warning: this post may only be sufferable for science geeks like myself.

CNN is wrong. No routine injected vaccine on CDC’s schedule was licensed for children based on a placebo-controlled trial. In instances where a vaccine was used as a control, it too was never licensed based on a placebo-controlled trial. That is not conjecture. It is a fact based on FDA’s clinical trial data. (See https://t.co/q1xAtVxJ4N). As Secretary of @HHSGov, acknowledging this lamentable truth is part of my promise of radical transparency.

The 257 studies cited by CNN unwittingly reflect the lack of safety trials underpinning CDC’s schedule. Despite CNN’s worldwide effort to crowdsource trials with a placebo control (per @US_FDA/@CDCgov, an “inert substance”*), this list, on its face, reflects that 236 of the studies clearly did not use an “inert” safety comparator in a trial to license an injected routine vaccine for children on CDC’s schedule.**

For the remaining 21 studies CNN’s list claims used an inert injection, 9 plainly did not:

• RCT 251, 252 (Varivax) injected an antibiotic, neomycin – not inert.
• RCT 84, 97 (HPV-16 and 16/18) injected aluminum adjuvant – not inert.
• RCT 215 (Almevax) injected another vaccine – not inert.
• RCT 55 (Lyophilized PedvaxHIB) injected lactose, aluminum adjuvant, and thimerosal – not inert.
• RCT 197 (Salk vaccine) injected 199 solution, synthetic tissue culture, ethanol, phenol red, antibiotics, and formalin – not inert.***
• RCT 168 (Dow’s MMR) injected full vaccine minus virus, including all stabilizers, antibiotics, diluent, preservative, and buffers – not inert.****
• RCT 189 (Menveo) injected Tdap+saline or Menveo+saline – not inert.

For the remaining 12 listed studies which may have had an inert injection, none was a trial relied upon to license a routine vaccine on CDC’s childhood schedule:

• RCT 170, 171, 172 (MMR VaxPro), 228 (PCV11), 136 (Vaxigrip), 242 (Antitetanus), and 122 (Chinese flu shots) trialed vaccines never licensed in the U.S. nor relied upon to license a U.S. vaccine.
• RCT 124 (Fluzone IIV3), 102 (WVV/SPV), and 188 (Menveo) trials occurred after each respective vaccine was licensed, hence were not relied upon for their licensure.
• RCT 176 (Mumps vaccine) was not relied upon by the FDA to license the current MMR vaccine. (See MMR-II clinical trial report in link above.)
• RCT 53 (PRP-D) was for a vaccine withdrawn soon after its introduction and not relied upon by the FDA to license any U.S. vaccine.

While these 12 studies were not relied upon to license a routine vaccine on the CDC’s schedule, they do reflect that a placebo-controlled trial of a vaccine is possible. They also reflect what can be learned when a placebo trial is performed. For example: RCT 136 found the vaccine ineffective; RCT 122 found that “severe adverse effects occurred in 69 (0·6%, 95% CI 0·5–0·8) recipients of vaccine compared with one recipient (0·1%, 0–0·2) of placebo.”; and RCT 124 found “the rate of hospitalization was actually higher in the [Fluzone IIV3] vaccine group than in the placebo group.”

The unfortunate reality is that placebo-controlled trials, however, do not occur and have not been relied upon when FDA licenses vaccines for injection during childhood or ACIP recommends the shot for addition to the CDC’s routine schedule.

CNN would have reached the same conclusion had it reviewed the FDA documentation for each vaccine, instead of relying upon a random, crowd-sourced list from the internet. CNN’s list ironically proves the lack of adequate safety trials for routine childhood vaccines.

It is time to stop playing games, such as CNN’s false gotcha. We have gone from 3 routine injections by age one in 1986 (the year the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed) to 25 routine injections by age one in 2025 (which now does not include Covid-19 vaccine). Because of the 1986 Act, every one of these products, save one, was developed by companies knowing they would almost never be liable for serious harm. During this same period, chronic diseases in our children exploded, most of which are caused by immune system dysregulation. If we are to identify the exposures that are causing this epidemic of autoimmune diseases, we need to rule out products given dozens of times to young children, specifically to modify the immune system, as potential culprits.

Our infants and children deserve the best safety trials possible to keep them safe. We should care as much about every child who could be injured by one of these products as we do every child who could be injured by an infectious disease. We must protect all children.

Notes:

* https://t.co/o6PtXJVxrv (“Placebos, defined as inert substances with no pharmacologic activity, are commonly used in double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trials.”); https://t.co/KwvrlZSkok (“the placebo control design, by … including a group that receives an inert treatment…”); https://t.co/8eJ0PNI5Mp (“Placebo: A substance or treatment that has no effect on living beings, usually used as a comparison to vaccine or medicine in clinical trials.”).

** While the above addresses injected vaccines, CNN’s cited list also includes 10 trials for rotavirus vaccine, given by oral drops, but none of these trials used saline only drops. Instead, RCT 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213 (Rotarix) contained dextran, sorbitol, amino acids, dulbecco’s modified eagle medium, calcium carbonate, and xanthan; RCT 211, 212 (RotaTeq) contained polysorbate 80, sucrose, citrate and phosphate; and RCT 206, 214 (Rotavac) included neomycin sulphate, kanamycin acid sulphate, trehalose, lactalbumin hydrolysate, human albumin, potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, dipotassium hydrogen orthophosphate, and trisodium citrate dihydrate. The list also included three trials of an inhaled flu vaccine; the controls in RCT 104 were OPV+saline or LAIV (a vaccine), hence neither inert; in RCT 106 the control “consisted of normal allantoic fluid harvested from uninfected eggs stabilized with sucrose–phosphate–glutamate”; and, in RCT 109, the control was “intranasal spray of egg allantoic fluid containing sucrose-phosphate-glutamate.”

*** Note that the current polio vaccines used in the U.S. are a different product than the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in the 1950s—which was discontinued in the 1960s—including because the currently-used polio vaccines are “grown in vero cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells cultivated on microcarriers.”

Hence, the Salk trial was not relied upon to license any current polio vaccine.

https://t.co/ko1RUVXSYi; https://t.co/FnwWUZulTF;
https://‌https://t.co/jWbEOEXKIG‌media/1222‌49/‌vero-cell-line-profile.pdf; https://t.co/dg7R93iqT2.

**** Dow Chemical’s MMR vaccine used different strains than any licensed U.S. MMR vaccine and also, after 14 days of safety review, this trial vaccinated all participants.