Bryan Winchell

English teacher/writer/podcaster. Likes: media, astrology, Bisco, humor, nature, politics, spirituality, personal growth.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

An all-time pitching performance by Jacob Misiorowski. He threw a one-hit Maddux and punched 15. The most in a >99-pitch shutout before was Tarik Skubal's 13. This is Miz finding out in real time what he can be. The velocity is mind-bending. All of it is.

[Nature Chapter @NatureChapter]

open a coconut for monkey 😂

[Bryan Winchell @nihonbryan]

@ryanhammer09 I’m an American who has lived in Japan for 22 years and every time I go back to the US, I go out for Mexican on my first night and mostly it’s because of the unlimited chips and salsa. Wherever you live, try not to take your local culture for granted.

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

When you don’t consciously feel your emotions, they get stored in your body.

When emotions are stored in the body and you check out of your body and live primarily in the head, you experience them unconsciously.

Those unconscious emotions become the force that guides your actions, thoughts, and behaviour.

Those unconscious emotions are the ammunition which will then explode on anyone who brings those feelings into consciousness.

People who are not aware of the ammunition they’re carrying are like loaded guns.

They are waiting to explode and/or project onto people who remind them of the baggage they are carrying in their own bodies.

If we want to bring peace to the world, we must first make peace with the unprocessed feelings we carry in our bodies.

When we consciously feel our emotions, we are less controlled by them.

When we are less controlled by our emotions, we bring sanity, reason, and consciousness to this world.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species.

It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence.

Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance.

These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above.

If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does.

This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it.

@brownstoneinst

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[Bryan Winchell @nihonbryan]

@Marc_Brownstein Love this! And I see it, too.

Just out of curiosity, what’s the most transcendental venue you’ve played in? The place where the setting, along with your music and the vibe of the audience took you to another place beyond?

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

This is Ami Inamura. She’s is a Japanese sportscaster, television personality, and model. She threw the most beautiful ceremonial first pitch I’ve ever seen and it even clocked at 64 MPH. Completely fool the batter.

Legit serious when I say this will be the best thing you’ll see today.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Note that the UK Government just banned entry of two American citizens -- @cenkuygur and @hasanthehun -- not because they criticized or worked against the interests of the UK.

It was solely because they criticize and oppose the one country deemed sacred and off-limits in the UK and so many other wester countires: Israel.

The UK under Labour is also regularly arresting its own citizens for peacefully protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza (including old British ladies and countless Jewish activists at these protests, though they remain free to protest *in favor* of Israel or against any other country).

This is all driven by the same dynamic that caused the Trump Admin -- as one of its very earliest top priorities last year -- to force US universities to expel American students protesting Israel, to deport others who merely criticized Israel, and to implement aggressive speech codes to protect Israel from common criticisms (even though one is free to say all the same things about any other country, including the US).

Why does this one small country command such special, elevated, supreme status and attention in so many western countries? It's way past time to give that question the attention it deserves and to finally put and end to it.

[Math Files @Math_files]

On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper called 73 the best number. It sounds like a joke — but the math behind it is surprisingly beautiful.

First, 73 is a prime number. But it also holds a special spot in the list of primes. If you count them one by one, 73 turns out to be the 21st prime number. Now flip the digits of 73 and you get 37 which is the 12th prime number (21 reversed becomes 12).

Second, take the number 21 and factor it: 21 = 7 × 3. Those are the exact digits that make 73.

And finally, write 73 in binary (the language computers use): 1001001. Read it left to right or right to left — it’s the same. That makes it a binary palindrome.

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

These mothers do the simple act of laying their heads down on their baby’s lap.

Look at all those babies and how they react. 🥹

Just goes to show you that children only know love, hate is taught.

I miss my littles. I miss my babies. My son is a grown man and taller than me now and my daughter will soon graduate high school.

Don’t we all miss our babies? Does this feeling come back when you become a grandparent?

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

According to Trump supporters George Soros’ money moves mountains but the idea that Miriam Adleson’s does too is an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

🇦🇷 Peter Thiel has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina, purchased a $12 million mansion in one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive neighborhoods, and enrolled his children in local schools.

🇺🇸 When a state like California starts introducing a wealth tax, it is not because politicians are socialist or stupid.

It’s because they want to drive out the wealthy on purpose and reduce the tax base, deliberately asset-stripping the state for private institutional ownership that can use the tax code to secure exemptions and advantages.

It’s not because politicians are stupid.

It’s not because they are radical left-wing communists.

That’s the narrative that keeps you locked into the belief that the left has the back of the poor, while the right gets to point at the left when the state goes to shit.

It’s because the state is being acquired by the financial-industrial complex, and the resulting civil unrest serves the private prison sector of the military-industrial complex.

At the same time, they install a police and surveillance system that benefits the technological-industrial complex powered by Palantir.

The same one Peter Thiel works for.

It’s a business model.

Anywhere you see a wealth tax, it’s an end-game asset-stripping exercise that gives more power to the wealthy, not less.

They are not coming after billionaires.

They are transferring wealth to billionaires.

By design.

ALL POLITICIANS WORK FOR THEIR CORPORATE LOBBIES.

Stop believing in left-versus-right politics.

It’s a distraction from the reality that you vote with your money.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

The idea that this guy is being treated as an authority on Christianity is just absurd. He is re-framing what it means to be Christian for his own ends, and it should be obvious.

This guy worked directly with the CIA and an Iran-Contra criminal to privatize the most Orwellian Bush-era surveillance proposal, creating Palantir in the process, wants to tear down representative government and replace it with a private company run by a CEO/dictator, promotes borgifying humanity and frames it as necessary, and funds and helped create numerous companies that help commit genocide and blow children to smithereens. He embodies the opposite of what are ostensibly Christian values. Let him redefine what it means to be "Christian" at your own risk.

Also, no one would even consider calling this guy "Christian," let alone an authority on it, a few decades ago. But now the PayPal mafia bros largely control the digital realms that now dominate public discourse and have successful bought up a legion of podcasters/influencers, so they can make a large segment of the public believe whatever they want I guess.

In today's world, Emperor Palpatine could also probably successfully frame himself as a well-meaning authority on who and who isn't a baddie.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

We just said goodbye to our good friends Thomas and Carolyn Massie.

The civil war in the Republican Party is successfully gutting the true America Firsters, like myself, Thomas and others.

But I don’t think most Americans realize the extent of what’s happening, how bad it is, and what it’s going to produce.

After taking the hard principled stand against war with Iran in June 2025 and releasing the Epstein files, the neocon controlled Republican establishment now backed by the President set out to destroy us.

Thomas and I took two different routes but ended up in the same place, which delivered a message to our colleagues to never go against the President even on issues he himself promised to do and at the same time delivered the louder stronger message to the American people that no matter what they say on tv, rally stages, committee hearings, campaign ads, or stump speeches, Republicans and Trump have overwhelmingly rejected America First and will do anything possible to cut the head off of anyone who tries to fly its banner.

The extent and extremes to which they have gone should shock everyone.

For me, I was Trump’s loudest champion for years supporting him when no one else would, voting with him 98% of the time, and he called me a traitor for releasing the Epstein files, refusing to support war with Iran, and fighting against the White House’s bad policies that only serve their donors like a 10 year moratorium on state rights to regulate and make laws on AI and data centers.

And yet my perfect conservative voting record, legislative accomplishments like the House passing my articles of impeachment of Biden’s DHS Secretary that oversaw the invasion of our country, passing my bill making it a felony to trans children under 18, my work as DOGE Chair defunding waste fraud and abuse and so much more, suddenly meant nothing to low educated Republicans that are easily manipulated by bot armies and bought and paid for social media influencers that spread absurd lies about me.

After supporting the Republican Party by paying all of my dues to the NRCC every Congress, endorsing and campaigning for Republican candidates, and spending millions and traveling the country to get Trump elected, to be called a traitor and not a single Republican (even the ones I helped get elected like JD Vance and others) not to utter a word of public support for me, it became abundantly clear that the Republican Party is something I can no longer support and want nothing to do with.

None of my policy views have changed, but everything changed about the man I supported to be president and the party I supported to gain the majority.

They are all under full capture and control.

And if you refuse to be captured and controlled with them, then their captors will set out to kill you, and the party sits in silence while it happens.

What they just did to Thomas Massie is unforgivable. I saw it all coming early, had just watched my friend Charlie Kirk assassinated, and knew they were going to do all of it and probably worse to me too, so I refused to allow it to happen to me, my family, and my district, so I resigned.

But Thomas stayed in the fight and they slaughtered him with tens of millions of foreign donor dollars that fueled lies, slander, character assassination, and even broke their own laws to do it.

They told lies to Kentucky’s 4th district that Massie had turned into a liberal Democrat, voting for Democrat policies, and even made vicious lying illegal AI ads showing him in a sexual relationship with AOC and Ilhan Omar.

Even though ALL of it was horrific lies proven wrong with his own 14 year impeccable America First liberty driven voting record, naive older voters in his district were easily fooled by the AIPAC and Israel funded campaign lies, and voted for a new candidate who refused every single debate with Thomas Massie and has no voting record to prove what he stands for at all.

The capture is complete.

What will you do about it?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Had I not terminated the Iran Deal and then started a new war against Iran with my manager in Tel Aviv, then Iran by now would have a nuclear weapon and a military base on Mars and hypnosis machines and they would have nuked Israel and ruled the world through mind control.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Nothing to see here, just Israel live streaming its war crimes.

[Bryan Winchell @nihonbryan]

@MarineLayerPod As I was watching this, I thought “clear communication problem,” so your final analysis is on the nose. They need to sit down with both players and talk AND listen. Then, out of that, make a plan ALL can agree on. Not that hard!

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The main road to Nabatieh, Lebanon

[Bryan Winchell @nihonbryan]

@tedcruz Sucks to be seen for the fraud you are, eh, Ted?