Thomas Kidd

Christian, attorney, defending the accused and fighting for justice in Middle America.

[Mark Pukita @mpukita]

DID YOU KNOW?

A group of investors led by BlackRock has agreed to buy AES Corporation — the parent company of AES Ohio, which sends power to over 500,000 Ohio homes and businesses. The deal is worth about $10.7 billion.

DID YOU KNOW?

The buyers aren't just BlackRock. The group includes EQT (a private equity firm), CalPERS (California's public pension fund), and the Qatar Investment Authority (a foreign sovereign wealth fund) — four investors with very different interests, all getting a piece of your power company.

DID YOU KNOW?

BlackRock and its partners also have major financial stakes in AI data centers — the same industry driving huge new electricity demand across Ohio. Owning the power company and having deep interests in the industry straining that power company is a potential conflict — one regulators are now being asked to look at.

DID YOU KNOW?

PJM is the organization that runs the regional power grid for Ohio and 12 other states. Its Independent Market Monitor — the official watchdog that keeps that grid's market honest — filed a formal objection with federal regulators, arguing BlackRock can't have it both ways: either be a hands-off investor, or take control of a power company. Not both.

DID YOU KNOW?

The watchdog isn't asking to kill the deal. They're asking for rules attached to it — including a safeguard against pulling existing power plants out of the regional grid to serve data centers instead of regular customers, which could raise prices for everyone else.

DID YOU KNOW?

Nothing's decided yet. FERC hasn't ruled, and Ohio's own utility regulator (PUCO) still has to weigh in too. Ohio Common Ground (OCG) believes that Ohioans should be paying attention before this deal closes.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

"Despite the mountain of evidence that females are far more left wing, there will be no books about the dangerous trend of radicalization among young women. There will be plenty of cable-news segments about how social media is poisoning young men. There will be endless concern about podcasts, gaming culture, online masculinity, and the political temptations facing disaffected boys."

Wrote this piece last week before the Lindsay Clancy debate blew up

Did not expect it to be so radically vindicated five days after publication

https://t.co/s26RVusLQL

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@PresbyPilgrim @james_d_baird Not NAPARC but CREC into ACNA?

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@DanielBurdine Agreed - I did not see this steep decline coming.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@IVMiles @bradleybirzer @PatrickDeneen Has this conversation actually happened? And if so, is there a link to the exchange?

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

There was no one like Eric the Red

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Eric Davis was once the best baseball player on this planet. Whether that was for a year, a month, two weeks, or a Tuesday afternoon in May of 1987, I was there and I testify it happened.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

The Classic Baseball Era Committee blew an opportunity to put him in the Hall of Fame in 2025. If Kaat and Sutton, why not Tommy John?

[New York Yankees @Yankees]

On this 78th Old-Timers’ Day, Tommy John shares a message to his fans, former teammates, and the Yankees organization as he battles health issues from his home in Bradenton, Florida.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@LanceMcAlister The Classic Baseball Era Committee blew an opportunity to put him in the Hall of Fame in 2025. If Kaat and Sutton, why not John?

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@Digitalliturgy And his podcast was consistently one of the best. I hope he keeps doing long-form interviews and releasing them as podcasts.

[The Reformed Classicalist @RefClassicalist]

Will be interesting to see if this gets an exception to the rule (and therefore gets some apology or at least feigned acknowledgement). The “rule,” for anyone still wondering at this late hour is that Christians on the right are, well, not genuine Christians. More than that, the overall cultural ethos is that those on the right are not to be regarded as human. The church that has chosen to be apolitical for so long has been largely naive to this, and so wastes great amounts of time and resources calling everyone to fair play. Trouble is, the spirit of the age is so named for a reason. It is deeply spiritual, personal, and religious. Irony of ironies—for the pietists who are always warning us of anti-gospels and idols of power—but so it is. And so no genuine fair play will be forthcoming.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@CharlesShort @aaron_renn As an additional point of evidence, I-74 is one of the easiest interstates to drive in the region.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@Nati_Sports We need innings and he’s a replacement level option for league minimum. No brainer for the Reds.

[Charlie Goldsmith @CharlieG__]

The Reds get stuck in the middle at the deadline.

https://t.co/g13RVLdZLf

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

Embarrassing.

[LanceMcAlister @LanceMcAlister]

Nick Krall has once again done the impossible.
He didn't improve the 2026 #Reds at the deadline.
He didn't improve the team for 2027 at the deadline.
But boy, he did get $250K in International Cap Space and a 19 year old pitcher he probably saw one day from his office in Spring Training.

[Austin Elmore @autyelmore]

Maybe Tyler Stephenson’s tears were because he knew he’d have to keep playing for this club. #Reds

[OnBaseMachine @RedsFan_Brandon]

The Cincinnati #Reds are the dumbest organization in Major League Baseball and it’s not particularly close.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

This may be unpopular, but we never escaped the 2008 financial crisis. We just shifted the pain.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@aaron_renn I will miss his podcast - one of the few that I listened to regularly.

[Thomas Kidd @ThWKidd]

@MESabo86 I have to believe there will be a high-profile independent candidate if Vance is the nominee - and I say that as one who supports Vance as nominee.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

Radicalism is the result of conservatism failing to conserve anything meaningful. That doesn’t make radicalism right, or the answer - but it is an understandable and inevitable response to the spinelessness of previous generations of conservatives.