AJ Savini

a Canadian Football fan

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@Thogden San Marino have the same amount of Euros as Pengland to put this into context San Marino are more than 2,000 times smaller than Pengland and a population more than 1600 times smaller

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

The close relationship between the FIFA President and the US President has reached a financial dimension that is deeply damaging football. No one has the right to sell our game. #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump #FIFA #UEFA #USA #Sellout

[MaggieMay 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇮🇪 @CailinasEirinn]

@AndrewLawton @PierrePoilievre @CPC_HQ Are these some of your “bold solutions?”

Idiot.

[Preeti @MadridPreeti]

🚨 ABSOLUTE ROBBERY

MAC ALLISTER WITH THE MOST DEVIOUS HAND BALL AFTER THAT HORRIBLE TACKLE ON DANI OLMO BUT THE REFEREE STILL HASN'T GIVEN HIM A YELLOW CARD

ARGENTINA ARE PLAYING BASKETBALL AND MMA AND THE WORLD WATCHES SILENTLY 🤯

[zispoms @imzispoms]

Argentina play with such a level of thuggery that their baseline for a yellow is higher than nearly every team in the tournament. almost every tackle they're jumping onto the other man lmfao

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@PatoCanulli @HITCSevens Do you want a dollar so you can afford dinner tonight?

[george @StokeyyG2]

How Argentina have to play to receive a yellow card

[LINK 🐂🫎 @BullMooseLink]

Trump: Get that JEW Bibi on the phone and tell him the fairy Ayatollah is HIS problem

Vance: We just have to get to the midterms. We just have to get to the midterms. We just have to get to the midterms. We just h

Marco Rubio Subplot:

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@Canes @StanleyCup @NHL Trashy from the owner to disgrace the cup like that

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

🚨🚨| BREAKING: The White House made a 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 to FIFA's Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun's red card. 😳🇺🇸

FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision.

[@JacobsBen]

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

Fun fact none of the Canadian players are currently facing rape charges.

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@SoufianeSLH @usmntonly At least our captain isn’t a rapist

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@NOLINER1 @BigChun14541396 @JosipIIicic @fiago7 @Xabi_Era_ 💀💀💀

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@DS__LFC__ @meepmoophhh @51N1GHTH4WK @nocontextfm1 Bro the time differences are the same if the final is held in NY or Rio

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@SkaB8l How is Roma’s CL going this season?

[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

[Hudson Gaudreault @hudsongaudreaul]

The funniest thing during the whole vote?

It appears that Scheer and Reid waited outside the House during the vote just in case they had to abstain to ensure the vote passed.

Then, when it was clear that it would, they raced back in and claimed technical difficulties to get their Nays on the record.

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@iiiconnicc Hello

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@fordnation Fucking dumbass

[AJ Savini @aj_savini]

@dosveceseme @Pescedorto @TheCaanadianLad Shit is still more recent 😭