Chandler

Morningside ‘24

[Jaidyn Coon @CoonJaidyn32]

Thank you Lord for blessing me with an opportunity of a life time, I dreamed as a kid playing at the collegiate level. Lastly I wanna thank everyone who has supported me throughout this process! GO HAWKS🐤#committed

[Bri Lewerke @brilewerke]

This photo are you kidding me

WHO is the photographer @IowaHoops !!!

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

OPERATION EPIC FURY 🇺🇸

[Leader John Thune @LeaderJohnThune]

Best in the world and an inspiration to future generations of athletes around the country. 🇺🇸 🦅 🥇

[Mark Gronowski @mgronowski11]

Great to see Iowa still owns Nebraska!! #GoHawks

[Morningside University Basketball @MsideMBB]

Final‼️

With the 123-115 win over Concordia the Mustangs move to 16-1 in conference play and clinch the 2026 GPAC Regular Season title!

#ALLIN 🏆

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

This was a triumph of American military planning and execution. If, as appears, U.S. and Venezuelan casualties were minimal, then a bad guy has been captured by the good guys in a brazen, breathtaking raid.

[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

[Mike Lawler @lawler4ny]

This statement is wrong.

Regardless of one’s political views, no one should be subjected to violence, let alone at the hands of their own son. It’s a horrible tragedy that should engender sympathy and compassion from everyone in our country, period.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: Speaker Johnson says lawmakers should be able to own stocks.

[alexa @alexaaacameron]

The concept of Elaine’s freestyle being Andy’s best performance all season #DWTS

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

America First America Only!

[Rep. Clay Higgins @RepClayHiggins]

I have been a principled “NO” on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

We may have our finest entry to date of #CatturdVersusCatturd

[Great Plains Athletic Conference @GPACSports]

New @NAIA Football Poll!

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

America will never be the same.

[Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom]

Praying for Charlie Kirk. ❤️🙏

[Ashley Hinson @hinsonashley]

I’m all in. I’m running for the United States Senate to fight alongside President Trump and deliver on the America First agenda.

From securing our border and deporting illegal aliens, to keeping men out of girl’s sports and cutting taxes for working families, I will fight every day for Iowans and our conservative values.

President Trump is restoring the American Dream but our work isn’t over yet. The Left will do anything and everything to resurrect their out-of-touch agenda and dismantle our progress. As Iowa’s next Senator, I will stop at nothing to Make America Great!

[Cracker Barrel @CrackerBarrel]

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