Geoffrey Becker

[Jason Brodeur @jasonbrodeur]

What you pay at the pharmacy counter shouldn't be a mystery. I went after the middlemen who tried to take advantage of consumers, and I'll keep fighting to bring those costs down.

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Just heard Chris Pratt share this quote..."If the light that is on you is brighter than the light that is in you, the light that is on you will destroy you," by @ChristineCaine

Wonderful🙏🏼

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

@USPS Help me understand how to mail something from my mailbox. I have had two letters in my mailbox, with the flag raised since last Friday (2/27). I come by to check the mail each evening; the postal carrier leaves the letters in there and puts the mail on top of them. Advice?

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Yes, this is longer than most will want to watch, but my goodness, is this a powerful interview...

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

In December 2025, former US Senator @BenSasse announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That's the primary topic for this @UncKnowledge conversation about mortality, faith, and what truly matters when time is short.

Talking to host @P_M_Robinson, Sasse reflects on "redeeming the time"—holding ambition lightly, loving family more deliberately, and resisting the urge to make politics or professional success the center of life.

The discussion also covers Sasse's thoughts on the failures of Congress; the dangers of a fragmented, attention-starved republic; the crisis of higher education; and the moral challenges of technological abundance.

He speaks candidly and movingly about regret, forgiveness, prayer, and suffering—arguing that while death is a real enemy, it does not get the final word. Watch the full conversation on X:

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

🙏🏼✝️

[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

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

@PaulCharchian A great 🐊 WR as well

[Zack Roday @zackroday]

Incredibly smart by @SpeakerJohnson to have his team not only record this interview, but have an internal camera on him.

It's a damn shame this is now a necessary tactic Republicans need to utilize, but the media bias is out of control.

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Thank you @DJGroup for sharing this incredible story!
https://t.co/lNAUYjP8l5

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Awesome to see this news to help millions with hypertension!

[Fox News @FoxNews]

New blood pressure procedure is ‘game-changing’ for people with uncontrolled hypertension, say doctors https://t.co/YLtkJZBW0T

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

@MagicThomson12 @TheFunWest @DJGroup Amen to that. 🐊

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

@steveschale I walk right through it. It is plastic grass…it can take it.

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

This a great story about my Medtronic colleague and his family's journey with adoption and how impactful Medtronic's family and adoption policies can be.

https://t.co/TA5gKWba1N

[Florida Gators Baseball @GatorsBB]

No words.
No quit.
Just Champions.

#GoGators

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Just classic!🤣🤣

[Tennessee Titans @Titans]

We asked people on Broadway to help us with our 2023 schedule release. 🤣

📺: 2023 Schedule Release on @nflnetwork

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

@NASCAR 🤣

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Keeping up with the pack: Tracking stress in wolves

Great that @Medtronic can help wildlife too😊🐺
https://t.co/HcIAKJMo0l via @YouTube

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

Excited to see @Medtronic reaching out to patients with this therapy.
https://t.co/WLJuttABl6 via @YouTube

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

@JimmyPatronis Such a wonderful story!! Congratulations to you both!! 🎊🎉

[Geoffrey Becker @geoffreyb89]

How “deep dive” didn’t make this list is fascinating 🧐

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

The Top 10 Most Annoying Corporate Buzzwords & Phrases:
(via CV Maker)

1. Synergy
2. Outside the box
3. Take ownership
4. Value-added
5. Circle back
6. Reach out
7. Going Forward
8. Proactive
9. Takeaway
10. Make it happen