Hendo

Living the dream one day at a time.

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

If I had to summarize the biggest difference between the America of today vs that of my childhood, it's that the country now feels like a perpetual array of fraud, grift, transactional scheming. Everyone is out to get a piece of the pie, no sense of a national story or vision.

[Jonathan Lucroy @JLucroy20]

Last week I made a tweet about Uribe and his actions on the field. I made a comment about the lack of veteran leadership in the Brewers clubhouse.

I want to make a public statement that I very clearly misspoke and was wrong for saying it the way I did.

Yeli and Woody are the leaders of that clubhouse. They are both legendary @Brewers players and represent themselves, the Brewers, and the community very well. They have had a ton of success, and are very respected amongst the players and the league as a whole.

I reached out to Murph, Yeli, and Woody and conveyed my apologies to them for disrespecting them. In no way did I mean for that to happen, however, I was clearly wrong and I did a terrible job at conveying my thoughts using the words I did.

Being a distraction to the team is the last thing I want to be. I want nothing but success and championships for this team, city, and the @Brewers organization.

I will be better and will clarify my words better moving forward.

I talk a lot about taking responsibility and having humility in the face of a mistake.
This was a mistake that I made and am making it right.

-Luc

[Vic Vela @VicVela1]

BREAKING: Renowned opera singer Enrico Palazzo has pulled out of the Great American State Fair.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Who else thinks everyone in government should have to pass the U.S. citizenship test first?

And every member of Congress should have to live on minimum wage for one month a year, no stock trading, no credit cards, and no access to their bank accounts.

Let's see how fast things change.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Alec Baldwin’s Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October (1990) is pitch-perfect: a desk-bound CIA analyst who wins with insight, not muscle. It’s the only adaptation that truly nails this aspect of Tom Clancy’s character.

[xyz @KeithELaughlin]

@atrupar This is the result when people who hate government try to use its levers as blunt instruments to push grievance-based complaints that do nothing to improve the lives of the American people. Stupid people with stupid ideas drain the energy needed to achieve something productive.

[Evan Drellich @EvanDrellich]

It's a huge deal — albeit expected — that MLB is proposing centralizing all local TV revenue as part of its salary-cap proposal.
https://t.co/T3LdIwAuvu

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It’s amazing. Chip Roy and John Cornyn both trump boot lickers, still thrown to the wolves.

You either have to be 100 percent committed to the cult, or you’re out. If you want to walk a line, you’ll get crushed.

But telling the truth and doing right will free your soul

[The Brew Crew Scoop @BrewCrewScoop]

Rake Bauers hit this so far that Craig Counsell may find it in his yard when he gets home to Whitefish Bay!

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Last year, David French received backlash for calling his trans-identified male colleague, “she.” In 2018, he’d written that calling a man by female pronouns is a lie he couldn’t participate in.

I asked him about this seeming change.

“Do you equate calling a man who identifies as a woman “he” as being unkind?”

French: “I don’t see the value in saying something that I know and they know is going to be hurtful to them. It’s just normal, complete politeness and manners.”

[Hendo @j_hendrickson]

@SamKuffelWx Thank you for posting! I just warned a relative in the area just in case they haven’t received the warning.

[Hendo @j_hendrickson]

@JayWeber3 My take is that Wisco derives from San Francisco’s nickname Frisco. In the documentary Decline Of Western Civilization, Lee Ving from the band Fear, during a live show, kept taunting the crowd with “We’re from Frisco!” that was men’t to be derogatory. Only thing I can think of.

[Hendo @j_hendrickson]

@AdamMcCalvy @DimTillard Tim taking one for the team! Kind of like the hat though.

[Hendo @j_hendrickson]

@LivingInThePas5 KQRS here in Minneapolis many years ago played “New Orleans Is Sinking”. I was instantly hooked and have been listening to them ever since. Their music never gets old. Greatest band IMHO.

[Darrin E. Knowles @DarrinKnowles1]

Somewhere in this ash is a soldier's name.

His DD-214. His discharge papers. Proof he served.

The 1973 NPRC fire didn't just destroy records. It erased the service of 17 million veterans — many of whom spent the rest of their lives unable to prove they were ever there.

[Luke Christensen @LukeChrisFFL]

NFL teams with the most player arrests since 2000🚨🚨

1. Vikings: 58
2. Broncos: 56
3. Bengals: 52
4. Chiefs: 41
4. Jaguars: 41
6. Browns: 40
7. Titans: 39
8. Buccaneers: 38
9. Colts: 36
10. Bears: 35
10. Seahawks: 35

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

⚠️ 100 mph wind, large hail, and tornadoes expected ⚠️

Midwesterners:

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Solventum cut the ribbon on a $200 million expansion today, home to Minnesota’s next chapter in manufacturing and innovation.

We’ve worked with them every step of the way - retaining thousands of jobs and ensuring we remain the best state in the nation for health care.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

There is something deeply unsettling happening inside parts of American Christianity.

And if we are honest, it did not start with Donald Trump. But it has become impossible to ignore in the Trump era.

A recent piece in The Atlantic from Peter Wehner, a former speechwriter for the administrations of three Republican U.S. presidents, captures this tension well. It argues that for many believers, politics is no longer shaped by faith. Increasingly, it is replacing it.

Christianity was never meant to be about power. It was meant to be about transformation. Jesus did not call His followers to win culture wars. He called them to carry a cross. He did not say, “Defeat your enemies.” He said, “Love your enemies.” He did not say, “Protect your tribe at all costs.” He said, “Whoever wants to save their life will lose it.”

And yet, what we increasingly see in some corners of modern Christianity looks very different. We see anger reframed as righteousness. We see cruelty justified as strength. We see loyalty to political figures elevated to something dangerously close to devotion.

What we are witnessing is a substitution of faith with politics, transformation with power. When faith becomes shallow, something else fills the vacuum. And politics is very good at doing that. Politics offers identity. It offers purpose. It offers belonging. It offers a clear line between “us” and “them.” In many ways, it offers everything religion offers — except transformation.

And that is the danger.

Because when politics becomes a substitute for faith, it does not make people more Christ-like. It makes them more tribal. It teaches them to win, not to love. To dominate, not to serve. To justify, not to repent.

And over time, something subtle but profound happens: Jesus is no longer the center. He becomes a symbol — used to defend something else.

To be clear, this is not about left vs right. It is not about whether Christians should engage in politics. They should.

But engagement is not the same as surrender. Christians are called to influence the world. Not be conformed by it. And when the language, tone, and spirit of politics begin to override the teachings of Christ, something has gone wrong.

Deeply wrong.

But here is the hopeful part.

This is not the end of the story. Throughout history, Christianity has gone through seasons where it drifted toward power, toward institutions, toward political alignment. And each time, renewal came. Not through louder politics. But through deeper faith. Through people who returned to the core: humility, repentance, sacrifice, love.

That path is still open. And maybe that is the real question for all of us: Are we following Jesus… or are we using His name to follow something else? Because those two paths may look similar at first. But they lead to very different destinations.