Jay Benson

Jesus Follower, Father, Husband, Twins fan

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

"This happened last Monday at Cedar Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon.

Tyler Brooks, 29, is serving year five of a seven-year sentence. His eight-year-old Golden Retriever, Moose, had been with him for three years before he went in. His sister took Moose, then moved overseas for work. Moose went to Tyler's parents - until his dad got sick and they couldn't care for him anymore. Moose ended up in a shelter.

Prison chaplain Ryan discovered Moose was still there through a volunteer program and arranged this visit through the facility's rehabilitation initiative.

Security footage shows Tyler at the metal table, hands shaking, barely breathing. The door opens. Moose stops, stares, doesn't move. Tyler drops to his knees on the concrete: "Moose. It's me." Moose's tail starts wagging - then he runs full sprint, crashing into Tyler. Both go down. Tyler sobs, burying his face in Moose's fur while Moose frantically licks his face, checking every inch of him.

"Tyler's been a model inmate for five years," Chaplain Ryan told us. "Finding out his dog was still waiting destroyed him and gave him hope at the same time."

"Five years. I thought he'd forgotten me," Tyler said through tears. "But the second he saw me, it was like I never left. He still loves me."

The shelter is holding Moose until Tyler's release in eight months. His sister is flying back from overseas to foster Moose until then.

Sometimes a dog's loyalty has four legs and never stopped waiting for you to come home.

[CatBee @Catbendzick]

Amy Klobuchar served on the Senate Agriculture Committee for 19 YEARS — the committee that oversees the EXACT child nutrition programs where $300 million was stolen. 🙄
The House Oversight Committee confirmed the fraud was known as early as 2019.
Klobuchar never called ONE hearing.
Klobuchar never sent ONE letter of inquiry.
Klobuchar never made ONE public statement demanding accountability.
Klobuchar received campaign donations from fraud-connected individuals.
And now she wants to be Minnesota’s Governor.
The woman who had 19 years and a Senate committee chairmanship to stop this — and did nothing — is asking for a promotion.
Minnesota cannot afford another four years of willful blindness. 🇺🇸
#NeverKlobuchar #Klobuchar #HouseOversight #Accountability #MNGovernor #19Years #November2026

[Jeff @MNTwinsZealot]

With Royce Lewis learning how to play 1B, it’s time to bring in the expert…

[Jay Benson @jayabenson]

@Patrick_Reusse Thank you for using the correct term "fielding", rather than "defense"

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1956. Your doctor tells you to eat margarine instead of butter. The margarine is industrially hydrogenated vegetable oil with a trans fat content that will, forty years later, be classified as one of the most harmful substances in the food supply. Your doctor does not know this. Nobody is asking.

The year is 1961. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine, bespectacled and certain. Your doctor now tells you to reduce animal fat. The evidence is a study that initially looked at twenty-two countries and was published with seven. France, which eats butter by the kilogram and has the lowest heart disease rates in Europe, is not one of them. The hypothesis is now a consensus. The consensus was built by excluding the data that disagreed.

The year is 1977. Senator McGovern releases Dietary Goals for the United States. Cut fat. Eat complex carbohydrates. The food industry hears this as bread, pasta, cereal, and an enormous commercial opportunity. Your doctor starts telling you to eat six servings of grain a day. You lose weight briefly and gain more back. Your doctor suggests you try harder.

The year is 1984. Time publishes another cover, two egg yolks and a strip of bacon arranged into a frown. Your doctor stops letting you eat eggs. The correction, that dietary cholesterol barely affects blood cholesterol for most people, will arrive in 2015.

The year is 1992. The food pyramid arrives. Six to eleven servings of bread at the base. Fats at the apex, to be used sparingly. Obesity rates, stable for thirty years, begin to climb almost immediately. Type 2 diabetes follows. Nobody connects the two because the pyramid is official, and official things cannot be questioned.

The year is 1995. SnackWell's fat-free cookies overtake the Oreo as the best-selling biscuit in America. They are sugar and refined flour. Your doctor sees no problem with them because they are fat-free.

The year is 2018. Your doctor tells you red meat causes cancer. The evidence is a hazard ratio of 1.18, which in any other field of science would be considered noise. Your doctor does not mention this. Nobody told your doctor either.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. Protein is back. Saturated fat is being quietly rehabilitated. Refined carbs are, at last, the villain they were always going to be.

None of the doctors who told you otherwise have phoned to apologise.

None of the institutions that enforced the last position have issued a correction.

The file simply updates. The old guidance vanishes from the website. The textbooks get reprinted. The medical students are taught the new version as if the old version never existed, and the patients who spent forty years doing what they were told are expected to quietly update their diets and move on.

Your great-grandmother was right. Your grandmother was right. Your mother, who followed the guidelines, is on three medications.

The pattern is not subtle.

The pattern has never been subtle.

The only question is how many more cycles of this you are willing to sit through before you stop asking the people who got the last one wrong what to do about the next one.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

If anyone gives birth to a child inside one of Taylor Swift's homes, they not only get to stay in the home, but they also get to share her bank account moving forward.

Do I have this right?

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇺🇸🇯🇵 Everyone in Japan knows "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver.

We cover it all the time so I hope our American friends can appreciate it.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

French politician removes his Rolex watch before giving a speech "denouncing the ultra-rich"

[McNeil @REFLOG18]

“It shall be called the Super Bowl and will be a huge national event played deep into the night on Sunday when everyone must go into work on Monday.”

“Why not play it on Saturday?”

“Nobody knows.”

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

For anyone watching the Super Bowl:

The stadium holds 68,500 people.

173,000 people are aborted worldwide every day.

That’s nearly 2.5 stadiums.

173,000 children who will never be able to attend a football game.

Every child deserves to be born.

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

If you watch Jaws backwards, it is a heartwarming story about a shark who gives arms and legs to people who need them.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

This is exactly like when OJ announced he's looking for the real killers:

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

1960: in 2025 we’ll have flying cars

2025:

[Scott Jensen @drscottjensen]

The scandal in Minnesota isn’t just about members of a singular ethnic group repeatedly and persistently stealing public funds intended to help the poor and the sick and the elderly and the disabled. Perhaps the worst of it all is that the leader of the state, Tim Walz, and his administration have been derelict in their duties, corrupted common sense, and repeatedly lied. And yet fellow Democrats along with the largest newspaper in the state have soft pedaled the significance of this entire debacle, ignoring the horrific fact that for Tim Walz, it appears that voting blocks and denying reality have become higher priorities than truth and justice for the state of Minnesota.

[Batting Stance Guy @BattingStanceG]

Today in 1991 the incredible Braves-Twins #WorldSeries Game 7 ended with #MNTwins extra inning walkoff.

[Gophin' Around @GophinAround]

THE LOSER OF THE FIRST ANNUAL TIM WALZ TROPHY GAME: THE NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS

Nebraskans are now forces to refer to Tim Walz as their own until the next Gopher/Cornhusker matchup🫡

[Jay Benson @jayabenson]

@DMEASrecruiting @MikeJorgensen34 TK was the man! Always
be ready to play rhe 1st inning (and the 11th).

[Jay Benson @jayabenson]

@TwinsAlmanac Yes! Ozzie is a winner and he’s always entertaining