Matt Beasley

“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power!” - Thomas Edison

[Matt Beasley @mattlbeasley]

A peaceful, easy feeling this weekend thanks to our partners at Cabriejo Ranch. #RegenerativeEnergy in action at the NSA Mid-South in west Tennessee. @TVAnews @SiliconRanchCo

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

The Trump administration publicly supporting solar energy ☀️💛☀️

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Dwight Gooden won 24 games when he was 20 years old. You’ll never see it again in your life but I was there and can confirm it was fucking awesome.

[First Solar @FirstSolar]

First Solar is making a difference in Alabama.

Since opening our manufacturing facility in Lawrence County in September 2024, we’ve been helping to drive economic growth in the region. In 2025, our Alabama operations supported an estimated 1,865 total jobs, generated ~$134.1M in labor income, added ~$238.4M to the state GDP, and produced ~$854M in economic output.

We’re proud to be advancing American manufacturing and building strong communities where we operate.

👉 https://t.co/KCONkJy8J5

#FirstSolar #MadeInAlabama #EconomicDevelopment #AmericanManufacturing #MadeInUSA #USJobs #AmericasSolarCompany

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

83% of all voters agree that solar energy should be used in the United States to strengthen and increase the nation’s energy supply.

China is rapidly scaling their solar as energy demands continue to increase. We need to do the same.

[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:

[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

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Sun is an enormous, free fusion reactor in the sky. It is super dumb to make tiny fusion reactors on Earth.

Even if you burned 4 Jupiters, the Sun would still round up to 100% of all power that will ever be produced in the solar system!!

Stop wasting money on puny little reactors, unless actively acknowledging that they are just there for your pet science project jfc.

[Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & Industry @TNChamber]

Big News for Tennessee!

Congratulations to Nextpower on opening its new Southeast operations hub & Remote Monitoring Center in #Nashville and expanding steel-fabrication in #Memphis with MSS Steel Tubes USA

[You Might Be Right Podcast @YMBRPodcast]

Listen to the Governors’ conversation with Reagan Farr, Co-Founder and CEO of @SiliconRanchCo, and Shameek Konar, Partner and Head of Energy for Ara Partners, on this season’s episode about America’s energy consumption and what’s needed to keep up with growing demand: https://t.co/uux2k9mHl9

[Bill Frist, M.D. @bfrist]

Tracy and I visited Silicon Ranch Corp’s DeSoto Solar Farm last Friday — where solar energy powers more than homes.

It restores grasslands, supports grazing sheep, and models the kind of innovation our future needs.

[White Oak Pastures @whiteoakpasture]

Thank you to @joerogan for the shoutout on episode #2358- and, thanks to Chadd Wright for supporting our farm with ordering your meat from us!

We are blessed by the work we are allowed to do and the folks that support it. Today's the day to know your farmer.

[You Might Be Right Podcast @YMBRPodcast]

#NewEpisode: Strong economic growth and the rise of new technologies are contributing to an unprecedented surge in energy demand, stressing the country’s aging power grid and creating new challenges for policymakers. Govs. @PhilBredesen and @BillHaslam spoke with Reagan Farr, Co-Founder and CEO of @SiliconRanchCo, and Shameek Konar, Partner and Head of Energy for Ara Partners, about the ever-increasing energy consumption and how evolving policies are affecting our nation’s energy and climate: https://t.co/uux2k9mHl9

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The US produces power from 6 sources. There's essentially no new build of nuke, coal, or hydro. Thus gas, wind, and solar must collectively meet all load growth this decade. But with tight supply chains, limited pipe and power lines, and intermittency, we can't rely on any single one. All 3 must be part of the solution for affordable and reliable electricity. That requires the ability to permit and build each of them.

[Solar and Storage Industry @SEIA]

.@Meta and @SiliconRanchCo are bringing America one step closer to AI and energy dominance 🦅

https://t.co/iL6aZ3sudk

[White Oak Pastures @whiteoakpasture]

Will Harris has always said that Regenerative Agriculture is not very scalable, but it is very replicatable. That is why he founded the Center for Agricultural Resilience (CFAR) which hosts educational workshops each year to pass our knowledge on to others. Thank you to our sponsors and those who have helped us share what we have learned over the last 30 years. It takes a village to do just about everything, including rebuilding a food system.

Learn more at https://t.co/9s5jKVtYCy

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

This is what it looks like to put country before party.

Senator Tillis deserves a ton of respect for what he's doing right now.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party

[Scott Elias @ScottySolar]

This @theallinpod is 💯

@chamath @friedberg The Senate was ready to fix this—but now might fumble our generation’s Manhattan Project.

Terminating energy tax credits for projects not placed in service by 2028? It’s like they want higher electric bills and us to lose to China.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

So obvious

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?