A. Hawkins

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday

[Brent Terhune in Cincinnati July 11 @BrentTerhune]

Woke up in zip ties with feces smeared on the wall so I guess the J6ers stopped by last night. Treason’s greetings to you all!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#Christmas reminds us that God makes Himself known by drawing near to us, not in grandiose events or by revealing Himself from afar. God does not remain in some inaccessible heaven, but comes to meet us in the very heart of our ordinary lives. He shows us that daily life, just as it is, can become the place to encounter God.

[Buckeye Show @TheBuckGuys]

Jim Tressel’s wife Ellen wearing a necklace with 9 Gold Pants on it! Absolute Savage!!

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Never before has there been a photo of a president asleep in the Oval Office. Amazing.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

In Senate Chaplain Barry Black's opening prayer for the chamber on Monday, he noted the prolonged government shutdown, and urged lawmakers to remember the most vulnerable members of our society.

"When our children and grandchildren want to know what we were doing in the 119th Congress during the famous shutdown, may we not have to give these answers: I helped set a new record for keeping the government closed. I failed to appeal to the better angels of my nature. I forgot Matthew 7:12, which states, ‘Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you,'" Black said on the 27th day of the government shutdown.

"Lord, remind our lawmakers that no gold medals are given for breaking shutdown records, but a crown of righteousness is given to those who take care of the lost, last, and least," Black added.

The prayer is not the first instance that the longtime Senate chaplain has used his opening benedictions to weigh in on the effects of government shutdowns. During the 16-day shutdown in 2013, he offered several pointed session-opening prayers, including a prayer to "deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting to sound reasonable while being unreasonable. Remove the burdens of those who are the collateral damage of this government shutdown, transforming negatives into positives as you work for the good of those who love you."

Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

[A. Hawkins @osuhawk]

Our Precious Essence

[NBC Politics @NBCPolitics]

The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water was long considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century. Now, RFK Jr. says he plans to tell the CDC to stop recommending the practice. https://t.co/OnafV1AgNv

[PBS News @NewsHour]

"All my life, I have had a certain idea of about America, that we're a flawed country, but we're fundamentally a force for good in the world," David Brooks said in his analysis. "What I have seen over the last six weeks is the United States behaving vilely... It's a moral injury to see the country you love behave in this way." https://t.co/rumfmedLjX

[A. Hawkins @osuhawk]

Parody of an administration.

[NBC Politics @NBCPolitics]

National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. https://t.co/vcc6Qd9fSV

[NBC Politics @NBCPolitics]

National Nuclear Security Administration officials are attempting to notify some employees who had been let go that they are now due to be reinstated — but they're struggling to find them because they don't have their new contact information. https://t.co/vcc6Qd9fSV

[A. Hawkins @osuhawk]

The sale has begun!!! Better watch anything not nailed down.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Thursday the kingdom wants to invest $600 billion in the United States over the next four years, comments that came after President Donald Trump earlier put a price tag on returning to the kingdom as his first foreign trip. https://t.co/z3C9H3PcAc

[Dan Shafer @DanRShafer]

Despicable, unconstitutional, and fundamentally anti-American.

[Anthony Lima @SportsBoyTony]

If you think this is one-sided, wait till you see what TBDBITL does to Oregon’s pep band at halftime

[J.R.R. Tolkien @JRRTolkien]

The world was blind,
the boughs were bent,
All ways and paths were wild:
Then the veil of cloud apart was rent,
And here was born a Child.

— from “Noel” by J.R.R Tolkien

[Lawyers, Guns and Money @LawyersAnd]

He wins the internet today.

[Inky Johnson @inkyjohnson]

Sow your seeds!

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

Please stop calling religious nationalist extremists “conservative evangelicals.”

I want to conserve the love, truth, & justice at the heart of Christian faith, so I refuse to cede “conservative Christian” to those who say so much about what God says so little & so little about what God says so much.

[Inky Johnson @inkyjohnson]

I’ve learned!

[Richard Rohr @RichardRohrOFM]

Prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It’s an encounter and a life stance. It’s a way of living in the Presence, with awareness of the Presence, and even enjoying the Presence. #DailyMeditations https://t.co/XRfsxIaJgD

[This Week @ThisWeekABC]

EXCLUSIVE: @chefjoseandres to @MarthaRaddatz after Israeli airstrikes killed 7 @WCKitchen aid workers: “This doesn't seem anymore a war about defending Israel. This really, at this point, seems it's a war against humanity itself.”
Sunday on @ThisWeekABC https://t.co/a3mGEOlwT0