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@Sofia50020Sofia Our skin

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@Shadow007US Linda Ronstadt. She’s awesome.

[Ethan Clark wx @EthanClarkWX]

“But hockey wouldn’t work in the south, they said”

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Hurricanes might’ve created the best beer drinking device we’ve ever seen

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@ESPN_Hockey @ESPN I don’t know why you can’t pronounce Raleigh correctly. It’s “Rah-lee “. Rah as in rah rah! Not rawlee or any other random, fake pronunciations you deem correct. #GoCanes #carolinahurricanes #carolina @WRAL

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@MarchMadnessMBB For real? This is not, nor should it ever be, the Super Bowl. What the you know what are you doing?! How many more ways can you ruin basketball?!!! #thessucks #ncaa #collegebasketball

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

I don't think it's a coincidence that this Holy Week, we saw NASA send humans back to the moon and we may see a comet illuminate the daytime sky. But @_jeremiahj takes it a step further:

“We have the exact date that Jesus died from Roman crucifixion... He died on Friday, April 3rd, A.D. 33. Guess what today is: Friday, April 3rd... We know a lunar eclipse was seen when Jesus was being crucified. The fact that we are going back to the moon on the very week, on the exact day, April 3rd, the crucifixion happened, that is providential. That is no accident and people need to wake up.”

[charlottemg @unctheta]

@lippyent Circuit City

[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

[charlottemg @unctheta]

I beg you @realDonaldTrump STOP. TALKING! I beg of you. You can’t even take a breath.

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@ATRightMovies The Firm

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@otokyo Zero

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@MrPitbull07 Yes! Drank 100s of them!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 He NAILED IT: “Just so we are CLEAR — if a foreigner comes to your country and demands you accept their culture as your culture, or demands that you change your beliefs for their religious needs? That is NOT an immigrant!”

That is an INVADER! 💯

[PatriotDadEV2.0 @Patriotdadev77]

I can't figure out why both X and Tiktok are censoring and suppressing this video. Can you?

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Well, here it is:

Conspiracy theory no more:

Not only did @DOGE confirm it — the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has re-confirmed:

Illegal aliens were issued Social Security numbers by the Biden–Harris terrorist administration.

• 270,425 in 2021
• 590,193 in 2022
• 964,163 in 2023
• 2,095,247 in 2024 — on their way out the door

With a whopping 1.4 million illegals on Medicaid.

You have been Robbed. Deceived, Blackmailed. Extorted.

[charlottemg @unctheta]

Exactly

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Church bells and the Muslim call to prayer aren’t the same. Bells are wordless tones that ring once or twice a week in most places who still use them.

The call to prayer is a verbal declaration of faith, broadcast FIVE TIMES PER DAY every day. One is a long standing cultural sound in America; the other is a spoken religious message from a different tradition.

Saying they’re equal in practice or impact oversimplifies what’s actually going on.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - A 2010 CNN clip of Obama’s $376 million White House renovation, fully funded by taxpayers unlike President Trump’s $250 million ballroom he’s paying for himself, is going viral as viewers call out Democrat hypocrisy and fake outrage.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says as soon as Kamala Harris called President Trump a "fascist" - "I KNEW we LOST THE PLOT."

"This extreme rhetoric makes it easier for these extreme actions, like what happened to Charlie Kirk. And now they can't allow people to GRIEVE?!"

"I LOVE a lot of people that voted for the president. They aren't fascists, Nazis, trying to destroy the constitution. They just have different priorities and love our country. I refuse to do those things."

"We're forgetting that we need each other."

"Comparing people to Hitler and those things - if that's what's required to win, then I REFUSE to."

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@StephenM Treason