Carol Palmer

@TMobile Huzzah! My cell service has been out since Saturday afternoon. @verizon gave me the runaround for 5 days. T Mobile got the service back on in less than 30 minutes! Thank you Joy and Jamon!

@voxdotcom Did you know that Nazis thought medical experimentation on animals was unethical, but perfectly fine to do on Jews, Roma, and homosexuals?

Trump’s “strike force” against animal abuse, and the conservative movement’s turn toward animal welfare, explained. vox.com/future-perfect…

@PabloTorre @mehdirhasan Kristi Noem is from South Dakota. Do they not get snow there? By Michigan standards there was not a lot of snow on that street.

Anyway I don't expect to change anyone's mind. I just want to be on record somewhere saying that killing this woman — and then claiming to be the real victim, with the militarized might of the federal government behind you — is one of the most cowardly things I've ever seen.

Maybe throw in a prayer for the mom the U.S. government murdered while she was slowly turning a Honda Pilot

@TriciaOhio You really should have your eyesight checked. It is concerning how bad your eyesight is. You know many eye diseases can be treated if caught early. God bless.

Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking  ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism. An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.  He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.  The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.   This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement. These men and women who are simply enforcing the law on the books are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats.  This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available.

@VerizonNews @Verizon How about improving customer service? That’s why I left Verizon.

.@Verizon has announced that Dan Schulman has been appointed CEO. Dan has served on Verizon's Board since 2018. He will bring a proven record of transformative leadership and deep telecom industry experience to help us enter our next chapter of growth. verizon.com/about/news/ver…

@Verizon I am no longer having Verizon as my wireless carrier. Your customer service is atrocious. I’m going to another company and paying more per month. My dad was a small businessman. He taught me that the customer is king. You treat your customers like serfs.

@BenSasse I am so sorry to read this. Cancer sucks. My thoughts are with you and your family.

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

@SebastianDanzig Dementia took my mom several years ago, but her body didn’t go until this past December.

I get on twitter. Get off twitter. Are any of you happy on here? Be kind and call your Mom if you can. All the love. x

@SebastianDanzig I only come to Twitter to see what’s happening with you and your brothers. Remington posts thirst traps and Emerson posts pouty pictures

@StephenKing This would mean he has depth

Deep down in his heart, I believe Trump knows he’s an incompetent asshole.

@MyKingSoopers You need to work on your app. I tried it today. I clipped the deal for Kellogg’s cereal. At the register, the sale price did not ring up. Luckily, your employee, Damita, saved the day with a QR code sheet cashiers had been given because the app is not working.

@BillyBaldwin Gulf of Mexico

Do you now call it the Gulf of America or do you still call it the Gulf of Mexico?

@ThePhDPlace Convincing PIs that following regulations is good for their science

What is your academic superpower? E.g. interviewing, writing ice-breaker question?

@TheRickWilson It snowed in New Orleans!

It’s snowing in Tallahassee. That is not something you can say every day.

@MichaelSteele @RonFilipkowski Let’s hear it for that woman from Michigan!

@RonFilipkowski Because of course. Can't have Little Donnie pissing his pants on his Big Day.

Mike Johnson announces that the flags over the Capitol will be raised to full staff for Trump’s inauguration.

@junethomas @dankois I guess I couldn't be an influencer with my cobalt blue kitchen cupboards and dark purple painted bathroom. Always love when you're on the Culture Gabfest.

I had a lovely time chatting with Steve Metcalf and @dankois about Blitz, Get Millie Black, and influencer wars on this week's Culture Gabfest: slate.com/podcasts/cultu…

@Timodc For those that remember the lunch meat of the 1970’s 

Who is the honey pimento pickle chick fil a sandwich for? My tummy hurts watching the ad.

Any @CrookedMedia offspring like this? If not yet, whose is most likely to be like this? @jonfavs @TVietor08 @danpfeiffer

@RodLacroix Or, "Ugh, cleaning all those rooms"

I’m at the age where I see a huge, beautiful mansion in a movie and think, “That must cost a fortune to heat in the winter.”

@SebastianDanzig If you decide to come back to the US, Denver is a great city. Just think how much better your marathon times would be if you trained at elevation.

After years of discussing it Larisa and I are planning on moving to Europe in spring 2025. I feel like I've squeezed every last drop out of my time in LA and now feel drained. Grateful for the experiences and memories but it's time for a new chapter.