Jennifer Larkin Lukawski

"The interviewer, @DouthatNYT, broke down crying during the conversation. And when he did, Sasse laughed. Not unkindly, but the way a man laughs when the heaviness and the lightness of something are both true at the same time and he’s decided not to pretend otherwise."

@RameshPonnuru @AprilPonnuru So good to hear and what a joyful moment! Be well, Ramesh!

I rang the bell! My middle child Betsy and sweet wife @AprilPonnuru were there to celebrate with me.

@GOPMajorityWhip I am so very sorry for your loss. I hope you find comfort in knowing your mother was called home on such a sacred day of peace and resurrection. Family is everything. May God bless you and yours during this time.

My mom, Patsy, decided today was her day to rise too. She passed peacefully this morning. I can see her right now smiling in the embrace of her love and my father, Tom, and my sister, Bridget. Our time together never was and never will be enough. Love your families today more than ever. On behalf of my brother Jack and sister-in-law Molly, our brother-in-law Tom and his wife Paula, and our families, Jacquie and I appreciate your prayers.

@SenKatieBritt Yes to this! War Eagle! 🇺🇸

The Department of War’s decision to partner with Auburn University to advance the military education of young Americans seeking to serve their country is great news for Alabama and our entire nation. 🇺🇸

Amazing trick and an even better message to accompany it. Thank you for reminding us of this inspirational legend!

Given the situation in the Middle East and the potential for Iran and its terrorist proxies to attempt some type of attack, it is imperative that @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries immediately drop all opposition to funding the Department of Homeland Security and pass the funding bill.

“This is all about our country right now. I love the USA… I’m so proud to be an American today…. We’re so proud to win for our country” -Jack Hughes 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@BenSasse You are a treasure. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, life lessons, and faith with all of us.

#NotDeadYet podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not…

Horrific for those of us who live along the Potomac.

@RameshPonnuru Praying for you always, Ramesh!

Halfway through chemotherapy! Heading into round 7 of 12 today. Thanks to all of you who have been praying for my family and me.

@chucktodd Keep ranting. It’s horrible!

Hate to be the guy that complains about the latest Apple update, but I’m going to be that guy. This across the board update, from IPhone to IPad to MacBook has been a debacle. Every personalization seems to have been erased or altered. It’s quite frustrating. Maybe I’ve become the middle aged guy who isn’t tech savvy anymore, but come on Apple, you’ve made waste hours this week. Ok, rant over

For the first time in 29 years, the House has passed all 12 appropriations bills. With a 1 seat majority. Regular order has returned. Congratulations, @TomColeOK04 & @SpeakerJohnson

@ChuckDouglas_ Hideous thing to look at from the Virginia side.

Breaking: Sphere Entertainment has announced Maryland will be home to a Sphere venue at the National Harbor, near Washington, D.C. It will be the second Sphere Entertainment project in the USA. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 6,000 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘹𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 – 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘌𝘋 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 16𝘒𝘹16𝘒 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦 – 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥'𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘌𝘋 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦'𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺'𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘴. @SphereVegas #MarylandPride @NationalHarbor @StateMaryland

“I am a Catholic. I am a Catholic man.” — Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza on why he took his trophy to the priests at the St. Paul Center at his university

@BryceCain5 Boom! War Eagle!!

I am excited to get coached up by the new coaching staff and cannot wait to get back to work. I love the fans and culture of Auburn and the thought of leaving never crossed my mind. War Eagle!!

Marco Rubio is the most consequential secretary of state the US has had in half a century.

@BenSasse Thank you for trusting us with such a difficult diagnosis. Your words were shared with such grace and faith. We are holding you and your family close in prayer, asking God to surround you with comfort, strength, and peace in the days ahead.

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

Listen to the crowd roar! Our troops love having a real Commander in Chief again, a President who loves his country and is proud to be an American. And these opening remarks by the head referee are the best I’ve ever heard: “Mr. President, thank you for your leadership and your continued support of our service members and our veterans. It’s an honor to have you here today. To the men and women in uniform, to all of our veterans, and their family members, thank you for your service. Thank you for protecting this great country and thank you for protecting the freedoms that we enjoy each and every day.”

@SecDuffy @SebastianComedy This is so hilarious and true and I love all things Sebastian!

The hilarious @SebastianComedy was right in 2019… and he’s right TODAY! Don't wear your pajamas at the airport. It’s common sense. The Golden Age of Travel starts with YOU⭐️