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We’re now finding out which Republicans were simply cosplaying as Second Amendment defenders.

MAYOR FREY: “Sorry if I offended their Disney Princess ears — on the one hand you’ve got someone who dropped an F bomb, on the other you’ve got someone who killed someone… I think the more inflammatory action is killing someone.”

@BenSasse Ben, I don’t know you at all. But, I’ve followed you for a long time. I have the utmost respect for you and how you have lived your life and led. Much love to 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

I can’t handle the Truth Social post from Trump about Rob Reiner

@T_REX1991 What’s wrong with you? I recently got a flu shot and I’m going in later this week to get a COVID booster. And, I ain’t going anywhere…

@jp3money @AnwarRichardson @MichaelWBratton Such a weird “flex”. The flagship program is probably the one that has conference championships, national titles and owns this rivalry 78-37🤷🏿‍♂️. I don’t have a dog in the fight but facts are facts…

@AnwarRichardson @MichaelWBratton I’m confused… Would the flagship program not be the one who is actually invited to the playoffs? Or the one who’s Super Bowl is just beating you and then going home…

Texas just put an exclamation point on the win against Texas A&M with the ultimate fired shot!!!

@Ike_Saul Can you explain what you meant on the part about “signaling to white men that they are inherently racist”?

This is what I wrote in 2024 the day after Trump won. Ds took some of the advice. Rs did not.

@Heartland_CS @PeteMundo No argument here about our fanbase! That’s as bad as I’ve seen it. Embarrassing…

What were the TOP 5 takeaways from Week 6 in the BIG 12?! 👇 @PeteMundo #Big12 #CFB #Week6 heartlandcollegesports.com/2025/10/04/big…

Let me state the obvious that seemingly needs restated. You can BOTH condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk, and still disagree with what he said. This is the USA.

@chipgaines @chipgaines Matthew 25:31-46 comes to mind. Thanks for being an example of what it looks like to love Jesus and to love other people.

Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never It’s a sad sunday when “non believers” have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian💔

@chipgaines @chipgaines I couldn’t agree with you more. Jesus perfectly models what it looks like to love others. Too many “Christians” flat out ignore and/or miss what’s in the gospel. It’s a sad day when people who claim to believe in Jesus miss opportunities to simply love other people.

@lhlv4 dedicates this game to @ahsicem365…

Prayers up for a speedy recovery, @LSUfootball 🙏

Take flight ✈️ #SicEm | #CultureofJOY

@T_REX1991 I proudly voted for Kamala! Sic’em Bears!

Whole lot of kamala voters

Back in Jan of 2021, I still had hope that the @GOP would wake up from the nightmare. Then Kevin McCarthy resurrected Trump at Mar-a-lago. So I put out this video. They continued down the path of crazy, and deserve to lose in 2024

Good people will vote for Harris. Good people will vote third party. Good people will vote for Trump. I don't think each vote is equally correct, but our vote does not define our character. How we treat people does. It's the ends-justifies-the-means ethos that corrupts us.

MAGA claims to be the party of family values and in the same breath attack a child's show of pride for his father. Is this a movement you want to support?

@AdamKinzinger Who is “Lil Pump”🤷🏿‍♂️???

Expect another jump in her poll numbers now

@RpsAgainstTrump @AdamKinzinger @SpeakerJohnson @mtgreenee is a perfect example of what’s wrong with the Republican Party. People actually believe the dumb stuff that she says and writes. People, wake up!

Is this what “Turning the rhetoric down” looks like, @SpeakerJohnson?