Chris Walker

@conorjrogers I’ve been ready

No one is ready for the real solution to Gerrymandering: A return to the Constitution's original standard of 1 Member of Congress for every 30,000 Americans, resulting in an 11,000-member House with city-council sized districts so small you can't Gerrymander them if you tried.

Opening Day really is one of my favorite days of the year. Welcome back @MLB.

@ClayTravis 2008 Tennessee-UCLA game. We win that one and the entire ten years in purgatory may not have even happened.

I’ve got two: the LSU-Tennessee 2001 SEC title game — the Matt Mauck QB sneak game — & Tennessee at South Carolina 2022.

I thought muting the term “Tucker Carlson” would really cut my newsfeed’s daily nonsense about him, and yet, he still gets through. I see I’m going to have to mute “Tucker” completely. Apologies in advance to my friends named Tucker and potentially interesting Tucker people.

From what I can tell, I'm going against the grain, but I'm used to that. This ABS challenge system needs to be thrown away stat. Human element is part of the game. Arguing with an umpire is infinitely better than some soulless computer making it cold and lifeless.

@3YearLetterman @Canada @AvrilLavigne @JustinTrudeau @EmbaCubaUS @katyperry @GovernorPerry @WayneGretzky @TimHortons @PovertyCanadian @Whitesnake Checked to make sure Tim Hortons was tagged and you did not disappoint,

In preparation for tomorrow’s hockey matchup between America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇦🇺, here are some FACTS that the Canadians hate: 1. America is the oldest and greatest country on earth 2. Canada is a British province that must do what the queen says 3. The greatest hockey player who ever lived was American 4. Canada is poor, poorer than our South American neighbors in Mexico. The average Canadian makes less than $10,000 per year and doesn’t have the internet 5. Justin Turdeaux must do what Donald Trump says because they don’t have sovereignty 6. Vermont has superior maple syrup to anything in Canada 7. No Canadian has ever had a #1 song or album in the US 8. Canadians are the most obese and unattractive Western country 9. Quebec residents must speak English FIRST because America is the birth place of the English language 10. Canadians have an average IQ than is 20 points below the average US IQ

Name the baseball stadium press box after him. Fitting tribute.

If these reports are true, I’m devastated. While I never knew him, I feel like I knew him. Read him every day and shared his life and his reporting. His voice was a daily joy and if his light is gone, the world is lesser because of it.

Ten days, power finally back. You never know what you take for granted until it’s gone. Thankful for lights, heat, and the ability to take a warm shower in my own home. Thank you linemen, y’all are great Americans.

@michaeljknowles @freddieoconnell Good question. The Pamphleteer (@realpamphleteer), Davis Hunt (@vrgldh), and Megan Lee Podsiedlik (@MeganLeeWrites_) are all over this. Follow them all. Oh, and subscribe to their newsletter. It’s great.

Why, amid Nashville's worst natural disaster in over 30 years, is Mayor @FreddieOConnell only posting updates about emergency services and power outages to his small following on Bluesky rather than his much larger following on X?

@BenSasse Incredibly saddening news. Thinking and praying for 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

@MiamiDolphins @Ticketmaster The best uniforms. Make them permanent, please and thank you. This isn’t hard.

Today’s attire 😎

@pfeifle @camoosomiller Two of my favs!

I joined @camoosomiller on The Friday Reporter for a fast, honest conversation on War Rooms, War Zones and Wild Stories: • childhood lessons in resilience • today’s disinformation battlefield • how to lead when everything is on fire thefridayreporter.substack.com/p/war-rooms-wa…

The New 𝐄ra. Josh Elander takes the reigns as the 26th head coach in Tennessee Baseball history.

Now, @AD_DannyWhite, the choice is clear and simple, elevate Elander and let's keep the great things going with our baseball program. Please, agents and decision makers on both sides, don't screw this up.

Can't say enough about how much joy and excitement Tony Vitello has brought this Vol fan over the years. Thank you for everything, and now the @SFGiants are going to quickly become be my second-favorite team. Go win and do for them what you did for the Vols.

@gleaves14 Should have had two plays at the end of the game, only having one is criminal.

Horrendous clock management by Heupel again. Unreal.

@Cam3ronSparks 5 has been the perfect logo all along - right color aqua, symmetric spacing, Marino era. 4 is a close second just because of 72 and peak Shula era. 1 and 3 - please no and never again.

Choose your fighter #PhinsUp

@EWErickson Agreed

I don’t like the trend of keeping the blinds closed on airplanes.

What backlash? No really, what is this? There was literally no backlash. What?