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Faith & Fords

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A compilation of happy cows.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

Sometimes grief hides in the most ordinary places...and then, years later, ambushes you while you’re changing a light bulb.

[Catholic Land Movement @CatholicLand]

John Cuddeback is a friend of the CLM (he spoke at our 2025 National Conference), and we would like to introduce you to his work. He is a philosophy professor (and homesteader) who founded LifeCraft to make accessible today timeless wisdom about living the good life in our homes.

His new book, The Intentional Household: Living as if People Matter, explains the traditional understanding of the nature of a household, and so offers the foundation and framework for why living on the land is so fitting. The eight principles in this book will challenge you to rethink your own households in light of ultimate truths, and offer concrete direction for your home life in these challenging times, wherever you live. We think you will appreciate the combination of philosophical depth, accessibility, and practicality.

You can purchase the book here: https://t.co/1cq09OjDUC

He and his wife Sofia also have a popular podcast, The Intentional Household. A couple of recommended episodes are Is Homesteading for Everyone? and How Wendell Berry Changed Our Household.

Check out his podcast here: https://t.co/uBcd4ShcDf

[AJ Foyt Racing @AJFoytRacing]

Following yesterday’s announcement of our multi-year agreement with Hendricks Holding, we’re proud to continue a relationship that goes far beyond the racetrack.
Together, we remain committed to supporting Homes For Our Troops, our Veterans and the values that have made this partnership so meaningful.

[Ojike Uzoma @Xtopher_Uzo]

Dear Catholics,
There is something profound I want to tell us about the early Church. This was written by Justin Martyr, but I’m going to explain it bit by bit. Stay with me

Before we open Justin Martyr, I want you to hold one line of thought:

Ignatius of Antioch, bishop, martyr, around the year 107AD, writing to the church in Smyrna. He looks at certain people who have pulled away, and he said "they abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins, and which the Father in his goodness raised up again."

Ignatius did not invent that. He is telling you what his churches already confessed. We are coming back to that line.

Now fast forward about forty years. Around 150.

[Remember All The Fallen @KoreyG80]

On October 1, 1972, while giving naval gunfire support off the coast of South Vietnam, Gun Turret No.2 exploded aboard the USS Newport News. Maryland Navy Seaman Jack Stephen Bergman Jr. and 19 of his shipmates lost their lives.” He was 20 years old from Baltimore. Remember Jack today. #American Hero. ⚓️🇺🇸

[DirtFish @DirtFishRally]

🚨 Ford will return as a full factory manufacturer entrant in the World Rally Championship from 2028!

M-Sport will design, build and run a brand new Ford rally car based on a yet-to-be-released passenger vehicle for the 2029 WRC season. In 2027 and 2028 it will run Fiesta Rally2s upgraded to Rally1-spec via a homologated kit 🔧

From 2028, M-Sport's entry will transition to Ford Racing, the first time the Blue Oval has been an outright WRC factory team since 2012.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A compilation of happy cows.

[Ben @B_Garelick]

you can still be in on the future.

Lockheed, 1983

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX intern made an error in a calculation that wasn't caught until it reached a test environment. The error would have been minor in production but in the test it damaged a component that took 3 weeks to rebuild. The intern expected to be fired.

The culture at SpaceX is famously intense. 80 hour weeks. Public criticism in meetings. Engineers being told their work is insufficient to their face. The stories about Elon's directness in technical reviews are well documented. An intern who cost the company 3 weeks of test schedule had every reason to believe the conversation would end their internship.

Elon called the intern into a meeting. The intern prepared for the worst. Elon asked one question: "what did the error teach you about the system?"

The intern explained the failure mode. How the calculation was structured. Where the assumption broke. What they would check differently next time. Elon listened to the entire explanation, asked two follow up questions about the physics involved, then said "good. now you understand that system better than anyone who didn't break it."

The intern was not fired. They were assigned to the team that rebuilt the component. The logic: nobody on earth understood that failure mode better than the person who caused it. Removing them would mean losing the only person with direct experiential knowledge of the flaw.

The intern is now a full time engineer at SpaceX.

The culture is brutal on incompetence and forgiving of errors that produce understanding. The distinction is not obvious from the outside. From the outside, SpaceX looks like a place that punishes everything. From the inside, it punishes the refusal to learn. The error was expensive. The learning was more expensive to lose.

The harshest workplace in aerospace kept the intern who broke the component because the breaking was an education that no simulation could have provided.

[Hany Girgis @SanDiegoKnight]

I DON’T THINK MOST AMERICANS KNOW THIS EXISTS.

The University of North Texas, a taxpayer-funded public university, had a contract with an international recruiting company that paid a commission for every student it successfully enrolled.

$3,000 for an overseas student enrolling full-time.
$1,500 for an international transfer already in the U.S.

The $3,000 was explicitly tied to enrollment: $1,500 after the first semester and another $1,500 after the second.

And this wasn’t necessarily illegal. The federal rules restricting enrollment-based recruiting commissions contain an exception covering certain foreign students abroad who aren’t eligible for federal student aid.

UNT’s contract was written specifically around that category.

By Fall 2024, UNT reported 7,509 international students. 73% were from India.

UNT receives hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding while also paying commissions to recruit international students.

The question now is:

How widespread is commission-based international student recruiting across American universities, and how much money is being paid to these recruiters?

@StephenM @SusieWiles47 @SecRubio @JDVance @realDonaldTrump

https://t.co/bJbHKmBK3K

[Bernie Moreno @berniemoreno]

As Ohioans are bombarded by historically dishonest ads by Sherrod Brown, his puppet master, Chuck Schumer, just blocked a bill that BANNED insider trading by members of Congress. That bill passed the House with overwhelming bipartisan support and President Trump would have signed it into law.

Is there any reporter in Ohio that will ask their buddy Sherrod whether he supports that action by his boss, Chuck Schumer?

[DirtFish @DirtFishRally]

This is not AI or Photoshop. Ford is returning to the WRC in 2028! 🙌🎉

[alexei @alexeixbt]

2 hours of complete silence every day can help regenerate your brain and stimulate the growth of new brain cells.

[ИODAWOLF @NODAWOLF]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
TQL, C.H. Robinson ACCUSED OF of RICO with CHAMELEON CARRIERS

A civil RICO lawsuit was filed on September 23, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas by six family-owned trucking companies

The carriers allege the brokers violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by systematically steering customer freight to non-compliant CHAMELEON CARRIER firms that allegedly use forced labor, operate under false identities, ignore safety rules, and falsify records in order to suppress rates and undercut legitimate fleets that follow regulations. They claim the brokers knowingly or recklessly benefited financially from the resulting wire fraud and labor violations, and they seek damages including treble damages under RICO.

https://t.co/YIR6gX9QFC

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

Watch this.

A physician recruiting account is explaining how hospitals can hire certain foreign physicians who haven’t taken the USMLE.

The pitch: internationally recognized doctors simply find a U.S. hospital willing to give them a job offer.

Meanwhile, Americans spend years fighting through the U.S. medical-school pipeline, residency bottlenecks and licensing exams just for the opportunity to practice here.

We keep being told America has a “doctor shortage.”

What we seem to have is an entire industry devoted to finding new ways around the American pipeline.

And Americans barely know it exists.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This American had Chase Bank for his personal and business account

He woke up to a bunch of notifications his bank had been disconnected to all his apps

He calls Chase they informed him his accounts were closed to he went into the bank. They wouldn’t help him or give him the money in his account even though his bills are due in 3 days. They say he has to wait for a check to be sent that could take up to 2 weeks

“They decided to terminate my account for suspicious activity and security concerns. They couldn't give me any more information. Last time I checked, there was nothing unusual going on. They said they reserve the right to at any time, they don't have to provide any more information.

I have no idea what this means. Right now I have zero money”

This is why we can never let go of cash. When the banking industry does things like this, if we don’t have cash as an option you can be left with no money

And Chase Bank is correct, under the law they don’t have to tell you anything or give you any details to why they closed your account

Federal law forbids them from telling you that they did it or what triggered it. Pretty insane

[RFK Racing @RFKracing]

The official fuel of FUN! 🍎
Find Ryan Preece in the Smith's / TreeTop scheme at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend.