Jeff Caldwell

Dad, Geek, True Blue Sports Fan

[Spencer Cox @SpencerJCox]

Trying to imagine what either party would do differently if they were actively trying to lose the midterms…really can’t think of anything. Great work everyone. #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

Mr. Football.

🎤 Narrated by @drewbrees

[Mark Ennis @MarkEnnis]

I find it odd that we're negotiating to get the SEC and Big Ten's buy-in for a bill that we need to save college football from the SEC and Big Ten.

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

@jaromjordan How about 5th year becomes "Gatherers of Money"?

[Greg Welch @ArtDirectorBYU]

I get that college sports people are now worried about government overreach.
If only they had 100 years to work out a deal amongst themselves.
The whole reason the government is reaching at all is because the squabbling mess of fiefdoms has never been able to govern itself.

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

We need more of this. Nobody in this stadium is Republican/Democrat, or immigrant/native, or gay/straight. Just Americans reveling in American things...oh and Poch. 🇺🇸 #usa #fifaworldcup

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Almost Heaven. 🇺🇸

[Dr. Arthur Brooks @arthurbrooks]

What is happiness, really?

After 90 years of research, the longest study of human happiness ever conducted came to a three-word answer:

Happiness is love.

The study identified seven habits that separate happy-and-well at seventy from sad-and-sick at seventy.

Six of them make the difference between getting to seventy and not.
But only the seventh makes being seventy worth it.

Here they are in order:

First, don't smoke.
A lifelong smoker has a 70% chance of dying from a smoking-related illness. There's no version of this that lands you in the happy column.

Second, watch your substances.
Half of your tendency toward addiction is inherited. People who develop dependencies don't end up happy; they end up divorced, sick, isolated.
If there's history in your family, no use at all is the safest position.

Third, eat sanely.
The happy-old don't yo-yo. Anything restrictive enough to give you fast progress has a 95% failure rate.

Fourth, move every day.
The longest-lived populations on earth — Sardinia, Okinawa, Loma Linda — walk constantly. Walking is the human exercise of happiness.

Fifth, build a coping practice.
16% of your waking life is negative emotion. The happy-old all have a method for processing it: meditation, therapy, prayer, journaling. The discipline matters more than the choice.

Sixth, keep learning.
Interest is a basic positive emotion. People who stop learning in their twenties become rigid by forty. Stay curious. Interrogate what you believe — and what you've made a habit of not believing.

And the seventh — love.
Real love. Not transactional. A marriage you've invested in. Friends who are there for you. People who would still know you if your career vanished.

These take decades. But they make all the difference.

Healthy habits get you to seventy. Love makes seventy worth it.

[Matthew Segal @segalmr]

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get?

LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

Am I understanding that, in this time of massive inflation/economic uncertainty for Americans, taxpayer funds are going to enrich his criminal henchmen? This just becomes a worse and worse movie script by the day.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Trump administration announces a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies after dropping a lawsuit against the IRS. https://t.co/2kh5VINHpl

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

@jaromjordan @BYUwvolleyball @jaromjordan She actually played club in Idaho Falls with Bonneville Volleyball Club https://t.co/2zBzRKqTNl

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

Consider that the dumbest people you know are repeatedly being told "You're absolutely right!" by LLMs.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Today’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is a Victory for the American People and a Win for the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.

In Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, our Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the Constitution grants Congress - not the President - the power to tax.

American families and American businesses pay American tariffs - not foreign countries. With this decision, American families and businesses can breathe a sigh of relief.

I’m proud of the work our organization @AmericanFreedom has done on this case through our robust amicus brief program to advance economic freedom and defend the Constitution.

With this historic decision, America can now return to the pursuit of Free Trade with Free Nations under the Constitution of the United States!🇺🇸

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

Coach understands the law of the tithe. Open those windows of Heaven insomuch that the locker room can't hold it all.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

UTEP coach Scotty Walden and his wife Callie will donate $80,000—10% of his salary—to Miners' revenue-sharing in 2026, per @espn.

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

I'm all for being fiscally conservative/low taxes, but at some point, you're just destroying public institutions and declaring loudly what you value. @IDLegislature is saying ID doesn't care about education. These decisions will haunt us for generations.
https://t.co/1CUioPpYPa

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

The Man. The Myth. The Legend. @T_Hill4
#ThePrideOfPocatello #RamPower

[HAWK @HawkEmDownChris]

True or False: Someone that attended your high school became a professional athlete.

[Brooklyn Nets @BrooklynNets]

RT IF YOU LOVE EGOR DËMIN

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

This is literally rewriting history. Fiction is now "fact". The MAGA Reich propaganda machine is really cooking.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

words fail at the brazenness of the dishonesty in the White House's new January 6 timeline: https://t.co/PzqdjERpsy

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

I'm sorry, but this is just gross. It's starting to feel very N. Korea-esque with the dear leader worship.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Trump's hand-picked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center, the White House says. https://t.co/hFf5tNZpSG

[Jeff Caldwell @ffejeryc]

This is the way

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Kids are adaptable, as we saw by how quickly they adapted to phone-free schools, and started talking to each other and playing games at lunch.

Australian parents are already reporting that their teens are adapting in positive ways, in @guardian

https://t.co/m229eodZCc

[Shehan Jeyarajah @ShehanJeyarajah]

The thing that ultimately gets me is this: There have been 61 power teams to go 11-1 in the CFP era. Every other one has finished top 10 after the regular season. All but two were top 7.

What is the argument for BYU being uniquely unimpressive among that group? There isn't one.