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In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸
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One and done fence posts, and dimensional building material.
This is peak American ingenuity.
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This is what I will be building all my fences out of from here on out, and I got deck ideas for his 2x6 and 4x8 sheet.
Hit this guy up, he is just like us, This dude is Henry Ford level genius.
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Orleana Hawks Puckett was an absolute legend in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia as a highly successful midwife, having delivered over 1,000 babies in her lifetime.
Born in North Carolina around 1844, Puckett married at 16 and moved near Groundhog Mountain in Patrick County, Virginia. In 1862 she gave birth to her first child, who died seven months later, then followed the same pattern for 23 more children, none living long enough to speak.
At the age of 50 she was forced to help a neighbor deliver a child, alone on the mountain, and that is when she found her calling. Over the next 50 years she walked miles through mountains, never charging a dime, to deliver over 1000 babies, and she never lost a mother or child.
She never got to truly experience being a mother, despite giving birth 24 times, but she made sure no mother in her care ever had to feel that pain. She was one of the finest to come from the Appalachian Mountains.
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Root your hearts in the firm foundation of God's love for you. Discover the Heart of Christ, and do not be afraid to build your lives upon Him (1 Jn 4:16). In doing so, you will not only find the fullness you seek, but you will also be able to share with those around you the warmth of God's love and the reconciling power of His grace.
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This memorial stone was dedicated to 110 aborted babies whose remains were reportedly recovered from a medical waste box in DC.
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In December 2020, Father Valentine Oluchukwu Ezeagu, a Nigerian Catholic priest, was driving to his father’s funeral in Imo State when four armed men suddenly ambushed his vehicle and kidnapped him.
For 36 terrifying hours he remained in captivity, unsure if he would ever see his family again.
Instead of panicking, Fr. Valentine reached for his rosary beads and began praying the Rosary aloud, still dressed in his cassock. His voice was steady as he invoked the powerful intercession of Our Lady. His captors watched him in silence.
Something extraordinary happened. The armed men became uneasy and troubled. A guilty conscience gripped them. They gave him food and, on the evening of December 16, released him completely unharmed. They even admitted they had taken the wrong person. The power of the Rosary had touched their hearts.
Today, this powerful testimony reminds us that the Rosary is a mighty weapon in times of danger and darkness. Our Lady never abandons her children who call upon her with trust. Never underestimate the power of persistent prayer.
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The Yankee is a peculiar thing. My father used to say a Yankee isn’t always tied to a place on the map—it’s a state of mind.
You’ll recognize it quick enough: that condescending, self-righteous air. The habit of judging people they’ve never met and places they’ve never set foot in. For a couple centuries now, they’ve tried to brand Southerners as uneducated hicks. Back in the 19th century, abolitionists were publishing to the world that Southerners were ignorant, morally bankrupt, not even fit to exist.
Sound familiar?
The modern progressive, in many ways, isn’t all that far removed from the same spirit. Back then, radical abolitionists celebrated John Brown after he butchered innocent, non-slaveholding civilians—and today, you’ll find those same kinds of people cheering the death of men like Charlie Kirk or openly encouraging violence against anyone who dares challenge their worldview.
It reminds me of the scene from Ride with the Devil--the one time Hollywood got it right.
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Wells contaminated. Barns gone. Pastures washed to bedrock.
The farmers and homesteaders who feed Western NC got $3 million out of $225 million in federal relief.
The rest? Bureaucratic paperwork, affordable apartment complexes, pet projects.
This is what abandoned looks like. @YanasaTV @beefinitiative
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This is the story of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the saint of the little way - She never performed a public miracle.
She never left her convent. She died at 24, unknown to the world.
But today, she’s a Doctor of the Church, and one of the most powerful saints in Heaven.
Thérèse Martin was born in 1873 to devout French parents (both canonized saints).
Sensitive, passionate, and deeply spiritual, she desired only one thing from childhood: to love Jesus with all her heart.
And she meant it.
By age 15, she begged the Pope Leo XIII to let her enter the Carmelite convent.
He was stunned.But she was unshakable.
She entered, took the veil and began what she called “the little way” a hidden path of radical love, sacrifice, and humility.
Thérèse wanted to be great.
A saint. A missionary. A martyr.
But illness and cloistered life kept her unseen.
So she gave God everything—in the small things.
She smiled when mocked.
She stayed silent when insulted.
She offered up suffering with joy.
She said: “I will seek out a means of getting to Heaven by a little way—very short and very straight.”
“To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.”
To the world, she was small. To Heaven, she was a giant.
She suffered from tuberculosis in her final years.
Her nights were filled with pain, temptation, and even spiritual darkness.
But she held fast: “I have never relied on myself. I have always relied solely on God.”
Before she died in 1897, she said:
“I want to spend my Heaven doing good on Earth.”
“After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses.”
And she kept her word.
Miracles began. Healings, conversions, spiritual awakenings.
People all over the world testified to her intercession.
Her autobiography, Story of a Soul, spread like wildfire millions have read it and wept.
I can attest to its power personally. Reading her book changed my life.
During World War I, French soldiers began reporting something strange: A young Carmelite nun in white would appear beside them in the trenches.
She warned them of danger guided them to safety and healed their wounds.
They later recognized her in a photo. It was Thérèse.
But one of the most beautiful stories from her intercession comes from before she ever entered the Carmel. Thérèse set her eyes on a soul:
A brutal murderer named Henri Pranzini was sentenced to death. He showed no remorse. Refused a priest. Everyone gave up on him.
But Thérèse didn’t.
She offered rosaries, sacrifices, tears, all for his conversion. On the day of his execution, just before the blade fell, Pranzini seized the crucifix and kissed it three times.
Thérèse wept with joy.
“This was my first child,” she wrote.
“Jesus had given me the soul I asked for.”
Even murderers couldn’t escape her love.
In 1925, she was canonized.
In 1997, 100 years after her death, Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church.
She joins St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas… and she never wrote a single theological treatise.
Her theology was love. And her little way works.
St. Thérèse is now one of the most beloved saints in history. She is Patroness of florists, foreign missions, loss of parents, priests, and the sick.
She is an example for anyone who feels small because her strength was childlike trust in God, and God made her do wonders.
When you feel too small to make a difference, remember the cloistered girl who shook the world, not by being seen, but by loving in secret.
And by God's will she became everything she wanted. A missionary, a martyr and a warrior.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux, pray for us!
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I've been telling everyone for over a year now to stop scrolling and start reading.
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In 1906, 23-year-old seminarian Charles Anne was dying of advanced pulmonary tuberculosis. His lungs were ravaged — a deep cavity in the right lung, destroyed bronchi, and tuberculosis bacilli confirmed in tests. Doctors had given up all hope.
In late August, he took to his bed, believing it was his final night. In desperation, he prayed fervently to Thérèse of Lisieux, who had died just nine years earlier in 1897, entrusting his life to her intercession.
The next morning, everything had changed.
The examining doctor was stunned. He testified:
“The destroyed and ravaged lungs had been replaced by new lungs, carrying out their normal functions and about to revive the entire organism. A slight emaciation persists, which will disappear within a few days under a regularly assimilated diet.”
This instantaneous and medically inexplicable cure was one of the two miracles officially recognized for St. Thérèse’s beatification by Pope Pius XI on April 29, 1923. Two more miracles followed, leading to her canonization as a saint on May 17, 1925.
Father Charles Anne lived a long, active life as a priest and chaplain in Lisieux — a living testimony to Thérèse’s promise:
“I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.”
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St. Thérèse’s “Little Way” of childlike trust, love, and surrender teaches us that no situation is ever too hopeless for God’s grace. In our own struggles — physical, emotional, or spiritual — let us turn to her with simple, confident hearts.
St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, pray for us!
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98% of all homicides are carried out by women. Worse yet their primary victims are the innocent unborn babies. Never let a feminist get away with the false claim that men are more violent.
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This should stop every parent in their tracks.
In 1994 Japan ended all mandatory vaccines for babies under two years old.
The outcome? Japan now has one of the lowest infant mortality rates on the planet.
America? Highest infant mortality of all industrialized nations.
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In 1994 Japan reclassified childhood vaccines from mandatory to recommended but maintained high uptake rates of 95-99%, similar to or higher than the US. Its low infant mortality is due to universal healthcare and other factors, not reduced vaccination. apnews.com/article/fact-c… fullfact.org/health/Japan-U…
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The world's tallest church is about to get its crown.
On June 10, 2026, exactly 100 years after Antoni Gaudí's death, the Sagrada Família will inaugurate the four-armed cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ.
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Young French Catholics are restoring damaged crosses & crucifixes throughout all of France!
Young French Catholic volunteers, gathered in the SOS Calvaires association, are restoring damaged crosses and crucifixes throughout France.
The movement has recently gained momentum with young volunteers refurbishing wooden crosses — often vandalized or deteriorated by time.
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A Religious Sister of the Dominican Sisters of Mary Immaculate Province (Tỉnh Dòng ĐỨC MARIA VÔ NHIỄM) in Houston, Texas placing a floral crown on a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as other Sisters hold candles. Photo from the Sisters' website at houstondominicans.org/photoa….
ALT A Religious Sister of the Dominican Sisters of Mary Immaculate Province is standing on a chair or stool and using both hands to place a crown of yellow flowers on the head of a white statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Two more Sisters are standing on either side of her, each holding a lit candle in a gold colored metal stand. Other Sisters are at the edge of the picture holding song sheets. The Sisters are wearing white habits with black veils, black belts, and large rosaries hanging from their belts. There is a plant with purple flowers in a pot next to the statue.