5,000 unicastings and counting!
For our new affordable midsize electric truck, the @Ford Fathom, we aren't stripping out features customers want. We're innovating. We have fundamentally reimagined how we design and manufacture vehicles to make them more affordable.
These aluminum castings replace 146 structural parts with just two, reducing weight, improving efficiency and enabling our new Universal Production System at the Louisville Assembly Plant, which allows us to build major sections of the vehicle simultaneously before bringing them together.
Great progress by our teams! Excited for what's ahead!
Filling up a Ford F-150 truck now costs about $100, up $30 from a year ago. Mortgage rates have jumped to levels that have depressed home sales. And for the past 12 months, consumer prices have risen faster than paychecks, making the average family poorer.
This is absolutely insane.
Homeowners in Magnolia Cove, a neighborhood in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, are watching their HOA fees spiral completely out of control.
Earlier this year, residents were paying $350 a month. In June, those fees jumped to $1,250. Now, just four months later, the HOA has voted to DOUBLE them again to $2,500 A MONTH.
And believe it or not, it could have been even worse. The HOA had initially proposed raising the fees to an unbelievable $7,500 a month. That’s $90,000 a year!
The final approved amount of $2,500 still means homeowners are expected to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees alone, compared to just $4,200 annually earlier this year.
Some residents are now worried about liens, foreclosure, and bankruptcy because they simply cannot afford these increases.
Imagine working your entire life to buy a home, only to have an HOA increase your fees by more than 600% in a matter of months and potentially force you out of your own house.
How the hell is this even allowed to happen?
NEW TODAY: The Ford government plans to spend billions more this year — but not on sectors that say they desperately need it, like health care and education.
Ontario’s fall economic statement sets aside $3.8 billion in a contingency fund, more than double what was budgeted in March, to provide "fiscal flexibility" amid ongoing economic uncertainty.
The province is also projecting a $16.9 billion deficit, and has pushed back its timeline to balance the books.
At @Ford, we want to make the best technology available to the many, not just the few. We want to make products that have great tech, while still being affordable.
In 2027, our new electric truck, Ford Fathom, is going to show that it’s possible to deliver an incredible vehicle with incredible tech and incredible value. One technology I’m excited to announce is coming to Fathom is bidirectional power and the ability to use your vehicle to power your house.
Our team of amazing engineers developed a better, more efficient and more affordable way to bring more than 10 kW of home power—without a separate wall-mounted inverter—to a truck with an MSRP below $30,000.
Making the technology more accessible is one part of the work. We’re also working with utilities to make connecting these vehicles simpler and scalable.
Thanks to American Electric Power, @bchydro, @ConsumersEnergy, @Exelon, and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (@PGE4Me) for being among the first utilities to work with us.
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🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in North Carolina after an HOA just DOUBLED monthly fees to **$2,500/MONTH** for homeowners who were paying just $158/month just five years ago...
...and the homeowners say the HOA board tried to charge homeowners $7,500/MONTH JUST IN HOA FEES!!!!!!!
On Monday night, the board backed off $7,500...
...but voted to DOUBLE fees to $2,500 a month instead.
Yes, $30,000 a year just to LIVE IN YOUR HOME THAT YOU BOUGHT.
Nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what families were paying a few years ago.
Families who bought what they thought were their forever homes are now being told to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees, or GO INTO FORECLOSURE!!!!!!
The neighborhood is Magnolia Cove in Sherrills Ford, Catawba County NC.
Jill Menson and her husband bought their house believing it would be their LAST home and five years ago, their HOA fee was $158 a month.
This summer it shot up to more than $1,200.
Plus a $10,000 ASSESSMENT on top of that.
On Monday night, the HOA board voted to raise fees AGAIN, from $1,250 to $2,500 a month.
That’s nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what they paid five years ago.
And the meeting?
It was held over ZOOM.
Menson says they’ll be forced out with nowhere to go, because no one will buy a house carrying fees like that.
So they went to the state for help.
The North Carolina Attorney General’s office told Channel 9 there are NO STATUTES limiting how much an HOA can charge.
None.
As long as the board follows its own documents, it can charge whatever it wants.
In Jill Menson’s words:
“Nobody is helping us.”
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!
In Nevada, there are three candidates running for governor. One, Danielle Ford, is running w/o a party affiliation. Ford happens to share the last name of the Democrat on the ticket, Aaron Ford.
Different from Alaska, in that it's not the first name that's shared, too.
However...
Danielle Ford is being boosted by a mysterious PAC. That PAC has ties to Republicans. It's office is "a mailbox office rental company in the same commercial complex as" the Republican in the race: Gov. Joe Lombardo.
Is this Alaska-like? Maybe. Maybe not. A shared office space doesn't necessarily mean coordination. But it's certainly interesting.
Does it show that these shady things happen all over the place, yeah. And there's plenty more examples, too.
Our team has updated the @Ford app to work with Apple iPhone Duo. Looks great! especially the open view. If you have the Duo, update the app and let me know what you think.
Raising interest rates right now is a massive mistake.
Higher rates won’t get oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz or lower tariffs on Canadian businesses. They will only make life more expensive for Canadian families and workers, punishing them for something they can’t control.
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Hey @grok who funds the biggest protest and activist groups in the US, and how much do they spend each year?
Name the top 5 donors. 10 lines max, no disclaimers.
Major US protest and activist networks (Indivisible, ACLU affiliates, unions, Sunrise, others) involve hundreds of groups with combined annual revenues of $2-3 billion per tax data and investigations.
Primary funding flows from large foundations and billionaires via grants for civic engagement, advocacy and organizing.
Top donors by reported grants: Open Society Foundations (Soros family), Hansjörg Wyss entities (Berger Action Fund), Arabella Advisors network (Sixteen Thirty Fund), Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation (pass-through).
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RENJUN x TOM FORD has surpassed 1 MILLION already…more…‼️🥳‼️
🎤 “ We passed 1 million a while ago! Our 孩子Aegi hasn’t even finished live today, and we’ve already hit 1 million!
All of you who love him like a son must be so proud!”
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The Ford government was warned about potential OSAP fraud years ago. They refused to act, and now students and taxpayers are paying the price.
On Monday, @OntLiberal are forcing a vote to demand a full forensic audit by the Auditor General.
What did they know, when did they know it, and why did they let it happen?
Doug Ford’s Conservatives have a choice: transparency or secrecy.
Sign the petition:
Contact your MPP. #onpoli@LFairclo
Republicans running a second "Ford" for Governor in Nevada. This Ford also has a fake endorsement from AOC. Why isn't the New York times all over this?
Ford’s DIGITAL ID PLAN Is the Foundation of the SURVEILLANCE STATE!!
The Ford government is rolling out digital IDs in Ontario, starting with the Photo Card and expanding to driver’s licences and health cards.
This is being sold as convenient, secure, and cost-effective, but in reality this is the foundation of a broader surveillance system.
In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth examines the risks: dependence on phones, exclusion of seniors and rural residents, the history of “optional” systems becoming mandatory and the potential for digital IDs to later link to banking, travel, medical records, and more.
Dan also questions the promised 2027 legislation protecting paper IDs and the long-term implications once centralized digital identity infrastructure is in place.
If you value privacy and physical alternatives, the message is clear: don’t opt in, stick to physical cards, and
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