Eight sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group attempted suicide during their most recent deployment. That was nine months at sea under sustained combat operations, with no scheduled port calls. This one hits home. Our co-founder deployed aboard the Lincoln. We know that ship and that life, and we know the weight these sailors and Marines carry. We're grateful none of them were lost. Shipmates stepped in, and that matters. But eight attempts is eight warriors who reached a breaking point while still in the fight. At @NoFallenHeroes Foundation, our focus is healing our heroes after they come home. We're encouraged that the Department of Defense is now funding clinical research on psychedelic-assisted therapy for active-duty service members. Those who serve deserve every effective tool available now, while they're serving, not years after they get out. That's especially true at today's ops tempo. We also can't forget the families. Our other co-founder @SuziNFH knows this all too well. Spouses, children and parents carry this deployment too, and they need care, answers and support. Veterans and our active duty heroes are not broken. Suicide is preventable. Trauma is treatable. NFHF stands ready to help the sailors, the families and the command in any way we can. If you or someone you love is struggling, call 988 and press 1, or text 838255. Help is available 24/7.

This week @RollingStone asked whether America is in the middle of a psychedelic religious revival. We believe it is. And a revival asks something of the people inside it. The article counts at least 700 churches now gathering around sacred plant medicine. Our co-founder, Matthew "Whiz" Buckley, is a TOPGUN graduate who flew combat sorties over Iraq and served fifteen years in uniform. His wounds started long before the cockpit. He survived horrific childhood trauma and learned early what so many warriors learn: bury it, lock it down, keep flying. The military rewarded that discipline. Fighter aviation added to the weight. When the weight got too heavy, he numbed it, and addiction became one more burden hidden behind the mission. For decades he carried what so many veterans, first responders, and families carry, moving further from God, from his bride, and from his purpose. In sacred ceremony, he met God directly. No intermediary. No filter. In his words: "On my knees God washed away my sins and said: 'Matthew…I don't make imperfect things.'" He calls it the most spiritual and religious experience of his five decades. It brought him back to God, to his wife Suzi, to his family, and to his mission. He returned home. Then came the call to build a church, so that other warriors and seekers could make the same journey inside a fellowship built to hold it. That means doctrine, written down and lived out. Ordained clergy. Covenant membership. Ceremony held in prayer, with preparation before and integration after, because an encounter with God is where the walk begins. Many of the people in the Rolling Stone story met God alone. What they found is real. We believe the walk that follows is meant to be taken together. At Sacred Warrior Fellowship, everyone stands on level ground. Our clergy walk beside you, never above you. The only guru in the room is you. Christ said the Kingdom of God is within you. Our role is to stand watch while you meet God for yourself, and to walk the road with you in fellowship after. The veterans and first responders who come to us have lived their lives under oath and structure. They know what discipline protects. They carry weight most people never see. Every seeker who walks through our doors, warrior or not, is looking for the same thing: communion. The Kingdom of God within, the mind of Christ, the road back to the Father. Revival without roots burns out. We're here to put down roots. Return Home. Read more below. @SuziNFH @NoFallenHeroes

I had just been hired by American Airlines. My first trip was scheduled for September 11, 2001. A week later I was furloughed. The airline career was gone, and with it our healthcare and my retirement. Everything except my family. Our son Matthew was a little over a year old. So I went to work. Five jobs in two years: - Navy Reserve pilot 'bum', paying the mortgage. - Real estate agent. - Defense contractor, testing F/A-18 simulators. - Corporate speaker and consultant. - And actor - a Disney movie, another feature film, Ford commercials, and a Captain D's Seafood spot. I can't stand fish. I worked enough to get SAG healthcare. My wife Suzi waitressed nights at Buca di Beppo. I'd bring Matthew in to eat the free family meal, then go home, put him to bed, and search for more work online. We barely saw each other for months. My sister Monica was killed at 19 by a drunk driver when she was a freshman at Villanova. We found out that she carried a Calvin Coolidge quote in her purse: "Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent." Two years later I was Managing Director of Strategy at a multi-billion dollar equity options arbitrage firm in the Chicago Board of Trade. Then I founded and a media company that rivaled CNBC, while still flying fighters in the Reserve. Not because I was the smartest person in the room. Because I refused to quit. A competitor launches the product you were eight months from shipping. Your biggest client walks. The budget gets cut in the third quarter. The plan your team built its whole year around disappears overnight. How long do they stand still? And who gets them moving? Link in the first comment. Fight's On! @SuziNFH

The S&P is up over 1% today on one headline. $SPY Trump heads to New York for the UN and says he's open to meeting Iran's President Pezeshkian directly. Not a deal. Not a framework. Not even a confirmed meeting. Just the possibility of two men in a room. That's how much geopolitical risk premium is baked into this tape. Now imagine an actual agreement. Crude has been living above $100. There's a diesel crisis underneath it that almost nobody is talking about. Diesel moves every truck, train and ship in this country, and it feeds straight into the inflation number Warsh just hiked over. A deal takes pressure off oil, off diesel, off inflation, and off the Fed. That's four tailwinds at once. And the midterms are six weeks out. Whatever your politics, that timing raises the odds Washington pushes hard for a deal this month. Position for the incentive, not the headline. Talks fail. Stay structured. Meanwhile, $HELP popped this morning. I placed a trade on it last week. The psychedelic sector keeps stacking catalysts while most of the market treats it as a curiosity. My members got my brand-new psychedelic sector report at the open. You can have it free. Report and today's Market Outlook are in the first comment. Fight's On!

EGO - Edge God Out. At Sacred Warrior Fellowship, we believe that when we sit in sacred ceremony, the ego gets a chance to step aside. And when the noise quiets - the stories, the fear, the judgment, the need to control - what remains is what we believe is God. Not somewhere outside of us. Not some faraway place. Within us. There are no “gurus” here. No one stands between you and God. Our Stewards serve; they do not mediate. We are all walking each other home. Our role is simply to walk alongside our members on their individual journeys - to hold sacred space, to serve, and to help them remember a truth that changed everything for our founder: God does not make imperfect things ✝️ You are not here to become someone else. You are here to remember who you have always been. If this calls to you, reach out. Membership in the Fellowship comes first - our next gathering for members in good standing is October 9–11. Return Home. 🙏

No market SITREP from me yesterday. That was deliberate. I wanted the Fed decision and the market's reaction before I said a word. Anyone publishing a take before that print was guessing. Here's the read: The Fed hiked 25 basis points. Fed funds to 3.75%–4%. First increase since 2023. Warsh said exactly what he's been saying since Jackson Hole - inflation is still too high. He's doing what he told you he'd do. The market just didn't believe him. Now look at the calendar. This hike landed about seven weeks before an election. Two years ago, at nearly the same spot on the calendar - seven weeks before a presidential election - the Fed cut 50 basis points. Same position. Opposite direction. Draw your own conclusions. But don't tell me the calendar, or politics, are irrelevant to this institution. So is it one and done? You don't need tea leaves. The Fed's own projections show one more hike before year end. That's the committee telling you in writing what it plans to do. Half this market spent 2026 positioned for cuts. They're two moves offside now. And one thing that's checkable: in a free public session last week I placed a bearish S&P 500 position live, on screen, before any of this. Oil above $100. AI fears. A rate hike nobody wanted to price. It's working - not because I predicted the Fed. Nobody did. Because it was structured for a tape where several things could break at once, with max loss defined before entry. A crystal ball isn't a strategy. A plan is. Brief and the link in the first comment. Fight's On! $NVDA $SPCX $SPY