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Check out this article from Times-News: 99% oppose Roadless Rule elimination. Why it may happen anyway https://www.blueridgenow.com/story/news/local/2026/10/05/roadless-rule-repeal-public-opposition-wnc/92055283007/ Pete 🤓 and Zeke 🐶

ICE had ‘systemic breakdowns in vetting’ when hiring  Ignacio Calderon, Victoria Moorwood and David Ulloa Jr USA TODAY Flush with cash to fulfill President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began a hiring spree last year that more than doubled its number of agents and officers. In the first half of this year, nearly 3,000 have left ICE, a record number according to a new data  analysis by USA TODAY. Historically, most who leave the agency retire. But this year the majority who parted ways with ICE quit or were fired. In just the first half of 2026, more people have quit than in any other full calendar year since 2012, the first available year of data from the federal Office of Personnel Management. Terminations so far this year are higher than the whole decade before the second Trump  administration combined. The median tenure for people who quit this year was six months – it was under four months for those who were t...

  BYD is just one of the many dynamic high-tech companies that are coming out of China. China has been working steadily to become the manufacturing Hub of the world and if you look around your house, I think you’re gonna find at least half of the stuff you have is labeled made in China now this latest effort to impose tariffs on everything. Maybe there is a noble cause, but I don’t get it I think as the video points out by creating tariffs and isolating your economy from competition you tend to slow down because you know you have an artificial barrier between you and the free market. Ironically, Republicans were all about free market capitalism for the last who knows 50 years Suddenly under Trump. He’s all about alienating all allies and putting tariffs on all the things we eat and live with every day now I have 1000 shares of BYD. It’s a great progressive company started on a thin dime building batteries and then building their company up into what they call vertical integration w...

 Although I don’t like the constant solicitation to Subscribe, I think the philosophy being offered and the freedom this channel exercises to publish it, is a vital part of free speech and I’m concerned that, much like Spinoza faced in his own time, our freedoms of thought and speech are under attack by the powerful right now during these modern times. Fear and Hope, two motivating passions… and that Spinoza points out that sadly Fear is the greater of these two. Fear that immigrants are invading America. Fear that white people are the victims of racism. Fear that if we think with reason that god will punish us. Fear of death… isn’t that the foundation of it all? Fear of Death! The whole industry of religion is built on it. Thank god, religion at least gives some credit to the value of virtue and good behavior but it can quickly abandon those values in favor of those that favor social conformity and faith in a charismatic figure that tells its believers that they are better than ev...