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[Jeff Eager @Jeff_Eager]

NEW:

Paul C. Emerson of Ontario, OR worked for the local newspaper, owned a home and set 9 fires on 6 days in June & July, per prosecutors.

The wildfires consumed some 14,000 acres and cost at least $1.3M to fight.

Authorities mum re motive. Emerson enters plea today.

[TheLastGroyper @MattthewPace]

Just a quick look at the law that vehicles affiliated with private schools are exempt. They probably have some kind of daycare scam or something going on. Someone posted that Indians all have "New Driver" stickers because they all operate driving schools so they can exempt all the miles they drive. Furthermore, the law says Indian (tribes) are exempt and in court they probably argue that they ARE "Indian" and the law needs to be amended. This is how Indians get get special "Asian and Pacific Island" benefits like loans. There are special loans and benefits for all the poor island territories that the US owns, but Indians identify as Asian and claim them. Chinese/Koreans/Other Asians never went for these because they're not complete bottom feeders. There's a million ways they have exempt tabs.

https://t.co/3IkBQkXEga

[Rip Wheeler @WheelerRipWA]

The Dirty Little Secret of Wildfire

How America Traded Logging Jobs for a Perpetual Firefighting Economy

For much of the 20th century, the forests of the Pacific Northwest were managed as working landscapes. Private timber companies and federal land managers cut, planted, thinned, and tended the land with the understanding that the trees were an asset to be sustained across generations. Clearcuts functioned as firebreaks. Small crews routinely extinguished ignitions before they became news. The result was a regional economy built on living-wage jobs, steady tax revenue for schools and public safety, and forests that, for the most part, stayed green.

Occasional fires occurred. What did not occur were the annual, multi-hundred-thousand-acre, smoke-choked seasons that have become the new normal.

That changed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The northern spotted owl was elevated into the most consequential bird in modern American policy. Scientists and environmental organizations argued that the species required large tracts of old-growth habitat. Petitions, lawsuits, and court orders followed. In June 1990 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the owl as threatened. Federal Judge William Dwyer’s rulings and the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan locked up roughly 24 million acres of federal forest across Oregon, Washington, and northern California.

Federal timber harvests collapsed—often by 80 to 90 percent from 1980s levels in the key regions. Mills closed by the dozens. Supporting businesses disappeared. Unemployment surged. Some communities never fully recovered. Private industrial landowners continued managing their own ground because they still had direct financial skin in the game. Federal and state lands largely stopped being managed for timber production or for systematic fuel reduction at anything approaching the previous scale.

The forests kept growing. Fuels kept accumulating. An ignition that once would have been contained by a small crew with shovels and a radio now found denser, more continuous fuel beds. Large fires (5,000 acres and up) went from relatively rare events in the 1970s to routine occurrences in the 2000s and 2010s. In multiple recent seasons, more timber has burned than the industry harvested in its heyday. The irony is difficult to miss: forests “saved” from chainsaws have been delivered to ash in far greater volume.

Meanwhile, the northern spotted owl’s population has continued to decline across much of its range. Logging was never the primary driver. Competition from the invasive barred owl has proven far more significant, and habitat loss from high-severity fire now ranks high among the threats. The original crisis was urgent enough to trigger listing and sweeping land-use restrictions. The promised recovery under the Northwest Forest Plan has been, at best, incomplete.
The economic and ecological bill arrived in the form of unmanaged fuels and repeated megafires. And that is where the dirty little secret begins.

Once the timber economy on public land was kneecapped, a new industry rose to replace it. Wildland firefighting—suppression, logistics, aviation, camps, contracts, and the supporting apparatus—became a multi-billion-dollar annual enterprise. Agencies and contractors employ thousands. Budgets are large and sticky. In government, “use it or lose it” is not a slogan; it is an operating principle. A quiet fire season is a budgeting risk. Early, aggressive attack on every ignition that could still be handled by a small crew is expensive in the short term and reduces the later need for the full apparatus. Allowing fires to grow until they justify emergency declarations, large incident management teams, and federal cost-share arrangements is, from a certain bureaucratic perspective, rational and financially advantageous.

Local structural firefighters and many ground-level wildland crews do not share this incentive structure. They want the fire out. Once a fire reaches a certain size or complexity, however, control shifts upward to state and federal incident management teams whose metrics, funding streams, and political realities are different.

Neither major political party has shown a strong appetite for fixing the underlying problem. One side treats any expansion of active management or commercial thinning as an assault on old growth and the owl. The other side speaks frequently about forest health but rarely forces the structural changes in litigation risk, planning timelines, and budget incentives that would actually move the needle at scale. Campaign contributions and jobs flow from the existing system. Admitting that the original policy overcorrected and produced a more dangerous landscape remains politically costly.

Climate change and longer fire seasons are real factors. Drier fuels and hotter summers make everything worse. But denser, less-managed forests on the public estate are the accelerant that policy deliberately chose. Private industrial lands are managed more intensively and still burn, yet the severity is generally lower. Young plantations and certain silvicultural choices create their own risks, but private owners retain a direct financial reason to keep fuels in check and respond quickly. Public lands under the post-owl regime largely do not.

Oregon and the broader region now hold more trees than they did in the 1920s, largely because private landowners continued to replant. They also experience more catastrophic fire. The government did not “save” the forest. It changed who controlled the management decisions and, in the process, swapped a productive industry for a perpetual emergency-response industry. The owl was the symbol. The lasting result is a landscape that burns bigger, rural economies that never fully healed, and a political class with limited incentive to alter the arrangement. Instead of market-driven capital allocation, the new system runs on taxpayer subsidies.

Households and businesses understand that money spent inefficiently is money gone. Government tends to treat the same dollars as an everlasting well. Until the incentives change—until early detection, aggressive initial attack, mechanical thinning where appropriate, and genuine long-term forest management are rewarded more than the sheer size of the suppression effort—the same pattern will continue every summer: more smoke, more lost timber, more money spent, and the same speeches about how hard everyone is fighting the fires that policy helped create.

[Mckenzie Richmond @kenziestuvland]

‼️⚠️Hazmat crews are on the scene of a sulfuric acid leak on Hayden Island after a tanker truck pulled off I-5.
About 100 gallons entered the storm drainage system before crews could cover the drain. Acid is still leaking out of the 5,000 gallon tank.
Firefighters are actively working to stop the leak and safely clean up the scene.
Portland Fire says there is no immediate concern for people shopping at Jantzen Beach.
I’ll bring you the latest updates on @fox12oregon

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

Not good

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: Video shows F-16 fighter jets INTERCEPTING planes violating flight restrictions over Trump National Bedminster in NJ, where President Trump is

Per NORAD, MULTIPLE planes have been intercepted today.

Keep 47 safe!🙏🏻

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

An American woman pulled out of her car at gunpoint, twice in one week, because her vehicle was mistakenly flagged in Flock's AI software?

This is my shocked face 🤨

Demand your 4th Amendment rights be restored accordingly...

#CityLife #police #crime #PoliceState #4thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #flock #SurveillanceState #StandingArmy

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

The moment the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manizales, Colombia, partially collapsed as a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the region.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I figure the jig is up and the time has come. I have to get ahead of this before they get me. I have to confess.

Through the 2010s, I made many trips to China to train for two weeks at a time. I do not know if these trips were specifically organized by the CCP or its officials, but I do know that I traveled on a ten-year visa that had been arranged in an agreement between President Barack Obama and Chairman Xi Jinping.

Training was grueling, actually. We woke up before dawn, trained through the morning and into the afternoon. After lunch, we continued our training through the day. In the evening, we watched televised programming depicting Chinese military dramas and victories on the CCTV stations. They were like a cross between an old Western and Miami Vice and had low-budget graphics and special effects typical of kids shows. The shows were in Mandarin, so I don't know what they were actually about, but it was clear that we were to get a cultural message from the exciting scenes.

We would do this training with our professor every day for two weeks except the one day in the middle, during which we would take a trip into the city, namely Beijing, the Northern Capital. Then we would be shuttled back to the airport and leave the country without further activities.

We were training in the art of conservative subversion, which has many components. In the morning, we trained chefangong, particularly the skills associated with zhuroujiaozi and jiandan. At midday, we trained the sword. In the afternoons, we trained techniques of "entering," or jinlai. Evenings were described above.

On our day in the city, we were usually to be found taking traditional tea near the Gate of Heaven's Peace, and then we would take public transportation to train special "Golden Tripod" chefangong before being bussed in the dark back to our main training compound.

None of us knew where it was.

We trained with the well-known professor Da Yinjing, of international fame. His skill in "entering" was said to be unmatched. "You must learn the skill of entering into narrow placed without causing alarm," he would say. My codename was Pangde, which is a testament to my capabilities. I never learned what it means.

In 2019, my training was complete, and I returned from China for the last time to begin my mission, to enter with the spirit of Da Yinjing into the conservative movement and prevent the true right from ever arising. My penetration had been incredibly successful for a long time until I was at last caught.

Now my biggest secret is about to come out. I wanted you all to know, straight from me.

[PNW Conservative @PNWConservative]

The Wright Spring Fire 📍 Klamath Oregon

A dozer operator has already lost his life.

Pray for them.

[Trust In Trump 47🇺🇸 @Trustintrump47]

🚨 BOOM! JAMES O’KEEFE JUST DROPPED A NUKE — WIDESPREAD VOTE BUYING RING EXPOSED NATIONWIDE AS DEMS (AND SECRET RINOS) PAY $5-$8 PER BALLOT TO RIG EVERY ELECTION!

Undercover footage catches these hired guns openly bragging: “I’m bringing in 3500 votes”… “He was paying me $5k a month, now it’s $8k!” Even judges and Texas Republicans caught secretly working for Democrats while funneling thousands of fake ballots!

This is the Deep State’s desperate election theft machine in action — our Republic is being sold out in broad daylight for chump change!

We NEED the SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSED IMMEDIATELY + MASS ARRESTS and PROSECUTIONS for these treasonous fraudsters before they steal 2026 too!

Follow @Trustintrump47 for more intel drops.

[Mckenzie Richmond @kenziestuvland]

‼SHOOTING CAUGHT ON CAMERA: 3 teenagers have been arrested in connection to a shooting at a Gresham apartment complex last weekend.
Two of the teens are just 14-years-old, the third suspect is 19-year-old Cruz Otzoy Aguilar.
Police say surveillance footage shows all 3 suspects walk up together, pull out guns, and start shooting at someone. Then, Aguilar comes back with an AR style riffle.
Police say Aguilar shot a 17-year-old boy who is in the hospital with critical injuries.

[Mens_Corner__ @Mens_Corner__]

This would have kept me occupied for the summer as a child

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

There were so many heroes in the In-N-out Idaho shooting.

Bless all these people that were just trying to look out for their neighbors.

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

I visited Seattle’s $165 million dollar downtown library and it was OVERRUN with drug addicts.

Not only is this library filled with adults who are high on drugs, but they also offer FREE fentanyl test strips, syringes and injectable narcan that anyone, including children, can access.

Visitors have complained of “foul odors”, unusable restrooms and harassment by the homeless and I experienced all of this while at this location.

Seattle residents just passed a tax increase to raise $480 million dollars for libraries just like this one and this is unfortunately the state that they’re in:

[PNW Conservative @PNWConservative]

Arsonist Destruction.

Exacerbated by Democrats and leftist government refusing to properly manage forests.

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

WATCH: Police have released new surveillance footage from the Twin Falls, Idaho, shooting that left three people dead and seven injured. The gunman later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

[America Pulse News @AmericaPulseNew]

🚨 The SSN linked to Barack Obama (042-68-4425) was originally issued in 1977 to a French immigrant named Jean Paul Ludwig who lived in Connecticut.
Obama never lived there. Ludwig later died in Hawaii, where Obama’s grandmother worked in the probate office with access to deceased people’s records.

The claim: the number was never properly retired and was quietly used by Obama. Using someone else’s SSN is fraud.
Stay tuned.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@AmericaPulseNew

[PNW Conservative @PNWConservative]

People keep saying these videos are AI.

No, these are real videos.

What you see is the consequence of 40 years of forest mismanagement combined with arsonists.