There was a deputy-involved shooting on Thursday afternoon, June 11, 2026, in the Peachtree community (Ferguson Road area) of Cherokee County, North Carolina.

According to Cherokee County Sheriff Chris Wood and local news reports:

• Deputies responded around 4:20 p.m. to a welfare check at a residence involving school-aged children. Additional information indicated a woman at the home had allegedly pointed a firearm at her girlfriend.
• Deputies encountered 41-year-old Trista Danielle Hughes of Murphy, NC, in a Toyota pickup truck in the driveway.
• As a deputy approached and issued commands, Hughes produced a Glock handgun and pointed it at him.
• The deputy fired multiple rounds in response to the immediate threat, striking Hughes at least once in the chest. The firearm remained inside the vehicle, allowing deputies to safely detain her and secure the weapon.
• The deputy was not injured. Hughes continued to be combative and resisted while deputies and EMS provided medical assistance.
• She was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga with non-life-threatening injuries. After treatment, she attempted to leave the hospital and was detained by the Chattanooga Police Department.

Hughes has been charged with assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm; additional charges may follow. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is conducting an independent investigation. The incident was captured on the deputy’s body camera, as required by department policy.

Sheriff Wood stated that the shooting was in response to an immediate threat and noted: “This incident is not the outcome that anyone wanted… However, it serves as a reminder of the dangers law enforcement officers face every day…” He emphasized the office’s commitment to transparency and said more information would be released as the investigation allows.

And the worst part: they overvalue the property.

Huckabee is a disgrace to the country and to Christianity.

If you were working for the North Carolina taxpayers, you would eliminate property taxes for all counties.

Continuing a trend of increasingly dismal projections, Social Security’s trustees have revised their prediction of when the massive benefit program’s trust fund will run out of money, moving it to the fourth quarter of 2032, sooner than last year’s projection that the money will run out in 2033. They attributed most of the the change to declining fertility rates and immigration, along with tax reductions included in Trump’s 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). 

When the trust fund runs out, money will still be coming into the program via ongoing taxes from workers and self-employed individuals. However, without the ability to tap the trust fund, the program won’t be able to keep paying out full benefits. Under the law governing the program, insufficient assets means payouts must be cut for all beneficiaries by a uniform percentage. In their report posted on Tuesday, the trustees projected that benefits will have to be slashed by 22% in 2032.

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From Grok:

Current Political and Economic System

Russia is officially a democratic federal law-governed state with a republican form of government and a multi-party system. Key points from its constitution include:

• Recognition of ideological diversity — no ideology (including Communism) may be established as a state or obligatory ideology. constituteproject.org
• Protection of private property, economic freedom, competition, and multiple forms of ownership (private, state, municipal, etc.).
• A secular state with separation of religion and state.

In practice, Russia operates as an authoritarian regime under President Vladimir Putin, with significant state control over key sectors (often described as “state capitalism”). It has a market economy with private businesses, billionaires, stock markets, and inequality — features incompatible with classical Communism.

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It seems that most people do not understand the current governmental structure of Russia. They also do not seem to understand that Russia is a majority white, Christian nation. I wonder why our “government” and the EU continue to spread propaganda concerning Russia and other nations. Could it be that we are the baddies?