House GOP Looks To Push SAVE Act Through In Way Senate Dems Cannot Stop It

By William Teach July 21, 2026 – 10:30 am

OK?

Johnson’s strategy to bypass Democrats’ SAVE Act blockade survives key vote, handing GOP big win

Speaker Mike Johnson’s latest bid to skirt Democrats’ opposition to an election integrity bill backed by President Donald Trump survived a key hurdle on Monday evening.

The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has faced significant headwinds in Congress despite having Trump’s full-throated support. While it passed the House, the legislation has struggled in the Senate where at least several Democratic votes are needed to break a filibuster and advance to final passage.

But the new plan by Johnson, R-La., which would allow key parts of the bill to skirt Democrats entirely, is one step closer to getting a House-wide vote sometime this week.

Republicans would erase the need for any Democratic buy-in by putting key elements of the SAVE America Act into a larger budget reconciliation bill. The reconciliation process allows the party in power to pass sweeping fiscal policy reforms without input from their opposition by lowering the Senate’s threshold for passage to line up with the House’s simple majority requirement.

Because reconciliation bills need to be about things like spending, Johnson will use the bill to fund election integrity matters, military spending, and funding farmers.

But, the problem here is still the Senate, because you have idiots like Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski

Presler Criticizes Murkowski’s SAVE Act Excuse: ‘That’s Just Not True’

Conservative activist Scott Presler fired back this week after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) argued in a Friday op-ed that the SAVE America Act would disenfranchise rural Alaskans and could not be implemented in time for November.

Murkowski made her case in the Wall Street Journal and pushed it out again in a post on X. She told followers she backs voter ID and wants only citizens voting. The bill, she argued, goes too far.

“I support voter ID and believe that only U.S. citizens should vote in our elections,” the Alaska senator wrote. “But the SAVE America Act goes beyond that and provides no time for proper implementation. It would ultimately disenfranchise some Americans in rural communities, so I oppose it.” (snip)

“That’s just not true,” the activist wrote in a reply. “No person would be turned away from voting. Any person without documentation would be able to sign an attestation. The SAVE America Act does NOT require proof of citizenship for those already registered to vote.”

The founder of Early Vote Action challenged Murkowski to draft a fix rather than kill the bill.

“Why don’t you suggest an amendment which would allow remote Alaskan voters to attach a copy of their proof of citizenship + photo ID to an absentee ballot?” Presler wrote.

And therein lies the important point: this is about new people registering, not existing people, as anyone registered would sign said attestation. What it would seriously cause a problem with is registration drives, which Democrats love to use to register anyone and then go back with all sorts of vote gatherings. We should know who the hell is voting in the US and if they are actually allowed to vote.

So, the problem here is there might not be enough votes in the Senate to get it to pass with Murkowski, Tillis, and possible Collins voting against it.

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Trump Wants Review Of Wacko Climalawfare Manual

By William Teach July 21, 2026 – 7:15 am

The minute the liberals call something “non-partisant” you know they’re full of BS

Trump demands review of scientific manual used by federal judges

President Donald Trump has called for a review of a longstanding reference manual designed for federal judges handling complex scientific or technological issues, claiming the nonpartisan analytical handbook had been politicized.

Alluding to recent changes to the manual’s section on climate change, the president argued the government-backed handbook was “totally discredited” and claimed it had been used to improperly inform recent rulings on environmental issues.

Writing in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday evening, Trump said he had ordered “federal suspension and debarment officials” to review the National Academy of Sciences’ “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence,” a decades-old publication produced in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center and aimed at assisting federal judges on issues of science and technology.

The president claimed the National Academy was “run by Radical Left” Democrats and that the nonprofit organization “published fraudulent, biased and misleading manuals on climate change.”

The latest edition of the judicial reference manual, published late last year, included a chapter on climate science and climate change. The section explained to judges the mechanical processes of climate change — such as the greenhouse effect, feedback loops and ecological tipping points — but also provided context on sources of climate research, including peer-reviewed studies and consensus reports.

In other words, the manual used Cult Of Climastrology dogma which has determined that there is no other cause for a minor uptick in global temperatures than the actions of Mankind, primarily the output of greenhouse gases. Hence, if judges begin from that point than most climalawfare suits will prevail, using the court system to enforce said cultist dogma on Everyone Else.

But in February, the Federal Judicial Center, the government’s education and research agency serving federal courts, said it had removed the climate science chapter from its version of the reference manual. The move came just days after a group of Republican state attorneys general penned a letter to Congress arguing the handbook presented a “highly biased, agenda-driven view” of climate change targeting oil and gas companies.

Because it is highly politicized.

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Oh Noes: Senior Living Facility In Distress Because All The Illegal Alien Workers Left

By William Teach July 21, 2026 – 7:00 am

Sniffle?

Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out

Really, the original headline was “How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care”. Perhaps that TDS was just a bit much for the NY Times?

Channing House, a senior living community just a mile from Stanford University, is home to pioneering scientists, tech executives and inventors. But during a recent meeting, its residents confronted a problem they felt powerless to fix: the sudden loss of their caregivers to immigration policies.

“Our work force is being drastically disrupted, relationships are being severed and lives are being upended right now,” said Rhonda Bekkedahl, the center’s chief executive, who convened the gathering in June that was attended by about half of the 250 residents of the community in Palo Alto, Calif.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is colliding with a demographic reality. Americans are aging rapidly and living longer, creating soaring demand for elder care when the industry is already buckling under the weight of chronic labor shortages.

Millions of immigrants, eligible to work in the United States, fill positions across the elder care industry such as nurses, dietitians, fitness instructors and maintenance technicians. And countless undocumented immigrants care for seniors in their homes, part of a vast informal economy.

If your work plan is dependent on illegal aliens and temporary visitors, many of them illegals given work permits, well, the people who run the business should be fired, because it is a straight gamble to think that every administration will allow this to continue.

But, the point here is to enrage bleeding hearts, and maybe convert some on the edge. All while forgetting what the Law says.

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Unhinged Liberal With “Anti-ICE” Material Attacks Federal Building In NYC

By William Teach July 20, 2026 – 3:00 pm

This is all thanks to the elected Democrats, Elites, and their pet news media for demonizing ICE and inciting the peasant Dems to get violent

Suspect named in New York City alleged incendiary device attack, had ‘anti-ICE stuff’ on him

The suspect accused of deploying an incendiary device outside 26 Federal Plaza in New York Monday morning is named Andrew Arrabaca, two law enforcement sources have confirmed to Fox News Digital.

The sources both confirmed that Arrabaca had “anti-ICE stuff on him” at the time of the alleged attack.

The FBI announced that Arrabaca was taken into custody shortly after the incident.

“This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York. The individual is in custody and two minor injuries reported thus far. FBI [Joint Terrorism Task Force] is investigating the incident,” FBI Director Kash Patel noted in a post on X.

FBI New York field office Assistant Director in Charge James Barnacle Jr. said that Arrabaca had an unidentified liquid on him, and that he “put the liquid down, set some fireworks on top of it,” causing a “little fire.” Initial reports said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were involved in the arrest.

According to Barnacle, the suspect was armed with a pellet gun, and that two people, a federal employee and a civilian, were injured. Both were treated and released.

Crazy, unhinged, and violent is what the Democratic base has become

This is your voter, Democrats. This is someone you basically told to be a wackjob.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 20, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds because Other People eat meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on “We’d be better off with dogs”

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Greenie Weenies Embrace Data Center Fight (it’s good for their fund raising)

By William Teach July 20, 2026 – 10:30 am

Most “environmental” groups exist at this point simply to make money and be annoying

‘A better way to be relevant’: Greens embrace data center fight

The nation’s biggest green groups have joined the fray over data centers — and they’re starting to notch some victories after 18 months of stinging environmental setbacks under the Trump administration.

Groups including the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, and Food and Water Watch are ramping up national campaigns, activating volunteers in states and providing support for local fights against the massive artificial intelligence facilities that are spreading across the country.

Their strategy is aimed at engaging with voters where they are most focused, and it could help generate new enthusiasm — as well as a stream of fresh funding — from progressive backers who have been far less aggressive in fighting for environmental causes than they were during the first Trump administration.

“There is not a better way to be relevant that is as prevalent as data centers,” said Jane Kleeb, founder and director of BOLD Alliance, which got its start organizing rural landowners against the Keystone XL oil pipeline. “After doing this work for 20 years, it is easier to mobilize communities to block something than it is to build something.”

Wow. That is one hell of a statement on the back of the fundraising thing. The “progressives” want to block progress. They aren’t about doing things, they are about stopping them, or, at least, trying to. Remember, these wackos tried to stop many solar and wind projects, such as the Ivanpah (crappy) solar facility.

Since President Donald Trump returned to office, the environmental movement has suffered a series of losses: a weakening of air and water pollution laws for factories and vehicles, eradication of climate change rules, and a sharp turn away from clean energy sources and toward fossil fuels.

Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump

Now, opposition to the data center construction boom is offering a new opportunity — and green groups lodged a big win on Tuesday when Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul froze most new large-scale data center construction in the state, yielding to calls to pause projects until the state can establish standards around their development.

That will enable the environmental groups to weigh in on new energy sources in the state and potentially head off the expansion of fossil fuel power sources that would increase climate change-causing carbon emissions and other pollution.

And they’ll just go elsewhere, bringing their jobs and taxable earnings to other states.

The Sierra Club is sifting through arcane state utility regulator filings to discover how data centers get their power. Earthjustice beefed up a pollution enforcement team to hit air quality violators. NRDC helped shape policies that New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed into law, and has helped communities like Aurora, Ill., design standards for development. Food and Water Watch crafted community organizing tool kits to help support grassroots opposition to data centers.

And they’re all getting lots and lots of donations for which they spend little on actually protecting the environment. But, all the employees, especially the top end, get paid a lot of money.

BTW, just to be clear, I haven’t made my own decision on data centers, except in terms of making sure they are built away from people, because they are apparently loud. They are the future, though.

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LOL: Climate Crisis (scam) Is Baking Us To Death Or Something

By William Teach July 20, 2026 – 7:15 am

There once was a day when the Credentialed Media kept things responsible, left the Crazy for the supermarket tabloids, but, today is no longer that day

Column: Climate change’s heat is baking us to death. We must act.

America celebrated its 250th year of independence under a historic heat dome that shattered more than 148 records for daily high temperature across the Eastern United States.

The nation’s capital recorded the hottest Fourth of July on record at 103 degrees. Philadelphia, where our Declaration of Independence was written, recorded three days in a row above 101 degrees for the first time. The heat was so severe that parades and events across the country were canceled, including the flagship Independence Day Parade planned in Washington. The heat index in Chicago exceeded 100 degrees on July 1, putting the power grid under strain.

It isn’t just the United States. Heat waves have rocked Europe three times already this summer, with record temperatures hitting the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Portugal in late May, late June and again in July. The June heat wave caused more than 1,300 excess deaths. With less snow on the ground each year to deflect the sun, and the warming Arctic nearby, where rapidly melting sea ice leaves more ocean to absorb the sun’s energy, Europe is warming faster than any other region on earth.

Everywhere is warming faster, you know, but, really, this happens during a Holocene warm period, especially during a big El Nino.

All of this is threatening to collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a critical ocean current system that pulls water from warm areas of the ocean up north where it cools and sinks and cycles back south. The Gulf Stream, which brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico into the Atlantic Ocean and shapes the climate in the United States as well as Western Europe, is part of that system.

Once thought to be a low-risk possibility for some future generation, new estimates suggest AMOC could collapse within decades and that it’s already too late to turn back the clock.

There is much cult in you, Champ.

Ironically, the very things that help Americans avoid the realities of climate change are speeding it up: our car-based lifestyle, our plentiful air conditioning, our economy based largely on industries that happen inside away from the elements. I lived and worked in Africa for years and never met an African skeptical of climate change.

Well, Elizabeth Shackleford, they also tend to live like it’s a couple hundred years ago with a bit of modern technology around. They’re 3rd world. And they like all the sweet, sweet, climate cash with not strings attached from 1st World nations.

We Americans can choose to put our heads in the sand, but it’s hot down there now, too.

Wildly, few 1st World Warmists actually practice what they preach. How many have even given up their own use of fossil fueled vehicles?

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NICE Will Require Agents To Use Body Cams For Traffic Stops

By William Teach July 20, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’m not sure why they aren’t all wearing body cams now, other than being able to purchase them. Requiring body cams for local, county, and state law enforcement was the worst thing that could happen to all the nutters who accused them of wrongdoing, right?

ICE will require its officers to record vehicle stops

In the wake of multiple fatal shootings involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the agency will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera, Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Sunday.

“They exonerate more law enforcement than they convict, and I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the officers saw when they took that action,” Mr. Homan said on the “Fox & Friends Weekend” program.

Mr. Homan’s comments come after federal immigration agents fatally shot two men six ?days apart during traffic stops in Texas and Maine earlier this month. There is no body-camera footage from ICE agents involved in those incidents.

In a separate interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” show, Mr. Homan said money for the cameras was held up during the partial government shutdown earlier this year.

“The cameras have been purchased right now,” Mr. Homan said. “They’re training the trainer in deploying the cameras nationwide.”

Of course, the moonbats often refuse to accept the actual video, like with the shooting of Renee Good after she tried to run over agents. The video clear shows contact, her trying to use her multi-ton vehicle as a weapon.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 19, 2026 – 1:33 pm

…are rough seas from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post on some news catchup.

It’s surfing week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 19, 2026 – 9:14 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. Getting some rain today, good time to chill out, watch a movie. This pinup is by Gustavo Alonso, which seems to be more AI generated, with a wee bit add by me.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Change Dispatch: Japan Ditches Climate Pledges For Fossil Fuel Security
  2. Green Jihad: The Truth About The Viral Canadian Wildfires
  3. Independent Sentinel: RFKJr: Medicaid Theft Costs $100 Billion a Year
  4. Victory Girls Blog: Maine Democrat Ashley Webb: Angry, Unqualified, and Claiming Transparency
  5. The Right Scoop: BREAKING REPORT – Trump actives SECRET legal process to quickly deport illegal alien terrorists
  6. The Other McCain: Communism, the Palestinian Death Cult and the Pro-Terrorism Red-Green Axis
  7. The Last Refuge: Information Control – U.S Media Promote Rebuttal to Speech They Refused to Broadcast
  8. The Gateway Pundit: STUCK ON STUPID: Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts Wants to Impeach Trump Over the Speech He Gave This Week
  9. The First Street Journal: Canucks can get Trump Derangement Syndrome, too!
  10. Power Line: Did China Pay Liberal Journalists?
  11. Pacific Pundit: Two US Service members kill by Iranian drones in Jordan – ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (WT note: I’m not sure if I full agree with this, but, it is an interesting, thought provoking piece)
  12. neo-neocon: Will Democrats ever take a stand against DSA candidates?
  13. Moonbattery: Thom Tillis Wants US Elections to Be Less Secure Than Olive Garden
  14. Legal Insurrection: California State Auditor Urged to Probe Newsom-Linked No-Bid Diaper Deal
  15. And last, but, not least, Jihad Watch has “Virginia: Muslim state senator introduces bill to classify ‘Islamophobia’ as assault”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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