I’d forgotten about this song which came out way back in 1989, a musical duet between David Stewart (from the Eurythmics) and a relatively unknown sax player, Candy Dulfer, done for the Dutch movie De Kassière, also known by the English title Lily Was Here. Here is a newer, live version between the two
Switching up, here’s my favorite from hard metal/progressive band Opeth
Read: Music Saturday: Candy Dulfer, »
…is a wonderful low carbon form of transportation, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Vox Popoli, with a post on “The EU is a Pirate State”
Read: If All You See… »
The problem with trying to hold any of these rogue judges accountable is that Democrats will never vote to remove them in the Senate. It would be a waste of time
DHS accuses ‘rogue’ Clinton judge of open defiance of Supreme Court
The Trump administration is hammering a federal judge for temporarily blocking its effort to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for South Sudan despite a recent Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed lower courts’ authority to intervene.
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris on Thursday granted an administrative stay in African Communities Together v. Mullin , preserving TPS protections for South Sudanese nationals while she considers whether plaintiffs may amend their lawsuit and seek renewed relief on constitutional grounds.
The order temporarily freezes the administration’s Nov. 6, 2025, decision ending South Sudan’s TPS designation, keeping it “null, void, and of no legal effect” until jurisdiction returns to the 1st Circuit. Saris stressed that the order is a procedural measure to preserve the status quo while the court considers the plaintiffs’ latest filings and is not a ruling on the merits.
“Another rogue district judge just postponed the termination of TPS for South Sudan,” DHS general counsel James Percival wrote on X, slamming the decision. “This is open defiance of the Supreme Court, plain and simple!”
The SCOTUS decision in Mullin v Doe made it quite clear that these judges have zero authorization on the law to block or review the ending of any TPS. The Trump admin should simply, at this point, just ignore any orders. Oh, and house a butt-ton of these TPS folks in the judge’s neighborhood while awaiting repatriation. “Temporary”. Nothing else.
Bombshell memo shows Biden planned to leave Trump with even more massive immigration crisis
A newly-uncovered Biden White House memo from the administration’s final days revealed plans that could have expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 3 million noncitizens while acknowledging that previous court challenges had blocked many of President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the protections.
TPS is meant for foreign populations experiencing crises like political unrest or natural disasters, and while Trump has tried to end the “temporary” provisions for Haitians, Nepalese, Salvadorans and Sudanese people, lawsuits from pro-migrant advocates have halted most attempts.
“My investigation uncovered that the Lame Duck Biden White House tried to keep millions of illegal aliens in our country by abusing the ‘Temporary’ Protected Status program,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., who acquired the memo, told Fox News Digital on Friday.
The memo argued that “granting TPS will potentially protect many vulnerable people from President-elect Trump’s planned mass deportations… They argue that these protections are likely to hold in court, and they are prepared to litigate efforts to terminate or slow down the implementation of TPS for specified nations by the Trump Administration.”
And litigate they have! Despite the notion that TPS is temporary, and now that judges have virtually no authorization to block any efforts to end TPS and send people home, the lawfare will continue. It jams up the system, wastes time and resources, all in an attempt to keep them here and get the Trump admin to throw its hands up and say “too much, we’re done”, hoping that the next admin will be Democrat and keep them all here.
Read: Wacko Judge Ignores Supreme Court Ruling, Extends TPS For South Sudanese »
I love when they try and trot this stuff out to show They Are Important! and then leave themselves a lot of wiggle room
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?
For many years, scientists could answer that question only in general terms. They knew that human-caused climate change was increasing the frequency or intensity of some kinds of extreme weather, but determining its influence on a particular event was much more difficult.
Today, researchers can provide a scientifically grounded answer that assesses whether climate change made a heat wave hotter, increased rainfall from a hurricane, or made a drought more severe. But the answers are not always straightforward, and they are not equally certain for every type of extreme event.
Wiggle room. But, can they prove it is mostly/solely the fault of Mankind? No, but, that doesn’t matter, because the news media and politicians won’t make them prove it. And thanks to their doomsaying we get things like this, which have become all the rage
Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here
A few weeks ago, my daughter and I went to Paris, France, to visit family and celebrate her high school graduation. As a marine scientist working on the front lines of climate and oceans, I was hoping for a break from the doom and gloom. Instead, I found myself inside the biggest climate story of the year.
We knew it would be hot, over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. When I checked the forecast before we left, I told my daughter to pack shorts and tank tops. But we were not prepared for what followed—a ten-day inferno.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are credible reports that fantastic wines were being grown in England. What about all those heat waves which last for almost a decade during the 30s? Were they from ‘climate change’?
Wildfire smoke means climate change is knocking. Will we answer? | Editorial
While wildfires from 1,000 miles away dropped a haze over Ohio, there’s one thing they’ve made clear: Climate change is knocking on our doors now.
We’ve spent far too long debating whether humans have contributed to a warming climate or not. What matters now is how we adapt and prepare ourselves.
Wildfires and the health risks they bring are not a one-off occurrence, nor will they be going away anytime soon.
No, they won’t go away, because wildfires have always happened. There’s not witchcraft involved. But, the big thing now for the media is to say “It’s here! DOOM!”
Read: Say, How Do “Scientists” Know If Every Weather Event Is Your Fault? »
This really didn’t work out well for him
A New York City congressman drew swift pushback from Republicans and the Department of Homeland Security after claiming sanctuary jurisdictions turn over removable criminal illegal immigrants to federal authorities upon completion of their sentences.
Rep. Daniel Goldman, a Democrat representing Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, was responding to remarks about the immigration system from Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., during a markup of a bill that would enshrine President Donald Trump’s border security orders into law.
“Sanctuary cities, I ask you please cite one case where there was a criminal conviction, the defendant served his time and was convicted of a removable offense under the [Immigration & Nationality Act of 1952] and he was not turned over by the city or the state to the Department of Homeland Security,” Goldman addressed his Republican colleagues during the markup.
“You have not and are unable to provide one is my guess. Maybe you’ll have one or two, but the policy of sanctuary cities and sanctuary states is that if you are removable after you’re convicted after you complete your sentence, you are turned over to the Department of Homeland Security.”
Really?
Since January, New York’s failure to honor ICE detainers resulted in the release of 6,947 criminally convicted illegal immigrants, according to statistics DHS shared with Fox News Digital.
“The crimes of these aliens include 29 homicides, 2,509 assaults, 199 burglaries, 305 robberies, 392 dangerous drug offenses, 300 weapons offenses and 207 sexual predatory offenses,” said Assistant DHS Secretary Lauren Bis, who added there were around 7,000 illegal immigrants in the state with active detainer requests as of last winter.
Obviously, no one will be fired for this bit of Scaremongering, because no one will remember it. It’s meant to scare people into giving up their money and freedom to Government right now
By 2100, 10 Cities Where Temperatures Will Never Fall Below 50 Degrees
Winter is the fastest warming season in most of the United States, and in certain parts of the country, winter weather never arrived this year. In January 2006, record-breaking temperatures exceeding 90°F were reported in parts of Florida and Texas. For multiple states across the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions, 2026 was the warmest winter ever, with average temperatures exceeding 20th century seasonal norms by more than 7°F. Due in part to unprecedented warmth in the winter months, snow accumulation hit historic lows in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, contributing to dangerous and ongoing drought conditions.
The winter warming trend is not an isolated phenomenon. Across the continental United States, the average temperature from December 2025 through February 2026 was 37°F, or about 5°F higher than the 20th century norm. Additionally, a recent report from the non-profit research and advocacy group Climate Central found that between 1970 and 2025, winter temperatures rose in all but five of the 244 cities included in the study – in most cases, by 4°F or more.
Oh, look, the sciencey people do not understand how averages work
Currently, there are only a handful of U.S. cities where average daily lows in the winter months do not fall below 50°F. But, if the current rate of warming continues unchecked, that number will grow considerably in the coming decades.
Using data from Climate Central and NOAA, Climate Crisis 247 identified the U.S. cities where temperatures will never fall below 50°F again. We ranked all 150 cities with available data from both sources on the projected average daily low during the winter season by the end of the century. Calculations were made using local average annual rates of warming between 1975 and 2025 and applying that rate to average local temperatures in the winter of 2025. Only cities where average daily winter lows are not already above 50°F are listed. All cities with projected daily lows of at least 49.9°F between the beginning of December and the end of February are listed.
Those are
Wait, does it really matter? Again, this is about scaring people right now with talk of future doom by people who refuse to practice what they preach
Read: Oh Noes, Some American Cities Will Never Drop Below 50F By 2100 »
…is a rough sea from too much carbon pollution because Other People eat meat, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on “Greenland’s Ice Sheet Was Supposed To Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn’t Been.”
Read: If All You See… »
The wackos in the uber-leftist news media thought they were on to something
And their full story is here. But
AP post on USAID cuts backfires as critics question taxpayer-funded Nepal transgender jobs
An Associated Press social media post about transgender aid workers in Nepal turning to sex work after losing their jobs due to U.S. foreign aid cuts sparked a wave of conservative backlash, with critics arguing the video made the case for defunding USAID rather than saving it.
The AP post said that in Nepal, where “a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options,” around 100 LGBTQ aid workers left jobless by U.S. funding cuts had turned to sex work to survive. An accompanying video focused on Rubi Lama, a former HIV outreach worker who said USAID-funded programs had provided free condoms, lubricant and HIV-prevention medication before the cuts.
“When USAID funding was there, condoms were free, lubricant was also distributed … for free,” Lama said in the video, adding that HIV treatments, including PrEP, were also available without cost. “But, now it is gone.”
Maybe the funding should have gone to things like keeping people from getting HIV, teaching them that unprotected sex with people who like butt sex is a bad idea? Of course, probably only around 20-30% of the money actually went to the “program”, with the rest disappearing into the pockets of NGOs and government officials.
The framing quickly drew criticism from conservatives who said the story raised the opposite question: why American taxpayers were funding those programs in the first place.
Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, was among the conservatives who argued the AP report made the opposite point from the one intended.
“Our tax dollars no longer fund employment for transgender Nepalese sex workers,” Gill wrote on X. “Thank you for reminding us why defunding USAID was long overdue.”
“Wow very grateful that my tax dollars are no longer funding a bunch of random trannies in Asia,” mocked Daily Wire host Matt Walsh “Is that the point you were trying to make or did you expect us to be somehow sad about this?”
They wanted us to be sad.
But Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway argued the AP post exposed misplaced priorities, particularly among the media, saying the outlet presented U.S. tax dollars flowing to a “trans Nepalese job protection program” as though it was a good use of public money.
“The AP announces that your hard-earned tax dollars were flowing to a trans Nepalese job protection program as if that was an even remotely good use of your money,” Hemingway wrote in a post on X. “AP is sick Democrat propaganda.”
If Democrats are so upset let them raise the funds and support this themselves. Which they really won’t do, because they don’t want to spend their own personal money on this stuff. Especially the rich ones and politicians, because the “aid” money is meant to reward those friendly NGOs and then be kickbacks to the Democrat politicians and USAID employees.
Read: AP Posts Story Of Trans Sex Work In Nepal, Proves Why USAID Needed To Be Shut Down »
I see one tiny little issue with all this
Trump Calls Climate Change a Hoax. Americans Aren’t Buying It.
Amid a summer of dangerous heat, drought, and floods, a majority of Americans are connecting increasingly severe weather to the climate crisis, new polling shows, despite efforts by President Donald Trump to dismiss global heating as a “con job” and a “hoax.”
Once you start with drought and floods, you know it’s a cult
It’s a sign that attempts to suppress and polarize climate concerns may not be seeing full success, said Grace Adcox, senior climate strategist at Data for Progress.
“We started with the question of ‘are extreme weather events increasing,’ because we thought [that] if we can find consensus on that, that can be an entry point to being able to have a more bipartisan conversation about climate and climate intervention,” she said.
About 61 percent of likely American voters believe extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past five years, the survey from the progressive polling firm Data for Progress, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found. That includes 72 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents, and nearly half—46 percent—of all Republicans.
They can Believe all they want, but, most Cowboys fans think the Cowboys are the best, and they are all wrong. Belief is not science. Further, if so many Believe, then why are so few practicing what they preach.
Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island senator who has long criticized Democrats for quieting their talk of global warming—or “climate-hushing”—said the new data “adds to the mountain of evidence that the public is way ahead of the politicians on the dire consequences of climate change.”
Sheldon Whitehouse takes a boatload of fossil fueled private jet flights every year, so, maybe he should sit this out.
The researchers also asked participants about whether or not specific forms of extreme weather are being “worsened by climate change.” Majorities linked climate change to worsening wildfires (64 percent), droughts (63 percent), flooding and flash flooding (62 percent), hurricanes (59 percent), and severe thunderstorms and hailstorms (59 percent). But heatwaves topped the list, with 67 percent saying climate change is making them worse—including 48 percent of Republicans, the highest share for any of the extreme weather events surveyed.
But, none of them are getting more extreme. It’s a doomsday cult.
Read: Mother Jones Says Americans Disagree With Trump On Climate Doom »
Wouldn’t it just be easier to self deport, illegals?
NYC immigration courts are ground-zero for a new deportation tool: Mass hearings
Deportation orders to immigration court no-shows are spiking in New York City and nationwide, fueled by mass immigration court hearings that are frequently held with little notice and scheduled for 100 or more participants at a time, according to a new report by bklg.org, an organization analyzing immigration court data.
Immigration judges in New York City issued nearly 4,500 removal orders in June to people who didn’t show up to immigration hearings, up from the 2,000 to 3,000 such orders issued from January through May, according to the data. The June total was the third-highest in the country, behind immigration courts in Dallas and Chicago.
Trump administration officials did not respond to requests for comment on the spike in deportation orders linked to the hearings — colloquially called “mega master hearings” — but federal officials have defended the mass hearings as necessary to clear a yearslong backlog in immigration cases.
The rise in such proceedings comes as the Supreme Court declined to review a lower court’s ruling requiring the federal government to take additional steps to notify immigrants of their hearing when notices are returned in the mail. Immigration attorneys and advocates say the hearings shortchange immigrants who too often fail to receive notice that they have been summoned to court.
Hey, you know what happens to YOU as an American citizen if you miss the mail and fail to show for criminal court a judge can issue a “Failure to Appear” (FTA) and an order for your arrest immediately. Your license can, and probably will, be suspended if you miss traffic court. If you miss a civil court you can lose a suit under default judgement, or have wages garnished or frozen bank account. Miss jury duty and you can be fined or worse. Of course, you are an American citizen, and the Dems are more concerned with illegal aliens.
What concerns are immigration lawyers and advocates raising about the hearings?
Many are sounding the alarm over what they say is an erosion of due process rights for immigrants in the name of increased efficiency.They say many immigrants receive little to no notice of their hearings. When people don’t appear, judges may order their removal from the country.
Are they in the U.S. illegally? That’s it. Nothing else is needed. Get out.
Read: Cool: NYC Immigration Courts Using Mass Hearings, Deportations For Missing »
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