People’s Republik Of Maine Considers Making Fossil Fuels Companies Pay

By William Teach January 28, 2026 – 7:15 am

This pretty much has worked so far, but, sure, try it

New legislation would make Maine’s polluters pay

Fossil fuel companies are spewing billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air every year. These gases rise and act like a blanket in the atmosphere, reflecting heat back toward the Earth, where it’s absorbed by the ocean. This is why the Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest warming bodies of water on the planet.

Funny how every body of water is the fastest warming, eh? It’s almost like this is based on cult doctrine, not science

Our rising ocean temperatures are the root cause of more frequent and more severe storms. And these storms are costly. Flooding, high winds and falling trees have cost Maine electric ratepayers over $200 million in each of the past four years. We see these costs in our rising electric bills.

No, it’s just that there are more buildings and such and everything costs more. Hell, thanks to COVID that cost is probably double what it would have been in 2019

As storms and costs continue to increase, it’s time to hold fossil fuel companies accountable. Maine electric ratepayers should not pay for climate damage they did not cause. Nor should they pay for local infrastructure to protect downtowns, roads, bridges and sewage treatment plants from flooding.

This is the rationale behind “polluter pays” legislation, an important bill before the Legislature this month.

Introduced by state Sen. Stacy Brenner, the “Polluter Pays” bill (LD 1870) would charge fossil fuel companies a fee for climate damage they’ve caused in Maine. The funds would be deposited into a state “climate superfund” and used to pay for storm repair and strengthening local infrastructure.

Why is it never “users pay”? Because the people of Maine sure use a lot. Hey, just look at Governor Janet Mills, who took a fossil fueled private jet to California for a fundraiser in January. Oh, and

This was done for the storm days, for which 70% of their power came from fossil fuels. Think solar would have worked as the snow came down? How about wind turbines as they froze?

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Wackjob Philly DA Vows To “Hunt Down” ICE Agents

By William Teach January 28, 2026 – 7:00 am

He’s really skirting the line of being a criminal threat to federal law enforcement. Maybe he should worry more about Philly’s crime rate, which is a 1 (100 is best), with violent and property crime rates over 3 times the Pennsylvania average and well over double the US average

Soros-backed Philadelphia DA vows to ‘hunt’ down ICE agents: ‘We will find you’

Philadelphia’s top prosecutor, a George Soros-backed district attorney, is facing scrutiny and backlash after vowing to “hunt” down federal immigration agents as city leaders move to curb ICE operations.

Speaking during a morning event outside City Hall tied to newly unveiled “ICE OUT” legislation, District Attorney Larry Krasner sharply criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis. That’s what they are,” Krasner said. “In a country of 350 million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”

First off, he’s giving the green light for the Dem wackos to attack ICE agents. Second, he could easily have set himself up to be sued for defamation/slander by employees of ICE.

Then there’s this constant dipshit

Swalwell promises, if elected governor, former ICE agents would be ‘unhirable’ in California

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., appeared to say on Tuesday that if he is elected governor, former ICE agents would be forbidden any future employment or even driver’s licenses in California. (big snip)

“And I have said that when I‘m governor of California, if you wear a mask in California, you‘re losing your driver’s license. If you have worked for ICE in the past, you are unhirable in our state. That law enforcement will prosecute you for kidnapping, battery, assault, murder on the people in our communities.

Well, good luck with that, Sparky. Have fun getting sued

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Americans Are Ready For Collective Action On ‘Climate Change’ Because Of Winter Weather Or Something

By William Teach January 27, 2026 – 3:00 pm

I was trying to avoid more of the “it’s your fault that heat trapping gases are causing bad winter weather”, but, this is a doozy

What Americans Get Wrong About Climate Action
Americans are ready to act on climate change; it’s time for collective solutions.

The severe winter storm hitting the United States this week, described as “once-in-a-lifetime,” has prompted prominent figures to ask how global warming fits with this chilly weather event. Of course, scientists have long explained that climate change causes not only global warming, but also global weirding: A phenomenon by which extreme weather and natural disasters increase in frequency and intensity, displacing millions of people around the world. In our research at the Stanford Climate Cognition Lab, we focus on promoting solutions to climate change.

Do you know what matters most when it comes to addressing the climate crisis? If not, you’re not alone. Many Americans think recycling is one of the most effective ways to fight climate change. They’re wrong by at least a factor of 10. One fewer transatlantic flight cuts more emissions than a year of perfect recycling—yet most people misjudge these impacts by an order of magnitude. And one well-placed vote can cut about 10 times more carbon than living car-free for a year.

Wait, is the author actually asking Warmists to practice what they preach? Huh.

That means our communication needs to do two things at once: correct misperceptions about which personal actions matter and inspire people to see themselves as part of an effective, hopeful movement. People should know that skipping one flight helps, but also that voting, organizing, and pressuring institutions can create change at a scale no individual choice ever could.

This doesn’t mean personal actions don’t matter. Individual choices can model new norms, create market demand for sustainable products, and demonstrate commitment to shared values. But they shouldn’t be the primary focus of climate strategy. Instead, imagine if the climate movement put as much energy into making collective action feel accessible and rewarding as it has into promoting individual lifestyle tweaks. Picture campaigns that celebrate real climate wins, connect people to local groups, and highlight the social joy of working together toward a shared goal.

The stakes are too high for well-intentioned messaging that misses the mark. Americans are ready to act on climate change; it’s time to channel that motivation toward collective solutions, so that “once-in-a-lifetime” climate events don’t become a yearly occurrence.

One would think that 30 years of spreading awareness would diminish the need for this type of messaging, but, then, they just refuse to give up on their Big Brother beliefs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is heatsnow from Other People eating meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Shot In The Dark, with a post on Tampon Tim.

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Mostly Peaceful But Fiery Pro-Illegal Agitators Arrested In Minneapolis

By William Teach January 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

Did they not think there would be consequences?

Anti-ICE agitators arrested outside Minnesota hotel as police declare unlawful assembly: ‘No longer peaceful’

Police in Minnesota began arresting anti-ICE agitators outside a hotel Monday after authorities said the demonstration escalated and was “no longer considered peaceful,” prompting officers to declare an unlawful assembly.

The demonstrators were outside the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Maple Grove, Minnesota, where they believed U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino was staying.

Maple Grove police said officers responded on Monday to reports of a protest at the hotel and that the protest escalated when agitators allegedly began throwing objects at officers and damaging property.

After police declared an unlawful assembly and issued a dispersal order, several people who refused to leave were arrested, authorities said.

“The Maple Grove Police Department respects and upholds the First Amendment rights of individuals to peacefully assemble and express their views. Our priority remains the safety and security of all residents, visitors, and property within our community,” a spokesperson for the police department said in a statement to KSTP.

“At that point, the activity was no longer considered peaceful. Individuals participating in criminal acts are not protected under the First Amendment and were subject to arrest,” the spokesperson added.

Seriously, though, what took them so long? We saw video on Sunday of the nutters attempting to damage the building, and assaulted a federal agent.

How soon till a judge releases them with no charges?

https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2015821415665049639

Some are saying she was shot in the hand, but, nope, just someone very stupid who picked up a device.

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Good Grief: A Normal Winter Storm Tests US Disaster Response

By William Teach January 27, 2026 – 7:15 am

The doomsday cultists just can’t help themselves

A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response

A sprawling winter storm that left hundreds of thousands without power, grounded thousands of flights and disrupted travel across the eastern half of the U.S. could be the first real test of the second Trump administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The president has said that he wants to eliminate FEMA, and the agency has lost thousands of employees since his second term began. Emergency-management experts have braced for the moment that a weakened FEMA would face a multi-state disaster.

Just to be clear, as I believe I’ve said before, I do not want FEMA eliminated, it should be returned to its original mission, which was coordination, not running everything.

Scientists agree that human-caused warming has changed the way air and energy move around the planet in complex and interrelated ways that influence outbreaks of extreme winter weather.

The current cold wave is not happening in isolation, but in a fundamentally altered climate system. At a basic level, the oceans are warmer and the atmosphere holds more moisture than 50 or 100 years ago. Both fuel stronger storms, including nor’easters, which have intensified significantly in recent decades, according to a 2024 study.

Same old cult talking points

Nor’easters spin up along the East Coast, drag subtropical moisture from the south and pull frigid polar air from the north. Both their maximum wind speeds and hourly precipitation rates have increased since 1940, said University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann, a co-author of the paper.

That research, he said via email, for the first time was able to quantify the changes. He warned that “more intense storms, with greater amounts of snowfall” are to be expected, even as the planet warms.

“Stronger storms, as they spin, pull up more warm air on one side and pull more cold air down on the other side, so we see both warm and cold temperature extremes associated with them,” he said.

How about the snow storm of 1804, which dropped 48 inches? Or 1888 with 58 inches? The Great Blizzard Of 1899? It got a name! There have been plenty prior to CO2 breaking the mythical 350ppm. 103 inches in 1966. Were these all caused by ‘climate change’? Do normal people believe this BS? All the media is pulling this cult talking point out of their butts, like here and here. It’s all rather cultish.

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ICE Shootings Are Freaking Out (Mostly Unnamed) Republicans Or Something

By William Teach January 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

Apparently we’re back to the stage of “we Republicans don’t like what Trump is doing but we’re afraid to tell him”

ICE Shootings Are Freaking Out the GOP. They’re Afraid to Tell Trump.

To cover the Republican Party in the age of President Donald Trump requires a grasp of cryptology.

Because of the unflinching personal loyalty he demands, and punishment he’ll administer on public dissenters, leading GOP officials speak in rhetorical code.

And in the aftermath of the second killing by federal agents of a protester in Minnesota, there’s been a stream of statements, comments and sound bites from party lawmakers that beg for translation.

Oh, so Politico writer Jonathan Martin is going to make it up

Before we get to the private and public messages being transmitted, however, a word on what top Republicans actually believe about what has become a deepening crisis for the White House, based on my conversations over the last two days.

They are concerned more protests to the bloodshed may beget additional incidents, have little faith in DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and, from a raw political standpoint, worry the party has squandered the best issues it had when voters were otherwise frustrated with the cost of living: the border and public order.

Immigration, broadly, as one veteran senator granted anonymity to speak candidly told me over the weekend, is for the GOP what health care is for Democrats — a “home game.” Yet with viral images of Americans being shot in broad daylight replacing migrants stampeding across the country’s border, that advantage is quickly dissipating.

Other than the usual Squishes, Republicans are fine with what’s going on. These idiots, so many of them being paid to be there, are putting themselves in the way of duly empowered law enforcement.

So what are Republican elected officials doing to address what could prove calamitous, for the country and their political fortunes?

To date, it’s the usual approach.

They plead with Trump and his advisers in private to calm tensions, as a handful did this weekend. However, most officials hope one of their colleagues can do that work so they don’t have to play the heavy. “You can talk to them” or “Can you talk to them?” are phrases I don’t need access to text chains to know are being relayed between top Republicans.

When lawmakers do reach Trump, the dialogue is similar to those private messages he posted last week from European leaders eager to get him off his Greenland fetish: Start with praise and flattery before moving to the heart of the matter.

Some actual Republicans are named later, like Squish Kevin Stitt, Thom Tillis who’s retiring (because Republicans do not trust him), and Squish James Comer, none of who really blast Trump’s immigration.

In another television interview, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) deployed the “I’m-only-thinking-out-loud-here” approach of trying to get through to Trump and his aides.

Rather than say: Hell yes, we should yank federal immigration officials from Minnesota and end this fiasco, Comer tried to say it this way on Fox:

“If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, OK, if the mayor and the governor are going to put our ICE officials in harm’s way and there’s a chance of losing more, you know, innocent lives or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide, ‘Do we want to continue to have all of these illegals?’”

Yeah, Martin keeps digging deep like that. The answer is simple: give the criminals to ICE. Don’t shield them and there would be no need for surges to liberal cities. How many Americans were killed, raped, assaulted by illegals just last year? There are over 13,000 illegals convicted of murder in the US as of last year. These are who Democrats are fighting for, are protecting.

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Your Fault: Cities Are Sinking, Which Is Worse Than Sea Rise

By William Teach January 26, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Sea rise is pretty much average for the Holcene, 7 inches during the 20th Century, when it should be at least double that for a warm period. Since this is not cooperating with the scaremongering, the cult is no Blamestorming you for sinking cities

Why sinking cities may now be a bigger climate crisis than rising seas

For decades, the story of coastal risk has been dominated by climate change and rising seas. But a major new global study suggests that, for hundreds of millions of people living on river deltas – including those living in cities such as New Orleans and Bangkok – an even more immediate threat is unfolding beneath their feet.

Across much of the world, the land itself is sinking – and in many places, it’s sinking faster than the ocean is rising.

Using satellite radar to track tiny changes in the Earth’s surface, scientists have discovered that more than half of the world’s river-delta regions – the low-lying land where major rivers meet the sea – are now sinking. In many of the most densely populated deltas on the planet, this gradual subsidence, rather than rising seas alone, is now the dominant driver of flood risk. (snip)

Deltas are built from loose, water-logged sediments deposited over thousands of years. Even without human interference, these sediments slowly compact under their own weight, causing gradual sinking.

Historically, that natural sinking was balanced by regular floods that replenished the land with fresh sediment. But modern development has changed that balance.

That’s not ‘climate change’, but, it is a result of mankind’s actions.

The study examined three major human-linked drivers of land sinking: groundwater extraction, reduced sediment supply and urban expansion. Of these, groundwater pumping stood out as the strongest overall predictor.

Yup. And the article continues on and on in this vein, till we get to the end

The study’s authors argue that subsidence has been dangerously under-represented in global climate-risk planning, partly because it is viewed as a local problem rather than a planetary one.

But local does not mean small. Even under worst-case climate scenarios, sinking land will remain the dominant driver of relative sea-level rise in many deltas for decades.

None of this has anything to do with climate change, natural, man-caused, or a mixture. It’s like they’re required to add it in.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is terrible heatsnow because Other People took fossil fueled flights, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is GeeeZ…., with a post on hard and fun stuff.

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NC Gov Josh Stein Says Jail Is Not The Right Place For Crazy, Violent People

By William Teach January 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is the liberal mentality: people shouldn’t be in jail for committing multiple, often violent, crimes. And so many of those who say it are surrounded by armed security or live away from where the violence is. Until they aren’t

Josh Stein says ‘jail is not the right place.’ Right now, it is | Opinion

The United States is a nation of laws. That’s a beautiful thing worth protecting.

But it also means we’re a nation of lawyers. That’s not an insult, despite the easy joke. I have a lot of respect for legal practitioners.

Still, there’s a downside to living inside a culture of process. When the rules get complicated enough, common sense starts to sound like an amateur opinion, and the rest of us are left living with the consequences while being told we simply do not understand.

That is what North Carolina is wrestling with after the killing of Raleigh teacher Zoe Welsh. Once again, we are staring at a high-profile homicide involving a suspect with a long rap sheet and a long history of mental health problems. Once again, the public is asking questions the system has no good answer for.

Zoe was killed earlier in the month in her nice neighborhood in Raleigh

Lawyers could spend hours explaining why Welsh’s alleged killer was out on the streets. In fact, they already have. They’ll cite Supreme Court decisions, constitutional limits, and fine print. They’ll tell you “incompetent” isn’t the same as “committable” under the proper justiciable standards.

They might be right on every technical point. The outcome would still be indefensible.

Because common sense says that if a court has decided someone is not competent to stand trial, he’s not competent to be roaming around the public freely.

Especially when they have a long, long rap sheet. Camacho has been arrested over 20 times, and had done a stint in jail, but, was let out to continue committing crimes.

Gov. Josh Stein responded to Welsh’s death with a familiar line. He said that the system needs to do better, but that jail is not the right place for people in mental-health crises.

In an ideal world, he is right. The best answer is a secure psychiatric setting with serious doctors, fast evaluations, and a clear path to get the person healthy enough so the case can go back to court.

We should invest in that world, building more inpatient hospitals, hiring more evaluators and all the rest of it.

Democrats, and to a degree Republicans, have long ignore the need for mental health facilities. They keep closing them, and allow crazy people to wander around causing problems. Then they kill someone and Democrats are like “how did this happen!”

But as a state, we’ve allowed “incompetent to proceed” to become a magic phrase that dissolves all accountability. Even a layman can see that’s not workable.

So here is the rule North Carolina should adopt for cases like this. If a judge says someone is not competent for trial, that person does not go back on the street. He stays in custody until the court decides where he will be treated and what has to happen before the case can move forward. Not a shrug and a release because the system lacks a clean box.

Most of these types of laws and rules that muddle the whole justice system happen in Democrat run cities full of majority Democrats. Why do they want to deal with crime and not punish it? This is how we get nutters like this

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