Surprise: Bill Maher, Who Has Raged Against Nazi Platner, Endorses Him

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

Bill Maher attempts to act as a responsible Democrat, the type from the Bill Clinton era, but, at the end of the day he’s like all the rest: power is the only thing that matters

Bill Maher makes shocking recommendation in Maine Senate race after Graham Platner’s ‘scary behavior’

Comedian Bill Maher threw his weight behind Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner, despite his “scary behavior,” arguing that flipping the Senate for Dems is more important than his Nazi tattoo or cheating scandal.

HBO’s “Real Time” host said that Democrats’ retaking the Senate in November would be a critical check on President Trump, and argued that America is rife with “a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people” anyway.

“Let’s get real about Graham Platner,” Maher said during his Friday show.

“The big story is the Democrats can likely take back the Senate in November if they win Maine. But their local candidate, official now up there, is after the primary this week, let’s just say, a guy who has a backstory that screams, ‘Don’t ask.’”

“I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons,” Maher explained after rattling through Platner’s string of scandals. “One, we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that.”

“And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror. I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It’s not. That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to rape the home invader.”

And, yet, Maher still wants people in Maine to vote for Platner

“- said he’s a communist

– joined an app known to be used by predators to contact minors”

Dems are trying to play the “this was in the past” card, but, they went after Mitt Romney over a haircut in high school, saying it was relevant. All Democrats care about is power, and there’s virtually nothing that will disqualify someone if Democrats think they can win a seat. If this were a midterm where there was no chance of retaking the Senate, they might have let him go, but, not now. And Bill is the perfect example of a Democrat who acts and talks reasonable, but, truly isn’t.

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Cool: Louisiana Gov Signs Law Stopping Climalawfare

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

It’s time for other states run by Republicans to do the same

Louisiana just made it illegal to sue oil companies over climate change. So have other states.

Louisiana has joined a handful of Republican states that have recently passed legislation aimed at banning lawsuits against oil and gas companies over the harms of climate change.

The Louisiana Energy Protection Act, written by state Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, is aimed at preventing lawsuits filed by states and local jurisdictions in other parts of the U.S. from playing out in Louisiana. Across the country, about 30 lawsuits seeking to hold industry to account for the impacts of climate change have been weaving their way through the legal system, but none have been brought in Louisiana.

The lawsuits seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the impacts of sea level rise, extreme weather events, wildfires and flooding, arguing that the companies should pay for measures needed to adapt, such as seawalls and building elevations. Louisiana has now banned those types of claims from being brought in state court against oil and gas producers or any other defendant.

Geymann, who chairs the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee, said he was skeptical that human activity is causing climate change, and didn’t think the lawsuits were “legitimate.” There is overwhelming consensus among scientists that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels heat the planet.

Mind you, this is not some small climate cult outlet, this is NOLA.com which is stating the opinion is science.

“To say my aunt died from a heat stroke and I’m going to sue every oil company and every pipeline company in Louisiana because of it — that is not a legitimate claim,” Geymann said, referring to a lawsuit filed in Washington state against oil companies after a woman died of heat exposure. “A legitimate claim would be: I live down the road from a refinery and I have damages from the emission of (hydrogen sulfide) at a level that exceeded the EPA or the Clean Air Act.”

Gov. Jeff Landry signed the bill into law on Thursday. It was passed by a vote of 31-3 in the Senate and 92-5 in the House. Oklahoma, Utah, Iowa and Tennessee all passed bills this year that aim to ban lawsuits over the impacts of climate change. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, also introduced the “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act” at the federal level, which would ban climate lawsuits nationwide.

Really, anyone filing these types of lawsuits should be required to prove they had previously given up their own use of fossil fuels, at a minimum.

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Unhinged Judges Look For Ways Around Superior Court Ruling On ICE Detention Policy

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

In a sane world these judges would be removed from the bench

ICE’s detention policy won at the 5th Circuit. Then judges found another way to reject it.

When a federal appeals court in February endorsed ICE’s unprecedented policy to detain — without bond — thousands of immigrants with established roots in the U.S., the Trump administration celebrated it as a landmark win.

It’s not actually unprecedented, federal law actually says illegals who are caught get a small fine, potential detainment, then deportation

The Feb. 6 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cut against the overwhelming rejection of ICE’s new detention policy by federal district courts around the country. And because the 5th Circuit’s rulings are binding on judges in Texas, where a significant share of ICE detainees are held, the decision seemed poised to reverse the tide.

What has played out since tells a more complicated story.

Judges bound by the appeals court’s holding have overwhelmingly continued to reject ICE’s detention policy. Instead of labeling the policy a violation of the law — an interpretation taken off the table by the 5th Circuit decision — those judges have concluded that ICE has violated detainees’ constitutional due process rights, a distinct violation that the appeals court didn’t address.

Due process? “Are you in the US illegally? Yes? Then you are in violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1325 – Improper entry by alien. You’ll be held till deported.”

As a result, judges in Texas and Louisiana have ordered bond hearings or release of ICE detainees more than 1,200 times on due process grounds since the appeals court’s ruling, according to a POLITICO analysis.

That’s nearly 60 percent of all immigration detention rulings in the 5th Circuit since the Feb. 6 decision. The 5th Circuit is now considering whether ICE detainees subject to ICE’s “mandatory detention” policy are owed the due process that these district court judges decisively say they are.

These judges care more about illegals, and their far left beliefs, then actual law and American citizens.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 14, 2026 – 1:23 pm

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on British PM Starmer supposedly growing a pair.

It’s women in glasses week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 14, 2026 – 9:49 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the hummingbirds are buzzing, and the Knicks finally won a championship, which makes my dad happy. This pinup is by Dietzdolls, with a wee bit of (unnecessary) help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The US government has been secretly funding 120 dangerous biolabs around the world
  2. Watts Up With That?: Why is the Financial Times Encouraging Parents to Make Their Children Anxious About Climate Change?
  3. 357 Magnum: The Breakdown of Civilization in California
  4. American Greatness: The Face of Modern Britain: Jihad’s Triumph
  5. Bearing Arms : Potential Mass Shooting in Georgia Stopped by Armed Citizens
  6. Chicks On The Right: Europeans Experiencing the U.S. During the World Cup is the Best
  7. Twitchy: Libs Lose Their Minds Over UFC & Motocross at the WH — Yet Cheered Biden’s Topless Freak Shows
  8. Climate Depot: ‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup called ‘the deadliest sporting event in history’ – ‘On pace to be ‘a climate catastrophe’ – ‘Most polluting World Cup ever, with total greenhouse gas emissions hitting nearly two times the historical average’
  9. Cold Fury: Proximity to Moslems=DEATH
  10. Common Cents Blog: Jerry Seinfeld SHUTS DOWN anti-Israel influencer with PERFECT 3-word response – Video
  11. Gates Of Vienna: Migrants are the Real Victims of the Belfast Beheading Attack
  12. Gatestone Institute: Europe in Wonderland: Belgium Criminalizes Truth
  13. Geller Report: Tens of Thousands March in Rome for Mass Migrant Deportations
  14. Jihad Watch: Italian Woman Beheaded as Attacker Recites Passages From a Book. Yeah, THAT Book.
  15. And last, but, not least, The First Street Journal has “Killadelphia: I confess to being unable to see how a victim’s race makes him either more or less dead.”

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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Washington Post: Trump Officials Digging Deeper On Missing Illegal Alien Kids

By William Teach June 14, 2026 – 7:00 am

Um, the WP actually seems a bit upset over this

Trump officials broaden investigation into unaccompanied migrant children

The Trump administration is expanding its probe into what happened to the record number of migrant children who crossed the southern border without their parents during the Biden era, dispatching investigators to nonprofit organizations, prosecuting alleged smugglers and requesting help from the U.S. military.

Administration officials this week said federal investigators are continuing a nationwide effort to prosecute anyone who has committed a crime involving an unaccompanied minor, but records obtained by The Washington Post and accounts from aid workers show the administration’s efforts have been even broader.

President Donald Trump and his administration say their investigation aims to protect hundreds of thousands of children who arrived alone and were released to sponsors who they claim were poorly vetted. They allege many of those adults then abused or exploited the children for financial gain, though so far, the government has presented examples of a small number of cases.

Advocates say most children were reunited with parents or relatives in the United States, and that the administration’s efforts could have a chilling effect on a vulnerable group of migrants who may now be wary of seeking help from groups meant to protect them.

So, the investigation is broader per the groups who probably helped lose the kids, and the advocates are advocating to stop searching for the kids because it will cause problems for the illegals who shouldn’t be here? Really?

The acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is under the Department of Health and Human Services and oversees the shelters that house unaccompanied minors, separately secured the Pentagon’s help this spring in auditing federally funded nonprofits that provide legal aid to migrant children, according to a copy of the request reviewed by The Post. The auditors were going to be tasked with investigating any potential fraud.

The Department of Homeland Security, which sent some agents to the nonprofits this week, did not respond to questions about the visits, saying only that its efforts are part of an overall endeavor to locate unaccompanied minors. DHS shared 16 cases in which a sponsor with a criminal history was later arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for immigration violations.

Well, that sounds like a good thing, right? Right?

“This feels like another government attack on immigrant children,” said Michael Lukens, executive director of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights in D.C., one of the groups that federal agents targeted this week. “I don’t think they understand. We’ve been doing this a long time. We’re very good at it. We are working on shoestring budgets.”

Say, did the WP ask Lukens and members of Amica Center about the missing kids, tough, pointed questions? Sorry, sorry, silly question. Apparently, missing illegal kids who are probably being trafficked is no big deal because Orange Man Bad’s admin is investigating

Now the nonprofits contracted to provide legal aid and shelter to unaccompanied children are becoming a focal point of the administration’s probe, and internal correspondence shared with The Post shows how government officials are pushing institutional norms to execute the president’s immigration enforcement agenda.

Did the WP ever consider that all these groups might be problematic, in that they helped facilitate all those kids coming solo, and then profitted off provide aid and shelter? That they might be implicated in trafficking the kids, even by accident?

Advocates who work at the nonprofit organizations contracted to help unaccompanied minors said they turned away the investigators who arrived at their doorsteps and did not hand over any records. Some interpreted the surprise visits as an attempt to intimidate them and expressed fear that it would discourage children from seeking their help.

They’re taking taxpayer money for this, right? Lots and lots of it? Next time there will be warrants. One would think a premier news outlet like the WP would care about kids being missing, about potentially being trafficked, but, they’re more concerned with sheltering the NGOs and such. That the WP would be an advocate for the little people, the people who are in trouble. Nope.

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Cult Of Climastrology Now Discussing “Indirect Interactions”

By William Teach June 13, 2026 – 3:00 pm

It’s always some new and authoritarian thing the cult is coming up with

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesRecord-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits.

These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t have a direct warming effect on their own. Instead, they trigger reactions in the atmosphere that create more greenhouse gases or make the gases stick around longer.

A new paper published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that 15 percent of human-driven global warming has come from these indirect interactions. None of these pollutants appear on the international climate treaty list that forms the basis for nations’ pledges to cut back—and the authors say it’s time for that to change.

“We’re emitting things into the atmosphere that don’t directly warm the planet, but they increase the amount of the greenhouse gases that do directly warm the planet,” said the paper’s lead author, Ilissa Ocko, a former climate advisor for the U.S. Department of State. She’s now senior climate scientist at Spark Climate Solutions, a nonprofit that aims to identify and mitigate sources of unmanaged climate risk.

Sounds like culty BS to me

Carbon monoxide and non-methane volatile organic compounds are the major players named in the paper, indirectly accounting for most of that 15 percent of warming. Black carbon, commonly known as soot, also contributes.

It’s another method to come after Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles

“The political climate in many countries is not for adopting even stronger climate rules,” added Michael Gerrard, founder of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. It’s enough of a struggle to meet current emission reduction goals that he doubts countries would want to add more pollutants to the list.

But despite the challenges, the paper’s finding “highlights an important missing piece of the climate regulatory picture,” Gerrard said. “It demonstrates that these pollutants that are not regulated under the climate regime still have some significance.”

“Regulatory.” Of course.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 13, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Washington hearing a challenge to a huge wind and solar project.

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Wacko Federal Judge Tells Trump To Put Wacko Plaques Back In National Parks

By William Teach June 13, 2026 – 10:30 am

Another moonbat who ignores the Supreme Court ruling about no nationwide rulings. If she wants to try this for her fiefdom, the state of Massachusetts, OK, but, they have no national parks, but, do have 16 sites run by the National Parks Service

Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive

A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”.

In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.

The Trump directive came as the White House waged war on so-called liberal “wokeism,” rolling back Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices and policies (in the past, the president has described DEI as divisive and particularly discriminatory against white people).

The Trump administration also sought to purge “corrosive” or “ideological indoctrination” from exhibitions at the nation’s historical and cultural institutions.

The 2025 executive order resulted in the de-installation of signage and material at these sites, which referenced topics such as slavery, civil rights, Indigenous history and climate change, according to a February lawsuit that a group of conservation organizations filed against the Trump administration.

Crazy Cat Judge (sorry, cats), really stretched in her ruling, like with the National Park Service Centennial Act, which the “Secretary is required to “ensure that management of [National Park] System units and related areas is enhanced by the availability and use of a broad program of the highest quality interpretation and education”” and from the law

The Secretary may undertake a program of regular evaluation of interpretation and education programs to ensure that they (1) adjust to how people learn and engage with the natural world and shared heritage as embodied in the [National Park] System; (2) reflect different cultural backgrounds, ages, education, gender,abilities, ethnicity, and needs; (3) demonstrate innovative approaches to management and appropriately incorporate emerging learning and communications technology; and (4) reflect current scientific and academic research, content, methods, and audience analysis

She kind of blows her argument since it says “may”. And then that there are directives in the National Park Service, forgetting that the POTUS is over them, and can put out his own “directives”, ie, EOs. Judge Moonbat rules that it’s in the public interest and stuff, 63 pages of inventing a reason to rule against Orange Man Bad, with garbage like

Plaintiffs have demonstrated that the risk of harm to them and their individual members as research institutions, historians, conservationists, and park visitors is immediate and irreparable.

Aww, they were a bit butthurt. That’s not a reason for a ruling in their favor, but, Judge Angel (who’s had multiple wacko rulings in the Age Of Trump, such as ruling that TPS cannot end for South Sudanese people), like many liberal judges, keeps ignoring the ruling in Trump V CASA on nationwide rulings. The Trump admin should ignore her ruling outside of Massachusetts.

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Britain Imposes New Restrictions On Heated Towel Racks And Underfloor Heating

By William Teach June 13, 2026 – 7:15 am

Is there nothing the Cult Of Climastrology doesn’t want to regulate?

Ed Miliband imposes new net zero restrictions on underfloor heating and towel rails

Heated towel rails that use too much power create an “avoidable cost to society” and should be banned from sale, Labour has said.

Underfloor heating systems and storage heaters that are classed as inefficient will also be removed from sale, in a bid to cut energy waste and carbon emissions.

The rules, which also cover gas space heaters, are part of the drive to Net Zero and are aimed at ensuring only the most efficient systems are available.

They will bring Britain more in line with EU regulations.

Last time I checked the UK left the EU. Nice that one person can slap on these restrictions, which will essentially cost businesses a lot of money as they can no longer sell those products

No one will be forced to remove existing systems according to Labour, and the rules will only apply to new models.

No one will be forced yet. Don’t think that a nation that sends multiple cops to harass and arrest citizens for Mean Tweets won’t force citizens to remove those systems.

The changes will save households money through reduced costs, it adds.

From next year, new models of heated towel rails, underfloor heating and storage heaters will have to meet improved energy efficiency requirements.

Which means that any savings through reduced use costs will be erased from products that cost a lot more.

The document estimates that, of models currently on the market, almost half of electric underfloor heating models and just over half of electric towel rails will be banned.

So, any existing supplies must be sold and installed by the end of the year or those products are worthless.

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