…is an area far from the cities which is perfect for wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on “WNBA Coach Is “Not Educated Enough” on Whether Men Should Play in Women’s Sports”
It’s country ladies week.
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. A little bit of rain, new Megadeth album came yesterday, and the squirrels are making a racket. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
Well, it is actually rather believable, because these wackos will find any excuse to stop the repatriation of people
Trump immigration agenda faces setback as Obama-appointed judge issues fresh TPS stay
A Massachusetts federal judge has once again blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status (TPS) for Somalia, issuing a new administrative stay after plaintiffs rewrote their lawsuit around constitutional claims just days after a federal appeals court threw out similar stays terminating TPS for Ethiopia and South Sudan.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued the administrative stay Friday after African Communities Together and other plaintiffs filed an amended complaint alleging the Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment by terminating Somalia’s TPS designation based on racial and national-origin discrimination.
The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and emergency motion on Thursday in a renewed bid to keep Somalia’s TPS protections alive after the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Mullin v. Doe sharply limited lower courts’ ability to block TPS terminations.
Burroughs’ latest order has intensified growing criticism over whether district judges are using administrative stays to work around higher court rulings. It comes just days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed similar administrative stays issued by U.S. District Judges Brian Murphy and Patti Saris, who had temporarily delayed the Trump administration’s TPS terminations for Ethiopia and South Sudan.
Here’s the thing: if the Trump admin does ignore her then the Democrats, especially the elected class and their pet media, will start bleating about Trump ignoring the courts and he must be a dictator, all while failing to mention the SCOTUS decision. Or, the Trump admin fights it in court. Either way the Somalians and others stay, and Democrats hope they can run the clock out and win the White House in 2028.
Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan argued Burroughs’ order improperly grants emergency relief despite what he described as legally deficient claims.
“I looked at the amended complaint in the Somalia TPS case,” Wessan wrote on X. “The district judge has entered a novel ‘administrative stay’ to sort out the claims. She has declared the TPS termination ‘void’ for now, while deciding whether any of the claims can justify a more permanent pause.”
At this point they’re making rulings and then figuring out how to make them stick.
Read: Unbelievable: Wacko Judge Stops The Ending Of TPS For Somalians »
Many people are seriously working hard to damage my calm. If you make 2 right turns on red without stopping, yeah, we are done. No more.
And, how about some Megadeth. Their appearance on Letterman was my introduction, since I had mostly been listening to 70s and Big Hair metal
…is a wonderful low carbon bike that Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on “Extreme weather expert Dr. Roger Pielke: ‘Actual fire on the landscape in South France measured as area burned has not increased, & arguably has decreased’”
Read: If All You See… »
It’s not like they weren’t warned many, many, many times
Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs
When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating “white supremacy” earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-known local Democrat taking direct, withering aim at the group that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani into City Hall.
Since Mamdani’s ascension there, local elected Democrats have been hard pressed to publicly blast him and his hard-left base. The mayor’s approval ratings remain strong and the DSA has emerged as a serious political force in the city. So Richards’ X post — which was referencing the DSA’s majority white membership nationally — hinted at a potential turning point.
His attack also points to a more broadly felt symptom: Growing discontent with Mamdani from Democratic politicians in the city’s outer boroughs.
I wouldn’t necessarily call it white supremacy, but, let’s be honest, the amount of DSA members who are white is almost as much as at Sheldon Whitehouse’ yacht club. How many times have we seen photos of uber-liberal this and thats which are mostly whites, especially women? Then you get some like a Mamdani who pretend to be DSA and get the backing of all those AWFLs (which includes liberal men-folk, you know)
Days after Richards’ online lament, more anti-Mamdani sentiment erupted in the Bronx, where City Councilmember Oswald Feliz accused the mayor of giving his community “crumbs” by not pairing a bus lane project in his district with enough infrastructure upgrades in surrounding areas. Like Richards, Feliz made a reference to race, albeit a more subtle one.
“Is this community not trendy enough to justify the kind of improvements that other communities receive, even without asking?” Feliz said in a statement last week. “If this was a wealthier neighborhood, I have no doubt that a more ambitious proposal would have been on the table. Minority communities are important, and deserve better.”
OK, are these just standard complaints, which are being vocalized because maybe they aren’t getting the responses they want from City Hall? I don’t think I’ve quite seen this in NYC before.
After Feliz issued his remarks referencing trendy neighborhoods and minority communities, Mamdani’s office told him the mayor was upset with the suggestion he doesn’t value outer borough enclaves, a person with direct knowledge of the exchange said. The mayor’s team then scheduled a meeting with Feliz to discuss his concerns further — a sit-down that took place this past Monday and also included Gibson, according to the person, who was granted anonymity to discuss the private talks.
Deputy Mayor for Operations Julia Kerson, Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn and other Mamdani administration officials were on hand for the meeting and told Feliz and Gibson they would look into their requests for improved road paving, street signs and expanded pedestrian areas. But the officials made no immediate capital commitments, saying that would have to wait until next year’s budget, the person with knowledge of the discussion said. The mayor didn’t attend the meeting.
That’s a “we’re listening to placate you” meeting. Nothing will happen.
The thing about backing this kind of stuff is that the crocodile will eventually get around to eating you.
Read: NYC Democrats Upset They’re Getting What They Voted For From Mamdani »
How’s that 35+ years of spreading awareness working? How about declaring that the debate is over?
Yale survey indicates Mainers losing interest in climate change
Big majorities of Maine residents believe in global warming, think it is caused by human activities, and that it is harmful.
But public interest and concern with global warming slipped in 2025, according to new estimates from the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication.
Senior program researcher Jennifer Marlon said waning attention to climate is a national trend.
“The numbers are not statistically significant, but when you look state by state, year by year in the recent time, there are declines,” Marlon said. “That is consistent with the decline in media coverage, the decline in politics, and leaders and decision makers talking about the issue.”
In 2025, 68% of people in Maine believed global warming is happening, a 4-point slide from the year before, according to the Yale projections.
There were similar decreases in the number of people who were worried about global warming, thought it was harmful and caused by human activity.
You can only scaremonger people for so long before they start losing interest, and, of course, really, the interest is mostly in theory, not practice. How many are actually living the climate cult life?
Marlon said “climate hushing” — avoiding or downplaying the issue on the part of corporations, media outlets and politicians — mean people are seeing and hearing less about global warming. Meanwhile, the U.S. and other parts of the world are facing bouts of dangerous heat, wildfires and other disasters made worse by a warming climate.
Marlon said in 2025 the proportion of people nationally who talk about global warming with their family and friends or see mentions of it in the media at least once a week hit the lowest point in the program’s 17-year history.
The media doesn’t need to talk about heavy metal for metal heads to care about it.
Read: Bummer: Citizens Of Maine Losing Interest In Climate (scam) »
It’s almost like this whole thing brings about a ton of fraud, graft, and abuse
How the ‘Lawyer of Miracles’ built an immigration empire as former clients say their lives unraveled
When Nelson Sanchez left for work before sunrise last November, his children expected it would be another ordinary day. Instead, they got a phone call that changed everything.
Federal immigration agents had surrounded Sanchez’s truck during a traffic stop and taken him into custody. His daughter, Izzy Picazo, remembers feeling like she was a little girl again. (snip)
The work permit Sanchez had been relying on was connected to an immigration application stating he was a victim of domestic abuse, a claim his children say was completely false and made with Sanchez’s knowledge. They say the application had been prepared by the Tukwila immigration attorney they trusted to help him stay in the United States.
That attorney was Alexandra Lozano.
So, shady stuff
What began as one family’s search for answers has grown into a months-long KING 5 investigation uncovering allegations that stretch across Washington and beyond: former clients accusing Lozano of filing immigration applications they didn’t qualify for, state disciplinary records alleging professional misconduct, federal lawsuits, a growing list of alleged victims, multimillion-dollar real estate purchases, a hot pink private jet, and questions about how one of the country’s fastest-growing immigration law firms operated.
Today, the federal civil lawsuit against Lozano continues to expand. An amended complaint now includes 34 former clients, up from nine in the original filing, and seeks to recover luxury assets, including a private jet that plaintiffs allege were purchased with proceeds from the firm’s business. It alleges fraud, professional negligence, violations of Washington’s Consumer Protection Act and federal racketeering laws.
Lozano has previously denied wrongdoing through her attorneys, and the allegations in the lawsuit have not been proven in court.
It’s a very long, detailed article on everything above. The only thing missing is taking state and/or federal money to “help” the illegals
In Ohio, immigration attorney Angel Lisinski was sued by former clients who allege they, too, were pressured into filing abuse-based immigration applications they did not qualify for. The lawsuit alleges clients were steered toward VAWA petitions and T visas without understanding what those programs were or whether they were eligible.
The Ohio complaint goes a step further, alleging Lisinski adopted a high-volume business model developed by Lozano. Attorneys representing the Ohio plaintiffs allege Lozano trained other immigration lawyers around the country through seminars, books and consulting programs.
I’m guessing this fraud wouldn’t be going on if the illegals weren’t in the U.S. Oh, and hey, where were these illegals getting all that money?
Here in NC
Thousands of Haitians in NC face uncertainty as TPS protections expire
Fear and confusion are spreading through North Carolina’s Haitian community as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections expire for thousands of immigrants who have lived and worked in the United States for years.
Woodson Simon, who runs the Triad Haitian Community Association in High Point, said many families are worried about what comes next.
“They don’t know what’s coming for them. They don’t know what they’re going to do,” Simon said.
It’s simple: go home. If you didn’t understand what the T in TPS stood for, that is on you.
Read: Weird: Washington State Immigration Attorney Built Fraudulent Empire »
Per the always barking moonbat Ed Kilgore
Democrats need a better answer on voter ID. Here’s one.
Donald Trump’s incessant crusade for the immediate enactment of the SAVE America Act is very likely to fail — thanks to a Senate Democratic filibuster that a crucial number of Senate Republicans refuse to kill. The bill’s proponents keep dishonestly insisting that the legislation just requires voter ID. In fact, its explicit aim is to require extensive proof of citizenship in order to register to vote, not just identification at the polls or accompanying mail ballots. But the SAVE impasse will likely strengthen the grip of Trump-fed conspiracy theories about Democrats needing illegal votes to win, at least among Republicans and perhaps even some swing voters. Concerns about vote integrity probably aren’t going to go away, whether they’re justified or not.
Well, yeah, that’s kind of the point, to keep foreigners from voting in our elections. Why are Democrats against that?
Democrats are fully justified in saying not just “no” but “hell no” to Trump’s demands. But their own political interests might be better served by finding a way to support or even counterpropose the simple voter ID requirements that Americans (including big majorities of Democrats) overwhelmingly support.
What’s the point of voter ID except to keep people who shouldn’t be voting from voting? Mostly because they are foreigners, but, in some cases because they aren’t who they say they are.
Americans also support voting-law reforms that Democrats typically favor. A major Pew survey in 2025 showed 80 percent favor the universal availability of two weeks of early in-person voting; 74 percent favor making Election Day a national holiday; 66 favor restoring voting rights for ex-felons; 59 percent favor automatic voter registration of all eligible voters; 58 percent favor a universal right to vote by mail; and 58 percent favor allowing people to register to vote on Election Day.
I’m not going to get down into the party breakdowns in this, but, I would support the 1st two. But, if it is 2 weeks, it is 2 weeks only. No more.
[R]equiring photo identification to vote has preponderant public support, and, with a reasonable list of acceptable documents, is unlikely to be a deal-breaker for Democrats. In return, Democrats probably couldn’t ask Republicans to require no-excuse mail balloting in every state (given how Trump’s obsessive hostility to it has permeated the party). But with voter ID as the sweetener, there might be some Republicans willing to accept other widely popular 2021 ideas such as nationwide automatic and same-day registration, guaranteed early voting and rights restoration for the formerly incarcerated.
So, that’s the big “better” idea.
Best of all, a deal that includes a modest voter ID requirement without onerous proof of citizenship could outflank Republicans on their most popular election-reform idea and rebut the presumption that Democrats want loosey-goosey voter rolls just like Trump claims.
In other words, the GOP gets a seriously watered down version of voter ID that will make no difference, and Democrats get to keep felons and foreigners on the voting rolls. Of course, it is 2026, and, despite there being more than enough Squishes in the GOP like always, enough “get along go alongs”, the Democrats are so extreme and unhinged that they wouldn’t even be able to try this kind of claptrap that would have worked 15 years ago.
Read: Democrats Totally Have Better Ideas On Voter ID Or Something »
…is horrible concrete which puts out lots of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on “Are Dumbphones the Future?”
Read: If All You See… »
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