Weird: NY Dems Against Voter ID, But For ID To Shovel Snow

By William Teach February 22, 2026 – 7:00 am

From the link

double standardsSnowcialism has hit The Big Apple.

Lefty Mayor Zohran Mamdani opposes requiring ID’s to vote — but mandates no less than five forms of identification in order to shovel snow.

The New York City Sanitation Department website says that in order to register as an emergency snow shoveler, an applicant must provide two small photos sized 1-1.5 square inches, two original forms of ID plus copies, and their social security card.

Mamdani called on New Yorkers to sign up to become emergency snow shovelers Saturday, telling them to show up to a local sanitation garage with the reams of required paperwork.

“For those who want to do more to help your neighbors and earn some extra cash, you too can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage… with your paperwork which is accessible online,” Hizzoner said at a presser Saturday.

I guess they need the shovelers after the utter failure of NYC after the last snow storm

“Our candidates for office stand firm against racist voter ID laws and secret poll taxes like the ‘SAVE America Act,’” The DSA’s website stated.

That would mean Mamdani. Every single NYC Democrat, including AOC, Hakeem Jeffries, Jerry Nadler (they are the known ones) voted against the SAVE Act. The photos are surely to make ID cars. To shovel snow. Two IDs? I guess that would be a DL or state ID, plus a passport (which requires a birth certificate). Maybe a student ID is acceptable? SS card? I guess that is for pay? I haven’t been required to show that to any employer. Why does the city need that? Haven’t Dems been saying they don’t have access to one?

I wonder how many will show up to fill out the reams of paperwork to do the job their taxes pay for?

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UK Guardian Incensed That Europeans Are Done With Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach February 21, 2026 – 3:00 pm

You aren’t allowed to have your own opinion

Under water, in denial: is Europe drowning out the climate crisis?

Green Climate Thought PoliceIn the timeless week between Christmas and the new year, two Spanish men in their early 50s – friends since childhood, popular around town – went to a restaurant and did not come home.

Francisco Zea Bravo, a maths teacher active in a book club and rock band, and Antonio Morales Serrano, the owner of a popular cafe and ice-cream parlour, had gone to eat with friends in Málaga on Saturday 27 December. But as the pair drove back to Alhaurín el Grande that night, heavy rains turned the usually tranquil Fahala River into what the mayor would later call an “uncontrollable torrent”. Police found their van overturned the next day. Their bodies followed after an agonising search.

“We are used to some floods. Not many,” said Conchi Navarro, the headteacher of Los Montecillos secondary school, whom Zea Bravo was supposed to succeed upon her retirement at the end of the school year. “But since December, these borrasca [low-pressure storms] have come one after the other.”

It’s really a matter of land use, where roads and buildings are put, along with the fact that weather can change.

The answer, particularly in the US, is with breathtaking ease. The president, Donald Trump, has ramped up his attacks on climate policy in recent weeks – quitting the Paris agreement again and repealing a finding that underpins pollution controls – while going global with his “drill, baby, drill” policy. Chris Wright, the US energy secretary and former fracking executive, has pressured Europe to roll back methane standards and sustainability rules that could threaten American exports of liquefied natural gas. On Wednesday, he urged spreadsheet-wranglers at the International Energy Agency to “drop the climate” from its models.

Trump Blamestorming is no shock, but, let’s be honest, this move away from the climate cult really started during the Biden times. Not that I’m blaming Biden, but, post-COVID is really when you saw Europeans opting out

Even in Europe, where polls show citizens overwhelmingly accept climate science and support stopping planet-heating pollution, a quiet but deadly form of denial has emerged.

They want to blame this on the “far-right”, but, you see citizens of all political stripes saying they’ve had enough.

Scientists complain that European governments are in denial about the scale of the threat. Christophe Cassou, a climate scientist and research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, said the flooding in France was unprecedented in terms of area and the result of record cumulative rainfall since the start of the year.

Except the scientists, who like all that scam research money and the notoriety that comes with the Elites and media listening to them. And why would the peasants listen to the scientists or Elites when most fail to practice what they require the peasants to do?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 21, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible bad fog from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the SCOTUS tariff ruling not being the win Dems think it is.

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Automakers Caught Between What Consumers Want And The PRC Wants

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

Pretty much because the People’s Republik of California doesn’t care what their people want

Automakers Caught Between What Trump Wants and California’s EV Demands

A legal battle between the Trump administration and the state of California over vehicle emissions policy is about to get hot-the consequences could reshape the U.S. auto market and the economics of electric vehicles.

At issue is California’s long-standing authority to set its own vehicle-emissions standards under a federal waiver granted by the Environmental Protection Agency. For decades, administrations of both parties have approved those waivers, allowing the state to impose stricter pollution rules than federal law requires. Eleven other states, representing roughly 29 percent of U.S. new-vehicle sales according to S&P Global Mobility, follow California’s framework.

Waivers can be rescinded

That arrangement is now under threat. Congressional Republicans moved to nullify California’s latest waiver using the Congressional Review Act, a mechanism typically used to overturn recently adopted federal regulations. President Donald Trump signed the measure in June. California filed suit the same day, arguing that Congress and the EPA improperly reclassified its waiver as a “rule” subject to reversal under the act.

So, not just Trump? It was a TDS headline?

According to Reuters, the case is scheduled for a hearing in federal court in Oakland, where the administration has moved to dismiss the lawsuit. California contends that a waiver is a case-specific determination, not a broad regulatory rule, and therefore falls outside the scope of the Congressional Review Act. The Government Accountability Office reached a similar conclusion last March, stating that such waivers are not rules because they do not represent a general application of policy. Congressional Republicans have countered that Congress retains authority to determine what qualifies as a rule under the statute.

State and federal policies are now moving in opposite directions. California has adopted regulations that would require all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035, with escalating targets beginning this year. The Trump administration has dismantled key elements of federal EV support.

Let’s consider that most of the regulations were passed by the unaccountable and not-elected California Air Resources Board. Sadly, not one reporter has asked the members of CARB if the themselves drive EVs. At least that I’ve ever seen. Nor have they asked Gavin Newsom or any of the elected Democrats who back this.

How about if we ask the citizens of California their thoughts? At least the ones who are staying, vs the ones who are getting the f*** out of the PRC.

If California wins, automakers could find themselves navigating two conflicting regulatory regimes within the same country. They would need to continue developing and selling increasing volumes of zero-emission vehicles in California and aligned states while operating under looser federal requirements elsewhere.

If the PRC wins once this ends up at the Supreme Court automakers can simply make a small number of EVs for California and sell them at their real cost, rather than losing oodles of money. What do the citizens of California and the follow on states actually want? How about asking them?

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Was The Climate Scam A Massive Financial Scam?

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

Well, yeah. It was never about saving the climate, it was about spreading money around and implementing authoritarian government

Was climate change the greatest financial scandal in history?

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that governments around the globe have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

And for what?

Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.

And where did all that money go? What percent actually made it to helping the people it was meant to help?

Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree, as even the alarmists acknowledge.

In other words, $16 trillion has been spent. A lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse, but there is not a penny of measurable payoff.

It’s much worse than that. In economics, there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?

What if the $16 trillion had been spent on clean water for poor countries, preventing avoidable deaths from diseases such as malaria, building schools in African villages to end illiteracy, bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than 1 billion people who still lack access, or curing cancer?

What could $8 billion have done to help Americans instead of being pissed away on a small number of EV chargers? There needs to be a serious audit of where the money went

Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain. For this reason, it is important that we identify the green “climate change” derangement syndrome as perhaps the most inhumane political movement in history.

The people at the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund and the United Nations and politicians such as Al Gore, Joseph R. Biden and John Kerry, who voted for and carried out this Green New Deal scam, should be placed on a wall of shame. Mr. Biden’s administration alone wasted $400 billion on green energy and other sham climate change programs.

Think what could have been done with $400 billion. Heck, every American could have been straight up given around $12 million each.

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Bummer: Arresting Illegals Left NC Restaurants Shorhanded

By William Teach February 21, 2026 – 6:45 am

If your business is dependent on employing illegal aliens, and probably paying them lower then minimum wage wage, you’re doing it wrong

Immigration arrests left NC restaurants short-staffed and job sites idle, owners say

For two weeks last November, kitchens at David “Woody” Lockwood’s restaurants ran short of dishwashers, prep cooks and servers as workers stayed home, afraid to leave their houses during a federal immigration crackdown that resulted in more than 400 arrests across North Carolina.

“We had a lot of people, mostly in the kitchen, that didn’t feel safe coming to work,” said Lockwood, a co-owner of Trophy Brewing and The Bend. That meant managers working extra shifts, longer waits for customers and paying employees who were not on the job to help them get by.

“We decided, at least for those two weeks, to pay those people for the hours they missed, which is not a sustainable thing,” Lockwood said.

Business owners and educators said the effects of the crackdown extended well beyond those taken into custody, disrupting construction and hospitality – two of the state’s largest industries – and keeping some students home from school.

If they are authorized to work in the US would any of them miss work? Obviously because they were not authorized, meaning these businesses were breaking federal law in employing the illegals. I actually wish that the early focus was on arresting and prosecuting the businesses who were employing illegals, which would have heavily discouraged businesses from employing them, meaning little work for illegals, meaning lots would voluntarily leave.

Mikki Paradis, chief executive of PDI Drywall, said construction sites fell silent for more than a week during the November operations.

“There was not a single person working on those jobs,” said Paradis, who has relied on Hispanic workers throughout her 21-year career. She said these labor shortages would slow housing construction and drive up costs.

OK, arrest her. ICE isn’t going to mostly bother with those authorized to work. Anyhow, Deb Ross, who represents NC 2 (my district), was there

Also, perhaps Deb could be more concerned with Americans than illegals.

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Cult Scientists Look To Whale Snot On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach February 20, 2026 – 4:31 pm

I sure as hell hope the federal taxpayer is not footing the bill for this

Conn. researchers study ‘beluga snot’ for clues on whales’ resiliency to climate change

Researchers from Mystic Aquarium are heading to the icy tundras of Canada to study beluga breath. That’s the white-plume mixture of water cells, proteins and lung fluid that whales exhale when they come up to the surface.It’s also known as beluga snot.

“To translate it for kids, ‘beluga snot’ works really well,” said Tracy Romano, chief scientist at Mystic Aquarium.

“Anything gross, they love.”

Hidden inside that snot are clues as to how changes in the environment could affect the immune system of beluga whales and their resiliency to climate change.

Seriously, the climate always changes. Belugas have, like humans, gone through warm and cool periods. Just stop, you cultists.

Meanwhile

How an Intersectional Approach Can Help Us Address Vulnerability to Climate Change
The relationship between overlapping inequities and the conditions that increase people’s vulnerability to climate change is often overlooked or oversimplified. IISD experts Julie Dekens, Angie Dazé, and Cameron Hunter explain why we must deepen our understanding of — and actively confront — these powerful systems to ensure that climate change adaptation actions are effective for those who need them most

Huh what? Tell me this isn’t about science without directly telling me.

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If All You See…

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

…is horrible heatsnow because Other People won’t go vegan, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Detroit automakers taking a $50 million write-down on EVs.

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Trump Tells Pentagon To Release UFO Files

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

Well, hey, Obama actually helped on something. This is the kind of thing we in the blogging community are missing Jazz Shaw for

Trump says he’s directing Pentagon to release any files on UFOs and “alien and extraterrestrial life”

President Trump on Thursday directed his administration to release files on UFOs and any “alien and extraterrestrial life,” an issue that has drawn decades of public fascination — and spawned more than a few wild theories.

In a Truth Social post, the president told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other agency heads “to begin the process of identifying and releasing” any relevant files.

Mr. Trump also called for the release of “any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”

It’s not clear what files on UFOs might be released — or what information they might contain. The Pentagon has tracked reports of what it calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, for decades. But the military said in a 2024 report there’s no evidence that any government investigation into UAPs has confirmed the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Mr. Trump’s announcement came just days after one of his predecessors, former President Barack Obama, made waves by telling a podcaster that aliens are real. He later clarified that he never saw evidence of contact between humans and extraterrestrial life during his time in the White House, and he primarily believes that extraterrestrial life is real because “statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.”

I agree with Obama on that

Asked Thursday about Obama’s comments, Mr. Trump told reporters he isn’t sure whether or not aliens exist, but added that the former president “made a big mistake” and “gave classified information.”

“I may get him out of trouble by declassifying,” Mr. Trump said.

What could be in the files?

Public interest in UAPs has grown in recent years. Pilots and military service members have reported spotting hundreds of unexplained objects in the sky, leading some lawmakers to press the Pentagon to investigate the phenomena and determine whether they pose a threat to safety or national security.   (snip)

“It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology,” the office said in a 2024 report. The office also noted that it has “no indication or confirmation that these activities are attributable to foreign adversaries.”

Well, look, my opinion is that most of the accounts are made up, drunk sightings, or something we just can’t explain/don’t want to explain that are not ETs. But, can they all be mule fritters? No. What if just 1% are real? That’s still a lot. Heck, the Argentinians have been investigating since the formation of the government office Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena (CEFORA) in 2011. There was one recently that was so bizarre that CEFORA actually classified it, which is extremely unusual since the idea of CEFORA was to be open.

I’d be remiss to say that Democrats are already saying this is a distraction.

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Unshockingly, NY Times Links Avalanches With Hotcoldwetdry

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

Have watched any of the webcams from the California mountains? Good grief, I’ve been watching for days, and they are wild. Places like Truckee, Big Bear, Tahoe, Mammoth Mountain, and more. Some of the cameras have actually gone done because of the snow. The Donner Pass one had it’s battery go tits up. And, of course, we have

Because of that we get

Warming Climate Can Increase Avalanche Risk, Studies Show

stop global warmingCalifornia’s Sierra Nevada is being pummeled this week by a series of storms that is headed to Colorado and prompting avalanche warnings across the Rocky Mountains.

While scientists are careful not to blame climate change for any single weather event without close study, research suggests that a warming climate is increasing the overall risk of avalanches at higher elevations, as storms dump large amounts of snow that can overload and tumble down a mountain slope.

Authorities in California have not pinpointed the precise cause of the Tuesday avalanche that killed at least eight backcountry skiers in a remote region near Lake Tahoe. However, they are pointing to a combination of heavy snow on top of an unstable snow pack as conditions that led to the avalanche.

Climate scientists are identifying a paradox about snowfall, avalanche risk and a warming climate, namely that drier, warmer winters will occur in the West — but more snow is expected to fall at higher elevations.

Sigh. Did warming cause an avalanche in Norway in 1679 that killed 55? During the Little Ice Age? A lot of old avalanches weren’t really a big deal, because not a lot of people lived in areas that would get them. Did warming cause one in 1970 that killed at least 30,000? Oh, that was an earthquake. Which I’m sure the cult would link to warming. Just like they say that research “suggests”. That is not science. Suggest means “I don’t really know, but, I’m going to Blamestorm anyhow.”

Anyway, good grief! I don’t think dogs would be too happy

Heck, many ski resorts had to close. Can you imagine that? Not being able to ski because there is too much snow?

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