NY Climate Cult Groups Sue To Force The State To Act On Cap And Invest

By William Teach April 1, 2025 – 7:15 am

One has to wonder what these cultists are doing themselves to reduce their own carbon footprints

NY sued over lagging cap-and-invest climate regulations

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is suing New York over the state’s slower than expected implementation of its landmark climate law, which requires regulations to meet the state’s mandated transition away from fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions.

The groups argued in the lawsuit that the state hasn’t taken the necessary steps to meet its upcoming mandates, which require a 40% reduction in emissions by 2030 to begin an ambitious set of targets over the next 25 years.

“With only five years until the first deadline, New York’s emissions are rising rather than falling,” their attorneys wrote. “The state must not only reverse this trend but must rapidly decrease emissions in the next few years.”

NY is finding out that passing these laws is easy, but, actually making it happen in the face of Reality Land is much more difficult

The civil action was filed against the state Department of Environmental Conservation in state court Monday by Citizen Action of New York, the Sierra Club, WE ACT for Environmental Justice and PUSH Buffalo. They’re represented by Earthjustice, another environmental group.

Too bad you can bet the judge(s) involved will never ask the Warmists what they have done in their own lives. It matters.

The conflict is centered on the state’s proposed “cap-and-invest” program, which would essentially impose a tax on carbon emissions. It’s included in the state’s scoping plan, a roadmap toward its climate mandates developed by the Climate Action Council more than two years ago.

The program would place a cap on the amount of carbon emissions allowed in New York. Companies that report heavy emissions from transportation and heating fuels would have to pay the state for permission to create that pollution.

And that will skyrocket the cost of energy and the cost of living for NY residents.

The proceeds from the program would then be reinvested into renewable energy projects and infrastructure. They would also be used to help ratepayers offset any rise in utility costs that result because of the program.

It can only offset so much, and you know a good chunk of that money will simply disappear into government.

They want a judge to order the agency to immediately issue those draft regulations and finalize a timeline on which they would be adopted.

“These regulations are not just a technicality — they are the primary means of ensuring the state meets its climate mandates,” said Rachel Spector, a senior attorney at Earthjustice. “We don’t have time to wait to act on climate, and that’s why our clients are going to court today.”

What do the citizens of NY think? What do they want? If they want this, give them this. And then restrict any who support this from leaving the state.

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NY Times Upset Trump Squeezing Illegal Alien Workforce

By William Teach April 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

I mean, who’s going to clean the bathrooms and do the floors at the NY Times building? Who’s going to clean the homes and fix the gardens of the NY Times high muckity mucks?

As Trump Squeezes the Immigrant Work Force, Employers Seek Relief

In recent weeks, managers of the nation’s resorts, plant nurseries, fish processors and racetracks started getting very worried.

The Trump administration had yet to release a batch of H-2B visas — those available for seasonal businesses that often can’t find enough workers domestically to fulfill demand.

Usually, the Department of Homeland Security releases them a few days after receiving more applications than the number of visas allowed for the second half of the year. That cap was reached on March 5, but no announcement came. Industry lobbyists got members of Congress to reach out on their behalf, put on a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago and sent a letter urging the administration to continue issuing the visas.

“It needs to be done by April 1, otherwise we all get backed up,” said Greg Chiecko, the president of the Outdoor Amusement Business Association, which represents traveling carnival producers. “We’ve heard that they’re going to, but they’re being very deliberate in waiting a little bit.”

The sad part here is that it used to be American kids who did these jobs. After school, on the weekends, during the summer. What the hell are they doing now? Do they even have summer jobs? Is it truly necessary to bring temporary aliens in to do these jobs?

Finally, last Wednesday, a news release announced that the visas would continue to flow, allowing businesses that banked on having them for the summer to move forward with their plans.

But the anxiety reflected a deep uncertainty about where President Trump is headed on legal immigration programs, both temporary and permanent, as the administration ramps up deportations and moves to end the legal status of millions who arrived in recent years. Those actions will squeeze the labor supply that many employers depend on — and they’re using the crackdown to argue for broader channels for people to come and work.

Most of those the Biden-Harris admin brought/allowed in are not here for jobs: they’re here for free everything. They did not come on work visas. Further, we have seen for decades that many who come here on these temporary visas do not leave, and then demand citizenship a decade or two later. Same with other types of visas.

Last week, the American Business Immigration Coalition — a group representing employers of immigrants — gathered its members in Washington to plead their case with lawmakers. Their refrain: Congress can both stop illegal migration and bring more people in legally, as well as give those already here a chance to stay.

We can. But, Democrats do not want to. Right off the bat if you make employers and schools responsible under threat of big fines to keep track of the immigration status of those on visas, requiring them to notify the visa holders that they are about to end and federal immigration forces, then terminate them or boot them from schools if the visas expire, this would go a long way towards ending visa abuse. Make the penalties for those with expired visas tough, starting with the law allow immediate deportation and using any money/assets to fund this. Change the law to require immediate deportation for anyone caught illegally in the US, the way it use to be as late as the 1980s.

Democrats do not want to stop illegal immigration

The could start with a fix for the people brought to the United States as children who are currently shielded from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which polls well even among Republicans. Representative Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, has said immigration reforms including help for the Dreamers, as they’re known, could follow the tax bill currently being negotiated.

And there it is. Amnesty for all the Dreamers. But, like I wrote in 2017

Here’s a recommendation: Congress puts DACA into law, but allows 4 year renewals, rather than 2 years, in order to decrease burden on federal agencies. Just like with people who are applying for citizenship, any serious crimes can be cause to cancel an illegals legal status and deport them. And, yes, even DUIs may be considered cause, just like with those applying for citizenship. After 12 years, they can go through the same process as those applying for citizenship in order to attempt to earn full citizenship.

BUT, if we aren’t going to lay the “sins” of the parent(s) on the children, we are going to lay them on the parent(s). In order to obtain DACA status, the parent(s) must self deport, and provide proof at an immigration checkpoint as they leave. They are not allowed back in the United States for 2 years, and then only for a short visit. If they are caught residing in the U.S., or attempting to enter the country illegally, the children will have their DACA status ended and will be deported. After 12 years, they would be allowed to apply for temporary resident status, conditioned on speaking English and having good moral character. This seems fair. The parents broke our laws.

If you don’t agree with punishing the parents, then you’re simply using DACA to create a backdoor amnesty for all.

Dems do not want the parents gone. They do not want the illegals/fake asylum seekers gone

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire.

The order by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco is a relief for 350,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status was set to expire April 7 after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reversed protections granted by the Biden administration.

Chen said in his ruling that the action by Noem “threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States.”

The protections for the Venezuelans is already going to expire: is he making law from the bench that the TPS must continue? Same for the Haitians who’s protection ends in August? Under what statute?

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Rolling Stone Melts Down Over Trump Trying To Convince World Global Warming Is Good

By William Teach March 31, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Is a slight increase in global temperatures over 177 years good? Bad? Or, really, is it something Mankind can mostly do nothing about? Anyhow, I remember when Rolling Stone was counter culture and wasn’t into taking the Big Government POV

TRUMP WANTS TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS A GOOD THING

Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax. There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on climate change is both dumbfounding and truly dangerous: He is now determined to convince the world that climate change is a good thing.

Trump has certainly downplayed the effects of climate change in the past. He’s claimed rising sea levels will create more beachfront property, which would seem to be a misunderstanding of how land works. He’s talked about how people would actually be happy if it was a little warmer outside. Even Trump adviser Elon Musk, who runs an EV company, has downplayed the threat of climate change in recent months.

Now, Trump is aiming to use the power of the federal government to reframe climate change as something that will benefit humanity.

Trump is reportedly intent on rewriting an Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, which found greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare, in order to downplay the negative effects of climate change. He’s working to decimate climate reporting in general. He also wants to muddy the waters by producing a National Climate Assessment written by climate deniers who argue that the impacts of climate change are overstated — or would even be a net positive.

Yeah, the Trump Derangement/pro-climate cult stuff continues on and on, but, consider: Mankind has done a whole lot better during Holocene warm periods than cool ones, for the most part. Empires rose during warm ones, collapsed during cool ones. Famine was worse during cool periods than warm ones. Mankind has moved further and faster during the Modern Warm Period than during any previous warm period. Of course, none of this matters to the Warmists.

Trump is reportedly intent on rewriting an Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, which found greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare, in order to downplay the negative effects of climate change. He’s working to decimate climate reporting in general. He also wants to muddy the waters by producing a National Climate Assessment written by climate deniers who argue that the impacts of climate change are overstated — or would even be a net positive.

Obviously, I’m saving that graphic.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that’s perfect to be replaced with a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on ‘climate change’ to blame for the Myanmar earthquake.

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Credentialed Media Shocked The Border Is Quiet

By William Teach March 31, 2025 – 10:30 am

Will they come to the right conclusion as to why the border is rather quiet now?

California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty

When the humanitarian aid workers decided to dismantle their elaborate tented setup — erected right up against the border wall — they hadn’t seen migrants for a month.

A year earlier, when historic numbers of migrants were arriving at the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national Quaker-founded human rights organization, came to their aid. Eventually the group received enough donations to erect three canopies, where it stored food, clothing and medical supplies.

But migrant crossings have slowed to a near halt, bringing a striking change to the landscape along the southernmost stretch of California.

Shelters that once received migrants have closed, makeshift camps where migrants waited for processing are barren, and nonprofits have begun shifting their services to established immigrants in the U.S. who are facing deportation, or migrants stuck in southern Mexico.

Meanwhile, the Border Patrol, with the assistance of 750 U.S. military troops, has reinforced six miles of the border wall with concertina wire.

So, wait, all those things worked? I wonder who shut the border down and who left it open?

Border Patrol agents in the San Diego sector are now making about 30 to 40 arrests per day, according to the agency. That’s down from more than 1,200 per day during the height of migrant arrivals to the region in April.

So, 30 times less in just this sector, which already had a border wall up.

In May 2023, the Biden administration ended a pandemic-era policy under which migrants were denied the right to seek asylum and were rapidly returned to Mexico. In the leadup to the policy change, migrants descended on the border by the thousands.

Whoa. The LA Times uses the most Biden friendly way of saying that he opened the floodgates. But, he did it for humanitarian reasons, you know! He didn’t care about US citizens, but, he loves him some poor migrants (who spend thousands to tens of thousands to come to America from all over the world, including Islamic terrorists.

Stalnaker said federal prosecutors in San Diego had also accepted more than 1,000 border-related criminal cases this fiscal year. And following Trump’s tariff threats, Mexico vowed to send 10,000 National Guard troops to its northern border. Those troops now meet with U.S. agents a few times a week and conduct synchronous patrols on their respective sides of the border, Stalnaker said.

Oh, look, they finally mention Trump, the president who shut it down.

Farther east, Jacumba Hot Springs was once the site of additional open-air camps, where hundreds of migrants slept on plastic tarps (or in tents, if they were lucky) and huddled around campfires fueled by brush to stay warm.

Sam Schultz, a retired international relief worker who has lived near Jacumba for nine years, once made daily deliveries of water, hot meals and blankets to migrants there. When the camps popped up a few miles from his home, he felt compelled to help.

All these people and their groups are very upset that they are no longer getting tons of taxpayer money to help all the fake asylum seekers destroying America’s small towns. How much was used for payroll?

Immigrant Defenders Law Center, headquartered in Los Angeles, served migrants who were bused there from the border by the Texas governor; the group also provided legal help to those waiting in Tijuana for appointments with Customs and Border Protection. After his inauguration, President Trump quickly canceled existing appointments and ended use of a phone application used by the Biden administration to schedule them.

Finally, another mention of the guy who significantly reduced illegal immigration. Anyhow, there sure are lots of groups meant to help the fake asylum seekers/illegals, all getting government money, eh? Anyhow, it’s amazing what Trump was able to do without any sort of absurd legislation from Congress, right? It’s like the laws were already there.

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Bummer: More Americans Are Opting Out Of The Climate Cult

By William Teach March 31, 2025 – 7:00 am

Maybe it’s just no longer as fashionable with Trump in office, and people are waking up

Growing Number of Americans ‘Aren’t Buying’ Climate Change Alarmism

Considering the massive propaganda effort to brainwash Americans into believing that climate change will doom humanity if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels yesterday, it is impressive to see just how little the American public buys the narrative.

A recent poll finds that Americans value energy independence, keeping car prices lower, and reducing the cost of electricity ahead of fighting climate change.

When asked, “Is it more important to make America energy independent or fight climate change?” most respondents (57%) chose energy independence, while another 39% chose climate change, and 4% said they were not sure.

When asked, “Which is more important, reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change, or keeping the price of cars low enough for families to afford them?” about half of respondents (50%) chose keeping car prices low, while 43% said reducing greenhouse gas emissions was more important. The remaining 7% said they were not sure.

When reality intrudes on the ability to live the high life and worry about bullshit make believe, the cares of Americans change. But, then, there are all those past polls where people who say They Care weren’t willing to make changes in their own lives nor want to see their own cost of living or taxes/fees go up.

When asked, “Which is more important, reducing greenhouse gas emissions or reducing the cost and improving the reliability of electricity and gas for American families?” respondents again rejected the climate goals. A majority (59%) said reducing energy cost and improving reliability was more important, while about a third (35%) chose the climate option. The remainder (5%) said they were not sure.

Even with the constant bleating from the media and elected officials for 35+ years, it’s not going well for the cult. But, never, ever think they will give up. They won’t.

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Oh Noes: Orange Man Bad To Remove Nearly 200 Year Old Magnolia Tree From White House

By William Teach March 31, 2025 – 6:45 am

This is so horrible!

White House to remove magnolia tree dating to Andrew Jackson

The White House will remove from its property a magnolia tree planted nearly 200 years ago with seeds said to have been brought from former President Jackson’s home in Tennessee.

Horrible! Of course, this is simply a TDS clickbait headline from The Hill, one meant for those suffering from TDS to see it and rage at Trump, without bothering to read the article, which was up near the top of page

President Trump announced Sunday that, after consulting with the Executive Residence Staff and the National Park Service, the administration has decided to replace the tree, saying it poses a safety hazard.

“The bad news is that everything must come to an end, and this tree is in terrible condition, a very dangerous safety hazard, at the White House Entrance, no less, and must now be removed,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, noting that the “good news” is that his administration is “making tremendous enhancements to the White House.”

They been trying to save the tree for decades, but, it is toast. Trees do die. This is really much ado about nothing. Remember the complete freakout over Melania wanted to utterly destroy the rose garden, which was created in 1913? But, it ended up being them tearing it all up and making it more modern and replanting everything? Much like Jackie Kennedy did in the early 60s.

And everyone wonders why the media has lost all trust. And all the TDS, like this

Yeah, they were MIA with all that, and more. They sure didn’t have any criticism of Biden nor Obama.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 30, 2025 – 1:57 pm

…is a field full of flowers which will die because bees will die off from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on the cause of earthquakes.

It’s ladies in fields day.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 30, 2025 – 9:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. Baseball is back, the coyote is keeping quiet at night, and I’m walking a bit better on the damaged tendon. Still some pain, though. Not sure who this did this pinup. Maybe someone French?

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog: Dems Look to Commie Tag-Team of Bernie and AOC for 2028
  2. This ain’t Hell…: Trump effect: Germany taking defense spending and readiness seriously
  3. The Right Scoop: WATCH: Criminal lib MASTERMIND keys Nazi symbol on Tesla at gym, scans BADGE to work out AFTER he’s caught ON CAMERA!
  4. The Other McCain: Want My DNA? Get a Warrant
  5. The Lid: Sec. of State Rubio Delivers PERFECT Reply on Why Deporting Terrorist Students is a Good Thing
  6. The Last Refuge: Zelenskyy, With EU Support, Continues Looking for Any Excuse to Derail or Avoid Peace Talks – Rejects Mineral Deal, Demands EU Ascension and Security Guarantees
  7. The Hayride: Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity: A First Step, Not the Endgame
  8. The Gateway Pundit: RFK Jr. Moves to Cut Soda from List of Approved Food Stamp Purchases – Pay Attention to Who Is Fighting Him on It
  9. The First Street Journal: Once more, the Philly Inquirer goes all-in to support transgenderism
  10. The American Conservative: If Judges Can Stymie the Will of the People, We Don’t Have a Democracy Anymore (I never editorialize on these links, but, I will say, it makes an interesting point, but, there are times when judiciary does need to stop the will of the people when it violates the federal or state constitutions)
  11. Sultan Knish: Congressman Pleads With Congress to Stop Him Before He Trades Stocks Again
  12. Pacific Pundit: Anti Musk/Tesla boycott is an epic flop – commies needed scripts in large fonts for their repetitive chants!
  13. Moonbattery: Euthanasia for Autistic Children
  14. Legal Insurrection: Illegal Immigrant ‘Influencer’ Who Encouraged Freeloading and Squatting Finally Sent Back to Venezuela
  15. And last, but not least, IOTW Report: Afghan national brought to US by Biden admin jailed for brutally stabbing man 20+ times
  16. And one to grow on: Geller Report has Syria Now Controlled By ISIS: Mass Slaughter Continues, Upwards of 50,000 Killed

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?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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AP Incensed That Pro-Israel Groups Are Looking To Identify Jew Haters On Visas

By William Teach March 30, 2025 – 7:00 am

Hey, maybe do not come to the U.S. and call for the deaths of Jews and Americans, for the destruction of Israel and America, take over buildings, and show support for a US designated terrorist group

Takeaways about groups working to identify and report foreign student protesters

When President Donald Trump signed an order calling for the deportation of foreign students who participated in “pro-jihadist” protests of the war in Gaza, some supporters of the crackdown were already working to identify targets for expulsion.

Here are some key takeaways about the efforts by pro-Israel private groups to expose protesters using facial recognition and other means, and to report them to federal authorities.

Private groups experiment with facial recognition to identify protesters

A right-wing Jewish group said it used facial-recognition software to identify campus protesters and included them on a list submitted to administration officials earlier this year, seeking deportation.

A New York computer engineer who has built a facial-recognition tool designed to identify masked protesters said he has talked with other pro-Israel groups about licensing the software for their own efforts.

The use of facial-recognition technology by private groups enters territory previously reserved largely for law enforcement, said attorney Sejal Zota, who represents a group of California activists in a lawsuit against facial-recognition company ClearviewAI.

In other words, they only want The State to be able to try and pick out people. Of course, I remember The State asking private citizens to snitch on people caught on camera from J6. People who mostly just walked around the Capitol Building peacefully, who weren’t wishing death on people.

It’s unclear whether names from outside groups have reached top government officials, who have said that more arrests of international students are coming. But concern about the pursuit of activists has risen since the March 8 arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student of Palestinian descent who helped lead demonstrations against Israel’s conduct of the war.

“Now they’re using tools of the state to actually go after people,” said a Columbia graduate student from South Asia who has been active in protests and spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns about losing her visa.

Let me explain something to you, Sparky from South Asia (would that be a nation overrun by Islamists?): We The People are meant to be in charge. The government works for us, not the other way around.

Some supporters of deportation say they’re focused on students whose activities go beyond protest, pointing to those who incite violence or occupy campus buildings illegally.

“If you’re here, right, on a student visa causing civil unrest … assaulting people on the streets, chanting for people’s death, why the heck did you come to this country?” said Eliyahu Hawila, the software engineer whose company built the tool designed to identify masked protesters.

Well, yeah. But, Democrats, and these foreigners, want to have their cake and eat it too. Seriously, what’s wrong with identifying the rioters? They did not flinch from identifying Jewish students and threatening Jewish/Israel sympathizers. Doxxing them. Harassing them. Assaulting them. There’s zero reason we should allow people into the U.S. who support Islamic extremism and want to destroy America. They don’t assimilate. They expect us to change for them.

And maybe the press should realize that they are acting as Useful Idiots for Islamic radicalism.

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