Super Edgy Colbert, Others Wear Tan Suit At Obama’s Fortress Dedication

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 10:30 am

Er, his presidential library

Revenge of the tan suit at the Obama Presidential Center ceremony

Presidential scandals just hit different in 2014 — we called this one “The Audacity of Taupe.” Then-President Barack Obama was feted as a cool guy with surprisingly good style for a world leader; first lady Michelle Obama was a fashion icon in her own right, and the young family in the White House injected a Camelot-like vibrancy to the notoriously dowdy Washington, D.C., scene.

Yet when the president emerged on Aug. 28 to discuss foreign policy, the headlines slipped past the possibility of military action in Syria or tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Obama wore “a beige-colored jacket and a gray, striped tie,” as PolitiFact put it. “Yes we tan!” some wags joked on social media; “Taupe and Change” quipped others. Other commentators dissed the decision to wear a military-adjacent color, given the topic of the news conference; one Republican Congressman called it “unpresidential.” Presidents of both parties going back decades have worn tan suits, including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, with no controversy. The outrage over the fashion choice, fueled by social media and cable news, was viewed as a double standard and an example of underlying racial bias in determining what is deemed professional or not.

Yeah, yeah, there was no real scandal, it was people making fun of Obama. The only people making it a scandal were the media. And, of course, they had to try the raaaaacism aspect.

The infamous tan suit became a punchline for years to come, even as some Democratic politicians came to embrace the look, as then-Vice President Kamala Harris did during her own nominating convention to the presidency in 2024. The suit itself is not at the Obama Presidential Center, per chief corporate affairs officer Michael Strautmanis, but during the opening ceremony on Thursday, multiple guests and celebrities paid tribute to the look.

It did? Did anyone mention it other than some whiny media after a couple days? But, of course (you can see the photos here with the paywall removed)

Here are our favorite tan suits among the crowd at the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremonies.

Actor and comedian Stephen Colbert wears a tan suit Thursday at the Obama Presidential Center hours before the grand opening ceremony on the South Side.

That’s the kind of edgy cringe that got Colbert such a low audience, lost at least $40 million a year for CBS, and got him cancelled. Is anyone really missing him? After a quick appearance on public television no one talks about him. No one is saying “man, I wish the Late Show was still on.” You also had State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, Martin Nesbitt, the Obama Foundation board chair, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill, NBA legends and Chicago natives Dwyane Wade and Isiah Thomas, and David Letterman wearing tan suits. So edgy!

Edgy! Something from 12 years ago!

You know what is also edgy?

Obamas Welcome Hollywood Elites, Famous Friends to Presidential Center Opening as Unpaid Subcontractors Claim Millions Owed

Former President Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle welcomed a long list of Hollywood celebrities, former president, and world leaders for the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, even as the Center has been engulfed in controversy for allegedly stiffing many black-owned building contractors for their construction fees.

The grand opening for Obama’s controversial and imposing Center in Chicago was a star-studded affair on Thursday, featuring performances from Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, The Roots, U2’s Bono and The Edge, and many more, Breitbart News reported. (snip)

But even as Obama waxed poetic about Chicago’s South Side and celebrated “democracy,” his Obama Presidential Center has already become mired in controversy even before opening after a growing number of contractors — many of whom are black-owned businesses — are saying that the Center has not paid them for their construction work.

Construction companies are now reporting that the Center owes them amounts ranging from the tens of thousands to multiple millions in unpaid construction fees. And in the case of many of the black-owned businesses, they face bankruptcy if they don’t get paid soon, Fox News reported.

Weird how most of the Credentialed Media do not care about all those businesses not getting paid for construction of Obama’s North Korean style gulag building.

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Here We Go: Every Story Is A Climate (cult) Story

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 7:15 am

So, apparently the science fiction book I’m reading now is linked to ‘climate change’ in some form or fashion. And the zombie apocalypse one before that is about ‘climate change’. And all the science fiction, horror, fantasy, and a smattering of mystery are all ‘climate change’ books

Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy to walk the streets of her small town alone in the darkness without cooking cereal or warming milk or finding the right stuffy. I knew that when she arrived downtown, a line had already formed in front of the CVS, circling the block. She joined the end of the line in front of the yarn store. (skipping to the relevant section)

The day I read that Lyme disease is considered the first epidemic of climate change, I saw my novel draft rise from my computer, a little spindly thing, a sapling, and expand, like that scene in the Nutcracker when the tree grows and grows to reach the top of the theater while Tchaikovsky’s music soars. Oh, I thought, looking up to see my novel touch the attic ceiling. I’m writing a climate change novel! (snip)

Then I read Lydia Millet’s The Children’s Bible. The story opens in a multi-family summer house. The parents are louche, disinterested in their kids. The kids are savvy, scheming to avoid their parents. A typical vacation, until end-times interrupt. Biblical rain takes down civilization as we know it. The catastrophic part of the book is shockingly witty and beautiful, but the first part shook me even more. In the prelapsarian present, the parents are naïve and totally unprepared, yet climate anxiety thrums in the background as they drink vodka, prepare tofu pups, check the weather. It felt familiar, how climate disaster sits with us in our ordinary lives. We push it away, and still it changes us.

After I finished this book, I started to see climate fiction in all the fiction I read. I saw it in a man’s mid-life crisis trip around the world. I saw it when a crotchety old lady in Maine notices the changing leaves. Arthur Less and Olive Kitteridge are in a relationship with the warming world, as are their authors, no matter if it rises to the level of consciousness. I saw climate forces in the flowers Mrs. Dalloway wanted to buy herself and the green lawns of Cheever’s suburbia. When characters scrolled their phones, I wondered if they saw headlines about existential demise and how this felt in their bodies. When I read beachside stories, I wondered if the rising seas crossed the characters’ minds as they took their morning swims. Did they notice the erosion in the dunes since last summer? Did they consider that the family home they were all vying to inherit would soon be worthless?

Sigh

Once I saw every story as a climate story, I became less interested in imagining future apocalypse and global worst-case scenarios, worthy and entertaining as that is, and more interested in thinking about how the local climate crises that we’re already living through—the floods and ticks and fires—alter our relationships: the relationships between those who fear a truncated future and those who deny the change, the relationships between us humans and the plants around us, the relationship between a brain that wants a break from thinking about climate and a body that feels the grief of a too-hot spring day.

These people are truly broken. Just indoctrinated into a worldwide doomsday cult.

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Cool: Trump Admin To Expand Denaturalization Push

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 7:00 am

Citizenship is privilege for foreign born citizens, not a right. And, there are many who got easy citizenship which they did not earn

U.S. planning aggressive expansion of denaturalization push, aiming for 250 cases by fall

The Trump administration expects to try to revoke the U.S. citizenship of more than 250 foreign-born citizens by the end of the fiscal year in October, a Justice Department official told CBS News, outlining the unprecedented use of the federal government’s denaturalization powers.

The Justice Department, which can revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens accused of obtaining their citizenship illegally or through fraud, is planning to file at least 250 denaturalization cases in federal courts across the country in fiscal year 2026, which ends on Sept. 30.

While 250 cases would make up a small percentage of the 24 million estimated naturalized citizens in the U.S., it still marks a dramatic escalation in the use of denaturalization, a legal procedure that has rarely been used by past administrations.

Between 1990 and 2017, for example, the U.S. government filed an average of just 11 denaturalization cases per year.

Yeah, well, most earned their citizenship and showed they wanted to be a part of the US melting pot. Too many now have previous presidents simply grant them citizenship without going through the steps.

I’m hoping Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and some others are on the list.

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Your Fault: Robin Hood Tree Has Died

By William Teach June 18, 2026 – 4:26 pm

All you had to do was give up your air conditioning and consumption of meat, but, no, you were selfish

An ancient oak tree said to have sheltered legendary Robin Hood has died

A massive ancient oak tree linked to the legend of Robin Hood may have been loved to death.

The 1,200-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is believed to have died after it didn’t sprout leaves this spring, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said Thursday.

Visitors over the past two centuries who viewed the tree’s gnarled limbs and sprawling canopy in Nottingham compressed the soil, making it difficult for rain to reach its roots, the conservation group said.

The forest has been under threat for years and the tree had been rumored to have died in the past — only to have the group confirm it was still alive.

That is no longer the case.

So, probably from all the visitors taking selfies for Instagram, right?

It’s impossible to say what killed the tree, but the footprints of millions contributed to its downfall, along with intervention to shore up its massive limbs using cables and poles. Climate change that has brought heat waves and drought was also blamed.

That’s literally the only mention of the scam. Nothing else in the article. It’s like the AP cult writer was required to throw it in.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 18, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are Bad Weather clouds rolling in, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The View From Lady Lake, with a post on the Scots drinking Beantown dry.

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Trump Signs Iran Agreement

By William Teach June 18, 2026 – 10:30 am

Will it work?

REPORT: Trump Personally Signs Iran Agreement at Versailles, Memorandum in Effect

President Donald Trump personally signed a copy of an agreement aimed at ending the conflict between the United States and Iran during a dinner at the Palace of Versailles, according to a report from Barak Ravid, the global affairs correspondent for Axios and a CNN analyst.

According to two senior American officials cited by Ravid, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday evening intended to bring the war to a close. The officials said the signing took place remotely and that the memorandum is now in effect.

According to a previous report by Breitbart News, the memorandum lays out a broad plan to end the conflict and hash out a comprehensive deal within 60 days. Under the agreement, the U.S. and Iran would immediately stop military operations, promise not to launch future attacks against each other, and respect each other’s sovereignty and borders.

The deal also calls for winding down the U.S. naval blockade, reopening the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to regular commercial shipping, and setting up a watchdog group to make sure both sides stick to the rules.

On top of that, the document says the U.S. will team up with regional partners to put together a massive $300 billion reconstruction and economic development package for Iran. Over time, the goal is to fully lift U.S., UN, and international sanctions. In the meantime, the agreement calls for waivers to clear the way for Iranian oil exports and banking transactions, alongside the release of frozen Iranian assets.

In exchange, Iran agreed that it will not pursue nuclear weapons and agreed to negotiate the future disposition of its enriched uranium stockpiles under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Obviously, the usual liberals and squishy Republicans are hating on it, and then some Republicans who are even more hawkish think it’s too soft, but

(Breitbart) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised President Donald Trump’s agreement with Iran, saying that the deal represents a major foreign policy achievement and a realistic alternative to either appeasing Tehran or committing U.S. troops to another large-scale Middle East conflict.

In a post published on his website, Gingrich said Trump had assembled a broad international coalition while using economic and military pressure to push Iran away from its previous position. He dismissed criticism of the agreement from both the right and left, arguing that many opponents had attacked the deal before seeing its details.

“Negotiating with Iran, monitoring its commitments and occasionally having to pressure the dictatorship militarily or economically is simply reality. (Remember Ronald Reagan’s advice to ‘Trust but verify’ and Connie Mack’s ‘You get what you inspect, not what you expect.’) There will be no end to the requirement to police, monitor, and occasionally penalize the religious dictatorship,” Gingrich wrote. “The leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will try to push for as much influence and flexibility as they can get away with. It’s simply their nature.”

Gingrich then defended Trump’s agreement with Iran, arguing that many critics have attacked the deal before seeing its details and have failed to offer a realistic alternative.

“A lot of people on the right and left have already criticized the upcoming agreement — even when they have never seen it,” Gingrich wrote. “It is hard to understand what they thought the alternative should be.”

From my POV, if it ends Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, it’s a win. If it puts an (mostly) end to Iran continuously causing strife in the Middle East, from attacking Israel, supporting terrorists and terrorist groups, and attacking US interests, that’s a win. Rebuilding Iran, modernizing it, will help a lot to raise up the people of Iran. It would be great for regime change, but, how does that work without a military invasion and takeover? I personally do not want that. They should build refinery capacity. All that money would help lift Iran and make them realize that being flush with cash is better than violence.

And Newt is right: what plans are being offered by all the critics? Some mention Obama’s Iran deal, which would have allowed Iran to start building nuclear weapons in 2030, and which Iran started cheating on immediately. And, of course, the haters are happy when Iran attacks Israel and the Jews, or pays terrorist groups to do so.

Remember, Trump’s whole thing was to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. That was it. He looked like he would have liked the people of Iran to truly rise up and revolt, replacing the Iranian regime, but, that never materialized after all those protests. One thing he should do is offer to help construct a nuclear power station, which Iran said was the purpose of the nuclear program way back. The Non-Proliferation Pact states that the nuclear weapons powers will help build them, ones that cannot produce weapons grade material, to try and stop other countries from getting nukes. This should have been done decades ago. I guess we’ll see.

Now the question is “does it work?” Time will tell.

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Goracle Says Scientists Were Totally Correct On 20th Anniversary Of His Scam Movie

By William Teach June 18, 2026 – 7:15 am

Where they right on how much money Al Gore has made off of it? How he sold his climate news station to Al Jazeera, backed by a petrofuels nation? Or how he bought a mansion near the ocean? Takes lots of private fossil fueled airplane travel?

‘Scientists were dead right’: Al Gore says on 20th anniversary of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Oscar-winning documentary about Gore’s campaign to educate people about climate change.

When asked by ABC News chief meteorologist and chief climate correspondent Ginger Zee whether the film and its predictions on global warming hold up, Gore responded, “Unfortunately, yes.”

“The scientists were dead right on all the important elements of it, and it really is insane that we are continuing to use the sky as an open sewer and we’re trapping so much heat every day it’s equal to the amount that would be released by 800,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day on the earth,” Gore said during an interview with ABC News at his family farm in Tennessee.

In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in “An Inconvenient Truth” have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come. The last 11 years — from 2015 to 2025 — have been the hottest on record, according to scientific data from NOAA and the Copernicus Climate Change Service  and summarized in a report released earlier this year by the World Meteorological Organization.

Unfortunately, I really don’t have access to Twitter at the moment, but, pretty much this

Here’s Bjorn Lomborg in May

Two decades ago, Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” thrust climate change into the global spotlight. Its dramatic imagery and dire warnings helped transform a niche concern into a front-page crisis, influencing rich-country leaders and elite jet-setters, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Twenty years on is sufficient distance to reflect, not just on the film’s impact, but also on its accuracy. Many of Gore’s most alarming predictions have failed to materialize, while the policy response he helped inspire has proved extraordinarily flawed.

Pretty much all of his scaremongering failed to materialize. The ice caps which were supposed to disappear by 2014. Hurricanes and wildfires are not worse. Miami is not under water. Polar bears are doing better than ever. But, Gore did make a boatload of money, right? Here’s from back in February

(Daily Caller) Jan. 24 marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Al Gore’s alarmist global warming movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” Gore has surfed the movie and climate alarmism to a net worth estimated at $300 million and a Nobel Peace Prize.

But the rest of us have been saddled with: (1) a hoax that has debased the field of science; (2) an energy scam that has cost the world more than $10-20 trillion dollars and threatens our national security; and (3) a political power grab that has reduced our freedoms. (snip)

The “documentary” was initially a hit, grossing $50 million in theaters. Problematically, though, the film soon became part of many secondary school curriculums. Its credibility took a major hit in 2007 when a British court ruled that the movie could not be shown to school children with a warning label about its factual errors.

All a scam.

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Trump Admin Files Legal Challenge To Virginia’s Unhinged Pro-Illegal, Anti-ICE Policies

By William Teach June 18, 2026 – 7:00 am

It would be more fun for the Trump admin to simply ignore the federally unconstitutional laws, watch Virginia Democrats go Full Moonbat, but, States keep losing when they pass these laws

DOJ challenges Virginia laws restricting officer face coverings, ICE agreements

The Trump administration’s Justice Department is challenging several state laws passed by Virginia Democrats targeting the work of federal immigration enforcement officers.

The complaint, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia’s Richmond Division, challenges state laws that seek to ban federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks and restrict 287(g) agreements between federal immigration enforcement and state and local law enforcement agencies.

The Justice Department argues the face mask ban illegally attempts to regulate the federal government and threatens federal officers with prosecution for concealing their identities.

“Law enforcement officers risk their lives every day to keep Americans safe, and they do not deserve to be doxed or harassed simply for carrying out their duties,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a release. “Virginia’s anti-law enforcement policies regulate the federal government and are designed to create risk for our agents. These laws cannot stand.”

If Democrat voters weren’t so violent there would be no need for masks.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, Attorney General Jay Jones and Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano were named as defendants in the lawsuit. Jones said his office is reviewing the lawsuit.

“We remain steadfast in our mission to protect Virginians right to safe communities and transparent enforcement of the law,” he said in a statement to ARLnow.

Illegal aliens aren’t Virginians. They are Mexicans, Hondurans, Venezuelans, Pakistanis, Chinese, etc and so on.

In court filings, the federal government said the legislation to restrict federal immigration agreements is “unconstitutional.”

“Virginia seeks to override Congress’s enactments that provide that ICE may enter into agreements with States and localities in which ICE trains local officers in immigration enforcement matters and provides them with the authority to conduct such matters under the color of Federal law,” the Justice Department said in the complaint.

Virginia’s laws should be deemed null and void within a few weeks.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 17, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the White House UFC event being a target of terror.

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UK Looks To Implement Almost Total Ban On Social Media For Under 16s

By William Teach June 17, 2026 – 10:30 am

But, of course, The Hill’s Mirando Nazzaro sat back and said “How can I make this about Orange Man Bad?”

Great Britain risks new battle with Trump over social media ban

Great Britain’s new social media ban for kids under 16 is threatening to escalate longtime tensions with the Trump administration over internet and social media policy.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer revealed this week his nation is moving forward with the ban, less than a week after the White House urged Downing Street against it, citing concerns over free speech and burdensome hurdles for American tech companies.

Starmer’s move suggests Britain is committed to its digital regulatory agenda, even if it risks another fight with the Trump administration.

“The timing tells you most of what you need to know,” said Tobias Feakin, Australia’s former inaugural ambassador for cyber affairs and critical technology. He added the ban “is a deliberate signal that London will set its own rules on online safety” despite what the White House prefers.

Starmer fielded numerous questions on Monday over whether he’s prepared for retaliation from President Trump, who has threatened higher tariffs in past disputes over digital regulations.

Of course the other reporters went with Orange Man Bad

The move makes the United Kingdom the fifth nation to pursue an all-out ban on social media for young kids and teenagers. The under-16 ban will be introduced in Parliament later this year and apply to popular platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and social platform X.

Messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal will not be included. But the ban goes further than other countries’ provisions in that it limits features on gaming and livestreaming platforms to prevent strangers from contacting kids under 16.

Same government won’t protect the kids in the real world from all the Islamic and 3rd world imports, though.

While the Trump administration and first lady’s office say kids should be protected online, the White House breaks from allies in its push for light-touch regulation of technology, including social media platforms and artificial intelligence chatbots.

This argument came through last week’s statement from the U.S. Embassy in London, which said most content should be accessible by default, including political speech.

“We believe an open internet is essential to the preservation of free speech,” the embassy stated, adding regulations could “impose disproportionate compliance burdens on American companies.”

The UK certainly disagrees with that, but, hey, it’s so important that the legislation won’t be introduced in Parliament till near the end of the year, and, if it passes, won’t take effect till next Spring. Anyhow, consider the large amount of people arrested for Mean Tweets in the UK

And there it is: everyone must use a digital token to login, erasing any anonymity, opening up everything UK citizens do online for the government to monitor, in a nation that already arrests the hell out of citizens. Because it doesn’t straight up ban under 16s

 

No screenshots? Not allowed to even talk about them? Adults having their access revoked for disagreement? Yet, none on the Left are talking about this authoritarianism. Or concerned about the real world threats to children.

Starmer tried to stop this, and it ended up being funded privately. XFreeze has a good breakdown of the whole thing.

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