Is Concern About AI And Data Centers That Huge An Issue For The Midterms?

By William Teach August 14, 2026 – 10:30 am

I can understand some of the concerns on data centers, particularly for water quality and noise, but, an election issue? Sounds more like a 1st World Issue

American anxiety about AI is becoming a political force in the midterms

Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.

You can see it in candidates of both major parties trying to one-up each other with crackdowns on data centers.

Incumbents fighting to survive in toss-up districts racing to display their takes on AI and national security.

And progressive Democrats stress testing voter messaging about job-destroying automation.

Yeah, that one is about Islamist El-Sayed writing “We need real AI regulation to create guardrails and protect the ability for young people to have a job.” Seems he wants Government to run the economy

Hundreds of candidates for House, Senate or governor this year have staked out policies related to AI or data centers on their campaign websites, injecting the issue into nearly 40 percent of races across the country, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. There are likely more races where AI has been featured in candidate messaging through speeches, debates and social media posts.

More Democrats and Republicans spotlight AI policies on their websites than mention longer-established political topics including Israel, manufacturing and racism, according to the analysis that covered 1,200 websites of candidates still in the running as of Monday.

Campaign veterans, pollsters and political analysts say they’ve rarely seen a new issue become a force so quickly in American politics. “AI has gone from something no one cared about … to it being ubiquitous,” said Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

Who’s really talking about it, though? It looks like mostly people where data centers are located or being built and politicians. It almost looks more like politicians and the Credentialed Media yapping about something that a very small number of people care about

AI is likely to be an even hotter topic in the 2028 presidential campaign. Potential contenders such as Vice President JD Vance (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) are already discussing potential AI policies.

But political experts say that neither Republicans nor Democrats have yet staked out clear positions that resonate with voters’ anxieties about the technology. “Whoever does that will reap rich political rewards,” predicted Alyssa Cass, a partner at Democratic political strategy firm Slingshot Strategies.

Opinion polls show that a significant share of Americans are “very concerned” about AI’s role in the economy, don’t want data centers near them and believe the computer hubs will raise utility bills, fear job losses from AI, and generally believe AI will do more harm than good.

But, when you’re talking about these kinds of issues, do polls with typically less than 1,500 people really represent the national mood?

The Post analysis found some differences emerging in how candidates of each major party discuss AI issues. Democrats running for House, Senate or governor this year are more than twice as likely as Republican candidates to discuss any topic related to AI or data centers on their campaign websites. (snip)

Political staffers and operatives say that left-wing Democrats are already testing broad AI policy platforms that they hope will resonate with voters in 2028. They’re hashing over policies that could insulate Americans from AI-related job losses, guard against rogue AI cyberattacks and protect children from AI dependency and abuses.

I guess they need a different topic other than TDS and Israel hate/support for Hamas, and another thing for government to control. Is it really that big, though? Or, is it an issue in search of an audience? Republican candidates are talking about it, too.

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Good News: Honolulu Is Spending Their Climate Cash On Stuff

By William Teach August 14, 2026 – 7:15 am

Has Honolulu considered banning the use of fossil fuels?

Here’s how Honolulu is spending its climate funds

Honolulu has set aside $9 million to expand community gardening, convert cesspools, and complete other climate projects this fiscal year.

That money comes from the city’s Climate Resiliency Fund, which voters approved in the 2024 election.

Special funds are not new — Honolulu has almost 70 such funds that finance everything from rental assistance to municipal golf courses. But the Climate Resiliency Fund is one of the first dedicated pots of money for climate adaptation work.

“This is not only unique for the City and County of Honolulu, but for all four counties in Hawai?i,” said Kealoha Fox, the executive director of the city’s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency, which administers the climate fund.

So, what is the city, which would be a backwards village without fossil fuels, doing with the money?

In its first year, the climate fund supported a loan program for cesspool conversions and an initiative to help residents retrofit their homes to lower electricity bills. Fox said those types of projects tackle multiple problems at once.

That has what to do with climate doom? Meh, you know they’ll have some sort of Answer, pulled out of their butts. I bet the people running this are hooked in and hooking up.

Honolulu’s Department of Parks and Recreation is getting money from the climate fund this year for four projects — including one that will create a new community garden at Asing Community Park in ?Ewa Beach.

They need this because the price of lots of foods is high, because most is grown for ones own use or shipped in.

Residents will still have to wait a few years before their first harvests in ?Ewa, as construction likely won’t start on the new garden until 2027 or 2028.

Why the hell does it take that long?

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Wacko Judge Considers Stopping Warrantless Arrest Of Illegals

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

She may be black, but, she’s definitely an AWFL

Federal judge poised to restrict immigration arrest tactics in Los Angeles raids

A judge on Thursday indicated that she’s inclined to order federal immigration agents to stop arresting people without warrants in Los Angeles if they haven’t assessed their flight risk.

If she grants the order, it would be one of the most significant so far in a wide-ranging lawsuit over the government’s ongoing immigration raids in Southern California. It would force agents to fundamentally change the way they’ve conducted the sweeps at the heart of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Since 1946, federal law has allowed immigration officers to arrest someone without a warrant only when they have probable cause both that the person is in the country unlawfully and that they are likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained. Courts have long held that to mean that agents are required to consider the person’s ties to the community, like a person having a job, a home and a family in the community where the arrest occurs.

However, in raids in Southern California and across the country, supervisors have told agents to “get out and start grabbing people,” and agents have ambushed people without knowing their immigration history and targeted Latinos at places like car washes and bus stops, court records and body camera footage show.

The thing is, they know who they are grabbing most of the time because all these illegals were given a dubious legal status by the Biden and Obama admins, meaning ICE knows who they are, their names, what they look like, where they are.

U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s tentative ruling Thursday means agents would need to obtain “individualized, pre-arrest probable cause determinations of flight risk” in the city and the areas surrounding Los Angeles, home to 19 million people.

That means people who have longstanding ties to the community, U.S.-born children and spouses and long-term homes in the Los Angeles area would not likely be considered by a court to be a flight risk, unless they have serious criminal records.

At least she seems to understand that any order would only apply in her district. She’s probably wondering how quickly a circuit court would override her order.

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UK Guardian Has Plans To Deal With Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach August 13, 2026 – 6:12 pm

It’s always some sort of apocalypse with the climate cult which requires Other People’s money and government control

From grey water to cool spaces: 10 climate crisis policies Britain needs right now

resistanceFrom record-smashing temperatures, wildfires, hosepipe bans and thousands of premature deaths, the climate crisis has left its mark across the summer of 2026.

Tackling the root cause – the burning of fossil fuels – and ending the crisis will take years. So will fixing the UK government’s calamitous failure to protect lives and livelihoods against the long-predicted affects of global heating.

But the climate emergency is right here, right now, and here are 10 policies that Andy Burnham’s government should consider announcing urgently.

1. Reject drilling licences for the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gasfields

Funny how the same people who always recommend this kind of stuff are not giving up their own use of petroleum, be it fuels or eye glasses or jackets

2. Increase windfall tax on fossil fuel giants to pay for adaptation measures

Someone Else’s money. Why won’t the Warmists pay for this stuff themselves?

4. Bring the water industry under national control
The privatised water system has overseen record sewage pollution levels in rivers and seas and presided over a system which critics argue prioritises shareholder dividends, big salaries and bonuses over investing in and maintaining a vital public infrastructure. More than £85bn has gone to shareholders, while the industry has failed to upgrade infrastructure to make it resilient to climate change by building reservoirs, upgrading pipes to stop leaking – a fifth of water running through pipes is lost to leakage – and making sure wastewater treatment plants have capacity for sewage treatment.

Well, the UK government already controls healthcare for the peasants, might as well control all their water. Good way to make they Comply, eh?

10. Encourage regenerative agriculture approaches to increase food resilience
Regenerative farming is an approach to farming that allows the land, soil, water, nutrients and natural assets to regenerate themselves, as opposed to conventional approaches to farming that can deplete these natural resources.

And full control of agriculture. Food. Doesn’t seem shady or authoritarian in the least.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on “BREAKING VIDEO – AG Blanche confirms arrest of former CEO of Southern Poverty Law Center”

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El-Sayed’s Campaign Confirms He Still Practices Sharia Law

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

They do give a weird, squishy answer on it, though

El-Sayed’s Campaign Confirms He Still Follows Sharia Law in Personal Life

Abdulrahman El-Sayed’s campaign confirmed the Michigan Democrat Senate nominee still complies with Sharia law in his personal life, after resurfaced 2009 comments in which he described following it as a lifelong “obligation.”

El-Sayed made the remarks to the New York Times in 2009, when the Times identified him as a 24-year-old medical student and Rhodes scholar who had taken out a “Sharia-compliant” mortgage to buy a $123,000 condominium in Ann Arbor. The Washington Free Beacon first reported on the unearthed interview.

Campaign spokeswoman Roxie Richner confirmed to the Free Beacon that El-Sayed continues to live by his faith.

“Abdul believes in the separation of church and state,” Richner said. “While he personally lives by the rules of his faith, as many Americans of various faiths do, Abdul opposes any effort by any religious community to write their faith laws into the laws of our country.”

Oh, OK. They trot out the Dem talking point about separation of church and state, then say he practices it in his personal life but not public? And doesn’t want it in our laws?

(Religion Of Peace) Sharia is Islamic Law.  It is the religious legal system that governs the political, social and moral duties of faithful Muslims.  It is what is meant by “God’s Law.”

Sharia is not optional; it is prescribed for believers (5:48).  Although Muslims as individuals often decide which parts to follow or ignore, the Quran (33:36) says that it is not fitting for a believer to choose for themselves (i.e., disregard) any matter already decided by Allah.

Likewise, a government that limits God’s Law in any way is an enemy of Allah and must be fought.  The establishment of Sharia is a fundamental objective of every Islamic terror group.  Once an Islamic state is in place, the Quran (9:29) and Sharia (o9.8) make it mandatory for Muslims to fight those Jews and Christians who will not convert or accept inferior status.

This reality is left out by proponents of Sharia in the West, who hide behind the cloak of religion and expose only the more benign personal rules (such as those dealing with prayer and hygiene).  This is to make it appear as if detractors are religious bigots whose real problem is intolerance for a different set of beliefs about God and worship.

The Islamists have been doing this for decades as they invade non-Islamic nations, particularly “Western” ones. They hide their true beliefs and objectives till they do not have to. Think how quickly Canada changed to protect Muslims from “Islamophobia”, ie, even mild criticism. How many were sued or prosecuted for this? Think about England looking away as all those children were groomed almost 20 years ago? The no-go zones in Sweden?

If he practices sharia, then he cannot swear to uphold the Constitution. The idea here for the Islamists like El-Sayed is to trick the Useful Idiots in the Democrat party to elect them so they can quietly push their Islamist beliefs behind the scene. No one actually thinks he’s into all the stuff the DSA pushes, right? It’s just useful. He loves the Democrat notion of getting rid of the 2nd Amendment (and patronizing them by saying he wants to replace it with a right to healthcare) because it would mean only the government would have guns, and citizens would not be able to defend themselves.

BTW, that photo is from a protest in 2012 by the Islamists. In Sydney, Australia. The Islamists felt emboldened enough to have these kinds of signs. Try that the other way in Australia. They’ll put you in jail.

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5th Circuit Court Voids Biden Rule On Stoves And Ovens

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

Sadly, it was for a squishy reason, not one that says “the rule was vast fucking government overreach and everyone involved should be thrown in jail for this”

US appeals court voids Biden-era efficiency rule for stoves, ovens

A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a Biden administration-era rule setting efficiency standards for gas and electric stoves and ovens, saying the agency ?improperly bypassed public comment procedures.

In a 3-0 decision, the 5th U.S. ?Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of seven Republican-led states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas and Utah — that challenged the Department of Energy’s “direct final rule” for consumer-grade stoves ?and ovens.

The August 2024 rule was intended to limit how much energy consumers ?use in kitchen appliances, and to ban an older technology known ?as linear power supplies.

Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham said the Energy Department should not have fast-tracked ?the rule, knowing that numerous states opposed a 2023 attempt to enact similar efficiency ?standards.

He also dismissed the rule as part of a push by former President Joe Biden’s administration to make home appliances “more expensive and less useful.”

Hey, remember all the photos of the gas stoves used by Biden and Kamala?

The judge ?said “it cannot be ?contended with a straight face” that those Democratic-led states fairly represented the entire country.

He also said the department failed to consider ?whether making appliances more technologically complex in the name of ?efficiency would ?reduce reliability or increase associated costs.

Sorry, judge, the climate cultists who came up with the rule didn’t really give a damn about costs, only their cult (while also not giving up their own stoves and ovens).

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11 Charged In Immigration Marriage Scams

By William Teach August 13, 2026 – 7:00 am

Nope, sorry, one of those was not Ilhan Omar

Justice Department indicts 11 Chinese nationals for alleged decade-long marriage fraud scheme

The Justice Department indicted 11 Chinese nationals Wednesday for allegedly overseeing a decade-long scheme to arrange fraudulent marriages with U.S. citizens.

Attorney General Todd Blanche said the individuals arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages so Chinese foreigners could apply for green cards to legally remain in the United States.

“This scheme was not a quick, fly-by-night operation, but rather a yearslong, multimillion-dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people who would not, or legally could not, otherwise become citizens of the United States,” Blanche said at a news conference.

He said the operation was one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in U.S. history, taking in tens of millions of dollars since 2016.

The indictment alleges the Chinese nationals in some cases acted as facilitators to find U.S. citizens who were willing to participate in the sham marriages, employing attorneys, tax preparers and marriage officiants. Others were in charge of identifying foreign nationals who were willing to pay for the green cards.

It was a pretty detailed scheme

Marriage fraud is punishable with up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It can also result in a green card’s revocation and deportation.

Hopefully the green cards, naturalization, and such will be cancelled for all those involved and they will be deported. And go after all those Somalis, too.

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Farmer’s Almanac Disagrees With Climate (scam) Prediction Center For NW

By William Teach August 12, 2026 – 4:10 pm

I know which one I’m going to trust more

Farmer’s Almanac’s 2026 winter forecast directly conflicts with Climate Prediction Center

climate cowThe Farmer’s Almanac recently released its outlook for the fall season 2026 which predicts that the Pacific Northwest will be cooler and wetter than average. The prediction is in direct conflict with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast of a warm and dry winter.

So just how accurate is the Farmer’s Almanac? The Maine-based publication has been doing long-range forecasts since the 1800s. They pull together 30 years’ worth of data and produce a climatological average. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, they tout their accuracy rate at about 80%, reminding readers that they are longer range based and not day to day.

Independent surveys have been done like one from the University of Illinois in 2010 that found the Farmer’s Almanac to be correct about 52% of the time.

Last fall, the Farmer’s Almanac predicted a warmer and wetter season for the Pacific Northwest. Keep in mind, this regional forecast includes California and Oregon as well. For the Seattle area, temperatures were warmer than average in September and November but slightly cooler than normal in October. As for rain, we fell below the seasonal average each month during the autumn season.

Still way more trustworthy than the Credentialed Media news

The Farmer’s Almanac outlook for the upcoming winter season is vague stating the PNW could see “less dependable snow,” while the CPC is more straightforward, showing warmer and dryer than normal weather.

The CPC is under the umbrella of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It uses computer models, ocean temperatures, and jet streams to predict its long-range forecasts, which is all about “potential patterns and probabilities” and not 100% accuracy. As with any prediction beyond about six days out, it must be taken with a grain of salt.

And the Credentialed Media would prefer to trust the climate cult CPC, but, weirdly, the article fails to mention how accurate the long term prediction are for the CPC. No one seems to have done any study on their accuracy rate beyond an 8-10 day forecast, because they do not want it pointed out how badly they usually fail. And there is just the one on the Farmer’s Almanac from a highly leftist and climate cult university.

I guess time will tell who will be correct. Usually Warmists do not like making predictions under at least 20 years from now.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 12, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a muddy world from carbon pollution driven Extreme Rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Wake Up America, with a post on “Democrat Socialism Is The Monster That The Dems Have Been Working On Sedulously For More Than A Decade”

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