Dems Having Meltdown Over Gavin Newsom And Wife Under Federal Investigation

By William Teach June 16, 2026 – 10:30 am

They are Upset

Whatever happened to “no one is above the law” when the Biden admin targeted Trump and all the people around him? Remember who Mar A Lago was raided, nuts in NY and Georgia went after Trump and all his people?

Newsom Says Trump’s Justice Department Is Investigating Him and His Wife

Federal agents have questioned friends and associates of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and his wife, Mr. Newsom said on Monday in a video in which he accused President Trump of using the Justice Department to punish a political enemy.

The full scope of any investigation remains unclear. But Mr. Newsom’s aides say part of the federal investigation appears to focus on his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Former employees of the governor and people affiliated with his wife’s nonprofit groups are among those who have been questioned by agents, according to the governor’s office.

A person familiar with the matter confirmed that multiple federal investigations were underway related to the governor, including one looking at his wife’s finances. But the person disputed Mr. Newsom’s assertion that the investigations were politically motivated, and said they had been initiated by federal law enforcement officials in California, not launched by officials in Washington. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. (big snip)

Mr. Newsom’s office said the investigation is a fresh attempt to smear him after the federal prosecution of his former chief of staff revealed no misconduct by the governor. The former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, pleaded guilty last month to three felonies in a sprawling corruption case.

When Ms. Williamson was indicted last year, her attorney said that federal agents first approached her during the Biden administration. She was working for Mr. Newsom at the time, and the agents asked her if she would cooperate in an investigation of the governor. She replied that she had no information to give them because she had never witnessed any criminal conduct by Mr. Newsom.

The actual investigation goes back either to early 2025 or even further in the late Biden admin as federal agents started investigating Gavin’s wife, and, him as a byproduct, for all the crazy connections between Jennifer’s companies and state money. There have been accusations for a long, long time about how shady it all looked. Remember how Gavin was going to give all those new parents diapers and the contract was going through a company for which Jennifer was linked?

And we have stuff like this

The Wall Street Journal notes that the investigation was started by federal law enforcement in California during Biden admin, not by political folks in Washington under Trump. The Washington Post says the same thing.

Here’s an interesting thing, though: at what point does this whole scam become criminal? The whole “govt gives money to NGOs who skim off a lot of money to sort of do the job and then some makes it back to politicians” thing has been normalized at the federal, state, county, and local levels. Govt contracts do not seem to dictate how much payment should be to NGOs (organizations, companies, individuals), or if they can even do the job, since most can’t, they just take a cut to go and hire other NGOs who can’t do the job but take a cut to hire others, till someone can finally do the job. This is how you end up with 20% of USAID money actually going to projects. At what point is this a criminal violation such as defrauding the government? Fraud? Other felonies?

What Democrats who defend this Business As Usual do not get is that if this whole pipeline of waste, graft, and abuse was ended there would be a lot more money to help people. If a company took $4 million to do a job feeding kids and spent $3.8 million on feeding the kids (company does need to get paid, right?) instead of $800,000 (20%), that would be a good thing, right?

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Climate Cult Yutes Hold Art Exhibit “How Shall We Live”

By William Teach June 16, 2026 – 7:15 am

Their elders should be prosecuted and dumped on some un-populated Alaskan island with a survival bag and nothing else. All those teachers, politicians, news folks, their parents

‘How Shall We Live’ student climate change art exhibit opens at Dewey Hall

Sheffield — One hundred and eighty student artists from 10 Berkshire County high schools are featured in the exhibit “How Shall We Live,” on display at Dewey Hall through Friday, June 19.

The juried art show is a collaboration between the organizations Living the Change Berkshires, Cooler Communities, and the Clark Art Institute.

The exhibit was curated by Living the Change Berkshires member Anne Legêne and Cooler Communities member Uli Nagel.

Everyone in those groups should be prosecuted for enabling this insanity

“It’s amazing when you read and see what these kids are experiencing when you find out that they are facing a world with a climate crisis,” Legêne told The Berkshire Edge. “Art is the best way to let students express themselves about this crisis.”

“[Cooler Communities] is a climate education nonprofit organization that connects classrooms to climate solutions,” Nagel added. “This art show gives students an outlet for statements that are deeply wise at times and are very thoughtful. We want to inspire these students to action and keep the conversation going about climate change.”

They have ruined these children’s lives, making them so concerned with the SOON!!!!! doom they can barely operate. Us Gen X and earlier weren’t indoctrinated into Doom over global nuclear war, we were taught to persevere. Today’s kids are just, well, fucked in the head.

And yet the kiddies aren’t giving up their own use of petroleum and making their lives carbon neutral. Go figure. It’s always for Someone Else.

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AP Super Concerned About All Those Generic AAPI Folks And Immigration

By William Teach June 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

No one really thinks liberals care about these people except to use them for their political purposes

How AAPI adults are being affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to a new poll

Many Asian American and Pacific Islander adults have experienced or witnessed some degree of upheaval because of the Trump administration’s heightened immigration policies, a new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds, while most say the U.S. is no longer the land of opportunity for immigrants.

A new poll released Monday from AAPI Data and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about half of AAPI adults say they — or someone they know — have been detained or deported within the last year, started carrying proof of immigration status or U.S. citizenship, upended travel plans or significantly changed their routines because of immigration status.

The findings come after more than a year of immigration crackdowns. The poll indicates that the Trump administration’s aggressive approach, which has resulted in multiple clashes between protesters and enforcement officers and led to the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year, may be changing the way some people in immigrant-heavy communities see the U.S. itself.

AAPI adults are one of the country’s fastest-growing demographic, and most AAPI adults in the U.S. were born outside the country. The survey found a majority of AAPI adults — about 6 in 10 — believe the U.S. used to be a great country for immigrants but is not anymore. Only about 3 in 10 AAPI adults say America is a great place for immigrants, while a few, 5%, say it was never a great place for immigrants.

If they’re here legally these generic people have nothing to worry about. If they aren’t, well, time to leave. And, really, if the legal ones are hanging with illegals, why? Come on, this is all just fear mongering by people who are upset that the laws of the United States are being enforced, and it makes it harder for Democrat areas to get these “immigrants” to vote.

Trump admin puts alleged ‘birth tourism’ scheme on notice as expert delivers warning to hospitals

The Trump administration is using visa enforcement to target “birth tourism,” an alleged scheme utilized by foreign nationals to obtain visitor visas for the primary purpose of giving birth in the U.S. and securing American citizenship for their children.

The Trump administration recently announced that it disrupted “a sophisticated birth tourism network” in West Africa involving more than 100 foreign nationals utilizing false documents and, what the State Department described as “fixers,” to get themselves visas to go to the United States to give birth so their children would be born on U.S. soil and treated as American citizens.

But that was just one of the networks the State Department indicated it had uncovered. The agency’s announcement said U.S. officials identified more than 400 suspected birth tourism cases emanating from Europe since 2024, and tied to at least six companies that helped coach applicants on what to say during their visa interview, arranged housing and set-up delivery plans.

“We shut it down, revoked these foreign nationals’ visas, and are coordinating with local authorities to systematically identify and cut off any similar operations,” the State Department said in its announcement. “A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right. The State Department is taking action around the world to stop this abuse, dismantle birth tourism networks, and hold accountable those who try to scam our system.”

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Your Fault: We’re Betraying The Yutes With Our Fossil Fuels Usage

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 3:37 pm

OK, so, maybe we should make the yutes walk or bike everywhere? No fossil fueled busses, cars, SUVs, planes, etc

We are betraying our children with fossil fuel pollution

The national conversation about global climate change has gone through ups and downs over the last 75 years. Climate science entered politics in the 1950s and led to bipartisan support for action in the 1970s. But the issue became intensely partisan in the 1990s, when big oil companies aligned with Republicans.

Congress did virtually nothing about global warming until 2022, when it passed the country’s largest-ever investments in clean energy. But over the last 18 months, President Trump has blocked the investments, suppressed clean energy, and accelerated America’s fossil fuel production.

All those “investments” did was reward donors, friends, and NGOs with lots of slush money. And the lawmakers who bought stock ahead of time with foreknowledge.

Meantime, fossil-fuel pollution keeps accumulating in the atmosphere like a metastasizing cancer, causing a slow-growing fever that’s changing the planet’s metabolism. But over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal that any generation has ever imposed on its children. We are letting oil oligarchs get rich by robbing our children’s future.

Hey, did William Becker, who’s been in government and is involved in lots of climate scam groups, ever consider that he could cajole all his Warmist pals to give up their own use of fossil fuels?

This is not the American way. With the industrial revolution, Western societies in general adopted the ethic that each generation should make life better for its children. We are not keeping that promise now.

Oh, please, complete bullshit.

A 2014 study found that economic elites and business interests dominate government policy, while “average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.” The government delivers what special interests want rather than what most Americans want.

And the elites are here to restrict the peasants from using fossil fuels while the Elites run around the world on private jets and in limos. F off. Stop using the kids for your doomsday cult business.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding and drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on the Warmists using a natural phenomenon to support their cult.

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Surprise: Bill Maher, Who Has Raged Against Nazi Platner, Endorses Him

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

Bill Maher attempts to act as a responsible Democrat, the type from the Bill Clinton era, but, at the end of the day he’s like all the rest: power is the only thing that matters

Bill Maher makes shocking recommendation in Maine Senate race after Graham Platner’s ‘scary behavior’

Comedian Bill Maher threw his weight behind Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner, despite his “scary behavior,” arguing that flipping the Senate for Dems is more important than his Nazi tattoo or cheating scandal.

HBO’s “Real Time” host said that Democrats’ retaking the Senate in November would be a critical check on President Trump, and argued that America is rife with “a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people” anyway.

“Let’s get real about Graham Platner,” Maher said during his Friday show.

“The big story is the Democrats can likely take back the Senate in November if they win Maine. But their local candidate, official now up there, is after the primary this week, let’s just say, a guy who has a backstory that screams, ‘Don’t ask.’”

“I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons,” Maher explained after rattling through Platner’s string of scandals. “One, we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that.”

“And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror. I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It’s not. That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to rape the home invader.”

And, yet, Maher still wants people in Maine to vote for Platner

“- said he’s a communist

– joined an app known to be used by predators to contact minors”

Dems are trying to play the “this was in the past” card, but, they went after Mitt Romney over a haircut in high school, saying it was relevant. All Democrats care about is power, and there’s virtually nothing that will disqualify someone if Democrats think they can win a seat. If this were a midterm where there was no chance of retaking the Senate, they might have let him go, but, not now. And Bill is the perfect example of a Democrat who acts and talks reasonable, but, truly isn’t.

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Cool: Louisiana Gov Signs Law Stopping Climalawfare

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

It’s time for other states run by Republicans to do the same

Louisiana just made it illegal to sue oil companies over climate change. So have other states.

Louisiana has joined a handful of Republican states that have recently passed legislation aimed at banning lawsuits against oil and gas companies over the harms of climate change.

The Louisiana Energy Protection Act, written by state Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, is aimed at preventing lawsuits filed by states and local jurisdictions in other parts of the U.S. from playing out in Louisiana. Across the country, about 30 lawsuits seeking to hold industry to account for the impacts of climate change have been weaving their way through the legal system, but none have been brought in Louisiana.

The lawsuits seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the impacts of sea level rise, extreme weather events, wildfires and flooding, arguing that the companies should pay for measures needed to adapt, such as seawalls and building elevations. Louisiana has now banned those types of claims from being brought in state court against oil and gas producers or any other defendant.

Geymann, who chairs the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee, said he was skeptical that human activity is causing climate change, and didn’t think the lawsuits were “legitimate.” There is overwhelming consensus among scientists that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels heat the planet.

Mind you, this is not some small climate cult outlet, this is NOLA.com which is stating the opinion is science.

“To say my aunt died from a heat stroke and I’m going to sue every oil company and every pipeline company in Louisiana because of it — that is not a legitimate claim,” Geymann said, referring to a lawsuit filed in Washington state against oil companies after a woman died of heat exposure. “A legitimate claim would be: I live down the road from a refinery and I have damages from the emission of (hydrogen sulfide) at a level that exceeded the EPA or the Clean Air Act.”

Gov. Jeff Landry signed the bill into law on Thursday. It was passed by a vote of 31-3 in the Senate and 92-5 in the House. Oklahoma, Utah, Iowa and Tennessee all passed bills this year that aim to ban lawsuits over the impacts of climate change. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, also introduced the “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act” at the federal level, which would ban climate lawsuits nationwide.

Really, anyone filing these types of lawsuits should be required to prove they had previously given up their own use of fossil fuels, at a minimum.

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Unhinged Judges Look For Ways Around Superior Court Ruling On ICE Detention Policy

By William Teach June 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

In a sane world these judges would be removed from the bench

ICE’s detention policy won at the 5th Circuit. Then judges found another way to reject it.

When a federal appeals court in February endorsed ICE’s unprecedented policy to detain — without bond — thousands of immigrants with established roots in the U.S., the Trump administration celebrated it as a landmark win.

It’s not actually unprecedented, federal law actually says illegals who are caught get a small fine, potential detainment, then deportation

The Feb. 6 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cut against the overwhelming rejection of ICE’s new detention policy by federal district courts around the country. And because the 5th Circuit’s rulings are binding on judges in Texas, where a significant share of ICE detainees are held, the decision seemed poised to reverse the tide.

What has played out since tells a more complicated story.

Judges bound by the appeals court’s holding have overwhelmingly continued to reject ICE’s detention policy. Instead of labeling the policy a violation of the law — an interpretation taken off the table by the 5th Circuit decision — those judges have concluded that ICE has violated detainees’ constitutional due process rights, a distinct violation that the appeals court didn’t address.

Due process? “Are you in the US illegally? Yes? Then you are in violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1325 – Improper entry by alien. You’ll be held till deported.”

As a result, judges in Texas and Louisiana have ordered bond hearings or release of ICE detainees more than 1,200 times on due process grounds since the appeals court’s ruling, according to a POLITICO analysis.

That’s nearly 60 percent of all immigration detention rulings in the 5th Circuit since the Feb. 6 decision. The 5th Circuit is now considering whether ICE detainees subject to ICE’s “mandatory detention” policy are owed the due process that these district court judges decisively say they are.

These judges care more about illegals, and their far left beliefs, then actual law and American citizens.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 14, 2026 – 1:23 pm

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on British PM Starmer supposedly growing a pair.

It’s women in glasses week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 14, 2026 – 9:49 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the hummingbirds are buzzing, and the Knicks finally won a championship, which makes my dad happy. This pinup is by Dietzdolls, with a wee bit of (unnecessary) help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The US government has been secretly funding 120 dangerous biolabs around the world
  2. Watts Up With That?: Why is the Financial Times Encouraging Parents to Make Their Children Anxious About Climate Change?
  3. 357 Magnum: The Breakdown of Civilization in California
  4. American Greatness: The Face of Modern Britain: Jihad’s Triumph
  5. Bearing Arms : Potential Mass Shooting in Georgia Stopped by Armed Citizens
  6. Chicks On The Right: Europeans Experiencing the U.S. During the World Cup is the Best
  7. Twitchy: Libs Lose Their Minds Over UFC & Motocross at the WH — Yet Cheered Biden’s Topless Freak Shows
  8. Climate Depot: ‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup called ‘the deadliest sporting event in history’ – ‘On pace to be ‘a climate catastrophe’ – ‘Most polluting World Cup ever, with total greenhouse gas emissions hitting nearly two times the historical average’
  9. Cold Fury: Proximity to Moslems=DEATH
  10. Common Cents Blog: Jerry Seinfeld SHUTS DOWN anti-Israel influencer with PERFECT 3-word response – Video
  11. Gates Of Vienna: Migrants are the Real Victims of the Belfast Beheading Attack
  12. Gatestone Institute: Europe in Wonderland: Belgium Criminalizes Truth
  13. Geller Report: Tens of Thousands March in Rome for Mass Migrant Deportations
  14. Jihad Watch: Italian Woman Beheaded as Attacker Recites Passages From a Book. Yeah, THAT Book.
  15. And last, but, not least, The First Street Journal has “Killadelphia: I confess to being unable to see how a victim’s race makes him either more or less dead.”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

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

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