If All You See…

By William Teach June 12, 2026 – 12:59 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon sailboat out at sea, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post on the problem with news from the UK.

(There is a boat out there)

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Democrats Looking To Replace Bad Obamacare With Something Worse

By William Teach June 12, 2026 – 10:30 am

Back in the day Obamacare opponents, and some supporters, warned that Obamacare would skyrocket the costs of deductibles, premiums, and actual healthcare, as insurance companies and healthcare providers raised costs because the government was paying for it, for one. And what did we see? Deductibles, premiums, and healthcare skyrocketing for both Obamacare plans and non-Ocare plans. So, now

Democrats seek next ObamaCare ahead of midterms amid rising health costs

There is growing momentum within the Democratic Party to find its next ObamaCare heading into the midterms, as healthcare costs become more untenable and American anger over affordability persists.

Healthcare has consistently ranked as a top issue for voters heading into this year’s midterm elections. June polling from Emerson College found that healthcare ranked in the top five issues for voters, behind the economy, threats to democracy and immigration.

The expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits dealt a heavy blow to Democrats in Congress, who carried out the longest government shutdown in history to get a vote on extending the subsidies.

In the wake of the expired tax credits, premiums jumped by more than 20 percent and ACA enrollment dropped this year after previously experiencing four consecutive years of record growth.

The thing is, those credits were simply covering up the true costs of Ocare, mostly for the premiums, which kept going year after year from the get-go. They didn’t cover up the cost of deductibles and out of pocket costs.

BTW, immigration ranked higher than healthcare, and ‘climate change’ doesn’t even make the top 10 list

In March, the Center for Health and Democracy (CHD) unveiled its proposal for a 2028 healthcare platform it’s seeking to rally Democrats behind, called “Medicare by Choice.”

Put together by former Democratic aides and staffers at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, it would allow all Americans the option of enrolling in Medicare regardless of age, even allowing employers to select Medicare by Choice as their employees’ workplace benefit.

So, just a different way of creating a government run health plan. Surprise?

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Shame: Fewer “Journalists” Signing Up For Bonn Climate (scam) Talks

By William Teach June 12, 2026 – 7:15 am

Maybe they’re spending too much time of Orange Man Bad? Maybe the yutes just do not like to leave the office to do stories?

Fewer journalists register for Bonn talks, as cuts to climate reporting bite

The number of journalists registered to attend the annual climate negotiations in Bonn has declined this year, as climate reporters have been let go and media coverage of climate issues falls around the world.

Data from UN Climate Change, which runs the two weeks of talks, shows that just 135 media representatives have signed up to attend. Climate Home News analysis of previous data shows this is the lowest figure since 2021, when COVID-19 restrictions limited travel and the Bonn talks were held in a hybrid format to enable online participation.

What their data shows is a decrease during the Trump years, with 71 attending in 2018, 93 in 2019, 59 in 2021, then a spike till a drop. News outlets can’t afford to be sending their employees on long, fossil fueled trips to listen to Elites say they need to take the money and freedom from the peasants.

The number of journalists that actually attend the talks will not be known until later this month but is typically significantly less than are registered. Press conferences, held back-to-back each day by campaign groups, have been sparsely attended in the first few days and often filled mainly with climate campaigners and researchers rather than journalists.

Alexandra Endres, a reporter for German-language website Table Briefings, told Climate Home News in Bonn there are fewer German journalists covering the conference in-person. “I think it is important to have more journalists covering the negotiations because when the climate coverage increases, the interest of the public grows,” she said.

Yeah, I think it’s just that people are tired of this cult stuff, especially when there are real world issues to be concerned about.

Media outlets that have registered fewer journalists than previous years, or no journalists, include global heavyweights like Reuters, Bloomberg and the BBC, as well as German outlets like Deutsche Welle and ZDF television, and specialist publications like business information service Argus and climate broadcaster We Don’t Have Time.

Activist Harjeet Singh, who is in Bonn advising the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, said that “the empty press seats here in Bonn are a warning signal. While the world’s gaze is often fixed on the annual COP summits, the real-world consequences of the climate crisis—from financing the fossil fuel transition to protecting vulnerable populations—are being shaped, or ignored, in these mid-year negotiations right now.”

Weirdly, none of the people “negotiating” are giving up their own use of fossil fuels.

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Bummer: Two Former Utah Court Courts Charged With Helping Illegals

By William Teach June 12, 2026 – 7:00 am

Before doing something take a moment to consider “is this a good idea?” If it’s asking that girl out, OK, you might get shot down, nor harm, not fowl. But…

Former court clerks charged after being accused of helping undocumented immigrants evade ICE

Two former court clerks in Utah were arrested after being accused of being “self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes” for helping an undocumented immigrant escape out a back door of the Logan City Municipal Justice Court to avoid being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Both former clerks, Jennifer Joma and Lauren Morrow, were charged in U.S. District Court of Utah with three felonies — conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens, harboring illegal aliens, and obstruction of proceedings before departments and agencies. Joma faces an additional count of transporting illegal aliens.

“After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States. They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents asking that they be released under certain conditions..

After helping sneak the first person out of the courthouse, Morrow and Joma noticed a surveillance camera, the document says. “This did not appear to deter or concern them. JOMA waved and smiled. MORROW waived (sic) and then used her middle finger to flip off the camera.”

Both resigned afterwards, probably thinking “meh, nothing’s going to happen.” A Failure Of Critical Thinking all around

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Your Fault: Scientists Have Detected TDS At Bottom Of Ocean

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 3:00 pm

They are Very Alarmed

Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean

Something is stirring in the waters off the coast of Greenland, and it isn’t a submarine fleet sent by Donald Trump.

These people

According to reporting by the New Scientist, evidence is mounting that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation — a massive system of deep sea currents that acts like a conveyor belt for the world’s oceans known as AMOC — is starting to slow its gears. As it does, cold waters from the Greenland ice sheet are allowed to pool in the North-Atlantic, creating a “cold blob” that’s only getting colder as the rest of the world warms up.

This in turn has a major impact on jet streams, fueling extreme weather across the world. Should it collapse, the New Scientist notes that the AMOC could act as a climate tipping point, setting off a chain reaction resulting in much colder weather for some, and much drier weather for others by as early as 2040.

“The cold blob can disturb the atmospheric jet stream and storm activities, so it has implications for extreme weather events in North America and Europe,” Laifang Li, assistant professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State explained in a press release announcing an earlier study on the AMOC.

OK, we’ve touched on this many times, but, never with TDS to start it off. They really cannot help themselves.

Also, they have no directly observed data on what has happened in previous Holocene warm periods to see if this is unusual.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a world made muddy and flooded from too much carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on the USS Liberty.

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Insanity: UK Councils Ban The Flying Of British Flags For World Cup

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 10:30 am

I mean, it is the British national team playing, right?

Killjoy councils ban England flags during World Cup for ‘community cohesion’

A slew of councils have banned England flags from being hung on public property during the World Cup to protect “community cohesion”.

Bristol City Council (BCC), South Gloucestershire Council and Wiltshire Council’s warning comes ahead of the start of the tournament in North America this evening – and just days before England’s first match.

BCC leader Tony Dyer has urged residents to avoid hoisting St George’s Cross in any publicly-owned spaces.

He said: “What people cannot do is fly flags on lampposts or railings or any public property.

“Please do not attach anything to lampposts – it causes health and safety issues.”

What makes British elected’s pull this crap? And what you’re going to get is more Brits flying the flag in public, and the wacko police having to go jackboot in taking them down. All while the “immigrants” commit their crimes

The city council vowed to fast-track the removal of flags hung up in “sensitive locations” and said it would reassess its strategy on taking down those on council-owned properties.

It also urged Bristolians to report any instances of flags being adorned on public property to the authorities.

Mr Dyer said: “By celebrating responsibly and being mindful of others, we can ensure that Bristol remains welcoming, respectful and safe for everyone during the tournament.”

Those kinds of insane quotes continue through the article.

The warning to West Country residents comes after it emerged that immigration officers were told that wearing England badges during the World Cup could intimidate detained migrants.

Staff at detention centres across were warned in a Independent Monitoring Board report that wearing patriotic items may damage “professional standards”.

England is no longer allowed to be England.

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Berkeley School System Looking To Cut Climate (scam) Program, Warmists Mad

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 7:15 am

Say, do these Warmists actually attend the schools?

Climate activists oppose cut to program in Berkeley schools

It’s been a tough few years for Berkeley youth and activists who see climate change as the central crisis of our age.

The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections and ramped up subsidies for fossil fuels while blocking clean energy programs and scrubbing information about global warming from public websites. Though this agenda is unpopular, climate change is now near the bottom of issues voters prioritize. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has joined Democrats across the country in talking about climate change less, placing more of an emphasis on affordability and energy security.

I left in all the links, particularly about being near the bottom issues Americans care about, which is nothing unusual. And, of course, Orange Man Bad had to mentioned early

In Berkeley five years ago, the school district built one of the nation’s first climate literacy programs — aimed at ensuring all students graduate with an understanding of environmentalism. Now, amid a $10.4 million budget deficit, the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) is moving to cut the teaching position that leads the program. The district’s sustainability coordinator, who works to implement all of BUSD’s green goals, is also on the chopping block. (BUSD did not respond to requests for comment for this story.)

This is something we are starting to see more and more: economic realities starting to intrude on the pie in the sky spending from the climate cult, and a realization that the crazy spending cannot continue. The ironic part is if Democrats would just cut out all the waste, abuse, fraud, overspending, etc, they’d have the money for this stuff culty stuff. When 50% to 80% of allocations are, let’s say, improperly spent, well, you have a problem.

Community advocates have been rallying to keep climate and environmental initiatives intact, saying that the school district is walking away from its leadership on a crucial issue at a crucial time.

“It’s hard to see something you put a lot of work into and not know what the future of it is,” said Ellen McClure, the teacher who leads Berkeley’s climate literacy program and whose job is on the line. “Unfortunately, a lot of times these programs, when there are budget cuts, are just some of the first things looked at.”

Have these “advocates” considering pitching in their own money?

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Bummer: Going After Illegals Causing Great Hardship To Mass. Economy

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 7:00 am

If you’ve designed your economy to not be able to run correctly without illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers (getting paid cheap wages), and foreigners on visas taking jobs from Americans, you’ve done something wrong and stupid

Federal immigration actions to negatively impact key swaths of Mass. economy

Increased immigration enforcement could mean prominent economic effects in the Massachusetts economy, according to a new report released June 4.

Construction, health care, life sciences and technology fields are most likely to bear the brunt of those impacts, stated the report by Boston Indicators, the research arm of the Boston Foundation, and the MassINC Policy Center.

“While the future may be uncertain, there’s nothing uncertain about the vital contributions immigrants make every single day,” said Lee Pelton, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation, at the event launching the report.

Immigration enforcement changes under President Donald Trump have been extensive. The federal administration has implemented new fees on certain visas, limited student visas and increased immigration enforcement through expanded actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Did no one sit back and say “hey, this might not be the best idea?”

As of 2024, nearly one-fifth of residents in Massachusetts are foreign born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and immigrants make up almost a quarter of the state’s workforce.

Well, you know, mostly Democrats, with the help of some Squish Republicans, created a situation, not realizing that this would not last forever. Oh, well.

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Washington Post Super Mad Over $14 Million Spent On Reflecting Pool

By William Teach June 10, 2026 – 3:00 pm

You will never hear me say that “$14 million is a nothingburger in light of our budget”, but, $10 million is actually a pretty good number for all that they did to the Reflecting Pool. But, Democracy Dies In Darkness, which never investigates where other spending goes, is Upset

From the link

Trump has put the cost of the work on the pool at $1.5 million to $2 million, but records show that at least $14.8 million worth of contracts have been awarded for the project. The president announced the work in April during an unrelated Oval Office appearance, saying he was inspired by complaints from a friend visiting from Germany who called the pool dark and disgusting.

The link itself is from a June 5th story, so, the WP is re-tweeting again and again because they are unhinged. A backyard pool can run between $50K-$100k, excluding decking and stuff. This is a wee bit bigger (though it’s only 30 inches deep) at almost a half mile long, up to 175 feet wide, and has 6.75 million gallons of water. Then having to try and keep it clean. Seriously, the Biden admin was figuring around $300 million (probably $60 million for actual work, the rest in waste and graft). Has the WP complained about the billions wasted from Biden’s EV charging station adventure? How much was graft, fraud, and waste in the whole Green New Deal, er, Inflation Reduction Act? Hell F*ck, how about the entire budget?

Critics have said Trump, a Republican, is spending too much time and attention on his pet projects and not enough on issues that voters care about, like the cost of living, in the run-up to the November elections. Others have said he wants the reflecting pool to look more like a swimming pool.

“Critics” who have TDS, upset that Trump is having people clean up our nation’s capitol. Seriously, you think he spends more time doing this? He has people who do this, and Los Federales have employees who are directed to do this.

Decline is a choice. We have a massive budget and all these employees and we cannot keep things clean and running in the nation’s seat of power? And they overspend when they do stuff. How much more could we do with the money?

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