…is a horrible pool made with carbon polluting concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on the EV bubble being about to burst.
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…is a horrible pool made with carbon polluting concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on the EV bubble being about to burst.
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She wanted to take the side of Hamas, denigrate Israel, and show serious Jew hatred. FAFO
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
Francesca Albanese was on stage receiving a standing ovation when she first learned how the United States was going to punish her.
It was July 9 last year. The Italian legal expert, who is the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, was in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana wrapping up a two-hour talk on her most incendiary report yet.
As she spoke, her tone flicked between professorial bromides on international law and flares of outrage as she detailed how some of the world’s largest companies — including giants of American tech, energy and defense — were aiding Israel in the starvation and killing of Palestinians of Gaza. Now and again she fixed the audience with a look of exasperation.
Albanese’s head dropped. She stared at the floor, absorbing what it meant, thinking that she needed to call her husband and children. Sanctions would cut her and her family off from U.S. banking, travel and tech. Would they be okay? But the crowd was still there. Clapping. Hollering. Her head snapped up. She stretched her arms wide, palms facing her supporters, with a wry smile that said, “What are you gonna do?”
When the talk ended, Albanese stood to accept the crowd’s adulation. One of the organizers walked across the stage, leaned close and said into her ear: “The United States has imposed sanctions on you.” (snip)
Albanese is a self-admitted partisan in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, making her loved and loathed with equal extremes of feeling.
Maybe a United Nations representative shouldn’t be a self professed Jew hater and supporter of Islamic terrorist groups?
This has earned her powerful enemies. Israel and U.S. officials, antisemitism watchdogs and a group of European governments say she is an antisemite, whose simplistic depiction of the conflict and inflammatory language is fanning hatred toward Jews. Some Jews who might otherwise be sympathetic to her cause find some of her public statements — which, for instance, have drawn parallels between Israel’s government and the Nazis — troubling and offensive.
But even against a campaign to discredit and silence her, the U.S. sanctions were an escalation — and an impressive expression of American power and animus. She was, after all, only an unpaid U.N. expert, whose only real weapon (aside from the symbolic authority of her office) was her voice. That’s a point her family will take up in a court in the District of Columbia on Wednesday as they challenge the sanctions on free-speech grounds.
She’s called Hamas a political force. She said they had a “right to resist” the Israel occupation a month after Hamas launched their attack on Jewish civilians, killing over 1,000, raping and torturing. She said the Hamas attack “must be put in context”. She was against Hamas releasing the hostages.
She told Italian Jewish communities to “stop” feeling offended or threatened by criticism of Israel. She has criticized the IHRA definition of antisemitism, calling it a tool for repressing solidarity with Palestine. She keeps yammering about the “Jewish lobby”. She called Israel “the common enemy of humanity”. She has a long history of showing Israel and Jew hatred.
Albanese was among the first official voices to label what has happened in Gaza a genocide, the conclusion of her March 2024 report. Eighteen months later, a U.N. commission concluded the same. In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Whatever the legal definition, more than half of the dead are women and children, according to the Lancet study.
She may be “unpaid” but her Jew and Israel hatred has weight at the UN.
Since 2021, the family has lived in Tunis, where Cali had been posted by the Bank. The lawsuit filed in the district court in Washington in February by Cali and Albanese’s 13-year-old eldest daughter — Albanese is unable to bring suit herself under U.N. rules — enumerates the impacts of the sanctions on the family: Not only has the U.S. blocked them from their property, but banks have frozen Albanese’s accounts. Transactions involving her are stopped because intermediaries, such as Stripe, are American. Her health insurance has halted payments. Hotels have canceled bookings in her name.
She lives as a “financial outcast,” she said. She hides her identity, surviving on cash and the goodwill of friends and family. “If I were alone, I would be utterly, utterly screwed,” she said.
Unfortunately there are not more people learning FAFO when it comes to supporting Islamic terrorists.
Read: Bummer: UN Wacko Upset She Can’t Use Her Credit Card After Simping For Hamas »
No, no, definitely not an anti-science doomsday cult, nope
‘That comes with a price tag’: How snow removal is busting town budgets
When the February blizzard swept through Martha’s Vineyard, it knocked out a wastewater pump in Edgartown and toppled a historic harbor flagpole near where “Jaws” was filmed. These damages, on top of other snow and ice expenses, have put the town nearly $200,000 in the red for cleanup costs.
Similar steep bills are piling up across Massachusetts. After a blockbuster winter that dumped record-setting snow on southern New England, cities and towns from Boston to Mattapoisett have busted their snow budgets, forcing already cash-strapped municipalities to make hard decisions about how to close the gaps.
It’s counterintuitive — hey, isn’t it getting warmer? — but some experts say these strained budgets may reflect another impact of climate change: rare but intense snowfall. While global warming is on average producing shorter and milder winters, it is also driving up extreme precipitation. That means when temperatures do drop low enough, storms can drop significantly higher snow totals. And that may only get worse as monster storms grow more intense.

“The way we experience climate change is through extremes,” said Shel Winkley, a meteorologist at Climate Central. “All of that comes with a price tag.”
Because big snows only come when it’s hot out, you know.
Across the region, officials are trying to figure out how to pay that price. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has already spent more than $185 million on snow and ice removal this winter — about $20 million beyond what was spent during the “Snowmageddon” winter of 2015. State officials are weighing whether to seek aid from the Trump administration.
And that’s all because it’s too hot from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles. Nope, not a cult.
Why wouldn’t they? Even in majority Democrat cities cops tend to be Republicans and are not thrilled with all the illegal aliens, especially the criminal ones
ACLU of Ohio finds more police departments and sheriffs are signing agreements with ICE
Contracts between Ohio police departments and sheriff’s offices with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have increased since President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.
An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio records request found 19 counties have agreements ranging from jail and transport services to what are called “287(g) agreements” that essentially deputize local police to enforce immigration law. In central Ohio, Delaware County has an agreement to jail and transport immigrants detained by ICE.
Jocelyn Rosnick with the ACLU said that before 2025, there were only two Ohio counties with these kind of agreements.
“I think there is a real fear that the expansion will continue. I think that we have seen from the administration that there is an environment of pressure to enter into these contracts and agreements,” Rosnick said.
Some counties don’t have these formal agreements, but still work with ICE on some level. The Columbus Dispatch reported the Franklin County Sheriff, through its jail, cooperates with ICE by alerting the agency if an undocumented immigrant is detained even if a criminal case is dismissed or bond is posted.
Here’s the thing: if more cop shops cooperated with ICE they could be handing over the really bad illegals while somewhat protecting the normal illegals. ICE would be happy to get the bad ones, and the liberal politicians would be happy that the standard illegals who got busted for speeding or something low are not getting deported. But, no, the liberals want to protect all, including the murderers, rapists, child predators, etc., which means ICE is going to end up picking them all up when they get word of them.
Oh, and it pays well to work with ICE
Rosnick said there’s also a financial incentive the Trump administration is using to get more counties to comply. She said millions in federal tax dollars flow to these counties.
“If every single jail bed, every single day of the year that was available to ICE, was filled, the financial gain, the money coming in to those locales would be over $54 million in total. That’s a lot of money,” Rosnick said.
And local and county cops get very bad people out of their communities.
Read: ACLU Seems Upset More Law Enforcement Working With ICE »
They really have no proof of this, but, what they’re doing is linking the climate scam to other factors
Vandana Mahajan Urges Action on the Link Between Climate Change and Rising Cancer Cases
Vandana Mahajan, Palliative Care Counselor, Cancer Counselor, Patient Advocate, and Cancer Survivor, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Cancer cases are rising at an alarming rate worldwide. While only 5-10% of cancers are genetic, the vast majority are linked to environmental and lifestyle factors-tobacco use, alcohol, carcinogen exposure, and more. Yet, there are still many cases with no clear cause.
An increasing body of evidence from global oncology experts is pointing toward a critical and under-recognized factor: climate change and environmental pollution. These are not distant threats-they are already impacting human health and contributing to cancer risk across populations.
Despite this, the urgency of this crisis is not being adequately addressed at a global level.
As a patient advocate in cancer care, I find this deeply concerning. The future demands action-coordinated, evidence-based, and urgent.
We need a global task force that brings together oncologists, physicians, researchers, policymakers, and civil society. Strong data must drive strong policy. Governments must recognize and act on the link between environmental change and cancer.
There’s not one shred of proof in the article that anthropogenic climate change, or even natural global warming, is having any affect on this, nor can any article I looked for provide any factual causation. Now, environmental factors, otherwise known as pollutants? Yes. This is proven. But, it’s like they MUST throw in ‘climate change’. Their cult requires it. A 1.7F increase in global temps since 1850 has nothing to do with anything. I wish they would stop adding Hotcoldwetdry into everything, because something like rising cancers certainly is a concern.
Read: Doomsday Cult Now Linking Growing Cancer Rates To ‘Climate Change’ »
…is a fast rising sea because Other People won’t stop driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bustednuckles, with a post on Gunday Monday.
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It’s not new, but, is this starting to happen a lot?
‘Kids say they take a quick look at TikTok’: a new kind of distracted driving is on the rise
Jackie was on her way to a doctor’s appointment last fall when she realized her Uber driver’s eyes were not fully on the road. “He had a video playing on his phone and was intermittently looking at it,” she said. Jackie, who is 32 and lives in New Jersey, could not tell exactly what the driver was watching, but she remembers seeing shots of people talking – she guessed it was a video podcast. “I was definitely feeling a lot of dread and distress.”
As they continued on their 40-minute drive down the New Jersey Turnpike – a hectic highway that is not easy driving – Jackie considered saying something. But she felt vulnerable as a rider. “I was alone in a car with someone who was already doing something I found shocking and reckless,” she said. “I didn’t know how they were going to react.”
Jackie, a publicist who asked that her last name be withheld for privacy reasons, made it to her appointment safely, but the experience rattled her. And it happened again just hours later.
Since cellphones became ubiquitous, drivers have been texting behind the wheel, leading to awareness about “distracted driving”. Slogans such as “It can wait” or “Arrive alive, don’t text and drive” are blazed on highway billboards across the country, and 49 states and Washington DC have instated laws against it. (Montana is the one holdout.) But experts – and plenty of drivers, passengers and pedestrians – have clocked a new culprit: people watching videos, such as YouTube or TikTok, while driving.
Look, it’s not just the yutes, certainly older folks do it, but, it is mostly the younger Millennials and the Gen Z who are the problem. When companies required everyone to come back to the office the roads suddenly became a mess in 2022 in spots that had never been a problem. I cannot take 540 if I have to be at work by 830 anymore. If you’re at a stop light you can expect that one of them will be slow to go, and, when they do go, they barely touch the gas pedal, driving like grandma in a TV commercial or movie.
They’re texting, they’re talking while holding the phone in their hand on speakerphone (like their car doesn’t have Bluetooth. Heck, they might be holding it while talking on BT), they have it on a holder while talking on video, they’re making videos, and, now, apparently, watching more and more videos. I have a theory: it’s not just all that stuff, it’s that they have a very short attention span. They cannot keep their eyes off their phones for long. They constantly have to peek at it. Hold it. Their eyes aren’t staying on the road.
I mentioned that the 2026 CRV Hybrid does not have a screen you can watch to see the instant fuel economy screen, where you can see if you are doing good with MPG. People in hybrids and EVs kinda obsess over this. You’re constantly peeking at it. But, most of the older folks who can afford them are good drivers, confident. They do not keep their eyes on the screen, it’s almost like looking around to see what is happening to watch out for trouble on the road. The kiddies are not. The road is almost secondary in their minds. The phone is first. It’s precious. They cannot just be satisfied with Apple Carplay/Android Auto, no, the whole phone.
“People are engaging more and more with their phones [while driving],” said Charlie Klauer, a research scientist and associate professor at Virginia Tech who studies the effects of driving while distracted or fatigued. “The progression has gone from texting to browsing and looking and watching, which we now see a lot of. It’s Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and a wide range of things.”
New drivers, which the NHTSA categorizes as between the ages of 15 and 20, made up the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted at the time of a fatal car crash. Klauer says she sees distracted driving “across the board” in her research, but “it’s through the early to mid-20s that we see very high prevalence of this type of behavior.”
I’ll disagree, and say it’s up to around the late 20’s, from what I see on the road. Maybe there needs to be a law about no phone holders on the dashboard/hanging from the windshield? No holder where they can see the screen upright. Many states do have laws about not being allowed to hold the phone (have you heard about the girl pulled over for holding her phone in her right hand? She doesn’t have a right hand. I think there was some sort of shenanigans). Phones for a lot of people are full on addictions, like opioids. How do we stop this?
Read: UK Guardian: The Kiddies Are Now Watching Videos While Driving »
Look, I’m pretty hip to things going on with the doomsday cult. I can’t see everything, but, Earth Hour is not something small or obscure. And yet it wasn’t showing up in the Credentialed Media on Saturday or earlier, nothing on Twitter, unlike years past. 10 years ago this idiotic worthless gesture would have been big news for days
Buckingham Palace goes dark for a special cause close to King Charles’ heart
Buckingham Palace went completely dark overnight for the milestone anniversary of a cause that has long been close to King Charles’ heart. The royal has dedicated much of his life to campaigning for the environment and being an advocate for climate action, which he put into practice on Saturday with a surprise 60-minute blackout at the palace for the global ‘Earth Hour’.
For 20 years, major landmarks and cities all around the world have shut off their lights for one hour in March to raise awareness for climate change. The World Wildlife Fund-organised movement first launched in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, and has since grown to include major buildings and landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace.
A video posted by Instagram account @about.london showed the palace was shrouded in darkness on 28 March from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm GMT to, as WWF described, “stand up for our planet alongside millions around the world”.
I’m pretty sure everyone is aware of ‘climate change’, but, fewer and fewer really care. Especially when you have Charles doing this after having used a massive amount of fossil fuels over the years, and his kids running around the world using a ton
Earth Hour: Monuments to go dark as 20th edition kicks off
The lights went out at landmarks across New Zealand on Saturday as the 20th edition of Earth Hour kicked off.
Earth Hour, which originated in Australia in 2006, encourages nations to turn off their lights for an hour in the evening to draw attention to climate change.
This includes everything from private homes, to restaurants and bars, to major world landmarks.
Among the first monuments to go dark at 8:30 p.m. local time were the Sky Tower in Auckland and New Zealand’s parliament building in Wellington.
And how’s that working out? Warmists turn the lights out for an hour, then go right back to their big energy ways. Warmists are not practicing what they preach. Maybe it’s time to ditch their foolishness, which highlights that Warmists can only do it for an hour a year.
“Currently, the climate crisis is repeatedly pushed into the background in light of the many global challenges. However, it doesn’t disappear. On the contrary, it exacerbates many of these crises,” said WWF Germany’s head of climate Viviane Raddatz.
“With Earth Hour, we are bringing climate action back into the public spotlight. We are making it visible. People care about this issue and it belongs at the very top of the political agenda,” she added.
Except, most people had no idea it was Saturday, because it wasn’t being covered. I suspect a lot of people were surprised, and maybe a bit concerned, when the lights went out at monuments and such around the world.
And, because the Washington Post no longer does actual Journalism, they fail to see where the mistakes are being made in their Narrative
Daughter of immigrants brings history to bear in fight for birthright citizenship
American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Cecillia Wang has filed lawsuits challenging racial profiling, illegal arrests and mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants. But when she appears before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, she will be arguing against the Trump administration over a question that is fundamental not only to the nation but also to her own family.
Who deserves to be an American?
Wang, 55, was born in Oregon, three years after her parents emigrated legally from Taiwan as graduate students, making her a U.S. citizen by birth even though they were not naturalized at the time. She credits changes in federal immigration law in the 1960s that eliminated national origin quotas on Chinese immigrants for providing her family a path to succeed.
That path has animated her work over two decades at the ACLU, where she oversees a legal staff of more than 200, and this week it will help inform her arguments against President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors — including international students, like her parents. Opponents of the president’s order say it could deny citizenship to an estimated 250,000 newborns per year.
Getting beyond that she’s fighting for people who are not US citizens instead of protecting the rights of actual US citizens, dragging her story into the mix highlights exactly the point of the 14th. Let’s see the relative part of Section 1, the first sentence
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Her parents were here legally looking for citizenship: that made them subject to the jurisdiction thereof, hence, she would be a citizen. Those who wrote the 14th specifically said that foreign nationals were not covered.
In the government’s Supreme Court brief, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that Congress in 1866 did not intend for the amendment to cover the children of immigrants who are not lawfully, and permanently, present in the country. Rather, he wrote, it was strictly aimed to protect freed enslaved persons and their descendants.
And that was the point. Why else pass this right after the Civil War?
However, like I’ve noted, does Trump have the authority to enforce and EO on this? I can seriously see the Supreme Court saying “no, the President doesn’t have that authority, however, he doesn’t need that authority. Without any legislation from Congress, the intent of the 14th and the clear language is that the children born to foreign nationals on American property are not US citizens, regardless of whether they are foreign diplomatic/government personnel or someone here on a visitor, student, or tech visa. Or illegal aliens.”
Time will tell. Democrats want the children of illegals and fake asylum seekers to be citizens so they can vote (Democrat) in the future. And since the kids would be citizens we should just give the parents citizenship and voting rights, right? That’s their thought.
Read: Weird: ACLU Lawyer To Essentially Argue Trump Is Right On Birthright Citizenship »
…is a world killing dog causing Bad Weather which creates flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on there still not being any kings.
It’s sunny days week!
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