Bummer: Judge Dugan Cannot Claim Judicial Immunity For Sheltering Illegal From ICE

By William Teach August 28, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m actually rather shocked that another judge ruled this way, and then it having to get overturned

US federal judge rules Wisconsin judge cannot claim immunity in immigration obstruction case

A US federal judge on Tuesday rejected a Wisconsin state court judge’s claim of judicial immunity, allowing criminal charges to proceed against her for allegedly obstructing federal immigration enforcement.

Judge Lynn Adelman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan’s motion to dismiss a federal indictment. The indictment charges Dugan under 18 U.S.C. § 1071 with concealing a person from arrest and under 18 U.S.C. § 1505 with obstructing removal proceedings conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Federal prosecutors allege that in April 2025, Dugan confronted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside her courtroom, told them they needed a judicial warrant to arrest a noncitizen defendant, and directed them to leave the area. According to the indictment, she later allowed the individual and his attorney to exit through a non-public jury door, advising that he could appear remotely at his next court date.

In her motion to dismiss, Dugan argued that the alleged conduct constituted official judicial acts shielded by absolute immunity, that the prosecution violated the Tenth Amendment by intruding on state court authority, and that the statutes should be construed to avoid constitutional conflicts. Judge Adelman rejected these arguments, ruling that while judges enjoy immunity from civil suits for damages, the Supreme Court has never recognized absolute judicial immunity from criminal liability. He emphasized that judicial acts may serve as the means of accomplishing an unlawful end, and that immunity does not bar prosecutions alleging corrupt intent.

I mean, it’s an attempt to use the judicial system, but, it’s all on video, and the federal government has absolute authority when it comes to illegal immigration, so, the 10th Amendment doesn’t apply. It’s right there in Article I. And, as Dems like to say, no one is above the law. And, heck, the feds could have also charged her with more, like 8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens, section iii, for which the penalty is a fine and up to 5 years in jail. But, the government could argue she put the lives of federal agents in threat, they could ask up to 20 years.

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Your Fault: Flesh Eating Bacteria Cases Are On The Rise

By William Teach August 27, 2025 – 3:30 pm

It couldn’t possibly be something else besides the climate crisis, right?

Flesh-eating bacteria cases are rising. Climate change is to blame, say scientists

Just southwest of New Orleans, in a tranquil fishing village on the Louisiana bayou, Linard Lyons spent the morning on his 19-foot boat, preparing crab traps for his grandchildren just like he had done thousands of times before.

This time, he noticed a tiny scratch on his leg – a scratch that nearly cost him his life.

Lyons went about his day but woke up the following morning feeling “delusional.” Feverish and vomiting, he initially thought he had just contracted a stomach bug, but then discovered a series of blackening sores spreading across his left leg. (snip)

That small scratch on Lyons’ leg became the entryway for Vibrio vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. Those black sores on his leg signified necrotizing fasciitis, which “affects the tissue under your skin,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

These potentially deadly bacteria are naturally found and thrive in coastal waters during the warmer months, especially in brackish waters, where fresh water meets the sea, according to the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention. Once largely confined to the Gulf Coast, cases have surged along the East Coast, with an 800% increase from 1988 to 2018, according to the CDC.

So, of course

The oceans are getting warmer and sea level is rising because of human-caused climate change, and scientists warn these factors are increasing the risk of Vibrio infections.

See? Your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle. It can’t possibly be norm for a typical Holocene warm period, right? Do we have a comparison to the spread of Vibrio vulnificus during previous warm periods?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Cracker Barrel reverting to their older logo.

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“Maryland Man’s” Lawyer Wants Immigration Case Reopened So He Can Declare Asylum

By William Teach August 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

This is a joke, right?

Abrego Garcia’s attorneys ask to reopen his immigration case to seek asylum

Abrego Garcia, who was rearrested Monday in Maryland after he was released Friday from criminal custody in Tennessee, is currently being held in a detention center in Virginia, where the federal government is temporarily blocked from deporting him pending further proceedings in a habeas case.

“At 5pm yesterday, Petitioner filed a motion to reopen before an immigration judge to seek asylum in the United States,” his attorneys said in a proposed scheduling order filed on Tuesday. “Petitioner proposes that the parties allow the immigration judge to resolve that motion within two weeks from today.”

According to the emergency motion to reopen the case, his attorneys argue that because Abrego Garcia was deported and then brought back to the U.S., he is now eligible to apply for asylum within one year of his last entry into the U.S.

The motion asks the immigration court in Baltimore to “immediately” order a stay of removal to afford Abrego Garcia “an opportunity to seek protection from persecution and torture in Uganda,” where the government has indicated he could be sent.

Um, he didn’t voluntarily show up at the border declaring asylum: the government brought him back to face charges for felony human trafficking. Members of gangs are not eligible for asylum. Nor are wife beaters. It’s an interesting attempt by his lawyers, though, they have to throw everything at the wall.

“Respondent fears persecution and torture in Uganda because he is a Salvadoran national and would be a deportee without any legal status in Uganda,” his attorney said in the filing. “Furthermore, he is at risk of being removed to El Salvador by the Ugandan government where he is likely to once again face persecution and torture within CECOT.”

He can go anywhere he wants, as long as it is outside the U.S.

In the filing, the attorney also said that reopening the case is warranted to allow Abrego Garcia to designate Costa Rica as the country of removal.

Just say “Put me on a plane to Costa Rica. I’m outa here” and they’ll send you. Because, otherwise, the government is going to prosecute him and stick him in jail for quite some time for trafficking, and then deport him once released. Of course, I fully expect some wacko judge to rule in his asylum claim, because that’s what they seem to do. Which will then be overturned by a non-wacko court.

It’s still amazing, even knowing the Democratic Party, how much they are willing to defend this guy.

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Who Wants To Throw A Climate (scam) Friendly Wedding?

By William Teach August 27, 2025 – 7:45 am

Is this a new one? I’m not sure I’ve seen the doomsday cult involve weddings into their dogma

Six ways to throw a climate-friendly wedding — and save money
Tips for Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, and anyone else planning a wedding.

When my fiancée and I got engaged, we knew we wanted to celebrate our relationship in the company of our loved ones. As a climate journalist and a scientist interested in sustainability, we also knew we didn’t want our wedding to cause a lot of harm to the environment and climate. (snip)

Weddings can be beautiful, fun, affordable, and environmentally friendly, but that doesn’t happen by chance. You have to commit to it. The average U.S. wedding generates roughly 56 tons of carbon pollution. That’s over three times the amount the average American produces in a year and almost nine times more than the global average per person.

In addition to climate-warming pollution, weddings generate a lot of food and single-use plastic waste — by some estimates, the average wedding generates 400 pounds of waste.

Kiira Portet is a wedding planner in Seattle, Washington, who began prioritizing eco-friendly wedding practices after working for a luxury planning company.

Or, you can just mind your own beeswax? So, they want (and will soon demand government pass restrictions) you to

  1. Tighten your guest list
  2. Pick a location where at least 50% of your guests won’t have to fly, and hire local vendors
  3. Consider meat alternatives and look into venues that compost (I’m guessing this will pare the guest list down, as everyone goes “Nah, we’re good”)
  4. Choose a venue that is powered by renewable energy
  5. Use rentals or thrift items for decor, clothing, and more
  6. Talk about it! (annoy the f*** out of everyone involved, so they all bow out)

Seriously, does anyone possibly think Taylor and Travis are going to say “hey, Yale Climate Connections has a good point, we should do this?”

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DNC Caught Between Israel Hatred And Jew Hatred/Hamas Support

By William Teach August 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

The big wigs in the Party aren’t sure about going as far as their unhinged, Jew hating and Hamas supporting base wants

DNC punts on dueling Israel resolutions as Chair Ken Martin calls for bridging the divide

The Democratic National Committee delayed making a final decision on a pair of dueling resolutions on the U.S.-Israel relationship, with Chair Ken Martin calling for Democrats to “keep working through” an issue that continues to roil the party.

Democrats had appeared headed for a showdown on Tuesday as the DNC’s resolutions committee considered the competing resolutions, one of which called for a military arms embargo and suspension of military aid to Israel.

The committee initially voted to reject that measure while advancing the one backed by Martin, which called for “unrestricted” aid to Gaza and a two-state solution. But soon after the arms embargo vote failed, Martin announced he was withdrawing his successful resolution, after speaking briefly with the backers of the vote on the sidelines of the meeting.

“There’s a divide in our party on this issue,” Martin said, when announcing he’d pulled his resolution. “This is a moment that calls for shared dialogue, calls for shared advocacy.”

Has Martin seen what his voters are calling for?

He’s from Minneapolis, where they fly Hamas flags

The vote on the resolutions had become a kind of proxy battle for wings of the party — and a test of Democrats’ continued shift on Israel amid a brutal war with Hamas. Martin’s resolution represented a more traditionally mainstream compromise approach. But progressives had pushed the failed measure that called for an arms embargo and recognition of a Palestinian state.

They, like the Palestinians (which no other Muslim nation wants to let in), want Israel erased. The 2 state solution emboldens Hamas, Hezbollah, and the other Islamic terrorist groups.

The defeated resolution contained similar language to a Senate resolution led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last month, which 44 senators — a majority of the Senate Democratic Caucus — signed onto. While that arms embargo resolution failed, it gained support from 12 new Democratic senators since the previous it had been considered, the latest in a series of signs that Democrats’ frustration is deepening with Israel’s conduct and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Funny how they never have anything bad to say about Hamas or how Palestinians give them shelter.

Some resolution committee members raised concerns that Minnerly’s resolution did not mention Hamas, and “I’d like to see the onus of a ceasefire, not only with the right-wing government but with Hamas, and it does not mention that,” said Harini Krishnan, a DNC member from California.

You won’t get it, Harini.

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Climate (cult) Scientists Give Trump Bad Grade For Trying To Kill Endangerment Finding

By William Teach August 26, 2025 – 4:04 pm

They’re big mad, because ditching the Obama era endangerment finding undermines the cult scientist’s ability to generate media appearances and revenue for themselves

Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding

climate doom yearly

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

Two key documents from the Trump administration aimed at revoking the long-standing finding that climate change is dangerous were filled with errors, bias and distortions, according to dozens of scientists surveyed by The Associated Press.

One of the reports argues that sea ice decline in the Arctic has been small, but uses data from the Antarctic to make the point. It uses a French-focused study on climate-related crop losses for a claim about the U.S. — a generalization the author said didn’t work because of significant differences in climate and agriculture. And after saying decades-old wildfire statistics aren’t reliable, the report reproduces them in a graphic anyway, making it appear fires were worse a century ago than they have been more recently.

Scientists noted those basic errors, but the most common critique from the vast majority of the 64 who answered AP’s questions was that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy ignored, twisted or cherry-picked information to manufacture doubt about the severity and threat of climate change.

LOL, everything the Warmists use is cherry picked, altered fraudulently, er, excuse me, smoothed, or both

The Trump administration in July proposed revoking a 2009 government finding that climate change is a threat to public health and welfare, a concept known as the “endangerment” finding that is backed by mainstream science. Overturning it could pave the way for cutting a range of rules that limit pollution from cars, power plants and other sources. (snip)

AP reached out to some 350 scientists by email — nearly all the lead authors of research cited in the Trump administration’s work, plus another 139 climate experts in science, health and economics who are prominent in the field. Fifty-three of the 64 scientists who responded — including outside researchers not mentioned by the reports — gave the EPA and DOE documents a negative review. Seven praised them. The remaining four took no clear position.

In 15 cases, scientists whose work was cited said it was misused, misinterpreted or taken out of context.

Well, it’s not shocking that scientists who take the cult line are backing the cult, is it? Too bad the AP didn’t ask the scientists and “experts” didn’t ask if they had given up their own use of fossil fuels.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 26, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible bad weather rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on Vanity Fair staffers going full MDS (Melania Derangement Syndrome).

Sorry for all the down time. I am being hit with a massive amount of bots. I’ve turned a caching program back on, and if it stays up long enough going to try and hide the login page.

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Democrats Believe Car Jacking And Illegal Alien Criminals Do Not Matter To Americans

By William Teach August 26, 2025 – 10:30 am

Well, I mean, if they’re unhinged and suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome they might believe that neither happens, but, for the rest?

Migrant crime and carjackings ‘don’t matter to that many Americans,’ left-wing think tank VP tells Democrats

A speaker at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) summer meeting on Monday urged Democrats not to copy President Trump’s tough-on-crime approach – arguing that migrant crime, carjackings and other public safety threats “don’t matter to that many Americans.”

Insha Rahman, the vice president for advocacy and partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice, made the shocking statement as she framed Trump’s Washington, DC, crime crackdown as a “huge opportunity” for the Democratic Party.

It’s amazing how many Democrats have these BS jobs in advocacy and stuff

“You want to talk about the crime issues voters care about,” Rahman explained to Democrats, as she shared the results of a recent poll commissioned by Vera’s political advocacy arm, showing which types of crimes respondents believe will most impact them personally.

The poll from the George Soros-funded think tank showed gun violence at the top of the list (36%), followed by homelessness and public drug use (34%), muggings or assaults (34%), opioids and fentanyl abuse (31%), retail theft (29%), carjackings (29%) and migrant crime (28%).

“Where does Trump go?” Rahman continued. “Migrant crime, carjackings, the really lurid, awful stuff that is a crazy, crazy visual.”

Well, yeah, shootings in Democrat run cities will be noticed when you poll Democrats in Democrat run cities, because they have lots of them by Democrat voting criminals.

“Don’t take the bait because most Americans are more worried about how we are going to address mental health issues, the visible homelessness that we see on streets, and how do we deal with mental health and other issues that drive the sort of random incidents that scare all of us – that’s what you should be talking about.”

Even though nearly a third of Americans, according to Vera’s own polling, expressed concern about the “lurid” crime Rahman accused Trump and Republicans of hyper-focusing on – she implored Democrats not to talk about those issues.  

“Don’t take the bait and talk about migrant crime or carjackings or the things that actually don’t matter to that many Americans,” Rahman said.

Instead, she wants Democrats to talk about all the things that have worked so well, like cashless bail. And the policies that create all that crime in Dem cities. Did you know that D.C. cannot charge those under 16 years old with most felonies, except the worst of the worst, which is why you see so many 13, 14, and 15 year olds stealing cars and carjacking, among other felonies?

These people are seriously out of touch, which is why they lost and why their polling is so darned low. I hope Dems take her advice

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Your Fault: We Could Get Four New Seasons

By William Teach August 26, 2025 – 7:00 am

Will they be fun seasons? Is there any actual data through previous Holocene warm periods to support this?

Our Planet Could Get Four New Seasons Due to Rapid Climate Change — Research Finds

Climate change isn’t just changing the temperature patterns throughout the year — it is now also reshaping the very seasons that we’ve known for hundreds of years. In a recent report, scientists have warned that the four-season cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter is being disrupted, with several new seasons also coming up. The four new seasons are emergent, extinct, arrhythmic, and syncopated. This research was done by two geographers at the University of York and the London School of Economics in the UK. It is published in the journal titled Progress in Environmental Geography.

Earth tilts 23.5 degrees as it orbits around the Sun, creating seasons by changing how much sunlight different regions get. While this tilt isn’t changing, the study shows how human-driven climate disruption is reshaping the seasons we have commonly known. One among the four new types of seasons is the Emergent season, which shows entirely new seasonal patterns as human actions combine with natural air and ocean cycles. An example of this is the rise of haze seasons in Southeast Asia, as reported by IFL Science. In places such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, people now witness heavy air pollution caused by the widespread burning of tropical peatlands.

Haze seasons are not ‘climate change’.

Another category is Extinct seasons, referring to a season that once existed in the past but has now vanished. A notable example is the disappearance of kittiwake season along the northeast English coast. Next in line are the Syncopated seasons, which describe shifts where already existing seasonal patterns seem to intensify or weaken compared to how they once occurred. For instance, many regions across the world are now witnessing hotter summers and gentler winters. The wildfires in Northern Europe are also experiencing a growing trend.

Really, stop, you sound nuts. Just full on batguano insane.

The last one is the Arrhythmic season, which is marked by irregular shifts in the timings of the natural events. It disrupts the seasonal calendars that communities have long been witnessing. The examples of this include longer summers and shorter winters. All the changes listed above can break the natural coordination between plants and animals, while also unsettling human communities that rely on these cycles for their livelihoods. For generations, Mekong River communities have depended on seasonal flows for fishing and farming.

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