Leftist Judge Stops EPA From Clawing Back Taxpayer Money

By William Teach March 19, 2025 – 3:33 pm

At least for the moment. But, there is one big caveat

US judge blocks Trump’s EPA from clawing back climate grants

A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from recovering grant funds issued as part of a $20 billion climate funding program that President Donald Trump’s administration has moved to terminate.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington issued a temporary restraining order, opens new tab halting the EPA’s termination of three environmental nonprofit groups’ grant agreements and barring Citibank from dispersing grant funding held at the bank in their accounts.

Those grants were terminated as part of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s campaign to claw back money from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress authorized in 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act during then President Joe Biden’s tenure in 2022 to kick-start projects aimed at curbing pollution.

Absent a court order preserving the status quo as the litigation proceeds, Chutkan said those groups would face imminent harm if Citibank transferred money the groups use to pay employees, pay rent and fund projects out of those accounts.

Um, they are not federal employees. They are not federal agencies. Them paying their employees for future projects is not the responsibility of the US taxpayers.

(People’s (commie) World) Climate United and two other groups, the Coalition for Green Capital and Power Forward Communities, said the freeze not only prevented them from financing new projects, but might force them to lay off staff. They said the allegations they were mishandling funds were utterly meritless.

That’s their problem. All three of the groups were created post-passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. So, it’s not like they are long standing business. They were created to get the money from IRA. And they are all essentially shell groups, doling the money out to other companies which have been around for a while, such as Habitat For Humanity.

The nonprofits also wanted Judge Chutkan to order Citibank to unfreeze the account. She declined to do so. The order simply preserves the status quo while the case proceeds.

Funny, the Socialist People’s World is giving more information, and more balance, than Reuters and most other articles. So, really, the money is not available for the “companies” right now, either.

Zeldin has characterized the grants as a “gold bar” scheme marred by conflicts of interest and potential fraud.

“Twenty billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution, in a deliberate effort to limit government oversight — doling out your money through just eight pass-through, politically connected, unqualified and in some cases brand-new” nonprofit organizations, Zeldin said in a video previously posted online.

What are they doing with the money? Perhaps the companies should provide a detailed action plan and show where it is going and how it will be spent. And how any already received has been spent.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 19, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are leaves falling from trees killed by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the UK’s Net Zero plan bankrupting the nation.

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Leftist Judge Says Musk Dismantling USAID Might Possibly Have Violated Constitution

By William Teach March 19, 2025 – 10:30 am

This is a weird ruling, because it sounds more like a judge who is making a ruling without actually knowing what he’s talking about

Musk effort to dismantle USAID likely violated Constitution, judge rules

A federal judge has rebuked Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency for their efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, declaring that Musk’s effort to erase the agency likely violated the Constitution in “multiple ways.”

But the ruling Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang appears to permit the Trump administration to ratify and maintain the draconian cuts — as long as they are ordered by USAID’s official leadership, rather than by Musk or his allies at DOGE.

Musk and DOGE “shall not take any action, or engage in any work, relating to the shutdown of USAID,” Chuang wrote in an injunction against the billionaire and his controversial cost-cutting initiative.

Chuang, an appointee of President Barack Obama, also ordered Musk and DOGE personnel to restore access to official computer systems for USAID employees, including those on administrative leave. The judge said Musk and DOGE can have no involvement in further staff reductions or contract cancellations.

So, he’s ordering all this on a “likely violated”? Where were judges like Chuang when all those Biden “czars”, such as John Kerry, were doing all sorts of things, like negotiating with other countries to give away US money. Of course, Trump, as the Final Boss of USAID, could simply order the executive order created agency ended….actually, he kind of did, because there is already an EO giving DOGE the power. Or Rubio could do it

The ultimate impact of the judge’s order remains unclear because it was directed solely at Musk and DOGE personnel, so it’s possible other Trump administration officials could simply reissue any orders initially given by DOGE members. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is currently acting as the head of USAID.

The lawfare from all these federal judges, all hardcore leftist appointed by Obama or Biden, is amazing

The effort was likely illegal for two reasons, the judge wrote. First, it appeared to violate the Constitution’s “appointments clause,” which says that government officials wielding significant power must be appointed by the president — and confirmed by the Senate — to offices established by Congress. Musk has not gone through that process. Second, the judge wrote, DOGE’s bid to effectively eliminate USAID appeared to violate laws passed by Congress that dictate the agency’s functions.

But, wait, Congress did not establish USAID. JFK did with an EO. Trump should simply end it with an EO. And then there’s this

Judge blocks Trump’s transgender military ban

A federal judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from enlisting or serving in the military.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes of Washington, D.C., ruled that the ban violates the equal protection clause because it discriminates based on transgender status and sex.

Reyes said the ban “is soaked in animus.”

“Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact,” she wrote.

That’s a legal ruling from a federal judge? Sounds more like something from Media Matters or MSNBC. Trump should do like Biden, and just ignore the court. Or, simply take any and all trans in the military and assign them to scut work at a facility in the middle of nowhere. They would get no “affirming care”, no surgeries. Nothing. They won’t be around military grade weapons.

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Doom! Last 10 Years Were The Hottest Ever!

By William Teach March 19, 2025 – 7:00 am

That is, if we go by the hyperventilating, doomsaying NY Times headline

Earth’s 10 Hottest Years Have Been the Last 10

How many Warmists will read that and say “see! I knew it! Doom!”? Heck, it’s really more to influence the casual anthropogenic climate change believer into getting more hardcore. Because so many will never get by the headline. Anyhow, let’s hit the article for the second problem

With the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports.

“That’s never happened before,” said Chris Hewitt, the director of the W.M.O.’s climate services division. It marks the first time since record keeping began that all of the 10 hottest years have fallen within the most recent decade.

200 years, eh? There are very few records truly going back that far, and what records there are are limited to specific areas. How much of the US were populated in 1825? Even so, 1825 was in the Little Ice Age, which ended around 1850. So, it should be no surprise that the world slowly got warmer, about 1.6F since 1850.

Really, the rest is just boilerplate doom and gloom, we’ve seen it again and again and again.

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Bummer: Illegal Alien Named To Time’s 100 Most Influential List Detained By ICE

By William Teach March 19, 2025 – 6:45 am

Good thing the illegal alien wasn’t well known

From CNNlol

An undocumented mother and immigration reform activist who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement feared she was being surveyed in recent days, her daughter told CNN.

Jeanette Vizguerra gained international attention in 2017 when she took sanctuary in a Denver church for three years to avoid deportation during President Donald Trump’s

first term. That same year, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

She is now being held at a detention facility in Aurora, Colorado, her attorney Laura Lichter told CNN.

Vizguerra was taken into custody by ICE officers Monday outside the Target store where she works as a cashier, family friend Judith Marquez told CNN.

Being a visible activist and having “international attention” is not a good idea when you are unlawfully present in the United States. Heck, if she were an American citizen and was doing this in Mexico they would have thrown her in jail for a bit then deported her.

Oh, hey, when does the DOJ have an uncomfortable talk with the people who run the Target and their corporate office over knowingly employing an illegal alien.

Denver’s Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston denounced Vizguerra’s arrest and described the mother as a hard-working member of the community.

“People should know what this is. This is not immigration enforcement. This is Soviet-style political persecution of political dissidents under the guise of immigration enforcement,” Johnston said in a video posted on Facebook Tuesday.

Enforcing the law is now Soviet-style. She’s also been busted a few times for low level stuff and

She was also charged in connection with using a made-up Social Security number on a job application, her then-attorney said. She pleaded guilty to “attempted possession of a forged instrument.”

Yeah, any of that would lead to anyone on a visa/green card being deported. If they had paid all that money and gone through all the steps to get citizenship it would be revoked.

John Fabbricatore, former field office director for ICE’s Denver office, said in a post on X the Biden administration prevented him from deporting Vizguerra four years ago, and called her an “open-borders, abolish-ICE advocate.”

Being unlawfully present in the US and trying to dictate our laws is a bad mix.

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Bummer: Trump Admin Looking To Eliminate EPA Scam Science Research Arm

By William Teach March 18, 2025 – 4:22 pm

Well, maybe they should have been doing good research, instead of climate scam and wasteful stuff

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm

climate change joke

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

The strategy is part of large-scale layoffs, known as a “reduction in force,” being planned by the Trump administration, which is intent on shrinking the federal work force. Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the E.P.A., has said he wants to eliminate 65 percent of the agency’s budget. That would be a drastic reduction — one that experts said could hamper clean water and wastewater improvements, air quality monitoring, the cleanup of toxic industrial sites, and other parts of the agency’s mission.

The E.P.A.’s plan, which was presented to White House officials on Friday for review, calls for dissolving the agency’s largest department, the Office of Research and Development, and purging up to 75 percent of the people who work there.

Well, then the people still on the EPA payroll can do the actual job, rather than being scam cultists. They can stop trying to force an agenda on American citizens, knowing that the they, the employees, will not be held accountable. Here’s from Steve Milloy on the NY Times article

My comment: In March 1992, the a blue ribbon panel of EPA’s Science Advisory Board told EPA in a report called “Safeguarding the Future: Credible Science, Credible Decisions” that “Science should never be adjusted to fit policy.” But EPA staff has continued to do the exact opposite. EPA has proven itself incapable of doing honest science so scientific research should be separated from the agency. A copy of “Safeguarding the Future” is available here: junkscience.com/wp-content/upl

It’s not even so much that so many EPA employees are making the science fit policy: they are simply doing the work of a doomsday cult, and trying to make their own policy.

The remaining employees can do what the EPA is supposed to do, like clean water, clean air, clean land. They won’t have time to enact their own personal agendas.

Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the science committee, said that without the Office of Research and Development, the E.P.A. would not be able to meet its legal obligation to use the “best available science” when writing regulations and considering policy. She also said that the office was created by congressional statute and that dissolving it would be illegal.

Perhaps they need to stop writing regulations and such, because anything actually needs to come from Congress. The EPA, like most agencies, just decides to do whatever the hell they want to do to support their beliefs, rather than what the agency is tasked with.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 18, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon train which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on mostly peaceful protests at Tesla dealerships.

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DOJ/FBI Task Force To Investigate Hamas And Hamas Supporters

By William Teach March 18, 2025 – 10:30 am

Oh, this is going to make Democratic Party voters very, very unhinged. How dare Der Fuhrer Trump allow the Stasi to go after people supporting Hamas! Maybe they should have considered the ability of the DOJ to investigate support of Hamas, threatening and harassing Jews, and threatening Israel, taking over buildings violently which receive federal money, when they supported the DOJ to use every resource to find grandmas who peacefully walked through the halls of Congress on J6

The Justice Department and FBI announce a new task force to target Hamas over Oct. 7 attack

The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group.

Agents and prosecutors participating in Joint Task Force October 7, or JTF 10-7, will investigate and look to bring charges against Hamas militants directly responsible for the rampage in southern Israel, the department said.

“The barbaric Hamas terrorists will not win — and there will be consequences,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing the task force.

The Biden administration’s Justice Department unsealed charges last September against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other senior militants in connection with the attack on Israel. The impact of the case is mostly symbolic given that Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces weeks later and several other defendants are believed now to be dead.

Well, there’s not all that much they can do about the Hamas members in Gaza, but, what of those who finance it and direct it in other countries? And

Monday’s announcement said the task force, made up of prosecutors and FBI officials, also will investigate civil rights violations and potential acts of terrorism by anyone providing support or financing to Hamas.

It did not define what sort of support would be illegal, though federal law makes it a crime to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

It didn’t need to. There are laws on the books which say what support would be illegal. I would bet that they won’t be picking up American citizens, but, will be looking for foreigners on some sort of legalized status. Will they go as far as looking at those who were gifted citizenship, which can be revoked? I doubt they will prosecute, but, they might name. I would also bet that the announcement is meant to be a warning to those here on some sort of legalized status to get out now before they get picked up, to “self deport”, much like how the Trump admin has done it with illegal aliens.

Democrats have zero room to complain after their Stasi-like J6 investigation, the way they scooped people up and put them in solitary confinement with no bail for minor charges.

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Vermont Is Looking To Repeal Key Climate (scam) Measure

By William Teach March 18, 2025 – 7:15 am

Now, why would they do it? It couldn’t possibly be due to it being very costly, could it?

Costly Vermont Clean Heat Standard set for repeal

A key piece of the Legislature’s global warming strategy could be shelved. A bill moving through the Vermont Statehouse would repeal the Clean Heat Standard.

It all comes down to money. Democrats in the Legislature have moved to position Vermont as a leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But Republicans say Vermonters can’t afford it, and with green energy subsidies expected to get the ax in Congress, Vermont lawmakers are looking at a different approach.

“I just don’t think Vermonters can afford it,” said Sen. Scott Beck, R-Caledonia County.

Pushback in the People’s House over the Clean Heat Standard. The Clean Heat Standard was intended to push Vermonters to adopt clean energy for heating their homes and businesses by placing higher costs on climate-polluting fossil fuels. Estimates show it would cost taxpayers over $950 million over the next decade.

But following the results of the November election and a renewed focus on affordability, lawmakers on the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee believe now may not be the time.

“It’s in the planet’s best interest to reduce carbon usage and carbon emissions, but I think the reality is that we can only go as fast as the technology and the affordability of that technology allows for,” Beck said.

“I think we need to be able to move forward with our climate priorities in a way that is actually affordable for Vermonters,” said Sen. Anne Watson, D-Washington County.

Yup, money. It’s easy for the rich Warmists to comply (but, do they really?), but, the average Vermonter will find it difficult, especially when it’s their own money, not Someone Else’s. Heck, when you have Democrats saying this you know it is bad. And it’s not like Vermont is a warm in the winter state. I love watching the webcams from Vermont to see the snow. This is a great one. 55,000 Vermonters use natural gas, out of about 648K. But, that doesn’t account for those with outdoor liquefied natural gas/propane storage containers.

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Surprise: Deported Brown U Doctor Was A Big Fan Of Hezbollah Leader

By William Teach March 18, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is typical of what were were getting from US Credentialed Media outlets

Most failed to do Basic Journalism 101 and get details prior to publication and/or tweeting, they just went with the pro-terrorist and hate-Jews/America/Trump coalition. Eventually, though

Deported Brown University doctor acknowledged she attended Hezbollah leader’s funeral on visit to Lebanon, source says

A Brown University assistant professor and doctor was deported over the weekend from Boston to Lebanon after federal agents found photos of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s supreme leader on her cell phone, a source familiar with the case told CNN.

Following Dr. Rasha Alawieh’s return Thursday from a visit to Lebanon, federal agents at Boston Logan International Airport found the photos, the source familiar said. It was not immediately clear why officers were examining her phone.

The existence of the photos was outlined in a court filing Monday obtained by CNN affiliate WCVB. “In explaining why these multiple photos were deleted by her one to two days before she arrived at Logan Airport, Dr. Alawieh stated that she did not want to give authorities the perception that she supports Hezbollah and the Ayatollah politically or militarily,” the filing reads, per WCVB.

“I think if you listen to one of his sermons, you would know what I mean,” Alawieh allegedly told the agents, according to WCVB’s copy of the filing. “He is a religious, spiritual person. As I said, he has very high value. His teachings are about spirituality and morality.”

Alawieh, 34, acknowledged to federal agents she attended Nasrallah’s February 23 funeral – a public event attended by thousands – during her visit, said the source.

So, she supports Nasrallah, supports Hezzbollah, and supports Islamic jihad, which hates Jews and hates Americans.

“Foreign nationals who promote extremist ideologies or carry terrorist propaganda are inadmissible to the US, plain and simple,” CBP spokesperson Hilton Beckham told CNN Monday.

When she arrived in Boston on March 11th she was detained, then deported, and is now back in Lebanon with her US designated terrorist group pals. Do Democrats really want to support a terrorist group supporter?

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