…is terrible heatsnow because Someone Else took a flight, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Trump’s Epstein birthday doodle being a sick joke.
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…is terrible heatsnow because Someone Else took a flight, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Trump’s Epstein birthday doodle being a sick joke.
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We could have avoided this, but, no, your ancestor worked in a coal mine and you refuse to give your money and freedom to government
Scientists find a surprising reason why people are eating more sugar
Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat. As climate change drives hotter temperatures, Americans are consuming more and more of them, new research finds, with worrying health consequences.
There is plenty of evidence climate change will shape food availability and quality, leading to shortages, price increases and even affecting nutritional value, said Pan He, a study author and a lecturer in environmental science and sustainability at Cardiff University. But far less is known about its effects on what we choose to eat and drink, she told CNN.
The researchers scoured US household food purchasing data between 2004 to 2019 allowing them to track the same families over a long time. They then compared purchasing decisions with regional weather data, including temperature and humidity.
As temperatures ticked up, people consumed more sugar, mostly in the form of sugar-sweetened drinks such as soda and juice, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
For every 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit of warming, added sugar consumption in US households increased by 0.7 grams per person per day, the researchers found, with a marked escalation as temperatures hit between 68 to 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
Got that? It gets warm so people drink more cold drinks and have sweets like ice cream. Big news there, eh? We can solve this if you would just buy and EV, or, better yet, take the bus
Exactly how climate change will affect humanity’s eating habits, and the potential consequences on health and inequality, still remain unclear, He said, with much more research needed across different parts of the world.
So, the entire article based on a study was….meaningless? Because they really do not know anything? Huh.
The Democrats are Apoplexy Category 5
SCOTUS Allows ICE Agents to Keep Arresting Illegal Aliens in Sanctuary City Los Angeles
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has granted a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to override a lower court’s ruling that barred Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from carrying out federal immigration enforcement operations under the claim that such raids constitute racial profiling.
In July, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by former President Joe Biden, halted ICE agents from conducting raids in the sanctuary jurisdiction of the Los Angeles, California, metro area.
Before the Trump administration asked SCOTUS to allow ICE agents to continue arresting illegal aliens in Los Angeles while the case makes its way through the courts, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Frimpong’s order.
On Monday, in a 6-3 decision, Justice Kavanaugh writes for the conservative majority that “the government has made a sufficient showing to obtain a stay pending appeal.”
In particular, Kavanaugh writes that “immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence have been an important component of U. S. immigration enforcement for decades, across several presidential administrations,” and given the recent influx of illegal aliens under Biden, it is reasonable that ICE agents have focused their efforts on Los Angeles.
Let’s be honest, the vast majority ICE stops in Sanctuary City Los Angeles and other towns are already known to be illegally present in the U.S. Most is not raids on a whim, or yanking Hispanic looking people out of the cars. It’s targeted. They know who they are, because they registered with the government when Biden let them across the border. Or Obama let them across. Or, they’ve overstayed visas or ordered deported decades ago.
It’s not like the 70s and 80s where La Migra rolled up and just raided places looking to find them. They know who they are. ICE and other federal agencies know where they are. Many are receiving government funded apartments, housing, food, schooling, etc.
Meanwhile, Justice Sotomayor, in writing a dissenting opinion that Justices Kagan and Jackson joined, called the court’s stay on the lower court’s decision “yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket.”
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low-wage job,” Sotomayor writes. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
My freedom is not lost: I’m a citizen. Oh, BTW, lefties, ICE and the others are grabbing people who are Chinese and from other Asian countries and here illegally.
Read: Supreme Court Says It’s Fine For ICE To Arrest Those Who Fit Profile Of Illegals In LA »
It’s literally one guy who visited El Salvador (no mention that I can find if he’s a US citizen or something else)
A flesh-eating parasite is at our borders. What happens if it spreads?
A Maryland resident who traveled to El Salvador came home last month with an unwelcome souvenir: larvae of the New World screwworm burrowing in their flesh.
The patient has since recovered from the painful parasite, and Maryland health officials confirmed that there’s no sign of transmission to anyone else. But the case is historic: It’s the first time in more than half a century that a human in the US has been infected by a screwworm.
On its own, it’s a medical oddity — a one-off, travel-linked case that doesn’t pose a direct risk to Americans. But it’s also a warning sign of a much bigger threat creeping toward US borders. One that could rattle the backbone of American agriculture.
For the past two decades, screwworms were held at a distance by an invisible barrier along the Panama-Colombia border by a joint US-Panama program that regularly floods the region with sterile flies. That barrier has, however, cracked. Since 2023, screwworm has resurged through Central America and into Mexico.
That’s a pretty quick jump from one dude to ZOMG!, eh? We learn later that perhaps it was a Bad Idea for the Biden admin to pretty much invite all those illegals to rush towards the US border, bringing cattle along the way, which were infected with screwworm.
Experts say that the context has shifted in the last 50 years. Climate change is warming habitats, increasing possible places where screwworms can thrive. Industrial livestock farming has scaled up enormously, meaning a single outbreak could speak through herds faster than ever. Meanwhile, the Trump administration pushed out around 15,000 USDA employees and terminated a screwworm monitoring project. We have newer, better tools to fight off these, but those are yet to be approved. And parasites don’t wait for paperwork.
Climate doom! Also, TDS
Smuggling of cattle through Central America seeded fresh outbreaks in new regions, and climate shifts — higher temperatures and humidity — aided their spread. By spring 2025, Mexico was reporting detections as far north as Oaxaca and Veracruz, a stretch of land far wider and difficult to contain than the narrow Darién. COPEG has been running flat out, turning out around 100 million larvae each week. But even at maximum capacity, the plant can only do so much. The screwworm front continued to advance.
Smuggling, or, illegals bringing them? Which has zero do with “climate shifts”.
Earlier this year, the USDA committed $21 million to convert an old fruit-fly plant in Metapa, Mexico, to churn out 60 million to 100 million sterile screwworms weekly to be released in southern Mexico, where the new front is. It’s also building a factory in Edinburg, Texas, with three times that capacity. Congress is trying to lock this in with the STOP Screwworms Act, a bipartisan bill that would formally authorize USDA to build and fund the new Texas facility.
Oh, so the Trump admin is taking actions? Huh. Guess the TDS was unwarranted.
Seriously, all this hyperventilating over one dumbass traveling to El Salvador.
Read: Vox: Maryland Man Bringing Screwworm Back From El Salvador Is A Warning Sign »
…is a world where it snows in the summer from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post UK Met Office’s “hottest evah!” claims.
Still working on things, thanks for being patient. I don’t like it either, wastes my time. Even though I set posts to autopost, they don’t. This one probably won’t. I turned Blackhole back on, and there were 67 notifications for bad bots. Many are hitting multiple times in a minute, trying to hit various parts of WordPress.
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This is Axios’ takeaway
From the article
MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases.
Shocking video of the fatal Aug. 22 knife attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte, North Carolina, dominated weekend conversation on Trump-friendly social media.
The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte’s light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.
The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.
How dare people share the grisly video! MAGA people! Really, people of all political stripes were commenting, especially from the Charlotte area. This is Axios’ big picture, that a video can be shared. Not that a career criminal brutally murdered a young woman from Ukraine for no reason.
Axios goes on to mention that Trump will comment when he knows more, and a whole bunch of other Republicans tweeted about it.
The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged with first-degree murder. His criminal record includes charges of armed robbery, felony larceny, breaking and entering, and shoplifting, according to jail records cited by WBTV.
Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather, in an interview with Axios Charlotte last week, didn’t comment directly on the case but acknowledged the limitations and complexities of holding defendants with mental health issues accountable.
The guy is 34 with a rap sheet that includes all that: why is he not in jail?
(NY Post) He even served five years in prison for armed robbery, only to be arrested for assaulting his sister just months after he was released in September 2020, the Daily Mail reported.
In NC, the maximum jail sentence is 17 years for armed robbery. He was surely out on release in 2020, and should have been sent back to the slammer. The dude was nuts and homeless, being kicked out of his house by his mom because of his violent tendencies. Make asylums great again.
Between the lines: Influential conservative social media accounts accused major national news outlets of not covering the racial dynamics of the Charlotte killing — a white victim and a Black suspect — with the same intensity as they did in the case of Daniel Penny.
Um, Axios’ only mention before their Republicans Pounce article was “Mecklenburg’s DA acknowledges criminal justice system gaps following light rail killing.” It’s barely being mentioned in the local Charlotte or Raleigh news. It was barely mentioned in the nation news.
What’s next: Trump won’t just discuss this case once, his team says. He’s going to keep highlighting crime because it’s important to him — and he believes it moves voters as the GOP tries to keep control of Congress in next year’s midterms.
“Crime is not a data thing — it’s a feeling thing,” the Trump adviser said. “Politicians don’t understand that it’s about how you feel when you walk on the subway platform.”
Crime is still mostly above the pre-pandemic level, and people feel it. They’ve seen it. Is it down? Many cities, like Seattle and Portland, have a much worse crime ranking now then at the start of COVID and BLM. They were both in the mid to upper 20s. Now they are 1 and 2 (100 is best). And the media wants to downplay what we see for their political purposes.
This is a little story, but, why does it resonate so much that they’re holding a climate crisis at an expensive yacht club?
Island Climate Change Summit Taking Place On Wednesday
The third annual Nantucket Climate Change Summit is being held at the Great Harbor Yacht Club this Wednesday, headlined by a talk by Climate Central Chief Meteorologist Bernadette Woods Placky.
After two years focused entirely on the intersection of climate change and Nantucket, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation and the Linda Loring Nature Foundation are expanding the focus of their summit slightly by bringing in Placky, a meteorologist for the nonprofit climate change news outlet Climate Central.
“We don’t want to keep doing the same thing every year,” Nantucket Conservation Foundation Coastal Ecology Project Manager Jen Karberg told the Current. “We want to bring in new and elevated information.” (snip)
“We have space for the community to be there, to ask questions, to interact with each other. We want the community to start talking about what’s going on,” Karberg said. “If we’re getting together and talking, our chances of having positive adaptation go up.”
Karberg said the event is important in part because Nantucket is uniquely exposed to the effects of climate change. She hopes the event will help bring islanders together on the issue.
Nantucket doesn’t survive without fossil fuels. All the cars bringing vacationers, folks in their mansions, all those fishing and pleasure boats, the airport. The same leaders of Nantucket having been protest Vineyard Wind, and two other wind farm projects. I’m not really finding a true measure as to what it costs to join the yacht club, but, wow, does this look like uber-white liberal women or what? Ones who are happy to force you to do things they won’t do?
Read: Nantucket To Hold Climate (scam) Conference At Fancy Yacht Club »
Is this a strongly worded memo “or else”, or a Qasem Soleimani type “or else”?
Trump delivers ultimatum to Hamas: Accept deal and release hostages or pay the consequences
President Donald Trump issued his “last warning” to Hamas to accept his deal and release the remaining hostages or face the consequences.
“Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.”
“I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting,” he continued. “This is my last warning, there will not be another one! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
The thing with Trump is you never know what he will do, and that should concern Hamas
Report: Trump Proposes Last-Minute Hostage Deal; Passed by Witkoff via Civilian to Hamas
President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed a last-minute hostage deal that would see all of the remaining Israeli hostages released in exchange for ending the war in Gaza. Hamas has yet to accept it.
The proposal was conveyed to Hamas via civilian Gershom Baskin, a civilian and columnist whose interest in Israeli-Palestinian peace led him to develop contacts that, in turn, led to a deal for hostage Gilad Shalit in 2011.
That deal has since been widely criticized, since many prominent Hamas leaders were among the more than 1,000 convicted terrorists that Israel exchanged for Shalit — including October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar.
Nevertheless, with a major Israeli offensive on Gaza City looming, and hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets of Tel Aviv demonstrating for a deal, the Trump administration has decided to give it one more try.
We can always track any Palestinians releases and drone strike them. But, really, Hamas doesn’t want it to end. They care little for the Palestinians they use, often willingly, as human shields.
I’d say that the liberals’ reflexive ability to defend what Trump is against would lead them to support Hamas, but, they already do.
…is horrible heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Democrats dictating indoctrination.
It’s snow week.
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