Trump Asks SCOTUS To Allow Ending TPS For Venezuelans

By William Teach May 2, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m confused as to why any permission is needed: the TPS for the Venezuelans already ended

Trump administration asks SCOTUS to strip legal protections from 350K Venezuelan migrants after Obama-appointed judge put hold on plan

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.

The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration’s request.

President Donald Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.

The protections had been set to expire April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered a pause on those plans. He found that the expiration threatened to severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.

Chen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found the government hadn’t shown any harm caused by keeping the program alive.

And why is it up to this one judge? Congress established the program. Then the Executive Branch enacts it. The Venezuelans had their time, and, now it is up. One single judge is encroaching on the separation of power. Under what statute did the judge rule? The law is specific. If the Executive Branch or Congress wants to extend the time, that is up to them. The judge is making law/executive orders.

But Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on behalf of the administration that Chen’s order impermissibly interferes with the administration’s power over immigration and foreign affairs.

It does, but, this judge, who looks to have been captured by the system, or be GOPe who love illegals, thinks he can run the Executive Branch.

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Begun, The Climate Wars Have

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 5:15 pm

OK, not quite begun, but, they’re coming! The doomsday cult pinky swears

Climate wars are approaching — and they will redefine global conflict

Climate change is increasingly recognized not merely as an environmental crisis but as a threat multiplier, worsening political and economic tensions worldwide. Two factors — water scarcity and mass migration — are poised to completely reshape global conflict dynamics.

Without coordinated global action, these pressures may induce a vicious circle of interlocking issues: destabilization of livelihoods, unprecedented waves of civil unrest and political violence, mass migration and surging border conflicts.

The world is interconnected. A shift in one location will impact another. Fresh water is a resource we all need to survive, and as it dwindles, conflicts can flare. At the same time, rising sea levels and soaring temperatures will make many cities and huge swathes of land uninhabitable. Put together, these human-induced changes will lead to the widespread movement of people into countries that are hell-bent on protecting their resources.

In response, governments will likely deploy ever-more sophisticated military technology to protect their own citizens, becoming more insular in the process. Once capitalism is at risk of crumbling, social divides increase, and nations, corporations, or even ultra-wealthy individuals may begin to take matters into their own hands — addressing climate change in a way that benefits them, potentially at the expense of others.

Got that? Without massive governmental control of everything the world is doomed. And, we must end capitalism and put control of money in the hands of The Government.

Consider Iraq: The once-rich agricultural areas near Basra have become increasingly barren due to upstream Turkish dams and accelerating climate change. This scarcity has heightened tensions between Iraq’s diverse regions, including the upstream Kurdistan Regional Government (which has proposed adding 245 dams to the governorate), central Baghdad, and the downstream southern populations near Basra.

So, really, creating damns in a desert region, nothing to do with you driving a fossil fueled vehicle. Anyhow, the rest of this long stupid cult article is stupid, just a regurgitation of the same old doomy dogma we’ve seen time and time again. They can all just bugger off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from carbon pollution spewing fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a new twist on the New Orleans terror attack.

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Politico Wonders Why RFK Jr’s Search For Autism Cause Is Divisive

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 10:30 am

Politico does finally get around to the “why”, and, I bet you can guess what it is

Why RFK Jr.’s search for autism’s cause is so divisive

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to investigate autism’s “root cause” has split advocates for people with the condition: Some, like Kennedy, want to know what’s causing it, while prominent groups think his search could do more harm than good.

Kennedy’s grim depiction of the most profound cases of autism — many “will never use a toilet unassisted,” he said in April — sparked condemnation from several groups devoted to championing autistic people. They said his remarks perpetuate stigmas associated with a condition that has a broad spectrum of manifestations — and, coupled with his well-known vaccine skepticism, color any attempt by the agency he leads, the Department of Health and Human Services, to conduct further autism research.

But others who say they speak for people with severe autism were heartened that Kennedy is promising to devote HHS’s resources to help them as autism diagnosis rates continue to climb.

“America has a big problem, and we have to face up to it,” said one of them, Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism.

The divide shows how Kennedy’s search for autism’s source — he’s pledged to have some answers by September — has inflamed a long-simmering debate among people who advocate for those with the neurodevelopmental disorder and suggests that his investigation, whatever its findings, will be politically explosive.

I’m really not sure why investigating the root cause would be divisive at all. If this was some other disease, would they be against scientific research? What if he said they would figure out alzheimers? Or cancer?

But many in the autism community said Kennedy’s not the person to lead the effort. After his speech, several leading groups, including the Autism Society of America, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, and Autism Speaks, slammed him for spreading misinformation.

So, it is mostly because Kennedy is doing this. And, I’m sure there is some TDS involved. Because these Democrat leaning groups are more interested in politics than solving a medical issue. Why not offer their help instead? Or, is it also that the make good bank off keeping autism going? In increasing the numbers who are diagnosed with autism? When Biden said he wanted to solve cancer, only the extreme wackos who vote Republican had issues. Beyond that, Biden only caught some flack because he didn’t seem to be working toward that goal.

“Claims that Autism is ‘preventable’ is not supported by scientific consensus and perpetuate stigma,” they said in a statement. “Language framing Autism as a ‘chronic disease,’ a ‘childhood disease’ or ‘epidemic’ distorts public understanding and undermines respect for Autistic people.”

That is not a scientific statement, and shows that they really do not want any investigation into knowing anything about autism. I wonder why? ($$$$$$) Anyhow, many groups do support the scientific inquiry. And

Many autism advocacy groups have shifted their efforts in recent years toward amplifying the voices of people who have autism and urging society to accept them — and away from the search for a cause or cure.

Money. Influence. They want to keep this cash cow going instead of looking for an answer. And, really, this has been going on for awhile. Heck, had Biden tried to look for answers he probably who have received a lot of pushback.

Critics of Kennedy’s interest in environmental toxins point to studies that have found that genetics play a role in who develops autism and that autism can run in families.

And, what if there is a way to change that so they do not develop autism, or, maybe, the symptoms could be minimized? People are not born with measles, yet, we can give them a vaccine to stop it.

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House GOP Tilts Some Windmills To Nix PRC Clean Truck Rules

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 7:15 am

We all know there is zero chance this will pass in the Senate: there are not enough Democrats, if any, who will vote for it. But, hold on, wait, it looks like the House Republicans grew some cajones

House votes to axe California clean truck rules

The House voted to axe the Biden administration’s approval of the California rules, which aim to cut pollution and planet-warming emissions from trucks, using a tool known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

The CRA allows Congress, with just a simple majority in both chambers and presidential approval, to reverse recent regulations, evading the Senate filibuster’s 60-vote threshold. It’s sometimes used at the start of a new administration to eliminate regulations put forward by the last one.

However, the votes come in defiance of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan congressional watchdog that sometimes issues legal opinions.

That office has determined that because the EPA’s approval came in the form of a waiver rather than a rule, it is not subject to the CRA.

Last time I checked, Congress voting carries more wait that a bunch of bureaucrats in the Executive Branch.

The House was initially slated to also vote to axe California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars, but postponed that vote until Thursday.

Too bad they can’t add some language in that every lawmaker and bureaucrat who supported these rules should be required to drive and EV themselves.

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Report: Trump Admin Considering Sending Illegals To Libya and Rwanda

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

Real? Fake? Trump trolling the Credentialed Media and their leftist viewers?

Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say

The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to those two countries, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

The proposals mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s push to deter people journeying to the United States and remove some of those already here to countries thousands of miles away, some of which have checkered pasts. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing top officials to facilitate international cooperation and agreements to send asylum seekers elsewhere.

In addition to sending migrants with criminal records, Trump officials are also hoping to enter formal negotiations with Libya to strike a so-called safe third country agreement, which would allow the US to send asylum seekers apprehended at the US border to Libya, according to one of the sources. No decision has been made yet, and it’s unclear which nationalities would be eligible.

Obviously, no one on the record. That said, Marco Rubio did state last Wednesday that the US was talking with may 3rd party nations to get these illegals out. Hey, if the illegals and fake asylum seekers refuse to go to their home countries (or elsewhere, I don’t care) on their own, we can ship them elsewhere. The deserts of Africa, or deep jungle, sound great. You don’t have to go home, but, you got to go.

Meanwhile, that was CNN melting down. Now it’s the Washington Post’s turn

First migrants charged with entering restricted military zone at border

The Justice Department has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants who breach a newly expanded military zone at the southern border that is patrolled by U.S. troops, threatening people with additional penalties for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

At least 28 migrants were charged Monday with crossing into the 170-mile-long “National Defense Area,” a 60-foot strip of land that stretches across the bottom of New Mexico and has effectively been turned into part of a U.S. military installation. Prosecutors added the new charge of violating security regulations in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces to the more common misdemeanor of entering the United States illegally.

Both crimes are classified as misdemeanors. But the new charge increases the possible penalties to up to a year in custody and $100,000 in fines, whereas the traditional illegal-entry charge carries only a maximum six-month jail term and up to $5,000 in fines.

I hope the penalty simply ends up being “bye!”

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Hawaii Plans To Tax Tourists To Help Stop Climate Doom Or Something

By William Teach April 30, 2025 – 5:16 pm

Weird. I would have thought all the Warmists in Hawaii would be willing to pay more in taxes themselves, rather than hit up the folks who account for 22% of Hawaii’s GDP. Oh, and help drive construction and rentals

Hawaii plans to increase hotel tax to help it cope with climate change

In a first-of-its kind move, Hawaii lawmakers are ready to hike a tax imposed on travelers staying in hotels, vacation rentals and other short-term accommodations and earmark the new money for programs to cope with a warming planet.

State leaders say they’ll use the funds for projects like replenishing sand on eroding beaches, helping homeowners install hurricane clips on their roofs and removing invasive grasses like those that fueled the deadly wildfire that destroyed Lahaina two years ago.

A bill scheduled for House and Senate votes on Wednesday would add an additional 0.75% to the daily room rate tax starting Jan. 1. It’s all but certain to pass given Democrats hold supermajorities in both chambers and party leaders have agreed on the measure. Gov. Josh Green has said he would sign it into law.

Officials estimate the increase would generate $100 million in new revenue annually.

Hitting up visitors is probably not the way to do this. Sure, it ends up being about $31 on average a day, but, that is money that cannot be spent on other things while on vacation. I bet that the citizens of the People’s Republik Of Hawaii wouldn’t want to pay $1 a day out of their own pockets

“We had a $13 billion tragedy in Maui and we lost 102 people. These kind of dollars will help us prevent that next disaster,” Green said in an interview.

Fleecing tourists who have to take long fossil fueled flights to keep your state going won’t fix the government being incompetent. It won’t clear the dead brush or stop falling power lines.

The governor has long said the 10 million visitors who come to Hawaii each year should help the state’s 1.4 million residents protect the environment.

Green believes travelers will be willing to pay the increased tax because doing so will enable Hawaii to “keep the beaches perfect” and preserve favorite spots like Maui’s road to Hana and the coastline along Oahu’s North Shore. After the Maui wildfire, Green said he heard from thousands of people across the country asking how they could help. This is a significant way they can, he said.

So, if he believes that why doesn’t he slap a tax on the residents of Hawaii? Gov? Anything? Surely they’d be willing to pay through the nose, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 30, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on Wednesday linkage.

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Democrats Big Mad With Gov Gretchen Whitmer Over Deal With Trump

By William Teach April 30, 2025 – 10:30 am

They weren’t mad with her when she cosplayed Mussolini during COVID, but, are now

Whitmer just got what she wanted from Trump. But she’s making a risky bet.

President Donald Trump hugged Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer upon landing Tuesday in Michigan to announce a new fighter mission at Selfridge Air National Guard Base. He lavished praise on her during a speech at the base, referring to her as simply “Gretchen” more than once. And when he was done speaking, he invited her to the podium to give remarks she said she was not planning.

“I am so, so grateful that this announcement was made today, and I appreciate all the work,” Whitmer said, without specifically praising Trump.

Trump’s announcement that he would “save Selfridge” with the new fighter mission marked a long-sought victory for Whitmer and her battleground state. But the scene also illustrated the political minefield that Whitmer, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, has had to navigate as she has sought to build a working relationship with Trump at a time when other ambitious Democrats are spoiling for a fight.

Trump wasted little time acknowledging the bipartisan moment as he spoke Tuesday with Whitmer in the background. He complimented her as “very effective.”

“I’m not supposed to do that. She’s a Democrat,” Trump said. “They say, ‘Don’t do that. Don’t have her here.’ I said, ‘No, she’s going to be here.’ She’s done a very good job, frankly, and she was very much involved with the Republicans [on Selfridge].”

See, this is the way it’s supposed to work: each state is sovereign, and work to do what is best for each state. Instead of governors playing petty politics, they reach out to the federal government to work together. Even if the people involved do not like each other, they have to work together to accomplish things that benefit the state and/or federal government. You know that many negotiating on behalf of the US despise some people they negotiate with from other countries, right? But, it is part of the job. Whitmer, whether you like her or hate her, did the correct thing. She put the state first. And, since the 17th Amendment turned Senators from being the ambassadors from the state general assemblies to D.C. who put the needs of their state first into standard old elected schmucks, someone has to do the part, right?

Yet, to other Democrats, Whitmer is showing herself to be out of step with a political moment where Trump represents an existential threat to democracy.

“I think the fight back faction of the Democratic Party is ascendant, and leaders who ignore that risk getting left behind,” said Ezra Levin, co-executive director of the liberal organizing group Indivisible. (snip)

In Michigan, Whitmer has had an intraparty foil in Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), who has repeatedly sued the Trump administration and struck a more combative tone toward the president. Nessel has leaned into their dueling styles at times.

“Why I refuse to normalize this president: Appeasement is not [a] workable strategy with a fascist,” Nessel wrote on X a day after Whitmer’s Oval Office appearance, sharing an earlier interview where she suggested she has little “common ground” with Trump.

This is nothing compared to the roasting she’s gotten online from the unhinged Democrat base. It’s vicious.

The base currently contributes an estimated $850 million annually to Michigan’s economy and state officials estimate that the base supports some 30,000 jobs, including about 5,000 members of the Air and Army National Guard and Reserve.

She did what was best for Michigan.

Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist in Michigan, said in the wake of the Oval Office visit that most people in Michigan understand it is “part of the job” for the governor to work with the president, regardless of party. He expressed doubt that Whitmer wants to run for president but acknowledged the visit was less than ideal politically.

This is why the hardcore, hateful, politics from the Democrats is a problem: it can interfere with doing the job. But, if she does run, she can appeal to more middle ground voters by saying “I did the things best for my state, regardless of party and politics. And I’ll do the same as president.” I mean, she’d probably go pure Progressive as president, but, it would sound good during a campaign.

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Bummer: Trump Admin Boots National Climate Assessment Authors

By William Teach April 30, 2025 – 7:15 am

Go work in the private sector, see if anyone will pay you for this

All Authors Working on Flagship U.S. Climate Report Are Dismissed

The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.

The move puts the future of the report, which is required by Congress and is known as the National Climate Assessment, into serious jeopardy, experts said.

Since 2000, the federal government has published a comprehensive look every few years at how rising temperatures will affect human health, agriculture, fisheries, water supplies, transportation, energy production and other aspects of the U.S. economy. The last climate assessment came out in 2023 and is used by state and local governments as well as private companies to help prepare for the effects of heat waves, floods, droughts and other climate-related calamities.

On Monday, researchers around the country who had begun work on the sixth national climate assessment, planned for early 2028, received an email informing them that the scope of the report “is currently being re-evaluated” and that all contributors were being dismissed.

Here’s the one thing: the NCA is required by the idiotic Global Change Research Act of 1990 (GCRA). They must produce one every four years. So, will there actually be one in 2027? Will Trump care? Perhaps Trump will bring in a whole bunch of Skeptics and Realists to produce it, showing that there is no doom and gloom, and no need for more taxes and fees, government control of citizens, and no taking of freedom and personal life choices.

“There may well be a sixth National Climate Assessment,” said Meade Krosby, a senior scientist at the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group and a contributor to the assessment. “The question is whether it is going to reflect credible science and be of real use to our communities as they prepare for climate change.”

Funny how they always end up being blueprints for more Government.

Charles Rotter at Watts Up With That?

The absurdity of the situation becomes even clearer when reading how the dismissed researchers reacted. Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation professor, practically cried into his recycled coffee mug, declaring, “This is as close as it gets to a termination of the assessment. If you get rid of all the people involved, nothing’s moving forward”?. Exactly, Professor Keenan. That was precisely the point. Perhaps it’s time to move forward with serious, grounded research rather than ideologically driven climate sermons.

A cult is involved, so, they will do everything to not allow serious, grounded research. Especially since that would not involve Big Government authoritarianism.

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