Bummer: Chicago Is Broke From Taking Care Of All Those Illegals, So, They’re Laying Off Teachers

By William Teach July 14, 2025 – 6:45 am

So, um, where are all the liberals out in the street caterwauling like they did with the State Department flunkies let go

Perhaps spending $638 million on “migrants” during the Biden years wasn’t the best of ideas? Around $300 million was Chicago/Illinois money

(NBC Chicago) Chicago Public Schools laid off nearly 1,500 teachers and staff members on Friday, citing changes in school enrollment and academic programming, district officials said.

CPS, in a press release announcing the job cuts, said the majority of employees impacted by layoffs have historically obtained new positions within the district ahead of the new school year, and it once again expects that to be the case.

The district typically announces layoffs in June following an evaluation of staffing and sources, however, staffing adjustments were pushed back due to delays in CPS’ budget process.

“These staffing adjustments are part of a systemwide effort to align resources more equitably and strategically based on school enrollment trends, academic programming, and student needs,” the district said in the statement, in part.

In other words, they’re broke.

According to the union, the job cuts amount to roughly 1% of the workforce, which is “far lower” than layoffs experienced by CTU members in 2024.

Wait, what? Did you know that there are almost 47,000 working for CPS? Out of a population of 2.66 million. That’s 1/56 of the population. Even though attendance is down over 10%. Seems excessive. 30% o the schools are half empty. There is tons of violence.

(Wirepoints) Across CPS, outcomes are embarrassingly bad. Only 27 percent can read at grade level and just 24 percent are proficient in math.

Well, I’m sure the laid off teachers can find other lucrative jobs in city government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 13, 2025 – 1:13 pm

…is fruit that will soon no longer be able to be grown in the tropics, you might just be a Warmist

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

It’s shorts week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 13, 2025 – 9:20 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and, the Dodgers finally won a game after losing 7 straight! This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection: “Jews for Zohran” Linked to Pro-CCP Billionaire’s Niece
  2. Moonbattery: Slums to Replace Homes Destroyed by California Fires
  3. Newsbusters: WashPost Admits ‘Trump Economy Remains Pretty Strong,’ Still Hawks ‘Warning’ Scareporn
  4. Pacific Pundit: Ron DeSantis becomes first governor to completely shut off public funding for NPR-PBS
  5. Powerline: Solar loan defaults
  6. Sultan Knish: California Protects Illegal Who Bought Girl for Beer
  7. The First Street Journal: Another Philly illegal immigration sob story (Part 2)
  8. The Lid: Defense Dept. Cancels Promotion for Admiral Who Pushed Drag Queen Show on Aircraft Carrier
  9. The Right Scoop: BREAKING: Gavin Newsom’s Democrat donor under federal investigation for child labor violations
  10. Green Jihad: Blue States Backtrack From Onerous Climate Policies
  11. Jo Nova: The seven-day instant European heat death study — who needs data? Just model it!
  12. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Telegraph Discovers Wind Farms Don’t Work When The Wind Does Not Blow!
  13. American Greatness: No List, No Revelations, No Plot—Just Epstein
  14. Climate Depot: Antarctic Ice Sheet Growth Continues to Puzzle Climate Scientists – ‘A record-breaking increase in overall mass’
  15. And last, but, not least, Gates Of Vienna has Out of the Pool!

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Wacko Judge Telling Trump And Congress They Can’t Defund Planned Parenthood Goes More Wackadoodle

By William Teach July 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

I rarely blog about abortion, but, sometimes there’s something that is super moonbat. Like

(CBS News) A judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from revoking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, partially freezing a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just days after President Trump signed it into law.

The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani lasts 14 days and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to “take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed” to Planned Parenthood. The ruling, which came after a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood, doesn’t apply to any other health care providers.

The lawsuit takes aim at a portion of Mr. Trump’s signature domestic policy bill that would cut off any federal Medicaid funding to groups “primarily engaged in family planning services, reproductive health, and related medical care” that provide abortions.

So, basically, a law passed by the duly elected Legislative Branch and signed by the duly elected head of the Executive Branch is supposed to be overruled by one rogue judge? Even if Talwani had the authority to do this it would only apply to her district, that of Massachusetts. But, really, where does it say in the Constitution that private companies must be funded for abortion, particularly when said company makes $1.5 billion a year gross? Oh, wait, she wants to triple dog dare moonbat

She needs to be impeached. Even if the Democrats in the Senate will never vote to boot her, it will jam her up for months

(Reuters) But in light of the Trump administration’s request, she issued a new, amended temporary restraining order, opens new tab making clear that she had concluded Planned Parenthood was likely to succeed in proving the law violated the U.S. Constitution.

I cannot see any part of the 1st that applies. Nor on the 5th

Talwani said as a result, the law burdened the right of Planned Parenthood’s 47 members to associate with each other and their parent organization, which advocates in favor of reproductive health care policies, in likely violation of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

“The Supreme Court has ‘long understood as implicit in the right to engage in activities protected by the First Amendment a corresponding right to associate with others’ in pursuit of desired political, educational, or social ends,” she wrote, citing a 1984 Supreme Court ruling.

They’re welcome to associate with the others. What they are not welcome to is taxpayer money for their operations. Congress has the Constitutional power to determine what to fund and what not to fund. Government programs have no rights except those specifically mentioned in Article I sections 8-10.

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Pirate Ship Of The Buzzard Reportedly Found

By William Teach July 12, 2025 – 4:44 pm

It’s reported that the ship has about $101 million on it. Of course, the original haul was reportedly worth a billion dollars

Archaeologists Say They’ve Found a Legendary Pirate Ship, Rewriting History

Archaeologists say they have discovered a legendary pirate shipwreck off the coast of Madagascar.

The findings were announced in a research article by Brandon A. Clifford and Mark R. Agostini of the Center for Historic Shipwreck Preservation in Massachusetts.

“This study presents archaeological evidence supporting the identification of a unique 18th-century shipwreck at Îlot Madame, off the coast of Sainte-Marie Island, Madagascar, as the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship captured by pirates Olivier Levasseur (La Buse) and John Taylor in 1721,” they wrote.

Levasseur was “a French buccaneer colloquially known as La Buse or ‘The Buzzard’ for his swift and predatory tactics, remains one of the most enigmatic figures in the captivating history of piracy,” Discovery Channel UK notes.

According to the Golden Age of Piracy, the capture of the Nostra Senora della Cabo was a famed heist that saw the two pirates “capture a massive Portuguese treasure ship sailing out of the city of Goa. The massive 700-ton ship was carrying the Bishop of Goa, also known as the Patriarch of the East Indies along with the retiring Viceroy of Portugal. They were both returning to Lisbon with all of their wealth and artifacts when the ship was damaged in a storm.”

The treasure was supposed to include the Flaming Cross of Goa, a 7 foot tall solid gold cross inlaid with diamonds, emeralds, and rubies.

What’s the evidence?

“Artifacts recovered from the site include exported Chinese porcelain, religious artifacts of Goan origin, coinage, cowrie shells, and construction materials consistent with Portuguese East Indian design,” the researchers wrote. “The archaeological assemblage recovered from the site corresponds with historical descriptions of the Cabo’s cargo, route, and subsequent refit and final renaming by La Buse as the Victorieux.”

So, where’s the rest of the treasure? Some think in the Reunion Island area, which is owned by France (longest domestic flight on Earth), as pirates were a heavy presence there. And that’s where La Buse hintimated it was buried when he threw his coded parchment into the crowd before being hung by the neck, and said “with what I buried here I could buy this island.”

He was also featured on and Expedition Unknown episode. I think there was some series on pirates on Hbo Max I watched, but, no longer subscribed.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is champagne which will soon be terrible due to global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on an appeals court throwing out the appeals deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Wacko Judge Issues Sort Of Restraining Order Again ICE Or Something

By William Teach July 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

On one hand, this Biden appointed wacko followed the Supreme Court ruling, as her ruling only applies to her district. On the other, she thinks she’s Congress or the Executive Branch and can set all ICE’s policies

Federal judge issues temporary restraining order curtailing Trump’s immigration enforcement in California

A federal judge in Los Angeles late Friday issued a sweeping temporary restraining order (TRO) against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ruling that the agency likely violated constitutional protections through its immigration enforcement practices in California.

In a 53-page order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, barred ICE from conducting detentive stops in the Central District of California unless agents have “reasonable suspicion” that a person is in the country unlawfully.

Frimpong’s ruling explicitly prohibits ICE from relying solely on race or ethnicity, speaking Spanish or English with an accent, location, or type of work when forming suspicion, citing the Fourth Amendment.

The order also requires ICE to keep and turn over detailed records of each stop and agents’ reasoning for them, develop official guidance for determining “reasonable suspicion,” and implement mandatory training for agents.

Who are they to turn the records over to? Not finding that information in any article. Realistically, it’s a very silly order that just feeds the Democrats narrative about random stops, but

(ABC7 LA) “Claims that individuals have been targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE. DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence,” according to DHS.

“ICE detention facilities have higher standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens,” DHS previously stated. “These types of smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE law enforcement. This garbage has directly led to a nearly 700 percent increase in the assaults on ICE law enforcement officers.”

ICE had all those Biden years to know who was here illegally and where they are, especially if they have committed crimes. When they are jacking someone off the street it’s because they have the information that they are an illegal alien. When they are hitting a marijuana farm it’s because they know specific illegals are there.

First article

Frimpong’s order reinforces their Fifth Amendment claim, requiring ICE to ensure immediate legal access for detainees. The temporary restraining order will remain in effect pending further litigation.

Wait, illegal alien supporters state that being unlawfully present is not a criminal violation of the law, but a civil one, so, there is no requirement for legal representation. And you know that the detentions by ICE will continue unabated in the wacko judge’s district

ICE should slam the judge’s office with all the arrest records that she wants. In triplicate. Double spacing. Write them like a Congressional bill.

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Europe Doubles Down Climate (scam) Science Or Something

By William Teach July 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

Trump has had a tough go in getting Europe to spend on their own defense all while EU nations are fearporning on the threat from Russia, but, they’re happy to Worry about ‘climate change’

As NASA’s budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science: ‘Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation’

As climate extremes intensify and global tipping points loom, Earth science has never been more vital — but not everyone is treating it that way.

In the United States, NASA’s science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the agency’s Earth science division by nearly half and downsizes its workforce by a third.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the European Space Agency (ESA) is taking the opposite approach. At the Living Planet Symposium 2025, held in Vienna, Austria, ESA leadership showcased the agency’s ambitious forward-looking vision for Earth observation, one that extends not just to the next fiscal cycle but decades into the future.

“Earth observation within the organization [ESA], agency is a major priority,” said ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher during the ESA Living Planet 2025 opening ceremony.

The proposed budget would cancel several flagship missions and reduce NASA’s ability to monitor wildfires, atmospheric carbon, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events — all during what scientists say is the most critical decade for climate action.

So, was the US supposed to monitor the rest of the world for free forever? Most of the NASA personnel being cut are unnecessary, they’re climate hysterics, and/or do the same job as many others unnecessarily.

Leaders at the Living Planet Symposium laid out a bold, long-term approach to Earth and climate science, centered on collaboration, innovation, and open access.

“Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation, requiring us to transform observation into immediate action, the energy transition and sustainable development of our infrastructure demand reasonable steps from all of us,” said Peter Hanke, Austrian Federal Minister of Innovation Mobility and Infrastructure, during the opening ceremony.

Who’s paying for it? Higher taxes in the EU? Where’s the money coming from? And do the citizens in the EU approve of this?

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Bummer: State Department Starts Terminating 1300 Employees

By William Teach July 12, 2025 – 6:45 am

This is so horrible, and Democrats are having snit fits

State Department fires more than 1,300 employees in downsizing plan

The State Department began firing more than 1,300 employees via email on Friday as a part of the Trump administration’s plans to downsize government and cut back on what it called “bloat” and inefficiencies. The move has come under criticism from current and former diplomats who say the cuts will degrade America’s standing in the world and curb U.S. soft power.

The diplomats hit hardest hailed from the offices that Secretary of State Marco Rubio eliminated in his sweeping reorganization of the department, the most far-reaching in decades, including the Office of Global Women’s Issues and the department’s diversity and inclusion programs. But cuts also affected employees working on highly volatile issues, including Syria, a brittle Middle Eastern country emerging from decades of authoritarian rule, and senior officials in charge of chemical weapons issues and multilateral nuclear diplomacy.

“They cut key experts on nuclear testing, nuclear verification and efforts to end the production of weapons-grade fissile material,” said Alex Bell, a former State Department official and current president of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “These cuts will only serve to increase the nuclear threats facing this nation.”

The department is sending layoff notices to more than 1,100 civil servants and 240 Foreign Service employees, according to an internal notice obtained by The Washington Post. Foreign Service officers will immediately be placed on paid administrative leave and lose their jobs 120 days after they receive the notice. The separation period for most civil servants is 60 days.

Sniffles

Rubio informed Congress in May that the department planned to reduce its U.S. workforce by more than 15 percent — almost 2,000 people — as part of a sweeping reorganization intended to streamline what he has called a “bloated bureaucracy that stifles innovation and misallocates scarce resources.” Separately, he has accused certain bureaus within the department of pursuing a “radical political ideology.”

“15 percent” is as close as the Washington Post, and most news outlets, get to how bloated the State Department is. You’re looking at 80,214 (total), with 14,399 Foreign Service employees 12,831 Civil Service employees, and 50,703 local employees. Certainly terminating just 15% of the workforce, what with all their multiple redundancies, won’t hurt operations. Those left can work their butts off for their high salaries and exorbitant benefits.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) and other Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have also criticized the decision, issuing a joint statement saying: “If this administration is serious about putting ‘America First,’ it must invest in our diplomatic corps and national security experts — not erode the institutions that protect our interests, promote U.S. values, and keep Americans safe abroad.”

Maybe they should replace at least half the workforce with people who like America.

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SCLA Wants To Join Lawsuit Against Ice Raids

By William Teach July 11, 2025 – 3:35 pm

Does Sanctuary City Los Angeles understand that the federal government has primacy on immigration? That laws passed by duly elected Congresses has given the Executive Branch the lawful authority to arrest and detain illegal aliens?

Los Angeles seeks to join lawsuit against Trump administration over immigration raids

The city and county of Los Angeles, along with several municipalities in Southern California, are seeking to join a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over recent immigration raids that prompted several days of protests and the federalization of the National Guard.

The lawsuit, filed last week by the ACLU of Southern California on behalf of five individuals and immigration advocacy groups, alleges the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “has unconstitutionally arrested and detained people in order to meet arbitrary arrest quotas set by the Trump administration,” the ACLU said in a statement.

“No matter their status or the color of their skin, everyone is guaranteed Constitutional rights to protect them from illegal stops. We will hold DHS accountable,” Mohammad Tajsar, ACLU senior staff attorney, said in the statement.

Except, by federal law, ICE can scoop up anyone unlawfully present in the United States. But, you know, these Democrats are more concerned with illegals than with their own citizens. Heck, the ACLU was more concerned with stopping illegals from crossing the border during COVID than with the government slapping movement restrictions and such.

On Tuesday, officials from Los Angeles and several cities in the surrounding county said they were joining the effort “to challenge the unlawful immigration enforcement activities … which have included the federal government’s targeting of the Los Angeles area and of Angelenos based on their race and ethnicity and denying constitutionally-mandated due process to those detained,” a statement from Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said.

Funny, because Democrats keep saying that being unlawfully present is a civil matter, not a criminal one, which would mean there is no right to council.

“We as jurisdiction, not only support our residents in stopping these unconstitutional practices, but we in effect assert our own rights under the 10th Amendment and as jurisdictions that have, ultimately, local control over our police powers,” Feldstein Soto said at a news conference Tuesday.

Gotta give an LOL on this one. Suddenly they discover the 10th Amendment, and use it completely wrong. Perhaps they should read Article I about the federal government having ultimate authority over immigration issues. Hey, remember when Arizona was sued under Obama and Texas under Biden, and courts said the feds had ultimate authority? Anyhow, this is wild, US cities suing the US government for enforcing the law.

(LA Mayor Karen) Bass said the immigration raids, which have been taking place at homes and businesses across the Los Angeles area since June 6, create a safety problem.

Right, right, it’s not the illegals who a safety problem, it’s law enforcement. Wackjobs. I still maintain that the Trump admin should be going after all the illegals/migrants in GOP voting areas first, let the sanctuary cities deal with their own illegals, and not give them a dime of federal money. This would entice more illegals to head to sanctuary cities, costing them more money and creating more crime.

But, you know what this lawsuit will do? Entice the Trump admin to send even more ICE agents to the LA area.

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