ICE Is Already Recruiting Cops Away From NYPD

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

Let’s consider this from late October

City plans to add 5,000 NYPD officers by 2029 amid staffing crisis

surprise surprise surpriseThe New York City Police Department plans to increase its uniformed headcount by 5,000 officers over the next three years to address a growing staffing crisis, aiming to reach 40,000 officers by the end of fiscal year 2029, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.

Adams signaled the planned expansion on Oct. 31 as part of the November 2025 Financial Plan Update, at a time when the department has lost an average of 316 officers per month this year due to retirements and resignations, and its current headcount of approximately 33,832 is below budgeted levels.

They were already down, thanks to the whole defund the police thing post COVID, and having a tough time getting good candidates. Bad candidates, ones who really can’t do the job and shouldn’t be cops.

ICE is recruiting NYPD officers after Zohran Mamdani’s victory

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory to recruit police officers to leave the New York Police Department.

On Friday, ICE posted a recruitment message to social media calling on police officers to “Defend the Homeland” and “work for a President and a Secretary who support and defend law enforcement—not defund or demonize it.”

ICE’s message references Mamdani’s history of police criticism, including his past support for defunding the NYPD. In June 2020, Mamdani posted on X: “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.”

Well, why not, because

NYPD already losing officers with morale plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares to take reins

An NYPD exodus is already underway, with a surge of officers quitting in the month leading up to anti-cop socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win — and more might go if Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch exits, according to data and department sources.

The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data.

“Morale is down because everyone is concerned about the policies Mamdani wants to put in place,” said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro.

Those who can retire with full benefits/pensions will. Those who are close may, or may just ride it out, doing the bare minimum, not wanting to get involved with anything, just like during defund the police/Black Lives Matter. Those who are on the job and not vested will look at this ICE offer and jump, instead of wondering where they go, applying to different departments around the country (especially in the South). Good pay, great benefits. And all that money, somewhere between $100K and $240K for the academy and first 18 months on the job) goes up in smoke.

And you know what happens? The officers who are left will protect the rich and upper middle class areas first, leaving the lower middle class and working class areas bereft of patrols, with long response times.

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Scotland Is Totally Ready To Force Their Citizens To Do Something (more) On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Elites aren’t quite ready to make changes for themselves, of course

Swinney calls for swift and decisive action in tackling climate crisis

climate cowThe First Minister has called for swift and decisive action in “tackling the climate emergency” as the Cop30 UN Climate Summit gets under way.

Climate action secretary Gillian Martin is representing Scotland at the summit, which begins in Belem, Brazil, on Monday, and will end on November 21.

She will meet with activists, civil society partners from the Global South, and share learnings from Scotland’s Climate Justice Fund programmes.

Ahead of the summit, John Swinney said: “The next decade will be decisive in tackling the climate emergency, and Cop plays a vital role in that.

“We have no time to waste in protecting the future of our planet, protecting nature and supporting populations who are increasingly under threat from the destruction caused by the climate crisis.

So, she’s going to take a long, fossil fueled flight to Brazil, to hobnob with 100% like-minded individuals, all hell-bent on forcing Other People to comply. As for Swinney, what’s this “we” stuff? He and the rest do not act like the world is doomed from a tiny increase in global temperatures.

“On my recent visit to Zambia and Malawi, I saw how the effects of climate change are already exacerbating poverty and inequality.

Flights for them, you get to take the bus. And, yes, this matters, the hypocrisy and authoritarianism.

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Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 6:45 am

As they say, the devil is in the details, and the votes

Senate Democrats, Republicans reach deal to reopen government

A source familiar with the newly-unveiled plan told Fox News Digital that there are enough Senate Democrats ready to join Republicans for a key vote Sunday night as Congress readies to reopen the government.

The latest development comes after an updated continuing resolution was revealed that would reopen the government until Jan. 30, 2026, reverse firings of furloughed workers carried out by the Trump administration and ensure that furloughed workers get back pay.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, led the bipartisan deal, but a trio of Democratic caucus members, Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., proved crucial in striking a way forward.

Lawmakers are expected to take the first of a trio of votes on reopening the government later Sunday night. But it will require action from the House before the closure is officially ended.

While both sides still appear at an impasse on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, appropriators moved ahead with a package of spending bills that Republicans hope will jumpstart the government funding process, and lead to an end to the 40-day government shutdown.

The Senate Appropriations Committee released the three-bill spending package, known as a minibus, Sunday afternoon. Lawmakers are still waiting on text for an updated continuing resolution (CR), that, if passed, is expected to reopen the government until late January.

So, no Obamacare subsidies, but, it would restart SNAP (which really should be funded by states, not Los Federales, as there is nothing in the Constitution giving this program authorization). And get air traffic control back on the job, ahead of Thanksgiving

Schumer and his caucus could still apply pain on the process, too, through procedural hurdles. And despite rumblings of some in the caucus ready to break ranks, some Republicans aren’t too optimistic that this will be an easy process.

“I don’t expect anything from the Democrats,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said. “At this point, their demands have been so ridiculous, I don’t know what they’re going to do, and at this point, I frankly, don’t give a crap.”

I’m sure the crazies who will refuse to vote to end the filibuster will offer up lots of crazy addendums.

(CNN) At least eight Senate Democrats have agreed to vote for the deal, which was brokered Sunday night between three former governors — Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Angus King of Maine and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire — along with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House.

One of those Democrats is Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who represents thousands of federal workers in the state and who said he supports the GOP’s promise for a future vote on the subsidies.

“Lawmakers know their constituents expect them to vote for it, and if they don’t, they could very well be replaced at the ballot box by someone who will,” Kaine said of GOP senators who choose not to support extending the subsidies.

Hey, maybe that whole Obamacare thingy isn’t working well, eh?

But some liberal senators have fiercely opposed the plan, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.

“For me, it’s no deal without health care,” Blumenthal said, voicing a widespread sentiment in the Democratic caucus. “So far as I’m concerned, health care isn’t included, and so I’ll be a no.”

Even some centrist-leaning Democrats, like Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, were voicing concerns with the idea on Sunday night.

Well, it’s only going to take 8 to break the filibuster. Which way now, Dems? Maybe by the time this posts at 645am there will be votes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 9, 2025 – 1:16 pm

…is a pond frozen due to climate change moving Arctic air to lower areas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post saying it’s no time for small battles.

It’s cold week! Since it will be so cold this week. Which is, BTW, your fault.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 9, 2025 – 9:14 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. Got some nice rain, the Devils are number one in the Metropolitan, and the Rangers are winless at home. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Just 3% Of Global Climate Aid Is Allocated To Transitioning Communities
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: NHS Wasting Billions on Net Zero
  3. Watts Up With That?: Waste of the Day: Michigan’s Chinese Battery Plant Falls Through
  4. Ace Of Spades HQ: The Blaze Publishes Name of Person It Claims Matches the J5 Pipe Bomber, Based on Gait Analysis
  5. American Greatness: The Socialist Hypothesis Has Been Falsified — Did New York Get the Memo?
  6. Campus Reform: SUNY Albany TPUSA chapter to host ‘Unionized Hot Dog Stand’ exploring effects of labor regulations
  7. Cold Fury: A New (York) low
  8. Geller Report: Media Scrubs Islamic Religious Roots of Dearborn LGBTQ Terror Plot
  9. IOTW Report: The More Violence You Find Acceptable the More Violence You Will Get
  10. Jihad Watch: Sweden: Muslim teen planned to blow himself up in large crowd at Stockholm Culture Festival
  11. Legal Insurrection: In Quest for Real Journalism, CBS Head Bari Weiss Takes Axe to “Climate Desk”
  12. Liberty’s Torch: The Terrible Power Of ‘If’ Part 2
  13. Moonbattery: Eric Holder Confirms Democrats Will Pack Supreme Court
  14. neo-neocon: Kansas checks its voter registrations, and finds something curious
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has “Ilhan Omar went into a full rage, lashing out after other Somalians in American because Omar Fateh lost”

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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Trump Wants Obamacare Money Sent Directly To Americans, Not Insurance Companies

By William Teach November 9, 2025 – 7:00 am

First, though, Chuck Schumer had a meltdown, and doesn’t want to put Dems one year subsidies to insurance companies extension in writing

From the Mercury County Outlook

Moreno: “Is there a proposal in writing that we can read?”
Schumer: “There is a proposal that is very simple…”
Moreno: “Would it still have no income caps, so people who make a million, two, three million dollars a year—”
Schumer: “We can fix that later. We care about working people, not billionaires. I yield the floor.”

And then he stormed off. And from the tweet

Moreno: “I was going to ask him before he stormed out of the room because evidently he doesn‘t want to hear any opposing views or actually engage in meaningful negotiation … Would he continue 0 dollar premiums, which we know for a FACT, have enormous levels of fraud..”

“If he had stayed, I would have asked him a third question: Does he these monies to go directly to insurance companies?”

Why, exactly are the premiums so darned expensive, and how much go to pad the accounts of the insurance companies?

Trump demands ACA subsidy changes as Senate remains divided over shutdown

President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Senate Republicans to redirect funding for Affordable Care Act subsidies away from health insurers and toward average Americans, his latest gambit to pressure Democrats as a government shutdown snarls air traffic, leaves food stamp benefits in limbo and furloughs roughly 650,000 federal workers. (snip)

Trump’s demand to send funds directly to Americans, which would require an act of Congress, met immediate resistance from some Democrats and would face serious legislative headwinds given lawmakers’ inability to reach consensus on much smaller changes to the health law.

Trump, in several Truth Social posts Saturday, renewed his criticism of the health law, commonly known as Obamacare, when offering his proposal.

“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,” Trump wrote.

Wait, Democrats are against sending the money to Americans, and want to make sure it goes to the insurance companies? Hmm.

So, um, since Barking Moonbat seems too tame these days, how about Barking Humpty’s, because they are so broken they can never be put back together, just like Humpty Dumpty?

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NY Times Notices Sierra Club Tearing Itself Apart With Woke

By William Teach November 8, 2025 – 3:00 pm

At one point the Sierra Club actually concerned itself with the environment. Clean water, air, land. Though always somewhat leftist, I supported them. Then they went full on climate cult and Woke

Huh what?

The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.

The Sierra Club calls itself the “largest and most influential grass roots environmental organization in the country.” But it is in the middle of an implosion — left weakened, distracted and divided just as environmental protections are under assault by the Trump administration.

The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.

Its political giving has also dropped. Federal campaign-finance records show $3.6 million in donations from the Sierra Club during the push to defeat Donald J. Trump in 2020, but none as Mr. Trump stormed back to the presidency in 2024.

They embraced climate doom while forgetting about real environmental issues. Most of the funds raised went into raising more funds, paying exorbitant salaries, and donating to Democrats, not helping the environment. Or even Doing Something about Hotcoldwetdry. Is it any wonder so many said “nah, I’m out”?

And this year, as the Trump administration returned better organized and better prepared than in its first term, the Sierra Club was the opposite. While Mr. Trump boosted coal power, canceled wind farms and rolled back pollution limits, the club was consumed by internal chaos, culminating when the board fired its executive director, Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P.

Maybe shouldn’t have hired a stone cold activist, who’s never really worked a real job, and is all about playing the race card?

During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today.

“As long as climate change and environmental protection are viewed as just being concerns for a limited group of elites, we lose,” Loren Blackford, the group’s new executive director, said in a statement. “We only win by building a powerful, diverse movement.”

Apparently not.

The downside, according to interviews with people involved with the group and a review of financial records and internal documents, was that the Sierra Club lost its focus, then its strength.

By 2022, the club had exhausted its finances and splintered its coalition.

It drove away longtime volunteers who loved the club’s single-minded defense of the environment, by asking them to fully embrace its pivot to the left. Some even felt they were investigated by the club for failing to go along. Many hard-core supporters felt the Sierra Club was casting aside the key to its success: It was an eclectic group of activists who had one, and sometimes only one, cause in common.

Oops.

The club hired Mr. Jealous, its first Black executive director, that year to stop that slide, but his tenure accelerated it as accusations of sexual harassment, bullying, and overspending piled up.

Oops. They decided to become Trump Derangement Syndrome 24/7, have the workers unionize, give them big raises, and go full Woketard

It issued an “equity language guide,” which warned employees to be cautious about using the words “vibrant” and “hardworking,” because they reinforced racist tropes. “Lame duck session” was out, because “lame” was offensive. Even “Americans” should be avoided, the guide said, because it excluded non-U. S. citizens.

After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the group called for defunding the police and providing reparations for slavery.

The club even turned on its own founder, John Muir, with Mr. Brune saying the environmental icon had used “deeply harmful racist stereotypes” in his writings about Native Americans and Black people in the 1860s.

I mean, I don’t know where to stop with the excerpts, because the Crazy keeps going and going, so, I’ll just stop here. You have to read it in full. Long piece.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 8, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is beer which will soon be destroyed by global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on Mamdani being the tip of the spear.

Let’s see if the photo posts correctly twice in a row.

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Oh, Noes, CBP Drives Off With Toddler In The Car After Arresting Father

By William Teach November 8, 2025 – 10:30 am

Other than a quick mention in the subhead, the NY Times buries the actual facts in favor of emotion

Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.

At first, the encounter seemed typical of the kinds of immigration raids that have roiled the nation’s biggest cities. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents descended on a Home Depot parking lot in Los Angeles this week and detained a Latino man. They secured his hands behind his back, and the man, later identified as Dennis Quiñonez, leaned against his Chevy hatchback.

Immigrant rights activists stood nearby, taking video and shouting at the agents, who were masked and heavily armed.

But the situation, on Tuesday, soon took an unusual turn, according to interviews with four witnesses and footage shared with The New York Times by an immigrant rights group with permission from the person who took it.

Mr. Quiñonez was taken away to another vehicle. An armed agent slid into the driver’s seat of his Chevy.

This would probably be a good spot for a non-Activist news outlet to mention what he was arrested for

“There’s a baby in the back!” an onlooker shouted. Minutes later, someone cried out, “They’re about to drive!”

Another agent, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, got into the passenger seat.

Mr. Quiñonez’s daughter — who relatives said later is a few months shy of her second birthday — looked on, wide-eyed from her car seat. Then the driver reversed the car and drove away.

The girl was reunited with her grandmother later in the day. But immigrant rights groups say the episode underscores how federal agents across the country have pushed legal boundaries, sometimes in the presence of children, as they carry out the Trump administration’s agenda to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.

That’s just straight emotion. How many times have other perps been busted in front of their kids? I witnessed this years ago and when the mother and her friend were swarmed with cops because she stole a car and credit cards.

According to an affidavit by federal authorities, Mr. Quiñonez, a 32-year-old U.S. citizen, was charged with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition as someone who had previously been convicted of domestic violence. He was convicted of a misdemeanor for injuring a spouse or cohabitant in 2014, the affidavit said.

Mr. Quiñonez was held at a federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles until Thursday afternoon, when he was released on $10,000 bond. He is set to be arraigned on Dec. 1.

Oh, so, he’s a bad guy and a repeat offender. Huh.

Tuesday’s events began when Customs and Border Protection agents arrested five undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal authorities said in the affidavit that Mr. Quiñonez got out of his car while holding a hammer “in a threatening manner” about 100 feet away from them. As agents started to drive away, they said they saw Mr. Quiñonez throw two “rock-like” objects at the vehicle before getting back into his own car. After a team of agents boxed in Mr. Quiñonez’s car, he got out and approached agents, who said they believed he had tried to assault them.

Don’t start none, won’t be none.

Mr. Quiñonez did not want to be separated from his daughter, and he initially gave agents permission to drive his car with both of them to another location, away from a growing crowd, according to federal authorities. But after they found a gun on the floor of the passenger’s side, they decided to transport Mr. Quiñonez in a C.B.P. vehicle.

Wait, I thought Democrats were against people illegally owning guns?

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After Taking Fossil Fueled Flight, German Chancellor Says “We are at a crossroads”

By William Teach November 8, 2025 – 7:00 am

Nothing says climate doom from fossil fuels like 40,000 cultists taking long, fossil fueled trips

World at a crossroads to stop climate change, Germany’s Merz says

climate doom yearly

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

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday urged wealthy industrialized nations to increase their contributions to the global fight against climate change.

“We are at a crossroads,” Merz told an international climate summit in Brazil. “All countries with the economic resources and high emissions—and we are among them—should contribute to international climate finance,” he said.

The German leader noted that his government allocated more than €6 billion ($7 billion) for climate action last year. He also announced Germany’s support for the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) proposed by Brazil.

“We will contribute significantly to this initiative’s success,” he told participants at the Belem Climate Summit. “To achieve our climate goals, the tropical forest must be preserved while more private sector funding is mobilized. This can only succeed together with our partners in the Global South and North,” he said.

Would this be the same Amazon cut down to create a road to move people from the airport to the conference site? All these prognostications of doom would be better if the people who tell us there’s a problem acted like there’s a problem and practiced what they preached.

Let’s tax luxury air travel to fund climate adaptation and loss and damage

Developing countries are set to need hundreds of billions of dollars a year to adapt to climate change but, at the moment, developed countries are providing them with just tens of billions of dollars.

One solution to this ‘adaptation gap’ is a levy on premium flyers—covering business class, first class, and private jet travel. This represents one of the fairest and most politically feasible ways to mobilize new public finance for adaptation and loss and damage.

This would be a ‘polluter-pays’ approach, as business and first-class travel are 3-4 times more polluting than economy flights and private jets travel is up to 14 times more polluting.

I like this, and we’ll start taxing private jets, especially those flown by politicians and Warmists.

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