TSA Warns Flyers: The Deadline For REAL ID Is Almost Here

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

The purpose of REAL ID is to enhance the security of identification documents by establishing minimum standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards. You can talk about the pros and cons of it all day: it is in force on May 7th. The deadline was moved out due to Wuhan Flu. But, it’s almost here. So

REAL ID looming deadline prompts TSA travel warning: ‘Expect delays’

The fast-approaching deadline for REAL IDs has many Americans rushing to obtain the important new identification even as travel issues may lie ahead.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a press release reminding Americans of the May 7 deadline while also warning of delays.

“Passengers who present a state-issued identification that is not REAL ID compliant and who do not have another acceptable alternative (e.g., passport) can expect to face delays, additional screening and the possibility of not being permitted into the security checkpoint,” the release said.

Air travelers at domestic airports will be required to present a REAL ID in order to fly.

TSA spokesperson Lorie Dankers told Fox News Digital the agency estimates that “81% of the public is ready for REAL ID enforcement.”

What this could cause would be slight delays per passenger without REAL ID, which would slow down the entire line. I suppose the solution would be to have additional screeners who can pull those without REAL ID aside and let the rest go through.

The NYACLU wrote about the problems that could maybe be caused by it all the way back in 2007, and other ACLU’s have said the same. Many Conservatives have also made the same claims, like about privacy concerns. They say it won’t stop terrorists. Some say it will make it easier for terrorists (no, that was Biden opening the border). Nothing, though, has appeared in the real world. And now you are getting tons of people, both Dems and GOP, whining about having to rush to get on. I have no sympathy. They had 20 years to get one, as it was part of the Patriot Act, which, yes, had plenty of its own issues that were proven. REAL ID has not been proven.

The government already has your information. REAL ID consolidates it, but, they already have it.

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Massport Hires A Climate Chief Or Something

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

Surprisingly, the reported salary is $77K a year, but, no one really knows. Of course, if that is the case, that’s a lot less than a lot of other high positions pay. Maybe because the new hire is a woman?

Massport hires first climate chief

THE MASSACHUSETTS PORT Authority, which owns and operates high emissions-producing Logan International Airport, has hired its first chief climate and resilience officer.

The agency, also known as Massport, announced the hiring of Jill Valdes Horwood, who has worked for the Barr Foundation, a grant-making private foundation, and advocacy group Boston Harbor Now, as the new chief. The job includes helping the agency get to its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2031, the same year Massport turns 75.

“Jill brings a strong track record in climate policy and advocacy that will be critical as we continue our Net Zero initiatives and prepare for the long-term impacts of climate change,” Rich Davey, Massport’s CEO, said in a statement.

At the Barr Foundation, Horwood worked as director of its Boston Waterfront Initiative, which focused on promoting access and development focused climate resilience. She served as Boston Harbor Now’s director of policy, and she previously has done legal work for victims of domestic violence and underserved populations.

So, really no experience in this. But, hey, maybe if she does her job she will shut down Logan airport

Aside from Logan Airport, Massport’s portfolio of facilities includes Worcester Regional Airport; Hanscom, an airfield 20 miles northwest of Boston; the Port of Boston’s Conley Terminal serving container ships; and the Flynn Cruiseport, which serves cruise ships.

And shut them down. Well, she could allow sailing ships into the port. But, everything else uses Evil fossil fuels. BTW, the tide gauge shows a just above average of .97 feet of sea rise per century, a long term gauge going back to 1921. So, below what should be the sea rise of a warm period. Nor is there acceleration.

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Whoops: GOP Won’t Authorize Payment For Dems To Go Visit MS-13 Member In El Salvador

By William Teach April 18, 2025 – 6:45 am

First you have this guy

But

GOP Rep. Won’t Authorize Dems’ Trip To El Salvador To See Kilmar Abrego Garcia

A top House Republican is refusing to authorize a Democratic congressional trip to El Salvador to investigate the notorious maximum security prison where President Donald Trump’s administration is paying to hold hundreds of migrants from the United States, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old man from Maryland.

“If Democrats care so much about defending this individual, they can use their own personal credit cards—not taxpayers’ money—to virtue-signal to their radical base,” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said in a statement on Thursday.

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), a member of the committee, wrote to Green on Wednesday requesting a congressional member delegation (CODEL) to El Salvador as part of the panel’s oversight duties. She’s one of several congressional Democrats seeking to organize an official trip to the country.

Say, I wonder where Van Hollen is staying? Could it be the 5 star Hilton in San Salvador? Or maybe one of the other luxury resorts? Is he paying himself, or, did he put the taxpayers on the hook for the hotel and plane ride?

Seriously, as many are saying, we thought Dems might have gone all in on “sure, get rid of the criminals and gang members, but, not the good one”, but, no, they went for “don’t deport any, including the violent gang members.”

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Whiny Judge Whines At EPA For Cancelling Climate Scam Grants

By William Teach April 17, 2025 – 3:51 pm

Yeah, these would be all those types of grants where the EPA gives private groups money to Do Something, but, there are no action plans, no end results, and no oversight, and the money just disappears with almost nothing having been done. Except enriching the recipients

Judge Slams EPA for Canceling Climate Grants With ‘No Rational Explanation’

A Washington, D.C., Circuit Court judge issued a sharp rebuke Wednesday to the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, saying the EPA made accusations of fraud without evidence and overstepped the bounds of its authority when it canceled climate funding agreements with green bank groups.

Judge Tanya Chutkan‘s stinging 39-page memorandum opinion granting the climate groups a preliminary injunction said that EPA acted “arbitrarily and capriciously,” failed to explain its reasoning and acted “contrary to its regulations” when it suspended and then terminated the grants.

“Though repeatedly pressed on the issue, EPA offers no rational explanation for why it suspended the grants,” Chutkan wrote. “Nor has EPA offered any rational explanation for why it needed to cancel the grants to safeguard taxpayer resources.”

They do not need any explanation: it’s the People’s money, and all these groups are not entitled to it, especially since their groups were not specifically mentioned in the funding law.

Chutkan’s order included a stern warning about what can happen when agencies “fail to operate within the bounds of the law.”

The law requires that funding is tracked and has actual purpose, not be handed out to friendly NGOs and stuff.

Anyhow, lots of Credentialed Media are happy to report

Plenty more links like those. Not as many for

Donald Trump Scores Legal Win Over Judge Chutkan

A court has temporarily blocked a ruling from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan regarding the funding of former President Joe Biden’s climate programs.

The D.C. Court of Appeals halted the judge’s Tuesday ruling that ordered Citibank to release billions of dollars in green bank grants as part of Biden’s 2022 climate, tax and health care bill. (snip)

The Court of Appeals has now issued a partial stay on Chutkan’s ruling in order to give the court “sufficient opportunity” to examine it.

In its ruling, the court said that Chutkhan’s reasoning for her Tuesday decision did not meet the standard required for such an injunction.

In other words, she overstepped her bounds. And this block came on the same day as her order. Just because the money was appropriated doesn’t mean the companies are entitled to it.

I wonder if the judge has a stake in the money? Or, just TDS?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 17, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible private jet causing cloudless, drought inducing skies, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post a queer scientist arrested after terror attack.

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AG Bondi Looking At Unhinged Case Of Parents Being Restricted From Protesting Trans At School

By William Teach April 17, 2025 – 10:30 am

No one is really surprised that Democrat run schools and a wackadoodle judge ruled that parents are forbidden from protesting, are they?

AG Bondi Says Case of Federal Judge Blocking NH Parents from Protesting Trans Athletes Is Under Review

“I have asked my Civil Rights Division to examine this matter. This DOJ stands with women and their supportive parents,” Bondi said in response to a post from women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines about the case.

In September, several parents wore pink wristbands with “XX” on them as a sign of protest during a girls’ high school soccer game where trans-identifying male athlete Parker Tirrell, now 16, was playing on the other team.

Bow and Dunbarton School Districts Superintendent Marcy Kelley responded to the wristbands by issuing a notice of trespass against the parents, including Antony and Nicole Foote, Kyle Fellers, and Eldon Rash, according to local media reports. The no-trespass order has since expired.

That’s pretty much all they did: wear the wristbands. They were not yelling and screaming and causing problems and burning things and harassing or assaulting people, you know, what Democrats do. Wristbands.

The parents subsequently sued the school district, alleging that their First Amendment rights had been violated and asking the judge to allow them to carry signs and wear wristbands featuring “XX” at school events while the case is ongoing.

U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe, a President George H. W. Bush appointee, ultimately sided with the school district and said it acted reasonably in preventing parents from protesting.

Captured by the system much, Judge McAuliffe?

“While plaintiffs may very well have never intended to communicate a demeaning or harassing message directed at Parker Tirrell or any other transgender students, the symbols and posters they displayed were fully capable of conveying such a message,” he wrote. “And, that broader messaging is what the school authorities reasonably understood and appropriately tried to prevent.”

And, yet, the 1st Amendment allows that, especially when applied to people protesting the government, in this case for allowing fake women to compete against real women. And multiple sections of the New Hampshire constitution, in the Bill of Rights section, guarantee this type of protesting. Nothing excludes protesting at schools, and, if people are Offended, that’s on them. The Heckler’s Veto should not apply. Even the ACLU agrees.

The plaintiffs are moving on with their lives after the ruling. Maybe their kids have already left the school. But, the DOJ will be investigating, so, we’ll see what happens.

Meanwhile

Trump administration sues Maine over transgender athletes in girls’ sports

The Trump administration on Wednesday sued Maine for not complying with the government’s push to ban transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.

The lawsuit follows weeks of feuding between the Republican administration and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, leading to threats to cut off crucial federal funding and a clash at the White House when she told President Donald Trump: “We’ll see you in court.”

The political overtones of the moment were clear, with Attorney General Pam Bondi — and several athletes who joined her on stage at the Justice Department — citing the matter as a priority for Trump. Bondi said other states, including Minnesota and California, could be sued as well.

Why, exactly, are Democrat run states so intent on letting the gender confused compete against real women? In allowing them, encouraging them, to be in the locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms of real women? It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats were going overboard with Me Too and women’s rights.

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Your Fault: World’s Blood Supplies Stressed From Tiny Increase In Global Temps Over 175 Years

By William Teach April 17, 2025 – 7:15 am

Here we go: something new from the doomsday climate cult. If you ever think “there’s nothing more they can blame/link”, well, no, they can always find something new

Climate Change Is Stressing the World’s Blood Supplies

Climate change is coming for something surprising: the world’s blood supply.

The only thing surprising is that the cult found a way to link it

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesWarming and extreme weather can slow blood donations, disrupt blood transport and risk the safety of transfusions, according to a new study published on Wednesday in The Lancet Planetary Health.

Extreme weather events as a result of climate change can increase demand while also limiting supply, leading to blood shortages when they’re most needed. Avoiding this deadly mismatch of supply and demand is crucial.

“Any major disruptions to the availability and safety of the blood supply puts lives at risk,” said Elvina Viennet, an infectious disease researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and one of the lead authors of the study.

It is the first global assessment of how climate change affects blood supplies.

I wouldn’t believe Lancet if they said the sky was blue and heavy metal music is the best, not after their utterly horseshit Iraq War deaths statistical study. Damned sure not when it comes to the doomsday cult. There is no extra extreme weather happening, just more people, and more people living in areas that experience the strong weather events that have always happened.

Weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, heat waves, wildfires and snowstorms can physically keep people from donating. Roads may be impassable and, depending on the disaster, people may have more immediate problems of their own to handle. Mobile donation centers could be unable to deploy where they’re needed.

Yup, a cult.

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Rubio Closing State Dept Censorship Bureau

By William Teach April 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Biden admin tried many times and in many ways to institute censorship for Wrongthink, attempting to do end runs around the Constitution. One of those finally bit the big one

“…which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year and actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.”

Of course, this is how Politico cover it

State Department eliminates key office tasked with fighting foreign disinformation

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of the agency’s hub for fighting foreign disinformation campaigns — the final nail in a yearslong effort to shut down the office accused by GOP lawmakers of censoring conservative voices.

In a statement, Rubio claimed the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office at the State Department, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, had “spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.” According to Rubio, the relatively modest federal office expended “more than $50 million per year.”

“This is antithetical to the very principals [sic] we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America,” Rubio said. “That ends today. Under the administration of President Trump, we will always work to protect the rights of the American people, and this is an important step in continuing to fulfill that commitment.”

The center came under fire from leading Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year for allegedly silencing conservative voices through its efforts to clear up disinformation and misinformation online. Elon Musk, who now heads up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, described the office in 2023 as “the worst offender in U.S. government censorship.”

Obviously, Democrats want to keep this stuff going, because the group in all its names went after Republicans/Conservatives.

But the center’s supporters, including Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), have asserted that it plays a critical role in combating Russian and Chinese disinformation.

And all that stuff can be moved to a different part of the State Department. Or, the CIA, DIA, and other agencies that focus on that kind of stuff. It can be monitored and supervised. Democrats do not want that. But, they should realize that any program like that can be turned against Democrats.

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Say, Why Aren’t Churches Talking About Global Boiling?

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 3:32 pm

Maybe because that’s not what churches are for?

Why Aren’t We Talking About Climate Change in Church?

While nearly 90% of Christian religious leaders believe climate change is real and human-caused, most rarely discuss it with their congregations. A new study shows this silence has consequences—many church members underestimate their pastor’s views, and conversations about climate action stall. Yet we are uniquely called and positioned to lead. This piece from Blessed Tomorrow urges clergy and lay leaders alike to speak out, teach, and preach on creation care. Support and training are available for those ready to start. Click here to read the full article on Blessed Tomorrow.

Let’s see that article

Religious Leaders Are Silent About Their Beliefs

We are living in a climate changed world which is impacting everything we care about, from people and places devastated by climate disasters, to our health, food, economy, and more. Holy Scriptures remind us that the earth is sacred, (Psalm 24, Colossians 1.15-20, Genesis 1) and we are called by God to care for it. ecoAmerica’s research shows that 72% of Americans are concerned about climate change, (1) and yet, among those who attend religious services at least monthly, U.S. Catholics indicate that climate change is not discussed frequently from the pulpit and 41% say there is no discussion of climate change. (2)

While at the same time, almost 90% of Christian religious leaders at the head of a congregation believe in anthropogenic (human caused) climate change. A study published in March 2025 titled Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue (3) showed only about half ever discuss climate change with their congregations, a quarter speak publicly about climate change once or twice, and only 5% discuss it more than once a month.

Katharine Hayhoe says that the most important thing we can do about climate change is to talk about it. (4) Congregational religious leaders are uniquely positioned to make a positive climate impact as 2 out of 3 Americans believe they have a high ethical standard and are directly impacted by their local church leadership. When faith leaders silence themselves on climate change, it contributes to member’s hesitancy around discussing climate change with each other:

You get the point. But, they miss that church is a place to talk about The Bible. About God. Jesus. Those associated. And, then Exodus 20

1 Then God spoke all these words:

2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before me.

4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6 but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

A doomsday cult should not be operating in a church. They should not be worshiping the tenants of a doomsday cult. Bowing to the climate gods. If they are yammering about a climate cult’s beliefs in church they are putting other gods before Him. If these leaders in churches are interested, do it outside of church. They’d still be breaking their oaths to God.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon polluting private plane, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on an investigation for a battery plant fire.

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