Good Grief: Wacko Federal Judge Orders Alligator Alcatraz Closed Over No Environmental Review

By William Teach August 22, 2025 – 10:30 am

Is the judge saying that illegal aliens are bad for the environment?

Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to a center in the Florida Everglades, and that much of the facility be dismantled. The ruling rebuked the state and federal governments for failing to consider potential environmental harms before building the facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz.

The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and other materials. The order also prohibits any new construction at the site.

Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Federal District Court in Miami found that the state and federal governments had violated a federal law that requires an environmental review before any major federal construction project. Judge Williams partly granted a preliminary injunction sought by environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe, whose members live in the area. The detention center is surrounded by protected lands that form part of the sensitive Everglades ecological system.

The detention center presents risks to wetlands and to communities that depend on the Everglades for their water supply, including the Miccosukee, Judge Williams found.

“The project creates irreparable harm in the form of habitat loss and increased mortality to endangered species in the area,” she wrote.

They’re really just making stuff up at this point…well, the wacko leftist judges have been making it up since Trump took office (and when they lawfared Trump and his folks).

Her ruling is preliminary, as the case will continue to be litigated. The state is expected to ask that the ruling be stayed, or kept from taking effect, as it pursues its appeal.

Even before Judge Williams ruled, Mr. DeSantis had said he expected the ruling to go against his administration.

“It’s pretty clear we’re in front of a judge who is not going to give us a fair shake on this,” he said on Tuesday.

Liberals are celebrating this, but, you know the ruling will, yet again, be overturned on appeal. But, hey, perhaps DeSantis could build a new holding facility near where the judge lives.

Speaking of lawfare and rulings thrown out

Trump’s massive $500M civil fraud fine in AG Tish James’ case thrown out by NY appeals court

President Trump won a huge, symbolic victory Thursday when a New York appeals court threw out the more than $500 million fine he owed in Attorney General Letitia James’ business fraud case.

The Appellate Division, First Department, overturned the whopping $464 million judgment against Trump, 79, but upheld a finding that the real estate tycoon-turned-president engaged in fraud by exaggerating his net worth for decades.

“I had a victory today. You know, they stole $550 million from me with a fake case, and it was overturned,” Trump told dozens of law enforcement officers later Thursday during a visit related to his crime crackdown in Washington, DC.

But the case, stemming from a civil suit brought by James’ office, still remains in place and will now go to New York’s highest court as the legal battle between the state’s top lawyer and the commander in chief continues.

And you know the whole thing will be overturned.

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Your Fault: Nights Are Warmer

By William Teach August 22, 2025 – 7:00 am

I told you to buy an EV and move into a tiny home, but, no, you want doom

No evening cooldown: Climate change is making even nights hotter in summer

Are you tossing and turning more at night? Does it feel like your air conditioner is straining harder and doing less to cool down your bedroom? Well, get ready for more muggy summer nights, not just this week, but for the rest of the century, experts say. That’s largely due to climate change.

Extreme heat was expected to blanket much of Southern California, Arizona and Nevada starting Wednesday through Friday night. That includes stifling nights with “lows” in the upper 80s to low 90s late Thursday and Friday in the Coachella and Imperial valleys and the San Gorgonio Pass, which will offer little relief from daytime highs of up to 115 degrees those days, per National Weather Service extreme heat warnings and alerts. (snip)

In the 1980s, Palm Springs had zero to two abnormally warm summer nights, but due to climate change, that has gradually gone up since then to 32 nights a year on average, according to calculations by Climate Central, a nonprofit that analyzes decades of federal weather data and models future trends. Some of that increase is also likely caused by area development that has added asphalt, concrete and other manmade surfaces that warm more than natural soils, also known as the “urban heat island” effect.

Most of that increase is, in fact, UHI and natural warming, as expected during a Holocene warm period, along with a tiny bit of anthropogenic non-UHI/land use effects. Where the people are feeling it the most is in cities. Go out in the desert and it will get cool. You also have the smog effect, whereby warmth is held at the lower level. Fortunately, we are still a 1st World and can do things with air conditioning.

And, really, it’s summer. You will have heat waves, which will make UHI feel worse.

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Bummer: Appeals Court Allows Trump Admin To Deport TPS Holders

By William Teach August 22, 2025 – 6:45 am

It’s pretty wild that it takes a court to allow the duly elected POTUS to implement the lawful exercise of their power as authorized by the duly elected Congress

Appeals court allows DHS to end protected status for Nicaraguans, Hondurans and Nepalese residents

A federal appeals court late Wednesday sided with the Trump administration in lifting a stay that was blocking deportations of immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal as they continue to litigate the legality of the move.

The decision by a three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturns a lower court decision that blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the three countries, saying the plaintiffs had shown there was sufficient racial animus behind the decision.

TPS bars deportation for its recipients, who come from countries the U.S. has deemed to be too impacted by natural disasters or civil unrest to facilitate returns.

The Trump administration celebrated the ruling, which will allow them to strip work permits from TPS holders and begin deportations as courts continue to weigh whether they followed the letter of the law in ending the status.

Some 51,000 Hondurans and nearly 3,000 Nicaraguans who have been in the country for roughly 25 years will need to leave the country by September, while the decision will also impact roughly 7,000 Nepalese citizens.

It’s temporary. Supposed to be temporary

“This is yet another huge legal victory for the Trump Administration, the rule of law, safety of the American public. Temporary Protected Status was always meant to be just that: Temporary,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement.

“TPS was never meant to be a de facto asylum system, yet that is how previous administrations have used it for decades while allowing hundreds of thousands of foreigners into the country without proper vetting. This unanimous decision will help restore integrity to our immigration system to keep our homeland and its people safe.”

Now, I wouldn’t mind if the admin took a look at these folks who were allowed to stay way, way, way too long per previous administrations. Do they speak and write English? Have they kept out of legal trouble? Are they self-sustaining, or, do they live off the government? Are they a drain on public systems or provide more? I think perhaps there could be some who we allow to go through the citizenship process, which would include paying all the money.

Do they want to be Americans? If not, they need to need ASAP.

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Climate (cult) Scientists Shocked Artic Sea Ice Refusing To Cooperate With Coming Doom

By William Teach August 21, 2025 – 3:24 pm

Don’t you hate when Earth forces refuse to cooperate with talking points and computer models?

Dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists

The melting of sea ice in the Arctic has slowed dramatically in the past 20 years, scientists have reported, with no statistically significant decline in its extent since 2005.

The finding is surprising, the researchers say, given that carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning have continued to rise and trap ever more heat over that time.

They said natural variations in ocean currents that limit ice melting had probably balanced out the continuing rise in global temperatures. However, they said this was only a temporary reprieve and melting was highly likely to start again at about double the long-term rate at some point in the next five to 10 years.

The findings do not mean Arctic sea ice is rebounding. Sea ice area in September, when it reaches its annual minimum, has halved since 1979, when satellite measurements began. The climate crisis remains “unequivocally real”, the scientists said, and the need for urgent action to avoid the worst impacts remains unchanged.

So, see, it could be nature that is “balancing” out what Evil Mankind is doing, but, it can’t be mostly/solely nature that was melting it in the first place.

But, this is just a temporary pause of coming doom.

The natural variation causing the slowdown is probably the multi-decadal fluctuations in currents in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which change the amount of warmed water flowing into the Arctic. The Arctic is still expected to see ice-free conditions later in the century, harming people and wildlife in the region and boosting global heating by exposing the dark, heat-absorbing ocean.

See?

Dr Mark England, who led the study while at the University of Exeter, said: “It is surprising, when there is a current debate about whether global warming is accelerating, that we’re talking about a slowdown.

“The good news is that 10 to 15 years ago when sea ice loss was accelerating, some people were talking about an ice-free Arctic before 2020. But now the [natural] variability has switched to largely cancelling out sea ice loss. It has bought us a bit more time but it is a temporary reprieve – when it ends, it isn’t good news.”

So, they done f*** up with their prognostications back then, and now they’ve figured out a way to say “we weren’t wrong, just, nature messed us up. But, it’s still coming.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 21, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a perfect spot far from the big cities to put a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Texas Democrats being big mad.

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Washington Post Seems Upset Over Liberal Cities Being Called Cesspools

By William Teach August 21, 2025 – 10:30 am

Where was the WP when GOP areas where called Flyover Nation, Jesusland, and Fuckistan? Also, has the WP looking at the crime rankings for Blue cities?

Trump, GOP portray cities as chaotic dystopias in need of occupation

When President Donald Trump declared his third presidential candidacy in 2022, he saved his most colorful language for America’s urban areas, bemoaning “the blood-soaked streets of our once-great cities” and adding that “the cities are rotting, and they are indeed cesspools of blood.”

Later in his campaign, Trump called Milwaukee “horrible” and described Washington, D.C., as a “rat-infested, graffiti-infested shithole.” More recently he said, “These cities, it’s like living in hell.”

Other Republicans have seized on similar dystopian urban images. When Vice President JD Vance visited New York several years ago, he compared the city to a zombie apocalypse, posting: “I have heard it’s violent and disgusting there. But is it like Walking Dead Season 1 or Season 4?”

As Trump ramps up the military presence in Washington — and hints that he may move to take over other cities — his crackdown punctuates a frequent Republican message that American cities embody chaos, lawlessness and immorality, despite widespread recent drops in violent crime. With cities increasingly liberal and rural stretches ever more conservative, Republicans have a growing incentive to attack urban areas as the epitome of all that is wrong with America.

Well, he’s not going to be taking over other cities: he doesn’t have the legal authority like with D.C. If the WP had any journalistic integrity they’d be showing how the streets are much calmer in D.C. That they aren’t seeing the roaming band of youths harassing people, committing crimes, and carjacking. The D.C. Police Department is able to really do their job with all the extra National Guard folks around, and know that the feds have their backs on arrests. They’re even instituting another youth curfew starting today, Thursday.

“He recognizes he has a wedge issue, and I’d argue not a bad one,” said Quinton Lucas, the Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. “The only defense mayors have usually is, ‘Yes we have crime, it’s less than before, but yes there are still homicides, there are still issues.’ I think he is trying to exploit that.”

But the rhetoric is untethered to reality, Lucas said: “They are looking to exploit issues for political gain, not to solve them.”

Well, he’s working on solving it in D.C. What are you liberals doing in your cities to solve it? KC, Mo, has a crime rate of 1. That’s pretty bad. Violent crime rate is approaching 4 times the national rate. You have a 1 in 68 chance of being a violent crime victim. A 1 in 20 chance of being a property crime victim

Brett Smiley, mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, said many of his fellow mayors are worried their town could be next. Most cities would eagerly accept federal help, he said, but it should come in consultation with local leaders, not imposed by force.

Providence won’t be. Neighborhood Scout ranks it a 17. But, what of Baltimore, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Boston, and many more? Well, that’s on you Democrats. What will you do? You have no one like a Rudy Guiliani, who turned crime around in NYC back in the day. And why are you making excuses? You do know everyone can actually see the crime, right?

Here’s the thing: if you liberals really cared about the high crime rates you’d be showing that it is working, instead of whining against crime reduction. Do you really want to die on the hill of being resistant to law and order? Most of the local news stations are ignoring the reduction in crime. You do not see them out and about, maybe embedding with the NG and DC police.

Military officers shifted to prosecute local D.C. crimes amid Trump takeover

As members of the National Guard deploy to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s takeover of policing in Washington, members of the military are also set to take on prosecutorial roles handling civilian crimes.

Twenty members of the Defense Department are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys — federal prosecutors — in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia next week, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

So, there won’t be any catch and release with a slap on the wrist, at worst, going on.

Yeah, well, as the liberals rage at the illegal being arrested they should have waited, because the illegal has been deported three times, and was arrested for child sex crimes last year. Yet, he was still allowed to walk around. Not in jail, not deported by the Biden admin. For some reason the charges were dropped by the Fairfax County prosecutor.

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Doom Today: Antarctic Climate Shifts Could Lead To Super Doom

By William Teach August 21, 2025 – 7:15 am

The talking points went out

Abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to “catastrophic consequences for generations,” experts warn

Abrupt and potentially irreversible changes in Antarctica driven by climate change could lift global oceans by meters and lead to “catastrophic consequences for generations,” scientists warned Wednesday.

More broadly, a state-of-knowledge review by a score of top experts revealed accelerating shifts across the region that are often both a cause and effect of global warming, according to a study published in Nature, a peer-reviewed international scientific journal.

You notice they always have to trot out “peer reviewed”? Like it means something when the same cultists review the documents

The study’s authors suggest that limiting CO2 emissions, and in turn preventing global warming from exceeding at least 1.5 degrees Celsius, “will be imperative” to reduce and prepare for the broad effects of abrupt Antarctic and Southern Ocean changes.

“Antarctica is showing worrying signs of rapid change across its ice, ocean and ecosystems,” lead author and Australian National University professor Nerilie Abram told the Agence France-Presse. “Some of these abrupt changes will be difficult to stop.” (snip)

Ultimately, the only way to slow down the interlocking changes is to stop adding more planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.

“The greenhouse gas emission decisions that we make over the coming decade or two will lock in how much ice we will lose and how quickly it will be lost,” Abram said.

In other words, they’re now moving this into a political paper, meaning government must force compliance.

There are plenty more, and none of them seem to consider being journalists and being skeptical of a doomsday cult prognosticating doom.

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Cool: Nebraska To Build “Cornhusker Clink” Illegal Alien Detention Center

By William Teach August 21, 2025 – 7:00 am

Illegals can avoid going there and being attacked by several different species of rattlesnakes, by copperheads, mountain lions, coyotes, snapping turtles, and, heck, cattle stampedes by self deporting. BTW, it gets really cold in Nebraska, illegals from warm weather nations

Nebraska announces plan for immigration detention center dubbed the ‘Cornhusker Clink’

Nebraska announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in the remote southwest corner of the state as President Donald Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations.

The facility will be dubbed the “Cornhusker Clink,” a play on Nebraska’s nickname of the Cornhusker State and an old slang term for jail. The alliterative name follows in the vein of the previously announced “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot” detention centers in Florida and the “Speedway Slammer” in Indiana.

Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook — a remote city of about 7,000 people in the middle of the wide-open prairies between Denver and Omaha — to house people awaiting deportation and being held for other immigration proceedings. It’s expected to be a Midwest hub for detainees from several states.

“This is about keeping Nebraskans – and Americans across our country – safe,” Pillen said in a statement.

A good benefit is that it will be tough for the pro-illegal wackos to travel there to do their stupid protests.

Meanwhile

(UK Guardian) A Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Monday.

Ice arrested the Old Orchard Beach police department reserve officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on 25 July, as part of the agency’s effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with the town and police department have said federal authorities previously told them Evans was legally authorized to work in the US.

An Ice representative reached by telephone told the Associated Press on Monday that a judge has granted voluntary departure for Evans and that he could leave as soon as that day. The representative did not provide other details about Evans’s case.

Bye!

(Mission Local) Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed protesters and a reporter in San Francisco on Wednesday, after arresting an asylum-seeker in immigration court that morning. In a chaotic street scene caught on video, the agents pulled out batons and tasers and tackled several protesters to the ground, detaining at least one.

As has become routine, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an asylum-seeker after a hearing at San Francisco’s immigration court, and were transporting them to their headquarters a half-mile away when protesters intervened.

I hope a bunch were arrested and will be charged in federal court with multiple charges.

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Guess Who Wins The ICJ Climate (scam) Ruling

By William Teach August 20, 2025 – 3:00 pm

I’m kinda surprised that the Washington Post allowed Bjorn Lomborg to publish this

There’s good news for lawyers in a landmark climate ruling. But not for the climate.

Last month, the International Court of Justice issued a sweeping ruling on the legal duties of states to respond to climate change, demanding “deep, rapid and sustained reductions” in emissions and opening the door to lawsuits for climate reparations. The ruling is a landmark moment in international law that deserves more attention than it has gotten: In essence, the United Nations’ highest court has deemed climate inaction a human rights violation and an infringement of international law.

The judgment is sure to cause significant economic harm, with far-reaching consequences for human well-being. Though technically advisory and nonbinding, such statements by the ICJ are considered authoritative interpretations of relevant international agreements and law — and can sway both international and national courts. Thus, the ruling gives nations and activists a powerful tool to advance ever more climate lawsuits. Any country could be sued for falling short of the legal standards it lays out — including the United States, despite its having withdrawn from the Paris agreement’s climate pledges.

The ICJ decision warns, for instance, that “failure of a State to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from [greenhouse gas] emissions” — including through fossil fuel production and consumption, or even granting exploration licenses — “may constitute an internationally wrongful act.” That is an extraordinarily wide legal net. Simmons & Simmons, a leading international law firm, concluded that the judgment will “redefine the legal landscape of global climate governance” and even shape national court decisions over domestic policies.

But, will any Warmist actually make their own lives carbon neutral?

Everyone should be concerned when judges replace democratically elected representatives but decree higher energy bills. Worse, however, the ICJ’s ruling doesn’t even get the science right. The judges repeat activists’ claims when they conclude that climate change is “an existential problem of planetary proportions that imperils all forms of life,” a description that is far from the serious science of the U.N.’s own climate panel, which made no such conclusion. Most forms of life are actually thriving, as the more than 80 percent of global biomass represented by plant life experiences a carbon dioxide-fueled global greening. The judges also claim that hurricanes are becoming more frequent despite global evidence showing otherwise. More seriously, the judges misread the 2015 Paris agreement, replacing its 1.5 degrees Celsius soft ambition with a mandatory “primary temperature goal.” Keeping temperature increases to 1.5 degrees is not, in fact, what nations promised and, moreover, is widely considered unachievable at this stage.

The Warmists tried for 30 years to get people to reduce their own carbon footprints (while the Elites pushing this increased theirs) and push for more and more government control. They scaremongered/taught this in schools, it was on the TV and in the news. But, too many refused to cooperate, and the government folks could only jam so much through, so, they switch to suing to force Other People to comply.

The largest problem with the ruling is one of myopia. By narrowly focusing on climate concerns when discussing human rights, the ICJ ends up downgrading humanity’s many other needs: food, health care, education and jobs. Yet, strong climate policies are among the least efficient ways to improve human welfare, as shown by hundreds of cost-benefit assessments done for my organization, the Copenhagen Consensus Center.

It’s the same with real environmental concerns: they become secondary or lower, when there are things we can do without authoritarian government. Read the whole thing.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 20, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a quiet sea due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Woodsterman, with a post on some Libturd.

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