LOL: Mamdani Signs EO To Protect New Yorkers from ICE Or Something

By William Teach February 9, 2026 – 6:45 am

This is the guy who’s city utterly failed on cleaning up the snow, right?

Mamdani signs executive order to protect New Yorkers from “abusive immigration enforcement”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order he says will protect New Yorkers from “abusive immigration enforcement” by the Trump administration and uphold sanctuary city laws.

Mamdani signed the order, which he called “a sweeping reaffirmation of commitment to our immigrant neighbors,” during Friday’s Interfaith Breakfast at the New York Public Library in Bryant Park.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations have sparked controversy in the Tri-State Area where, across the river from New York City, Jersey City’s mayor said recently he wanted agents to “get out and never come back.”

“ICE is more than a rogue agency — it is a manifestation of the abuse of power,” Mamdani told the group of faith leaders from across the five boroughs.

Why do Democrats want to protect illegals so much, especially the criminals?

Mamdani’s latest executive order, his 13th since taking office, says city agencies cannot share information collected for city purposes with federal immigration authorities, except when they are required to by law.

It gives each agency 14 days to appoint a privacy officer and take other actions to ensure compliance.

“No New Yorker should be afraid to apply for city services like child care because they are an immigrant,” Mamdani said.

So, they want to continue to use taxpayer funds to subsidize illegals, while sheltering illegals who are arrested for committing crimes. Special. Trump should declare that he won’t have federal immigration authorities operate in NYC, so any illegal there is safe. Let’s see what happens.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2026 – 1:45 pm

…are carbon pollution driven Bad Weather clouds rolling in, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on Poland still being Poland.

It’s hat week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 8, 2026 – 9:39 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. A possibility of some quick snow showers, the new hot water heater is working fantastic, the final book in the Riftborn series was fantastic. This pinup is by Bill Metcalf, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Independent Sentinel: A Student Protester: Don Lemon Planned the Raid on Cities Church
  2. This ain’t Hell…: Marco Sends In The Marines
  3. The View From Lady Lake: California’s Radical Left Strikes Again…
  4. The Right Scoop: UGH VIDEO – Mamdani says people should look to Islam to embrace illegal immigration
  5. The Last Refuge: Europe Furious as U.S. Subsidy Ends – President Trump’s Demand for Lower Rx Prices Means Immediate European Price Increases
  6. The Gateway Pundit: CNN Contributor: It’s Time for a “FUMIGATION” of MAGA (VIDEO)
  7. The First Street Journal: A half-hearted defense of Jeff Bezos
  8. The Feral Irishman: Set The Wayback Machine To 1978….
  9. The Crawdad Hole: Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking
  10. The American Conservative: For Zelensky, Is Losing the War Better Than Losing the Peace?
  11. Pacific Pundit: Journalist visits Minnesota Rep Ilhan’s Omar’s winery and confirms its fake
  12. neo-neocon: Another temporary injunction is removed
  13. Moonbattery: AWFLs Out of Control at Minneapolis Yoga Studio
  14. Liberty’s Torch: The Epstein Files
  15. And last, but, not least, Legal Insurrection has “Are Nursing and Other “Caring” Professions a “Sink for Pathological Personalities”?”

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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Democrats Suddenly Upset Over ICE Having Body Cams

By William Teach February 8, 2026 – 7:00 am

That’s strange, especially since Democrats cheered when Judge Sara in Chicago demanded all immigration agents wear them. And how Dems demanded all cops wear them post-George “Fentanyl” Floyd

Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool

A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters.

Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used.

Lawmakers and legal observers have accused ICE of leveraging a variety of cameras to surveil protesters, feeding pictures into license plate readers and facial recognition systems. Democrats now worry that the body cameras they’re demanding could be used for similar purposes.

Let’s be honest, body cams were 99% the worst thing the Democrats could have demanded, because they showed that 99% of the time cops are just doing their jobs. That they aren’t raaaaacist. That they aren’t doing bad things. That it is the perps who are at fault. And now you have all those body cam vids showing up on social media for everyone to see. The entitlement, the idiocy, the Main Character Syndrome. People not taking responsibility for their own bad behavior, and so often making it much worse. Turning speeding tickets into felony arrests.

And how’s that going to work out when ICE body cams show the utter insanity of the pro-illegal alien nutballs? How they’re interfering with sworn federal agents in the midst of their duties? Spiking roads? Blocking ICE vehicles? Etc and so on?

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say they want to tack on restrictions to how ICE can use body camera footage, according to a letter sent to Republican leadership on Wednesday night.

“Prohibit tracking, creating or maintaining databases of individuals participating in First Amendment activities,” the letter says.

Once you interfere with law enforcement activities those 1st Amendment activities end. You’re no longer protesting peaceably. But, again, this is about federal agents catching Chuck and Hakeem’s voters breaking the law and being caught on video, which doesn’t play well for defendants in court. Or, on social media, as we’ve seen.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who proposed a ban on ICE agents using facial recognition, also supported surveillance limits on body cameras.

“Use the body cams but don’t actually use them!”

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Oh Noes, JD Vance Almost Caused A US Skater To Lose!

By William Teach February 7, 2026 – 3:00 pm

JD Vance is a big meanie

Let’s read the article

The start of the women’s short program at the Olympic figure skating team event was drawing close Friday afternoon, but American star Alysa Liu couldn’t get to the Milano Skating Arena. She and her coach and choreographer were stuck on an official Olympic bus, blocked from the arena parking lot by the motorcade of Vice President JD Vance, who attended the team event.

“We almost didn’t make it,” Liu’s coach, Phillip DiGuglielmo, later said.

It’s so terrible!

Liu, who appears to live in a perpetual state of controlled chaos and was running late because she hadn’t gathered all of her gear in time, handled the holdup better than DiGuglielmo and choreographer Massimo Scali, who still looked rattled at the end of the team event. Liu made it into her dress and onto the ice in time to finish second in the women’s short program just behind Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. That was enough to help the United States finish the first of the event’s three days with a two-point lead over Japan and a three-point margin over Italy.

With this type of outstanding reporting I’m shocked that the Washington Post terminated 300 reporters.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 7, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that would be perfect as a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on oil being everywhere.

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Global Warming Creates Ice Sailing In NYC

By William Teach February 7, 2026 – 10:30 am

Carbon pollution has made it this cold

I told you people to stop driving your fossil fueled vehicles

Extreme Cold Warning with snow on the way in New York and New Jersey

An Extreme Cold Warning has been issued for New York and New Jersey ahead of subzero temperatures and snow forecasted for the weekend.

The Extreme Cold Warning will be in effect from 10 a.m. Saturday through 1 p.m. Sunday, along with a wind advisory from 9 a.m. Saturday through midnight Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Temperatures are expected to fall as low as 12 degrees on Saturday with wind chill values between -10 and zero and wind gusts as high as 48 mph, forecasters said. Overnight hours will be even more dangerously cold with wind chills between -20 to -25.

Amid the extreme cold, snow is also forecast to begin Friday night and last through midday Saturday.

Will you at least give up eating meat? Bugs and lettuce should sustain you!

(WPIX) The city is still piled high with snow nearly two weeks after a major storm — and New Yorkers are going to have to pay up.

The city has issued 2,738 tickets to home and business owners who did not clear their sidewalks after the Jan. 25 storm.

Mamdani’s administration is having big problem clearing the snow from the streets, and the trash, yet, they’re fining citizens. Can’t you just feel the warmth of collectivism?

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Oregon Senator Plans To Give “Polluters Pay” Legislation A Try Again

By William Teach February 7, 2026 – 7:00 am

Give it a shot, the courts will kill it

Southern Oregon senator revives bill to make big oil pay for disasters driven by climate change

A bill that would require some of the largest, most profitable oil and gas companies in history to pay damages for disasters fueled by climate change is back on the table after the Oregon Legislature failed to pass it less than a year ago.

State Sen. Jeff Golden, D-Ashland, is again championing the Climate Superfund Bill, along with several Portland and Salem-area Democrats.

Modeled after similar laws in New York and Vermont, Senate Bill 1541 would create a new disaster fund housed in the Oregon Treasury, seeded with millions of dollars in damages paid by the handful of companies most responsible for emitting planet-warming greenhouse gasses causing catastrophic climate change.

These include companies like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and about 50 other oil, gas, coal and cement producers that are directly linked to 80% of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions during the past decade alone.

Golden reintroduced the bill during a public hearing Thursday in the Senate Natural Resources and Wildfire Committee, which he chairs. A previous version of the bill died in the Senate Energy and Environment Committee during the 2025 session, after chair Sen. Janeen Sollman, D-Hillsboro, said there wasn’t enough time to consider it.

Well, it’s a cute little shakedown to create a slush fund for Democrats to do stupid crap with. Too bad the fossil fuels companies won’t simply refuse to sell their products to the governments that try this crap. Let’s see them operate without fossil fuels.

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“Moderate” Dems Push For Talking Tough On Crime

By William Teach February 7, 2026 – 6:45 am

Is there such a thing as a moderate Democrat? Most of them are actually what used to be extremists, but, what the ones that used to be considered extremists are now ultra-far left wackos

Moderates Pitch Tough-on-Crime Message for Democrats Amid Immigration Talks

When Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Democrat of Nevada, briefed fellow moderate senators in her party this week about new research on voters’ views ahead of the midterm elections, she had grim but familiar news.

Democrats lagged badly behind the G.O.P. when it came to crime, policing and safety — issues on which many independent voters regard them as weak, she said, pointing to a new strategy memo commissioned by an outside group that supports moderate candidates. Democrats were down substantially on the basic issue of “keeping people safe from crime,” the new research showed, even with President Trump’s approval rating sagging.

But she noted a silver lining in the survey, which like many others found a belief among a sizable majority, including many independents, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had gone too far in the deportation crackdown. That, according to the pollsters, gave Democrats an opening to press for changes if they did so with “nuance,” emphasizing their support for combating crime and support for local police but arguing that ICE had gone too far.

And Ms. Cortez Masto pitched her party’s disadvantage on crime as a place where — with the right policies and messaging — Democrats had room, and a political imperative, to grow.

That’s cute and all, but, all it would be would be talk. There wouldn’t be any action behind it. There never is when Democrats try this. Provided they actually do. Does anyone think that the wackos will even be willing to profess support for local cops, after constantly demonizing them, calling to defund them? After being soft on crime for quite some time, then getting way, way worse, does anyone think any yapping would translate to actually getting tough on criminals? Even if the nationals went down this yap yap route would the state and local Dems do the same?

Ms. Cortez Masto has been urging her colleagues to “lead with toughness” when it comes to talking about and dealing with violent criminals. The polling memo she passed around asserted that voters want Democrats to talk about “punishment,” and that such messages would resonate in particular with Black and Latino voters, as well as independent and swing voters, who could be crucial to their uphill battle to win control of the Senate.

“They’re hearing the same thing in their communities,” Ms. Cortez Masto said in an interview on Friday. “It is about cracking down on crime and holding the violent criminals accountable.”

Huh. Weird how Democrats immediately go to blaming Blacks and Latinos for crime. That should play well.

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Swedish Yutes Sue Government Over Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach February 6, 2026 – 3:18 pm

Will this be the time when the kiddies are asked in court if they have made their own lives carbon neutral?

Swedish Youth Sue Government Over Climate Inaction

A group of young activists has launched a high-stakes legal challenge against the Swedish government, alleging that the nation’s current climate targets are not only inadequate but a violation of international law.

The lawsuit, filed Friday by youth-led organization Aurora, builds on the argument that Switzerland is not doing its “fair share” to limit global warming to 1.5C. The fair share principle establishes that wealthy, historically high-emitting nations must decarbonize faster than the global average to ensure a just transition.

At the heart of the case is the disparity between Sweden’s domestic goals and what climate science deems necessary. While Sweden has pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2045, Aurora argues this timeline is at least 15 years too late.

The lawsuit also argues that current national plans exclude high-polluting sectors, meaning the government is only accounting for less than half of the emissions under its actual control.

“Those who pollute the most have a duty to pull their weight in the global effort to fight climate change,” said Ida Edling, Aurora’s spokesperson. “We still have a chance to get out of planetary crises and build a safe and just world, but only if rich and high-emitting states like Sweden stop breaking the law and start immediately transforming their societies. We cannot let the state burn our chance.”

In other words, they want Other People to be forced to Do Something, just not themselves. What they fail to realized, because they are young, brainwashed cultists, is that this will create problems, such as price hikes, in their own lives.

The activists maintain that their chances of victory are higher than ever, given the newfound clarity from international courts on how climate litigation should be structured. However, they emphasize that a legal win is only the beginning.

“What is required is … greater systemic change than ever before,” the group said in a press release.

What’s weird is they never really want to say what that change is. I wonder why.

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