Far Left Appeals Court Rules Against Stopping Birthright Citizenship For Illegals

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s not much of a surprise

Federal appeals court rules against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order

President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) putting an end to birthright citizenship faced another legal setback after a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled it to be unconstitutional.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a lower court’s decision blocking the nationwide enforcement of the EO, which would deny citizenship to babies born to people illegally or temporarily in the U.S.

A three-judge panel ruled against Trump’s plan in a 2-1 vote, keeping a decision first made by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle in place.

“The district court correctly concluded that the Executive Order’s proposed interpretation, denying citizenship to many persons born in the United States, is unconstitutional. We fully agree,” the majority wrote.

Though the Supreme Court has since restricted lower courts from issuing nationwide injunctions, the majority in the 9th Circuit ruled against the EO after discovering the case fell under an exception left open by SCOTUS justices.

In reading the decision, which is at the above link, on page 19 it looks like the panel is trying to rewrite and redefine the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, making it so that everyone in the United States for any reason, be it lawful or not, is subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Which would seem to conclude that Congress has no authority to define it, which would mean that all diplomatic and government personnel from other countries would see their babies born in America be American citizens, the opposite of what federal law states.

Sadly, though, there’s zero chance that Congressional Republicans will be able to get a law through that fully defines who is and isn’t subject. Put it in writing. Democrats would block this in the Senate. I suspect we’re going to see this head to the Supreme Court, and, it will be interesting what they rule. They can’t punt it. There needs to be a definition.

Most countries do not automatically give birthright citizenship to children born of foreign parents. There may be stipulations, they may just say no.

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Bummer: Trump EPA Looking To Kill Of Climate Cult “Endangerment Finding”

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 7:15 am

The NY Times is incensed by this

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration known as the “endangerment finding,” which scientifically established that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endanger human lives.

That finding is the foundation of the federal government’s only tool to limit the climate pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industries that is dangerously heating the planet.

Sigh. CO2 is not a pollutant.

The E.P.A. proposal, which is expected to be made public within days, also calls for rescinding limits on tailpipe emissions that were designed to encourage automakers to build and sell more electric vehicles. Those regulations, which were based on the endangerment finding, were a fundamental part of the Biden administration’s efforts to move the country away from gasoline-powered vehicles. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

The draft proposal could still undergo changes. But if it is approved by the White House and formally released, the public would have an opportunity to weigh in before it is made final, likely later this year.

Well, I hope they dot every i and cross every T, following the specific manner to pass a regulation/rule, so, it gets killed off properly. But, you know some wacko lefty batguano insane judge will still rule that the Trump admin cannot do this, despite Congress having passed no specific law that requires it. And it will end up at the Supreme Court yet again, where the Court will find that the federal district judge is wacko and should be ignored with prejudice. The Clean Air Act was not about CO2, it never specifically mentions it, and CO2 is not a pollutant. The EPA just declared it under Obama in 2009 because they felt like it.

(CLINTEL) Having declared carbon dioxide (CO?) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) to be harmful pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2009 endangerment finding has been the cornerstone of wrongheaded climate regulation, an impediment to economic growth and destroyer of livelihoods. All the result of rulemaking that puts ideology ahead of science.

Empowered to impose sweeping restrictions on GHG emissions from all manner of human activity, the EPA has been free to impose unreasonable demands on electric generation, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture – just to name more prominent targets. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, with CO2 emissions being the focus, fossil fuels in general and coal in particular were hammered by this regulatory cudgel.

It’s worth reading the rest.

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UK Guardian Shows How Awesome Trump’s Illegal Alien Crackdown Has Been

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 7:00 am

The very far left UK Guardian thinks this is horrible. That enforcing US federal law is bad

How Trump has supercharged the immigration crackdown – in data

In the six months since Donald Trump took office, the US president has supercharged the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus – pushing immigration officials to arrest a record number of people in June.

A Guardian analysis of arrest and deportation data has revealed that Trump is now overseeing a sweeping mass arrest and incarceration scheme.

By scheme they mean, that’s right, enforcing federal law as passed by duly elected members of Congress and signed into law by duly elected presidents.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency does not publish daily arrest, detention and deportation data. But a team of lawyers and academics from the Deportation Data Project used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain a dataset that provides the most detailed picture yet of the US immigration enforcement and detention system under Trump.

A Guardian analysis of the dataset found:

  • In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024. (who was president then?)
  • Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records. (that’s their job, and crossing the border/overstaying a visa is a federal violation)
  • Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions. (how many have felony charges pending? They don’t say)
  • Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people. (I the illegals do not like it they can self-deport themselves)
  • The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US. (Democrats keep fighting to keep murderers, rapists, child abusers, etc. here in the U.S.)
  • The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country. (They could have returned to their own homes themselves)

I’m cheering. Are you cheering?

Arrests have especially ramped up in the southern and western states that have eagerly backed Trump’s immigration agenda, volunteering state resources and law enforcement personnel to work with federal officials seeking to detain immigrants.

You notice there is no caterwauling in the news about this? No riots and stuff? Heck, even in Dem NC cities like Raleigh, Charlotte, and Greensboro we don’t get this.

In legal filings following the LA raids, immigrants who were arrested said they were held in federal buildings without adequate access to water, food and medications. Family members and lawyers struggled to locate and contact people in Ice custody.

Which is funny, considering how often this was happening as Biden brought in scores of illegals/migrants/”refugees”, and few cared. If the illegals do not like it now, leave the U.S.

Oh, and then there’s this funny one

Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Is the Tip of the Spear for His Attack on Democracy

The attack on immigration is the tip of the spear for the attack on American democracy.

It’s an attack on all noncitizens (and even, sometimes, citizens), who now live with the very real threat of being snatched from their homes by masked agents of the state and prosecuted by lawyers who refuse to give their names. It’s an attack on rights of free speech and due process – neither of which have ever extended quite as far for noncitizens as they have for citizens, but both of which have historically offered at least some universal protection before this administration sought to dismiss them entirely.

It’s an attack on the U.S. citizens who love and support immigrants. Telling people what their rights are when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comes to their door is portrayed as a criminal conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement. Protesting near an ICE operation merits arrest. Simply accompanying an immigrant to a court hearing where ICE sought to detain him (possibly so he could be deported without trial), and asking the arresting officers for a judicial warrant, merits arrest. Even asking a question of the Homeland Security secretary merits arrest. The fact that all of these sentences refer to things that have happened to elected government officials is not irrelevant – it sends a message to everyone less powerful that they are not safe either.

Got that? Following federal law is an attack on democracy. These people are batguano insane.

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International Court Of Justice Says Rich Countries Must Do Something About The Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 4:43 pm

This would be the same court that went after Israel and Jews for defending themselves from terrorists, right? Too bad they didn’t say “all Believers have a duty to make their own lives carbon neutral and stop using fossil fuels, especially you rich and/or powerful folks”

Top UN court says treaties compel wealthy nations to curb global warming

The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution or risk having to pay compensation to nations hard hit by climate change.

In an opinion hailed by small island states and environmental groups as a legal stepping stone to make big polluters accountable, the International Court of Justice said countries must address the “urgent and existential threat” of climate change.

“States must cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets,” Judge Yuji Iwasawa said, adding that failure by countries to comply with the “stringent obligations” placed on them by climate treaties was a breach of international law.

The court said countries were also responsible for the actions of companies under their jurisdiction or control.

Failure to rein in fossil fuel production and subsidies could result in “full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met.”

Of course, this ruling is, like most, non-binding. Has no force of law. Just yappers yapping.

“I didn’t expect it to be this good,” Vanuatu’s Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu told reporters after the unanimous opinion by the ICJ, also known as the World Court, was read out.

Vishal Prasad, one of the law students that lobbied the government of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean to bring the case to the ICJ, said: “This advisory opinion is a tool for climate justice. And boy, has the ICJ given us a strong tool to carry on the fight for climate justice.”

Remember, I just blogged this morning about Vanuatu having their day in court for the ICJ’s response, and boy howdy did the Progressives on the court give it to them.

Judge Iwasawa, who presided the panel of 15 judges, said that national climate plans must be of the highest ambition and collectively maintain standards to meet the aims of the 2015 Paris Agreement that include attempting to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).

Under international law, he said: “The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the enjoyment of other human rights.”

If that’s the case then why, to repeat myself the gajillionth (a gajillion is slightly more than a shitload) time, do so few Believers change their lives in accordance with their beliefs? The ICJ members will refrain from using fossil fuels, right?

The court’s opinion is non-binding, but it carries legal and political weight and future climate cases would be unable to ignore it, legal experts say.

“This is the start of a new era of climate accountability at a global level,” said Danilo Garrido, legal counsel for Greenpeace.

Gotta love that a bunch of unelected, unaccountable judges can now make almost-law for the world. But, if they think the US is going to listen, then can pound sand. And, if 1st World countries try to go to far they might have a bigger revolt than they have now.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy day due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Biden’s EPA doling out billions to friends .

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Dems Find Their TDS Mojo On Epstein Or Something

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 10:30 am

Aren’t these the same people that resisted releasing anything on Epstein during the Biden years, who could have released it all while they had control of the White House and Congress?

House Dems Find Their Mojo With the Epstein Saga

When it comes to fighting President Donald Trump, Democrats across the nation have complained for months about the sluggish reflexes of party leaders in Washington.

Who would have guessed that a MAGA-fueled conspiracy theory would change all that?

Congressional Democrats appear to have finally found their mojo in sticking it to the White House by seizing on the Jeffrey Epstein saga to humiliate the president and split the GOP. Unlike in the past, senior Democrats have shown a surprisingly nimble ability in recent days to pivot to the GOP’s vulnerability du jour, threatening to force votes exposing a divided Republican Party.

The strategy has effectively hijacked the House, derailed Hill Republicans’ agenda and forced Speaker Mike Johnson to send lawmakers packing for an early August recess. That’s not to mention embarrassing Trump in the process and exposing the surprising limits of his sway on a party he’s held in his clutches for the better part of a decade.

“We’ve been trying to say Trump is full of shit for years and it hasn’t really stuck, right? But something about this topic is making a healthy portion of MAGA world — particularly folks who are not ideologically aligned with Trump but kind of flirted with him last year when they pulled the lever for him — be like, ‘Yea, he’s definitely full of shit,’” a senior Democratic campaign aide boasted to me. (This aide and others in the story were granted anonymity to speak candidly about dynamics on the Hill.)

Democrats will say they couldn’t release the docs till after Ghislain Maxwell’s trial, but, come on, they’ve never had a problem leaking stuff before. But, did Democrats ever consider that Trump and Republicans are playing them in an attempt to get all the docs released? That they do not include anything that will harm Trump? That Trump and the GOP did this to get Democrats to back releasing them?

Did they ever consider that Trump cannot serve more than one term, that they might be going a bit too moonbat?

Behind the scenes, there’s a question even among senior Democrats about whether this issue will impact the midterms. Americans, after all, are more likely to be motivated by their own pocketbooks rather than online obsessions and scandal. And Trump is doing his damndest to argue that this is exactly that: a very-online, inside-the-beltway obsession that nobody actually cares about.

Really, do most Americans care? Do they even know what this is about? I couldn’t care less. I know many MAGAs care, but, most don’t. How about releasing all the info on the Trump attempted assassinations? All the docs on Russia Russia Russia. Show how much money went to waste and fraud for agencies like USAID, and how the taxpayer money was fed into Democrat re-election coffers instead of helping the poor like it was supposed to. Those are things that matter.

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Vanuatu To Get Its Day In International Court Over Climate (scam)

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 7:00 am

They been pushing this for at least 15 years, and keep pushing it. I wonder how much money it has cost that could have been put into protecting the nation. It’s not like they live on a coral atoll/volcanic islands (it’s in the Ring Of Fire) and are polluting their water supply

The tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu turns to the world court as climate disasters mount

When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals layered like canopies, and clouds of darting fish wove through the labyrinth.

“We used to know every inch of that reef,” he said. “It was like a friend.”

Now, it’s unrecognizable. After Cyclone Pam battered the reef in 2015, sediment from inland rivers smothered the coral beds. Crown-of-thorns starfish swept in and devoured the recovering polyps. Back-to-back cyclones in 2023 crushed what was left. Then, in December 2024, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the seabed.

That heartbreak is becoming more common across this Pacific island nation, where intensifying cyclones, rising seas and saltwater intrusion are reshaping coastlines and threatening daily life. Since 1993, sea levels around Vanuatu’s shores have risen by about 6 millimeters (.24 inches) per year — significantly faster than the global average — and in some areas, tectonic activity has doubled that rate.

And where is that data coming from? I cannot find it anywhere. Regardless, sea rise happens. If they’re so worried then why do they have 30 airports (most are unpaved)?

On Wednesday, Vanuatu will get its day in the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice will issue an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and what consequences they may face if they don’t. The case, led by Vanuatu and backed by more than 130 countries, is seen as a potential turning point in international climate law.

“Seeing large, polluting countries just continue business as usual and not take the climate crisis seriously can get really sad and disappointing,” said 16-year-old climate activist Vepaiamele Trief. “If they rule in our favor, that could change everything.”

30 airports. Anyhow, good luck. You live in an area that has always been prone to tropical storms.

Vanuatu has already sought opinions from other international courts and is pushing for the recognition of ecocide — the destruction of the environment — as a crime under the International Criminal Court. “We have to keep fighting till the last bit,” Regenvanu said.

But, what they really want is string free climate cash. Lots of it.

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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down NJ Law Banning Immigration Detention Contracts

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 6:45 am

I mean, it was a nice try by the Sanctuary State Of New Jersey

NJ law banning immigration detention contracts overturned by US appeals court

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday struck down a New Jersey law that bans operators from contracting with the federal government to run immigration detention centers in the state.

The 2-1 ruling means the private prison firm CoreCivic Corp. can continue to operate the Elizabeth Detention Center. The ruling marked a victory for President Donald Trump’s administration as it continues a crackdown on immigration around the country that has included efforts to expand a network of detention centers in a bid to ramp up deporations of certain immigrants.

“Just as states cannot regulate the federal government itself, they cannot regulate private parties in a way that severely undercuts a federal function,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, an appointee of President Trump, wrote .

The law, he said, “interferes with the federal government’s core power to enforce immigration laws.”

And banning this would interfere with a company engaging in lawful federal commerce.

The 2021 law signed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy barred CoreCivic from renewing its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The company sued, and a district judge sided with the firm before the state appealed the ruling to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court.

Attorney General Matthew Platkin, in a social media post, called Tuesday’s ruling disappointing and said states have the right to protect people within their borders. He said the office is considering its next steps.

The law made it against the law for “a private detention facility operating in this State shall not enter into, renew, or extend any immigration detention agreement as defined in subsection a. of this section.” That’s rather against federal law. As the court ruled.

Meanwhile

Trump Awards $1.26 Billion Contract to Build Biggest Immigrant Detention Center in US

The federal government has awarded a contract to build and operate a sprawling tent camp at Fort Bliss, an Army base in Texas, to serve as an immigrant detention center.

In the Trump administration’s latest move to vastly expand space for such detention, the work would turn the base in El Paso, with more than 1 million acres and an airport, into a deportation hub with 5,000 beds, according to a US Department of Defense contract notice. That would make it the largest immigration detention facility in the country.

Hey, maybe they could put a big detention center at McGuire Air Force Base in NJ. Federal property. Or the Picatinny Arsenal.

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RIP Ozzy Osbourne

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 6:40 pm

This is one that gets me right in the feels

(Pitchfork) Ozzy Osbourne has died. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the Osbourne family shared in a statement. “He was with his family and surrounded by love.” The heavy metal icon and founding member of Black Sabbath was 76 years old.

While a formal cause of death has not been announced, Osbourne dealt with numerous health issues in the final years of his life. The musician played his final concert earlier this month, a star-studded event in Birmingham, England, that featured the original Black Sabbath lineup, Metallica, Slayer, and others. The concert will be adapted into a film called Back to the Beginning: Ozzy’s Final Bow. It is due out next year.

While I had listened to some hard rock, like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC, buying Black Sabbath’s 1st album in 1979 was eye opening, and started my utter love of all things metal. Then Ozzy solo, with the incomparable Randy Rhoades. The Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, and so on and so forth. This is what began it all for me

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Climate (cult) Scientists Blame Flooding On You, Say We’re In This War Together

By William Teach July 22, 2025 – 5:08 pm

I’ve mostly ignored all the Blame Mankind and their use of fossil fuels and living a modern lifestyle for all the flooding caterwauling, but, this one is a doozy

(WRAL) The National Weather Service has issued more flood warnings in 2025 than any other year on record, dating back to 1986.

LOL. 1986.

The last two weeks have seen intense flooding across the country, including the flood in Kerr County, Texas, that killed more than 120 people, including 27 children attending summer camp. North Carolina, New Mexico, New York and New Jersey have also been impacted over this short span of time.

Chantal, which hit North Carolina as a tropical depression on July 6 and 7, dumped nine to 12 inches of rain and prompted flooding in low-lying areas near rivers and creeks. Six people in central North Carolina died because of these floods. Gov. Josh Stein declared a State of Emergency for 13 counties grappling with the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal.

Flooding happens. Always has. It’s certainly made worse by concrete, asphalt, urban jungles, construction, poor drainage. Oh, and building in floodplains. That camp in Texas was in an old riverbed.

Climate attribution scientists from research organizations ClimaMeter and Climate Central held a press briefing Tuesday to highlight and explain how climate change contributed to making these events more intense.

The short answer: Warmer oceans and a warmer atmosphere hold and release more rain.

And? Warm periods happen. UHI are big contributors to this. That flood in NJ? A goodly chunk of the affected area was a known floodplain, which had tons of roads and such with nowhere for the water to drain.

Both Ginesta and Faranda link the burning of fossil fuels to global warming, connecting recent storms to human-caused climate change. They said 70% of global warming comes from carbon dioxide, which is released from burning fossil fuels.

And, yet, Warmists do not give up their own use. Weird, eh?

“Stop playing politics with lives. Provide funding and the right people in the right places to come up with a plan,” Bates said. “We are vulnerable at this point to these disasters and we don’t know when these disasters will come to one of our doors.”

Only Warmists are allowed to play politics, you know. And they want your money. Not their own money. Your money.

“Addressing climate change is a matter of safety, health, and now economic and financial opportunities and we need to learn how to stay safe all together without political boundaries, and boundaries between countries,” Faranda remarked. “We are all in this war together.”

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