DOGE Working With ATF To Remove Regulations, Gets A Full Audit Of USAID

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

Donald Trump has never liked unnecessary regulations, regulations for the sake of regulations, and ATF is now up

DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations

The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun restrictions by July 4, according to multiple people with knowledge of the efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that have not been made public.

The initial target was to change 47 regulations, an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s status as the 47th president of the United States, two of the people said. But ATF and DOGE staffers are now poised to exceed that goal, with upward of 50 changes planned.

The revisions are part of a seismic shift unfolding at ATF as the Trump administration proposes slashing the law enforcement agency’s budget and dramatically reducing the number of inspectors who ensure that gun sellers are in compliance with federal laws. Some Republicans in Congress have called for abolishing the agency altogether, and Attorney General Pam Bondi has said she wants to merge ATF with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

If the plans are enacted, it would be a major win for pro-gun advocacy groups, who have long claimed ATF is an agency with too many gun regulations that tramples on Second Amendment rights. Gun-control advocates fear that the changes afoot at ATF will more easily allow potentially dangerous people to obtain weapons with little recourse.

“As Attorney General Bondi has made clear, ATF is working hard to reduce regulatory red tape that burdens lawful gun owners and to ensure agents are doing real police work hunting down criminals and gang members — not knocking on the doors of lawful gun owners in the middle of the night,” said Chad Gil Martin, a spokesman for the Justice Department, which oversees ATF.

What regulations get slashed? I guess we’ll see. The Washington Post tried a bit of fear mongering, but, really, ATF was created in 1972. We didn’t need it before that. Let states inspect gun stores and stuff.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin takes action after massive fraud uncovered at agency Dems tried to protect from DOGE

Following the uncovering of a massive bribery scandal at USAID, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is ordering a full audit of all government contracting officers who have exercised grant-awarding authority under the agency’s business development program over the last 15 years.

In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the scale of the USAID fraud is a “damning reflection of systemic failures in oversight and accountability.” She further said that the fraud “was not an isolated incident.”

In response, Loeffler instructed Associate Administrator Tre Pennie, who oversees government contracts awarded by SBA, to “act decisively” to crack down on any potential similar abuses in the agency.

Loeffler instructed Pennie to immediately initiate a full-scale audit of the agency’s awarding officers back to 2010.

A lot of people, both USAID employees and those who received money from USAID, better lawyer up. The auditors are most likely going to find lots of fraud and graft. People putting lots of money in their pockets, as well as shifting the money where it was not meant to go.

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Climate Cult Trying New Type Of Climalawfare Against EPA

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

Why don’t these Warmists just spend their own money? There are lots of rich Hollywood and tech folks who say they care, right?

Climate movement strikes back with first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit against EPA

When Donald Trump won reelection, Jennifer Hadayia knew she’d need a good lawyer. As the executive director of Air Alliance Houston, an environmental nonprofit advocacy organization that works to reduce the risks of air pollution on public health, she had fought the first Trump administration in court already on a variety of issues.

But when Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, began terminating environmental justice grants awarded by the Biden-era EPA in January and announced “the greatest day of deregulation” in mid-March to dismantle dozens of environmental policies, Hadaiya was gobsmacked: “We are in the very worst possible situation to couple regulatory rollbacks with funding decimation.”

Hadayia isn’t the only one in this position. Zeldin’s immediate termination of some $3 billion from the Environmental and Climate Justice block program impacted 350 environmental organizations, cities and tribes that all saw their grants evaporate without warning.

The law didn’t say WHO would get the money, and the Trump admin is under no obligation to dole it out to these groups that Biden and his people loved. Maybe Trump’s EPA will give the money to companies that won’t palm a boatload of the money before doling it out to other groups who take their cut before giving it to other NGOs who can actually do the work.

Rather than sue the agency on its own, as many others are currently doing, Air Alliance Houston will be trying a new legal tactic: joining a first-of-its-kind proposed class action lawsuit against the EPA and Zeldin to restore funding.

“We’re not in it just for us,” Hadayia told CBS News, “Communities across the country that were  selected for these funds all have needs. The class action benefits the greater good.”

Projects get cancelled. They are not entitled to the money. The money does need to be spent, how about picking a company which can actually do the work and use the vast majority for the intended recipients. Actually help some, instead of using taxpayer money as a slush fund.

Air Alliance Houston was awarded a $3.1-million “community change grant” by the Biden EPA in 2024 to expand a program it created to bring more transparency to the Texas state environmental permitting process. The program, called Air Mail, tracks permits for pollution and alerts communities in Harris County, Texas, when a company requests a permit, so people know what may be emitted into the air and water near their home. Hadayia planned to expand the program to 10 other counties in Texas.

Now, seriously, that is a complete bullshit waste of taxpayer funds. This really does nothing. It really helps no one. Looks like a shell game. And I really wish the EPA would audit those who already got their funds.

Jillian Blanchard, a vice president at the Climate Change and Environmental Justice program at Lawyers for Good Government, called the termination of the EPA grants “unconstitutional” and said in a statement it was “not only destabilizing local projects addressing pollution, public health, and climate resilience,” but also violates “core principles of administrative law and the separation of powers.”

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says general appropriations have to go to specific companies. Again, the law says it has to be spent, but, not whom.

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SCOTUS Rules Illegals Have 30 Days To Appeal After Final Repatriation Order

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m not sure why illegals/fake asylum seekers have any time at all to appeal once there is a final order

Supreme Court sides against migrant in deportation case

The Supreme Court installed a tighter timeline for removable migrants to challenge their deportations as part of its decision on Thursday in a case involving a Jamaican immigrant who had tried to avoid being sent back to his home country.

The Supreme Court found that once migrants receive a final order of removal, a 30-day window for them to seek review of that order is triggered.

The ruling was roughly 5-4, with the three liberal justices dissenting and Justice Neil Gorsuch joining most of the dissent.

Pierre Riley, the Jamaican national at the center of the case, had followed the law and challenged his final removal order in the immigration court system. But when he attempted to seek review from the appellate court of the immigration court findings, the appellate court said its hands were tied because it had been more than a year since Riley had received his initial removal orders.

IMO, once they have a final order, they should be deported, and, if they want to appeal being unlawfully present in the U.S. they can do it outside of the U.S.

Riley came to the United States on a six-month visa three decades ago. He never left, was arrested and convicted of drug felonies, and served in prison until 2021.

What the heck is there to appeal? Overstayed his visa. Civil crime for which the penalty is deportation. Convicted of felonies. Deportation. What else can he say? The law is pretty clear.

In this case, Riley argued to an immigration court that although he was removable, returning to Jamaica would put his life at risk, because a drug kingpin there had killed two of his cousins and would likely go after him, too.

First, that is not our problem. Second, pick a country and go if you do not want Jamaica.

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UN Climate Cultists Agree To 10% Increase In Budget

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 3:04 pm

I can guarantee they aren’t getting it from the Trump administration

Countries agree 10% increase for UN climate budget

Countries agreed on Thursday to increase the U.N. climate body’s budget by 10% for the next two years, a move the body welcomed as a commitment by governments to work together to address on climate change, with China’s contribution rising.

The deal, agreed by nearly 200 countries – from Japan to Saudi Arabia, to small island nations like Fiji – at U.N. climate negotiations in Bonn, comes despite major funding cuts at other U.N. agencies, triggered in part by the U.S. slashing its contributions, and political pushback on ambitious climate policies in European countries.

Countries agreed to a core budget of 81.5 million euros for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over 2026-2027, up 10% from 2024-2025. The core budget is funded by government contributions.

The deal includes an increase in China’s contribution, reflecting the country’s economic growth. China, the world’s second-biggest economy, would cover 20% of the new budget, up from 15% previously.

Only the United States, the world’s biggest economy, was allocated a bigger share, of 22%. However, President Donald Trump quit the U.N. Paris climate agreement and halted international climate funding. Bloomberg Philanthropies has pledged to cover the U.S. contribution to the UNFCCC budget.

Yeah, they can think Trump is going to do that, they’ll be lucky if they get 1%. A big question is “what is being done with the money?” Because they really do not like to say where it goes. Is it actually helping the people it’s supposed to, or, does it just end up in the pockets of people, with a pittance being spent on the intended purpose?

Meanwhile, the U.N. Secretariat, the global body’s executive arm, is preparing to slash its $3.7 billion budget by 20%, according to an internal memo.

Maybe they should spend less on the scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a bush that will soon grow in the Arctic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on the BBC celebrating the sale of heat pump.

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Comrade Bernie Is Super Enthused By Mamdani’s Victory

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 10:30 am

First at Politico

Democrats are scrambling to figure out what Mamdani’s win means for the party

Seven years later, Democrats still don’t have a playbook for when a socialist from New York pulls off an upset against an establishment politician.

Zohran Mamdani’s all-but-certain victory in Tuesday’s New York City mayoral primary sent shockwaves through the party, leaving national Democrats to grapple with the implications of the charismatic 33-year-old firebrand’s win over the better-funded, establishment-backed and scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor amid sexual harassment allegations. Progressives see a roadmap for Democrats to take back power, while moderates worry that New York City voters have just handed President Donald Trump a cudgel to beat them with during the 2026 midterm elections.

Maybe they should be concerned with the high end wackadoodleness of these people, and how it drives their moderates away. And that the Dems have no actual policy platform other than Orange Man Bad. Because Trump is out of office on January 20, 2029. But, also Politico

‘Democratic Leadership Is Way Out of Touch’: Bernie Sanders on Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

Without Bernie Sanders, there might not be a Zohran Mamdani.

The 33-year-old democratic socialist who triggered a political earthquake by moving toward a decisive win in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary race has called Sanders “the single most influential political figure in my life.”

Sanders returned the favor with an endorsement of the underdog in the runup to the election, and on Wednesday, the Vermont senator and longtime fellow democratic socialist reveled in Mamdani’s victory.

“Take on the billionaire class, take on oligarchy. That’s how you win elections,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO Magazine.

Sanders said the Democratic Party that he has long allied with but never joined should take serious lessons from Mamdani’s victory — but he was skeptical it would. He also weighed in on whether incumbent Democrats should be worried about a Tea Party of the left, Larry Summers’ concerns about Mamdani and what the young socialist can learn from Sanders’ own experience decades ago as mayor.

Politico then has a long interview with Comrade Bernie. Regardless, in case Bernie hasn’t noticed, several of the Squad members have already lost. And many are tired of the hardcore wacko in their politicians. But, this is NYC, and Mamdani ran against freaking Andrew Cuomo. Bernie doesn’t seem to realize just what he is backing. But, please, yeah, drive the people who fund NYC out. Please, drive the non-hard left wackos away from voting Democrat. They might not vote Republican, but, they’ll just stay away from the polls. And what will you do as you rail against the oligarchy as NYC dies and becomes a hotbed of Jew hatred full of Islamists? Well, you have your three houses to hang in.

By the way, if you drive out the “oligarchs”, meaning rich folks, who funds the Democrat party?

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Made Current Raleigh Heat Wave More Likely

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 7:00 am

I blame you for driving a fossil fueled vehicle, living in a big house, and not eating bugs for this

How climate change made Raleigh’s record-breaking heat far more likely

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesSolar-powered fans kept Sonya Lloyd shaded at Raleigh’s Chavis Park splash pad Tuesday, but the air still felt like 111 degrees.

“This one is a scorcher,” the 60-year-old grandmother said, clutching a quart of water and keeping watch over her pregnant daughter.

“We’re not trying to have a heat stroke,” she said.

The brutal afternoon marked a Climate Shift Index (CSI) level 5 for the Triangle, the maximum rating issued by research group Climate Central. A CSI-5 means human-caused warming made today’s temperature at least five times more likely than in a world without carbon pollution.

OK, not they’re just making shit up. Climate Shift Index? Piss off

A sprawling “heat dome” that baked the Midwest over the weekend slid east, parking a bubble of high pressure over the Carolinas and trapping humid air near the surface. Similar domes have broken June records from Boston to Raleigh this week, part of a national pattern of record-setting warmth.

But the backdrop is a climate that’s already warmer. Summers in Raleigh-Durham are 4.4 degrees hotter than in the 1970s, with about 39 more above-average summer days each year, according to Climate Central.

That hotter starting point “is driving earlier, hotter summers and making dangerous heat extremes more frequent and more intense,” said Shel Winkley, a meteorologist on Climate Central’s climate-and-health team.

Urban “hot spots” in downtown Raleigh bake as much as 19 degrees warmer than shaded suburbs because pavement and rooftops trap daytime heat.

Liz McLaughlin just describe the Urban Heat Island effect.

Historically, Raleigh gets 5-6 100 degree days, not including heat index. Over the past 10 years we may get 1, and, since the weather stations are improperly cited, that is suspect. Oh, and the record high for Raleigh on June 25th? 100 in 1952. How was it 102 in 1887 for the 20th of June? Or 100 in 1895 on the 3rd? There was no airport to artificially inflate the temperature. You didn’t have all the massive infrastructure, roads, buildings, etc back then in Raleigh. If it is so bad, why aren’t the Warmists giving up their own fossil fueled vehicles? It’s Raleigh, all those wackos on the road and growing have to be at least 50% Democrats.

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Almost Every Democrat Votes Against Bill Funding Veterans

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 6:45 am

No one is surprised, right?

House narrowly passes military construction, veterans funding bill

The House cleared its military construction and veterans spending bill Wednesday, almost entirely along party lines — the first annual government funding measure to be approved in a contentious budget season.

What happened: Republicans muscled through the spending bill in an 218-206 vote. Nearly all Democrats opposed the bill, with only two breaking ranks to help pass it.

Partisan divide: Democrats are at odds with President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, which seeks deep cuts in domestic spending while keeping defense spending at the same level as this year — while using Republicans’ megabill to layer on an extra $150 billion for the Pentagon.

Democrats have criticized Republicans for moving ahead with the military construction bill — which deals with the sliver of the Pentagon budget that includes the armed services’ infrastructure projects — before the administration has sent Congress a full defense budget proposal.

You know, the thing that is specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Defense? And taking care of veterans? Why wouldn’t they want that?

They’ve also slammed policy provisions in the bill that limit funding to cover abortions and gender-affirming care at the Veterans Affairs Department.

These f’ing people.

…Supports President Trump’s effort to end veteran homelessness

Protects Second Amendment rights for veterans

This bill will directly benefit the 45,000 veterans in our District, as well as their families. I urge my colleagues to pass this legislation, which reflects our values, strengthens our defense, and ensures we never waver in our duty to those who’ve sacrificed for our freedom.

Will the Democrats try and stop this in the Senate, use the filibuster?

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Trump Admin Tells Government Scientists To Apply Science To Their Science

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 3:00 pm

You have to know that this has sent the government scientists into apoplexy

White House office tells agencies to apply ‘Gold Standard Science’ to depoliticize research, restore trust

The White House Office of Science and Technology on Monday directed federal agencies to implement “gold standard science” principles to depoliticize science and restore public trust, Fox News Digital has learned.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios sent guidance to federal research agencies Monday morning, incorporating President Donald Trump’s executive order on “Restoring Gold Standard Science.”

Fox News Digital exclusively obtained the guidance sent to federal agencies.

ZOMG, no politics in science! How horrible!

President Trump, in May, signed an executive order to restore “Gold Standard Science” as the cornerstone of federal scientific research.

“Gold Standard Science” is “reproducible, transparent and falsifiable,” according to the order.

It is also “subject to unbiased peer review; clear about errors and uncertainties; skeptical of assumptions; collaborative and interdisciplinary; accepting of negative results as positive outcomes; and free from conflicts of interest.”

The executive order reinstated “the scientific integrity policies” of the first Trump administration and “ensures that science is no longer manipulated or misused to justify political ends.”

So many government scientists and those feeding at the federal trough won’t know what to do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 25, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible ice cream made from milk from planet killing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on CNN saying how friendly Iranians were while chanting Death To America.

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