Are PRC Democrats Turning On Gavin Newsom’s Climate Scam Policies?

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 3:23 pm

Let’s not forget, the same Democrats in the People’s Republik Of California supported and voted for this stuff, they just didn’t practice what they forced on all the Comrades in the PRC

Gavin Newsom Faces a Climate Revolt—From Democrats – Former backers of his policies now running away from their consequences

climate cowCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom must be grateful for the ugly divorce between President Trump and Elon Musk. It’s a useful public distraction from a crack-up in his own party over the state’s burdensome climate policies, which are driving energy costs up and jobs out of the state.

Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento experienced a political awakening of sorts after two major refineries recently announced they will shut down. A study last month by a University of Southern California business school professor projected that gasoline prices could rise to more than $8 a gallon because of the constricted supply.

Now the lawmakers who backed the Newsom climate diktats that brought about the refinery shutdowns are up in arms. “We have a crisis on our hands that may have been self-created by the actions perhaps taken by the state, by regulators,” Assemblyman David Alvarez huffed at a legislative hearing last month with the governor’s energy regulators.

Mr. Newsom claimed the Legislature needed to give his regulators more power to punish refineries for price-gouging. “I don’t hear today any evidence” of such gouging, Mr. Alvarez said. Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris asked: “If California companies were raking it in, why did we have two refineries announce their intent to close?”

Could it be that these Democrats are getting more than the normal earful from their constituents, especially the monied ones, who are not happy with the results of the policies they used to support?

Assemblyman Mike Gipson mused that increasing fuel imports once the refineries are closed could increase pollution. California Air Resources Board Chairman Liane Randolph concurred. But when asked whether the board considered costs of its regulations, Ms. Randolph demurred: “We don’t analyze a retail cost” of gasoline or “specific costs to specific consumers.”

After the hearing, Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains demanded Ms. Randolph’s resignation: “CARB has been given so much power, they were prepared to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks single-handedly. It is outrageous that the director would pursue such policies without even trying to analyze the impact on prices.”

Now she notices. In fairness, she was first elected in 2022, so, she wasn’t in office when CARB, a group of unelected bureaucrats who do not drive EVs, mandated Comrades in the PRC drive EVs. Hilariously, after Trump signed the resolution as passed by the duly elected House and Senate, with many Democrats voting for it

California sues Trump administration for blocking state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars

California is taking the Trump administration to court again, this time over the administration’s blocking of the state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars.

The state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced his office and 10 other states filed this latest lawsuit minutes after President Donald Trump signed a resolution that blocked the ban. The lawsuit will be considered by the U.S District Court.

State leaders have said the federal government is violating the law, as California has had the authority for decades to set its own clean air rules.

“It’s been a disaster for this country,” Trump said as he signed the resolution. “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.”

The PRC was given the ability to pass the mandate due to a Biden regime waiver. Should the PRC have the ability to mandate EVs? IMO, yes, as long as it does not involve interstate commerce, which is the bailiwick of Los Federales. But, it does, and, Los Federales have primacy on this issue.

Neither California voters nor California’s state lawmakers voted specifically for the clean air rule that would ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The governor signed an executive order in 2020 that empowered the state’s unelected California Air Resources Board to set the rules.

So, no one actually voted for this. I wonder what would happen if the Comrades in the PRC were allowed to vote on an initiative, what would they want? How often does a state sue the federal government over what has been passed and signed into law by the POTUS? Further, is Rob driving an EV? How about those in the other states?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on an appeals court ruling Trump can control the National Guard in LA.

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Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Program, NY Times Goes TDS And NDS

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Israel has had enough of Iran and their nuclear program, since it was recently announced Iran had enough material to make about 9 (or 11 or 15) bombs

Israel hits the ‘heart’ of Iran’s nuclear program in Natanz facility strike

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that one of Iran’s top nuclear facilities had been hit in Thursday night’s strike against the regime.

“Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs, nine,” Netanyahu said. “In recent months, Iran is taking steps that it has never taken before, steps to weaponize this enriched uranium. And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time.”

Hours later, officials confirmed that Iran launched approximately 100 retaliatory drones toward Israeli territory, which the IDF was working to intercept.

The Natanz Nuclear Facility – one of Tehran’s key nuclear sites and which has been flagged by security experts that in coordination with the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to produce 11 nuclear weapons within a month – has been hit in the strikes, though the extent of the damage remains unknown.

Israel targeted all sorts of Iran’s nuclear scientists and top military officials, as well. Trump was warned. And where does Excitable Nicholas Kristof immediately go? Trump and Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

Will Trump Show Restraint in the Middle East?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has bombed Iran in what may lead to yet another war in the Middle East, and the challenge for President Trump will be to protect American troops in the region and to stay out of this mess.

Netanyahu justified his latest military campaign by saying that Iran was a “clear and present danger.” And it’s true that Iran was enriching uranium to worrisome levels. It’s believed to be just weeks from having enough fissile material to make several bombs (although creating bombs and a way to deliver them would take much longer).

But a key reason for Iran’s increasingly dangerous course was the past colossal misjudgments by Netanyahu and Trump in their dealings with Iran. With strong backing from Netanyahu, Trump in 2018 pulled out of the nuclear agreement that President Barack Obama had reached that largely contained Iran’s nuclear program.

This would be the deal that would have allowed Iran to start building nuclear weapons 15 years after signed. So, about now. Kristof has no condemnation for Iran

In the coming hours or days, Iran is likely to respond militarily against Israel; an open question is whether or to what extent it will also target American troops in Iraq, Bahrain or elsewhere in the Middle East. The risk is that we see a cycle of escalation leading to a regional war that no one wants. American troops and embassies will be at risk, and the best way Trump can protect them is to stay out of this fight and try to resurrect a nuclear deal.

Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, warned that Netanyahu had undertaken “a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence,” and that seems right to me. To his credit, Trump has seemed wary of getting into foreign wars, and let’s hope he shows restraint this time instead of wading into a fight with Iran.

Don’t forget, Kristof and the rest of the NY Times wackos have been all in on escalating in Ukraine against Russia. They kept pushing Biden to give Ukraine more and more, and even putting US troops as “peacekeepers” in Ukraine. But, against Iran? Protecting Israel? Nope. The same Iran who funds terrorist groups who kill Americans. I’m sure there will be plenty more pieces Blaming Trump.

And, yes, I do not want a big war in the Middle East. But, I doubt it will take long to bomb Iran to oblivion. It won’t be WWIII. No one else except terrorist groups will join in on Iran’s side.

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Your Fault: San Francisco’s Fog Could Maybe Possibly Disappear

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

It would be a real shame, because the fog hides the poop and drug needles in the streets

A fog-free San Francisco? Scientists ponder California’s climate future

As most of the U.S. sweltered in mid-July 2022 ? when temperatures in many major cities reached the high 90s and even triple digits ? a national weather map showed San Francisco topping out at 65 degrees.

It was just a typical foggy summer day in the city by the bay, which averaged 62 degrees that month, about the same as the next two Julys.

Now the advent of climate change raises the question of whether summertime visitors will stop rushing out to buy sweatshirts upon arrival and instead feel perfectly comfortable in shorts and T-shirts.

The future of San Francisco’s iconic fog has been debated in media stories during recent years, and some experts note a diminished cloud cover along the California coast that could lead to a warming trend.

But few if any detect signs that San Francisco’s summer chill is going away like the once-celebrated Fog City Diner, which shut down at the end of May.

Um, what? What does the closing have to do with anything? The owners never gave a reason why they closed. It probably had something to do with being near the area of SF where everything was closing, because it was too filthy and too dangerous.

“From the data, I can’t foresee it any time soon,’’ said Rachel Clemesha, a project scientist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the state’s coastal climate. “There are years when there’s more or less cloud cover. The last couple of years have been within that range. It is a very foggy place, so it would be very dramatic to get you a fog-free city.’’

So, paragraph six says there was no need for the article at all.

Peter Weiss, a faculty researcher and lecturer at the UC Santa Cruz department of environmental sciences, said that despite a growing narrative of waning fog along the California coast, the data to support it is “very spotty,’’ with few academic studies in the past decade.

So, it’s all a big nothingburger

“Under climate change, we know the land is warming much faster than the ocean, so that temperature difference across the land and ocean interface is increasing, which could drive stronger winds, which could help preserve this cloudiness,’’ Faloona said. “So there are two arguments you could make about what we theoretically think should happen, and which one’s winning out I think is still an open scientific question.’’

Sara Baguskas, an assistant professor at San Francisco State University with a specialty in coastal fog, said the lack of conclusive evidence that it’s ebbing should not induce complacency but rather stimulate funding to study and predict its patterns.

No data, but, plenty of fearmongering.

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Bummer: DHS Starts Terminating Those On Biden’s TPS

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 6:45 am

There’s a reason it’s called temporary protected status: it’s temporary, hence, those on CHNV, most of whom were given extensions by the Brandon admin, will need to go home

DHS Begins Terminating Biden’s Migrant Parole Scheme, Warns Illegal Aliens They Should Self-Deport

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has started terminating former President Joe Biden’s mass migration parole pipeline, warning illegal aliens they ought to self-deport from the United States.

On Thursday, DHS officials announced that Biden’s parole migrants had started receiving termination notices informing them that their parole and work permits had been revoked, effective immediately.

In March, the Trump administration announced that DHS would revoke the legal status of more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who were allowed into the United States interior via a Biden-era parole pipeline known as the CHNV program.

Two Soros-linked groups sought to stop the Trump administration, but the Supreme Court ruled that DHS could move forward with ending the program.

The programs were pretty much scheduled to end, so, it is time to go home

DHS is urging the parole migrants to self-deport from the United States, advertising that those using the CBP Home phone application will receive cost-free travel out of the country and a $1,000 bonus once they have proved they self-deported.

Similarly, this week, DHS announced that illegal aliens who self-deport using the mobile app will be forgiven for any civil penalties or fines that they incurred from being illegally in the United States.

Of course, the really bad ones, whom were pretty much barely checked by the Biden admin, will need to be escorted out.

Meanwhile, the citizens, even the Dem voters, in the People’s Republik Of California might not quite be on the side of the politicians supporting the riots and illegals, such as Gavin

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Say, Why Are The Mostly Peaceful Rioters Targeting Waymos?

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 3:08 pm

This is very bad for the environment, you know

Why Waymos Have Been Vandalized by Protesters

As protesters and police clash across Los Angeles and beyond, a striking image from the mayhem has been that of graffiti-strewn white cars engulfed in flames.

But these aren’t ordinary cars. They’ve got sensors protruding from the top and sides—and, critically, they’ve got no drivers.

Waymo, a robotaxi company, found itself at the center of the demonstrations against the Trump Administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids after a group of protesters over the weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times, approached a parked row of the autonomous vehicles and smashed their windows, slashed their tires, spray-painted them with anti-ICE slogans, and set them on fire.

While eye-catching, the trend is also extremely dangerous. Electric vehicles, like those in Waymo’s fleet, have lithium-ion batteries, and in a post on X, the L.A. Police Department warned: “Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby.” According to Scientific American, first responders exposed to the fumes of burnt lithium-ion batteries without protection historically “have developed throat burns and breathing difficulties upon arriving,” and, depending on the hydrogen fluoride levels, individuals can start coughing up blood within minutes of exposure.

So…….EVs are dangerous and bad for the environment? Huh. Who knew!

Anyhow, why are they being targeted by the hardcore lefties, who are surely members of the climate cult?

The Wall Street Journal reported that part of the reason the cars were vandalized was to obstruct traffic—a traditional, albeit controversial, protest tactic.

Some social media users have suggested that self-driving vehicles in particular have become a new target because they are seen by protesters as “part of the police surveillance state.”

Waymo’s cars are equipped with cameras that provide a 360-degree view of their surroundings, a tool that has been tapped by law enforcement, according to reports.

True? Or, just burned because they happened to be there, and the Democrat base is inherently violent and destructive?

“There are people on here saying it’s violent and domestic terrorism to set a Waymo car on fire,” racial justice organizer Samuel Sinyangwe posted on X. “A robot car? Are you going to demand justice for the robot dogs next? But not the human beings repeatedly shot with rubber bullets in the street? What kind of politics is this?”

“There is no human element to Waymo,” climate and labor organizer Elise Joshi similarly posted on X. “It’s expensive and bought-out politicians are using it as an excuse to defund public transit. I pray on Waymo’s downfall.”

I bet you they’d feel different if it was their own property. Also, I wonder how often Elise takes public transit?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing dog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on Thursday tanlines.

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Bummer: Groups Supporting Unfettered Illegal Immigration Being Investigated

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

The LA Times has a big sad over this. They do not care about the groups that are funding the riots and all the gear delivered in LA, though

Death threats, vandalism, investigations: L.A. immigrant rights groups in the fight of their lives

“No firmes nada,” a union organizer shouted into a bullhorn as he stood atop the flatbed of a truck outside Ambience Apparel, doling out battlefield legal advice not to sign anything. “You have a right to a lawyer. You are not alone.”

Advocates and lawyers had arrived at the downtown store minutes after tips began to pop off at the hotline set up by the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, a coalition of 300 volunteers and 23 labor unions and immigrant rights and social justice groups that was organized last year to respond to enforcement. (snip)

Although she had never seen any sweeps like it in scale and aggression, she said advocates were prepared. “It’s a very well-organized community. That’s why coming into L.A. is so important for this Trump administration, because what they want to do is they want to break us.”

You might be over-estimating what Trump thinks of y’all.

Two Republican Congress members announced Wednesday that they would lead committee investigations of 200 nongovernmental organizations, including CHIRLA, “that were involved in providing services or support to inadmissible aliens during the Biden-Harris administration’s historic border crisis.” And Josh Hawley, a Missouri senator who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, threatened an investigation solely into CHIRLA, saying that it was “bankrolling” civil unrest.

And well they should, as should all the others. Let’s see what was happening with the money. How much that was allocated from the government ended up in the pockets of the people working for the NGOs, and how much went to aid. Anyhow, it’s a long, long piece, meant to tug on the heart strings, but, failing to deal with what the law says.

As far as death threats

Salas said her office has received death threats. Two weeks ago, vandals threw bricks through the front office window, smashing a few items inside. Workers have reported threatening calls.

“It’s always been hard, and it’s always been, what I would say, controversial,” she said. “But this is at a different level.”

And we know the vandals were anti-illegal alien supporters in Los Angeles how, exactly? Did they offer any proof of the death threats? Did the LA Time reporters as for any? Were the death threats reported to law enforcement? Because the story doesn’t say.

The newest fear — one she never would have thought possible in the past — was that the federal government would start prosecuting them for simply doing their jobs and trying to uphold the right to due process.

On Friday federal officials arrested Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union California, on suspicion of interfering with federal officers. The union is part of the rapid response network. The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, seemed to suggest on Sunday that other union officials and organizers would be investigated.

Well, don’t get in the middle of riots. Does anyone think ICE had any idea who Huerta was? No, they didn’t. He was just another chump interfering with federal law enforcement.

In Los Angeles County, 1 in 3 residents were born elsewhere and 1 in 4 children live in families with mixed legal statuses.

“These are people who you know were working, who had kids in school, and who were just ripped out of our communities. And I think that it feels like a real attack on our city,” Salas said. “They’re testing California. They’re testing our city.”

That’s on them. The law is the law. No one complains when a parent or parents are taken from their kids and put in jail for breaking the law. And it is a big failure on the part of government for failing to stop all these illegals.

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Bummer: Warmists Are Losing The Culture War

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is interesting: Politico is saying that this is not about science, but, other stuff

‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’

President Donald Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming.

In some ways, the effort has barely started.

More than 15 years after federal regulators officially recognized that greenhouse gas pollution threatens “current and future generations,” their most ambitious efforts to defuse that threat have been blocked in the courts and by Trump’s rule-slicing buzzsaw. Wednesday’s action by the Environmental Protection Agency would extend that streak by wiping out a Biden-era regulation on power plants — leaving the nation’s second-largest source of climate pollution unshackled until at least the early 2030s. Rules aimed at lessening climate pollution from transportation, the nation’s No. 1 source, are also on the Trump hit list. (snip)

“There’s no way around it: The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought,” said Jody Freeman, who served as counselor for energy and climate change in President Barack Obama’s White House. “We’ve lost the culture war on climate, and we have to figure out a way for it to not be a niche leftist movement.”

Well, perhaps if they hadn’t framed it as being about government control of people, of telling them how to live their lives, taking away their freedom, liberty, and life choices, and taking more of their money, it wouldn’t have failed. Perhaps if the people pushing the climate scam hadn’t been all about fearmongering while refusing to practice what they preach it wouldn’t have failed. Perhaps if they relied on science rather than bloviating.

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WWIII Watch: Neocons Whine At Hegseth Over Ukraine

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 6:45 am

I wonder what kind of financial stake they have in continuing to prop up Ukraine?

McConnell Tells Hegseth America’s Reputation Is at Stake in Ukraine War

Two senior Republican senators sharply criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s handling of Russia in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine, revealing a deepening public split in the party on foreign policy.

Senator Mitch McConnell — one of three Republicans who opposed Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation in January — opened a Senate budget hearing with a blunt critique of President Trump’s approach to Ukraine.

“It seems to me pretty obvious America’s reputation is on the line,” said Mr. McConnell, the former Senate majority leader who leads the Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee. “Will we defend democratic allies against authoritarian aggressors?”

Mr. McConnell, an outspoken hawk on Russia and military issues, has been critical of the Trump administration’s defense spending plan, and countered Mr. Hegseth’s argument that the administration was making the largest investment in the military in 20 years through Mr. Trump’s reconciliation package.

Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said that putting military spending into that package and not increasing spending in the regular budget “may well end up functioning as a shell game to avoid making the most significant annual investments that we spent years urging the Biden administration to make.”

Yeah yeah yeah

The exchange between Mr. McConnell and Mr. Hegseth offered a glimpse into the widening foreign policy gap between the diminishing cohort of internationalists in the Republican Party, like Mr. McConnell, and an emboldened wing led by figures like Mr. Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, who articulate an “America First” view of U.S. involvement around the globe.

“We don’t want a headline at the end of this conflict that says Russia wins and America loses,” Mr. McConnell told the Pentagon chief, chiding him for failing to include additional military assistance for Ukraine in the Pentagon’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

What they never really say, and Lindsay Graham, is how, exactly, Ukraine can win. And how WWIII can be avoided.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, also challenged Mr. Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was going to stop at Ukraine, if successful on the battlefield there.

“I don’t believe he is,” General Caine said.

Russia is having a tough time taking Ukraine: how will Putin go after other nations?

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