Rubio Closing State Dept Censorship Bureau

By William Teach April 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Biden admin tried many times and in many ways to institute censorship for Wrongthink, attempting to do end runs around the Constitution. One of those finally bit the big one

“…which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year and actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.”

Of course, this is how Politico cover it

State Department eliminates key office tasked with fighting foreign disinformation

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of the agency’s hub for fighting foreign disinformation campaigns — the final nail in a yearslong effort to shut down the office accused by GOP lawmakers of censoring conservative voices.

In a statement, Rubio claimed the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office at the State Department, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, had “spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.” According to Rubio, the relatively modest federal office expended “more than $50 million per year.”

“This is antithetical to the very principals [sic] we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America,” Rubio said. “That ends today. Under the administration of President Trump, we will always work to protect the rights of the American people, and this is an important step in continuing to fulfill that commitment.”

The center came under fire from leading Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year for allegedly silencing conservative voices through its efforts to clear up disinformation and misinformation online. Elon Musk, who now heads up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, described the office in 2023 as “the worst offender in U.S. government censorship.”

Obviously, Democrats want to keep this stuff going, because the group in all its names went after Republicans/Conservatives.

But the center’s supporters, including Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), have asserted that it plays a critical role in combating Russian and Chinese disinformation.

And all that stuff can be moved to a different part of the State Department. Or, the CIA, DIA, and other agencies that focus on that kind of stuff. It can be monitored and supervised. Democrats do not want that. But, they should realize that any program like that can be turned against Democrats.

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Say, Why Aren’t Churches Talking About Global Boiling?

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 3:32 pm

Maybe because that’s not what churches are for?

Why Aren’t We Talking About Climate Change in Church?

While nearly 90% of Christian religious leaders believe climate change is real and human-caused, most rarely discuss it with their congregations. A new study shows this silence has consequences—many church members underestimate their pastor’s views, and conversations about climate action stall. Yet we are uniquely called and positioned to lead. This piece from Blessed Tomorrow urges clergy and lay leaders alike to speak out, teach, and preach on creation care. Support and training are available for those ready to start. Click here to read the full article on Blessed Tomorrow.

Let’s see that article

Religious Leaders Are Silent About Their Beliefs

We are living in a climate changed world which is impacting everything we care about, from people and places devastated by climate disasters, to our health, food, economy, and more. Holy Scriptures remind us that the earth is sacred, (Psalm 24, Colossians 1.15-20, Genesis 1) and we are called by God to care for it. ecoAmerica’s research shows that 72% of Americans are concerned about climate change, (1) and yet, among those who attend religious services at least monthly, U.S. Catholics indicate that climate change is not discussed frequently from the pulpit and 41% say there is no discussion of climate change. (2)

While at the same time, almost 90% of Christian religious leaders at the head of a congregation believe in anthropogenic (human caused) climate change. A study published in March 2025 titled Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue (3) showed only about half ever discuss climate change with their congregations, a quarter speak publicly about climate change once or twice, and only 5% discuss it more than once a month.

Katharine Hayhoe says that the most important thing we can do about climate change is to talk about it. (4) Congregational religious leaders are uniquely positioned to make a positive climate impact as 2 out of 3 Americans believe they have a high ethical standard and are directly impacted by their local church leadership. When faith leaders silence themselves on climate change, it contributes to member’s hesitancy around discussing climate change with each other:

You get the point. But, they miss that church is a place to talk about The Bible. About God. Jesus. Those associated. And, then Exodus 20

1 Then God spoke all these words:

2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; 3 you shall have no other gods before me.

4 You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, 6 but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

A doomsday cult should not be operating in a church. They should not be worshiping the tenants of a doomsday cult. Bowing to the climate gods. If they are yammering about a climate cult’s beliefs in church they are putting other gods before Him. If these leaders in churches are interested, do it outside of church. They’d still be breaking their oaths to God.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon polluting private plane, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on an investigation for a battery plant fire.

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Elitist Harvard Standing Ground Against Trump Or Something

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 10:30 am

Nothing says standing your ground like supporting Jew hatred, Hamas and Islamic extremism, and the destruction of America.

Why Harvard is standing its ground against Trump

The oldest and wealthiest university in America — long a training ground for cultural elites — is quickly becoming a face of the resistance to President Donald Trump.

Harvard University vowed this week to fight a wide-ranging set of demands from the Trump administration, pitting the biggest name brand in American higher education against the White House and setting up a remarkable clash of power that could wind up in court.

The fight is quickly escalating. Federal officials have frozen more than $2 billion in grants to the university after it refused to comply with policy changes requested by the Trump administration, including to crack down on student protests, change admissions and hiring practices and submit to government audits. Trump on Tuesday suggested on social media that Harvard could lose its tax-exempt status and instead “be Taxed as a Political Entity.”

Harvard, fueled by a massive endowment valued at more than $53 billion and a powerful alumni network, is now uniquely positioned to become the most prominent U.S. institution yet to actively fight Trump’s efforts to bend elements of American civil society to his will.

Court? Why court? They can simply not take federal money. They get enough from donors. But, they got used to that sweet, sweet, strings free money from Los Federales….well, Harvard was expected to take the Democrat line in what they say and what they publish and vote Democrat. It’s a dual parasitic relationship, much like with public unions. They just never thought that this relationship could be targeted by an opposition administration. Unfortunately for them, they allowed anti-Jew and pro-Hamas demonstrations to rage on their campus and became visible.

“Politicians have traditionally, bottom line, been proud of the fact that American higher education was the envy of the world,” said Thomas Parker, a Harvard alum who is a senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a Washington-based advocacy organization. “It is unprecedented for the view to be the opposite.”

Taking a line of Jew hatred and support for Islamic extremism makes them proud?

Harvard now must decide whether to negotiate with the Trump administration or fight back in court. The university is being represented by two lawyers with significant street credibility on the right: William A. Burck, who has represented many Trump allies in legal disputes, and Robert Hur, a Harvard alum who authored a report on former President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents that conservatives cited as evidence of his mental decline during the 2024 campaign.

Fight back? Again, for what, taxpayer money they do not deserve? They can simply say “keep it” and move on with their Jew hatred. And things like racism in choosing students. Which is also against federal law. Even for private institutions.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Harvard “has not taken the administration’s demand seriously.”

“All the president is asking is, don’t break federal law, and then you can have your federal funding,” she said. Leavitt added that Trump “wants to see Harvard apologize” for “the egregious antisemitism that took place on their college campus against Jewish American students.”

Realistically, Los Federales shouldn’t be funding private colleges with taxpayer money to start with. If you take the money, though, it means the feds have a say in operations. Of course, the feds have a say when it comes to admission and hiring practices per law regardless of being private. And all those education laws passed by Democrats means the feds have a say when there is rampant Jew hatred on campus. Remember, Harvard was sued by students

“Jewish students are bullied and spat on, intimidated, and threatened, and subject to verbal and physical harassment,” the lawsuit said.

That would be a violation of federal education laws. And when it is institutionalized, and the school is only taking token steps to stop it.

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Experts Warn There Is A Serious Flaw In The EV Market Forecasts Or Something

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 7:00 am

Can you guess what the issues are?

Experts uncover alarming flaw in EV market forecasts that could hit buyers hard: ‘This is our best attempt’

Electric vehicleA new report from Princeton University highlights a serious threat to America’s clean transportation future — and it could spell bad news for jobs, investments, and EV buyers nationwide.

Researchers at Princeton’s ZERO Lab found that if Inflation Reduction Act tax credits and Environmental Protection Agency clean car standards are repealed, electric vehicle sales could plummet. By 2030, the report estimates EV adoption could fall nearly 40% below current projections.

Without these policies, the share of new EVs sold would shrink from 40% to just 24% by the end of the decade. The fallout wouldn’t stop there — the study also warns that up to 100% of planned EV factory expansions could be canceled, and up to 72% of battery manufacturing capacity could become redundant by 2025.

These aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet — they represent real jobs and opportunities in communities across the U.S., as well as real, tangible means of driving down air pollution that is bad for human health and slowly but consistently traps more heat in the atmosphere. Not to mention that EVs, while more expensive upfront, save money each year on lower fuel and maintenance costs such as no oil changes.

“This is our best attempt to survey available quantitative forecasts and develop an outlook on US EV sales,” explained the study’s project leader, Jesse D. Jenkins in a statement. “The report is also the only analysis I’m aware of to date that draws the connection to US manufacturing as well.”

Got that? Without massive amounts of government money the business is going to damned near collapse. Really, what will be left will be the few reasonably priced EVs and the expensive ones, because most middle and working class people won’t bother purchasing. There are no subsidies or anything for standard gas and hybrid vehicles, yet, they still sell. If government money goes away for installing home chargers who will bother except rich folks? Remember, it was only a year ago that the majority of EV buyers made between $150K to $300K.

Rolling back these credits could undo that progress and leave communities — many of which are already building factories and training workers — without the clean energy jobs they were promised. And while EVs help reduce harmful pollution that worsens asthma and respiratory illness, pulling back support could make it harder for families to afford these healthier, lower-maintenance vehicles.

Without that government money the industry will barely be able to survive. This is the very definition of Socialism from Political Theory 101.If an industry cannot survive without massive government money than it is not a viable business. ICE cars NEVER needed a tax incentive. ICE car demand grew because the US consumer viewed it as a value product.

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Newsome Signs $2.8 Billion More To Cover Medicaid Gap Due To Illegals

By William Teach April 16, 2025 – 6:45 am

The People’s Republik Of California apparently has nothing better to do with the taxpayer money than give insurance to illegal aliens

California OKs $2.8B to close Medicaid funding gap after expanding immigrant coverage

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday to close a $2.8 billion budget gap in the state’s Medicaid services and ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care via the program.

Whoa, whoa, wait, June 15th? $2.8 billion? For two months? Really? Can you imagine how much help for homeless Americans that could provide?

The legislation is part of the state’s solution to solve the $6.2 billion hole in the state’s Medicaid budget. It comes a year after California launched an ambitious coverage expansion to provide free health care to all low-income adults regardless of their immigration status. The expansion is costing far more than the state projected and could force the Democratic governor and Democratic lawmakers to reevaluate future coverage for millions of people. (snip)

The state hasn’t said how many people have enrolled through the expansion. Last year, the state projected that about 700,000 state residents who are living in the U.S. illegally would gain full health coverage to access preventive care and other treatment.

Um, wouldn’t this violate federal laws about assisting those unlawfully present in the U.S., particularly 8 U.S.C. § 1324? Besides that the money could significantly help Californians who are US citizens? And this is all on Democrats. They run the PRC government.

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Warmists Trying Hard To Push Loss And Damage

By William Teach April 15, 2025 – 3:56 pm

Instead of making their own lives carbon neutral, they just want government in charge of doing this

Why Loss and Damage is essential for climate action in new NDCs

Anchoring losses and damages in the new round of national climate plans can provide the necessary plans and actions to safeguard people and nature, and must not be overlooked. (snip through meaningless cult talk)

Current national climate plans – known as Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs – are intended to be ‘roadmaps’ for addressing climate change by sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience. But these plans are nowhere near ambitious enough to do that. The consequences are that climate risks are increasing, and the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is escalating. (snip)

“Anchoring losses and damages in NDCs can provide the necessary plans and actions to safeguard people and nature. It can provide countries with a more comprehensive climate response, and ensure that the most vulnerable communities can be assisted,” he says.

Countries can take four simple steps to ensure that Loss and Damage is effectively reflected in their plans, says Chamling Rai.

First, countries must define loss and damage in the national context. It is important for countries to include a definition of loss and damage in their national context in their NDC.

Important to whom? A doomsday cult? Or, something more nefarious?

Second, countries must describe the specific losses and damages that are already happening. It is also recommended that projected losses and damages related to different sectors or geographies based on different greenhouse gas emission and temperature-rise scenarios be included where possible.

Third, countries must highlight ongoing initiatives being undertaken to avert, minimize and address losses and damages. These may include institutional frameworks, policies, on-the-ground implementation and financing measures. It is also an opportunity to highlight how the lack of global ambition to finance mitigation and adaptation actions exacerbates country losses and damages.

Finally, countries must include specific contributions on loss and damage.

Loss and damage is really the latest claptrap meant as a way to do two things. First, take money from the producing nations and spread it around the 3rd world shitholes. Second, none of this can all happen without massive government control of the citizens. That’s the only way it occurs. Where you go, what you eat, where you live, how you live. The government must know everything about everyone and ever company. It’s another stealth attempt at authoritarianism, which is the backbone of the climate cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 15, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled plane causing Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Common Cents Blog, with a post on CNN getting roasted over a deported MS-13 gang member.

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Trump Admin Cancels $2.3 Billion In Funding To Harvard

By William Teach April 15, 2025 – 10:30 am

Will Harvard learn a lesson? Do they even understand what the lesson is?

Probably not

Harvard rejects Trump demands, gets hit by $2.3 billion funding freeze

Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.

Within hours of Harvard taking its stand, the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school.

The funding freeze comes after the Trump administration said last month it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants to Harvard as part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism that erupted on college campuses during pro-Palestinian protests in the past 18 months.

On Monday, a Department of Education task force on combating antisemitism accused America’s oldest university of having a “troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws.”

The exchange escalates the high-stakes dispute between the the Trump administration and some of the world’s richest universities that has raised concerns about speech and academic freedoms.

Does Harvard actually want to die on the hill of defending Jew hatred? Apparently so. And the lesson is that private entities shouldn’t be taking large sums of government money if they do not want the government to have a say in their operations.

Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a public letter on Monday that demands made by the Department of Education last week would allow the federal government “to control the Harvard community” and threaten the school’s “values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”

Of, course, again, those operations are Jew hatred and supporting a US designated terrorist group. Defending students and staff who are calling for killing Jews and Americans. Who are calling to destroy Israel and America. Is that the knowledge Harvard is defending?

And, yeah, the federal government shouldn’t be giving private institutions taxpayer money, but, hey, that’s what happened thanks to Democrats in Congress working with Democrats at schools like Harvard. Kinda backfired, eh?

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Here We Go Again: Mother Jones And UK Guardian Complain About The Carbon Footprint Of Dogs

By William Teach April 15, 2025 – 8:00 am

As I noted to Casey Mattox when I ran across his tweet deriding this article, the climate cult came up with this a few years ago, and will trot it out every few because the cult never gives up on an wacko idea. Even one that really doesn’t get the support they think it should, because, who doesn’t love dogs? But, weirdly, the UK Guardian and Mother Jones never complain about all the high ranking poobahs in the cult who have massive carbon footprints

Bad News for Man’s Best Friend: Dogs Are Environmental Villains

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Dogs have “extensive and multifarious” environmental impacts, disturbing wildlife, polluting waterways and contributing to carbon emissions, new research has found.

An Australian review of existing studies has argued that “the environmental impact of owned dogs is far greater, more insidious, and more concerning than is generally recognised”.

While the environmental impact of cats is well known, the comparative effect of pet dogs has been poorly acknowledged, the researchers said.

The review, published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, highlighted the impacts of the world’s “commonest large carnivore” in killing and disturbing native wildlife, particularly shore birds.

The carbon footprint of pets is also significant. A 2020 study found the dry pet food industry had an environmental footprint of around twice the land area of the UK, with greenhouse gas emissions—56 to 151 Mt CO2— equivalent to the 60th highest-emitting country.

Oh, piss off. You are complaining about this?

But, they, and the researchers, look like they realize they may be going a bit too crazy

“To a certain extent we give a free pass to dogs because they are so important to us… not just as working dogs but also as companions,” he said, pointing to the “huge benefits” dogs had on their owners’ mental and physical health. He also noted that dogs played vital roles in conservation work, such as in wildlife detection.

“Although we’ve pointed out these issues with dogs in natural environments…there is that other balancing side, which is that people will probably go out and really enjoy the environment around them—and perhaps feel more protective about it—because they’re out there walking their dog in it.”

They’re good dogs, Brent.

Bateman also raised sustainable dog food as an option to reduce a pet’s environmental paw print, noting however that “more sustainable dog food tends to cost more than the cheap dog food that we buy which has a higher carbon footprint.”

“If nothing else, pick up your own dog shit,” he said.

Well, there is that. But, the underlying cult belief is that people should stop having dogs, because of the carbon footprints.

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