Huh: CARB Totally Obsessed With “Racial Equity”

But, remember, this is All About Science”

California Climate Change Board Obsessed With ‘Racial Equity’

California spends billions annually on a fool’s errand: trying to unilaterally change the Earth’s temperature. “Global warming”—now called “climate change” to explain both heat waves and cold snaps—has been used by the Left for decades now to implement its radical agenda, primarily the redistribution of wealth.

It should come as no surprise, therefore, that California’s climate change fighting agency, the California Air Resources Board, has managed to include another top leftist priority into its agenda: ”racial equity.”

The program is so conspicuous that it has caught the attention of the Civil Rights Division of President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon this week informed California’s Environmental Protection Agency that it is commencing an investigation into its and CARB’s discriminatory hiring practices, which emphasize “equity,” aka affirmative action.

Funny how these uber-white Democrats always think that “minorities” cannot survive without the helping hand of Government. That they are incapable of living otherwise. That every minor Bad Thing is a monstrosity for “BIPOC’s”. Seems, I don’t know, rather racist.

CARB was created by Gov. Ronald Reagan in the 1960s. It was implemented to fight the severe smog experienced in large California cities, primarily Los Angeles. It sought to control the emissions causing the smog, primarily coming from cars.

And it worked well. Then the climate cult took it over and implemented their hardcore Modern Socialist agenda.

The Left then hijacked CARB and turned it into one no longer focused on clean air, but “developing programs and actions to fight climate change.” Its website boasts that by “adopting innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, California has pioneered a range of effective approaches that have set the standard for effective air and climate programs for the nation, and the world.”

These are the same folks who are forcing Californian’s into EVs. People who were never elected. And do not seem to drive EVs themselves.

CARB’s secondary mission, according to its website, is to create “racial equity” and “social change.” It has developed what it calls its “Racial Equity Lens,” which is “rooted in the philosophy of cultural humility, a process of self-reflection and discovery to understand oneself and then others in order to build honest and trustworthy relationships.” It was implemented in order to comply with Newsom’s executive order on racial equity in government.

It is quite ironic that the board that has driven up electricity prices to the highest in the continental U.S., which has a disproportionate impact on minority groups that can least afford it, claims to be concerned about racial equity. I doubt this is the CARB Reagan envisioned when he first sought to curb smog.

What does reducing air pollution have to do with racial equity and social change? In other words, this whole thing is not about science.

The DOJ is now accusing the board of utilizing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (“DEI” aka affirmative action) in its hiring practices. In Dhillon’s notice of investigation, she cites the board’s “Racial Equity Framework” designed to “shift the culture at CARB from one of white privilege to an actively anti-racist and more inclusive culture that values and affirms Black lives.”

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If All You See…

….is horrible summer heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a campus lockdown over a black umbrella.

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Newsom Deploys Crime Fighting Teams Across PRC To Fight Non-Existent Crime

Democrats keep telling us there is no big crime going on, like when Gavin’s press release said “Preliminary data suggests property and violent crimes in California were down in 2024.” If I turn my guitar amp down from 10 to 9 it’s still pretty loud, right?

Newsom deploys new crime-fighting teams across California amid Trump crackdown

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) will deploy “crime suppression teams” throughout the state amid President Trump’s crime crackdown.

“When the state and local communities work together strategically, public safety improves. While the Trump Administration undermines cities, California is partnering with them — and delivering real results,” Newsom said in a press release.

“With these new deployments, we’re doubling down on these partnerships to build on progress and keep driving crime down,” he continued.

Teams of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) will work with local law enforcement in San Diego, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Central Valley, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.

“I want to thank the Governor for being a collaborative partner. The best way to address crime and other top challenges is through partnership and this is an example of that,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) said in a press release.

Probably the best way to address crime is to arrest people breaking the law, charge them, prosecute them, and punish them. Getting rid of Proposition 47, which made anything under $950 basically a slap on the wrist would be a good start. Cops do not even waste time with shoplifting. People are lucky if they even come to take a report, for which is only helpful for insurance claims. Dumping all the far left prosecutors who like to either reduce felonies to misdemeanors or dismiss the charges would help. Dumping the crazy judges who give absurdly lenient penalties would help.

And, you know what would help? If the Democratic Party politicians would stop bashing law enforcement and have their backs, so that cities and counties would not be down by lots of officers. Overall, the state probably needs thousands of new officers. The LAPD is down at least 750 officers, and reports say classes for new officers are half full. San Francisco is short around 500 officers. San Diego is a couple hundred short. CHP is about 16% short.

So, send all those extra officers is not “doing things to people”? Seriously, this is TDS. He can’t just deal with the problems in the People’s Republik Of California, no, he has to Make It About Trump. I wonder if the CHP will actually be allowed to arrest people.

CHP will work through intelligence sharing, crime deterrence techniques, assist in investigative work and increase law enforcement visibility.

So, looks like they won’t really be out there busting criminals. Just being political pawns for Newsom. This is all hilarious, because, they are going to prevent Trump from addressing the crime problem by addressing it themselves? That kind of sounds like a Trump victory. Does anybody really think he would of done that if Trump wasn’t bringing the heat? Newsom saw that Trump’s hard on crime was polling well and decided to steal the idea and claim it as his own.

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Bummer: Almost Half Of Teens Don’t Know ‘Climate Change’ Is Their Fault

I guess the constant fearmongering and putting ‘climate change’ in every school subject, from math to science to history to art and music, has become rather tedious to the youts

Nearly Half of Teens Can’t Identify What Causes Climate Change. Why That Matters

Teens have a shaky understanding of the causes of climate change and the strong scientific consensus around the fact that human activity is driving up global temperatures, according to a report.

Really, once you mention consensus and science in the same breath your argument is over. Science is science. It is fact. Not a bunch of people having the same beliefs. The consensus once was that the Sun went around the Earth, and that the Earth was at the center of everything

A little more than half of teenagers correctly identified in a national survey that emissions from human activity is the biggest contributor to climate change, and less than half knew that nearly all climate scientists agree on that point.

Teens need a strong understanding of the basics of the science behind climate change to be prepared for their futures, said Laura Schifter, a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute, and the founder of its This Is Planet Ed initiative, which produced the report.

Indoctrination fail. And, it’s an utter lie that nearly all climate scientists agree. Hey, maybe the kiddies have noticed that the people telling them that the world is doomed from human CO2 output put out a lot of CO2 themselves?

“What are the things that are going to be shaping our children’s world? Those need to be taught in schools,” Schifter said. “AI is one, climate change is one. People [are thinking about] how to integrate AI into education because they see that as something that will be impacting jobs, the way we interact with each other, and the world in the future. Climate is doing that exact same thing: it’s impacting jobs, and it’s impacting how and where we live.”

Maybe the kiddies aren’t interested in doomsday scenarios anymore?

Despite these misconceptions, other research has found that teens still worry about climate change. A 2022 EdWeek Research Center survey found that 37% of teenagers feel anxious when they think about climate change and its effects, and more than a third feel afraid.

That’s actually down from older folks, so, looks like they are not buying into the doom and gloom anymore.

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LOL: Trump Might Start Large Scale Illegal Alien Operations In Chicago Soon

This is guaranteed to create Moonbat Category 5

Trump administration plans big immigration enforcement operation in Chicago as soon as next week

The Trump administration is preparing to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation in Chicago as soon as next week, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning, marking the latest escalation between the president and a Democratic-led city.

President Donald Trump and his aides have repeatedly slammed Chicago over policies that limit cooperation between local authorities and federal immigration enforcement. Chicago grappled with an influx of migrants during the Biden administration following surges along the US southern border and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to transport migrants to Democratic-led cities.

Now, the anticipated operations in Chicago are expected to be at a larger scale, using personnel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and possibly other agencies. Officials are preparing the National Guard to help if a peacekeeping presence is needed, akin to what unfolded in Los Angeles following protests, the sources said.

Preparations for Chicago are already underway, including sending armored vehicles to the city in the coming days and surging federal agents by next Friday, Sept. 5, when, according to two sources, the operation is expected to kick off. Discussions, however, are still ongoing and planning is in flux.

Oh, it will be so fun watching the caterwauling a teeth gnashing when this starts from Democrats.

White House officials have made clear that these plans are distinct from the idea the president has suggested over the past week to use federal law enforcement and National Guard troops to carry out a broader crime crackdown in Chicago, similar to the current surge in Washington, DC.

But, will they? Regardless, I’ll say what I said when Los Federales went into LA: I’d much rather they focus on small town America which saw a bunch of illegals/fake asylum seekers shipped to them by the Biden admin, get them out first. Let the Dem sanctuary jurisdictions deal with all the illegals in their own areas. Watch illegals stream to those cities and overrun them, causing lots and lots of problems, and costing lots and lots of money. Save the big Dem cities for last.

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Climate Crisis (scam) Is Aging People Or Something

Man, the doomsday cult has really been working overtime lately to come up with some scary new stuff

Heatwaves are making people age faster, study warns

Repeated exposure to heatwaves, which are growing more frequent due to climate change, may accelerate ageing, particularly among manual workers, a new study warns.

Although previous research showed heatwaves had negative effects on the health of older people, it primarily focused on short-term exposure to sustained heat. The new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, assessed the potential long-term impact of heatwaves on health and ageing.

Researchers analysed data from 24,922 adult people in Taiwan with an average biological age of 46 years to assess how heatwaves influenced ageing.

They defined rapid ageing as the difference between biological and actual age and assessed its association with heatwave exposure.

Biological age is a measure of how well the human body functions at the molecular and organ levels compared to its chronological age based on the birthdate.

By analysing patient data from 2008 to 2022, the researchers found an increase in cumulative heatwave exposure was associated with a rise in age acceleration.

The findings suggest people living in places that experience more days of high heat show greater biological ageing on average than those in cooler regions.

Um, it’s not like there’s a massive variation in the climate areas of Taiwan, right? It’s all so tiresome.

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If All You See…

…is a melting glacier because Other People drove fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on the top 10 reasons the media says Trump’s peace is worse than war.

Sorry, issues still continue. I’m getting tons of bad bot alerts hourly. Already restarted the server 4 times today. Gonna try hiding the admin login page.

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NY Times: Minneapolis Shooter’s Motive Is A Total Mystery!

The motive is pretty much right there in the headline and subhead

Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery
The shooter who attacked a Catholic school on Wednesday posted social media videos and writings that betrayed a litany of grievances and obsessions.

For one thing “she” is a guy. Transgender. Crazy

The person who the police say opened fire on a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday appears to have known the school well.

Robin W. Westman, who officials said strafed the church through the stained glass windows, killing two children, was believed to have once attended the school at Annunciation Catholic Church, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation.

Her mother, Mary Grace Westman, worked in the business office of the church for five years before retiring in 2021. And in a video posted on social media, the suspect showed a hand-drawn rendering of the Annunciation interior.

And Ms. Westman, armed with three weapons, seemed to choose the time carefully. She barricaded the doors during the first all-school Mass of the academic year, the police said.

But it is hard to fathom what drove Ms. Westman to attack before killing herself, despite the dark and violent writings and videos she left behind.

Well, his original name was Robert.

On social media, some conservative activists have seized on the shooter’s gender identity to broadly portray transgender people as violent or mentally ill. The police did not provide any motive for the attack, but Ms. Westman’s extensive social media history was a contradictory catalog of anger and grievance.

Are you sure we’re not pouncing?

In seemingly stream-of-consciousness videos that she posted, she fixated on guns, violence and school shooters. She displayed her own cache of weapons, bullets and what appear to be explosive devices, scrawled with antisemitic and racist language and threats against President Donald Trump.

The videos also show pages from a diary, with long entries describing self hatred, violence against children, and a desire to inflict harm on herself. The diary entries are almost entirely written in English, but using Cyrillic letters. A sticker in the diary displays L.G.B.T.Q. and transgender flags with a gun and the slogan “Defend Equality.”

Police said that the videos have been taken offline.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to take everything offline, because that creates more conspiracy theories. But, hey, anyhow, after all that the Times wrote they can’t figure out that Robert was nuts, hated Trump, hated Israel and Jews? Though, in fairness, it doesn’t explain why he attacked the Christian school. Other than being nuts.

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Your Fault: Haboobs To Become More Prevalent Because ‘Climate Change’

Ha. Boobs

Lots of cool vids on Twitter, which sends the LA Times Warmists into doomsday apoplexy

More haboob dust storms are coming to California thanks to climate change

For anyone wondering whether intense dust storms, like the haboob that enveloped Phoenix this week, are possible in Southern California, the answer is yes.

They’ve hit in the recent past and are a growing issue over much of Southern California and the Central Valley, thanks to the drying associated with climate change, water over-use, wildfire, off-roading, tractors on dry soil, and construction, experts say.

In 2022, for instance, there was a massive haboob in the Salton Sea area. The dust from that nighttime storm — with a 3,000-foot high wall of dust and 60 mile per hour winds — went all the way to Los Angeles. (snip)

It’s a serious enough phenomenon that UC researchers formed a consortium, known as UC Dust. They estimate that more than 55,000 square miles in the state and 5 million Californian are directly affected by dust storms. Evans said they are difficult to forecast, leaving millions of people vulnerable and exposed. Porter agreed.

So, they’re simply guessing at this point? Other than in the headline and a bit in the second paragraph, there is absolutely nothing offered as proof that this is your fault.

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Bummer: Judge Dugan Cannot Claim Judicial Immunity For Sheltering Illegal From ICE

I’m actually rather shocked that another judge ruled this way, and then it having to get overturned

US federal judge rules Wisconsin judge cannot claim immunity in immigration obstruction case

A US federal judge on Tuesday rejected a Wisconsin state court judge’s claim of judicial immunity, allowing criminal charges to proceed against her for allegedly obstructing federal immigration enforcement.

Judge Lynn Adelman of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan’s motion to dismiss a federal indictment. The indictment charges Dugan under 18 U.S.C. § 1071 with concealing a person from arrest and under 18 U.S.C. § 1505 with obstructing removal proceedings conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Federal prosecutors allege that in April 2025, Dugan confronted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside her courtroom, told them they needed a judicial warrant to arrest a noncitizen defendant, and directed them to leave the area. According to the indictment, she later allowed the individual and his attorney to exit through a non-public jury door, advising that he could appear remotely at his next court date.

In her motion to dismiss, Dugan argued that the alleged conduct constituted official judicial acts shielded by absolute immunity, that the prosecution violated the Tenth Amendment by intruding on state court authority, and that the statutes should be construed to avoid constitutional conflicts. Judge Adelman rejected these arguments, ruling that while judges enjoy immunity from civil suits for damages, the Supreme Court has never recognized absolute judicial immunity from criminal liability. He emphasized that judicial acts may serve as the means of accomplishing an unlawful end, and that immunity does not bar prosecutions alleging corrupt intent.

I mean, it’s an attempt to use the judicial system, but, it’s all on video, and the federal government has absolute authority when it comes to illegal immigration, so, the 10th Amendment doesn’t apply. It’s right there in Article I. And, as Dems like to say, no one is above the law. And, heck, the feds could have also charged her with more, like 8 U.S. Code § 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens, section iii, for which the penalty is a fine and up to 5 years in jail. But, the government could argue she put the lives of federal agents in threat, they could ask up to 20 years.

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