Washington Post Super Mad Over $14 Million Spent On Reflecting Pool

By William Teach June 10, 2026 – 3:00 pm

You will never hear me say that “$14 million is a nothingburger in light of our budget”, but, $10 million is actually a pretty good number for all that they did to the Reflecting Pool. But, Democracy Dies In Darkness, which never investigates where other spending goes, is Upset

From the link

Trump has put the cost of the work on the pool at $1.5 million to $2 million, but records show that at least $14.8 million worth of contracts have been awarded for the project. The president announced the work in April during an unrelated Oval Office appearance, saying he was inspired by complaints from a friend visiting from Germany who called the pool dark and disgusting.

The link itself is from a June 5th story, so, the WP is re-tweeting again and again because they are unhinged. A backyard pool can run between $50K-$100k, excluding decking and stuff. This is a wee bit bigger (though it’s only 30 inches deep) at almost a half mile long, up to 175 feet wide, and has 6.75 million gallons of water. Then having to try and keep it clean. Seriously, the Biden admin was figuring around $300 million (probably $60 million for actual work, the rest in waste and graft). Has the WP complained about the billions wasted from Biden’s EV charging station adventure? How much was graft, fraud, and waste in the whole Green New Deal, er, Inflation Reduction Act? Hell F*ck, how about the entire budget?

Critics have said Trump, a Republican, is spending too much time and attention on his pet projects and not enough on issues that voters care about, like the cost of living, in the run-up to the November elections. Others have said he wants the reflecting pool to look more like a swimming pool.

“Critics” who have TDS, upset that Trump is having people clean up our nation’s capitol. Seriously, you think he spends more time doing this? He has people who do this, and Los Federales have employees who are directed to do this.

Decline is a choice. We have a massive budget and all these employees and we cannot keep things clean and running in the nation’s seat of power? And they overspend when they do stuff. How much more could we do with the money?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 10, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible road for fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on the concerns with plug-in solar.

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Orange Man Bad: Somali World Cup Referee Denied Entry To U.S.

By William Teach June 10, 2026 – 10:30 am

Trump is just a big meany

Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry

A referee from Somalia said on Tuesday that the biggest dream of his professional life had been shattered after the American authorities denied him permission to enter the United States to participate in the World Cup soccer tournament.

The referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, was one of 52 selected for this summer’s World Cup in North America. He was one of seven African referees to be chosen for the tournament and would have been the first Somali to referee a World Cup game.

Speaking for the first time since he was denied entry to the United States, Mr. Artan told The New York Times that officiating a World Cup game would have been a symbol for all Somalis of what they could achieve in spite of their country’s difficulties.

“I am very, very disappointed,” Mr. Artan said in a telephone interview from Istanbul, the city he had been flown to after he was refused entry. “I’m just simply a referee who’s trying to live his dream, the biggest dream of my life, to come to the World Cup.”

He flew into Miami, was interviewed by CBP, held for 11 hours, then sent packing

“I had the right papers and everything. I had the right visa,” Mr. Artan said, adding that he had also showed documentation from FIFA as well as photographs of his career of over a decade as a professional referee. Border officials also checked online material detailing Mr. Artan’s career, he said. He was named referee of the year in 2025 by the Confederation of African Football, which governs soccer in Africa.

The right papers! Trump mean!

Mr. Artan said, “I think that they have a problem with my country,” adding that he would return to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday. He said that he had been preparing for the World Cup for four years, taking courses with FIFA in Qatar and in the United Arab Emirates. (snip)

In December, President Trump singled out Somali immigrants, calling them “garbage” in a tirade at the White House and saying that Somalia was “not even a country.” Nonetheless, the Pentagon has been working with Somalia’s government to conduct scores of airstrikes against militant targets in the country.

See? Trump bad! And the NY Times, the Paper of Record, has multiple articles on this. But, so far, nothing about this

U.S. official: Somalia’s Omar Artan had suspected terror ties

A United States official said Tuesday night that Omar Artan, the Somalian soccer referee who was denied entry into the country ahead of the World Cup, was refused admission due to “association with suspected members of terror organizations.”

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter that is covered by visa privacy laws.

Speaking earlier Tuesday, Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House FIFA Task Force, said Artan was denied admittance for “very good reason” but declined to offer details.

Basically, like so many Somalis, he had ties to the Islamic terrorist groups, and probably supported them. ESPN left a tiny bit out

(Fox News) A Somali World Cup referee, who was denied entry into the U.S. days before the tournament kicked off in North America by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), was flagged for “derogatory” information, including “association with suspected members of terror organizations,” a Trump administration official told Fox News.

The flag made Omar Artan inadmissible for entry into the U.S.

If you’re getting “derogatory” information, that is definitely not good, and perhaps FIFA should have vetted him a wee bit better.

And TDS infused media outlets should do their jobs better. The Washington Post only mentions “vetting concerns” as he got a “hero’s welcome” returning home. And goes on a rant about players and officials being denied entry without really mentioning why.

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Warmists Think ICJ Ruling On Climate (scam) Has Force Of Law

By William Teach June 10, 2026 – 7:15 am

And, yet, most Warmists don’t practice what they preach

The UN climate process needs ambition – the law demands it

climate cowThe host government of last year’s COP30 summit, Brazil, argued that it should be an “implementation COP”. And if you talk regularly to influential participants in the UN process, you’d be surprised how many will tell you that in the current political climate, it’s all about implementing the pledges and targets governments have already made, rather than aiming to raise them.

This interpretation of ‘implementation’ is dangerously wrong. You can see that it is wrong by simply going back to the Paris Agreement. Article 4 states that Parties (countries) “shall prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions” (NDCs), and that each new NDC “will represent a progression” beyond the Party’s previous one and “reflect its highest possible ambition”.

In other words, regularly increasing ambition is a central element of implementing the Paris Agreement. Governments pledged to increase ambition regularly, and the community of people who care about climate change needs to hold them to that pledge. (snip)

Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that 1.5°C is the primary limit of the Paris Agreement and constitutes a legally binding target. It clarified that states have obligations, not only under the UN climate convention, but under customary international law, human rights law and the Law of the Sea.

It also reaffirmed that governments’ NDCs must reflect their highest possible ambition. Last month, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution endorsing the ICJ ruling, with governments voting 141 for, and only eight against.

They can vote all they want, until their governments pass any of this into law it is not law. And, let’s remember, the Paris Climate Agreement was set up to be non-binding, because Obama knew there was zero change of it passing the US Senate. But, hey, Warmists, keep trotting this out there, and we can keep highlight how you refuse to give up your own use of fossil fuels.

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Funding For ICE And Border Patrol Passes House Vote

By William Teach June 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

This has given Democrats apoplexy

House Republicans approve $70bn bill for Trump’s immigration crackdown

House Republicans on Tuesday approved a $70bn bill funding through the duration of his term the agencies leading Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, ending a months-long standoff with Democrats that at one point forced the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to shutter.

The Secure America Act passed in a 214-212 vote that was largely along party lines, with Kevin Kiley, an independent who aligns with the Republicans, joining all Democrats in voting no. The Senate approved the measure last week, which allocates $38bn to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), $26bn to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and $5bn more to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through September 2029. The legislation now awaits Trump’s signature.

“With today’s vote, House and Senate Republicans have officially ended the third Democrat government shutdown of this Congress,” Republican House speaker Mike Johnson said following the measure’s passage.

“All that Democrats have achieved by their shutdown is a useful reminder to the American people of their support for open borders and keeping criminal illegal immigrants in American communities – policies that have been soundly rejected by the American people over and over again. We hope this episode serves as a future reminder to Democrats that when they shut the government down, they will receive less than nothing in return.”

Now it’s a matter of making it to Trump’s desk

House Democrats unanimously opposed the bill, with Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, saying it would “waste $70 billion in taxpayer money to give a blank check to ICE without any guardrails, any oversight, any accountability.”

Why can’t they just say they want open borders?

(NPR) But now ICE and Border Patrol will be funded without the changes Democrats were demanding, including requiring judicial warrants to enter homes and prohibiting officers from wearing masks. The package also lacks reforms with bipartisan support, such as requiring officers to wear body cameras.

Neither measure included funding for internal oversight offices that conduct investigations into detention center conditions; however, the April measure to fund all of the agency included $20 million for the DHS inspector general to specifically conduct oversight of detention facilities.

All this for nothing, Dems.

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Europe Has A Big Climate (scam) Blindspot In Its Migration Pact Or Something

By William Teach June 9, 2026 – 3:04 pm

Like I always say, the climate cult will inject themselves into any issue, and make it all about the Cult Of Climastrology

The Climate Blind Spot in Europe’s New Migration Pact

It might as well be 2015 all over again, at least for some in the EU institutions.

Even though increased political polarization, divergence from EU and international law, and persistent human rights abuses at European borders have made it clear that a new policy is needed, the Pact on Migration and Asylum that goes into effect on June 12, 2026, remains defined by a refugee influx from more than ten years ago.

The pact has a massive blind spot: the acceleration of the climate crisis in the intervening years. While offering a fleeting nod to climate change, it makes no concrete policy recommendations to address the consequent impacts on human habitability, displacement, and migration.

This siloed approach lacks foresight and misses an opportunity to better align migration and development strategies with climate policy. While it’s impossible to predict the size of migrant flows, we know that crises like conflict, famine, and extreme weather—all exacerbated by climate change—affect the decision to migrate.

And to feed even more money into the cult NGOs and companies and such. Weirdly, you never hear about Warmists taking the illegal aliens/fake asylum seekers into their own homes, eh?

Europe will need new ideas, integrated strategies, and better cooperation if it is to build a migration and asylum policy that reckons with climate change’s impacts on where we live today.

The new pact itself offers the opportunity to align the policy targets of comprehensive migration frameworks and climate-resilient development. Only a migration protocol explicitly aligned with robust agreements to fund adaptation and resilience in countries of origin could truly seek to mitigate climate as a driver of displacement.

And, all these “refugees” always seem to come to 1st world countries which will pay for their entire lives while refusing to assimilate. Go figure.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 9, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a river overflowing from too much carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on a Belfast man trying to behead someone on the street.

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Tim Walz, Keith Ellison Referred To DOJ Over Minnesota Fraud

By William Teach June 9, 2026 – 10:30 am

Could this much fraud, especially involving a favorite group of Minnesota Democrats, commit that much fraud without the Governor and AG knowing about it, especially when they were warned?

Minnesota fraud coverup under Walz featured whistleblowers threatened with drastic military measures, emails expose

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison knew of billions of dollars in benefit fraud “much earlier than they led the public to believe” — and allowed whistleblowers who flagged it to suffer retaliation, according to a stunning report released Monday.

The Walz administration “retaliated against employees who tried to raise concerns, going to great lengths to keep them quiet, including intimidation through regular check-ins with high-level agency officials and threats of military surveillance,” the report revealed.

More than 30 whistleblowers spoke with the panel to help compile the report — including several who were threatened with “military surveillance” by deputy assistant commissioner Emmanuel Nwala at a behavioral health agency. (snip)

And despite receiving repeated warnings about the swindle, Walz and his team “repeatedly failed to act,” costing taxpayers dearly, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee concluded in its 205-page report.

“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison are responsible for one of the most stunning oversight failures this Committee has ever examined,” Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement.

“Billions of dollars were stolen because Minnesota state leaders turned a blind eye to rampant fraud and retaliated against state employees who dared to raise concerns,” he added. “It is now clear the Walz Administration chose to protect the system rather than protect the taxpayer.”

It’s a hell of an article, well worth the read, which is unsurprisingly missing from the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and so many big media outlets. CNN doesn’t cover the report, except in passing in this article

Vance recommends DOJ criminal investigation into Tim Walz and Minnesota AG over state’s fraud scandal

Vice President JD Vance, who leads the White House anti-fraud task force, has referred allegations of complicity surrounding fraud in Minnesota, including against Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation.

The criminal referral stems from a House Oversight Committee report on an ongoing investigation that alleges “fraud warnings were elevated to senior levels of the Minnesota state government, meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided, and payments continued long after credible red flags emerged.”

Detailing the report in a letter to Vance on Sunday, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer encouraged the vice president’s task force “to direct the appropriate executive branch agencies to conduct a thorough review of all of Minnesota’s social services program integrity measures, oversight processes, reimbursements, and enrollment from 2019 to the present.”

“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice,” Vance said on X.

Will the investigation find evidence that they were part of the fraud, receiving kickbacks? Time will tell.

(Fox News) Vance made the announcement during an appearance on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” when he was asked about a report released by the House Oversight Committee alleging that state officials, including Walz and Ellison, were warned of fraud in the state but did not take action to stop it in part because of litigation threats and concerns about being accused of discrimination.

“We’re certainly going to investigate this, Jesse, and I guess now I can make a bit of breaking news because I left the White House to come here to do this interview with you. And before I did, we actually referred this particular case to the Department of Justice for a full criminal investigation. We are not going to do what the Biden administration did and make judgments of the law before all the facts are in,” Vance said.

“But here’s what’s particularly troubling about this to me is, Jesse, you had people within Governor Walz’s office who were saying, you know what? This looks like fraud. It looks like these Somalian illegal immigrants are doing something that’s very shady, and then you had people who shut them down, who shut these whistleblowers down and said, you know, you’re a racist or you’re a xenophobe for asking questions about where taxpayer money is going,” he continued.

We’ll see where this goes.

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Trump Admin Looking To Revoke Citizenship For 17 Fraudsters

By William Teach June 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

Obviously, this is giving the pro-illegal camp the vapors

Trump administration launches largest-ever effort to denaturalize U.S. citizens accused of fraud or other crimes

The Trump administration on Monday announced it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign.

CBS News exclusively reported about the plans before they were unveiled by the Justice Department.

Officials said the move represents the largest-ever effort by the U.S. government to use its denaturalization powers, which were rarely invoked before President Trump returned to the White House last year with promises to launch a historic deportation blitz. Between 1990 and 2017, the Justice Department filed an average of just 11 legal complaints per year seeking to denaturalize American citizens, historical figures indicate. (snip)

Some of the 17 citizens targeted in the latest denaturalization campaign were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children. Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud.

In federal court complaints filed across the country in recent days, Justice Department officials argued that the individuals concealed their criminal activity when they applied for U.S. citizenship or were otherwise ineligible to be naturalized, including because they lacked a “good moral character,” one of the requirements in the naturalization process.

So, bad people who never should have been given citizenship in the first place, and you can bet that most were given easy citizenship, not having to go through the normal process

Those targeted in the latest round of denaturalization cases include a Haitian immigrant who allegedly sexually abused his daughter; a man from the former Yugoslavia convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 15; an immigrant from Mexico convicted of receiving sexually explicit images of minors; a former Catholic priest born in Colombia accused of child sex abuse; and a Filipino-born man who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime.

The group also includes an Indian immigrant accused of filing fraudulent H-1B visa petitions; the daughter of a Colombian drug trafficker accused of money laundering; a man born in Jamaica convicted of wire fraud; and a Cuban-born woman accused of defrauding a tribal casino. Other naturalized citizens were accused of using false identities.

You Dems can’t seriously argue to keep these people, right? The DOJ outlines exactly who these people are.

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Your Fault: Lightning Hits Delivery Driver In Bangkok

By William Teach June 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

No matter what happens, it’s always linked to ‘climate change’

Seriously, that is real

An electrical engineering expert stated that a rare lightning strike on a motorcycle delivery rider on an elevated bridge was not a coincidence but was linked to climate change, while the survivor’s family confirmed he is now safe and recovering. The incident occurred during heavy rainfall on the Ratchavipha elevated bridge, where the rider, was struck directly, causing him to crash and sustain severe injuries before being rushed to a hospital. His wife reported that while he remains in the intensive care unit, he is conscious, able to eat, and can converse. He feels tightness and pain in his face due to being struck on the right side. As for the moment of the strike, he only remembers seeing a flash of lightning before blacking out, with no memory of any other events. Doctors are keeping him under observation for another 48 hours.

Dusit Suksawat, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, said a direct lightning strike on a moving motorcyclist’s helmet on a bridge is unprecedented in Thailand. He explained that elevated structures act like tall buildings, and climate change has increased the frequency of “rain bombs”—intense, localized downpours that significantly raise the accumulated voltage in cloud formations. Dusit noted that lightning victims often survive due to a phenomenon called “flashover,” where extreme heat travels rapidly across the skin’s surface in a fraction of a second, causing superficial burns rather than destroying internal organs.

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