Berkeley School System Looking To Cut Climate (scam) Program, Warmists Mad

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 7:15 am

Say, do these Warmists actually attend the schools?

Climate activists oppose cut to program in Berkeley schools

It’s been a tough few years for Berkeley youth and activists who see climate change as the central crisis of our age.

The Trump administration has rolled back environmental protections and ramped up subsidies for fossil fuels while blocking clean energy programs and scrubbing information about global warming from public websites. Though this agenda is unpopular, climate change is now near the bottom of issues voters prioritize. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has joined Democrats across the country in talking about climate change less, placing more of an emphasis on affordability and energy security.

I left in all the links, particularly about being near the bottom issues Americans care about, which is nothing unusual. And, of course, Orange Man Bad had to mentioned early

In Berkeley five years ago, the school district built one of the nation’s first climate literacy programs — aimed at ensuring all students graduate with an understanding of environmentalism. Now, amid a $10.4 million budget deficit, the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) is moving to cut the teaching position that leads the program. The district’s sustainability coordinator, who works to implement all of BUSD’s green goals, is also on the chopping block. (BUSD did not respond to requests for comment for this story.)

This is something we are starting to see more and more: economic realities starting to intrude on the pie in the sky spending from the climate cult, and a realization that the crazy spending cannot continue. The ironic part is if Democrats would just cut out all the waste, abuse, fraud, overspending, etc, they’d have the money for this stuff culty stuff. When 50% to 80% of allocations are, let’s say, improperly spent, well, you have a problem.

Community advocates have been rallying to keep climate and environmental initiatives intact, saying that the school district is walking away from its leadership on a crucial issue at a crucial time.

“It’s hard to see something you put a lot of work into and not know what the future of it is,” said Ellen McClure, the teacher who leads Berkeley’s climate literacy program and whose job is on the line. “Unfortunately, a lot of times these programs, when there are budget cuts, are just some of the first things looked at.”

Have these “advocates” considering pitching in their own money?

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Bummer: Going After Illegals Causing Great Hardship To Mass. Economy

By William Teach June 11, 2026 – 7:00 am

If you’ve designed your economy to not be able to run correctly without illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers (getting paid cheap wages), and foreigners on visas taking jobs from Americans, you’ve done something wrong and stupid

Federal immigration actions to negatively impact key swaths of Mass. economy

Increased immigration enforcement could mean prominent economic effects in the Massachusetts economy, according to a new report released June 4.

Construction, health care, life sciences and technology fields are most likely to bear the brunt of those impacts, stated the report by Boston Indicators, the research arm of the Boston Foundation, and the MassINC Policy Center.

“While the future may be uncertain, there’s nothing uncertain about the vital contributions immigrants make every single day,” said Lee Pelton, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation, at the event launching the report.

Immigration enforcement changes under President Donald Trump have been extensive. The federal administration has implemented new fees on certain visas, limited student visas and increased immigration enforcement through expanded actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Did no one sit back and say “hey, this might not be the best idea?”

As of 2024, nearly one-fifth of residents in Massachusetts are foreign born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and immigrants make up almost a quarter of the state’s workforce.

Well, you know, mostly Democrats, with the help of some Squish Republicans, created a situation, not realizing that this would not last forever. Oh, well.

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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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