Kansas Tells The Gender Confused Their DLs Must Match Their Biological Se

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

Obviously, Democrats are incensed and raging

I’m pretty sure transgenders are not allowed in Islam, and would be stoned or hung. Here’s the link in the tweet she quoted

Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of Thursday.

“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential,” read letters mailed by the Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicles division and dated Monday.

Some transgender Kansans interviewed by The Star said they had received the letters. Others who have changed the gender markers on their driver’s licenses, state IDs and birth certificates said they had not yet received notification from KDOR as of Wednesday evening.

Iridescent Riffel, a transgender woman with a Kansas driver’s license who lives in Grandview and commutes to work in Lawrence, said she hasn’t received a letter yet.

“I don’t want to get a misdemeanor just trying to go to work,” said Riffel, who changed the letter on her license from “M” to “F” in 2023, shortly before Attorney General Kris Kobach’s legal intervention forced KDOR to stop accommodating such requests for more than two years.

The least the gender confused could do is not pick a wackadoodle name. But, yeah, she’s a guy.

SB 244, which Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature voted last week to enact into law over Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto, will go into effect on Thursday upon the publication of the Kansas Register.

The legislation provides no funding to help people who need to replace their licenses. Kansas driver’s licenses typically cost around $30. But a KDOR spokesperson said in an email Thursday evening that the agency is only charging $8 to reissue valid licenses.

Oh, well. Never should have been allowed in the first place. Too much crazy in the world as it is. But, hey, if they want to pretend that’s their choice. The rest of us do not have to comply.

I set this to post, then ran across this

The gender confused are banned from going into locker rooms and bathrooms that do not conform to their biological sex.

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Your Fault: Big Northeast Snowstorm Was From Climate Doom

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

I really don’t want to do this insane stuff, but, gotta do it

How climate change helped the Blizzard of 2026 become a blockbuster

As a big snowstorm was set to roll across the eastern half of the United States last month, President Donald Trump took to social media to question the scientific consensus about climate change.

“WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” the president wrote.

Climate skeptics are probably asking similar questions this week, after a massive blizzard dumped what appears to be record-breaking amounts of snow on Rhode Island and other parts of the Northeast.

But scientists say Monday’s extreme storm, that people are still digging out from under, is consistent with what they know, as weather patterns shift and become more volatile with the warming planet.

“While it’s difficult to pin any single storm directly on climate change, we do know that climate change is making extreme weather events happen more often and with greater intensity,” state climatologist Joe Poccia said in an email.

These people. Just nuts.

Yeah, that’s all from globull warming. Right. Love the guy jogging. There’s always that one. Or, maybe his wife sent him on a Dunkin run.

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Huh: ICE Detained 261 Of Obama’s DACA Kids Last Year

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 6:45 am

Would these be part of the same DACA that Obama said was un-Constitutional before making it an EO

ICE arrested 261 DACA recipients over 10 months last year, document shows

Federal immigration agents arrested 261 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to official U.S. government statistics that were shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News.

The statistics indicate the vast majority of DACA recipients taken into federal immigration custody during that period had criminal records.

The government figures provide the most comprehensive official accounting so far of how many DACA recipients, also known as “Dreamers,” have been swept up by President Trump’s nationwide deportation crackdown.

Those enrolled in the Obama-era DACA program came to the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas as children. They were granted temporary work permits and deportation protections after passing background checks and meeting several requirements, including coming to the U.S. before June 2007, not having serious criminal histories and graduating from an American high school or serving in the military.

Background checks, huh? What happened after?

In a letter to Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Department of Homeland Security said that between Jan. 1 and Nov. 19, 2025, ICE arrested 261 DACA beneficiaries and deported 86 of them. That timeframe includes the final 19 days of President Joe Biden’s term, though it is unclear how many of the arrests occurred under his administration, which rarely targeted DACA beneficiaries.

DHS said in its letter that 241 — or 92% — of the 261 DACA enrollees taken into ICE custody had “criminal histories” outside of civil immigration violations. DHS typically considers pending criminal charges and convictions as criminal histories. The letter, signed by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, did not specify the severity of the alleged criminal records.

Doesn’t matter the severity: the terms of (unconstitutional) DACA is that they must stay clean. No busts.

“not convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or three or more misdemeanors, and not otherwise a threat to national security or public safety”

They had their chance, and blew it.

In a statement in response to the DHS letter, Durbin and fellow Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla and Mark Kelly called the arrests of DACA recipients “deeply troubling,” saying the detentions “disrupt families, harm communities, and inflict unnecessary social, emotional, and economic costs.”

Why is it that Democrats stand up for illegal aliens and not Americans?

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Again: Warmists Say AC Use Will Make Hotcoldwetdry Worse

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 3:22 pm

I wonder if Simmone Shah, who wrote this, has done away with her own use of AC? Especially since all she seems to write about is climate doom. How about Time magazine at their office, since they approved publishing this, and hired her

New Study Finds Air Conditioners Will Exacerbate Climate Change As Planet Warms

As global temperatures rise, the very thing we turn to to keep ourselves cool could be a significant contributor to increased emissions and an even warmer planet.

A new study published today in the journal Nature Communications estimates that, by 2050, air-conditioning use is expected to more than double as more people turn to air conditioning to stay cool amidst rising temperatures, contributing significantly to expected greenhouse gas emissions. What’s more, as incomes rise in developing countries and more low and medium-income regions achieve the same access to AC as high-income regions, we could see an additional 0.015°C to 0.05°C of warming by 2050.

The rise could create what the researchers call a “feedback loop,” in which closing the inequality gap and improving access to air conditioning would put global climate targets out of reach. Regions most vulnerable to rising temperatures, such as South Asia and Africa, currently have the least access to air-conditioning. In contrast, wealthier regions like Europe and North America have lower cooling needs but higher air-conditioning usage.

“The study reveals that if all low?income regions gained the same access to air-conditioning as rich regions, related global emissions would jump dramatically—adding up to 0.05°C extra warming even in the most climate?friendly scenario,” Hongzhi Zhang, from the Beijing Institute of Technology, the first author of the study, said in a press release.

It’s long been known that air conditioning contributes to global warming. Existing cooling equipment uses hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, which are potent greenhouse gases. One 2023 estimate from the U.N. claims that refrigeration and air conditioning are responsible for 7% of global emissions.

A couple things. First, yes, those refrigerants can cause anthropogenic warming, but, really, not much in Reality Land. Second, said warming is only a rise of 1.7F since 1850. Absolutely no big deal, especially since most is nature, land use, urban heat island effect, and a tiny bit from anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

Third, I love how 1st World Warmists always want to deny things like AC that they themselves use and won’t give up to those in the 3rd world. Kinda bigoted, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon pollution infused beer causing sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the Net Zero opinion polls in the UK.

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Fish Wrap Worries New ACA Plans Could Be “Unaffordable”

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is such a fantastic program, a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which has pretty much been called unaffordable since it started

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

The Trump administration’s proposed new rules for Obamacare plans next year would shift more health care costs to Americans, with much higher deductibles that could lead to greater medical bills.

Under the proposal, people who rely on the Affordable Care Act for their health insurance coverage could choose plans with much lower monthly premiums. But that could leave them exposed to medical expenses totaling thousands of dollars more than A.C.A. plans do now before their insurance would kick in.

Heading into the midterm elections, offering these new plans is one of few options open to the Trump administration to lower Obamacare premiums that do not require congressional approval. Affordability has become a campaign mantra for Democrats: Health care costs were viewed as the top economic concern in a recent public opinion poll from KFF, a health research group.

In his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump blamed “the crushing costs of health care” on the Affordable Care Act, saying the program funneled money to the big insurance companies, He advocated sending the payments directly to Americans, so they could “buy their own health care, which will be better health care at a much lower cost.”

Really, the entire thing needs to be scrapped and redone so that it works correctly, because what it’s done since it started was increase the cost of health insurance and medical care for everyone, including those not on Obamacare. It would be best if it was states doing it, not the federal government, but, the door was opened, and you can almost never close a door on a federal “help” program once it is opened.

Low cost premium plans always had deductibles that were virtually impossible to meet for those who wanted the plans. The premiums themselves kept rising to the point that federal subsidies were out of control. So, what now? All the news outlets and Democrats never actually offer any solutions, because they love that all those medical companies they profess to hate are getting gobs of easy money which gets funneled back to Democrats.

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Your Fault: Earth’s Green Center Is Moving

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 7:15 am

I love when there’s a new one from the doomsday cult

Earth’s ‘green center’ is drifting, and climate change is pushing it

Earth’s peak greenness has shifted decisively toward the northeast over the past four decades, establishing a measurable relocation of the planet’s living surface.

That steady drift redraws where seasonal plant growth concentrates, altering the geographic balance of carbon uptake and ecosystem timing worldwide.

Once you write “carbon” instead of “carbon dioxide” you’ve exposed yourself as this being not about science.

From daily satellite views of global vegetation, a single shifting point marks where the planet’s greenery concentrates most strongly at any moment.

Working from that planetary record, Professor Miguel Mahecha at Leipzig University documented how this balance point has moved persistently northeast over recent decades.

Rather than swinging evenly between hemispheres, the annual loop now leans north in every season and stretches farther east than before.

By compressing global plant activity into one moving coordinate, the finding sets up a clearer test of what forces are pushing Earth’s green center off its historical track.

OK, and? Things change during Holocene warm and cool periods. Do they have specific data on what happened during the previous warm periods over the last 8,000 years? If not, there is no comparison, and that is necessary for science.

Carbon dioxide explained about 70% of observed global greening, a long-term rise in leaf cover worldwide, in one large analysis.

Meaning this is all on you. Cult.

To see what might come next, the researchers ran the same metric through six major climate models.

Those Earth system models, computer simulations that couple land, air, and oceans, kept the northward drift under every scenario tested. (snip)

Satellites cannot see everything clearly, and clouds, snow, or dense evergreen can blur what greenness means on the ground.

To make the work checkable, the team released scripts that rebuild every figure and its codebase.

So, a ton of this is all based on garbage in garbage out computer models. I’m shocked!

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LOL: Massachusetts Federal Judge Says Illegals Cannot Be Deported To Third-Party Countries

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 7:00 am

Didn’t the Supreme Court already say they can?

Federal judge rules Trump admin may not remove people to third countries without due process

A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s policy to quickly remove people to third countries to which they have no previous connection is illegal and that people must receive meaningful notice and the chance to challenge their deportations.

“This case is about whether the Government may, without notice, deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled,” U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy wrote in what is likely to be his final ruling on the merits of the case.

The case originated after eight migrants were removed from the United States with the intended destination of South Sudan in March but were instead rerouted to Djibouti. The eight migrants did not have South Sudan or Djibouti as the listed country on their final orders of removal paperwork, and immigration advocates filed a lawsuit in an attempt to get them back to the U.S. for due process.

Murphy said the federal government may not remove people with final orders of removal to third countries other than their own. Instead, the government must first try to send people to the countries of removal listed on their paperwork. An immigration judge issues a “final order of removal,” which orders a noncitizen’s deportation. The person is then able to appeal the judge’s decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals within 30 days of the ruling.

They usually do attempt to send to their own country first. 3rd party is the last resort.

Last year, the Supreme Court paused an order by Murphy that had temporarily blocked the administration from sending noncitizens to third countries unless they were first able to have a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death.

Yeah, so, he’s already been overruled by the Supreme Court. And will most likely be overruled by an appeals court or SCOTUS again. In the mean time, ICE should move all illegals in Murphy’s court district out of it, then send them to a 3rd party country if necessary.

Meanwhile, Ilhan is still big mad

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Israeli High Court Joins The Climate Cult

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 4:21 pm

It’s not just some US states, Canada, and Europe

Heeding green groups’ demand, High Court orders government to justify climate targets

A day after hearing the first petition in Israel against the state’s climate policy, the High Court of Justice ordered the government on Tuesday to define and explain its minimum target for cutting global warming emissions, to detail what steps it was taking to reduce those emissions, and to explain what was happening with its climate bill.

The court set a June 26 deadline for responses from the government and the environmental protection, energy and health ministers.

On Monday, three High Court justices heard a petition submitted by two green organizations, Green Course and Youth for Climate, calling for an interim injunction to compel the government to explain why its 2030 emissions-cut target is 27 percent rather than 43%, as set by the UN to cap rising global temperatures.

Well, I would have thought that the answer was “Israel is not a state of the United Nations, and the UN is not actually a government,” but, apparently not

The Sixth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued in 2022, called for a global 43% cut in emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases helping to drive climate change in order to implement the Paris agreement, which seeks to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6?F), preferably 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7?F), relative to pre-industrial levels.

Representing the petitioners, Assaf Fink argued on Monday that Israel’s ratification of the Paris Agreement did not align with the government’s decision to set a 2030 target of just 27%. In practice, he added, the state would likely cut emissions by only 19%.

How about if all the Warmists in Israel cut their own emissions by at least 43%, instead of forcing Other People to cooperate?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 25, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an invasive lizard invading because of carbon pollution warming but also falling out of trees due to carbon pollution driven cold weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on whether nor’easters are getting stronger or not.

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