Illegals In Hawaii Detention Could Wait 19 Months For Hearing Or Something

By William Teach May 11, 2026 – 10:30 am

There is a simple solution for this

Detained Immigrants Could Wait 19 Months For Their Day In Honolulu Court

Honolulu’s federal immigration court has become increasingly overwhelmed since 2020, with new data showing that the number of cases pending and the wait time for those cases to reach the courts both have hit their highest levels in 15 years.

Those problems, which predate the second Trump administration, have been further tested by a quadrupling of immigration arrests in Hawai?i in 2025 compared to 2024.

The pace of arrests was averaging 35 a month last year, then appeared to be tapering off in February, according to the latest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is moving to limit the time allocated in courts for individual hearings in asylum cases, while ramping up requests for removals before hearings can be conducted.

How many illegals were there in the very expensive state of Hawaii?

New immigration cases in Hawai?i began overwhelming completed cases during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 and, according to Maui attorney Kevin Block, “there was also a surge of unaccompanied minors and other types of cases in 2023 and 2024. So it was after Covid, but before the second Trump administration.”

The backlog in Honolulu immigration cases doubled from 568 in the 2023 fiscal year to 1,162 in the 2024 fiscal year, he said — cases that are still making their way through the courts.

The backlog of pending immigration cases is now at its highest rate in 15 years, with 1,413 cases reported as of March 2026, according to new data obtained from the Department of Homeland Security, which was released on May 6 by an immigration tracking project based at Syracuse University.

That’s not a lot of illegals for one state, but, the courts are smaller because Hawaii is out in the middle of nowhere. Rather a strange place to just show up illegally and demand (fake) asylum, eh? It’s not cheap getting to Hawaii, but, we’ve been told that all illegals are poor.

The state has a limited number of immigration attorneys and if someone is detained in FDC Honolulu, their lawyer may have to travel to O?ahu to confer with them, he said, assuming they have the money to retain one in the first place.

Well, yeah, it’s not the kind of state that would need a lot like NY or California. Oh, well. It shouldn’t take long. Listen to the illegal make up a story of woe, realize that it is BS, and ship them off.

After ICE raids, immigrants are living in fear. How their neighbors are trying to help

The news of ICE raids has quieted in recent months, but many immigrants are still living with uncertainty. Here is a look at the people and organizations who are working to assist immigrants in their communities throughout the Midwest and Great Plains.

Juan’s fingers interlock as he sits on his living room couch. He squeezes them tighter as he talks about his American journey.

He came to the U.S. from Guatemala more than 30 years ago in search of a better life and became a citizen a decade ago.

But here in Sioux City, Iowa, the immigrants he knows are afraid.

“Many people live with that fear constantly, especially those with families,” Juan said in Spanish.

And they should be. They are here illegally. How many have stolen the social security numbers of Americans, causing problems with their credit? And the fear is the point. They, like those in Hawaii, should simply self deport.

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NY Times: All You Blue Collar Workers Are Dummies For Not Believing In Climate Doom

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

I wonder if that is what Times writer Matthew T Huber was going for

DAVID MARCUS: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax

For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

“Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore,” blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.

In elementary school, I endured warnings of a coming ice age, then by high school it was global warming that was minutes away from ending humanity. By the time I was an adult, the warming having failed, surprisingly, to occur, we settled on “climate change,” as the vague name for the inevitable apocalypse.

In 2018, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was coming into prominence, she told us that we had a mere 12 years to fix the climate problem or we would all die. In that time, untold trillions of dollars have been spent by the government, along with basically every business in the country, to hold the weather at bay, even though every prediction the alarmists have made has fallen flat.

Let’s flip over to that Times piece

Sam Forstag, a Democrat running for Congress in Montana, is in many ways a familiar kind of progressive: He is a union worker calling for taxing the rich and expanding Medicare for all Americans.

But there’s one topic he appears to avoid, in his platform and in public forums. When asked recently about the growing threat of wildfires and drought in the West, he discussed a terrible ski season and record-high temperatures, but did not name the climate crisis directly.

The Democratic U.S. House candidates Trey Martin, a union ironworker in Oklahoma, and Chris Reichard, an electrician and veteran running in Missouri, are also steering somewhat clear of what was once a centerpiece of many progressive political campaigns. Even in a blue district in Minnesota, Kaela Berg, a Democratic state legislator who works as a flight attendant, only mentions climate change briefly on her congressional campaign website, linking it to bringing down energy costs.

For the past several months, Democratic elites have been debating how much to talk about climate change, if at all — in part because these new candidates have narrowed their focus to energy affordability to win back the working class. It is a striking shift from a few years ago, when many Democratic politicians thought the promise of a Green New Deal would build a coalition based on green jobs and fighting inequality.

Here’s the thing which is being missed by those proclaiming the end of the climate scam cult: it’s not going anywhere. They’re simply keeping quiet about it to win an election. And then it will come right back up, especially if they win the White House in 2028 and control Congress. It’s not about the climate, it’s about power, money, and control. Democrats will never give up on that.

The voters who already prioritize climate action are firmly in the Democratic camp and highly educated and affluent, or as the economist Thomas Piketty calls them, the “Brahmin Left.” What candidates like Mr. Forstag, Mr. Reichard and Ms. Berg seem to understand is that for blue-collar voters, energy is an “end of the month” issue, and affordability should be the overarching policy goal. This is all the more important today, given rising electricity rates and war-fueled spikes in gasoline prices.

In other words, Democrats think the blue collars are big dummies, so, they must be patronized and lied to. Heck, even a barista at Starbucks thinks they are “highly educated and affluent”, even though they offer little of value, unlike folks doing your plumbing and AC. Fixing your cars. Growing your food. And Democrats hate them.

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Auditor Finds Massive Fraud In Autism Billing In NC

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

Gee, who could have seen this coming?

North Carolina auditor says there’s been a 47,000 percent rise in autism therapy billings

The elected state auditor of North Carolina said the value of autism therapy billings to the state’s Medicaid program has increased by roughly 47,000 percent over a five-year period, raising concerns about possible waste, fraud or abuse.

Dave Boliek, who took office last year and oversees the finances of all state agencies, revealed that in 2020, providers billed Health and Human Services about $1.4 million a year for autism therapy services.

According to Boliek, that number has since ballooned to $660 million on an annual basis.

‘Those are vital services to folks and individuals that need that therapy,’ Boliek said in an interview with Fox News Digital. ‘That begs an audit from the state auditor… we are the top watchdog agency for taxpayer waste, fraud, and abuse prevention. So we’ve dug down into that.’ (snip)

By fiscal year 2026, the state’s projected expenditures on these services will be $842 million, and in 2027, it is expected to rise to $1.1 billion. The report also shows that there were just 3,844 users of these therapies in 2022 as opposed to 13,447 in 2025.

‘Utilization growth far outpaces increases in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis,’ the report said, adding that it is ‘unlikely that this level of growth can be explained by increased access alone.’

Where’s the money going? There’s no way that you get that much of a rise in billings in just a few years, right? If the state actually does a real audit and starts visiting those billing the state I’m betting it will look just like those “learing centers” and such in Minnesota. The government, at the state and federal levels, has made it incredibly too easy to commit fraud. How many have not been caught and won’t be?

In North Carolina, Boliek believes the potential fraud on his hands is due to a general lack of understanding about who is supposed to submit invoices to Health and Human Services. He also said some instances of duplicative billing are likely illegal.

‘We’ve seen examples where there might be three different clinical providers billing during the same tranche of time on an autism therapy client and that is because of poor rulemaking,’ he said. ‘Some of it is possibly illegal and probably illegal, and we’re going to point that out, and we’re going to try to put people in cuffs because of it.’

Would you run your own personal finances like this? And it begs the question how much more money has been wasted via the full Medicaid system? Not that the local news outlets care. None are covering this, much like most California outlets are not covering Gavin Newsom’s diaper scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 10, 2026 – 1:51 pm

…are horrible carbon polluting dogs, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Libery’s Torch, with a post on the aliens coming to your church.

It’s pets week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 10, 2026 – 9:17 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my 2nd favorite hockey team has swept through the 2nd round of the Playoffs. This digital pinup is supposedly by Rick Andreoli, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The American Conservative: Zelensky and Ukraine Are in a World of Trouble
  2. Powerline: U.K. Reform earthquake
  3. Pacific Pundit: Organizer of Texas ‘Muslim only’ waterpark event runs a misspelled ‘Learing Center’ childcare org
  4. neo-neocon: Democrats and NeverTrumpers are very very angry at the Virginia Supreme Court
  5. Moonbattery: Children Evacuated From Obscene Moonbat Play
  6. Legal Insurrection: DOJ Concludes UCLA Med School Racially Discriminated In Admissions Process
  7. Jihad Watch: A Slap on the Wrist for the Muslim Responsible for the Death of a Jew in California
  8. IOTW Report: Gas Station Employees Harass ICE Officers Transporting Child Predators
  9. Geller Report: Democrats Target Israel’s Nuclear Deterrent — While Allowing Iran To Race Towards A Nuclear Bomb
  10. Gates Of Vienna: Dude, I Want a Nicer Cell Right Now — Or Else!
  11. Common Cents Blog: NY Post’s Moynihan: It’s ‘Ironic’ that the Woman Who Will Likely Win the 9th District in Tennessee Is a Black Republican Woman – Video
  12. Climate Depot: Breakthrough! Houston Chronicle Publishes Non-alarmist Climate Op-ed
  13. Bearing Arms: Giffords Nearly Says Quiet Part Out Loud Yet Again
  14. No Tricks Zone: 46 IPCC Scientists Break Rank, Publicly Challenge Long-Standing Dogmatic Climate Claims
  15. And last, but, not least, Not A Lot Of People Know That has “The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Philly Goes All In On Being A Sanctuary City

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

Instead of doing a big roundup surge the Trump admin should send thousands of illegals to Philly and say “have fun”

Mayor Parker signs sweeping restrictions on immigration enforcement, cementing Philly’s sanctuary policies into law

Philadelphia will soon have some of the nation’s toughest local restrictions on federal immigration-enforcement operations after Mayor Cherelle L. Parker on Thursday approved legislation codifying the city’s sanctuary policies and banning ICE raids on city property.

The mayor signed six out of seven “ICE Out” bills that came to her desk after being passed by a supermajority of City Council. She took no action on the seventh bill, a piece of legislation that bans immigration agents from concealing their identities, meaning it will still become law because she did not issue a veto.

The other bills approved Thursday bar federal immigration enforcement from staging raids on city-owned property, prohibit discrimination on the basis of citizenship status, and ban the city from engaging in most forms of information sharing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It effectively codifies into law the city’s already existing sanctuary policies in which officials do not assist the federal government in carrying out immigration enforcement.

Those practices were previously in place as the result of an executive order. But signing them into law means that a future mayor can’t unilaterally revoke the city’s sanctuary policies.

Well, good luck with these come into effect in July. The city has zero control over federal immigration operations. The states can’t do it, and cities definitely cannot. If they do not want to share information on illegals caught committing crime, as well as turning them over, then they should get no federal money. Seriously, why do Democrats want to protect illegal alien criminals who hurt US citizens?

Of course, Philly could be the next recipient of a lawsuit

Feds sue New Mexico, Albuquerque over pro-immigrant policies

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico and city of Albuquerque alleging a new state law and city ordinance “unlawfully interfere with federal immigration enforcement.”

The Immigrant Safety Act, passed by the state Legislature earlier this year and signed into law in February, bans local governments from contracting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for immigrant detention. It also bans cooperation agreements between ICE and local police.

“New Mexico is attempting to regulate immigration policy, something the federal government is clearly and uniquely empowered by the Constitution to do,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a news release Friday.

Trump and his people are not playing. Maybe Democrats shouldn’t have been unhinged during Trump’s 1st term and after he left office.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Driving Hantavirus

By William Teach May 9, 2026 – 4:05 pm

So we have this

So, of course

The country where lethal hantavirus cases are on the rise. Experts blame climate change

Hantavirus cases in Argentina have almost doubled in the past year, with the country recording 32 deaths alongside its highest number of infections since 2018.
The rise comes as Argentine authorities race to trace the footsteps of a couple who traveled extensively in the country and later died amid an outbreak of the virus on the cruise ship MV Hondius. The vessel left port in Ushuaia, southern Argentina, on April 1 and is currently on its way to Spain’s Canary Islands.

It is expected to reach Tenerife’s industrial port of Granadilla early Sunday morning.

Experts blame climate change and habitat destruction for the rise in cases of the disease, which is usually caused?by exposure to the urine or feces of infected rodents.

Sigh. They just can’t help linking everything to the cult

But experts believe environmental degradation caused by climate change and human activity is contributing to its spread by allowing the rodents that transmit the virus to thrive in new areas.

“Increasing human interaction with wild environments, habitat destruction, the establishment of small urbanizations in rural areas, and the effects of climate change contribute to the appearance of cases outside historically endemic areas,” the ministry said.

So, that has nothing to do with a slightly warming climate, be it anthropogenic, natural, or some combination. That is strictly land use, there being more humans and more human projects encroaching on the wild areas.

…stay there now.

Andes virus spreads through close contact with an infected person’s respiratory secretions. In Patagonia, that means family members in the same house, occasionally neighbors. The chain stops fast because there’s nobody else nearby.

The MV Hondius had 149 people from 23 countries sharing cabins, bathrooms, and dining halls for weeks. The index case was a Dutch man who spent four months driving through Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina before boarding. He boarded on April 1. WHO confirmed human-to-human transmission is likely occurring among close contacts. The ship’s own doctor got sick and was evacuated.

Here’s the part that isn’t in most of the coverage.

Signs and symptoms appear between 4 and 42 days after exposure. The outbreak wasn’t identified until May 2. That means passengers who disembarked before that date, across 23 countries, potentially incubated in silence. Contact tracing is now running across South Africa, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Saint Helena, Singapore, France, the UK, the US, and Canada. Passengers are being monitored in Arizona, Georgia, California, and at least two other US states.

Oh, and there is nothing you can really do. No treatments, no shots. And nothing to do with climate doom.

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If All You See…

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

…is a sea that will soon rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on the journolism of NBC News.

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PRC To Give “All” New Parents Free Diapers Or Something

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

What could possibly go wrong?

Governor Newsom launches first-in-the-nation program providing free diapers for all new parents

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Beginning this summer, every newborn delivered in a participating California hospital will receive 400 diapers at no cost to the family. Hospitals will provide diapers to families at the time of discharge, ensuring parents leave the hospital with an immediate supply of high-quality diapers tailored to newborn needs.

That’s the official state website

(AP) During the program’s first year, it will be offered at about 65 to 75 hospitals that handle about a quarter of births in the state and largely serve low-income patients, Newsom’s office said. The initiative will expand to more hospitals statewide, though the governor’s office did not say how many. The state has partnered with nonprofit Baby2Baby to manufacture the diapers under the label “Golden State Start.”

Right now there are about 60 state and local government owned hospitals, out of around 350 general hospitals, so, I’m guessing not all babies will be getting the 400 diapers. But, let’s delve into the Baby2Baby for the roughly $20 million

And also in reply to Gavin

Huh. That’s weird. It’s almost like the Typical NGO Games where tax payer funds are shifted from govt to NGOs/private companies and a fraction of the money is spent on the actual goods. It would be great to see an audit of the program after one year

Yes, yes it would, because then they would be spending all the money on diapers. But, that is not the point. The point is to hook up donors and friends. And, this could cause the price of diapers to rise in the People’s Republik of California. Good job, Gavin and PRC general assembly Democrats!

You keep voting for this waste and graft, Californians!

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They’re Totally “Willing To End Fossil Fuels” Or Something

By William Teach May 9, 2026 – 7:15 am

The tone deafness and hypocrisy is amazing

Willing to End Fossil Fuels

The first gathering of a new international “coalition of the willing” to transition away from fossil fuels recently took place in Colombia. It’s a separate event from the UN COP climate negotiations and was born in part out of frustration over fossil fuel friendly nations like the US, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia stalling the COP process. Rodrigo Estrada, Senior Climate Advisor at Greenpeace International, was there and joins Host Aynsley O’Neill to share the takeaways and next steps.

Transcript
DOERING: From PRX and the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios at the University of Massachusetts Boston, this is Living on Earth, I’m Jenni Doering.

O’NEILL: And I’m Aynsley O’Neill.

The first gathering of a new international “coalition of the willing” to transition away from fossil fuels took place in Santa Marta, Colombia at the end of April. It’s a separate event from the UN COP climate negotiations and it was born in part out of frustration over fossil fuel-friendly nations stalling the COP process. So, for this conference, nations seen as spoilers, like the United States, Russia, China, India, and Saudi Arabia were specifically not invited. Jointly convened by Colombia and the Netherlands, this event brought together 57 countries and the European Union, representing roughly 30% of global energy demand. Also present were civil society organizations and representatives of indigenous peoples. The conference was aimed at accelerating political momentum for a just energy transition and closing the gap between discussions and concrete action when it comes to international climate negotiations. Rodrigo Estrada is a Senior Climate Advisor at Greenpeace International who was there in Santa Marta. Rodrigo, welcome to Living on Earth!

So, 57 nations and the EU sent people on long, fossil fueled trips to Santa Marta? How many came on private jets? How many traveled around town in fossil fueled vehicles? How many protesters took fossil fueled trips to protest?

See those clothes? Made with petroleum. That sign? Petroleum. Most of those flags? Petroleum? The glasses? Yup, petroleum? The hats? Mostly petroleum. All their phones? Yes, petroleum! You can preach at me when you’ve given up your own use of fossil fuels (50% of a barrel goes to things other than gas, diesel, and lubricating oils), nutters.

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