…are horrible world killing totally Evil fossil fueled vehicles that Other People should be restricted from using, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The View From Lady Lake, with a post on how the TSA wants to speed up screening.
It’s shorts week!
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Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the deer are walking through the backyard. This pinup is by Gil Elgren with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
They aren’t just upset over rounding up illegal alien criminals, they’re also upset that all that government money isn’t coming their way so they can skim it off
Companies are making big bucks from immigration crackdowns
The exhibition hall of the annual Border Security Expo (BSE), held this month in Phoenix, Arizona, looked more like the set of a dystopian science-fiction film. Surveillance towers flashed brightly. Drones buzzed overhead. One company demonstrated a robotic dog designed to patrol borders. Another showed off a thermal camera that can detect movement kilometres away. On stage Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s “border czar”, praised the technology firms in attendance for helping to build “the most secure border in history”.
As the bustling trade fair demonstrated, the business of immigration enforcement is booming. Right-wing populists—and incumbents seeking to fend them off—are spending more on monitoring borders, tracking down those who have entered the country illegally, then detaining and deporting them. In America, Congress has approved roughly $170bn in cumulative additional funding for immigration enforcement until 2029. Even the European Union is ratcheting up spending. That is benefiting not only incumbent outsourcers, but also a wave of startups hoping to bring new technologies to the industry.
Border control is an area of particular interest for newcomers. Much of that business has tended to flow to large defence contractors and established security firms. Yet agencies across America and Europe have been simplifying procurement rules and running pilot programmes to allow new products to be tested and deployed more quickly, luring in startups.
As a result, what was once a labour-intensive system of patrol agents, radios and vehicles is turning into a digital-surveillance network. Governments increasingly rely on drones, radars, heat-detecting cameras and the like to monitor vast swathes of territory in real time. Such technologies reduce risks for agents and free them up for higher-value work, according to Steven Willoughby, an official at America’s Department of Homeland Security. Instead of relying on agents scouring remote terrain, authorities can now monitor deserts and coastlines from centralised command centres.
Well, awesome sauce! But, the one thing I would say is that I hope people are keeping an eye on the money and how it is being spent. And can’t rail about waste, graft, and fraud for all those Democrats and not worry about it for this. Any, let’s see, misspending by government is bad.
Much of the new tech being used at borders was originally developed for warfare. Anduril, a drone-maker that recently raised $5bn at a $61bn valuation, has a $363m contract with the US Border Patrol for autonomous surveillance systems. Shield AI, a rival, has won a $198m contract with the US Coast Guard, and is also deploying its drones on European borders. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the controversial agency that tracks down illegal immigrants already in America, has come to rely on software provided by Palantir, a data-analytics firm embedded in the Pentagon.
We need to do all this stuff because of things like this
Brookline Police decline ICE detainer for illegal immigrant tied to ‘safety concern’
The Brookline Police Department said it followed department policy in declining to cooperate with ICE after arresting an illegal immigrant later involved in a “public safety concern” during his apprehension by federal agents.
Chief Jennifer Paster in a Friday letter informed residents that local police arrested illegal immigrant Edual Ulloa, 25, on Tuesday following a traffic stop. He was charged with possession of a forged license plate, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, failure to stop for police, traffic offenses, and an outstanding warrant out of Natick District Court.
“The individual was processed through the normal criminal justice process and later released on bail,” Paster wrote.
“Prior to the individual’s release, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents provided the Brookline Police Department with an immigration detainer. In compliance with Brookline Police policy the individual was advised of the notice and a copy was placed into his property,” Paster continued in the letter posted to the department’s Facebook page.
All that and they still wouldn’t give him up to ICE. And then they wonder why they get surges into their towns.
Read: Huh: Democrats Upset Over Companies Making Money Off Stopping Illegal Immigration »
Nothing better for the cultists than to declare this and get all the slush money and authoritarian powers, eh?
Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO
The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.
The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).
The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary, said the commission’s report, which will be presented to European ministers on Sunday before the WHO’s world health assembly starts on Monday.
Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised.
LOL. All this die to a 1.7F increase in global temperatures since 1850. Obviously, there is no ulterior motives, right?
Climate change is a health crisis – and fixing it is a health opportunity
Independent Commission of former heads of government, international bodies, ministers and civil society leaders delivers 17 recommendations for what WHO and countries should do next
The WHO is super excited to implement their cultish Fashism.
Read: “Experts” Tell WHO To Declare A Global Public Health Emergency Due To Hotcoldwetdry »
…are horrible carbon pollution created Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is IMAO, with a post on why movies generally suck.
Read: If All You See… »
This has made the Democrats a bill shrill
Supreme Court rejects bid to revive Democrats’ Virginia redistricting plan
Virginia Democrats’ last-ditch bid to revive their plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to gain additional Democratic seats fizzled out Friday at the Supreme Court as the justices refused to restore the results of the referendum voters approved last month.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones asked the nation’s highest court to take emergency action to block a Virginia Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that nullified the referendum after concluding that it violated the state’s constitution.
Were those the asks that had misspelled words, including misspelling Virginia and Senator, and still included the Supreme Court of Virginia on the letters?
The emergency appeal found no traction at the Supreme Court. A one-sentence order released shortly after Jones filed his final brief on the appeal said Chief Justice John Roberts referred the stay request to the full bench, which denied relief.
So, basically, it was 4-3 in the Va Supreme Court, and 9-0 in the US Supreme Court. Remember, the vote count to make it 10-1 Democrat districts was 51.5% yes to 48.5% no.
She big mad. 51.5% – 48.5%, Abs.
Don’t think they’ll give up
They will try again in Virginia, just like they’re doing in many other states, as the full thread shows. Just like with the climate scam, which they’ve been pushing hard for 30+ years, it won’t stop.
Hey, something new!
Climate change costs lives by breaking down social connection, says study
Climate change is widely understood as an environmental and economic threat, but new research from the University of Sydney shows it is also a growing social crisis, weakening the relationships people rely on to survive.
Published in Nature Human Behaviour, the international study found climate change is eroding social connection at a time when those ties are most needed, creating a feedback loop where disruption to relationships reduces people’s ability to adapt and recover. (snip)
How climate change is breaking down social connection
The research draws together global evidence showing that climate pressures are reducing everyday opportunities to connect. Heat waves and air pollution are pushing people indoors and away from shared public spaces, while interruptions to school and work make it harder to maintain relationships.Evidence from China and Tuvalu shows these pressures can reduce social activity, increase depression, and in some cases lead people to withdraw from community life altogether.
OK, enough, this is all horsehit. Social media and over-reliance on staring at phones, spending way too much time gaming and doing TikTok videos, liberalism breaking the nuclear family, and tons of other things are considerably more to blame than a 1.7F increase in the temperature of the planet since 1850. F’ing cult.
Read: Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Breaking Social Connections »
This is giving the NY Times some apoplexy
Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New ‘Removal Apparatus’
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to deport at least 50 green card holders through a new unit dedicated to revetting thousands of immigrants with permanent residency across the country, according to internal data obtained by The New York Times.
Those cases represent a small fraction of the total number of green card holders who have been reviewed so far. About 2,890 cases had been reviewed or were still being assessed as of May 7. Eighty percent of those cases were deemed as requiring “no further action.” More than 500 green card holders were still under review.
The figures reveal the early results of the Trump administration’s efforts to screen green card holders suspected of committing fraud or posing threats. The recent creation of the unit also underscores how aggressively administration officials are trying to root out immigrants they believe should be stripped of their legal status and removed from the country.
Oh, wait, this is a pretty straight article, noting why DHS is looking to strip green cards, which is not something that is actually unusual. In fact, thousands lose their green cards every year. These seem to be ones that have slipped through the system.
It is the latest sign that the administration is broadening its immigration crackdown beyond those living in the country illegally to those who have gained lawful status. Officials have launched campaigns to try to revoke the statuses of refugees and naturalized citizens in recent months, provoking fear among many longtime residents that their status is not secure.
The Trump administration has said it is necessary to revet broad groups of immigrants because of lax screening standards under the Biden administration. But the effort is coming under criticism by some former homeland security officials under Democratic and Republican administrations who have questioned the use of resources and pointed out that the internal figures show only about 2 percent of green card holders reviewed were deemed potentially deportable.
Zach Kahler, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the immigration system, said the agency was “evolving through organizational realignments to better protect American citizens and support our mission priorities.”
Oops, and now right back to barking at the moon. Sigh. Why is it so wrong to go after bad people?
See, when a Democrat passes some sort of rule, regulation, or Executive Order, a Republican can never end it. When a Democrat ends something from a GOP president, it is perfectly fine
We’re Suing Trump For His Biggest Attack on Climate Change Yet
In February 2026, the Trump administration struck one of its biggest blows to climate action yet — repealing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “endangerment finding.” Issued in 2009, the endangerment finding is a determination that greenhouse gas pollution threatens public health and welfare.
The finding is a key mechanism that the federal government relies on to regulate climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. It laid the foundation for emissions standards that could rein in climate-harming pollution from sources like power plants and oil and gas facilities, in addition to motor vehicles.
Repealing the endangerment finding takes a critical tool out of the government’s toolbox, at a time when bold climate action is more important than ever to protect communities and the environment.
But we’re not letting this happen without a fight. On April 8, we joined Alaskan tribes and environmental groups to sue the Trump administration. (snip to the end)The Trump administration’s move to rescind the endangerment finding makes a mockery of the EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment. The agency’s attempt to ignore its fundamental objective and disavow its authority to protect people and the planet is simply wrong. The notion that the EPA shouldn’t act against climate-harming greenhouse gas emissions is akin to a fire department refusing to fight fires. It is patently absurd.
We can’t allow Trump’s EPA to shirk its responsibility for addressing these harms, and that’s why we’re fighting back against the repeal of the endangerment finding in court.
Yeah, well, you’re all fully wasting your time. The retarded endangerment finding was repealed in compliance with the law. It’s not against the law to end a rule or regulation. And who the hell, exactly, is Food and Water Watch? Never heard of them, but, according to their about page they are fulling in line with Democrats on all their wacko issues. Why don’t you and your “2 million followers” stop using fossil fuels and make your lives carbon neutral, leave the rest of us alone.
Read: Cultists Sue Trump For Ending Hotcoldwetdry Endangerment Finding »
…is a horrible carbon polluting pig, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Irons In the Fire, with a post on leftists now coming after muskets.
Read: If All You See… »
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