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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Good News: Over 12K Fake Asylum Seekers Left The U.S.

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

This obviously gives the people at CBS News (who won’t offer their homes for the fakers) a sad

Thousands of asylum-seekers abandon their cases as ICE seeks to deport them to nations they aren’t from

Willian Yacelga Benalcazar’s asylum case followed what had become a similar pattern in immigration courts across the country: After telling a judge he feared returning to his home country, the judge ordered his deportation to another one.

Yacelga, who said he fled threats from criminal gangs in Ecuador, was facing removal to Honduras. By March, he had spent five months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, where he said he caught a virus, had to fight for food and drank water contaminated with chlorine. So he asked to be sent back to his native Ecuador rather than continue to fight his case in the U.S.

“I believe we abandoned the asylum case because the lawyer told me I could be in detention for three, four additional months. I was already sick in there. I couldn’t take it anymore,” Yacelga told CBS News from Ecuador, speaking in Spanish during a phone interview.

“All I wanted was to get out, to be free, because it’s horrible being locked up in there,” he added.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CBS News Benalcazar entered the U.S. illegally and was deported to Ecuador on April 16.

Why come to the U.S.? There are plenty of other nations, but, most others refuse to allow this type of scam the illegals play. And, yeah, if your asylum claim is denied, go home. Or, fly to another country. We don’t care

The Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to deport asylum-seekers to third countries have stalled thousands of immigrants’ cases and scared thousands more into giving up their asylum claims, according to a CBS News analysis of recently released federal data and interviews with attorneys and immigration policy experts.

Third-country deportations “have more to do with fear than scale,” said Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. (snip)

In cases where a motion to pretermit was filed, about 16% of asylum-seekers — or roughly 12,300 people — withdrew or abandoned their asylum claims or agreed to voluntarily depart the U.S., immigration court data through March 31 shows.

So it’s working? Great! And it’s keeping lots from coming to the U.S. illegally and claiming fake asylum? Great!

But, that CBS article focused on the asylums

Immigrants are giving up their cases and leaving the U.S. in soaring numbers

Immigrants are giving up their claims for humanitarian protection and opting to depart the United States in exponentially higher numbers under the Trump administration, mostly from the austere confines of federal detention centers where they increasingly face prolonged stays.

Immigration judges issued more than 80,000 “voluntary departure” orders from January 2025 through March of this year, according to court data obtained by the Vera Institute of Justice and shared with The Washington Post. Such orders are granted to immigrants who request to leave on their own terms while giving up the opportunity to seek a new life in the U.S. They are not given a formal deportation order, which could make it easier for them to return legally in the future.

The number of people abandoning their immigration cases is at least seven times as high as the number seen in the last 15 months of the Biden administration, when 11,400 took that option. More than 70 percent of those granted a voluntary departure order during President Donald Trump’s second administration were being held in immigration detention when they made the request, a far higher share than those who departed willingly while Joe Biden was in the White House.

So, that’s working, too.

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Trump Admin Declassifies Tons Of UFO Files, Moon Conspiracy Theorists Hardest Hit

By William Teach May 8, 2026 – 5:27 pm

Not that this will dissuade the “moon landing was fake” nuts

Declassified Apollo mission UFO files challenge long-running Moon landing conspiracy theories

Newly declassified government files detailing “UFO” sightings during NASA’s Apollo missions are challenging long-running conspiracy theories that the Moon landings were staged.

The conspiracy theories — which claim NASA faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, and subsequent missions to win the Space Race, often alleging the events were filmed in a studio — have persisted for decades.

The newly released files, however, provide additional context and previously unpublished material from the missions, including astronaut transcripts and archival imagery.

In the documents, astronauts describe observing flashes of light, drifting particles and distant objects while traveling to and from the Moon.

Like

As far as the rest, we get the Credentialed Media viewpoint from the Washington Post

Trump releases UFO files, says public can judge for themselves
It was not immediately clear whether the collection of videos, photos and interviews would significantly advance the public’s understanding.

Good grief, they have to go TDS and moonbat even with this. They can’t just go “cool, this is sweet stuff”, unlike

(Fox News) The Trump administration’s decision to declassify a batch of UFO and UAP files Friday drew unexpected praise from a prominent Democratic lawmaker.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., the leader of Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, cheered the release of dozens of never-before-seen images and videos, stating, “Transparency is the only path to truth.”

“I am encouraged that the administration has finally heard my call and the call of millions of Americans to begin unsealing these files,” Gillibrand wrote on social media, adding that she has long advocated for the declassification and release of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) files.

In fairness, she was calling for this before Trump’s 2nd term, as did many others

The Trump administration’s file dump, available on the newly created website war.gov/UFO, contains records related to UAP, including inexplicable lights and phenomena captured during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969 and Apollo 17 in 1972.

Lots of fun stuff to go through at the site.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 8, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area where the trees are dying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on State Dept revoking passports of deadbeat dads.

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Far Left Islamist Jayapal Attempted To Circumvent Cuba Oil Embargo

By William Teach May 8, 2026 – 10:30 am

Is this a violation of the Logan Act?

Woke ‘Squad’ member appears to confess to undermining Trump embargo on Cuba

Far-left Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state has admitted to undermining the embargo against Cuba, which some interpreted as a serious criminal violation.

The Trump administration has forbidden oil tanker shipments to the Communist-ruled island after the daring military arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in early January.

Jayapal admitted that she attempted to orchestrate oil shipments despite the embargo while on a congressional delegation to Cuba.

“As many of you know, I traveled to Cuba as part of a congressional delegation last month,” she said during remarks in Seattle recently. “It is part of my role to see how U.S. foreign policy is actually affecting the people in the countries where that policy is being implemented.”

It’s strange, because she also works to end the use of fossil fuels here in the United States for U.S. citizens

Some suggested she was violating the Logan Act, a 1799 restriction against U.S. citizens negotiating with foreign countries that are in conflict with the U.S.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said that prosecuting Jayapal under the Logan Act was unlikely and that she should face political accountability instead.

“There has never been a conviction under it — in fact, there have only been two indictments, the last one about 174 years ago,” he told Fox News Digital.

How about treason, working with and attempting to aid an enemy nation? Not that anything will come of this, because Democrats hate the United States and love nations like Cuba, so no way she gets impeached and booted or even voted out in her extreme left Washington district, which has a lot of very, very active Islamists.

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Pollution And ‘Climate Change’ Driving Down Water Quality In Boston Rivers

By William Teach May 8, 2026 – 7:15 am

Why are the liberals in Boston so filthy? Why are they polluting the rivers?

Pollution, climate change drives down water quality in Boston’s three major rivers

Despite steady improvement in water quality in recent years, increased rainfall and outdated infrastructure are hindering efforts to clean up the Mystic, Neponset and Charles Rivers, a coalition of watershed groups said Wednesday.

The watershed associations representing Boston’s three major rivers released their annual water quality report cards, with grades for all three declining into the B’s and C’s over the course of 2025.

“These grades make it clear that progress has stalled,” said Emily Norton, executive director of Charles River Watershed Association. “To achieve a truly clean, healthy, and swimmable Charles, we need to make the necessary investments in reducing stormwater runoff and ending sewage discharges.”

Well, hey, if they weren’t spending billions on illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers, along with all the graft and waste elsewhere in the budget, they’d have money to fix the infrastructure, right? Of course, the same enviroweenies protest when something is done.

While the organizations’ leaders acknowledged that steps are being taken to improve water quality, they pointed to aging infrastructure, including combined sewer systems, as impeding progress.

The effects of climate change, including increased rainfall and longer droughts are also impacting progress.

“When we talk about climate change, we often think about rising seas or an event that floods a river system,” said State Rep. David Rogers, who attended the release of the ratings. “But we also must think about the urban infrastructure that was built years ago and frankly perhaps not with the changes we’re experiencing in mind when they were first built.”

Oh my God, it rains? When did that happen? That’s so weird. Perhaps if they didn’t pave everything over and have poor and outdated methods to move the rainwater away it wouldn’t be a problem. Hey, maybe if all the Boston residents stopped driving fossil fueled vehicles they could stop this. And maybe if they’d stop dragging the scam into everything people could focus on the real problems.

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