Louisiana Joins Investigation Into Fauci After His 5th Amendment Hearing

By William Teach August 3, 2026 – 10:30 am

Can this go anywhere, since he was a federal employee doing federal employee things?

Louisiana AG says state will investigate Fauci after Senate hearing

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) said her state will investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci after a recent fiery Senate hearing where the former chief White House medical adviser pleaded the Fifth Amendment in response to questions from Republican lawmakers.

In a post on the social platform X on Saturday, Murrill said that “Louisiana and Missouri deposed Dr. Fauci.”

“At the time, he claimed to not recall many key details of his own actions and now we are discovering contemporaneous records he kept,” she added. “Louisiana will join Alabama & Florida in investigating Fauci and whether he committed any other offenses that could be pursued in our State courts.”

On Wednesday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) said he was beginning an investigation into Fauci after the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during a Senate hearing focused on the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social media. “My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.”

That’s great and all, we might get some answers in a couple years, but, the time to hold people accountable was years ago. Particularly since the Credentialed Media and Democrats will rally around Fauci and anyone else, despite how badly their own families and lives were messed up.

I remember when the Washington Post was saying that it was pretty much like getting the flu, and that older folks and those with conditions should be careful, but, that it wasn’t a big deal.

Remember all the Talking Points? You’ll get your life back. Oh, well, you need to get a booster. Hey, you still need to wear a mask and stay away. It won’t stop you from getting it, it just won’t be that bad. Well, it might be bad, so, get another booster. And so forth.

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Bummer: More In Germany Are Becoming Climate Skeptics

By William Teach August 3, 2026 – 7:15 am

All while the Earth is boiling, you know

Germany: As temperatures rise, so does climate skepticism

Climate skeptics are no longer a small but noisy minority. They are now “a mass phenomenon,” according to researchers at Flensburg University.

In a study published in the scientific journal Global Environmental Change, authors Katharina Gies and Emanuel Deutschmann reported that between 2022 and 2023 there was a big jump in skeptical attitudes to climate change among the majority of the 3,074 people surveyed. Some 59% said they had more doubts about climate change in 2023 than they had had in the previous year.

The researchers wrote that the respondents’ individual economic situations could not be considered the primary explanation for the increase in skepticism. Other factors, they said, were much more decisive: A right-leaning political orientation, distrust of state institutions, and dissatisfaction with democracy.

Social psychologist Marlene Altenmüller said the Flensburg publication is important and fascinating, though she has doubts about its alarming tone. Other studies show that “the number of people who have doubts is still very small,” she says. Altenmüller, a junior professor at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology in Trier, conducts research into science reception: How people perceive scientific evidence, and what they think about the scientific system and its researchers.

Obviously, the article and the “researchers” delve into all sorts of gobbledygook, yammering about groups and right wing and conspiracy theories

Both Altenmüller and the Flensburg researchers emphasize that climate change skepticism comes in different guises. One form is the rejection of climate policy measures. The basis for this may be the assumption that it won’t be all that bad, or doubt that human activity is the cause. Another is the belief that all the talk about climate change is simply a con, a conspiracy.

Well, maybe seeing all the biggest believers refusing to practice what they preach makes them wonder if it is all a bunch of BS. I mean, hell, when you see the head of the UN take a long fossil fueled trip, including a private jet and a helicopter ride, to go to view Mt. Everest and complain about climate doom, you might has some doubts.

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Detentions For Illegals Hit Record High In July

By William Teach August 3, 2026 – 7:00 am

cBS News publishes this like it’s a bad thing

ICE detentions set Trump-era high in July, as immigration crackdown widens

Detentions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a monthly record high for the second Trump administration in July, internal agency data obtained by CBS News shows, as ICE widened its crackdown, making arrests at airports, immigration check-in offices and communities across the U.S.

Last month, ICE took into custody more than 46,000 individuals facing deportation because of alleged immigration violations, like entering the U.S. illegally or overstaying their visas, according to preliminary Department of Homeland Security figures.

The statistics, which have not yet been publicly disclosed by the federal government, show that a summer enforcement surge by ICE continued to intensify in July, as the agency faced pressure from the White House to record 2,000 arrests across the country each day. An average of 1,500 detainees entered ICE custody each day last month, the data indicates, though some of them were first arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents.

The over 46,000 book-ins in July surpassed the roughly 43,000 detentions recorded by ICE in June, at the time the highest tally during President Trump’s second term. As of this weekend, ICE was holding 68,000 detainees in its sprawling detention system, approaching a record high of over 70,000 detainees set in January, according to internal agency figures.

Keep it going, folks!

Theresa Cardinal Brown, an immigration official at DHS during the Obama and Bush administrations, said one main difference in ICE’s strategy since Noem was pushed aside is how operations are advertised. Under the “previous leadership,” she said, “there was an intent to make the enforcement public, to do it publicly, to be seen doing it.”

Now, Cardinal Brown noted, ICE is dramatically expanding enforcement without the same “in-your-face” approach as before.

But she said it’s clear “the administration never gave up on its goal of mass deportations.”

Early on the point wasn’t just to detain, but, to scare illegals enough that they would leave.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2026 – 1:31 pm

…is an area far from the cities which is perfect for wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on “WNBA Coach Is “Not Educated Enough” on Whether Men Should Play in Women’s Sports”

It’s country ladies week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 2, 2026 – 9:20 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. A little bit of rain, new Megadeth album came yesterday, and the squirrels are making a racket. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The First Street Journal: I check Bluesky so you don’t have to!
  2. The Gateway Pundit: Nutcase James Talarico Tries to Suggest the Bible Requires the Passage of a Government-Run Healthcare System (VIDEO)
  3. The Hayride: No Sh**, Stephen A. Now What?
  4. The Last Refuge: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Calls EU Opposition to Mass Migration “Selfish”
  5. The Right Scoop: FULL EXCHANGE: Democrat podcaster VERY upset he’s been doxxed by Mamdani and the ensuing discussion is fascinating…
  6. Vlad Tepes: Jewish Restaurant in Montreal burned down as Leftist-Islamic political warfare becomes kinetic
  7. Wake Up America: However You Cut This Fauci Business, One Thing Americans Have Learned Is How Slippery And Treacherous This Thing Called The Law Has Become
  8. The Dry Bones Blog: Europe Refused
  9. The American Conservative: Import Socialists, Get Socialism
  10. Powerline Blog: A Socialist for Wisconsin?
  11. Pacific Pundit: Fauci wanted Rochelle Walenski fired because he was worried she would undermine the Biden DOJ push for vaccine mandates
  12. neo-neocon: Regulating guns in the home: how far to go?
  13. Moonbattery: Mamdani’s Free Ride Promise Drives Up Fair Evasion
  14. Legal Insurrection: NY Dems Propose 10% Discount for Self-Checkout Purchases at Food Retailers
  15. And last, but, not least, Jihad watch has “German Police Union Demands Changes to Citizenship, Deportation, and Asylum Laws”

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?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

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

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Unbelievable: Wacko Judge Stops The Ending Of TPS For Somalians

By William Teach August 2, 2026 – 7:00 am

Well, it is actually rather believable, because these wackos will find any excuse to stop the repatriation of people

Trump immigration agenda faces setback as Obama-appointed judge issues fresh TPS stay

A Massachusetts federal judge has once again blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status (TPS) for Somalia, issuing a new administrative stay after plaintiffs rewrote their lawsuit around constitutional claims just days after a federal appeals court threw out similar stays terminating TPS for Ethiopia and South Sudan.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued the administrative stay Friday after African Communities Together and other plaintiffs filed an amended complaint alleging the Trump administration violated the Fifth Amendment by terminating Somalia’s TPS designation based on racial and national-origin discrimination.

The plaintiffs filed an amended complaint and emergency motion on Thursday in a renewed bid to keep Somalia’s TPS protections alive after the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Mullin v. Doe sharply limited lower courts’ ability to block TPS terminations.

Burroughs’ latest order has intensified growing criticism over whether district judges are using administrative stays to work around higher court rulings. It comes just days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed similar administrative stays issued by U.S. District Judges Brian Murphy and Patti Saris, who had temporarily delayed the Trump administration’s TPS terminations for Ethiopia and South Sudan.

Here’s the thing: if the Trump admin does ignore her then the Democrats, especially the elected class and their pet media, will start bleating about Trump ignoring the courts and he must be a dictator, all while failing to mention the SCOTUS decision. Or, the Trump admin fights it in court. Either way the Somalians and others stay, and Democrats hope they can run the clock out and win the White House in 2028.

Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan argued Burroughs’ order improperly grants emergency relief despite what he described as legally deficient claims.

“I looked at the amended complaint in the Somalia TPS case,” Wessan wrote on X. “The district judge has entered a novel ‘administrative stay’ to sort out the claims. She has declared the TPS termination ‘void’ for now, while deciding whether any of the claims can justify a more permanent pause.”

At this point they’re making rulings and then figuring out how to make them stick.

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Saturday Music – Deep Purple, Megadeth

By William Teach August 1, 2026 – 3:32 pm

Many people are seriously working hard to damage my calm. If you make 2 right turns on red without stopping, yeah, we are done. No more.

And, how about some Megadeth. Their appearance on Letterman was my introduction, since I had mostly been listening to 70s and Big Hair metal

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 1, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike that Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on “Extreme weather expert Dr. Roger Pielke: ‘Actual fire on the landscape in South France measured as area burned has not increased, & arguably has decreased’”

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NYC Democrats Upset They’re Getting What They Voted For From Mamdani

By William Teach August 1, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s not like they weren’t warned many, many, many times

Democratic discontent with Mamdani mounts in New York City’s outer boroughs

When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating “white supremacy” earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-known local Democrat taking direct, withering aim at the group that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani into City Hall.

Since Mamdani’s ascension there, local elected Democrats have been hard pressed to publicly blast him and his hard-left base. The mayor’s approval ratings remain strong and the DSA has emerged as a serious political force in the city. So Richards’ X post — which was referencing the DSA’s majority white membership nationally — hinted at a potential turning point.

His attack also points to a more broadly felt symptom: Growing discontent with Mamdani from Democratic politicians in the city’s outer boroughs.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it white supremacy, but, let’s be honest, the amount of DSA members who are white is almost as much as at Sheldon Whitehouse’ yacht club. How many times have we seen photos of uber-liberal this and thats which are mostly whites, especially women? Then you get some like a Mamdani who pretend to be DSA and get the backing of all those AWFLs (which includes liberal men-folk, you know)

Days after Richards’ online lament, more anti-Mamdani sentiment erupted in the Bronx, where City Councilmember Oswald Feliz accused the mayor of giving his community “crumbs” by not pairing a bus lane project in his district with enough infrastructure upgrades in surrounding areas. Like Richards, Feliz made a reference to race, albeit a more subtle one.

“Is this community not trendy enough to justify the kind of improvements that other communities receive, even without asking?” Feliz said in a statement last week. “If this was a wealthier neighborhood, I have no doubt that a more ambitious proposal would have been on the table. Minority communities are important, and deserve better.”

OK, are these just standard complaints, which are being vocalized because maybe they aren’t getting the responses they want from City Hall? I don’t think I’ve quite seen this in NYC before.

After Feliz issued his remarks referencing trendy neighborhoods and minority communities, Mamdani’s office told him the mayor was upset with the suggestion he doesn’t value outer borough enclaves, a person with direct knowledge of the exchange said. The mayor’s team then scheduled a meeting with Feliz to discuss his concerns further — a sit-down that took place this past Monday and also included Gibson, according to the person, who was granted anonymity to discuss the private talks.

Deputy Mayor for Operations Julia Kerson, Department of Transportation Commissioner Mike Flynn and other Mamdani administration officials were on hand for the meeting and told Feliz and Gibson they would look into their requests for improved road paving, street signs and expanded pedestrian areas. But the officials made no immediate capital commitments, saying that would have to wait until next year’s budget, the person with knowledge of the discussion said. The mayor didn’t attend the meeting.

That’s a “we’re listening to placate you” meeting. Nothing will happen.

The thing about backing this kind of stuff is that the crocodile will eventually get around to eating you.

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Bummer: Citizens Of Maine Losing Interest In Climate (scam)

By William Teach August 1, 2026 – 7:15 am

How’s that 35+ years of spreading awareness working? How about declaring that the debate is over?

Yale survey indicates Mainers losing interest in climate change

Big majorities of Maine residents believe in global warming, think it is caused by human activities, and that it is harmful.

But public interest and concern with global warming slipped in 2025, according to new estimates from the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication.

Senior program researcher Jennifer Marlon said waning attention to climate is a national trend.

“The numbers are not statistically significant, but when you look state by state, year by year in the recent time, there are declines,” Marlon said. “That is consistent with the decline in media coverage, the decline in politics, and leaders and decision makers talking about the issue.”

In 2025, 68% of people in Maine believed global warming is happening, a 4-point slide from the year before, according to the Yale projections.

There were similar decreases in the number of people who were worried about global warming, thought it was harmful and caused by human activity.

You can only scaremonger people for so long before they start losing interest, and, of course, really, the interest is mostly in theory, not practice. How many are actually living the climate cult life?

Marlon said “climate hushing” — avoiding or downplaying the issue on the part of corporations, media outlets and politicians — mean people are seeing and hearing less about global warming. Meanwhile, the U.S. and other parts of the world are facing bouts of dangerous heat, wildfires and other disasters made worse by a warming climate.

Marlon said in 2025 the proportion of people nationally who talk about global warming with their family and friends or see mentions of it in the media at least once a week hit the lowest point in the program’s 17-year history.

The media doesn’t need to talk about heavy metal for metal heads to care about it.

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