Doom Today: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Cut Grazing Land In Half

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

In 75 years, of course, when no one will remember the doomy prognostication and no one will be held responsible for them

Climate change could halve areas suitable for cattle, sheep and goat farming by 2100

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesA new study conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that grassland-based grazing systems—currently covering a third of Earth’s surface and representing the world’s largest production system—will see a severe contraction as global temperatures rise. Depending on the scenario analyzed, 36–50% of the land with suitable climatic conditions for grazing today will experience a loss of viability by 2100, affecting more than 100 million pastoralists and up to 1.6 billion grazing animals.

The study, published in PNAS, identifies a “safe climatic space” for cattle, sheep and goat grazing. To date, these agricultural systems have thrived within certain ranges of temperature (from ?3 to 29°C), rainfall (between 50 and 2,627 millimeters per year), humidity (from 39 to 67%) and wind speeds (between 1 and 6 meters per second).

“Climate change will shift and significantly contract these spaces globally, leaving fewer spaces for animals to graze. Importantly, many of these changes will be felt in countries that already experience hunger, economic and political instability, and higher levels of gender inequity,” commented lead author Chaohui Li, PIK researcher at the time the study was conducted and is now with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Enough. It’s always something with this doomsday cult, but, how did grazing do during previous Holocene warm periods? Can they provide data? Plants like warmth. And CO2.

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Federal Judge Kills PRC Law On Wearing Masks

By William Teach February 10, 2026 – 6:45 am

Of course, the law only applied to federal immigration authorities, not, say, the Antifa and other liberal wackjobs who vote Democrat

Federal judge blocks California law forcing ICE agents to remove masks during operations

A Los Angeles?based federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing its law that would require ICE agents to remove masks during immigration enforcement operations.

Judge Christina Snyder, appointed during the Clinton administration, granted a preliminary injunction against the “No Secret Police Act,” arguing that it discriminated against the federal government by violating the Supremacy Clause.

Under the constitutional clause, federal law takes precedence over any conflicting state or local law, rendering the lower-level law unenforceable.

Snyder said the “No Secret Police” ruling hinged on California exempting its own state officers while penalizing federal agents.

“The Court finds that federal officers can perform their federal functions without wearing masks,” Snyder said. “However, because the No Secret Police Act, as presently enacted, does not apply equally to all law enforcement officers in the state, it unlawfully discriminates against federal officers.”

They could perform their jobs if the leftards wouldn’t attack them at their homes, involving their families. And out at restaurants, supermarkets, bookstores, etc. Regardless, Los Federales never had to follow the People’s Republik of California’s law in the first place, but, it is nice to see a court spike the law.

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PRC Water Agencies Grapple With Climate Doom And An Aging Workforce

By William Teach February 9, 2026 – 3:00 pm

But, mostly an aging workforce in the People’s Republik Of California

Water agencies grapple with climate change and the ‘silver tsunami’ of an aging workforce

As water agencies across California grapple with the increasingly extreme effects of climate change, they’re also facing another problem: the incoming “silver tsunami.”

That’s the phrase coined by the industry to illustrate the fact that much of the workforce — largely baby boomers — that keeps our water flowing and safe are getting ready to retire.

Nationwide, about a third of the nation’s water workforce is eligible for retirement within the next decade, “the majority being workers with trade jobs in mission critical positions,” the Environmental Protection Agency wrote in a 2024 report. (big snip)

Jobs in the water industry — potable water and wastewater treatment operators, engineers, managers, skilled maintenance, public relations and more — are well paid and secure, Mouawad said, but it’s hard to fill the needed positions.

“We are finding it more challenging to backfill retirees,” he said. “It’s not so much a lack of interest — I think it’s a lack of awareness.”

No, it’s just that the yutes are not interested in doing these kinds of jobs. They all think they are too good for this, that they’re meant to be tier 1 influencers and content creators. So few of them plan for the future. They have their stupid degrees that are pretty much worthless, and don’t want to consider any sort of trade career, in which they can make a lot of money.

In recent years, the water agency has focused on younger potential future employees through a variety of Career and Technical Education programs at local high schools, including in automotive tech, engineering, agriculture, construction and information systems, said Erin Guerrero, Eastern Municipal’s public affairs manager overseeing its education programs.

In fact, the majority of the article is about the lack of new employees and how the older folks are going to be retiring soon, not ‘climate change’. But, it’s pretty much required for “journalists” to include their cult in as many articles as possible.

Meanwhile

Illinois proposal makes businesses financially liable for climate change

A proposal to create an Illinois Climate Change Superfund is drawing sharp criticism from Republican lawmakers who warn it would hand sweeping authority to unelected regulators, drive businesses out of the state and ultimately raise costs for consumers.

Senate Bill 2981 would create the Illinois Climate Change Superfund, financed by payments from entities the state deems responsible for climate change. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency would determine liability, set payment amounts, and direct spending, with at least 40% of funds required to benefit “disadvantaged communities.

Federal courts will kill this, like happened with NJ, but, in the meantime, the fossil fuels companies should stop selling their products to the state government until the suits are resolved, if this passes.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible horse putting out lots of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on the wackos throwing dildos at ICE.

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Trump Admin Using Tons Of AI In Federal Government

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

I wonder how the Washington Post will paint this as Something Bad?

Trump wants AI everywhere in government. See the 1,300 new ways it’s being used.

As the Trump administration seeks to sweep away obstacles to developing artificial intelligence, the president’s team has brought its zeal for the new technology to the federal government itself.

Orders came down from the White House budget office in April urging every corner of the government to deploy AI. “The Federal Government will no longer impose unnecessary bureaucratic restrictions on the use of innovative American AI in the Executive Branch,” the White House said in a statement announcing the push.

Officials across the government answered the call, according to a Washington Post analysis of more than two dozen recent agency disclosures on AI use. On top of automating rote tasks, government agencies have launched hundreds of artificial intelligence projects in the past year, many of them taking on central and sensitive roles in law enforcement, immigration and health care.

The Department of Homeland Security has adopted new, more sophisticated facial recognition tools. The FBI has purchased novel systems to sift through reams of images and text to generate leads for investigators. And the Department of Veterans Affairs is developing an AI program to predict whether a veteran is likely to attempt suicide.

Unfortunately for Democrats, AI is, for the most part, not utterly biased in the way people are in government, meaning not lefftard activists.

The administration’s focus on speed may come at the expense of ensuring the tools are being used safely, said Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a Brown University computer science professor. AI could spit out erroneous information, leading officials to make bad decisions, or a facial recognition tool could lead to someone being wrongfully placed on a watch list, he said. Venkatasubramanian, who worked on AI safety in the Biden administration, argued that officials previously placed a greater emphasis on oversight and managing risks.

Those things have happened numerous times before AI. Heck, bureaucrats made decisions with no or made up information themselves, like with ‘climate change’ and transgender crap.

As the administration has dramatically ramped up its deportation efforts, DHS has increasingly turned to advanced technology to turbocharge its work. The department’s disclosures reveal a suite of facial recognition tools deployed in the past year and another system to help identify people to deport. In all, 151 AI use cases mention either “immigration” or “border” or were filed by immigration and customs agencies.

They spend a long time on immigration, so, obviously AI is Bad.

In a year that saw hundreds of thousands of federal employees laid off or take buyouts under cuts engineered by the Trump administration, a Defense Department official described at a conference last month how one team was able to use AI to still get a mandatory report finished despite losing the help of a team of about 20 contractors.

“There’s four people, and guess what?” said Jake Glassman, a senior Pentagon technology official. “They generated the report, and I would dare anyone to see any type of difference on that.”

And that will make Democrats upset, because the same work can be accomplished with fewer federal employees.

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Your Fault: This Big Cold Snap Is From Global Boiling

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

It’s basically allegory, but, I’ve had multiple people up north, including my mom, tell me they cannot remember when it has been so cold, and snowy, for so long in the NY-NJ area. I remember a time during the late 80s where the night time temperature was zero to 10 for a long stretch, without the windchill. But, of course, the cultists at the Times have to chime in

What’s Up With This Big Freeze? Some Scientists See Climate Change Link

stop global warmingIf the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter?

The seeming contradiction comes up often when talking to Judah Cohen, a research scientist at M.I.T. who has been studying how global warming might also be causing colder winters in the eastern United States.

The idea, explained Dr. Cohen, is that a warming Arctic can cause a high-altitude ribbon of air called the polar vortex to stretch and wobble. That wobble can affect the flow of the jet stream that controls much of the atmospheric conditions over the United States, causing waves of high and low pressure that affect our daily weather.

For weeks, a mass of frigid air over the North Pole has dipped into eastern North America, bringing record cold temperatures for a prolonged period. In the West, a ridge of warm, dry air has stalled for weeks, panicking ski resort operators and prompting concerns for communities that rely on a healthy snowpack for drinking water in the summer months.

OK, same old same old cult talking point, it’s super cold because of heat trapping gases. Does this mean it was super crazy warm during the last glacial age? Anyhow, it gets more interesting

It’s non-falsifiable. It’s not science. It is a cult.

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LOL: Mamdani Signs EO To Protect New Yorkers from ICE Or Something

By William Teach February 9, 2026 – 6:45 am

This is the guy who’s city utterly failed on cleaning up the snow, right?

Mamdani signs executive order to protect New Yorkers from “abusive immigration enforcement”

Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order he says will protect New Yorkers from “abusive immigration enforcement” by the Trump administration and uphold sanctuary city laws.

Mamdani signed the order, which he called “a sweeping reaffirmation of commitment to our immigrant neighbors,” during Friday’s Interfaith Breakfast at the New York Public Library in Bryant Park.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations have sparked controversy in the Tri-State Area where, across the river from New York City, Jersey City’s mayor said recently he wanted agents to “get out and never come back.”

“ICE is more than a rogue agency — it is a manifestation of the abuse of power,” Mamdani told the group of faith leaders from across the five boroughs.

Why do Democrats want to protect illegals so much, especially the criminals?

Mamdani’s latest executive order, his 13th since taking office, says city agencies cannot share information collected for city purposes with federal immigration authorities, except when they are required to by law.

It gives each agency 14 days to appoint a privacy officer and take other actions to ensure compliance.

“No New Yorker should be afraid to apply for city services like child care because they are an immigrant,” Mamdani said.

So, they want to continue to use taxpayer funds to subsidize illegals, while sheltering illegals who are arrested for committing crimes. Special. Trump should declare that he won’t have federal immigration authorities operate in NYC, so any illegal there is safe. Let’s see what happens.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2026 – 1:45 pm

…are carbon pollution driven Bad Weather clouds rolling in, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on Poland still being Poland.

It’s hat week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 8, 2026 – 9:39 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. A possibility of some quick snow showers, the new hot water heater is working fantastic, the final book in the Riftborn series was fantastic. This pinup is by Bill Metcalf, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Independent Sentinel: A Student Protester: Don Lemon Planned the Raid on Cities Church
  2. This ain’t Hell…: Marco Sends In The Marines
  3. The View From Lady Lake: California’s Radical Left Strikes Again…
  4. The Right Scoop: UGH VIDEO – Mamdani says people should look to Islam to embrace illegal immigration
  5. The Last Refuge: Europe Furious as U.S. Subsidy Ends – President Trump’s Demand for Lower Rx Prices Means Immediate European Price Increases
  6. The Gateway Pundit: CNN Contributor: It’s Time for a “FUMIGATION” of MAGA (VIDEO)
  7. The First Street Journal: A half-hearted defense of Jeff Bezos
  8. The Feral Irishman: Set The Wayback Machine To 1978….
  9. The Crawdad Hole: Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking
  10. The American Conservative: For Zelensky, Is Losing the War Better Than Losing the Peace?
  11. Pacific Pundit: Journalist visits Minnesota Rep Ilhan’s Omar’s winery and confirms its fake
  12. neo-neocon: Another temporary injunction is removed
  13. Moonbattery: AWFLs Out of Control at Minneapolis Yoga Studio
  14. Liberty’s Torch: The Epstein Files
  15. And last, but, not least, Legal Insurrection has “Are Nursing and Other “Caring” Professions a “Sink for Pathological Personalities”?”

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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Democrats Suddenly Upset Over ICE Having Body Cams

By William Teach February 8, 2026 – 7:00 am

That’s strange, especially since Democrats cheered when Judge Sara in Chicago demanded all immigration agents wear them. And how Dems demanded all cops wear them post-George “Fentanyl” Floyd

Democrats fear body cameras could be ICE’s new mass surveillance tool

A push to put body cameras on all ICE agents has Democrats running headlong into a new problem: fear that the technology will provide another avenue for mass surveillance of protesters.

Congressional Democratic leaders have made universal use of body cameras one of their prime demands for imposing accountability on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis. But after an outcry from privacy advocates that surveillance tools will allow ICE agents to identify and track protesters, Democrats are also calling for restrictions on how the body cameras can be used.

Lawmakers and legal observers have accused ICE of leveraging a variety of cameras to surveil protesters, feeding pictures into license plate readers and facial recognition systems. Democrats now worry that the body cameras they’re demanding could be used for similar purposes.

Let’s be honest, body cams were 99% the worst thing the Democrats could have demanded, because they showed that 99% of the time cops are just doing their jobs. That they aren’t raaaaacist. That they aren’t doing bad things. That it is the perps who are at fault. And now you have all those body cam vids showing up on social media for everyone to see. The entitlement, the idiocy, the Main Character Syndrome. People not taking responsibility for their own bad behavior, and so often making it much worse. Turning speeding tickets into felony arrests.

And how’s that going to work out when ICE body cams show the utter insanity of the pro-illegal alien nutballs? How they’re interfering with sworn federal agents in the midst of their duties? Spiking roads? Blocking ICE vehicles? Etc and so on?

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say they want to tack on restrictions to how ICE can use body camera footage, according to a letter sent to Republican leadership on Wednesday night.

“Prohibit tracking, creating or maintaining databases of individuals participating in First Amendment activities,” the letter says.

Once you interfere with law enforcement activities those 1st Amendment activities end. You’re no longer protesting peaceably. But, again, this is about federal agents catching Chuck and Hakeem’s voters breaking the law and being caught on video, which doesn’t play well for defendants in court. Or, on social media, as we’ve seen.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who proposed a ban on ICE agents using facial recognition, also supported surveillance limits on body cameras.

“Use the body cams but don’t actually use them!”

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