UN Chief Says You People Need Drastic “Emissions” Cuts

By William Teach November 14, 2026 – 7:15 am

You gotta love the chutzpah of these climate cult elites

UN chief says ‘immediate and drastic’ emissions cuts needed to avert climate change catastrophe

The world must immediately and drastically cut fossil fuel emissions to avert the most catastrophic effects of climate change, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday at his final climate summit, urging the world to “follow the science” and face hard facts.

“You cannot build peace on a burning planet,” Guterres told reporters, stressing that climate change is central to the U.N.’s work because it contributes to geopolitical instability by driving hunger and displacement, pushing countries into debt and fueling competition for land and water.

A 1.6F increase in global temperatures is “burning”. Really, the previous Holocene warm periods saw higher rises

“You cannot eradicate poverty when climate disasters keep throwing people back into it,” he added. “You cannot promise young people a better future while destroying the natural systems on which that future depends. And you cannot speak seriously about justice when those who did least to cause this crisis suffer first and worst.”

World leaders meeting in Turkey for the annual U.N. climate talks are trying to reach consensus on concrete actions to address climate change — which is fueling more intense and deadly heat waves, droughts, floods and other disasters — and help countries at greatest risk, including island nations that also are losing land to rising seas.

They hyperbole is amazing. Though, not unexpected. It’s usual from the cult. But, here’s where it gets really fun. You know how I’ve been writing that there are 50K+ at the Turkey climate (scam) conference? Yeah, that + is a wee bit bigger

That is a lot of people taking fossil fueled trips, eh?

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Chicago School Running Program Leaning Heavily Into AI Learning

By William Teach November 14, 2026 – 7:00 am

Will it work?

New private school in downtown Chicago using artificial intelligence to teach students

A new school in Chicago is taking a different approach to education, using what they call AI-powered software to teach core subjects like math, science, and reading.

Students at Alpha Chicago in the Lakeshore East neighborhood spend two hours each morning learning core subjects on a computer – like math, science, and reading – using a software program called “2 Hour Learning.”

“At first, I thought it would feel like going on my iPad, but it feels so much more different, like I’m actually learning,” Alpha Chicago student Owen said.

The rest of their day is spent developing real-world skills like sewing, cooking, and navigating public transportation.

It should include stuff like cursive, how loans work, basic economics, stuff like that. Overall, sounds like an interesting idea

Alpha Schools doesn’t use traditional teachers. Instead, classes are led by “guides,” who go by their first names and oversee each group of students.

Most guides don’t have a background in education. A February analysis from the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank, reported that only about one-third of Alpha guides have education training or degrees.

Carrington Haas is the lead guide of Alpha Chicago.

“AI is a component of it, but I think truly the impressive and the magic part of Alpha is the way that we are able to teach the life skills,” she said.

The life skills include public speaking, financial literacy, teamwork, and leadership.

Interesting concept. The teacher’s unions must utterly loathe this.

Alpha Schools has 1,500 students at 50 campuses across the country. Around 50 students are enrolled in Chicago, but the space can hold up to 500.

The school has a hefty price tag. Tuition for one student costs nearly $55,000.

But what about families who can’t afford tuition or who live farther away?

“We want to be able to expand this and make it so that it’s not just an exclusive education, because this is a model that we believe can work for everybody,” Howell said.

I’m actually surprised Democrats haven’t tried to shut it down.

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Venezuela President Lights Up Warmists At UN Climate (scam) Conference

By William Teach November 13, 2026 – 4:25 pm

You go, girl! (I’d never say that in person, she is pretty hardcore)

Venezuela Tells Climate Doomers It Has ‘Sovereign Right’ to Pump Oil, Iran Demands Environmental Reparations

The U.N.’s COP31 climate alarmism summit in Antalya, Turkey, is proving to be a fractious affair, as energy-producing nations insist on their right to sell the fossil fuel products that drive their economies. On Thursday, Venezuela became the latest nation to declare that it will not stop pumping oil.

“We reaffirm our sovereign right to ?strengthen our energy and oil industry as a driver of our national development,” Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, said after hearing the latest U.N. demand to phase out fossil fuels.

“We believe there is no inevitable contradiction between energy development and environmental protection, because a just transition does not shut down economies – it transforms them,” she argued.

Rodriguez and her team actually used the COP31 conference as a venue to drum up more investment in Venezuela’s oil industry, including pitch meetings with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar.

She missed a big opportunity, like most politicians, to call out the hypocrisy of 50K+ taking fossil fueled flights to a climate conference and decry Other People using fossil fuels. I don’t know why they don’t get this, it would be the easiest thing.

Rodriguez offered her own version of this strategy by rolling out “Plan Venezuela Vive” at COP31 on Thursday. She argued that Venezuela is a “net carbon sink” despite selling prodigious amounts of oil, and pledged to sink even more carbon with a national program of forest and ocean conservation.

That would be what the Warmists would call “greenwashing”. And then they take a private fossil fueled jet.

PS: I used that old graphic of Sheldon, then wondered “hey, is he there?”

(Argus) While there is a “pretty solid foundation of work” that has been done on such a carbon boarder adjustment mechanism (CBAM) for the US, the loss of two Republican supporters will make it hard to get through Congress, even as Democrats are poised to hold sizeable majorities in both the Senate and US House of Representatives next year, US senator Sheldon Whitehose (D-Rhode Island) said on Friday.

“We’d need Republican champions to step up”, Whitehouse told reporters at the UN Cop 31 climate summit in Antalya, Turkey.

Anyone think he flew domestic?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible early season heatsnow because Other People refused to go vegan, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on “What Happens When the Police Only Have Electric Vehicles?”

Also

That’s from yesterday. A goodly chunk are trying to hit the WordPress admin login page.

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Seattle Mayor Backs Lawsuit Against Washington Trans In Girl’s Sports Law

By William Teach November 13, 2026 – 10:30 am

Democrats are super excited about Direct Democracy, ie, citizens voting directly on initiatives, right up till Democrats lose

Seattle mayor backs effort to block girls’ sports initiative that passed in 36 of Washington’s 39 counties

The statement was 148 words. Not one of those words was “girls.”

Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said that she was going to back the Seattle School Board’s unanimous vote to pursue legal action against Initiative 638 — which would enforce separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports in Washington state.

Voters passed the measure by a 13-point margin last week, and it won in 36 of the Evergreen State’s 39 counties. But after deliberating behind closed doors Monday, the Seattle School Board voted publicly to authorize potential legal action against the measure without hearing public testimony. And the mayor fully approves.

“Last night, the Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors voted to authorize legal action regarding Initiative 638. The Board’s decision reflects concerns shared by educators, families, community leaders, and the City of Seattle about the measure’s impact on student privacy, safety, dignity, and equitable access to educational opportunities.

“For nearly two decades, Washington schools and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association have relied on policies designed to ensure all students can participate fully in school life. As those longstanding protections face new challenges, we affirm the rights of transgender youth and stand with them and their families.

Why are Democrats so in favor of forcing women to have to play sports against biological men with mental illness.

Remember, Seattle was one of the epicenters of the “No Kings” movement, where tens of thousands rallied against a president they accused of disregarding the will of the people. Yet when Washington voters overwhelmingly supported a measure Wilson opposes, she had no problem backing an effort to overturn it. Apparently, the will of the people is only worth defending when the people vote the right way.

Hypocrisy is nothing new from Democrats.

This sounds great to an untrained ear, but what Wilson is really saying is this: If you’re a boy who wants to identify as a girl, you should have the right to dominate females in sports. The dozen or so girls’ cross-country runners from Camas, who walked off the start line to protest their male teammate competing as a female? They don’t matter. Battle Ground High cross country runner Elise Bierer, who broke down in tears after sacrificing a race for the same cause? Irrelevant. Tumwater High student Frances Staudt, who is regularly cursed at by classmates for refusing to compete against a boy in a basketball game? Collateral damage.

Young women lose their earned wins, lose spots on teams because of the gender confused, lose scholarships, have to have penis in their locker rooms, and can even get hurt. And now the Democrat hardcores will sue to allow all this to continue to happen, because of “inclusion”, you know. And to hell with what the voters overwhelmingly voted to stop.

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“Climate-Vulnerable” Nations Demand Action Or Something

By William Teach November 13, 2026 – 7:15 am

Maybe we could start with making the 50K+ who took fossil fueled flights to Turkey for a climate conference pay their fair share? Maybe do it by Zoom? Oh, hey, we could shut down all the fossil fueled airports and seaports in their nations

Climate-vulnerable nations urge immediate action at UN Cop31 summit

Urgent action is needed to help countries hardest-hit by the effects of climate change, small island leaders said on Thursday at the United Nations climate talks in Turkey, describing global warming as a life-or-death issue for their people.

“It is time to move past the talking,” said Alix Sebastien Pillay, vice-president of Seychelles, who said the survival of his country, a 115-island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, is at stake. “For Seychelles, climate action is not simply an environmental priority.” (snip)

A report released on Thursday offered a grim assessment: progress in slowing global warming has essentially stalled for the past five years because any steps forward were cancelled out by inaction elsewhere.

The first five years after the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world did so much that it trimmed an entire degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) from warming projections, but nothing has changed since, the independent Climate Action Tracker said in its report.

Interesting how all those nations who were Doing Something decided “nah, we want to live our lives” post-COVID

Leaders from countries ravaged by climate change said adequate financing must be made available to deal with climate disasters, such as the 2022 floods in Pakistan that submerged over a third of the country, resulting in thousands of deaths and more than US$30 billion in damage.

“The future we feared has become the present we are living,” said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “Climate change knows no borders. No nation can face it alone.”

Surprise….well, not really, it’s all about the strings-free climate cash.

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New HUD Rule Requires Proof Of Immigration Status

By William Teach November 13, 2026 – 7:00 am

Lot of teeth gnashing from the illegal supporters, as you’d expect

Public housing residents must prove immigration status under new HUD rule, possibly displacing thousands

Residents of federally funded public housing will be required to show proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible immigration status under a new rule published Thursday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The measure could displace nearly 80,000 people, including tens of thousands of citizens in mixed-status families, from their homes, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute.

Since 1995, mixed-status families have been permitted to live together in HUD-funded housing as long as federal subsidies covered only eligible household members. The new rule may force these families to decide whether to remain together in nonpublic housing or split up their households.

“This is tearing apart families and sowing division,” said Marie Claire Tran-Leung, director of the Evictions Initiative Project and managing attorney at the National Housing Law Project.

How about they pay for their own housing? We keep being told that illegals earn their keep.

The rule’s prior status, which allowed mixed-status families to live together, worked well for all parties, Tran-Leung said. Mixed-status households often paid a higher share of rent because their subsidies were prorated, experts say. If those families are forced to leave public housing, HUD will likely face financial shortfalls, Tran-Leung said.

Or, instead, Americans who’ve fallen on tough times could take those spots, and the illegals can head off to their home countries. Or other countries. Leave.

“President Trump warned that the days of illegal aliens and ineligible noncitizens exploiting government-funded welfare programs would be over,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement. “It’s unacceptable that America’s homeless veterans, disabled, elderly, and victims of domestic violence languish on waitlists while illegals and ineligibles scam our system. American taxpayers will no longer foot the bill. Promises made, promises kept.”

Exactly. Let’s also not forget that so many of these measures are meant to de-incentivize illegals from coming. And tries to force those here to leave.

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Climate Doom To Take 3.8% Of Working Hours Or Something

By William Teach November 12, 2026 – 5:42 pm

By 2030, of course. Will anyone remember this prognostication of doom and call the cultists who posted it out when it doesn’t happen?

Climate Change is Coming for Students’ Paychecks

I was working the front desk of my summer job at Sunset Beach in July when a man, dressed in blue scrubs, walked down and handed me a KN-95 face mask: something I hadn’t worn since the Covid-19 pandemic.

He told us that smoke from the Canadian wildfires had created fine inhalable particles, with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers – 30 times smaller than the average human hair.

Unbeknownst to me, prolonged exposure to these microparticles can cause irritation of respiratory airways and irregular heart rates.

My coworkers and I immediately put on the masks.

Few guests came down to the beach that morning, and almost all who did told me how bad they felt that I had to be working when the air was dangerous to my health. Watching them walk up and down the beach through the yellow haze in their face masks felt dystopian – like I was living in a sci-fi movie.

So, because someone did something stupid and started a wildfire, intentionally or unintentionally, it’s doom. Every minor experience is not a sign of climate apocalypse

At the moment, I was thrilled that I was able to leave early. However, that excitement quickly faded when I realized that this meant I would be working fewer hours, meaning a smaller paycheck at the end of the week.

However, these instances are symptoms of a larger problem of eco-anxiety, affecting nearly 60% of the youth.

No one ever had to leave work or school early before ‘climate change’, right?

For many students, summer is one of few opportunities to make money before heading back to a jam-packed school year; so, one paycheck really does make a difference for many when making budgets to save for college or re-pay loans.

However, teenagers working outdoors across the country can attest that these are not isolated incidents. For them, hours being cut as a result of severe weather has become the new normal.

I worked a bunch of outside jobs during my high school summers, and some college summers, and the weather could cause me to be off that day. Unfortunately, the weather also meant no surfing. Sigh. This is your fault in retrospect.

Senior Claire Maguire, who spends her summers lifeguarding at Sunset Beach, has felt the burden of climate change in almost every paycheck.

“If I get two shifts rained-out, that’s a lot of money that I could have been making, and time I could have been doing other things with,” she said.

These Yutes think they are the first people in the history of Mankind to have this happen. Insane

That said, she isn’t the only teenager experiencing climate-induced job insecurity. The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2030, 3.8% of total working hours could be lost because of climate-induced high temperatures, wildfires, and poor air quality.

Yes, and they want lots of your money and freedom to “solve” this.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a dusting of fossil fuels driven heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on “Govt Climate Advisor Accused of “Unbelievable Hypocrisy””

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Good News: Deportations And Arrests Hit Record Numbers

By William Teach November 12, 2026 – 10:30 am

There are varying accounts of how much all those big operations had in the mid-terms, some saying it made a difference and others saying it was low hanging fruit, that it was primarily about the economy

ICE deportations and arrests hit record high as Trump faces reckoning over immigration crackdown

Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a record 483,200 people in fiscal year 2026, according to new Department of Homeland Security figures obtained by CBS News, marking a historic escalation in President Trump’s signature immigration crackdown, even as voters grapple with the increase in interior enforcement.

The total number of individuals deported represents the highest annual figure in ICE’s reported history, surpassing the law enforcement agency’s previous record of 442,640 in fiscal year 2025. ICE also reported more than 491,000 immigration arrests during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, including nearly 475,000 administrative arrests — another record, according to DHS. Administrative arrests are those in which alleged undocumented immigrants are arrested for civil violations rather than criminal charges.

The records underscore a defining feature of Mr. Trump’s second presidency — a sweeping enforcement campaign reshaped by dramatic immigration policy and the operational expansion of the federal law enforcement footprint in communities far from the border. But they also arrive at a politically complicated moment for Mr. Trump.

According to DHS, the new deportation total is approximately 18% higher than the 409,849 removals ICE recorded in fiscal year 2012, during the Obama administration, a longstanding agency benchmark. The new record is also nearly 78% higher than the 271,484 deportations recorded in fiscal year 2024, the last full fiscal year under President Biden.

Keep on keeping on. Get them out of here. Make sure they aren’t bothering to show up at the border. It is the law, after all. Something Democrats hate. If Trump and his folks were smart they’d look towards increasing visas for work related opportunities like agriculture and home construction, with mandatory end dates, where they have to go home. We used to have this, where tons of folks, especially Mexicans, would come to the US, work farm season, spend the nice months building homes, then go back, and do the same the next year.

Meanwhile, social media people still suck

When Immigration Fear Becomes a TikTok Influencer’s Alleged Business Model

Fear has become a currency in America’s immigration system, and two federal lawsuits raise the disturbing question of whether it is being monetized.

Camila Overmyer, an Indiana-based beauty influencer turned immigration commentator, is accused of using Spanish-language TikTok livestreams to convince frightened immigrants seeking humanitarian relief that their lawyers may have implicated them in fraud. The complaints allege that she solicited contracts, immigration records, and sworn statements while directing viewers toward competing attorneys. One lawsuit further alleges that Overmyer acknowledged receiving commissions when referrals became paying clients.

The allegations remain contested, but they expose a danger larger than any dispute among law firms: What happens when someone without identified legal training gains immigrants’ trust, undermines their existing counsel, and may profit from directing them elsewhere?

If you listen to a rando on Tiktok, well, you’re an idiot

Houston-based Meneses Law alleges in its federal complaint that at least ten clients terminated or began canceling their agreements because of Overmyer’s social media activity. In a separate federal case, the Dublin, Ohio–based Lisinski Law Firm alleges that Overmyer and several attorneys coordinated broadcasts accusing it of fraud while encouraging clients to seek representation elsewhere. Lisinski says it received more than 475 calls from concerned clients. (snip)

Overmyer is not the only one accused of this behavior. Regulators in California and Texas have acted against nonlawyers accused of using Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube to market paid legal guidance, underscoring broader concerns about online personalities converting perceived authority into legal business.

Social media has broken a lot of people.

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