NY Dems Want Court To Force Expensive Climate (scam) Regulations On Citizens

By William Teach May 2, 2026 – 7:15 am

I’m hoping the court will ask the Democrats if they have made their own lives carbon neutral. If they still drive fossil fueled vehicles and take fossil fueled flights

Democrats urge court to force costly New York climate change law

A group of New York Democrats is siding with environmentalists in a court fight with Gov. Kathy Hochul over costly provisions of a new climate change law, drawing criticism from business groups who say it will saddle energy consumers with higher costs.

In a new filing in the state Supreme Court, 17 Democratic senators and assembly members ask justices to order the state Department of Environmental Conservation to issue draft regulations to implement the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a 2019 that requires New York to take aggressive steps to reduce its excess greenhouse gas emissions.

The lawmakers who signed onto the amicus brief included Bronx Democrats and state Sens. Nathalia Fernandez and state Gustavo Rivera, along with Queens Assembly members Jessica González-Rojas and Diana Moreno, among others.

No one is surprised, right?

But the move by Democratic lawmakers to intervene in the legal fight over the climate change law drew strong criticism from business groups, who say the move will saddle energy consumers with higher costs.

“This amicus brief is completely out of touch — and frankly, unconscionable,” Justin Wilcox, executive director of Upstate United, said in a statement. “At a time when New Yorkers are already struggling with rising costs, these lawmakers are going out of their way to advocate in court for a position that would effectively force many struggling families to shoulder steep new energy and transportation expenses just to heat their homes and commute to work.”

Wilcox said the most “troubling” aspect of the court filing is that it “makes clear that these lawmakers understood the cost of the CLCPA when they passed it, and they understand the costs their legal position would impose — and are willing to move forward anyway.”

The Democrats do not care at all.

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Shocker: Woke Pope Appoints Illegal Alien As Bishop Of West Virginia

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

Say, how many illegals has the Vatican taken in? It has lots of space, right? Oh, and lots of walls

Pope appoints former undocumented immigrant as bishop of West Virginia

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a man who had once entered the United States as an undocumented immigrant, hidden in the trunk of a car, as the new bishop of West Virginia.

The pope approved the resignation of Bishop Mark E Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, and selected Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, 55, of Washington to take his place, reported OSV News.

Bishop Menjivar-Ayala moved to the US in 1990. In 2023, he became the first Salvadorian bishop in the country, serving as an auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Washington. Considered among the first US bishops born in Central America, he has spoken publicly urging Catholics to oppose Donald Trump’s aggressive policies toward immigrants, according to the Washington Post.

Menjivar-Ayala said he accepted his new role “with great joy and humility” at a Friday-morning news conference.

So, another uber-Woke, unhinged political wacko in the Catholic church. I wonder how they are going to take this in rather-GOP leaning West Virginia, a crazy from D.C. He is basically an illegal alien, but, he was able to get an “extant religious visa”. I just wonder, has he left the US as required for a R-1 visa, as required every 5 years, at which point they must reapply? I wonder if the Trump admin will take an interest in Menjivar-Ayala? And, again, if the people of West Virginia will accept him.

Speaking of Trump

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Oh, Noes, The World Met To Talk Climate Doom And The US Wasn’t Invited

By William Teach May 1, 2026 – 4:05 pm

The NY Times thinks this is a big deal

The World Met to Talk Climate Change. The U.S. Wasn’t Invited.

For the past week, diplomats from nearly 60 countries gathered in Colombia to discuss one of the most urgent and confounding questions of our day: how to move beyond fossil fuels.

60 countries is the world? Did they all take sailing ships or fossil fueled private jets?

The issue is urgent because emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas are rapidly warming the planet, leading to increasingly dire consequences.

By rapidly, they mean 1.7F since 1850

And it’s confounding because fossil fuels are the backbone of the modern economy, and alternatives don’t yet exist at nearly the scale needed. (Another factor: The U.S. was not invited, given the Trump administration’s refusal to engage with international climate talks, and several other big countries are not attending.)

Wait, how’d that get in there? Not the part about the US not being invited, because the Trump admin wouldn’t have bothered, but, the part about

And it’s confounding because fossil fuels are the backbone of the modern economy, and alternatives don’t yet exist at nearly the scale needed.

Huh. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NY Times edited this article and removes that.

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If All You See…

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

…is a seashore that will soon disappear from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Grist, with a post on a war on raccoons.

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Unintended Consequences: SNAP Benefits Now Include Rotisserie Chicken

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

John Fetterman, seemingly the only sane Democrat, had been pushing hard for this for weeks. And

House votes to allow rotisserie chicken food stamps purchases

unintended consequencesThe House voted to allow rotisserie chicken food stamp purchases on Thursday in an amendment to the broader farm bill.

The measure cleared the lower chamber with a vote of 384-35 with bipartisan support.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds have long been constrained to items that recipients can cook at home.

It now has to pass the Senate as part of a larger farm bill, because Congress apparently can’t just pass a simple bill anymore. So, who were the 35 who refused to vote for this? Well, let’s see

(Gothamist) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined two other local (NY) Democrats on Thursday to vote against a bipartisan bill to ensure rotisserie chickens are covered by the federal food stamp program.

The House voted 384-35 to pass the legislation. Jeffries was among those who argued the bill wasn’t broad enough and should have allowed all hot food.

“SNAP recipients should be able to use their benefits to buy any hot or prepared food at the supermarket,” Jeffries spokesperson Andy Eichar said in a statement. “Leader Jeffries supports comprehensive legislation sponsored by Congresswoman Grace Meng that would modernize outdated policies to allow that to occur. We need full-scale reform, not simply a piecemeal exemption carved out to support a single industry.”

They always want to do something crazy. They’re actually pushing a Hot Foods Act for SNAP. Which could make sense. But, with the chicken, the problem there is that they are usually loss-leaders or sold at cost. You get one and then you shop and get a bunch of other stuff. Are you just stopping at the chicken, or, going back and getting some potato salad, macaroni salad, some lettuce and tomatoes, stuffing and gravy, etc? So, since the government is now going to pay for them, you could see the price skyrocket, just like with most stuff the government reimburses on. And, it may be harder to get them.

We’ll see. Other hot foods would make sense, since they are usually profit makers. However, you could see the prices there go up, too. Maybe we should look to see who is on SNAP. Stop giving it to illegals and people on visas, along with others who do not deserve it.

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New York’s Over-Reliance On “Green” Energy Could Cause Blackouts

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

One day things like wind and solar might be viable, but, today is not that day (via Green Jihad)

Extended heat wave could cripple New York’s grid this summer: NYISO

Electric reliability margins this summer in New York will be “the lowest … in recent history,” with extreme weather and an aging generation mix contributing to a risk of blackouts, the New York Independent System Operator said Friday.

“Coordination with generation owners, utility companies, neighboring grid operators, and government officials will be essential as we work to maintain grid reliability this summer,” Aaron Markham, ISO vice president of operations, said in a statement.

The ISO’s annual summer reliability assessment estimates 34,615 MW of power resources will be available this year to meet forecasted peak demand of 31,578 MW. The ISO said it is required to maintain 2,620 MW from the available resources in reserve, leaving a reliability margin of 417 MW under baseline summer conditions.

New York’s reliability margin has declined almost 80% since 2022, when it was 1,918 MW.

Well, when you get rid of reliable coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy generation you are left with unreliable, undependable, and more expensive energy, which cannot meet the demands of more and more consumers/businesses, even with all those people moving out of NY. You still have more and more devices that use more and more electricity. Oh, and all those extra EVs.

Have fun, New Yorkers: you voted for this. And don’t leave. You voted for this.

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LOL: Illinois Commission Recommends Investigating Federal Immigration Officers

By William Teach May 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

They just never learn, eh?

Illinois commission recommends investigating federal immigration agents for misconduct and criminal charges

An Illinois commission tasked with investigating the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation in the state last year said it had identified multiple incidents in which federal agents should be investigated for misconduct and potential criminal charges.

Members of the Illinois Accountability Commission, an independent board of nine members that includes a former federal judge and attorneys appointed by Gov. JB Pritzker, recommended in a final report Thursday that law enforcement agencies and prosecutors investigate the conduct of federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, the immigration deportation operation the Trump administration launched last year in Chicago.

“Our communities and our people were subjected to an unprecedented campaign of harassment, intimidation and brutality,” Pritzker, who created the commission in response to Operation Midway Blitz, said at a news conference Thursday. “They deployed tear gas and smoke grenades against peaceful protesters and peaceful crowds and in peaceful neighborhoods. They committed flagrant and egregious abuses of power and force that went unchecked.”

I wonder how much this investigation will cost, with most of the money disappearing into people’s pockets? Because absolutely nothing will come of it

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the commission’s findings or the specific incidents detailed in it. A DHS spokesperson said in a statement in response to two hearings the commission held this week, “Governor Pritzker continues to refuse to do his job to protect his citizens from illegal alien crime and instead chooses to smear our law enforcement.”

Abigail ?Jackson, a spokesperson for the White House, told NBC News in response to the report, “If JB Pritzker spent this much time and energy addressing crime and supporting the arrest of criminal illegal aliens instead of providing them with sanctuary, Illinois residents would be much safer.”

If he did his unhinged base would revolt.

Immigration street sweeps led to more ‘collateral’ arrests of noncriminals

A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “collateral,” a type of arrest and detention that’s been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights.

Public outrage and lawsuits over the arrests may be tamping down the large-scale sweeps that foster them, but tens of thousands were arrested this way between August and early March.

But collateral arrests can result from street sweeps and raids in which a person is singled out for questioning based on appearance or proximity to someone wanted on a warrant. That person could be taken into custody if agents think they may be subject to deportation and also likely to flee if released.

About 70% of the collateral arrests were for people with immigration-related crimes or violations alone, compared with 41% for arrests with warrants. Less than 2% of those with collateral arrests were convicted of a violent crime, one-third the rate of other arrests, and only 18% were convicted of any crime, compared with 33% for other arrests.

See, now, if the wackos like Pritzker would simply hand over the illegals who committed crime these big operations would be unnecessary, and most of those collateral arrests wouldn’t have happened. Sure, they all need to go, but, immigration agents wouldn’t be grabbing collaterals in large numbers with the criminals.

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Your Fault: Vanuatu Is Still Confronting An Unthinkable Furure

By William Teach April 30, 2026 – 3:16 pm

Weird, because the socialists called Vanuatu one of the happiest places on Earth back in 2007

Climate change is forcing Vanuatu to confront an unthinkable future

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

Nguna is one of the smaller of some 83 islands that make up the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. It hardly rates a mention in the global politics of climate change, but its people want their voices to be heard. After all, they are living with the effects—close up.

Inneth Tasururu teaches at the little school in Unakap, a village on Nguna just off the coast of Efate, where the capital, Port Vila, stands. Not so long ago she was a pupil playing in its playground. When asked where the sea was then, her eyes glaze over a little and she says just one word: “Far.” Locals estimate that in recent decades the shoreline in Unakap has come in by something like 20 metres. The school’s old football field is under water, and attempts to build coastal defences have all failed, washed away or broken by high tides and storms.

After each storm, changes can be seen. The shores of Nguna island and its neighbours are littered with fallen trees, undermined by erosion. Other trees have most of their roots exposed, ready to fall next. Metal spikes stand out in places, the ruins of failed defences, and the path to the school is being eaten away by the waves. “All the communities in the islands are affected,” says Whitely Tasururu, a local man who advises the government on the issue.

Vanuatu is sponsoring a United Nations resolution on climate change, to press for financial help based on a legal opinion last year by the International Court of Justice that countries can be held liable for their inaction on climate change. America is doing its best to scuttle this motion, and any action would anyway surely come too late for much of Vanuatu. People there laugh at Donald Trump’s claim that climate change is a “con job”. In Port Vila, Vanuatu’s Ministry of Climate Change has collected evidence that suggests the sea level is rising all around the country. According to the country’s meteorological service, it has risen by 11-15cm since 1993. That brings severe problems such as saltwater intrusion.

Blah blah blah. They have been complaining about this for well over 10 years. My first post on them blaming a hurricane, something that happens out in the Pacific, on ‘climate change’ was back in 2015. I know other Skeptics, such as Tom Nelson, noted their BS way further back. And it is BS. Their island nation has a lot of airports, and would basically be a full 3rd world nation without fossil fueled ships and planes bringing in modern goods, along with food. They’ve polluted their fresh water supply. They really just want free, no strings attached money. It is all a scam. It’s very tedious.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 30, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a fish that will grow smaller or bigger from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on lib journalists regarding themselves as the real victims after the latest Trump assassination plot.

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Wacko Liberal Arrested After Threatening Trump At Apex Car Wash

By William Teach April 30, 2026 – 10:30 am

Meth was involved, but, that was surely just the helper on the way to Crazy Town

Let’s go to WRAL

A man is due in court Thursday after he was accused of making violent threats toward President Donald Trump in Apex.

Apex police, the SBI, the FBI and a bomb squad all responded to Tidal Wave Auto Spa on Lake Pine Drive in Apex on Wednesday afternoon after police said a man made violent political threats. The entire business was evacuated. (The Secret Service also showed up) (snip)

Daniel Rodney Swain, 41, of Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine and resisting a public officer. He is also accused of having a fake license plate. (snip)

“So it had to be something more than that that he would’ve had to have said or done, or that they found in his car or at his home…because I suspect there will be a search of his home,” (Former Judge Carl) Fox continued.

Police said the threats were political in nature, which prompted a “multi-agency response.”

These people are loons. I wonder what they will find when they search his house.

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