Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 7, 2025 – 10:04 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. The Sun will be shining, the birds are singing, and the Giants cannot lose today, so, no pain. This pinup seems to be AI (running across a lot of them lately), with a wee bit of help. Might be cheating a bit.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: Trump versus The Blob: The US warns Europe it faces civilizational erasure
  2. Whats Up With That?: Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
  3. American Greatness: What’s the Matter with Ireland?
  4. Bearing Arms: The Anti-Gunners Are Melting Down Over DOJ’s New Second Amendment Section
  5. Bustednuckles: Get them now for your Christmas dinner! (ewww, gross)
  6. Campus Reform: Colorado State University Christian student spat on, harassed by left-wing students for Christian chalking display
  7. Chicks On The Right: If You’re Tired Of “F-ing Racists,” Try This!
  8. Cold Fury: Memezapoppin’!
  9. Geller Report: Muslim Migrant Rapes Woman to Death On Church Steps After Nashville Freed Somali Rapist 16 Times
  10. IOTW Report: LA’s Mayor Proudly Announces a Coal-Free Grid That Can’t Produce Enough Power
  11. Jihad Watch: Germany: Afghan Muslim migrant gets lenient sentence because he stopped after stabbing his victim only six times
  12. Legal Insurrection: Sanctuary Policies Blamed After Another Charlotte Stabbing
  13. Liberty’s Torch: One Lemon Leads To Another Dept.
  14. Moonbattery: Syrian Thief in Austria: Stealing From Non-Muslims Is Permitted
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has “Fraudster, Tampon Tim Walz says people are driving by his house calling him ‘retarded’”

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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LOL: CBP To Charge Illegal Border Crossers $5k As An “Apprehension Fee”

By William Teach December 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

Oh, this is definitely going to cause Apoplexy Category 5, but, can they do anything legally but caterwaul?

US Border Patrol to charge illegal migrants with $5K ‘apprehension fee’

The US Border Patrol warned Friday it will be imposing a $5,000 “apprehension fee” to all illegal migrants caught in the country.

The penalty was approved under President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and is in addition to other fines already levied against some illegal immigrants taken into custody, Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks said in a Friday statement on X.

Banks said that any migrants “age 14 or older” who entered or were brought into the US “without inspection” will be slapped with a $5,000 fee.

“This message applies to all illegal aliens—regardless of where they entered, how long they’ve been in the U.S., their current location, or any ongoing immigration proceedings,” Banks said.

Well, in fairness, charging illegals/fake asylum seekers who came in prior to the passage of the BBB might very well violate Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 about ex post facto laws. Or it may not, since ex post facto is mostly about criminality of some sort, and has ruled in favor of retroactive taxes. For instance

The majority further opined: “Laws of a retroactive nature, imposing taxes or providing remedies for their assessment and collection, and not impairing vested rights, are not forbidden by the Federal Constitution.”

Of course, the last ruling was in 1923. And, really, retroactively applying taxes/fees should be forbidden.

First article

Earlier this year, officials said that they would be charging migrants with deportation orders who refuse to leave with a $1,000 fine for each day they overstayed.

In late August, the Wall Street Journal reported that around 21,500 fines had been issued — totaling at an estimated $6.1 billion.

But, how much has actually been collected? Regardless, both fees are designed to 1. deter illegals/fake asylum seekers from coming to the U.S. and 2. to get them to voluntarily leave, especially the $5K.

Meanwhile

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 1:16 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the EU banning Russian gas imports.

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Democrats Asked Who Comes First, US Citizens Or Foreign Drug Runners

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

If only each and every Democrat could be asked the question

Democrats reveal whether they believe US citizens or drug boat traffickers are more important

As scrutiny mounts on the Trump administration’s use of force in its targeting of suspected cartel members in the Caribbean, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were asked whether they believe U.S. citizen victims or drug traffickers are more important.

Republicans, such as Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., said the answer is easy.

“I can’t speak for anybody else, but my top concern is American citizens, their lives, their health. So, for me, it’s an easy choice. Kill drug dealers, save Americans,” said Sheehy.

First, it’s not so much “drug dealers” as “foreign drug runners running drugs in international waters”, because I would be against whacking drug dealers here in the US on legal grounds. Second, I certainly understand that many GOP folks are against the blowing up of drug runner boats, just like many are against capital punishment. They have their reasons, and they’re usually well thought out, well reasoned, factual, and based on the Constitution. We’re going to have to disagree on that. But, when you get to Democrats

Democrats, however, had less black and white opinions on the strikes.

“Look, I fully support doing whatever we can within the legal means to make sure that we’re stopping drug trafficking,” said Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Md., adding, “We should absolutely be concerned about the victims of drug trafficking and people who have lost their lives to drug violence.”

“We support all efforts to [interdict], arrest, hold people accountable who are trying to smuggle drugs into this country. However, we have a rule of law, and we have rules of engagement for a reason. And so, we need to make sure that we have full transparency in terms of how these strikes are happening,” Olszewski went on.

He added that “if the reporting is true, it’s very likely” that the administration’s drug boat strikes are “in violation of our laws and may in fact be a war crime.”

Yeah, he keeps going on and on, when it really should be a simple answer. Nor does he offer what those laws are. It’s simply mealy-mouthed TDS. You can bet if it was Biden, or Kamala, doing this, most Dems would say nothing, just like when Obama was blowing people up in the Middle East and Africa, including a few American citizens.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., pushed back on the question, saying, “Is this going to do anything to truly help them?”

“Cocaine’s still flowing, the demand is still there,” Smith said, adding, “You see a drug dealer on the street, that’s a bad person. That person is selling drugs. Let’s say they’re selling actual fentanyl, not the cocaine that we’re hitting here. Would you support allowing anyone to execute that person who wants to on the spot? … You want to be tough on drug dealers. Drug dealers are bad people. Why do we need due process? Why do you need probable cause?”

Blah blah blah

Meanwhile, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., answered, “We have to do our best to disrupt drug distribution. Also, we have to invest in drug health care and drug education, et cetera. We have to do all the things. The real question is, how do you do it right?”

Pressed on whether the government should be prioritizing drug victims above the traffickers, Reed responded, “I’ve commented and thank you for asking,” before walking away.

If you’re a drug runner you’re a terrorist, and should be blown up, much in the way Thomas Jefferson went after the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Blowing the boats up (I wonder if this will move onto drug running airplanes?) is more about sending a message to future drug runners that “this could be you. Don’t do it.” There are certainly legalities for and against blowing the boats up, so, I guess it depends on your side. Instead of taking the time to interdict, putting Coast Guard and military members at risk, then arrest, then incarcerate, blowing a few up is a deterrent.

More:

(Washington Examiner) It is not a coincidence that the six congressional Democrats released a video urging active military members to “refuse illegal orders” just days before billboards saying the same thing went up outside of U.S. Southern Command in Florida and Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Nor is it a coincidence that just days after that, media outlets aligned with the Democratic Party falsely reported that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered Navy SEAL Team 6 to launch a second lethal strike on two “survivors” from a drug boat not totally demolished by an initial missile strike.

These events are not random. They are all part of a coordinated campaign by the Democratic Party and its media allies to undermine President Donald Trump, sow dissent, and divide the country. These are the same tactics we saw them deploy for the Russia collusion hoax, for the attempted destruction of Justice Brett Kavanaugh hoax, and for the Ukraine impeachment hoax.

The reality is that Trump’s military campaign against drug cartels in the Caribbean is overwhelmingly popular and is good policy. Somewhere between 60% and 70% of the public approves of Trump using military force against drug traffickers in the Caribbean, and Democrats are desperate to undermine this support. The fact that they put their political fortunes ahead of the interdiction of drugs that kill tens of thousands of their fellow citizens is telling as to their moral priorities.

It’s one thing to have a principled opposition to the strikes, it’s something entirely different because of unhinged politics and TDS. To take the side of foreign drug runners bringing drugs that kill Americans into the U.S.

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NY Times Thinks Government Should Force Real Estate Site To List Climate (scam) Effects

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 7:15 am

Funny how this happens so darned often with the doomsday cult

What Zillow Won’t Tell You

When Zillow, the country’s largest real estate site, added information to property listings last year disclosing flood, wildfire, heat and air-quality risks, it was following its own research: More than 80 percent of home shoppers consider climate risk in their decisions. The data allowed families to weigh these risks before signing a mortgage.

Last month, the scores disappeared from the listings.

The real estate brokers and agents behind the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, one of the largest housing databases in the country, had complained about Zillow’s climate scores. Zillow partly depends on C.R.M.L.S. to supply its listings, and it removed them from every home on the site.

Climate change has always been a battle on two fronts: physical and informational. The physical impacts are unmistakable — extreme heat, stronger hurricanes, deadlier wildfires, chronic flooding. But the informational battle has been intense, as well, with decades of deliberate efforts to cast doubt on settled science and remove it from public view. Now the “information war” has come to real estate, where the consequences of unknown risk can be particularly severe.

As I noted back on the 2nd, the actual listings are way, way down the page, so, do most people even make it down and actually look at the data? And there are still links to First Street, where cultists can subscribe for $37 a month.

For home sellers and buyers in such high-risk zones, the difficult reality is that climate risks need to be both conspicuous and priced into listings. Consumers can insist that climate-risk scores return to Zillow, and in the meantime, use the platforms that still provide them, like Redfin, Realtor.com and Homes.com. Those companies are facing similar pressure from C.R.M.L.S., and hearing from buyers now matters.

They can pay the $37 a month

States can also strengthen disclosure laws so that a home’s flood or wildfire risk isn’t something buyers discover only after a disaster. As Susan Crawford, a climate adaptation scholar and writer, suggests, the government should fully fund a modernized flood mapping program that shows not only today’s risk, but how flooding is expected to change. Finally, real-estate platforms must stop fighting the facts and start preparing people for the dangers that already exist.

So, force websites to provide this information so the small number of Warmists who care can see it, instead of paying $37 a month.

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Unhinged Democrats Want To Pretty Much End Government’s Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach December 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

They think this is about “dignity”, and, this isn’t something supported by a few of the moonbat wackos

Dem-backed ‘dignity’ bill could strip ICE of detention powers, erase immigration enforcement, critics warn

After more than 120 House Democrats signed onto a bill from a top progressive lawmaker to seek what they define as “dignity” for federal immigration detainees, critics sounded the alarm that the legislation could forever transform how illegal immigrants are treated in the U.S.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., is spearheading the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, along with fellow Evergreen State lawmaker Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. They say it would curb the “shocking surge” of allegedly wrongful detentions and inappropriate conditions, particularly at jails run by private companies under government contract.

Critics vociferously objected to that suggestion in exclusive comments to Fox News Digital Friday.

“This legislation isn’t aimed at improving conditions for migrants navigating the U.S. immigration system. It would instead end the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration law entirely,” members of the Day 1 Alliance, the main trade association representing longtime federal and state contractors in the criminal justice and immigration spaces, warned.

The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act would lead to the repeal of mandatory detention for those captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a summary posted by Jayapal, and create a presumption of release, imposing a higher burden of proof to detain primary caregivers and “vulnerable populations.”

These same illegals would then just disappear into the U.S. again once released, but, really, the idea here is simply to make it so difficult for the government to detain and deport illegals that it wouldn’t be worth trying. Much like how cops wouldn’t even show up to take shoplifting statements in California and Washington due to their newly passed laws. Why would the cops bother when the perps would be immediately released and never convicted?

In apparent response to Democrats being iced out of ICE centers earlier in 2025, including a case in Newark, New Jersey, where Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was accused of accosting officers, it also would mandate that the Department of Homeland Security admit members of Congress to detention facilities for unannounced inspections.

Because it’s apparently difficult for the dilettantes in Congress to have a staffer schedule an inspection.

She showed up unannounced demanding information, and interfered. She looks pretty good for someone who just got pepper sprayed, right?

Ooops.

As Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary DHS, notes:

She was in the vicinity of someone who *was* pepper sprayed as they were obstructing and assaulting law enforcement. In fact, 2 law enforcement officers were seriously injured by this mob that
@Rep_Grijalva joined.

Presenting one’s self as a “Member of Congress” doesn’t give you the right to obstruct law enforcement.

She should be arrested for interfering.

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Surprise: UK EV Demand Drops On Reports Of Mile Driven Tax

By William Teach December 5, 2025 – 4:19 pm

The law of unintended consequences

Electric car demand sinks as drivers face pay-per-mile tax

Demand for electric cars has stalled as Rachel Reeves prepares to hit them with a new pay-per-mile tax.

Electric vehicle (EV) sales grew at their slowest rate in two years in November, at just 3.6pc, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the SMMT, tied the slowdown to the Budget and its long build-up.

He said: “Even in a fragile market, zero-emission vehicle uptake continues to rise, which is exactly what we need. But the weakest growth for almost two years – ahead of the Government announcing a new tax on EVs – should be seen as a wake-up call that a sustained increase in demand for EVs cannot be taken for granted.

Let’s not forget that the UK is basically forcing citizens to switch to EVs, all while the people doing the forcing are failing to switch to EVs themselves.

“We should be taking every opportunity to encourage drivers to make the switch, not punishing them for doing so, else the ambitions of Government and industry will be thwarted.”

By encourage, they mean force, and then they implement taxes which take away any money savings.

The number of EVs sold climbed to 39,965 in November. Fully electric cars made up 26.4pc of all new car sales in November, up from 25.1pc a year ago. The SMMT said the recently introduced electric car grants supported sales.

However, the proportion of EV sales still falls short of the 28pc annual target. Carmakers who fail to meet this level risk fines.

And that’s government forcing manufacturers to do things to make sure they sell enough EVs, regardless of what the citizens actually want.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 5, 2025 – 2:03 pm

…are palm trees which will soon grow in the Arctic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Trump approving tiny cars.

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Bummer: Immigration Agents Arrested Illegals Replacing A Roof

By William Teach December 5, 2025 – 10:30 am

The NY Times is Very Concerned

Her Roof Was About to Be Fixed. Then Immigration Agents Showed Up.

After Hurricane Francine damaged Althea Vallotton’s house in suburban New Orleans last year, puddles formed on her floors whenever it rained. But she saved up money and lived in a mobile home on her front lawn for months, until she finally obtained a loan to pay for a stronger, metallic covering.

The cost? About $49,000.

On Wednesday, several workers — hired by a “legitimate contractor,” she said — arrived around 7 a.m. and got to work on the roof. She, in turn, drove to her job at a nearby school, relieved that her home repair odyssey was ending. It was a one-day job, after all.

Then her phone buzzed. Friends and relatives were asking if she had seen the videos online of federal immigration agents in Kenner, La., ordering the roof repairers to get down. Some sent screenshots of a masked agent pointing a weapon at the workers.

They were at her house.

Ms. Vallotton was stunned. She found the principal. “I got to go now — ICE is at my house,” she told her.

By the time Ms. Vallotton got home, the action was over, but she pieced together what had happened: The largely Hispanic construction crew on her roof had become the latest target of a federal immigration crackdown that had arrived in New Orleans that morning.

Sniffles. Anyhow, perhaps she should have gone with a company that was not using workers ineligible and illegally working in the United States. Not necessarily her fault, it’s hard to know when you deal with a top end person doing the paperwork and setting things up. Regardless, the people running the roofing company should be arrested for hiring illegals. In fact, it would be better if federal law enforcement prioritized going after companies that hire and use illegal aliens and throwing the book at them, which would cause most to stop hiring them, which would cause a lot of illegals to self deport as there is no work.

(BBC News) It is day one of “Catahoula Crunch”, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has labelled its operation, taking its name from an American leopard dog known for being well-muscled, powerful and territorial.

“These people came to work today to provide for their families and themselves,” said Zoe Higgins, an activist documenting the Border Patrol operation in New Orleans.

“That they could just be abducted, removed from all stability – I can’t imagine how terrifying that is,” she said, shortly after the agents coaxed the men down and detained them.

Are legal U.S. citizens “abducted” when the police arrest them violating the law?

Meanwhile,

A civil violation like speeding is still a crime. The law says so. And there are penalties. This includes those who overstayed their visas.

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Climate Cult Super Excited To Force Internet Platforms To Catch “Misinformation”

By William Teach December 5, 2025 – 7:15 am

Funny, they call us Authoritarians and Fascism, but, they’re the ones doing all they can to shut down opposing Free Speech

Why Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change That

Green Climate Thought PoliceClimate misinformation presents a troubling paradox: while most Americans believe that climate change is real and human-caused, online misinformation continues to erode public trust in climate science. Many platforms lack specific policies addressing climate disinformation, and even those with policies in place struggle to enforce them effectively. Why do platforms fail to adequately address this problem, and what would it take to change?

Why? Because their job is to allow the free exchange of information, as long as it is not illegal stuff, like child p0rnography (which Democrats are fine with), not to censor people, for the most part. There are certain websites which certainly won’t allow certain points of view, like, say, The Democratic Underground (yes, it is still around). Heck, they barely tolerate squishy Democrats.

The problem is structural. Trust and safety teams typically operate within frameworks that triage based on three criteria common to risk management across domains: imminence of harm, likelihood of occurrence, and severity of impact.

What if platforms/sites do not want to take the cult view? Or be neutral? Hey, what if those “trust and safety teams” where made up of conservatives knocking down leftist content? Leftists would be OK with that, right?

TikTok offers an instructive case study. The platform maintains a policy stating that climate misinformation will be removed or suppressed from recommendation algorithms. In practice, enforcement seemingly remains minimal — not due to technical limitations, but because climate content moderation lacks the crisis urgency, institutional backing and political consensus that drive resource allocation within trust and safety organizations.

Or, because in practice they really do not care. Let’s skip ahead

Rather than pursuing a single solution, seminar participants identified several leverage points that could collectively shift platform behavior:

Regulatory action, particularly in the EU: Platforms operate globally and must satisfy the most stringent regulatory environment. European regulations on climate-related claims and content governance create compliance requirements that can have spillover effects in other jurisdictions. The United Kingdom’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act now allows sanctions for greenwashing without litigation — a model that could extend to platform-hosted content.

Surprise! They want lots and lots of laws and regulations to shut views down. Not that I am surprised in the least.

And then they want to go after advertisers, harassing and badgering them in the way Leftists tend to do, and a bunch of other stuff. But, it’s using government that should be concerning.

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