Surprise: The Kiddies Cannot Do Basic Math, Per Report

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Maybe schools, run mostly by Democrats, with mostly Democrat teachers, should teach the basics and forget about the Woke, DEI, trans, and climate scam, among others

College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

Marxism and SocialismWhat happens when a child is promoted, grade by grade, through America’s K-12 school system but can’t actually perform at grade level in reading, writing or math?

As the University of California at San Diego found, they get into college — and become someone else’s problem.

UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions released a startling report last week documenting a steep decline in college preparedness.

Between 2020 and 2025, it found, the number of freshmen with math skills below middle-school level “increased nearly thirtyfold” — with about one in eight of them unable to handle even the most basic high school math.

The university has had to add a new course devoted exclusively to teaching “elementary and middle school Common Core math subjects (grades 1-8)” — in addition to the remedial math classes it already had in place covering high school topics like algebra and geometry.

College students having to take courses in elementary school math? Should they be in college? Oh, right, Dem colleges want the kiddies to take out all those loans which help out the loan companies who donate to Democrats

How does any child graduate from high school not knowing how to do basic math?

How basic? In 2023, 13% of students who took a UC San Diego math assessment could not perform at first-grade level, and 25% of kids got the equation 7 + 2 = [ ] + 6 wrong.

This is terrifying — and the worst part is how inevitable the collapse has been.

Every year we watch as teachers’ unions get more powerful, test scores decline, and our states shovel more and more money into failed schools.

This is a Democrat problem. They run the schools.

This was a giant error, as Harvard University found: In 2024, it too had to add a remedial class for incoming freshmen who lacked “foundational skills” in basic high school math, after admitting them without a standardized measure of their readiness for college.

Harvard. Think on that. This is insane.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible snow made more likely because of heat moving the Arctic jet stream, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on EVs being taxed in France.

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40% Of Young Women Want To Leave The US Or Something

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

These are mostly Liberal women, probably white, urban liberal women

As many as one in five Americans want to leave the country with women driving the trend, poll finds

As many as one in five Americans say they want to leave the U.S., with young women driving the trend, a new survey has found.

Polling by Gallup shows that 40 percent of women aged 15 to 44 said they would like to leave the country and move abroad permanently if they could. The figure is four times greater than it was 10 years ago.

A big spike in those expressing the desire to move out of the U.S. was first reported by the pollster in 2016, the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency and before Donald Trump’s first term in office.

Funny thing is, most never leave. They whine and complain and caterwaul and put on Handmaid costumes, but, don’t leave

However, the pollster noted that the desire to move was not entirely partisan, as the wish to leave continued to climb even after Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden.

Under Biden, the desire to migrate hit 44 percent, where it has remained, possibly due to seismic political events, including the overturning of Roe v Wade by the Supreme Court in 2022.

That would be partisan. Nothing is more sacrosanct to Democrats than killing the unborn, because they are too lazy and irresponsible to practice safe sex and use contraception.

Choice of destination for these young women dreaming of a change of scene has stayed consistent, according to Gallup, with Canada remaining the top option. Eleven percent of those expressing a desire to migrate since 2022 cited their neighbor to the north as their ideal destination.

The other contenders were New Zealand, Italy and Japan, all of which were given 5 percent of the vote.

Yet, they don’t. How easy would it be to just go to Canada? And, who says Japan want them?

Whereas 40 percent of young women said they would like to leave the country, only 19 percent of young men said the same – a gap of 21 percentage points, which is the widest Gallup has recorded.

It’s the women. Probably the same ones complaining that men suck on TikTok and why can’t they find a good man on TikTok.

Liberal women the ‘least happy and loneliest’ in America, according to a new survey

Liberal women are more likely to report feeling lonely than their conservative counterparts, according to a survey.

New evidence in the 2024 American Family Survey, found that 37 percent of conservative women from the ages of 18-40 reported being satisfied with their life.

Only 12 percent of liberal women in the same group said they felt the same way, while 28 percent of moderate said they were satisfied. (snip)

He said: ‘We’ve seen in the research that conservative women tend to be more likely to embrace a sense of agency and to have the sense that they are not, in any way, the victim of larger structural realities or forces.

‘They’re also less likely to catastrophize about public events and concerns and more likely to think of themselves as captains of their own fate.’

It’s a nice way of saying they’re nuts. Anyhow, can they finally leave? That would free up resources, mean more available housing, fewer on government programs, reduce traffic, and so forth.

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Teachers To Be Required To Teach That ‘Climate Change’ Is All Your Fault In PRNY

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

See, Democratic Science requires a one sided belief in the People’s Republik Of New York

State Ed says teachers must teach human causes of climate change

Students must learn about climate change and environmental stewardship, the Board of Regents has decided.

The topic has been required in high school science classes for years. But now it must also be taught in elementary and middle schools.

Surveys suggest it will be a rough transition.

Few elementary school teachers feel prepared to teach about climate change, and almost half of middle school science teachers tell students that humans haven’t caused climate change, according to national surveys published in 2022 and 2024.

At every level — K-4, middle school and high school — students must learn about the causes, impacts of and solutions regarding climate change. The curriculum must be implemented by the 2027-28 school year for middle and high school students, and by 2028-29 for elementary school students, the Board of Regents decided.

We know what the curriculum will read like, as the doomsday cult writes it. I wonder how well this will work in the vast areas of the PRNY which vote GOP? Will they abandon the state, further eroding the tax base and leading to even more Congressional seats being lost?

“I have gotten so many calls from students advocating for climate education,” said Regent Frances Wills. “It’s very connected to what kids are really interested in.”

OK, so, some youts complained, and, instead of doing their own reading, they are demanding that all youts be indoctrinated.

But teachers are not completely on board.

In a 2022 survey for the North American Association for Environmental Education, 37% of teachers agreed with the statement, “Climate change is a political issue that does not belong in the classroom.”

If you think about it, that’s a pretty big percentage, since the majority off teachers are liberals

Among urban teachers, 56% agreed with the statement, “There is too much emphasis placed on climate change when there are other issues to be addressed in education.” About a third of other teachers also agreed.

Climate doom is something that is mostly for affluent white liberals who rarely practice what they preach.

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Cool: Border Patrol Coming To Charlotte, NC

By William Teach November 14, 2025 – 6:05 am

I hope the Raleigh area is next. It’s always fun to watch the moonbats go bat guano insane

Border Patrol agents coming to Charlotte after days of speculation

Border Patrol personnel will be coming to the Charlotte area as soon as this weekend, the Mecklenburg County sheriff confirmed on Thursday.

Federal officials contacted Sheriff Garry McFadden on Wednesday, Nov. 12 to make him aware.

The sheriff’s office said members of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection — which includes Border Patrol — were expected to move into the Charlotte region by Saturday or the early part of next week.

Confirmation that Border Patrol will come into the area comes days after CBS reported that the federal agency could target Charlotte as it prepared to lessen its presence in Chicago. (snip)

While officials confirmed to the sheriff that Border Patrol was coming, the sheriff’s office said “specific details regarding the federal operation have not been disclosed.” The sheriff’s office also said it had not been asked to help with any enforcement actions.

North Carolina law bans counties and cities from being illegal alien sanctuaries, but, really, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (and several other cities and counties in NC) do what they can to restrict cooperation. Sheriff McFadden has said Mecklenburg is not a sanctuary county, so, we’ll see what shakes out.

Excitable Governor Josh Stein is throwing some shade, a little fearmongering

(MyFox8) Gov. Josh Stein told Queen City News on Wednesday that if agents do land in Charlotte, he does not want to see a recreation of scenes that have played out in Chicago. 

“We’ve seen them assault senior people,” Stein said from an economic development announcement. “We’ve seen them go after people who were peacefully protesting, this is not how policing is supposed to happen in this country.”

Bullshit. Throwing things at ICE and CBP agents, obstructing, harassing, running into their cars, and more. That’s not peaceful. Get in the way of lawful arrests and expect Bad Things to happen.

The governor added that he’s not necessarily against immigration law being enforced but said there must be a limit on what agents can do.

“If we had absolute confidence that ICE was going to come here and they were going to go and find violent, dangerous drug traffickers and criminals and be targeted in their work, the city would welcome them with open arms, I’m almost certain of that,” he said. “We haven’t heard from them, so we don’t know what their plans are.”

Limits? If they are in the U.S. illegally that is the limit.

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“Scientists Say” Gulf Stream Is On Verge Of Collapse, Will Lead To Ice Age

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 3:23 pm

And cause sea levels to rise

Climate scientists claim Gulf Stream could be near collapse — predicting a new ice age

A key Atlantic current could be pushed to the brink of collapse within decades, supposedly ushering in a new ice age and dramatically raising sea levels, climate scientists have claimed in a controversial new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

The apocalyptic predictions came as a result of a collaboration between researchers at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Diego — weeks after one-time climate alarmist Bill Gates publicly downplayed the impact of temperature fluctuations on the planet.

Per the new findings, the at-risk current in question is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a “conveyor belt of the ocean” that funnels warm water toward the ocean surface from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.

This current, which includes the Gulf Stream that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the US East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe, helps maintain the mild climate of Europe, the UK and the US East Coast. (snip)

The researchers reportedly happened upon this warm spot by using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model — a computer model that simulates the ocean, atmosphere and climate — to monitor how “AMOC-related signals” like energy waves ripple rapidly toward the equator.

So, no actual direct observations and measurements? Huh. Anyhow, do you know what happens when an ice age hits? Water is locked in glaciers. Sea levels drop, not rise. During the last ice age the Mediterranean was divorced from the Atlantic, as the Atlantic’s level was below the Meds, causing the Med to dry up considerably, which is why there are so many fantastic salt mines under the Med, and they have found, for instance, elephant bones at the bottom of the sea.

But, wait, didn’t computer models say we aren’t doomed this century or anytime soon from AMOC collapse? And weren’t we told that the AMOC was speeding up, not slowing down? Increasing? Seriously, this is all part of the natural cycle on Earth. They think it slowed down a bit prior to the Little Ice Age after the Medieval Warm Period. This stuff happens. Chill, people. Of course, the entire point here is to 1) get more government funding, 2) scare people into demanding government run their lives.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle causing heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the Net Zero lie.

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Politico: The World Wants A Climate President Or Something

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Are Americans supposed to care what the world wants? Anyhow, I thought Obama was the climate president? Or was that Biden?

The climate president in waiting
The world wants an American climate leader, and Gavin Newsom is happy to play the part — even if the country he represents isn’t quite ready to follow.

BELÉM, Brazil — Gavin Newsom can’t get out of a meeting or a talk at the international climate talks here without being swarmed by reporters and diplomats eager for a quote, a handshake, a photo.

On a tour Tuesday of a cultural center with Gov. Helder Barbalho, the leader of the Brazilian state hosting the talks, a passerby recognized them both. “There’s the governor,” he exclaimed. “And there’s the California governor.” Later in the day, as Newsom rode up an escalator packed with reporters and international officials on his way to deliver a speech, a bystander shouted: “The escalator’s not broken for you!” — a dig at President Donald Trump, who once had an escalator malfunction on him at the United Nations.

Newsom grinned wide: “Oh, I like that.”

The adulation was gold for a governor with presidential aspirations as he steps into a power vacuum. The Trump administration is trying to dismantle climate policies both at home and abroad, and other likely Democratic presidential contenders are absent from the United Nations climate talks. Seeing a chance to plant his green flag on an international stage, Newsom is embracing the role of climate champion as his own party backs away at home and the politics of the issue shift rightward.

This would be the same Gavin Newsom who flew over 5,000 miles on a private jet to BELÉM, Brazil, right? It’s all a gorgeous little bit of slobbering over Gavin from Politico, but, are Americans slobbering? Do they care about a “climate president”? Who’s 100% Trump deranged, despite Trump not running in 2028? Many Americans may care about ‘climate change’ in theory, but, when it comes to practice? Ask Jay Inslee, who ran his campaign in 2019-2020 as being a climate president and only that, and having to drop out early in the Democrat primaries.

Exposing Gavin Newsom’s Top 10 Failures

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  1. Highest Cost-of-Living in the Nation
  2. Soaring Crime
  3. Worst Homelessness Crisis in the Nation
  4. Weakest Election Integrity in Nation
  5. Helping Human Traffickers While Creating a Border Crisis
  6. Failing Schools – And Attacks on Parents
  7. Negligence Creating an Insurance Crisis
  8. A Pattern of “Pay-to-Play” Politics
  9. Destroying Direct Democracy by Gutting Citizen Initiative Rights
  10. Failed Green New Deal Policies (Energy, Water Rationing)

That last one has led to much higher energy costs, especially as 30% of the used energy must be brought into California from other states. Gas prices are the highest in the lower 48. Water issues abound, such as the failure to have water available for the Palisades wildfire. For which barely any homes have been built and permitted to be built.

Under Gavin, there is water rationing, rolling brownouts and blackouts, and highest taxes in the nation. And so, so much more. Refineries are closing due to legislation and lawfare, not market forces. And

Newsom’s climate warrior image is backsliding, environmental groups say

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As Newsom was touting himself as a climate change warrior in New York, back home in California a coalition of more than 40 environmental groups was chastising him in a sharply worded letter for, they said, backsliding on the issue.

“As Governor Newsom touts his climate record on the national and international stage, we must not let him forget that it takes more than words to be a climate leader,” Nicole Ghio, executive director of Food & Water Watch California, said in a statement accompanying the letter.

The Google AI blurb that led to this says

Gavin Newsom’s climate failures include vetoing a bill to protect environmental regulations, failing to prevent worsening wildfire seasons, and cutting climate funding. Critics also cite his administration’s actions, such as seeking potential bailouts for a refinery, and vetoing bills that could have reduced emissions or protected air quality.

Anyhow, good luck running on the climate scam.

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Strange: Fossil Fuels “Emissions” To Hit Record Highs In 2025

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 7:15 am

How can this be? Aren’t more and more people driving hybrids? Buying EVs because they are being forced into them/enticed with insane subsidies? Aren’t some nations, like in the EU, going nuts in blocking the use of fossil fuels, blocking new drilling/extraction? Stopping the use of natural gas for home heat, cooking, and hot water? Replacing fossil fuels with “green” energy? And many US states doing the same? How is this possible? Aren’t all the Warmists giving up their own use of fossil fuels?

Global fossil fuel emissions to hit record high in 2025, study says

Global fossil fuel emissions are set to hit a new high in 2025, according to research published Thursday that also warns curbing warming under 1.5°C would now be essentially “impossible.”

The annual Global Carbon Budget report looks at humanity’s emissions of planet-heating CO? from burning hydrocarbons, cement production, and land use — such as deforestation — and relates the figures to the warming thresholds outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

An international team of scientists found that CO? emissions from fossil fuels will be 1.1 percent higher in 2025 than a year ago, with the massive rollout of renewable technologies still not enough to compensate for growing energy demand.

With emissions from oil, gas, and coal all set to rise, the overall figure is due to reach a record 38.1 billion tonnes of CO?.

If all those Warmists stopped using fossil fuels that would drop quite a bit, right?

Released as nations meet for COP30 climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, the new study calculated a remaining allowance of 170 billion tonnes of CO? to limit warming to 1.5°C from pre-industrial levels — the target outlined in the Paris Agreement.

“This equates to four years of emissions at the current rate before the budget for 1.5°C is exhausted, so that is impossible, essentially,” said Pierre Friedlingstein of Britain’s Exeter University, who led the research.

I wonder how many tons of “emissions” could be cut if 40K weren’t taking long, fossil fueled trips to COP30 to complain about Other People using fossil fuels and trying to restrict them for those Other People?

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Oh Noes, Tariffs Could Skyrocket The Cost Of Italian Made Pasta

By William Teach November 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s horrible!

Since the WSJ has a pretty hard paywall, let’s go to the NY Post

Thirteen Italian pasta brands could pull their products from US grocery stores — or potentially be forced to hike prices dramatically as soon as January, when punishing 107% tariffs are set to take effect.

The levies — the highest the White House has moved to impose on a specific product since the start of President Trump’s crackdown on imports — come from the US’ 15% baseline tariff on European Union goods plus a punishing 92% levy over accusations that Italian pasta makers have been undercutting US competitors.

The Commerce Department says the penne purveyors have been violating “antidumping” laws, exporting their products to the US market at a very low price to gain an advantage over local businesses.

One affected company decried the new policy to The Post, declaring it would not pass on costs from the new tariff to customers. (big snip)

Last year, the Department of Agriculture launched an investigation after two US pasta manufacturers called for a review of Italian exporters.

So, this all started under Biden. Huh.

Along with Pasta Garofalo, La Molisana and Rummo, the impacted pasta brands include Agritalia, Aldino, Antiche Tradizioni Di Gragnano, Barilla, Gruppo Milo, Pastificio Artigiano Cav. Giuseppe Cocco, Pastificio Chiavenna, Pastificio Liguori, Pastificio Sgambaro and Pastificio Tamma.

Barilla makes pasta for the US market within the States and is less likely to be impacted by the tariffs than the other businesses, Italian media noted. The Post has sought comment from Barilla.

Barilla accounts for around 30% of US pasta sales, made in Ames, IA and Avon, NY for both US and Canadian sales. I usually buy Barilla or some off brands, like at Lidl. And, I will make my own when it comes to thin spaghetti and similar, as well as some thicker noodles, at times. Weird shapes and egg noodles, nah, always buying. Most people are not buying Italian import pasta. So, chill out, News Media.

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