Oops: Fake Asylum Seeker Playing Reporter Busted By ICE

By William Teach March 7, 2026 – 7:00 am

I utterly love the way so many leftist news organizations are simping

ICE arrests US Spanish-language news outlet reporter without warrant

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a Spanish-language Tennessee news outlet’s reporter who had done stories critical of the agency – but agents didn’t have a warrant, according to court documents filed recently by her lawyer.

A court filing Friday by ICE disputes the assertion that the reporter was arrested without a warrant.

They do not need one: she is here illegally, claimed asylum, and failed to appear for multiple immigration hearings. Let’s see if the uber-leftist UK Guardian will mention this

Estefany Rodriguez Florez of Nashville Noticias, who had produced reports that were unflattering to ICE, was arrested Wednesday during a traffic stop. She is being detained by ICE’s enforcement and removal operations, according to documents filed in federal court in Nashville.

Her lawyers called for her immediate release, but ICE has asked a judge to deny the request.

Rodriguez, a Colombian citizen, entered the United States lawfully and has been living in the US for the past five years, court records filed by her lawyer show. She has a valid work permit, and she has applied for political asylum and legal status though her husband, who is a US citizen. The document filed by her lawyer does not specify a reason for her asylum request.

They, like most of the rest, are simply running with what the AP started, with the “entered lawfully” without bothering to provide full details

(Nashville Banner) ICE provided the following statement to the Banner:

ICE arrested Estefany Rodriguez-Florez, an illegal alien from Colombia, March 4 during a targeted enforcement operation. Rodriguez-Florez entered the United States with a tourist visa March 10, 2021, which was valid until March 23, 2021. She failed to depart the country and is in violation of the conditions of her visa and currently has no lawful immigration status. She will remain in ICE custody pending her immigration proceedings.

She entered and had no intention of leaving, hence the (fake) asylum claim. Perhaps she should have been thankful to be in the United States rather than being a pain in the ass.

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Britannia Lost: UK Looking To Ban 67 Breeds Of Dogs

By William Teach March 6, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Why would they do this?

From the article

Sixty-seven dog breeds could be banned in Britain if new breeding guidelines set by parliament become mandatory, campaigners have warned.

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for animal welfare has launched a new tool to determine if a dog is healthy.

The cross-party committee has developed a 10-point checklist of extreme physical characteristics which can make for a poorly pooch.

This would include the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, which Queen Elizabeth always had. Of course, they are putting this as a “health issue”, deflecting from the reality, and you get articles like

No, 67 dog breeds are not being banned, here’s what is actually happening
… and it’s all about protecting your pet’s health – look out for those cute flat faces and little legs

But, really, let’s be real: Brits are seriously concerned that it won’t stop there, since the UK has been invaded by Islamists. Heck, the wackjob UK leaders are bringing them in and allowing them to take over.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 6, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are hills turning to desert because Other People eat meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Director Blue Substack, with a post on What Iranian Negotiators Told Witkoff

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Illegal Arrested In Gaston County, NC, With 50 Felonies Relating To 14 Year Old Girl

By William Teach March 6, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is whom Democrats are protecting

Gaston County is immediately to the west of Charlotte. I’m not finding anything about this at WNCN, WBTV, WSOCTV, WCCB, any of the papers, or Charlotte NPR. Only one station, Queen City News bothers covering this, and, even then, not a lot of detail

Man held on ICE detainer, facing over 50 felony charges for exploiting minor on Snapchat

A Lowell man is facing over 50 felony charges after allegedly threatening a minor to send explicit content on Snapchat.

Jose Isaias Martel Arriaga, 23, is facing 40 counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, nine counts of indecent liberties with a child, four counts of soliciting a child by computer, three counts of soliciting prostitution of a minor, and three counts of extortion.

He has also been placed on an ICE detainer.

According to the police report, Arriaga obtained child sexual abuse material of the 14-year-old victim by threatening that if she blocked him on Snapchat, he would send the videos to her parents.

In other instances, he threatened to tell the victim’s boyfriend what she had been sending him if she didn’t send what he asked. He also threatened to go to the victim’s school.

Imagine if Jose was a white American male: this would be all over the Charlotte news, and easily be on the Raleigh, Asheville, and Greensboro news. 50 felonies involving a child.

Perhaps there’s a reason we need ICE, Deb?

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Ice Cores Show Modern Warm Period Is Unremarkable

By William Teach March 6, 2026 – 7:00 am

Hey, if ice cores are good enough to extrapolate DOOM!!!! for the cult, it’s good enough to blow their doom out of the water like an Iranian ship

New Study: Ice Core Data Shows Modern Warming Is Statistically Unremarkable

There is nothing unprecedented or even significant about modern warming magnitudes or rates. [some emphasis, links added (WT: not mine, article’s)]

Antarctic ice cores are routinely used to represent not only global-scale CO2 records, but also global temperature records over the last 800,000 years.

Interestingly, if we compare modern Antarctica to paleo Antarctica, we learn “no continent-scale warming of Antarctic temperature is evident in the last century.”

A new statistical probability analysis (Hatton, 2026) using Vostok temperature data indicates the reported 1.1°C global warming over the last century (since the 1920s) is “not even unusual” within the context of the last 20,000 years, as “16% of the centuries since the end of the last Ice Age show a rise at least as big [1.1°C] as the current century.”

As current warming rates are “quite commonplace,” this calls into question the push to attribute temperature changes to human activity.

I personally will not discount anthropogenic causation to a point, as I have always maintained. Some small measure from greenhouse gasses, then you have land use and Urban Heat Island effect (both of which have a pretty big nighttime effect), air pollution which can limit radiative cooling at night, and siting temperature monitors incorrectly. Warming of about 1.6F since 1850 is no big deal. We wouldn’t see pauses if it was all from YOU driving a fossil fueled vehicle, it would be a continuous rise.

But, the cult doesn’t care about science, because it’s all about forcing authoritarian government on everyone, and the peasant level Warmists do not seem to understand that this will effect themselves.

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Most Dems, Two Republicans Vote To Surrender to Iran

By William Teach March 6, 2026 – 6:45 am

Like this wackjob, who became a total disappointment

The other GOP wackjob was Warren Davidson (R-Ohio)

Congress declines to halt Iran war

The House rebuffed an effort to halt war with Iran on Thursday, as Republicans teamed with a handful of Democrats to grant President Donald Trump free rein to conduct the vast military campaign.

House lawmakers, in a tight 212-219 vote, rejected a bipartisan war powers resolution that would require Congress to sign off on Middle East operations, a day after the Senate voted against a similar measure.

The back-to-back defeats of war powers legislation come as top officials warn U.S. military operations will soon intensify. And it signals that Trump’s fellow Republicans are sticking with him on Iran — at least publicly.

Republicans benefited from Democratic defections to help defeat the Iran war measure, which was offered by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).

Of course Massie had to work with far left moonbat Khanna to end a war that already started, and is like 47 years beyond when it should have happened.

Four Democrats — Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Juan Vargas of California — defied their party to help kill the legislation.

So, only 4 Democrats wanted to not wave the white flag, wanted to continue letting the Iranian nutjobs scream Death To America, abuse their citizens, treat women as 2nd class citizens. Where are all the feminists in Congress?

“What are our objectives? How will this all end?” asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. “If this military action, this war, is so principled, why is the president unwilling or unable to make his case directly to the American people?”

Um, because we don’t want to give away our plans less than a week into bombing parts of Iran back to the stone age.

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United Airlines Nixes Listening To Anything On Speaker Phone

By William Teach March 5, 2026 – 3:24 pm

Fantastic. Especially since I tend to take United the one or two times I fly a year

United Airlines introduces tough new rule change to battle blood-boiling passenger pet peeve

This annoying travel habit won’t fly with United Airlines.

The major airline recently made clear that passengers who don’t use headphones while listening to electronic devices could get tossed off a flight – or even banned from traveling with the company.

The new rule was quietly added to United’s contract of carriage terms under its “refusal to transport” section late last month — a change first reported on by CBS News.

“Passengers who fail to use headphones while listening to audio or video content,” is one of the infractions that can get a flyer thrown off a flight, along with a litany of other long-established rules like assaulting staff or being barefoot, according to the contract.

I just wondering if this has been happening enough to have the rule, or if United is getting ahead of the issue. I’ve never had someone do this on a plane, at least that I’ve heard, yet. Has anyone else experienced this? I know there are some vids out there of it happening, but, not a lot considering the number of daily flights. I know United encourages people to use headphones before the flight takes off, and can even give them out (though, most phones no longer take wired headphones anymore)

“This is in line with how the vast majority of travelers comport themselves and would like others to comport themselves,” travel expert Scott Keyes told CBS News.

“It’s usually only a small number of folks on airplanes who are making noise by not using headphones, so this is a graceful way to handle those folks.”

The question here is, what happens if they do and refuse to comply with flight attendants? Will they be banned from United?

And, really, I wish airports would do this. Stores. Pretty much everywhere. I have never understood why anyone would want to listen without headphones. The speakers are tiny, not very good (I think phone makers are doing this on purpose these days, not making good ones except for the regular one you would put to your ear). If I’m watching or listening to something I want to hear it, and hear it well. I want the full experience. I want to hear the nuances in the music. I don’t want to hear other people, car noise, etc.

I have 3 different pairs of noise cancelling earbuds: Bose Quiet Comfort for the gym, Sony WF-C710N’s which I use mostly at work for listening (probably should use the Bose. Both have fantastic noise cancellation, Bose sound a bit better, and, I’m only paying half attention to the music at the gym. The Bose case is bigger, and I hate things in my pockets)(The Sony are great for calls, as they go into an aware mode, so, you don’t feel like you’re talking while stuffed up like you have a cold), and Samsung Galaxy Live, which they sadly do not make anymore, because they have good cancellation and do not go in your ear canal. Good for phone calls, also, isolation to help sleep.

Also, some others, like a nice pair of over the ears with noise cancellation. Mostly just at home, if I move the over the ears type falls off my head. Some non-noise cancelling like Bose Sports. I want to hear what I’m listening to. I don’t want to hear what others are listening to. Remember when people hated those Nextell phones? When people did not want to be on speakerphone? Why do people think this is acceptable adult behavior?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 5, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on China being a big loser.

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SCOTUS Hands Trump Win On Immigration, Spearheaded By Justice Jackson

By William Teach March 5, 2026 – 10:30 am

Um, did the world stop turning? Did it end? This is confusing. Jackson voted in favor of Trump’s policies and wrote the opinion

Justice Jackson authors unanimous SCOTUS opinion handing Trump an immigration win

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Wednesday ordering federal appeals courts to defer to immigration judges when reviewing asylum decisions, bolstering the executive branch’s authority in immigration cases and handing the Trump administration a win as it pushes an aggressive deportation agenda.

Jackson, a Biden appointee and one of three liberal justices on the high court, wrote that immigration laws require federal courts to use a “substantial-evidence standard” when reviewing immigration judges’ decisions about whether an asylum seeker could face “persecution” if deported.

Jackson emphasized the high bar courts must meet before overturning an immigration judge’s findings, potentially making it more difficult for migrants to challenge their deportations as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.

“The agency’s determination… is generally ‘conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary,’” Jackson wrote.

I’ve already seen some lefties wondering who paid Jackson off. Wondering if she’s on drugs. If she’s OK. If Trump blackmailed her

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, migrants can claim asylum when crossing the border without documentation. But immigration judges, who are employees of the Department of Justice, eventually vet those claims and determine whether to grant migrants asylum, which would allow them to stay in the country, or order their deportation.

The migrant can appeal the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is also housed within the executive branch, and can then appeal that decision to the federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court.

The decision in this case, Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, affirmed that the judicial branch must largely defer to the executive branch’s findings about whether the migrant would suffer persecution if deported, rather than start from scratch and conduct its own review.

And that’s the way it should be. Not unhinged, activist federal judges deciding to involve themselves regardless of the way The Law works, particularly when the immigration judges have already been through all the facts and determined the fake asylum seeker needs to leave the US. There were none of these problems when it was Biden and Obama in office, despite the immigration judges ruling exactly the same.

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Sea Levels Are A Foot Higher Than (cult) Scientists Estimate Or Something

By William Teach March 5, 2026 – 7:15 am

Estimate? If there was only some way to measure this

Rising sea levels a foot higher than thought, placing tens of millions more in danger, study finds

Coastal sea levels are already up to a foot higher than many scientists believe, according to an alarming new assessment from researchers in the Netherlands.

The findings have concerning implications for hundreds of millions living in coastal communities around the world – and especially for Southeast Asian and Indo-Pacific nations – showing rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than previously estimated after three feet of relative sea level rise. (snip)

“Our study reveals fundamental misalignment issues of sea level and coastal elevation throughout a wide body of scientific literature, which introduces errors and creates large uncertainties in the vast majority of coastal hazard and sea level rise and/or relative sea level rise impact assessments,” the researchers at Wageningen University & Research wrote.

The findings also mean that established models and science need to change, with more than 99 percent of 385 studies included in the research needing revision.

Essentially, scientists have been working from the wrong starting point. That’s because they measured sea level using a decades-old method known as the “geoid model,” showing average sea level based on gravity and the Earth’s rotation and not accounting for factors like tides, current and water temperature.

More than 90 percent of the studies included in the review assumed the current sea level based on geoid models.

Got ya. The actual measurements were not cooperating with the doom prognostications, so, just change it and run it through a computer model. Even though actual measurements show that the 20th Century saw 7 inches of sea rise, which is exactly the center point of the 6-8 inches average sea rise during the Holocene (last 8K years). As I’ve noted ad nauseum, a warm period would need well over a foot because cool periods would be very low to negative.

Anyhow, since they are from the Netherlands, let’s look at the actual tide gauges there. They’re actually pretty good, and all 7 have over 100 years of continuous measurements. All go back into the late to mid 1800s. Too bad they do not cover the Little Ice Age prior to 1850. But, the highest shows .79 feet of sea rise every 100 years. The lowest shows .48 feet. There should be more. So, they’ll change it to scaremonger.

For some regions of the world, the discrepancy was bigger than for others, too. The differences were smaller in regions like Northern Europe and the U.S. East Coast, but larger in many southern parts of the world.

That’s because there was less data available for geoid models in the global south and ocean dynamics are stronger in the region; sea levels there are more influenced by tides, winds and currents. There’s also a calculation that needs to be done to correctly link measurements of the level of the sea and land, which are taken using different satellites.

So, it’ll be a lot harder to massage and f*** with the 1st World data, easier to change in the southern parts.

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