Wacko LA Mayoral Candidate’s Housing Plan Is About Global Boiling

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 7:15 am

Or is that her global boiling plan is about housing?

This LA mayoral candidate’s climate plan starts with housing

Los Angeles City Councilmember and mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman isn’t sugarcoating the state of the city’s climate policy.

The progressive stalwart, who launched a late challenge to unseat incumbent Karen Bass, has watched her 2020 campaign promises to build an all-electric fleet of city vehicles fall short and council efforts to ban gas appliances in new construction be struck down by litigation. Her term on the powerful South Coast Air Quality Management District ended on Jan. 15, just months after the agency rejected a proposal to phase out gas water and space heaters in Southern California.

Raman is attempting to link her climate vision to Los Angeles’ housing shortage, which she blames on opponents of high-density development. She’s supporting a Sacramento-led effort to require more multi-unit housing around public transit, which Bass and eight other council members oppose. She’s also leading an effort to reform Measure ULA, the city’s tax on the transfer of properties worth over $5.3 million, which developers say is stifling apartment construction.

Raman spoke with POLITICO about her vision for changing LA’s housing market, federal attacks on climate policy and the tension between electrification and affordability.

Her entire schtick is about forcing Everyone Else to listen to the Elites, mostly through forcing through legislation and rules from unelected bureaucrats. This is the climate cult in a nutshell. Tiny homes jammed all together, and everyone forced on public transportation. Want gas appliances? F*** you, peasant. EVs for government, public transportation for peasants? Check.

Opposition to new housing has defined the shape and character of Los Angeles today and shaped its politics in many ways in the past. I’ve represented a district that’s primarily single-family homes for the past five-plus years that I’ve been on the council. I do think there are ways of preserving what I love about LA’s neighborhoods, what residents love about LA neighborhoods, while still accommodating significantly more density on our major boulevards and thoroughfares and along our major transit corridors. I feel like if we grapple with the question of our housing needs more responsibly, we would have less intervention from Sacramento, which feels like it’s imposing an outside will on Los Angeles.

She wants to jam huge multifamily buildings into nice single home neighborhoods. I bet not in her own, though.

Let’s really talk about what it would take to generate the number of units that we need, and let’s put that in place locally. And that would include not just putting the new zoning in place, but making sure that we’re reforming our appeals process, making sure that we’re reforming our permitting process, making sure that we are reforming Measure ULA.

Who’s paying for it?

So does that mean building multi-family dwellings in single-family neighborhoods, and not just in areas like downtown?

We cannot rely exclusively on downtown LA to generate all our density. And frankly, the economics of building right now are such that high-rise buildings in downtown are not even getting financed. There are no cranes in the air in downtown LA, right? So, how are we going to build this housing?

Told ya! Anyhow, the cult keeps going on.

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Wacko Judge Won’t Let “Refugees” Be Terrorized With Arrest Or Something

By William Teach February 28, 2026 – 7:00 am

Another grandstanding wachjob liberal illegal alien lover who will soon be overturned on appeal. He should be used to it. For instance, when he threw out the jury ruling finding a man guilty of seriously abusing his 10 month old son

Trump administration cannot ‘terrorize’ Minnesota’s refugees with arrests, US judge rules

A federal judge on Friday said he would not allow President Donald Trump’s administration to “terrorize” Minnesota’s 5,600 refugees by arresting and detaining them under a new policy that “turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare.”

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in Minneapolis made that statement as he issued a preliminary injunction that extended an earlier, temporary order that blocked the administration from arresting or detaining refugees on the basis that they had yet to obtain lawful permanent resident status, or green cards.

The administration had sought to do so under a policy adopted as part of “Operation PARRIS,” a program announced in January that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security billed as “a sweeping initiative” to reexamine thousands of refugee cases.

DHS at the time said the initial focus of the initiative would be the roughly 5,600 refugees who had yet to be given green cards in Minnesota, the site of a recent immigration enforcement surge operation and benefits fraud scandal. (snip)

Tunheim, who was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton, agreed, saying the administration’s policy lacked authorization from Congress, raised constitutional concerns and upended the promise of the Refugee Act of 1980 that refugees could “be given a chance at a new beginning in safety.”

Does the law state that the refugees cannot be re-examined? That what they claim cannot be looked at? That the government, which is tasked with safeguarding America and Americans first and only cannot ascertain that the refugees aren’t a danger. Why are Democrats so hell bent on protecting people who seemingly do not like America or Americans, that just want to take advantage of the nation? Trump should drop some off in Tunheim’s neighborhood.

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Climate Doom Hurricane Scaremongering Starting Early This Year

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 3:00 pm

What really caught my attention was the 2nd bullet point in this piece entitled

Will climate change bring more major hurricane landfalls to the U.S.?

Well, obviously the cultists will say yes. Let’s look at the “in brief”

  • The strongest hurricanes are likely to grow stronger as a result of climate change.
  • So far, there has been no significant increase or decrease in the number of major hurricanes making landfall in the United States.
  • However, it’s likely that there has been an increase in the number of major hurricanes in the Atlantic as a whole since 1946.
  • Also, the intensity of landfalling continental U.S. hurricanes has increased, so even if the total number of landfalls has not increased, their potential to do damage has.
  • When major hurricanes do hit, they will do more damage than they did in the past: They will be stronger, wetter, and bring higher storm tides because of sea level rise.
  • Expect to see more periods of major U.S. landfall activity in the future, but also gaps when no major landfalls occur.

So, no change in major landfalling (there has been no real change in minor or tropical storms, as well), but, hey, intensity has changed! Because we say so! And they’re going to get worse! We promise! And there will be more in future! Except when there aren’t!

And, remember, this is all your fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing dog causing the seas to boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Common Cents Blog, with a post on an approval poll for Trump’s SOTU.

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Kansas Tells The Gender Confused Their DLs Must Match Their Biological Se

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

Obviously, Democrats are incensed and raging

I’m pretty sure transgenders are not allowed in Islam, and would be stoned or hung. Here’s the link in the tweet she quoted

Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of Thursday.

“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential,” read letters mailed by the Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicles division and dated Monday.

Some transgender Kansans interviewed by The Star said they had received the letters. Others who have changed the gender markers on their driver’s licenses, state IDs and birth certificates said they had not yet received notification from KDOR as of Wednesday evening.

Iridescent Riffel, a transgender woman with a Kansas driver’s license who lives in Grandview and commutes to work in Lawrence, said she hasn’t received a letter yet.

“I don’t want to get a misdemeanor just trying to go to work,” said Riffel, who changed the letter on her license from “M” to “F” in 2023, shortly before Attorney General Kris Kobach’s legal intervention forced KDOR to stop accommodating such requests for more than two years.

The least the gender confused could do is not pick a wackadoodle name. But, yeah, she’s a guy.

SB 244, which Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature voted last week to enact into law over Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto, will go into effect on Thursday upon the publication of the Kansas Register.

The legislation provides no funding to help people who need to replace their licenses. Kansas driver’s licenses typically cost around $30. But a KDOR spokesperson said in an email Thursday evening that the agency is only charging $8 to reissue valid licenses.

Oh, well. Never should have been allowed in the first place. Too much crazy in the world as it is. But, hey, if they want to pretend that’s their choice. The rest of us do not have to comply.

I set this to post, then ran across this

The gender confused are banned from going into locker rooms and bathrooms that do not conform to their biological sex.

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Your Fault: Big Northeast Snowstorm Was From Climate Doom

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

I really don’t want to do this insane stuff, but, gotta do it

How climate change helped the Blizzard of 2026 become a blockbuster

As a big snowstorm was set to roll across the eastern half of the United States last month, President Donald Trump took to social media to question the scientific consensus about climate change.

“WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” the president wrote.

Climate skeptics are probably asking similar questions this week, after a massive blizzard dumped what appears to be record-breaking amounts of snow on Rhode Island and other parts of the Northeast.

But scientists say Monday’s extreme storm, that people are still digging out from under, is consistent with what they know, as weather patterns shift and become more volatile with the warming planet.

“While it’s difficult to pin any single storm directly on climate change, we do know that climate change is making extreme weather events happen more often and with greater intensity,” state climatologist Joe Poccia said in an email.

These people. Just nuts.

Yeah, that’s all from globull warming. Right. Love the guy jogging. There’s always that one. Or, maybe his wife sent him on a Dunkin run.

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Huh: ICE Detained 261 Of Obama’s DACA Kids Last Year

By William Teach February 27, 2026 – 6:45 am

Would these be part of the same DACA that Obama said was un-Constitutional before making it an EO

ICE arrested 261 DACA recipients over 10 months last year, document shows

Federal immigration agents arrested 261 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to official U.S. government statistics that were shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News.

The statistics indicate the vast majority of DACA recipients taken into federal immigration custody during that period had criminal records.

The government figures provide the most comprehensive official accounting so far of how many DACA recipients, also known as “Dreamers,” have been swept up by President Trump’s nationwide deportation crackdown.

Those enrolled in the Obama-era DACA program came to the U.S. illegally or overstayed their visas as children. They were granted temporary work permits and deportation protections after passing background checks and meeting several requirements, including coming to the U.S. before June 2007, not having serious criminal histories and graduating from an American high school or serving in the military.

Background checks, huh? What happened after?

In a letter to Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Department of Homeland Security said that between Jan. 1 and Nov. 19, 2025, ICE arrested 261 DACA beneficiaries and deported 86 of them. That timeframe includes the final 19 days of President Joe Biden’s term, though it is unclear how many of the arrests occurred under his administration, which rarely targeted DACA beneficiaries.

DHS said in its letter that 241 — or 92% — of the 261 DACA enrollees taken into ICE custody had “criminal histories” outside of civil immigration violations. DHS typically considers pending criminal charges and convictions as criminal histories. The letter, signed by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, did not specify the severity of the alleged criminal records.

Doesn’t matter the severity: the terms of (unconstitutional) DACA is that they must stay clean. No busts.

“not convicted of a felony, a significant misdemeanor, or three or more misdemeanors, and not otherwise a threat to national security or public safety”

They had their chance, and blew it.

In a statement in response to the DHS letter, Durbin and fellow Democratic Sens. Alex Padilla and Mark Kelly called the arrests of DACA recipients “deeply troubling,” saying the detentions “disrupt families, harm communities, and inflict unnecessary social, emotional, and economic costs.”

Why is it that Democrats stand up for illegal aliens and not Americans?

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Again: Warmists Say AC Use Will Make Hotcoldwetdry Worse

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 3:22 pm

I wonder if Simmone Shah, who wrote this, has done away with her own use of AC? Especially since all she seems to write about is climate doom. How about Time magazine at their office, since they approved publishing this, and hired her

New Study Finds Air Conditioners Will Exacerbate Climate Change As Planet Warms

As global temperatures rise, the very thing we turn to to keep ourselves cool could be a significant contributor to increased emissions and an even warmer planet.

A new study published today in the journal Nature Communications estimates that, by 2050, air-conditioning use is expected to more than double as more people turn to air conditioning to stay cool amidst rising temperatures, contributing significantly to expected greenhouse gas emissions. What’s more, as incomes rise in developing countries and more low and medium-income regions achieve the same access to AC as high-income regions, we could see an additional 0.015°C to 0.05°C of warming by 2050.

The rise could create what the researchers call a “feedback loop,” in which closing the inequality gap and improving access to air conditioning would put global climate targets out of reach. Regions most vulnerable to rising temperatures, such as South Asia and Africa, currently have the least access to air-conditioning. In contrast, wealthier regions like Europe and North America have lower cooling needs but higher air-conditioning usage.

“The study reveals that if all low?income regions gained the same access to air-conditioning as rich regions, related global emissions would jump dramatically—adding up to 0.05°C extra warming even in the most climate?friendly scenario,” Hongzhi Zhang, from the Beijing Institute of Technology, the first author of the study, said in a press release.

It’s long been known that air conditioning contributes to global warming. Existing cooling equipment uses hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, which are potent greenhouse gases. One 2023 estimate from the U.N. claims that refrigeration and air conditioning are responsible for 7% of global emissions.

A couple things. First, yes, those refrigerants can cause anthropogenic warming, but, really, not much in Reality Land. Second, said warming is only a rise of 1.7F since 1850. Absolutely no big deal, especially since most is nature, land use, urban heat island effect, and a tiny bit from anthropogenic greenhouse gases.

Third, I love how 1st World Warmists always want to deny things like AC that they themselves use and won’t give up to those in the 3rd world. Kinda bigoted, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon pollution infused beer causing sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the Net Zero opinion polls in the UK.

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Fish Wrap Worries New ACA Plans Could Be “Unaffordable”

By William Teach February 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is such a fantastic program, a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which has pretty much been called unaffordable since it started

New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000

The Trump administration’s proposed new rules for Obamacare plans next year would shift more health care costs to Americans, with much higher deductibles that could lead to greater medical bills.

Under the proposal, people who rely on the Affordable Care Act for their health insurance coverage could choose plans with much lower monthly premiums. But that could leave them exposed to medical expenses totaling thousands of dollars more than A.C.A. plans do now before their insurance would kick in.

Heading into the midterm elections, offering these new plans is one of few options open to the Trump administration to lower Obamacare premiums that do not require congressional approval. Affordability has become a campaign mantra for Democrats: Health care costs were viewed as the top economic concern in a recent public opinion poll from KFF, a health research group.

In his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump blamed “the crushing costs of health care” on the Affordable Care Act, saying the program funneled money to the big insurance companies, He advocated sending the payments directly to Americans, so they could “buy their own health care, which will be better health care at a much lower cost.”

Really, the entire thing needs to be scrapped and redone so that it works correctly, because what it’s done since it started was increase the cost of health insurance and medical care for everyone, including those not on Obamacare. It would be best if it was states doing it, not the federal government, but, the door was opened, and you can almost never close a door on a federal “help” program once it is opened.

Low cost premium plans always had deductibles that were virtually impossible to meet for those who wanted the plans. The premiums themselves kept rising to the point that federal subsidies were out of control. So, what now? All the news outlets and Democrats never actually offer any solutions, because they love that all those medical companies they profess to hate are getting gobs of easy money which gets funneled back to Democrats.

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