Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 9:00 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the geese are geesing, and the NY Giants were somewhat respectable during the preseason game Saturday. This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Thousands Of Dutch Farmers Protest EU Nitrogen Rules In
  2. Climate Change Dispatch: Climate Groups Stall Endangerment Finding Fight, Hoping To Run Out The Trump Clock
  3. Jo Nova: Trump’s race to launch Nuclear Microreactors changes everything – (An Australian led team built one in just 150 days)
  4. Not A Lot Of People Of Know That: Whitehall is turning England into tinderbox
  5. Watts Up With That?: California’s ‘Sustainability’ Bureaucracy Takes a Big Sip from Napa Valley’s Iconic Vineyards
  6. 357 Magnum: Do People Not Know of Flesh-Eating Bacteria in Florida Waters?
  7. American Greatness: How Hamas’ Attack on Israel Is Transforming American Politics
  8. Bearing Arms: Giffords Freaks Over Lack of DOJ Appeal in NFA Case
  9. Blazing Cat Fur: Quitting Canada: Why I am moving to the United States
  10. Chicks On The Right: Mass Fraud in Massachusetts: Mayor Uses COVID Funds for Personal Gain
  11. Cold Fury: You GO, girls!
  12. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: We Don’t Hate These People Enough.
  13. Gates Of Vienna: An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Toulouse
  14. Geller Report: Governor Abbott Drops the Hammer: Texas Airports’ Special Muslim Footbaths “Illegal,” State Funding Now on the Chopping Block
  15. And last, but, not least, LMAO has “Kamala Buys a Mansion in Malibu and . . . Coincidence?”

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?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Judge Rules TPS For Somalis Can Be Ended

By William Teach August 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’m still not sure why this is so difficult, being that the 18 month renewal period had already ended, and the Supreme Court basically said that the Executive Branch has control, not the courts, but, whatever

Trump scores major immigration victory as judge clears way to end TPS protections for thousands of Somalis

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory Friday after a federal judge cleared the way for his administration to terminate temporary legal protections for thousands of Somali nationals living in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston lifted a stay that had prevented the Department of Homeland Security from terminating Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, citing a June Supreme Court ruling that sharply limited judicial review of similar administration actions.

The decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with ending TPS for Somalia, potentially exposing affected migrants who lack another lawful basis to remain in the U.S. to deportation.

Burroughs, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, had previously blocked the termination from taking effect in a lawsuit brought by four Somali nationals and two advocacy groups, including African Communities Together.

But

In Friday’s ruling, Burroughs said the plaintiffs had presented a compelling case but concluded that the Supreme Court’s decision constrained her ability to continue blocking the administration’s action.

Burroughs wrote that she was “bound … to view things through the Mullin prism,” referring to the Supreme Court case.

“Plaintiffs have made a convincing showing that they will suffer irreparable harm if the injunction is withheld … and the balance of hardships and the public interest also favor Plaintiffs, given that the government has made no showing that maintaining TPS status for the duration of this litigation would impose an undue burden,” she wrote.

I fail to see the problem with sending them back. When Trump is out there slamming Somalia, the Democrats and their pet media are telling us that Somalia is great! I mean really, really great, and everyone should move back (notice the date). So, why can’t they go home?

Oh, and the thing is, the most recent 18 month time period for TPS for Somalis ended March 17,2026. No administration is under any obligation to renew TPS. Hence, time to go.

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Germans Have Climate (scam) Action Fatigue

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 4:56 pm

I guess they’re tired of being told Doom! is coming and they should give up their money, life choices, and freedom, while the people forcing this on them are living the fossil fuels high life

In Germany, record heat meets climate action fatigue

When Lars Werner of the “Last Generation” climate activist group glued himself to the road four years ago to protest for greater climate action, Germany had not yet seen 12,500 heat-related deaths (the 2026 toll, so far), or record temperatures across Western Europe, and fully loaded ships were still navigating the Rhine without difficulty.

“Of course, I could say ‘I told you so,’ because it was foreseeable and comes as no surprise whatsoever,” Werner told DW.

Uh huh. Except, the climate cultists were talking about in 2050 and 2100, because the weather is finicky

But so far, the federal government has remained astonishingly quiet. Despite the crisis, it has still not convened a “heat summit.”

“It is utterly irrational for the federal government to resort to tinkering with regulations — such as lifting the Sunday ban on truck traffic — in the hope of somehow scraping by without implementing a comprehensive climate protection policy for the long or even short term,” said Werner.

More and more in government are bowing out of placating the doomsday cult

Only a few hundred protesters turned out for a demonstration outside the chancellery in Berlin a week ago. It was a far cry from the protests in 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to demand climate action.

A recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation found that 80% of people in Germany are worried about climate change, and more than 50% want to see more government spending on climate protection. But that doesn’t mean they’re take to the streets.

It might have been popular briefly, but, they wanted theoretical action. Once actual real world action happened all the little peasant level cultists realized that they were the ones forced to pay the price.

“Then there is the competition for attention; the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine pushed the climate issue out of the spotlight, and current economic concerns also play a major role,” said Haunss, adding that many of those who took to the streets against climate change a few years ago are now focusing on different topics.

Real world.

German Environment Minister Carsten Schneider of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) now wants to amend the constitution, the Basic Law, to make heat protection a joint responsibility of the federal government, the states, and the municipalities.

However, the larger coalition partner, the center-right bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), is skeptical of the plan and has cited “legal concerns.”

The Warmists basically want it cult Beliefs embedded in their Constitution. More and more are tuning out, though.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled truck, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The American Conservative, with a post on “‘Woke 1’ Never Really Went Away”

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Why Is AOC Doing Costly Egg Freezing When She Still Owes Student Loan Debt?

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

The same people who are bad with spending your forcibly taken tax money and not that good with their own money

AOC’s student debt unpaid as she embarks on costly egg-freezing journey

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.

The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018. That’s the same amount she owes now, according to her August disclosure, where lawmakers report ranges for debt and income.

The “Tax the Rich!” pol reported less than $81,000 in total assets.

Recently, Ocasio-Cortez has suggested that she’d been saving up for some time instead to freeze her eggs, a process that can cost between $10,000 and $20,000 per cycle.

Yeah, well, she seems to have no problem having cars and a nice apartment in DC and NYC and all the clothes and eyeglasses and jewelry and so much more. We all know the graft money is there, she’s just better at hiding it. Though, it is interesting that someone with a degree in economics is probably only paying the minimum on the student loans. Not that she understands economics to start with

The “Squad” Democrat has consistently backed student debt cancellation. During former President Joe Biden’s term, she even pushed the 46th commander-in-chief to cancel as much as $50,000 in debt per student borrower. But she’s not the only US lawmaker who’s still holding student loans.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has held up to $50,000 over the past eight years in student debt — despite her net worth ballooning for a time to as much as $30 million due to her husband’s winery and venture capital businesses.

Why would she want to repay a debt when she can try and get the government to do that?

Early in his term, Biden expressly rejected writing off up to $50,000 in outstanding student loan debt, earning AOC’s ire.

“Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism. This is wrong,” she said in February 2021. “Nowhere does it say we must trade-off early childhood education for student loan forgiveness. We can have both.”

This is the Democrat way: give easy loans for college, then have the colleges Democrats run raise the costs, then not teach the Yutes how loans work and how to pay them off, offer degrees that are mostly worthless in the jobs market, heck, push the kiddies to get them, and then tell those same Yutes to demand the government pay those loans off.

Good questions. But, really, members of Congress will almost never go after each other, regardless of Party, when it comes to the Money.

Do have to throw some respect to AOC for getting a bit thicker, rather than taking Ozempic and looking like a hollowed out person like so many celebs.

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Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Is Caused By Ineptitude And Climate Doom, But All Ineptitude

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

It’s always some sort of Blamestorming from the cult

With Puerto Rico’s water crisis, climate change meets ineptitude

Last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the water taps ran dry.

The Caribbean island experienced its driest July on record, with more than 60% of the territory — more than 3 million residents — facing drought conditions according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

In fact, PR has a history of droughts. That’s a condition based on where it is located.

Large trucks filled with potable water have been sent throughout the island to help residents, with the sick and elderly given preference.

But this dire water situation didn’t just happen overnight or even over the course of the past few months.

“For decades, communities have lived without fair access to water resources, and experts have repeatedly warned that the lack of infrastructure maintenance and poor watershed management would lead Puerto Rico to the water crisis it faces today.”

So, pretty much incompetence. Poor planning. Bad government. I wonder how much money went into graft, waste, and fraud rather than the infrastructure, especially as the population of PR has grown, as has the tourist industry?

“The challenge comes from two key issues,” Gossett Navarro said. “One is an ongoing challenge that we’ve had for decades related to infrastructure and then there are the challenges that get exacerbated by the climate crisis … we’re struggling with a drought and it’s making the infrastructure issues even worse.”

Sigh.

It’s currently estimated that approximately 60% of water that travels through Puerto Rico’s geriatric pipes is lost due to leaks and other infrastructural issues, Navarro mentioned.

So even when it does rain, and a percentage of that water lands in accessible reservoirs, citizens are only able to use a fraction of that fraction.

That’s not ‘climate change’.

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Illegals In Connecticut Could Looks Medicare

By William Teach August 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

Wait, weren’t we told that illegals are not getting Medicare?

Many immigrants with legal status could lose Medicare coverage

Hundreds of immigrants lawfully present in Connecticut are slated to lose their Medicare coverage by January, the latest federal cutback that’s spurred some lawmakers and advocates here to call for state intervention.

But whether state officials will intervene early next year hinges not only on this fall’s gubernatorial campaign but also on which other distressed groups the General Assembly is looking to assist. (snip)

Lawfully present immigrants had been eligible for the federal medical insurance program if they met certain work history, disability or age requirements. The reconciliation measure limited eligibility to green card holders and certain immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands.

Just because the Biden regime gave them a “legal” status doesn’t mean they aren’t in the US in contradiction of federal immigration law. And, really, even most who are here legally should not receive Medicaid, and those here in visas and applying for citizenship are precluded from getting it

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that roughly 100,000 individuals nationally would lose Medicare coverage because of this provision. And though it didn’t provide state-by-state data, Connecticut contains 1% to 1.1% of the health insurance program’s caseload. That would translate, roughly, into 1,000 to 1,100 lawfully present immigrants here slated to lose coverage.

Well, if Connecticut wants to pony up their own taxpayer money, go ahead. Though, that could be seen as violating certain federal statutes on providing aid to illegals. Ct. is spending at least $1.3 billion a year on illegals, and I’m betting that number is higher since Biden opened the border.

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Unhinged AWFL Who Vandalized WWII Memorial Arrested

By William Teach August 14, 2026 – 4:11 pm

Did this dipshit not think there was all sorts of cameras in Washington, D.C.?

She gets two felonies

(Fox News) The suspect accused of vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., has been charged with two federal offenses for injuring/depredating U.S. property and the destruction of a veterans’ memorial, according to court documents.

The DOJ is accusing Kentucky woman Melissa L. Farris of an act of vandalism which occurred Thursday. The words “Clean hands, dirty money,” were spray-painted on the memorial in bright pink paint along with dumping bubble soap into the fountain at the center of the memorial, according to authorities.

Federal prosecutors allege that cleanup and restoration costs already exceeded $1,000.

Fox News Digital scanned Farris’ social media pages, which were cited in the court documents, and found she posted to Facebook Friday morning in a video.

“It’s me. I am going to turn myself in … I’m outside district federal court,” she said in a Facebook live.

I’m guessing this dipshit posted herself committing the crime? I’m not surprised, a lot of dummies video themselves committing crimes and then post it.

“I am just trying to do the right thing … I was trying to get people to listen… I tried to reach the media, I tried to fight back. I tried to ignore it,” she said in tears.

Farris claimed she lived in a paper-thin camper that she “boarded up with cardboard in the winter to feel a little bit warmer.”

Democrats and their pet media basically incite Dem voters to just go and commit crimes without considering the consequences.

“Vandalizing our World War II Memorial is a despicable attack on a sacred monument honoring the Americans who fought and died for our freedom. Those Americans include my father and grandfather. This morning, we are filing two felony charges, Depredation Against Property of the United States and Destruction of Veterans’ Memorials, in Federal District Court against Melissa L. Farris, offenses that carry penalties of up to ten years in prison. She is now in custody,” United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced earlier Friday morning.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was pled down to misdemeanors with a ton of community service.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 14, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible low MPG truck hanging with other Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on “The Feds Put the Cuffs on Heidi”

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Is Concern About AI And Data Centers That Huge An Issue For The Midterms?

By William Teach August 14, 2026 – 10:30 am

I can understand some of the concerns on data centers, particularly for water quality and noise, but, an election issue? Sounds more like a 1st World Issue

American anxiety about AI is becoming a political force in the midterms

Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.

You can see it in candidates of both major parties trying to one-up each other with crackdowns on data centers.

Incumbents fighting to survive in toss-up districts racing to display their takes on AI and national security.

And progressive Democrats stress testing voter messaging about job-destroying automation.

Yeah, that one is about Islamist El-Sayed writing “We need real AI regulation to create guardrails and protect the ability for young people to have a job.” Seems he wants Government to run the economy

Hundreds of candidates for House, Senate or governor this year have staked out policies related to AI or data centers on their campaign websites, injecting the issue into nearly 40 percent of races across the country, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. There are likely more races where AI has been featured in candidate messaging through speeches, debates and social media posts.

More Democrats and Republicans spotlight AI policies on their websites than mention longer-established political topics including Israel, manufacturing and racism, according to the analysis that covered 1,200 websites of candidates still in the running as of Monday.

Campaign veterans, pollsters and political analysts say they’ve rarely seen a new issue become a force so quickly in American politics. “AI has gone from something no one cared about … to it being ubiquitous,” said Kyle Kondik, an elections analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

Who’s really talking about it, though? It looks like mostly people where data centers are located or being built and politicians. It almost looks more like politicians and the Credentialed Media yapping about something that a very small number of people care about

AI is likely to be an even hotter topic in the 2028 presidential campaign. Potential contenders such as Vice President JD Vance (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) are already discussing potential AI policies.

But political experts say that neither Republicans nor Democrats have yet staked out clear positions that resonate with voters’ anxieties about the technology. “Whoever does that will reap rich political rewards,” predicted Alyssa Cass, a partner at Democratic political strategy firm Slingshot Strategies.

Opinion polls show that a significant share of Americans are “very concerned” about AI’s role in the economy, don’t want data centers near them and believe the computer hubs will raise utility bills, fear job losses from AI, and generally believe AI will do more harm than good.

But, when you’re talking about these kinds of issues, do polls with typically less than 1,500 people really represent the national mood?

The Post analysis found some differences emerging in how candidates of each major party discuss AI issues. Democrats running for House, Senate or governor this year are more than twice as likely as Republican candidates to discuss any topic related to AI or data centers on their campaign websites. (snip)

Political staffers and operatives say that left-wing Democrats are already testing broad AI policy platforms that they hope will resonate with voters in 2028. They’re hashing over policies that could insulate Americans from AI-related job losses, guard against rogue AI cyberattacks and protect children from AI dependency and abuses.

I guess they need a different topic other than TDS and Israel hate/support for Hamas, and another thing for government to control. Is it really that big, though? Or, is it an issue in search of an audience? Republican candidates are talking about it, too.

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