UN, EU Warn Trump Against Striking Iranian Power Plants, Say Violates International Law

By William Teach April 7, 2026 – 10:30 am

I’m having trouble where the EU and UN have warned Iran against striking civilian targets after Iran already struck civilian targets in Israel, Dubai, and other Middle East nations. But, especially against Israel. Nor do they ever warn Hamas or Hezbollah. Nor do they ever warn Iran about the way Iran treats women and LGBT people

UN warns Trump’s Iran infrastructure threats could violate international law

Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges if the country fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by a Tuesday deadline. The threat has drawn sharp criticism from senior Democrats and alarmed the United Nations, which warned the plan could violate international law.

Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer condemned the threat in a social media post. “The president of the United States is ranting like an unhinged madman on social media,” Schumer wrote. “He’s threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies. This is who he is, but this is not who we are. Our country deserves so much better.”

Trump set an 8pm Eastern time Tuesday deadline for Iran to agree to a deal and reopen the strategic waterway. In a profanity-laced social media post, he warned Iran would “be living in Hell” if it failed to comply. Trump stated that every bridge in Iran would be decimated by 12 o’clock the following night. He also warned that every power plant in Iran would be “out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.”

Well of course Schumer and other Democrats condemned, because they are on the side of Iran, not the United States

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed alarm at the threats. His spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated: “We were alarmed by the rhetoric seen in that social media post that threatened American attacks on power plants, bridges, and other infrastructure, should Iran not agree to a deal.”

Dujarric warned that attacking non-military targets risks violating international law, even if there is a military objective. When asked whether bombing power plants and bridges could constitute war crimes, Trump responded: “No, not at all.”

And then

EU warns Trump against ‘illegal’ bombing of Iran’s power stations

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to bomb power plants and bridges across Iran if it does not reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz would be a war crime, one of the EU’s top leaders cautioned on Monday, hours before Washington’s deadline expires.

“Any targeting of civilian infrastructure, namely energy facilities, is illegal and unacceptable,” European Council President António Costa said in a statement. “This applies to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and it applies everywhere.”

It’s wild the lengths these people will go to protect Iran. It’s not all Trump or Bush Derangement Syndrome, because they worked to protect Iran during the Clinton, Obama, and Biden admins.

Where’s the EU and UN?

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PRV Looks To Rejoin Regional Climate (cult) Initiative

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

Well, hey, all those who voted for Democrats and Spanberger are getting what they voted for

Virginia moves to rejoin controversial climate change pact by July 1: Here’s what it means

Virginia is set to rejoin a multi-state agreement combating climate change after state lawmakers passed a House bill earlier this year, with regulators targeting a return to full participation in the initiative by July 1.

The move follows the General Assembly’s passage of House Bill 29 on Friday, Feb. 20, which allows the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in “an expeditious manner,” reversing policies enacted under the previous Republican administration.

According to the department, work is already underway to reinstate the previous carbon dioxide budget trading program, with amendments to remove outdated references and to address the time period when the rule was not in effect.

As part of that timeline, state officials expect Virginia to participate in the program’s September and December 2026 carbon dioxide allowance auctions. The department said it has also been coordinating with other RGGI states on the logistics of rejoining the initiative.

What had happened before?

The renewed push to rejoin the initiative came after Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Attorney General Jay Jones (both D) announced plans in mid-January to bring Virginia back into the program after former Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said that he wanted to withdraw from the agreement in 2022, citing concerns about rising energy costs for Virginians.

“Participating in RGGI allows us to protect our health, our environment, and our pocketbooks, which is why I have taken legal actions to facilitate our ability to rejoin,” Jones told 8News on Monday, April 6. “As Attorney General, I will fight for Virginians by holding corporations accountable for their pollution and driving them to adopt cleaner practices.”

Well, this should be fun. Anyone who voted for the Dems and Spanberger should not be allowed to move from the People’s Republik of Virginia unless they are going to another wackadoodle Leftist state.

(Washington Post) Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s approval rating stands at 47 percent two months into the Democrat’s term, with 46 percent of voters disapproving and 7 percent expressing no opinion in a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

That’s dismal. Good luck, Virginia!

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Oh, Noes, Military Wife Caught Up By ICE!

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

There’s a whole lot of detail missing from this Associated Press article, which is being repeated all over the Credentialed Media outlets, including the Washington Post, and none of them said “hey, do we have all the details?”

US soldier trying to halt wife’s deportation after she was detained on Louisiana military base

A U.S. Army staff sergeant is trying to halt his wife’s deportation after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base where the couple was planning to live together just days after their wedding.

The effort to remove the soldier’s wife, who was born in Honduras and remained in a federal immigration detention center Monday, has drawn backlash from military family advocates who called the detention demoralizing in a time of war and warned that deporting spouses could undermine recruitment.

Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank said he brought his wife, Annie Ramos, 22, to his base in Fort Polk, Louisiana, last Thursday so that she could begin the process to receive military benefits and take steps toward a green card. The couple married in March.

Well, that was an unforced error

Federal immigration agents detained Ramos as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, which legal experts say has dispensed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s practice of leniency toward families of military members.

Something is missing

Ramos’ detention was first reported by The New York Times.

Ramos entered the U.S. in 2005, when she was younger than 2 years old. That same year, her family failed to appear for an immigration hearing, leading a judge to issue a final order of removal, according to DHS.

“She has no legal status to be in this country,” DHS said in an emailed statement. “This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law.”

Let’s head to the NY Times, which has had 8 revisions of their article, and deep down we read

On April 2, the couple and Sergeant Blank’s parents drove from Houston to the base, arriving early for a 2 p.m. appointment. As instructed, the couple checked in at the visitor center, where they presented Ms. Ramos’s birth certificate, Honduran passport, their marriage license and Sergeant Blank’s military ID.

They never made it to the benefits office.

According to Sergeant Blank and his mother, an attendant scrutinized the documents and asked if Ms. Ramos had a visa or a green card. She did not, they explained, noting that their lawyer had prepared a green card application that would be filed any day.

Got that? She’s been here for 20+ years, and during all that time has failed to apply for a green card. She failed to do DACA correctly. She showed up with a Honduran passport….when the hell did she get that? Why would she get that unless she was more interested in being a Honduran? They just showed up to the military base expecting everything to be hunky dory. Did they consider that the immigration system might well investigate if the marriage was legitimate, not an attempt to get legal status? Because Immigration courts do investigate this heavily.

Staff Sergeant Blank should have known all this. If they were really in love the lawyer(s) would have told them she needed to go back to Honduras with the deportation order and then they file the paperwork. It can take a while, but, it usually gets done. I mean, seriously, 20+ years and did nothing. Also

Yeah, that’s a major security risk.

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Idiot Loses Mind After Being Criticized For Netflix’s Bad MLB Opening Day

By William Teach April 6, 2026 – 4:34 pm

There once was a time when broadcast figures would take criticism well, reflect on it. See if the criticism’s were valid, because, otherwise, get this, people do not tune in, and those who had tune out. Not today, where they all seem to be brats

Elle Duncan slams critics after Netflix’s MLB opening night debacle

Major League Baseball’s opening night coverage has been the subject of polarizing opinions.

And this is something Netflix is no stranger to.

Netflix had major streaming issues during its airing of boxing in late 2024, during Jake Paul’s fight with Mike Tyson, which also featured Amanda Serrano’s bout with Katie Taylor, showing a consistent lag. This even led Netflix to be the target of a $50 million lawsuit over the quality of the streaming.

The company is not quite in the same position now following their airing of Yankees-Giants as part of MLB Opening Day, but the online chirping is loud, which Elle Duncan — who joined Netflix as a host following a lengthy tenure on ESPN — responded to on a recent episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out” this week.

Critics have pointed to non-baseball personalities being used and a new-look scorebug as some of the primary issues.

“Whenever there’s criticism that I saw like, ‘It was just so Netflix. It was not for baseball purists,” Duncan acknowledged, adding, “This was not for baseball purists. You’ll watch it anywhere. This was for the baseball-curious.”

It was opening day, and, they apparently just had weird shit going on. If people are “baseball-curious” they would want to see the game, hear the game, maybe have some explanations, but, really, everyone kind of knows baseball

“A lot of what Netflix is doing in the sports world is, yes, for the people that are always going to watch those sports, but also the people that maybe tuned into to watch “Love is Blind,” saw the button for ‘Opening Day on Netflix,’ and thought, ‘All right, I’ll check it out,’” Duncan said.

Yeah, no, they really didn’t

Duncan disagrees with the criticisms — which include missing the first-ever Automatic Ball Strike challenge due to a mid-inning dugout interview — and mentioned that baseball fans ultimately expected something they weren’t going to fully get.

“This is like going to a Mexican restaurant and bitching that they don’t have barbecue,” said Duncan. “They advertise as a Mexican restaurant. It’s your fault that you somehow thought they were somehow gonna serve barbecue.”

Nah, it’s like going to the Mexican restaurant and them not having chips and salsa, no pico, no tacos.

She later added: “Netflix has made no qualms about who they are. We’re going to eventicize these things, we’re gonna pull people from the Netflix universe. That’s what we’re going to do.”

Netflix will broadcast the Home Run Derby on July 13 and the “Field of Dreams” game between the Phillies and Twins one month later.

Yeah, that’s stupid. Both paragraphs. So, I wonder why happens when no one watches: will Duncan and the rest of her people be terminated? Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel have a good broadcast. From an AI overview

Here is a breakdown of the criticism regarding the Netflix MLB broadcast:
  • Failed Production & Cameras: Viewers reported shaky cameras, missed live hits, and a “smoky” or miscolored picture on the main feed.
  • “Unwatchable” Scorebug: The on-screen graphic used for the score, pitch count, and batter name was widely criticized for being too small, poorly designed, and confusing.
  • Missed Action: The broadcast was criticized for showing excessive in-game interviews with celebrities (like Bert Kreischer) while play was happening, causing viewers to miss key moments, including the first-ever Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge.
  • Promotion Over Game: Fans complained that the broadcast felt like a “4-hour commercial” for Netflix, with heavy emphasis on promoting their own content rather than focusing on the baseball game

Looks pretty bad

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If All You See…

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

…is the notion of people escaping their countries as climate refugees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Grist, with a post on data centers straining the grid (I don’t usually link the Warmist wackos, but, beyond the somewhat extremist rhetoric and TDS, they have a point).

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NY Times: Trump Keeping World “Off Balance” When It Comes To Iran

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

It’s funny, I’m not sure the NY Times understands that they have the answer in their own headline

On Iran, Trump Keeps World Off Balance With Ever-Changing Threats

The world is on edge.

One minute, President Trump says the war in Iran is nearly over. The next he says it will continue for weeks. He brags that Iran has been “eviscerated,” but then vows that the fighting will go on. A huge bombardment, he says, might begin in five days, or 10 days, or on Tuesday at precisely 8 p.m. Eastern.

If the president means what he says, the world could be about 24 hours from a devastating escalation in the war. But like the producer of a television cliffhanger, Mr. Trump seems determined to keep everyone off balance.

On that, at least, he is succeeding.

Well, um, yeah. Should the president be giving a nation the US is at war with concrete assurance of anything other than that they’re going to lose? It’s like the whole media and Democrat talking point that President Trump hasn’t laid out his goals and plans for Iran, as if Trump is supposed to tell the Nazis when and where we’re invading on D-Day. That we’re going to bomb the shit out of Truk Lagoon. When we’re retaking the Philippines. That we’re bombing Japan’s mainland. Why do they want Iran to know our plans? Oh, right, they want Iran to win because Orange Man Bad.

In capitals around the world, presidents and prime ministers have spent almost six weeks seeking a way to prevent the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran from spiraling out of control. Diplomats from more than 40 countries gathered for a video call on Thursday that concluded with few concrete proposals. Leaders across Europe, Asia and beyond are exasperated, angry and more than a little spooked about what could be around the corner.

Strange, these same people have been against there being peace between Ukraine and Russia, and worked hard to try and get the war to spiral out of control. A war which includes a nuclear armed nation run by a guy they all say is a wackjob. Most of the same people stood against Israel as the nation went on a tear in destroying Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations. Huh.

In an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday, President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea warned, “The scars of war are expected to persist for a long time.” In an Easter message, Mr. Lee lamented, “The order of peace and prosperity that has sustained the world is weakening.”

In Japan, a country that is deeply reliant on oil imports from the Middle East, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday that she would seek direct talks with the Iranian government as soon as Wednesday. In France, President Emmanuel Macron complained last week about Mr. Trump’s constantly changing commentary, saying that serious people “don’t say every day the opposite of what we said the day before.”

Maybe they should be telling Iran to give up. To fully give up their nuclear weapons program, to stop supporting terrorism, stop repressing their people, especially women. It’s just absurd, though, to think that Trump is going to lay out everything for Iran to know.

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Brazil Has New Climate (scam) Plan For Zero Deforestation

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

You know, as an environmentalist and someone who hates clear cutting, this would be good, except, of course they have to drag in the doomsday cult

Brazil unveils ambitious new climate plan to target zero deforestation

Brazilian leaders unveiled a new national climate plan recently to protect the country’s forests as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Since 2008, Brazil has not updated its primary plan to fight climate change. The government has now created a new plan for 2035 and is expected to have lowered its emissions significantly by then.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 67 per cent compared with 2005 levels.

Forty per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil are generated by trees being razed, often to create more agricultural land. Lula has pledged to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030.

They couldn’t pledge to stop deforestation simply for the sake of the environment and protecting the Amazon and leave the cult out of this? Of course not.

Oh, hey, also Brazil

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Mass. Gov Healey Super Happy To Have Her Non-American Aide Back At Work

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

I mean, there weren’t any Americans she could hire?

‘It wasn’t an easy fight.’ After suing Trump to get work permit, Healey aide returns to work.

Valentina Amaro Bowser is used to the spotlight. As Governor Maura Healey’s multicultural media director, Bowser often appears on Spanish-language TV or radio programs to discuss the latest issues facing Massachusetts.

But Bowser herself became the news this year when she was put on leave from her state government job amid the federal administration’s efforts to restrict immigration — including for those with legal immigration status like herself.

Now, after more than a month of court fights, Bowser has returned to work as a liaison between Massachusetts government and the state’s immigrant communities, a link whose absence was amplified by the very chaos that severed it.

“It’s crazy that this is affecting hundreds of thousands of people who are constantly contributing to this country,” Bowser said of the Trump administration restricting immigration. “Those five weeks were a lot of reflection of, ‘OK, when I come back, what else? What ideas do we have to do things differently?’”

There are rules to working in this country, Champ, and, apparently, your job is to help illegal aliens

Bowser, a Venezuelan citizen who previously worked for the state on an H-1B work visa, and her husband, Brandon Bowser, a US citizen, sued the Department of Homeland Security and US Citizenship and Immigration Services in January, arguing that federal officials had stalled Valentina Bowser’s efforts to become a permanent resident and extend her work visa because she is from Venezuela.

She came to the US on a student visa in 2013, then stuck around, somehow receiving an H1-B visa, which is “a non-immigrant visa that allows U.S. employers to temporarily hire foreign professionals in “specialty occupations” requiring highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor’s degree. It is commonly used for fields like technology, engineering, and science, with an initial stay of three years, extendable up to six years.” So, she has like another year left, right? Because they are not supposed to be renewable after that total of 9 years. Further, is her job actually that specialized? She’s basically doing stupid politics things. Did she get married for love or a legal status?

Immigration officials issued Bowser an employment authorization card that she received on March 20, allowing her to continue working while they decide on her petition to become a permanent resident. Bowser returned to her role in Healey’s office three days later.

US Attorney Leah Foley’s office last week asked the court to give the federal government until May 14 to “continue processing” Bowser’s remaining applications and “account for any updated guidance issued during this period.”

And at no point during her time did she consider applying for citizenship, she just wants it all free.

Healey’s office said in her role, which the governor’s office created in 2023, Bowser works with more than 60 multicultural media outlets in Massachusetts, from organizing roundtables with state officials to translating government materials into other languages.

Is that really what an H1-B is for? Does this really bring value for American citizens? Eh, we all know what Democrats really want: for people like Bowser to be able to vote, even if just local, county, and state, and, then, maybe they can “unintentionally” vote in federal elections on the same ballot.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 5, 2026 – 2:03 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on Trump dropping a naughty word laden threat towards Iran.

It’s beer week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 5, 2026 – 9:04 am

Happy Easter Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The birds are singing, the Dodgers are winning, and it is Easter! This pinup is by Bill Layne, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. No Tricks Zone: An Inconvenient Tree: Uncovered In Alps… Europe Much Warmer Than Today 6000 Years Ago
  2. Green Jihad: CDC Panics Due To New #COVID-19 Variant
  3. Bearing Arms: Student Op-Ed from California Hits Nail on the Head About Women and Gun Rights
  4. Common Cents Blog: MORE WINNING! U.S. economy adds 178K jobs in March, unemployment rate dips to 4.3% – CNBC Video
  5. Doug Ros @ Journal: Fake Donors, Foreign Cash, and a Cover-Up: ActBlue Illustrated
  6. Gates Of Vienna: Swedish Culture-Enricher Abuses Elderly Infidel Whores
  7. GeeeZ….: EASTER…COULD IT BE TRUE?! Z has two reasons that it IS!
  8. Geller Report: New York Times NATO Blunder Exposes Stunning Ignorance
  9. IOTW Report: Chicago alderwoman closes office after ‘wrong place at the wrong time’ comment on slain student fuels backlash
  10. Jihad Watch: Islamic States calls upon Muslims to set fire to churches and synagogues in U.S. and Europe
  11. Liberty’s Torch: Promises, Fulfillments, And Discoveries
  12. Moonbattery: Students Who Defend ICE Punished While Taxpayers Finance Anti-ICE Brainwashing and Demonstrations
  13. neo-neocon: There’s fraud even on Everest
  14. The Gateway Pundit: Tom Homan Puts Birthright Citizenship Into Perspective as a National Security Issue (VIDEO)
  15. And last, but, not least, The Last Refuge has “Happy Easter”

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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