Oklahoma Legislature Goes After Climate Cult Law Suits

By William Teach February 3, 2026 – 7:15 am

Hopefully more Republican states will follow

Oklahoma Bill Targets Climate Lawsuits Against Oil Companies

A bill filed ahead of the Oklahoma Legislature’s 2026 session aims to significantly limit civil lawsuits against oil and gas companies, particularly those alleging responsibility for climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

Senate Bill 1439, filed by Sen. Julie Daniels, R-Bartlesville, with Rep. Anthony Moore, R-Clinton, is titled the Energy Security and Independence Act. The measure would prohibit most civil liability claims against companies that lawfully produce, manufacture, and sell fossil fuels, unless plaintiffs allege specific violations of environmental or labor laws.

The legislation defines a “covered civil liability action” broadly, explicitly including lawsuits based on claims of fraud, misrepresentation, deception, or failure to warn when those claims are tied to climate change, its alleged effects, or greenhouse gas emissions.

If enacted, the law would sharply restrict the ability of cities, counties, or individuals to pursue climate-related litigation against oil and gas companies operating within Oklahoma, so long as those companies are complying with existing laws and permits.

Good. No one has tried this in Oklahoma that I’ve seen yet, but, it’s only a matter of time before an astroturfed group of kids or some city or county tries a shakedown suit, all while the plaintiffs continue to use fossil fuels themselves.

Meanwhile in Europe

Court rulings order Dutch and German governments to strengthen climate plans

The Dutch and German governments have been ordered to beef up climate change plans in potentially landmark court rulings.

The Dutch government has been told to bolster its adaptation and emission reduction plans, after a court ruled it had violated the European Convention on Human Rights and discriminated against residents of the Dutch-Caribbean island of Bonaire by failing to protect them from climate change.

Meanwhile in Germany, the federal government has lost its appeal against a ruling that its Climate Action Programme does not align with legal requirements.

Most of the citizens are tired of the climate crap which is causing their cost of living to skyrocket.

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LAPD Won’t Enforce California’s Mask Ban Law

By William Teach February 3, 2026 – 7:00 am

Huh

Let’s check ABC LA

LAPD will not enforce California’s federal agent mask ban

It’s a California law, federal law enforcement officers are banned from wearing masks while on duty, but the Los Angeles Police Department doesn’t plan to enforce it.

Police Chief Jim McDonnell said that, while he is frustrated by the way immigration enforcement has been handled, one armed agency approaching another armed agency to create conflict doesn’t make sense.

Chief McDonnell said that the state’s federal mask ban is not a good public policy decision, and it wasn’t well thought out.

The ban on face coverings, known as the “No Secret Police Act,” was introduced following immigration raids across Southern California that began last summer.

The Trump Administration is also challenging the ban, which went into effect on January 1.

There were a few whines from the Chief about the way things are being done regarding illegal immigration, and, he’s pretty much a politician at that rank, but, he knows there is zero chance the LAPD would be able to enforce the law on federal agents. You know most of the other law enforcement agencies in the state have zero intention of enforcing the law. It would be a losing proposition. Attempt to arrest federal officers in the course of doing their jobs while letting actual criminals go because they know prosecutors won’t prosecute? And potentially being arrested themselves for interfering? Especially when most of the officers will be Conservatives, even in very liberal cities.

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We’re Saved: Snowboarder Totally Trying To Save The World

By William Teach February 2, 2026 – 3:06 pm

It’s a small story, but, big enough for NBC News to cover it, which perfectly encapsulates what members of the cult do

How snowboarder Bea Kim fights climate change through her words and wardrobe

Without snow, there would be no snowboarding.

So, Bea Kim is fighting climate change with her words … and her wardrobe.

Whether the 19-year-old snowboarding star is speaking at the United Nations or thrifting for clothes to reduce the pollution caused by the fashion industry, she is making an impact one word — and one article of clothing — at a time.

“I couldn’t watch it happen and not say anything about it,” Kim said on an episode of NBC Local’s “My New Favorite Olympian.” “But also, I realized how quickly the danger of losing snow and losing winter and losing the future of my sport was and how real it really was becoming.”

Kim — who grew up in Palos Verdes, California — has traveled the world for snowboarding, a journey that will soon take her to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina.

Traveled the world, eh? On bike? Sailing ship?

She became a member of the climate advocacy organization Protect Our Winters, joining a group of outdoor athletes who became climate advocates to speak about climate change’s impact on winter sports and to push for clean air, clean water and a healthy planet.

And all of them traveling by fossil fuels

Kim’s other passion is thrifting — shopping for used clothing and goods at secondhand stores, garage sales or flea markets.

OK. Talking a lot and buying used clothes.

“I know each person has their own kind of sustainability goals and we’re all very imperfect advocates,” Kim said. “None of us are perfect in the way that we live our lives. I travel the world. My carbon footprint is enormous. But thrifting and secondhand shopping is definitely one way that I try to combat that a little bit.”

A little bit. Perfect phrase for most members of the cult of climastrology.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 2, 2026 – 2:01 pm

…are palm trees that will soon grow in the Arctic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on moonbattery in Nashville means no power.

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Italians Have Hissy Fit Over ICE Being At The Olympics

By William Teach February 2, 2026 – 10:30 am

You know, there’s something missing from this The Hill article. They got close to the reality

Italians protest ICE’s presence at 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan

Hundreds of Italians took to the street to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) presence in the country ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan.

ICE officers are expected to help with security at this month’s Milano Cortina Winter Games, which has sparked harsh backlash from residents and officials.

On Saturday, protesters gathered at the historic Piazza XXV Aprile, a square that pays homage to the end of Nazi control in Italy 80 years ago. Some demonstrators, however, said current conditions in the U.S. remind them of the fascism present in 1945 and the Gestapo.

“I don’t like what’s happening with ICE. I don’t want that to come here to Italy,” demonstrator Francesco Tattoni told NPR.

Hundreds. What’s the population of Italy?

“Obviously, ICE does not conduct immigration enforcement operations in foreign countries,” the DHS wrote in a Tuesday post on the social platform X. “At the Olympics, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is supporting the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service and host nation to vet and mitigate risks from transnational criminal organizations.”

Go back to that “expected to help” link

Homeland Security Investigations, a unit within ICE that focuses on cross-border crimes, frequently sends its officers to overseas events like the Olympics to assist with security. HSI officers are separate from the ICE arm at the forefront of the immigration crackdown known as Enforcement and Removal Operations, and there was no indication ERO officers were being sent to Italy. (big snip)

Another arm of ICE is Homeland Security Investigations. Agents from HSI conduct investigations into anything that has a cross-border nexus from human smuggling to fentanyl trafficking to smuggling of cultural artifacts. Agents from HSI are stationed in embassies around the world to facilitate their investigations and build relations with local law enforcement in those countries.

That unit typically goes to things like the Olympics due to the large amount of human trafficking that occurs, because these types of gatherings attract the people who smuggle people and drugs. This year is nothing new. Other nations send law enforcement agents to do the same. The US has considerably more resources to do something about trafficking then others, though.

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Washington Post: The Climate Cult Must Adapt

By William Teach February 2, 2026 – 7:15 am

This opinion piece by Alex Flint ignores one huge problem

If the climate movement wants to succeed, it must adapt

The global climate movement recently experienced its biggest setbacks to date. The United States withdrew from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change — which America helped design — and relaxed emissions standards for cars and power plants. Meanwhile, Canada eliminated its consumer carbon tax, and the European Union is scaling back its emissions reductions goals.

The climate movement inherited many of the instincts of the broader environmental movement, including a deep skepticism of development itself. As a result, it finds itself at odds with one of humanity’s most powerful and enduring forces: the desire to improve living standards. When climate advocacy runs counter to that aspiration, it fails to gain durable support.

“Movement”

If the climate movement is to succeed, it must reorganize around a different premise. Its measure of success should not be how much development it prevents but how much development it helps enable — while minimizing climate impact.

Anti-development

Any credible climate strategy must acknowledge that this demand is likely to materialize. Billions of people are still climbing the energy ladder. They want refrigerators, air conditioning, clean water, mobility and modern health care — and those desires are both understandable and legitimate.

Therefore, the climate movement’s task cannot be to suppress demand. It must be to meet that demand in ways that do the least harm to the climate.

Like they’re going to give up demanding Other People give up their own use of energy?

This reframing carries important implications.

First, climate advocacy will be most effective when it is grounded in demand and economics rather than moral appeals alone. People rarely respond to calls for sacrifice when the alternative is a better life. They do respond to technologies and systems that are cheaper, cleaner and more reliable than what they replace.

Look, the piece has 4 more pieces of advice, but, at the end, Alex forgets that this is a cult, and they do not want to change to being rational. Their moral outrage is baked into the actions of the cult. Their climahypocrisy is baked in. Their preaching and Crazy are baked in. Because it is a cult.

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Despite Massive Protests, ICE Arrests 650 In West Virginia

By William Teach February 2, 2026 – 7:00 am

All those protests where a nightmare

ICE arrests over 650 illegal aliens across West Virginia with state, local police backing

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested more than 650 illegal aliens across West Virginia during a two-week statewide operation conducted in coordination with local law enforcement agencies and without protests, federal officials announced.

ICE said in a press release Sunday that the operation ran from Jan. 5 to Jan. 19 and involved 14 federal, state and local law enforcement partners.

ICE deployed teams to Charleston, Martinsburg, Beckley, Moorefield, Morgantown and Huntington as part of the operation.

Law enforcement officials arrested more than 650 illegal aliens, including individuals ICE said pose threats to public safety and national security, as well as others who entered the country illegally.

“This operation demonstrates how strong partnerships between ICE and West Virginia law enforcement agencies enhance public safety and the integrity of our immigration system,” ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia acting Field Office Director Michael Rose said. “By training and supporting our… partners across the state, we’ve expanded local capacity to identify, arrest and process illegal aliens while ensuring these authorities are exercised professionally and consistent with the law.”

Yeah, there were no protests. No caterwauling. No interfering. Just law enforcement working at all levels to get the illegals out of West Virginia, and the citizens of WV being fine with it.

They busted a bunch foreign truckers, and

Another illegal alien arrested during the operation was Ling Yan, a citizen of China also known as Yang Ning, who was previously convicted of two counts of endangering the welfare of children in Ravenna, Ohio.

ICE also arrested a convicted child sex abuser, an individual with drug possession convictions and numerous other offenders during the operation.

I wonder how many got shipped to WV by the Biden admin?

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Trump explaining to reporters why he won’t help Dem cities with riots

It’s being somewhere warm week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 1, 2026 – 9:24 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, finally got 4 inches of snow after the big all day dry slot, and I don’t feel quite as dizzy from this cold today. Pretty sure this pinup is by AI, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog: Nurses Union Holds Secret Training Sessions To Combat ICE
  2. This ain’t Hell…: Stupid people of the week
  3. The Other McCain: THIS! THIS! I VOTED FOR THIS! 100%
  4. The Last Refuge: FBI Director Kash Patel Outlines “Probable Cause” in Georgia Election Data Warrant
  5. The Gateway Pundit: Maxine Waters Incites Violent Leftist Rioters in Los Angeles – Threatens ICE, “We’re Going to Fight You Every Inch of the Way” (VIDEOS)
  6. The First Street Journal: People whose jobs are to enforce the law band together to not enforce the law
  7. The Feral Irishman: Dear Virginia… SURPRISE!!!
  8. Sultan Knish: $68 Million Muslim Day Care Fraud Linked to New York Dems
  9. Pacific Pundit: Communist Boston mayor Michelle Wu declares illegal aliens have the “legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter”
  10. neo-neocon: What’s up with all these leftists in healthcare professions who proudly advocate harming MAGA supporters?
  11. Moonbattery: Democrat Party Official Screams Obscenities at Patriotic Girls
  12. Legal Insurrection: Poll: Harris Voters Oppose Men in Women’s Sports
  13. Jihad Watch: New York Times Doesn’t Bother Telling You This Key Detail About Its Favorite Gaza Doctor
  14. IOTW Report: How Protests Happen ‘On The Spot’
  15. And last, but, not least, House Of Eratosthenes has “I Question Whether They’re “Good People””

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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Federal Judge Refuses To End Minnesota Immigration Operation

By William Teach February 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

First, how could a federal court do so? The Constitution and numerous laws give Los Federales the power to conduct immigration enforcement. And then there’s the idiocy that was argued

Judge denies Minnesota’s request for immediate end to immigration crackdown

A judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, rejecting pleas from state officials who said the campaign was stepping on their sovereignty and endangering the public.

Sovereignty? When it comes to any immigration the federal government has all the power. The States are assigned none. Even if Los Federales assign some to the states the feds still are in charge. Democrats made this quite clear during the Arizona SB1070 issue

Minnesota and the Twin Cities had not definitively shown that the administration’s decision to flood the state with thousands of agents was unlawful or designed to force local officials into cooperating with the administration’s objectives, U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez said in her ruling.

Although Menendez acknowledged evidence that immigration agents had engaged in acts of racial profiling, excessive force and other disruptions in nearly all aspects of Minnesotans’ lives, the judge stressed she was not tasked with ruling on any of those claims. Menendez said the Trump administration also had presented plausible arguments for the need for its enforcement operation, dubbed Operation Metro Surge.

“The Court is particularly reluctant to take a side in the debate about the purpose behind Operation Metro Surge,” she wrote. “Not only is it difficult to identify a single motivation for a significant multifaceted operation, but doing so would venture into a uniquely controversial political question.”

Although the judge did not grant a preliminary injunction to end the immigration crackdown, she noted in her 30-page opinion that she was not making a final determination on the state’s claims until the lawsuit is heard fully.

Even if she, a Biden appointee, can find a way to tell Trump to end the operation, she’ll lose on appeal. Like has happened almost every single time a liberal judge has ruled against Trump.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) also emphasized that the decision was not the last word in the case.

“We’re obviously disappointed in the court’s ruling today, but this case is in its infancy and there is much legal road in front of us, so we’re fighting on,” Ellison said in a statement. “We’re not letting up in defending our state’s constitutional powers.”

What constitutional powers? Immigration is in the federal Constitution as a power to pass laws by the US Congress, and, if the duly elected president signs the legislation/Congress overrides a veto it is now up to the Executive Branch to enforce. Nothing in the Minnesota Constitution would override the federal Constitution when it comes to immigration. Keith should know this, but, then, he’s speaking to his idiot voters. Here’s an idea: hand over illegals who were caught breaking the law to ICE and you won’t have to worry about big operations.

Still, Menendez — named to the bench by President Joe Biden in 2021 — concluded that there could be legitimate reasons for the surge, including the administration’s stated goals of cracking down on fraud and undocumented residents in the state.

“The Court can readily imagine scenarios where the federal executive must legitimately vary its use of law enforcement resources from one state to the next, and there is no precedent for a court to micromanage such decisions,” she wrote.

And maybe if Democrat politicians wouldn’t push the little Comrades to do what they’ve been doing out in the streets, harassing federal law enforcement, doxxing them, mobbing them, interfering, etc, no one would be endangered.

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