Senate Votes To End Shutdown, NY Times Apoplectic Over Trump’s Action

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 10:30 am

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Senate Passes Funding Bill to End Schumer Shutdown

The Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government Monday night, 40 days after Democrats triggered what is now the longest government shutdown in history.

The vote ends a disastrous shutdown for Democrats, but the civil war for the soul and direction of the party is just beginning.

The vote was 60-40. Only a majority was necessary.

Senators reached a time agreement Monday evening to bypass Senate procedures that would have prolonged the passage of the bill by as long as several days.

And, really, it next goes to the House, which will pass it along party lines, get reconciled, then go to Trump’s desk

As shutdown ends, furious Democrats eat their own

The Schumer Shutdown appears to be ending. It’s about time. By refusing to vote for a “clean” continuing resolution which would have kept government spending at levels they themselves approved earlier, Democrats have held the country hostage for a record-breaking 41 days. They have hurt Americans, angered their union allies and dampened consumer sentiment. For what?

What did Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Democratic colleagues gain from throwing hundreds of thousands out of work, endangering American air travelers, causing great hardship and anxiety for those dependent on SNAP benefits, and slowing the growth of the U.S. economy?

Nothing. They did not win an extension of Obamacare premium subsidies, they did not undo the Medicaid reforms that they fought tooth and nail and – worst of all for Schumer – the shutdown in no way endeared him to the democratic socialists who are tearing his party in two. Far from it.

Well, they did get their Humpty Dumpty base out for the elections, but, then, in most cases the Democrat would have won most likely.

For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown

The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing — in part because President Trump has taken actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown.

Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration cut food stamps for millions of low-income Americans. It tried to fire thousands of government workers and withhold back pay from others, while freezing or canceling money for projects in Democratic-led states.

It remains to be seen whether there will be a political price to pay for Mr. Trump or his party, with polls showing that voters generally blamed Republicans more for the shutdown. But for now, the tactics appear to have worked, after a group of Democrats agreed to support a bill to end the shutdown and drop the concessions their party had demanded.

“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work,” said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, said on MSNBC Monday. “It actually gave him more power.”

The bare-knuckle politics the Trump administration employed during the shutdown — often coming from his budget director Russell T. Vought, whom Mr. Trump refers to as Darth Vader — became too brutal for the handful of centrist Senate Democrats, who never liked the idea of the shutdown much anyway.

Democrats are used to the GOP collapsing in the face of the withering media assault. Trump don’t care. He doesn’t care about the Credentialed Media and their insane bias. He revels in it, and that puts some backbone in the elected Republicans. Perhaps the NY Times forgot what happened during the 17 day Obama shutdown in 2013 (below the fold)

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Strange: Democrats’ Yammering About Climate Doom Drops

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 7:15 am

It does seem like they’re trying to rebrand the cult

The big issue Democrats have stopped talking about

The Democrats who prevailed in electoral races earlier this week were no exception. Abigail Spanberger, who became the first woman elected governor of Virginia, rarely mentioned climate change on the campaign trail — instead focusing her attention on the rising cost of living and education. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic governor-elect of New Jersey, largely focused on climate change in the context of resilience against disasters in the coastal state. And Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist winner of the New York City mayoral election, focused intently on rising rents and grocery bills, only discussing climate change when directly asked about it.

According to Adam Jentleson, a veteran Democratic operative and the founder and president of the Searchlight Institute, Democrats are learning that direct focus and messaging on climate change doesn’t necessarily pay off. (In September, the Searchlight Institute urged Democrats to obey “the first rule about solving climate change: Don’t say climate change.”) Democratic voters care about climate change, he argued — but not enough to vote primarily on that issue.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans are concerned about global warming — but the issue ranks lowest in concern among all environmental issues polled, below extinction of plant and animal species, polluted drinking water, and the loss of tropical rainforests.

It also tends to be at the bottom when compared to real issues, hence, it is not a big issue.

“Climate change has fallen into the ‘friend zone’ of voting,” Jentleson said. “And as in life, when you’ve fallen in the friend zone, it’s really hard to get out of it.”

Let’s be honest, when 99% of people go to the polls ‘climate change’ is barely considered. Perhaps if Democrats weren’t completely in the tank with Trump Derangement Syndrome they could focus on the scam, or anything else.

Instead, Democrats are talking about increased electricity and energy prices — blaming President Donald Trump’s partial repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act and harsh crackdowns on wind and solar power. Sherrill promised to freeze utility rates in New Jersey and declare a “state of emergency” on electricity prices. Spanberger promised to force data centers to pay their fair share of electricity before plugging into the grid.

“The climate movement in the past has gotten a lot of flak for being too lofty and abstract,” said Holly Burke, vice president of communications at Evergreen Action, a climate advocacy group. “I see the pivot to affordability not as a shift away from climate, but as a shift to meeting people where they’re at. We’re in a national cost-of-living crisis right now.”

Should be fun when energy prices in NJ skyrocket to go with scarcity. But, notice that Dems are trying to shift to “affordability”, which will have the same results: more unaffordable, unreliable energy, higher prices, forcing people into EVs, onto buses and trains and bikes, limiting what citizens can do and purchase.

It’s not just Democrats. Republicans are also talking less about climate, The Post’s analysis found, and so is the media. According to a project by the University of Colorado and a suite of other universities, global media coverage of climate change has been declining since 2021. In October 2021, news coverage of the issue peaked, with about 1,100 articles per month across newspapers in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia. In September 2025, the number had fallen to about 400. In the United States, coverage fell by almost two-thirds during that same period.

When real world issues interfere, like wars in Ukraine and Israel, no one cares about theoretical issues. And what you see is the same article repeated all over. This article is actually a Washington Post article repeated all over. Don’t expect the cult to give up, though. That ain’t happening.

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Loony Federal Judge Considers Releasing Hundreds Of Illegals Scooped Up In SCC

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

If the judge orders this, CBP and ICE should bus them to the judge’s neighborhood in Sanctuary City Chicago to release them. Or refuse to release them while waiting on appeal. But, my first suggestion is more fun

Judge considers releasing hundreds arrested in Chicago-area immigration enforcement ‘blitz’

A federal judge is weighing whether to release hundreds of people arrested by federal agents as part of an immigration “blitz” that has shaken the Chicago area.

Attorneys for the National Immigrant Justice Center have argued hundreds of undocumented migrants arrested by federal immigration agents were arrested in violation of a consent decree in place in Illinois and five neighboring states.

That consent decree limits the circumstances in which agents can make warrantless arrests while enforcing civil immigration laws.

At a court hearing this Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings is expected to share more insight into whether he will provide “equitable relief” in the form of ordering federal immigration agents to release those people on interim “alternatives to detention,” which include ankle monitor programs or regular check-in appointments with immigration agents virtually via mobile apps.

Last month, Judge Cummings ruled agents had violated a previously agreed-upon consent decree over warrantless arrests in the Chicago area known as the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement.

Biden is no longer president. Federal law deems these people to be illegally present in the United States, for which the penalty is a small fine, possible jail time, and deportation. At a minimum, depending on if they have other warrants/convictions or have previously been deported. Still, boot them all. That’s federal law, not what Judge Moonbat feels.

After reviewing arguments on both sides, ABC7 Chief Legal Analyst Gil Soffer said it may not be that simple.

“There’s not an obvious answer here,” Soffer said. “In the plaintiff’s favor, they have the language in the consent decree which empowers the court to exercise, really almost any equitable power.”

Soffer continued, “On the other side, there’s a statute that makes it very difficult for the district court, federal district court, to require the government to take or not take any action in the immigration space.”

Yeah, those would be the federal laws about catching and deporting. If you release them they are gone.

Meanwhile

Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring powerful new surveillance tools to identify and monitor people.

They include apps that let federal agents point a cell phone at someone’s face to potentially identify them and determine their immigration status in the field, and another that can scan irises. Newly licensed software can give “access to vast amounts of location-based data,” according to an archive of the website of the company that developed it, and ICE recently revived a previously frozen contract with a company that makes spyware that can hack into cell phones.

The federal agency is also ramping up its social media surveillance, with new AI-driven software contracts, and is considering hiring 24/7 teams of contractors assigned to scouring various databases and platforms like Facebook and TikTok and creating dossiers on users.

Good.

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Bummer: Hotcoldwetdry Is Coming For Your Favorite Vices

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Well, they do not mention guitars, books, ice cream, and watching movies, so, I’m OK

Climate change is coming for some of our favorite vices

Some of our favorite vices may be gone for good in the coming decades due to the climate crisis, researchers warned this week.

Wine, coffee and chocolate, vital products in many economies, are increasingly threatened by the effects of human-caused climate change.

And a new study shows that even an ambitious idea to curb heat – pumping gas into the sky in an attempt to cool the Earth’s surface – won’t be able to save them, Dr. Ariel Morrison, from Colorado State University, said.

“Reducing temperature with Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) alone isn’t enough,” she explained in a statement.

“For instance, cacao species, while more tolerant of hot temperatures than coffee and grapes, are highly susceptible to pests and diseases caused by a combination of high temperatures, rainfall, and humidity,” Morrison added.

Always with the scare mongering. Chocolate was created during a Holocene warm period, and survived it, and the subsequent cool period. And more warm and cool periods. Coffee and wine have likewise survived.

Natural fluctuations in Earth’s climate are also a factor that could lead to a wide range of unknown outcomes and further affect crops.

Which is primarily what is happening, not anthropogenic.

It’s because of this uncertainty that Morrison says local communities should look at adaptions that are specific to them.

“Adaptation strategies tailored to local conditions, investment in resilient agricultural practices and global cooperation are essential to saving these crops and the communities that depend on them,” she said.

And we can do this by putting the government in charge, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heatsnow from a wandering jet stream from global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on the 250th birthday for the Marines. Crayons will be in short supply (sorry, had to)

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ICE Is Already Recruiting Cops Away From NYPD

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 10:30 am

Let’s consider this from late October

City plans to add 5,000 NYPD officers by 2029 amid staffing crisis

surprise surprise surpriseThe New York City Police Department plans to increase its uniformed headcount by 5,000 officers over the next three years to address a growing staffing crisis, aiming to reach 40,000 officers by the end of fiscal year 2029, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.

Adams signaled the planned expansion on Oct. 31 as part of the November 2025 Financial Plan Update, at a time when the department has lost an average of 316 officers per month this year due to retirements and resignations, and its current headcount of approximately 33,832 is below budgeted levels.

They were already down, thanks to the whole defund the police thing post COVID, and having a tough time getting good candidates. Bad candidates, ones who really can’t do the job and shouldn’t be cops.

ICE is recruiting NYPD officers after Zohran Mamdani’s victory

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s victory to recruit police officers to leave the New York Police Department.

On Friday, ICE posted a recruitment message to social media calling on police officers to “Defend the Homeland” and “work for a President and a Secretary who support and defend law enforcement—not defund or demonize it.”

ICE’s message references Mamdani’s history of police criticism, including his past support for defunding the NYPD. In June 2020, Mamdani posted on X: “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD.”

Well, why not, because

NYPD already losing officers with morale plunging as anti-cop Zohran Mamdani prepares to take reins

An NYPD exodus is already underway, with a surge of officers quitting in the month leading up to anti-cop socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win — and more might go if Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch exits, according to data and department sources.

The NYPD saw a 35% hike in cops of all ranks leaving in October – 245 police officers compared to 181 in the same month last year, according to Police Pension Fund data.

“Morale is down because everyone is concerned about the policies Mamdani wants to put in place,” said Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro.

Those who can retire with full benefits/pensions will. Those who are close may, or may just ride it out, doing the bare minimum, not wanting to get involved with anything, just like during defund the police/Black Lives Matter. Those who are on the job and not vested will look at this ICE offer and jump, instead of wondering where they go, applying to different departments around the country (especially in the South). Good pay, great benefits. And all that money, somewhere between $100K and $240K for the academy and first 18 months on the job) goes up in smoke.

And you know what happens? The officers who are left will protect the rich and upper middle class areas first, leaving the lower middle class and working class areas bereft of patrols, with long response times.

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Scotland Is Totally Ready To Force Their Citizens To Do Something (more) On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Elites aren’t quite ready to make changes for themselves, of course

Swinney calls for swift and decisive action in tackling climate crisis

climate cowThe First Minister has called for swift and decisive action in “tackling the climate emergency” as the Cop30 UN Climate Summit gets under way.

Climate action secretary Gillian Martin is representing Scotland at the summit, which begins in Belem, Brazil, on Monday, and will end on November 21.

She will meet with activists, civil society partners from the Global South, and share learnings from Scotland’s Climate Justice Fund programmes.

Ahead of the summit, John Swinney said: “The next decade will be decisive in tackling the climate emergency, and Cop plays a vital role in that.

“We have no time to waste in protecting the future of our planet, protecting nature and supporting populations who are increasingly under threat from the destruction caused by the climate crisis.

So, she’s going to take a long, fossil fueled flight to Brazil, to hobnob with 100% like-minded individuals, all hell-bent on forcing Other People to comply. As for Swinney, what’s this “we” stuff? He and the rest do not act like the world is doomed from a tiny increase in global temperatures.

“On my recent visit to Zambia and Malawi, I saw how the effects of climate change are already exacerbating poverty and inequality.

Flights for them, you get to take the bus. And, yes, this matters, the hypocrisy and authoritarianism.

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Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government

By William Teach November 10, 2025 – 6:45 am

As they say, the devil is in the details, and the votes

Senate Democrats, Republicans reach deal to reopen government

A source familiar with the newly-unveiled plan told Fox News Digital that there are enough Senate Democrats ready to join Republicans for a key vote Sunday night as Congress readies to reopen the government.

The latest development comes after an updated continuing resolution was revealed that would reopen the government until Jan. 30, 2026, reverse firings of furloughed workers carried out by the Trump administration and ensure that furloughed workers get back pay.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, led the bipartisan deal, but a trio of Democratic caucus members, Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., proved crucial in striking a way forward.

Lawmakers are expected to take the first of a trio of votes on reopening the government later Sunday night. But it will require action from the House before the closure is officially ended.

While both sides still appear at an impasse on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, appropriators moved ahead with a package of spending bills that Republicans hope will jumpstart the government funding process, and lead to an end to the 40-day government shutdown.

The Senate Appropriations Committee released the three-bill spending package, known as a minibus, Sunday afternoon. Lawmakers are still waiting on text for an updated continuing resolution (CR), that, if passed, is expected to reopen the government until late January.

So, no Obamacare subsidies, but, it would restart SNAP (which really should be funded by states, not Los Federales, as there is nothing in the Constitution giving this program authorization). And get air traffic control back on the job, ahead of Thanksgiving

Schumer and his caucus could still apply pain on the process, too, through procedural hurdles. And despite rumblings of some in the caucus ready to break ranks, some Republicans aren’t too optimistic that this will be an easy process.

“I don’t expect anything from the Democrats,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said. “At this point, their demands have been so ridiculous, I don’t know what they’re going to do, and at this point, I frankly, don’t give a crap.”

I’m sure the crazies who will refuse to vote to end the filibuster will offer up lots of crazy addendums.

(CNN) At least eight Senate Democrats have agreed to vote for the deal, which was brokered Sunday night between three former governors — Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Angus King of Maine and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire — along with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the White House.

One of those Democrats is Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who represents thousands of federal workers in the state and who said he supports the GOP’s promise for a future vote on the subsidies.

“Lawmakers know their constituents expect them to vote for it, and if they don’t, they could very well be replaced at the ballot box by someone who will,” Kaine said of GOP senators who choose not to support extending the subsidies.

Hey, maybe that whole Obamacare thingy isn’t working well, eh?

But some liberal senators have fiercely opposed the plan, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.

“For me, it’s no deal without health care,” Blumenthal said, voicing a widespread sentiment in the Democratic caucus. “So far as I’m concerned, health care isn’t included, and so I’ll be a no.”

Even some centrist-leaning Democrats, like Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, were voicing concerns with the idea on Sunday night.

Well, it’s only going to take 8 to break the filibuster. Which way now, Dems? Maybe by the time this posts at 645am there will be votes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 9, 2025 – 1:16 pm

…is a pond frozen due to climate change moving Arctic air to lower areas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post saying it’s no time for small battles.

It’s cold week! Since it will be so cold this week. Which is, BTW, your fault.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 9, 2025 – 9:14 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. Got some nice rain, the Devils are number one in the Metropolitan, and the Rangers are winless at home. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Just 3% Of Global Climate Aid Is Allocated To Transitioning Communities
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: NHS Wasting Billions on Net Zero
  3. Watts Up With That?: Waste of the Day: Michigan’s Chinese Battery Plant Falls Through
  4. Ace Of Spades HQ: The Blaze Publishes Name of Person It Claims Matches the J5 Pipe Bomber, Based on Gait Analysis
  5. American Greatness: The Socialist Hypothesis Has Been Falsified — Did New York Get the Memo?
  6. Campus Reform: SUNY Albany TPUSA chapter to host ‘Unionized Hot Dog Stand’ exploring effects of labor regulations
  7. Cold Fury: A New (York) low
  8. Geller Report: Media Scrubs Islamic Religious Roots of Dearborn LGBTQ Terror Plot
  9. IOTW Report: The More Violence You Find Acceptable the More Violence You Will Get
  10. Jihad Watch: Sweden: Muslim teen planned to blow himself up in large crowd at Stockholm Culture Festival
  11. Legal Insurrection: In Quest for Real Journalism, CBS Head Bari Weiss Takes Axe to “Climate Desk”
  12. Liberty’s Torch: The Terrible Power Of ‘If’ Part 2
  13. Moonbattery: Eric Holder Confirms Democrats Will Pack Supreme Court
  14. neo-neocon: Kansas checks its voter registrations, and finds something curious
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has “Ilhan Omar went into a full rage, lashing out after other Somalians in American because Omar Fateh lost”

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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