National Geographic: Lake Effect Snowfall Is Your Fault

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 7:15 am

So, snow fell from Michigan to Vermont and up to Canada Monday. NJ got it, Western NC, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Toronto

It was also still coming down in NY, Vermont, and Canada Tuesday, even into Tuesday night. So, of course

What is lake-effect snow? Here’s how climate change is altering it

Winter weather is ransacking the Chicago metro area and parts of Indiana as the region experiences one of winter’s most brutal weather phenomena: lake-effect snow. Heavy snow covered the area Sunday night into Monday morning, with more than a foot of snow recorded by mid-Monday.

Lake-effect snow forms when warm, unfrozen lake water and cold air meet. Some of the lake water evaporates into the air, making it warmer and wetter. Once that air moves inland, that moisture cools and turns into snow.

If the wind is blowing over large portions of one of the Great Lakes, the storm system will take in more water. The greater the temperature difference between the winds and water, the more moisture is absorbed into the atmosphere.

This type of snow storm is most common in the Great Lakes region because of their large size and location near populous cities.

So, it’s normal. It’s been as normal as normal as long as people were in the area.

But as the planet warms, will we continue to see major Midwestern snow storms? Here’s the science behind this phenomena and how climate change could make these storms more intense in the short term.

You’re welcome to read the article, but, it’s the same old same old cult propaganda, where you driving a fossil fueled vehicle and making the world burn causes lots of snow.

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ICE Arrests Murderous Moldovan Illegal, Biden Let Her Stay

By William Teach November 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

I guess Let’s Go Brandon just couldn’t be bothered to let federal authorities do their job. And wouldn’t let them

ICE arrests Moldovan illegal immigrant and convicted killer who tortured, threw victim out ninth-floor window

Biden Brain SuckerThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrest of a Moldovan illegal immigrant and convicted killer who tortured and threw a victim out of a ninth-floor window.

Victoria Sorocean was taken into custody in Los Angeles on Nov. 4 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after authorities learned she had been convicted of premeditated murder with exceptional cruelty in 2013, ICE told Fox News on Tuesday.

According to DHS, Sorocean and an accomplice tortured their victim inside an apartment in Chisinau, Moldova, beating the person with a stick and electrical cable before throwing the victim out a ninth-floor window.

She was sentenced to 17 years in prison but fled the country to avoid serving her sentence.

Sorocean was first arrested by ICE on Jan. 10, 2020, under the first Trump administration, but she later filed multiple legal appeals and asylum claims to delay removal, DHS said.

How in the f**k does the system allow someone convicted of murder in another country to stay in the US? Sure, there is no bilateral extradition with Moldova, however, Moldova did ask for her back. No one with a murder conviction like this is eligible for asylum. Anyhow, can you guess what happened next?

Officials said she was ultimately released back into the U.S. in 2022 under the Biden administration.

They let a hardcore, torturous murderer loose in the U.S.

DHS said the case highlights the failures of the previous administration, which it said allowed millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals and murderers like Sorocean, to roam free in American neighborhoods.

“It shocks the conscience that the Biden administration released into America a cruel, violent illegal alien who tortured a human being, beat them with an electrical cable and a stick and then threw her victim from a ninth-floor window,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

The thing is, I’m not shocked about this at all. Which is rather sad. Who knew that Biden’s insanity would just keep messing with America.

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Warmist Gavin Newsom Takes Long Fossil Fueled Trip To COP30

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 2:54 pm

Climahypocrisy matters, with a side portion of TDS

During COP30, Governor Newsom highlights subnational climate action as the defining economic opportunity of the 21st Century, while Trump sleeps

Today, Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off his official trip in Brazil by engaging in discussions on climate, emphasizing that climate action is one of the greatest economic opportunities of this century. In a fireside chat at the Milken Institute Global Investors’ Symposium with CEO Rich Ditizio, the Governor urged the world’s top financial and business leaders to look to California as proof that investments in clean energy and innovation are a win-win-win for economic growth, communities, and the health of the planet.

After the discussion, the Governor convened a roundtable in partnership with the Milken Institute and with support from Amcham Brasil. Leading climate investors and private-sector partners joined to deepen partnerships on clean energy, sustainable manufacturing, and economic growth in California and across the Americas.

While Donald Trump is handing the future to China, California is proving that climate action, business growth, supporting workers, and good-paying jobs go hand in hand. We’re not turning backwards to the failed policies of the past — California is fighting for a clean-energy future, even as President Trump bends the knee to his Gulf State patrons and takes a nap as the world burns.

This is a governor who is forcing Comrades in the People’s Republik Of California into EVs. Or buses. Bikes. Increasing consumer prices by requiring EV trucks and “green” energy. Suing fossil fuels companies. All while

And, don’t forget taking a fossil fueled vehicle from the airport to the COP30 conference center down a road created by cutting down lots and lots of trees, along with 40,000 other Warmists.

More crazy below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 11, 2025 – 1:48 pm

…is early snow due to Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is MOTUS A.D., with a post on the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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

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

First

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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