Europe Doubles Down Climate (scam) Science Or Something

Trump has had a tough go in getting Europe to spend on their own defense all while EU nations are fearporning on the threat from Russia, but, they’re happy to Worry about ‘climate change’

As NASA’s budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science: ‘Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation’

As climate extremes intensify and global tipping points loom, Earth science has never been more vital — but not everyone is treating it that way.

In the United States, NASA’s science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the agency’s Earth science division by nearly half and downsizes its workforce by a third.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the European Space Agency (ESA) is taking the opposite approach. At the Living Planet Symposium 2025, held in Vienna, Austria, ESA leadership showcased the agency’s ambitious forward-looking vision for Earth observation, one that extends not just to the next fiscal cycle but decades into the future.

“Earth observation within the organization [ESA], agency is a major priority,” said ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher during the ESA Living Planet 2025 opening ceremony.

The proposed budget would cancel several flagship missions and reduce NASA’s ability to monitor wildfires, atmospheric carbon, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events — all during what scientists say is the most critical decade for climate action.

So, was the US supposed to monitor the rest of the world for free forever? Most of the NASA personnel being cut are unnecessary, they’re climate hysterics, and/or do the same job as many others unnecessarily.

Leaders at the Living Planet Symposium laid out a bold, long-term approach to Earth and climate science, centered on collaboration, innovation, and open access.

“Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation, requiring us to transform observation into immediate action, the energy transition and sustainable development of our infrastructure demand reasonable steps from all of us,” said Peter Hanke, Austrian Federal Minister of Innovation Mobility and Infrastructure, during the opening ceremony.

Who’s paying for it? Higher taxes in the EU? Where’s the money coming from? And do the citizens in the EU approve of this?

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Bummer: State Department Starts Terminating 1300 Employees

This is so horrible, and Democrats are having snit fits

State Department fires more than 1,300 employees in downsizing plan

The State Department began firing more than 1,300 employees via email on Friday as a part of the Trump administration’s plans to downsize government and cut back on what it called “bloat” and inefficiencies. The move has come under criticism from current and former diplomats who say the cuts will degrade America’s standing in the world and curb U.S. soft power.

The diplomats hit hardest hailed from the offices that Secretary of State Marco Rubio eliminated in his sweeping reorganization of the department, the most far-reaching in decades, including the Office of Global Women’s Issues and the department’s diversity and inclusion programs. But cuts also affected employees working on highly volatile issues, including Syria, a brittle Middle Eastern country emerging from decades of authoritarian rule, and senior officials in charge of chemical weapons issues and multilateral nuclear diplomacy.

“They cut key experts on nuclear testing, nuclear verification and efforts to end the production of weapons-grade fissile material,” said Alex Bell, a former State Department official and current president of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “These cuts will only serve to increase the nuclear threats facing this nation.”

The department is sending layoff notices to more than 1,100 civil servants and 240 Foreign Service employees, according to an internal notice obtained by The Washington Post. Foreign Service officers will immediately be placed on paid administrative leave and lose their jobs 120 days after they receive the notice. The separation period for most civil servants is 60 days.

Sniffles

Rubio informed Congress in May that the department planned to reduce its U.S. workforce by more than 15 percent — almost 2,000 people — as part of a sweeping reorganization intended to streamline what he has called a “bloated bureaucracy that stifles innovation and misallocates scarce resources.” Separately, he has accused certain bureaus within the department of pursuing a “radical political ideology.”

“15 percent” is as close as the Washington Post, and most news outlets, get to how bloated the State Department is. You’re looking at 80,214 (total), with 14,399 Foreign Service employees 12,831 Civil Service employees, and 50,703 local employees. Certainly terminating just 15% of the workforce, what with all their multiple redundancies, won’t hurt operations. Those left can work their butts off for their high salaries and exorbitant benefits.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) and other Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have also criticized the decision, issuing a joint statement saying: “If this administration is serious about putting ‘America First,’ it must invest in our diplomatic corps and national security experts — not erode the institutions that protect our interests, promote U.S. values, and keep Americans safe abroad.”

Maybe they should replace at least half the workforce with people who like America.

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SCLA Wants To Join Lawsuit Against Ice Raids

Does Sanctuary City Los Angeles understand that the federal government has primacy on immigration? That laws passed by duly elected Congresses has given the Executive Branch the lawful authority to arrest and detain illegal aliens?

Los Angeles seeks to join lawsuit against Trump administration over immigration raids

The city and county of Los Angeles, along with several municipalities in Southern California, are seeking to join a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over recent immigration raids that prompted several days of protests and the federalization of the National Guard.

The lawsuit, filed last week by the ACLU of Southern California on behalf of five individuals and immigration advocacy groups, alleges the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “has unconstitutionally arrested and detained people in order to meet arbitrary arrest quotas set by the Trump administration,” the ACLU said in a statement.

“No matter their status or the color of their skin, everyone is guaranteed Constitutional rights to protect them from illegal stops. We will hold DHS accountable,” Mohammad Tajsar, ACLU senior staff attorney, said in the statement.

Except, by federal law, ICE can scoop up anyone unlawfully present in the United States. But, you know, these Democrats are more concerned with illegals than with their own citizens. Heck, the ACLU was more concerned with stopping illegals from crossing the border during COVID than with the government slapping movement restrictions and such.

On Tuesday, officials from Los Angeles and several cities in the surrounding county said they were joining the effort “to challenge the unlawful immigration enforcement activities … which have included the federal government’s targeting of the Los Angeles area and of Angelenos based on their race and ethnicity and denying constitutionally-mandated due process to those detained,” a statement from Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto said.

Funny, because Democrats keep saying that being unlawfully present is a civil matter, not a criminal one, which would mean there is no right to council.

“We as jurisdiction, not only support our residents in stopping these unconstitutional practices, but we in effect assert our own rights under the 10th Amendment and as jurisdictions that have, ultimately, local control over our police powers,” Feldstein Soto said at a news conference Tuesday.

Gotta give an LOL on this one. Suddenly they discover the 10th Amendment, and use it completely wrong. Perhaps they should read Article I about the federal government having ultimate authority over immigration issues. Hey, remember when Arizona was sued under Obama and Texas under Biden, and courts said the feds had ultimate authority? Anyhow, this is wild, US cities suing the US government for enforcing the law.

(LA Mayor Karen) Bass said the immigration raids, which have been taking place at homes and businesses across the Los Angeles area since June 6, create a safety problem.

Right, right, it’s not the illegals who a safety problem, it’s law enforcement. Wackjobs. I still maintain that the Trump admin should be going after all the illegals/migrants in GOP voting areas first, let the sanctuary cities deal with their own illegals, and not give them a dime of federal money. This would entice more illegals to head to sanctuary cities, costing them more money and creating more crime.

But, you know what this lawsuit will do? Entice the Trump admin to send even more ICE agents to the LA area.

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If All You See…

…is horrible carbon pollution induced heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is LMAO, with a post wondering if gringos even know what gringo means.

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Moonbat: Politico Talks To People At Senator Mike Lee’s Church, Says They Aren’t Happy

This really is the state of the Credentialed Media: they couldn’t spend any time actually investigating Biden’s mental decline, instead they just decided to cover it up. They can’t be bothered to investigate the terrible waste, graft, and abuse in federal spending. Or links between people like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib with Islamic extremism. Or Nancy Pelosi’s stock purchases. Or so much more. Instead

Mike Lee Can’t Stop Throwing Social Media Grenades. His Church Isn’t Happy.

It was Father’s Day morning, but Mike Lee was still hard at work on social media.

Just before 11 o’clock, Lee posted an image of Vance Boelter, the man charged with murdering two Minnesota lawmakers a day earlier. “This is what happens,” Lee captioned it, “when Marxists don’t get their way.” Ten minutes later, he posted again. “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” he wrote, suggesting that Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz was to blame for the grisly murders.

Lee’s posts generated near-instant national backlash. His mentions filled with people calling on him to resign. Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, a Democrat, cornered Lee at the U.S. Capitol the next night and gave him an earful. So did Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, another Minnesotan. A top aide in Smith’s office wrote a letter to Lee’s staffers rebuking them for “making jokes” to “compound people’s grief.”

Once the link between Boelter and Waltz was established, outlets like Politico worked hard to show that he wasn’t one of their own, rather than showing the reality. Let’s not forget that. Oh, and Tina and Klobuchar tweet a lot, and are good with Blamestorming. Here’s Tina being moonbat

If Trump were a king Tina wouldn’t be allowed to post this. Anyhow

It wasn’t just Washington that was buzzing over Lee’s response to the tragedy. It also set off a debate in Salt Lake City. At the global headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a discussion over how to respond — if at all — began in earnest, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. Several of the church’s senior leaders saw the posts and were concerned. Lee is a prominent Latter-day Saint, arguably the best-known elected Church member in the nation. His insensitive words were reflecting poorly on the faith at large. One church official estimated the backlash from Lee’s posts would have severe repercussions for the church’s public image, the first person said.

I had no idea Mike was a Mormon. Did you? But, anyhow, a whopping two people, who, as usual, are anonymous. This is a long, long, long piece, which delves into all sorts of stuff, but, really doesn’t say much. It’s a hit piece, one which Politico would never do on a Democrat. Nor is there any real detail about the Mormon church being unhappy with Lee, just rumor and assertions from Politico.

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CNN Seems Surprised That Americans Aren’t Afraid Of Climate Doom

I actually caught this piece Thursday while on the treadmill about 1230pm. I couldn’t hear it, but, the CNN climactivists, er, reporters, didn’t seem too happy

Their faces

CNN polling guru surprised majority of Americans ‘aren’t afraid’ of climate change

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten was surprised on Thursday by polling data showing that the majority of Americans are not very worried about the impact of climate change.

“Are Americans afraid of climate change? And the answer is, Americans aren’t afraid of climate change,” Enten said on “CNN News Central.” “Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people.”

Enten said the network has data reaching back to 1989 about how worried people are about climate change.

In 1989, 35% of Americans were “greatly worried” about climate change, Enten said. In 2000, the number jumped five percentage points, with 40% of Americans being “greatly worried” about climate change.

Forty-six percent of Americans were “greatly worried” about climate change in 2020, but then the percentage dropped again to 40% in 2025, according to Enten.

The cult has been spreading awareness since 1988, ramping up the fearmongering year after year, and, yet, this is what we get.

“Despite all of these horrible weather events, the percentage of Americans who are greatly worried about climate change has stayed pretty, gosh-darn consistent, which kind of boggles the mind a little bit,” Enten said. “Granted, everything that we see on our television screens, our computer screens, the hurricanes, tornadoes, the flooding, but yet greatly worried about climate change, 40 percent in 2025, the exact same percentage as back in 2000.”

Most people realize that bad weather happens. Always has, always will. And, let’s be honest, people can only listen to so much fearporn before they just tune it out. I love watching horror, and, really, there’s very little that scares me anymore. And those horror movies are about as real as ‘climate change’.

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NY Times Says FBI Using Polygraphs To Test For Loyalty To Trump

Can you figure out what is wrong with this “news”?

The F.B.I. Is Using Polygraphs to Test Officials’ Loyalty

Typically, the F.B.I. has turned to polygraph tests to sniff out employees who might have betrayed their country or shown they cannot be trusted with secrets.

Since Kash Patel took office as the director of the F.B.I., the bureau has significantly stepped up the use of the lie-detector test, at times subjecting personnel to a question as specific as whether they have cast aspersions on Mr. Patel himself.

In interviews and polygraph tests, the F.B.I. has asked senior employees whether they have said anything negative about Mr. Patel, according to two people with knowledge of the questions and others familiar with similar accounts. In one instance, officials were forced to take a polygraph as the agency sought to determine who disclosed to the news media that Mr. Patel had demanded a service weapon, an unusual request given that he is not an agent. The number of officials asked to take a polygraph is in the dozens, several people familiar with the matter said, though it is unclear how many have specifically been asked about Mr. Patel.

The use of the polygraph, and the nature of the questioning, is part of the F.B.I.’s broader crackdown on news leaks, reflecting, to a degree, Mr. Patel’s acute awareness of how he is publicly portrayed. The moves, former bureau officials say, are politically charged and highly inappropriate, underscoring what they describe as an alarming quest for fealty at the F.B.I., where there is little tolerance for dissent. Disparaging Mr. Patel or his deputy, Dan Bongino, former officials say, could cost people their job.

So, not one named source. No actual rock solid proof that this is occurring, at least in terms of “loyalty”. Remember, this is the same NY Times which turned a blind eye, if not supported, the FBI acting as Democrat party operatives in going after Trump, Trump’s people, and Trump supporters.

But, wait, the article right below the above, which was the lead piece

Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Warns of Trump Administration’s Assault on the Law

A former Justice Department lawyer accused the Trump administration of “thumbing its nose at the courts,” saying his former colleagues were being forced to choose between the president’s agenda and their ethical obligations as attorneys.

In an interview with The New York Times, the lawyer, Erez Reuveni, who filed a detailed whistle-blower claim to the Senate last month, shared his growing sense of alarm as he defended the administration’s aggressive deportation agenda. He said he was willing to testify to Congress or in court about what he described as an intentional effort by the administration to ignore judges and the due process rights of hundreds of migrants.

Mr. Reuveni, speaking publicly for the first time about his experiences, was fired in April after he appeared in court to defend the administration’s mistaken deportation of a man in Maryland, accused of refusing a superior’s directive.

He pointed to the planes of immigrants rapidly flown to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador on March 15, warning that it offered a distressing example of the administration’s disregard for facts and the law. The flights that took off that day also included the Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was initially detained at the prison, known as CECOT.

He’s a government employee in the Executive Branch. His job is to do as the current administration wants, or resign. Can he provide any illegality, or, is he just another hardcore leftist with an axe to grind, and uses his station in the DOJ to do it?

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Quick Reaction: Jurassic World Rebirth

I was given a $40 gift card for Regal theaters for my birthday, and, they didn’t have 28 Years Later at a convenient time, so I went to see Jurassic World Rebirth, went for the 3D version, which has nice reclining seats. Would I pay $17.95 for a 230pm showing (which had 25 minutes of ads and previews*)? Probably not. Seems a bit excessive, and might be why a lot of people bow out of going to the theater these days.

But, it was free to me, and, if you are going to see it, 3D is well worth it. The action wasn’t excessively crazy, and action was limited and shot in a way where 3D works. If you’ve ever seen the Brendan Frasier Journey To The Center Of The Earth, that worked. Beautiful scenery that makes 3D pop. If you saw The Avengers 3D, that didn’t: way too much happening, really didn’t have the right scenery.

Anyway, at a shade over 2 hours, you get your money’s worth and enjoyment. This pretty much straight adventure: the characters are meant to do something by going to an island with the dinosaurs. They go, things happen, more things happen. There’s dinos, cute, awe inspiring, and scary. The scenery is gorgeous. Breathtaking. Where they say the location is makes zero sense. Islands in the Atlantic/Caribbean do not look like that. If you know your geography you know that it had to be somewhere like Thailand, because that’s where it was filmed. That’s Ok, the scenery in 3D was fantastic.

The plot? Well, that’s pretty much it. Oh, and evil pharmaceutical company and employee (but, without trying to give anything away, are they? We don’t know if they are going to create what they say they are going to create just for the rich and powerful. Maybe they were just going to develop it and sell it for $10 a pop to everyone. They’d make a sh*tton of money doing that, too). There is no virtue signaling. No Woke. For liberals, no Conservative stuff. Nothing that will make you go “sigh”. It’s just a straight forward adventure.

So, is it a great movie? No. Is it a fun and watchable movie? One that you will finish watching and say “I’m glad I watched that”? Yes. There’s not a heck of a lot of depth to the characters, who are all great actors/actresses, but, there was good chemistry. The story just moves along without side quests and introspection. Roger Ebert ends his review with

And there are some sporadic joys here in the clever sight gags, the sleight of hand, the bait and switch. These moments remind us of the mindless summertime excitement the “Jurassic” movies have long provided, albeit with diminishing returns. But that giant footprint just isn’t as imposing as it used to be.

Perhaps not as big a footprint, but, mindless summertime excitement movies are great, right? Commando. Predator. Jaws. The Goonies. Back To The Future. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (was looking at summer 1985). Just fun movies.

I’m good with mindless summer entertainment. So, for watchability, I’ll give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Oh, and while I’m at it, Final Destination: Bloodlines

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Here We Go Again: Wacko Judge Puts Nationwide Injunction On Birthright Citizenship

The moonbats won’t stop their moonbattery

Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship

A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire.

Ruling from the bench, Laplante granted a request from immigration rights attorneys to certify a nationwide class that “will be comprised only of those deprived of citizenship” and issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely blocking Trump’s Day One order from being enforced against any baby born after February 20.

Except, how does one sue when no one subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. has been affected? No one has lost their citizenship? This judge is a George W. Bush appointee, and Bush was a fan of mass amnesty.

In his ruling earlier this year, Laplante said Trump’s order “contradicts the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the century-old untouched precedent that interprets it.”

Several other judges similarly ruled that Trump’s order was unconstitutional, but their injunctions applied nationwide and prompted the administration to mount the series of appeals that eventually landed before the Supreme Court.

Except, the 14th was meant to turn all slaves born in the US into citizens.

In this case, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, those proposed representatives had included a Honduran asylum-seeker – referred to in court papers as “Barbara” and who is living in New Hampshire and expecting a baby in October – and a Brazilian man – referred to as “Mark” – who is attempting to get lawful permanent status. Mark’s wife, who is not in the US lawfully, gave birth in March.

The 14th clearly states “subject to the jurisdiction of”, and all associated are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., but, their home countries. The real question here, as I’ve noted many times, is does Trump have the authority to end birthright citizenship for those subject to foreign jurisdictions per laws passed by the Congress, or, is this something that Congress must pass? Again, Congress has already passed laws that members of a foreign diplomatic mission are ineligible for birthright citizenship, which is the way most nations handle it. So, BRC is not absolute, but, determined by law.

Several conservatives, including Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, warned against courts using class-action litigation to essentially supplant the kind of nationwide injunction the court had just shot down.

“Lax enforcement of the requirements” for certifying a class, Alito wrote in an opinion joined by Thomas, “would create a potentially significant loophole to today’s decision.”

Federal courts, he added, “should thus be vigilant against such potential abuses of these tools.”

Whether Laplante’s decision is an “abuse” or exactly what the Supreme Court had in mind will likely wind up back before the justices in short order.

Let’s see how quick this ends up at the SC, and, if the Trump admin has the requisite authority per previously passed laws to do this.

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If All You See…

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Mamdani’s mosque calling for the end of Israel.

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