Trump Admin Sues NJ Over Attempting To Block Federal Agents From Wearing Mask

By William Teach April 30, 2026 – 7:00 am

First term Trump would have simply ignored New Jersey’s law, daring any cop in the state to attempt to arrest an NICE agent. Second term Trump has good people working for him, people who will impose what he wants. Also, the masks would be unnecessary if Democrat voters weren’t unhinged and violent

Trump administration sues NJ over law limiting masks for cops, ICE agents

The U.S. Department of Justice sued New Jersey over a state law that limits when law enforcement can hide their identities while interacting with the public.

The federal government argued the law, which also requires officers to identify themselves before detaining or arresting someone, improperly seeks to regulate the actions of federal officials. The law was pushed by New Jersey Democrats to prevent immigration agents from wearing masks during enforcement operations.

“New Jersey lacks the legal authority to regulate the Federal Government at all, much less through a law targeted at core governmental functions such as law enforcement,” the department said in a pages-long preliminary statement that began by quoting President Donald Trump.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court.

The law, which Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) signed in March along with two other bills aimed at limiting immigration enforcement, restricts when law enforcement officers at any level of government can shield their identity, including with masks, while on duty and interacting with the public.

Well, if this goes the same as the case for California which tried the same thing, NJ will lose

The judges said that the state law “purports to override the federal government’s power to determine whether, how, and when to publicly identify its officers.” And they add, “in so doing, it aims to regulate the manner and conditions under which federal agents can enforce federal law.”

A California appeals court has blocked a move by Gov. Gavin Newsom to force ICE agents to wear identification, saying that the state couldn’t regulate actions by the federal government.

That’s the problem with trying to pass laws that enforce your unhinged views when said laws are un-Constitutional. All to protect illegal alien criminals

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Wacko Dems Introduce Climate Change Education Act

By William Teach April 29, 2026 – 4:44 pm

A national indoctrination in schools bill, introduced by people with massive carbon footprints. I wonder how much they all stand to gain monetarily if this becomes law?

The Climate Change Education Act returns to Congress yet again

The Climate Change Education Act is yet again in Congress. S. 4377 and the identical H.R. 8406, introduced on April 22, 2026, and April 21, 2026, respectively, would authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to institute a competitive grant program aimed in part at developing and improving educational material and teacher preparation on the topic of climate change.

Among the findings listed in the bill are “[T]he evidence for human-induced climate change is overwhelming and undeniable” and “Only 30 percent of middle school and 45 percent of high school science teachers understand the extent of the scientific consensus on climate change” — a reference to the 2014-2015 NCSE/Penn State survey of climate change educators (PDF).

“The Climate Change Education Act addresses a critical need,” NCSE Executive Director Amanda L. Townley commented. “Accurate and effective climate education requires high-quality, evidence-based teaching resources with robust support for educators. The act would benefit millions of students across the country by focusing on both of these critical areas of need.”

S. 4377 is sponsored by Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) and eight of his colleagues in the Senate. H.R. 8406 is sponsored by Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan) and one of her colleagues in the House. Similar bills from previous years include S. 4117 and H.R. 7946 in 2024, S. 966 in 2021, S. 477 in 2019, S. 2740 in 2018, H.R. 2310 in 2021, H.R. 2349 in 2019, and H.R. 5606 in 2018.

Not that it’s going to pass, not with a GOP controlled Congress, and not while Trump is president. Weird that they couldn’t get it through while Biden was POTUS, though, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 29, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is what could be a fossil fuels drill which is Evil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on the B in EBT standing for Bentley.

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Washington Post Tries Some Deflection On Political Violence

By William Teach April 29, 2026 – 10:30 am

I’m really not surprised by this analysis piece

Trump is a target of political violence, but he’s hardly its only cause

To hear Donald Trump tell it, the attempts on his life are a measure of his singularity as a president.

“The people that do the most, the people that make the biggest impact, they’re the ones that they go after,” Trump said Saturday night after a gunman rushed security at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, allegedly intent on assassinating the president and high-ranking members of his administration. “I hate to say I’m honored by that, but we’ve done a lot.”

There is no doubt that Trump has been impactful and historic, though the country is deeply divided over whether that has been for better or worse. Few figures in the modern era have generated both the devotion and the rage that he has.

But political violence — of which Trump has been the most high-profile recent target, but which has also been directed against figures across the political spectrum — has many roots.

Many! Like the constant number of Democrat voting wackos in the streets, throwing rocks, attacking police, fighting, and so forth? How about all those Dem voting transgenders who committed mass murder and left left wing manifestos?

And in some instances, it is hard to discern any reason at all. Authorities have yet to figure out a motive, or a set of them, behind Trump’s closest call: the shots that grazed his ear during a July 2024 outdoor campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and killed one person in the crowd and critically injured two others.

He was radicalized by Democrats. All that yammering about how dangerous Trump was, that he was literally Hitler.

“It is easier than ever for mentally ill individuals to become radicalized,” said Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University who has written extensively about extremist political movements. “When they’re radicalized, even if their agenda is not always crystal clear, they usually are responding to ideas and conspiracy theories circulating in the culture.”

Radicalized by Democrats

Meanwhile, the president and his allies have seized upon the threats against him to justify a fresh crackdown on his foes. On Tuesday, former FBI director James B. Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury for a second time, after charges lodged last year were dismissed by a federal judge. In the new case, he is charged with threatening the president by posting, and then removing, an image on Instagram last year of seashells spelling out “86 47.”

Trump is the 47th president, and “86” is slang for getting rid of something. Administration officials claimed that Comey was advocating the president’s murder. Comey said he viewed the shell arrangement, which he saw while taking a walk, as a political statement, not a call to violence.

While I personally do not agree with the indictment, 86 means killing someone. It’s a cop code. And here you have the former director of the FBI casually calling to kill Trump, which entices the unhinged liberal base.

What Trump and those around him do not mention is that prominent Democrats have also been targets of political violence in recent years. Those incidents include the 2022 bludgeoning in his home of Paul Pelosi, the husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (California), then the speaker of the House; a 2020 plot by members of a right-wing paramilitary group to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer; the 2025 arson of the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, where Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were celebrating Passover; and the 2025 killings of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.

Of course there are right wing wackos, but, the number doesn’t come close to the number of left wingers. Also, Shapiro is a Jew, and was firebombed by a hater of Jews and Israel.

The Polarization Research Lab, a multi-university collaboration, collected data in the wake of the September 2025 assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. It found that fewer than 1 percent of Americans considered murder for partisan reasons acceptable. “This near-total rejection demonstrates that there is no meaningful constituency for political violence in the United States,” its report found.

However, its numbers also indicated that upward of 90 percent of Americans fear political violence. Nearly a third said they were reluctant to put a political sign in their yard or bumper sticker on their car because they were worried about being targeted.

And it is mostly Republicans concerned with that, because few Republicans will attack someone or their property over a sign or bumper sticker. It’s mostly Democrats doing that.

Maybe the Washington Post should simply be saying “hey, Democrats, knock it off. Stop with the unhinged talk, especially you elected ones.”

Jeffries doubled down

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Portugal To Spend $26 Billion To Deal With Blackouts Caused By ‘Climate Change’ (policies)

By William Teach April 29, 2026 – 7:15 am

Government: let’s create a problem. Government: let’s also spend a ton of money to fix the problem we created

Portugal launches $26.5 billion resilience plan after storms and blackout

Portugal’s government on Tuesday announced a 22.6 billion euro ($26.5 billion) investment programme ?to roll out over nine years, aimed at mitigating risks including ?climate change and power outages.

The plan was initiated after severe storms hit central mainland Portugal in January and February, causing damage worth an estimated 5.3 billion euros, and a ?crippling power outage in Spain and Portugal exactly a year ago.

The initiative, ?named Portugal Transformation, Recovery and Resilience, seeks to strengthen infrastructure, ?institutions, homes and businesses against threats linked to climate change, energy security, ?seismic activity and cyberattacks.

It will be 37% funded from the state budget, with ?private financing accounting for 34% of the total and European funds covering 19%.

Presenting the plan, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said Portugal had been “hit hard in recent years by extreme ?weather events — droughts, heavy rain, floods and fires — occurring year after year ?with increasing destructive force”.

So, will private donors just kick in voluntarily?

(Jo Nova) Engineers were warning the grid was close to crashing due to excess solar

The mass blackouts in Spain and Portugal wrecked havoc on April 28 last year. At the time everyone accountable was feigning confusion, blaming it on a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” which might have set up mysterious oscillations in the line. They were bandying around terms like “ ‘induced atmospheric vibration’ and talking about extreme temperatures (you know, like 23 degrees C). But all along, the head honchos at Red Electrica knew it was due to an excess of solar power and a lack of reliable generation, because the technical staff had told them what was coming:

“Today was really bad, you all saw it”: new audio recordings confirm that Red Eléctrica knew three months before the blackout that the system was failing

Huh

(Not A Lot Of People Know That) Except, of course, it was solar power which was at front and centre of the blackouts, a fact which even the whitewash report could not disguise.

The catalyst for the blackout was a sudden loss of 2.2GW of electricity at Granada substation in southern Spain. The report does not appear to address why this happened, which you might have thought was crucial! But it is believed that one or two solar farms stopped transmitting because of negative prices – these resulted from too much solar generation for too little demand, and this is exactly how the market is supposed to work; negative prices lead to less generation, thus bringing the system into balance.

However solar power now makes up such a large part of Spain’s electricity (about 60% at the time of the blackouts), that the very system of negative pricing is a threat in itself to the grid.

As soon as that 2.2GW disappeared, voltages in the local grid plummeted, leading to a complicated chain reaction of grid disconnections. Within 30 seconds the entire Iberian peninsula was experiencing a complete blackout.

Instead of spending $26.5 billion on “resilience” and crap, how about spending money on making sure the grid won’t collapse, and that there are reliable, dependable power sources?

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Trump Admin Requiring Enhanced Background Checks For Immigration Benefits

By William Teach April 29, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’m not sure why immigrants, illegal and illegal, are getting any benefits. Those here legally on any sort of visa should be able to pay for their own lives, and those here illegally should be sent packing

Trump administration mandates enhanced security checks for immigration applicants

The Trump administration is subjecting broad categories of immigrants applying for legal immigration benefits to enhanced security checks, and is pausing some cases while the changes are implemented, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News.

Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services distributed internal guidance instructing its officers to resubmit pending applications for different immigration benefits, including asylum, green cards and U.S. citizenship, to enhanced FBI background checks, the documents show.

Officers were directed to refrain from approving any pending cases that have not undergone the expanded background checks.

USCIS has long used FBI databases to vet immigration applications for potential national security or public safety concerns. But the documents indicate the enhanced security screenings were prompted by the FBI’s decision to grant USCIS greater access to its criminal history database, as part of an executive order by President Trump in February.

All involved will work to investigate to see if any of them have any criminal actions

“Such criminal actors may include foreign nationals with criminal histories who have entered or remained in the United States in violation of the immigration laws of the United States or who otherwise seek to violate the criminal laws of the United States,” the president said in his order.

The enhanced checks will affect pending applications for benefits for which applicants have to submit fingerprints, such as requests for green cards (permanent U.S. residency) and naturalization, according to the internal guidance. It will also apply to sponsorship petitions filed on behalf of relatives or fiancees of U.S. citizens or green card holders.

Obviously, this makes Democrats very upset. They really do not care if any of them have criminal histories. They certainly do not care if they hate America, if they are going to take advantage of America, if they are Islamic terrorists: they just want to create new voters.

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Hotcoldwetdry Is An “Increasing Threat To Democracy” Or Something

By William Teach April 28, 2026 – 3:00 pm

I mean, they might be on to something, because the climate cult is certainly looking to enact authoritarianism. But, I doubt that is what this wonkadoodle article means

Climate change an ‘increasing threat to democracy’, study finds

Elections around the world are increasingly affected by natural hazards such as heatwaves and hurricanes, with climate change posing a rising threat to democracy, according to a report.

The Managing Natural Hazards and Climate Risks in Elections report, released by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) on 22 April, finds that at least 94 elections across 52 countries were disrupted by natural hazards between 2006 and 2025, affecting millions of voters.

It is “a statistical fact that elections will more frequently be affected by natural hazards in future years,” the analysis found, noting that the number of major natural hazards has tripled over the past four decades.

“Election management bodies have always had to cope with natural hazards, but the threat posed by such phenomena has become more apparent in recent years.”

Right, right, because a little weather is such a big problem

During the 2024 “super-cycle year” of elections, 23 primary, local, national, and supranational polls across 18 countries were disrupted by natural hazards, including in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, the United States, and Canada.

That’s it? What about the Ukraine elections? Were they called off because of ‘climate change’?

International IDEA is calling on electoral authorities to implement disaster planning into routine election management rather than relying on reactive emergency procedures.

“The aim of the report is to provide an overview and share various strategies that can be used to protect elections from adverse effects,” it said. These include improved contingency planning, coordination with disaster-management agencies, and reassessing the timing of elections to avoid predictable hazards.

Weird, so, more governmental control of elections in the name of climate doom? What could possibly go wrong?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 28, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is A Nod To The Gods, with a post on World War 11.

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Iran War Shows NATO Not Ready To Fight Russia Or Something

By William Teach April 28, 2026 – 10:30 am

First off, it wouldn’t be NATO fighting Russia, the danger is China. Second, it’s strange that Politico didn’t do this after the Ukraine war started

5 ways the Iran war shows NATO is not ready to fight Russia

NATO has stayed out of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, but the conflict has nevertheless exposed cracks in the alliance’s defenses that would see it struggle if Russia attacks.

“The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are not separate phenomena; there is much to learn from both in thinking about the wars of tomorrow,” Gen. Dominique Tardif, France’s deputy air force chief, said. “These combined lessons should lead us to a better understanding of how to direct capability development.”

European military officials have warned Moscow could be in a position to attack an alliance member by 2029, highlighting the urgent need for battle readiness and political cohesion across the alliance.

Russia can’t take Ukraine, how are they going to take a NATO nation? Unless Russia goes for obliteration, unlike Ukraine, which they seem to not want to destroy. Kinda worthless taking land that you’ve destroyed

1. Running out of ammo
The Iran war has thrown NATO’s ammunition shortage into sharp relief.

The U.S. burned through around half its total inventory of critical Patriot air defense missiles, while French officials warned that stocks of its Aster and Mica missiles were running low as soon as the the first two weeks of the war. Defense firms like Rheinmetall and MBDA have also pointed to surging demand and looming shortages.

The media wasn’t quite so concerned when the US and NATO were depleting everything for Ukraine

Unless NATO changes tack, Russia “will price us out of a war quickly,” warned Calvin Bailey, a lawmaker from Britain’s ruling Labour Party on the U.K. parliament’s defense committee.

With Moscow producing “6,000 to 7,000” one-way attack drones per month, NATO allies would be left without high-value air defense missiles within “weeks,” said Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.

There is that. It might be high time to start producing war drones for overseas deployment.

2. Air inferiority
Iran’s ability to continue pummeling neighboring Gulf states with over 5,000 missile and drone attacks despite the U.S. aerial campaign shows the “clear limits to the expectation that you can bomb a country into submission” with conventional aircraft, said Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

In response, NATO must rethink air dominance and look for creative solutions to deter Russia, like turbocharging investment in long-range precision strike weapons capable of targeting Moscow’s drone production and military sites deep inside the country, said Bronk.

How long can the attacks last when Iran doesn’t have much of an industrial base, and it’s hard to resupply? Still, Russia is not coming after NATO.

3. Underpowered navies
Europe’s limited deployment to help Gulf allies has also illustrated the gaping underinvestment in NATO navies.

The clearest example is the U.K. After taking three weeks to deploy its HMS Dragon destroyer toward the Mediterranean, the vessel was sent back to port over a technical hitch.

EU navies are rather woeful, but, they’ve mostly depended on the U.S. for force projection, while their navies are for homeland defense. Except the UK, which used to be strong. Now? Not so much.

4. Enduring disunity
The war has also widened the chasm inside NATO — with Europe snubbing U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands for military support, prompting Washington to draw up options for retaliation.

If the EU wants to support Iran, why should we support most of Europe against the aggression from Russia (which isn’t going to happen) all while Europe buys fossil fuels from Russia.

5. Ukraine matters
Within days of the start of the war in Iran, Ukraine sent its drone experts, well-versed in using homegrown interceptors to shoot down Iranian Shahed-type drones used by Russia, to assist countries across the Middle East. Kyiv eventually signed decade-long defense partnerships with Gulf nations.

Does it really matter? They’re still kidnapping men off the streets, still refusing to allow elections, and the rich are still partying hard with EU and US money, all while the war grinds on and the EU dumps more money and arms into the war.

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NY Climate Cultists Rake In Hundreds Of Millions While Trying To Force State To Enact Cult Laws

By William Teach April 28, 2026 – 7:15 am

It’s almost like this is some sort of scam

Green activists trying to force New York to enact climate change laws rake in more than $100M

They’re putting some real green into eco activism.

Environmental activist groups that sued to force Gov. Kathy Hochul to ram through the state’s controversial green laws are rolling in greenbacks — with several reporting revenues of over $100 million.

Earthjustice, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, has $139 million in revenues and $244 million in net assets, according to its most recent 2024 tax filing.

Another plaintiff, the Sierra Club, has $173 million in revenue, according to its 2023 tax filing, the most recent.

Those groups and others accused Hochul of improperly stalling to draft rules on how the state would implement the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019, which aims to reduce carbon emissions.

The scam sure is enriching, eh?

A state Supreme Court judge sided with the activists last fall and ordered the state to issue the rules to implement the law.

Hochul has since proposed amending the law to stretch out the compliance timetable, saying the lofty were impractical and causing costs to skyrocket.

“We cannot meet the Climate Act’s 2030 targets without imposing new and additional crushing costs on New York businesses and residents,” Hochul said.

If even Governor Kathy can see how bad this is, it must be way, way worse. And NY is already losing tons of businesses, and lots of revenue. They do not need to give even more incentive to leave.

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