PRC Tells Disneyland To Switch Iconic Ride From Gas To EV

By William Teach June 20, 2026 – 10:30 am

The People’s Republik Of California is insane

Disneyland must retire gas-powered Autopia cars by February

Disneyland faces a February deadline to retire Autopia’s gas-powered engines or close the 1955 opening day Tomorrowland attraction under a settlement agreement with the state agency that regulates air pollution in California.

MiceChat reports Disneyland faces a state-mandated deadline to retire the gas-powered cars on Autopia by Feb. 1 or shut down the attraction.

Climate Colored Goggles discovered Autopia’s state-mandated deadline for retiring the gas cars after filing a California Public Records Act request with the California Air Resources Board to review a copy of Disney’s settlement compliance plan.

Disneyland plans to update Autopia with fully electric vehicles and retire the gas engines that have powered the Tomorrowland race track attraction since the 1955 debut of the Anaheim theme park.

Disneyland reached an agreement with the Air Resources Board to retire the current Autopia gas-powered engines in early 2027, according to Disneyland officials.

The ride itself goes a whopping 6 miles an hour, and, let’s be honest, with the price of gas in the PRC it would probably be worth replacing them with EV engines in the long term, though, energy isn’t exactly cheap in the PRC. However, it’s simply wackadoodle that the state government is going to essentially force Disney to replace the engines, it’s the definition of Big Government. There’s nothing they won’t interfere in.

Disneyland paid a $56,000 settlement to the California Air Resources Board in 2024 after disclosing the Honda engines on Autopia ride vehicles were operating without certified emission controls.

The California Air Resources Board fine was the result of an administrative oversight that was promptly corrected with no impact to the environment, according to Disneyland officials.

They tiny engines for a ride, good grief. And Disney should have sent some investigators around to the members of the CARB to see if they are driving EVs or still in their fossil fueled vehicles. Remember, CARB is responsible for the California EV requirement.

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Surprise: Coral Reefs Could Resist Climate Doom

By William Teach June 20, 2026 – 7:15 am

The hell you say!

Vast areas of coral reef could resist climate change: study

In the crystalline waters off Kenya’s coast, coral reefs are thriving — evidence of a rare good news story in the battle to protect oceans from the ravages of climate change.

A new study presented at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa on Tuesday finds that 166,000 square kilometers of the world’s coral reefs — around a third of the total — are particularly “climate-resilient”, meaning they have the potential to survive through major ocean warming events.

The study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and? Macquarie University in Australia challenges the findings of the IPCC, the global authority on climate change, which has stated 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs could die with global warming of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, and 99 percent at 2 C.

“Our models are showing a much more hopeful future for corals reefs. We predict that there are many climate resilient reefs around the world that will persist over time,” Stacy Jupiter, executive director for marine conservation at WCS, told AFP.

Corals developed in much warmer waters. In fact, corals prefer warmer water. Corals have survived multiple warm and cool periods since the end of the last glacial age, and survived the last glacial age.

Coral “bleaching” occurs when water temperatures rise by a degree or two, stressing the coral’s animal tissues and making them expel algae, turning them white.

But the new study finds many reefs are resilient, either because they exist in cool spots, or because they have evolved to withstand heat, or recover more quickly than most.

Obviously, this still means Doom, and the cult won’t stop yammering about them.

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Bummer: Adult Store Can’t Make Payroll After Raising Money For Illegals

By William Teach June 20, 2026 – 7:00 am

Funny how they didn’t work to raise money for Americans

After raising money for immigrant families, Minneapolis adult store asks community for help

After spending months helping immigrant families weather the economic fallout of federal immigration enforcement operations in the Twin Cities, Smitten Kitten is asking the community for help sustaining itself.

The adult retail store in Minneapolis’ Lyn-Lake neighborhood issued a public plea for community financial support.

The strain comes after months of directing staff and volunteer time, resources and fundraising efforts toward mutual aid work that supported immigrants during Operation Metro Surge.

The store became one of the most visible community aid hubs after the federal operation began. Following the killing of Renee Good, Smitten Kitten began collecting groceries, diapers, toilet paper and other essentials.

“Nothing is going to change unless we’re going to do something,” said Anne Lehman, Smitten Kitten social media manager and mutual aid advisor.

You’re just an adult store, you know that, right? Selling smut?

The store also helped direct efforts toward rent relief for immigrants facing heightened uncertainty and economic hardship.

“People had been hiding out since October. They’re going to need things like diapers, toilet paper and water.” Lehman said. “We ended up opening our store as a donation drop-off stop.”

Illegals over Americans

“We had to move where our stuff was because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had caught on to what we were doing and tried to intimidate us,” said Lehman.

In response, the store decided to move its operations elsewhere and began to focus on raising money for necessities. According to Lehman, the establishment raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for various needs.

The operation, in part, ended by mid-February, and federal presence in Minnesota diminished. As things began to wind down, so did cash flow at Smitten Kitten.

So, they over-extended themselves, and now the community doesn’t care.

In a social media post, Lehman asked the community to come help support the store by asking for donations, asking people to shop at their store or online.

“We are asking for help, but also all of these things that we’re pouring all of our energy into is not going away,” said Lehman. “If we want to continue doing mutual aid, we have to have a solid foundation of our business as well.”

Shame. Adult store now having issues. I guess all those Minneapolis folks care more about illegals than helping Americans.

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Looks Like They’ve Now Destroyed Robin Hood

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 6:51 pm

Movie makers wonder why no one wants to spend lots of money at the movies, then we get something like this

From the AP review

In the opening moments of Michael Sarnoski’s “The Death of Robin Hood,” Hugh Jackman’s Robin shelters on a cold and desolate peatland. A young attacker (Jade Croot) emerges from the dark emptiness beyond his campfire. He grabs her, tells her it was a mistake to bathe. He could smell her downwind. Then he puts a knife through her skull.

Whichever version of Robin Hood is your favorite — three cheers for the 1973 animated Disney one — the story takes a beating in “The Death of Robin Hood.” There are no knights in shining armor. There are no merry men. There is absolutely no swashbuckling.

Sarnoski, the director of the excellent Nicolas Cage thriller “Pig” and sci-fi sequel “A Quiet Place: Day One,” has sapped every bit of derring-do from the folk hero. It’s a thoughtful inversion of myth with some compelling ideas about the nature of storytelling. But it’s a total slog.

“The Death of Robin Hood” drains the blood, and life, out of an old English legend. So forget about robbing from the rich and stealing from the poor. This Robin is a grizzled marauder who can’t even remember how many people he’s killed. We are, to say the least, very, very far from men in tights.

Sounds like a great watch, eh? Aren’t you excited to go see it? I’d ask who green-lit this, but, we’ve seen lots of bad ideas green-lit over the past 10 year, knowing this was a Bad Idea.

Now, the original Robin Hood stories featured no Maid Marion, and, Robin Hood and his men pretty much stole from anyone and certainly didn’t give money to the poor, but, damn, this looks super depressing. Not a reason I go to the movies, especially when you seemingly spend $20+ just for an afternoon matinee.

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Surprise: Climate Doom Won’t Be Solved With Yap Yap

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Politico EU seems offended

UN summit collides with reality that talking won’t solve climate change

Talking won’t save the planet. Climate negotiators are starting to catch on.

On the banks of the Rhine, diplomats from almost 200 nations spent the past two weeks arguing over linguistic details while grappling with the growing sense that what mattered more lay outside their negotiation rooms.

On Thursday, countries wrapped up climate talks in the former West German capital, Bonn, where negotiators sought to lay the groundwork for COP31, taking place in Antalya, Turkey, in November.

But as they debated textual references, the fate of work programs, and the definitions of past agreements, many delegates found that the divide between real-world efforts to rein in climate change and their squabbles over technical language felt starker than ever.

Would these be all those diplomats who took fossil fueled trips to Bonn for these talks yammering about real world efforts?

The course, diplomats say, is set: Ten years after the Paris Agreement committed countries to limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally to 1.5C, the accord’s many technicalities have largely been sorted out.

The challenge now is how to achieve those targets, and countries are realizing that the answer won’t be found in United Nations negotiation rooms where every climate decision, no matter how small, requires the consensus of all nations in attendance.

The answer is very simple: if we hypothetically agree that the warming of the Modern War Period is mostly caused by the actions of Mankind then all those who Believe should give up their use of fossil fuels, stop eating meat, live in tiny homes, etc and so on. Yet, 99.9% do not, especially the Elites, like these diplomats. Why are the policies always about more taxes/fees, limiting freedom, and dictating life choices?

“What we have seen here in Bonn is also very, very telling of this so-called shift to implementation,” said Fernanda Carvalho, head of climate policy at WWF, who attended this week’s talks as an observer.

“Negotiations remain relevant … because they bring the legitimacy and the clarity, but they need to evolve, of course,” she added. “And how does it evolve? It connects more and more to what’s happening in the real world and outside those rooms here.”

That looks like something Drunk Kamala would say. What kind of babbley is this?

“The action agenda is going to be an increasing centerpiece of this process if you’re serious about shifting from negotiation to implementation,” said Alden Meyer, veteran climate negotiation observer for think tank E3G.

Were I a Warmist, I’d be a little annoyed that we’ve been spreading awareness for 35 year, having COPs for 30, and it’s mostly yap yap.

“We’re moving on a bit from negotiating,” the European diplomat said. “Negotiations here are so technical, it’s difficult to distill a message. But the message doesn’t have to come from the negotiations.”

My message?

And apply this to all the Believers.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are sharks swimming in the river near the Eiffel Tower due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on Socialism and the circle of life.

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Super Edgy Colbert, Others Wear Tan Suit At Obama’s Fortress Dedication

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 10:30 am

Er, his presidential library

Revenge of the tan suit at the Obama Presidential Center ceremony

Presidential scandals just hit different in 2014 — we called this one “The Audacity of Taupe.” Then-President Barack Obama was feted as a cool guy with surprisingly good style for a world leader; first lady Michelle Obama was a fashion icon in her own right, and the young family in the White House injected a Camelot-like vibrancy to the notoriously dowdy Washington, D.C., scene.

Yet when the president emerged on Aug. 28 to discuss foreign policy, the headlines slipped past the possibility of military action in Syria or tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Obama wore “a beige-colored jacket and a gray, striped tie,” as PolitiFact put it. “Yes we tan!” some wags joked on social media; “Taupe and Change” quipped others. Other commentators dissed the decision to wear a military-adjacent color, given the topic of the news conference; one Republican Congressman called it “unpresidential.” Presidents of both parties going back decades have worn tan suits, including Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, with no controversy. The outrage over the fashion choice, fueled by social media and cable news, was viewed as a double standard and an example of underlying racial bias in determining what is deemed professional or not.

Yeah, yeah, there was no real scandal, it was people making fun of Obama. The only people making it a scandal were the media. And, of course, they had to try the raaaaacism aspect.

The infamous tan suit became a punchline for years to come, even as some Democratic politicians came to embrace the look, as then-Vice President Kamala Harris did during her own nominating convention to the presidency in 2024. The suit itself is not at the Obama Presidential Center, per chief corporate affairs officer Michael Strautmanis, but during the opening ceremony on Thursday, multiple guests and celebrities paid tribute to the look.

It did? Did anyone mention it other than some whiny media after a couple days? But, of course (you can see the photos here with the paywall removed)

Here are our favorite tan suits among the crowd at the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremonies.

Actor and comedian Stephen Colbert wears a tan suit Thursday at the Obama Presidential Center hours before the grand opening ceremony on the South Side.

That’s the kind of edgy cringe that got Colbert such a low audience, lost at least $40 million a year for CBS, and got him cancelled. Is anyone really missing him? After a quick appearance on public television no one talks about him. No one is saying “man, I wish the Late Show was still on.” You also had State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, Martin Nesbitt, the Obama Foundation board chair, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill, NBA legends and Chicago natives Dwyane Wade and Isiah Thomas, and David Letterman wearing tan suits. So edgy!

Edgy! Something from 12 years ago!

You know what is also edgy?

Obamas Welcome Hollywood Elites, Famous Friends to Presidential Center Opening as Unpaid Subcontractors Claim Millions Owed

Former President Barack Hussein Obama and his wife Michelle welcomed a long list of Hollywood celebrities, former president, and world leaders for the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, even as the Center has been engulfed in controversy for allegedly stiffing many black-owned building contractors for their construction fees.

The grand opening for Obama’s controversial and imposing Center in Chicago was a star-studded affair on Thursday, featuring performances from Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, The Roots, U2’s Bono and The Edge, and many more, Breitbart News reported. (snip)

But even as Obama waxed poetic about Chicago’s South Side and celebrated “democracy,” his Obama Presidential Center has already become mired in controversy even before opening after a growing number of contractors — many of whom are black-owned businesses — are saying that the Center has not paid them for their construction work.

Construction companies are now reporting that the Center owes them amounts ranging from the tens of thousands to multiple millions in unpaid construction fees. And in the case of many of the black-owned businesses, they face bankruptcy if they don’t get paid soon, Fox News reported.

Weird how most of the Credentialed Media do not care about all those businesses not getting paid for construction of Obama’s North Korean style gulag building.

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Here We Go: Every Story Is A Climate (cult) Story

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 7:15 am

So, apparently the science fiction book I’m reading now is linked to ‘climate change’ in some form or fashion. And the zombie apocalypse one before that is about ‘climate change’. And all the science fiction, horror, fantasy, and a smattering of mystery are all ‘climate change’ books

Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy to walk the streets of her small town alone in the darkness without cooking cereal or warming milk or finding the right stuffy. I knew that when she arrived downtown, a line had already formed in front of the CVS, circling the block. She joined the end of the line in front of the yarn store. (skipping to the relevant section)

The day I read that Lyme disease is considered the first epidemic of climate change, I saw my novel draft rise from my computer, a little spindly thing, a sapling, and expand, like that scene in the Nutcracker when the tree grows and grows to reach the top of the theater while Tchaikovsky’s music soars. Oh, I thought, looking up to see my novel touch the attic ceiling. I’m writing a climate change novel! (snip)

Then I read Lydia Millet’s The Children’s Bible. The story opens in a multi-family summer house. The parents are louche, disinterested in their kids. The kids are savvy, scheming to avoid their parents. A typical vacation, until end-times interrupt. Biblical rain takes down civilization as we know it. The catastrophic part of the book is shockingly witty and beautiful, but the first part shook me even more. In the prelapsarian present, the parents are naïve and totally unprepared, yet climate anxiety thrums in the background as they drink vodka, prepare tofu pups, check the weather. It felt familiar, how climate disaster sits with us in our ordinary lives. We push it away, and still it changes us.

After I finished this book, I started to see climate fiction in all the fiction I read. I saw it in a man’s mid-life crisis trip around the world. I saw it when a crotchety old lady in Maine notices the changing leaves. Arthur Less and Olive Kitteridge are in a relationship with the warming world, as are their authors, no matter if it rises to the level of consciousness. I saw climate forces in the flowers Mrs. Dalloway wanted to buy herself and the green lawns of Cheever’s suburbia. When characters scrolled their phones, I wondered if they saw headlines about existential demise and how this felt in their bodies. When I read beachside stories, I wondered if the rising seas crossed the characters’ minds as they took their morning swims. Did they notice the erosion in the dunes since last summer? Did they consider that the family home they were all vying to inherit would soon be worthless?

Sigh

Once I saw every story as a climate story, I became less interested in imagining future apocalypse and global worst-case scenarios, worthy and entertaining as that is, and more interested in thinking about how the local climate crises that we’re already living through—the floods and ticks and fires—alter our relationships: the relationships between those who fear a truncated future and those who deny the change, the relationships between us humans and the plants around us, the relationship between a brain that wants a break from thinking about climate and a body that feels the grief of a too-hot spring day.

These people are truly broken. Just indoctrinated into a worldwide doomsday cult.

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Cool: Trump Admin To Expand Denaturalization Push

By William Teach June 19, 2026 – 7:00 am

Citizenship is privilege for foreign born citizens, not a right. And, there are many who got easy citizenship which they did not earn

U.S. planning aggressive expansion of denaturalization push, aiming for 250 cases by fall

The Trump administration expects to try to revoke the U.S. citizenship of more than 250 foreign-born citizens by the end of the fiscal year in October, a Justice Department official told CBS News, outlining the unprecedented use of the federal government’s denaturalization powers.

The Justice Department, which can revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens accused of obtaining their citizenship illegally or through fraud, is planning to file at least 250 denaturalization cases in federal courts across the country in fiscal year 2026, which ends on Sept. 30.

While 250 cases would make up a small percentage of the 24 million estimated naturalized citizens in the U.S., it still marks a dramatic escalation in the use of denaturalization, a legal procedure that has rarely been used by past administrations.

Between 1990 and 2017, for example, the U.S. government filed an average of just 11 denaturalization cases per year.

Yeah, well, most earned their citizenship and showed they wanted to be a part of the US melting pot. Too many now have previous presidents simply grant them citizenship without going through the steps.

I’m hoping Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and some others are on the list.

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Your Fault: Robin Hood Tree Has Died

By William Teach June 18, 2026 – 4:26 pm

All you had to do was give up your air conditioning and consumption of meat, but, no, you were selfish

An ancient oak tree said to have sheltered legendary Robin Hood has died

A massive ancient oak tree linked to the legend of Robin Hood may have been loved to death.

The 1,200-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is believed to have died after it didn’t sprout leaves this spring, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said Thursday.

Visitors over the past two centuries who viewed the tree’s gnarled limbs and sprawling canopy in Nottingham compressed the soil, making it difficult for rain to reach its roots, the conservation group said.

The forest has been under threat for years and the tree had been rumored to have died in the past — only to have the group confirm it was still alive.

That is no longer the case.

So, probably from all the visitors taking selfies for Instagram, right?

It’s impossible to say what killed the tree, but the footprints of millions contributed to its downfall, along with intervention to shore up its massive limbs using cables and poles. Climate change that has brought heat waves and drought was also blamed.

That’s literally the only mention of the scam. Nothing else in the article. It’s like the AP cult writer was required to throw it in.

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