If All You See…

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

…is a wonderful low carbon bike saving the jungle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on “Renewable freeze in Australia — investors have only put the money down on 6% of wind projects”

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Democrats Super Worried Interview With DSA Member Will Hurt Them

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

The DSA is the natural progression of how wacko Democrats have become, and, come on, few are actually calling the DSA out

Democrats fear viral DSA interview on Fox News will leave a scar

Democrats are worried that widely circulated comments from a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leader outlining the group’s priorities could become Republican attack fodder as the midterm elections draw closer.

The unease from moderate Democrats intensified after Megan Romer, DSA co-chair, was asked a lightning round of questions on Sunday during a Fox News interview about the organization’s platform, answering true to several proposals, including abolishing the Senate and — as a long-term goal — prisons.

If they don’t become GOP ads then some Republicans need to be fired for failing to play Politics 101

Now, on the heels of a string of primary victories by DSA candidates in states including New York and Colorado, some Democrats worry that it will have an impact on Democrats across the board.

“You now have to argue to voters that you aren’t insane when you want to talk about making groceries cheaper,” said Democratic strategist Steve Schale.

“It’s all just off message,” Schale said, adding that Democrats in competitive races will now “have to spend time and research dollars learning how it impacts the race, then you may have to spend limited campaign resources pushing back on the idea that you want to eliminate the presidency or close prisons when you need to be talking about how to make life more affordable.”

It’s the only message Democrats seem to have, other than Orange Man Bad. You had the serious rise of the DSA wackos in the Squad around 2018, and they kept rising because Democrats offered no real message, so, they filled the void and the Democrat base, unhinged wackos who cosplay as Marxist revolutionaries, ate it up, particularly the affluent ones.

Fox News’s Shannon Bream asked Romer a string of rapid-fire, true or false questions — including whether the DSA platform includes “abolishing the Senate,” to which Romer replied, “True.”

“Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them?” Bream asked on Sunday.

“Yep,” Romer replied.

Romer then proceeded to say a DSA government would “absolutely” abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When asked if a DSA government would abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone who is in the U.S. illegally, Romer replied, “As a long-term plan, yep.”

They really do believe this stuff. They want to release everyone from jail, get rid of the cops (of course, they’ll all have their own private security), ban all guns, and so much more.

Democratic strategist Hyma Moore warned that the interview is “going to hurt DSA candidates first, but it will weigh down on Democrats writ large.”

“They’re talking about burning the whole thing down and that’s not where people are,” Moore said. “They don’t want to burn the whole thing down.”

“This is going to be an albatross Dems have got to watch out for,” he added.

These are your people. Most Democrats won’t call them out, because they’re more concerned with winning than anything else, just like with Graham “Nazi Tattoo” Platner. The complete wackos were elected because of Bush Derangement Syndrome, and then they started getting more and more extreme. Have fun!

The platform itself reads like a fever dream a committee wrote line by line. A 32-hour workweek with no reduction in pay and benefits, a federal jobs guarantee, canceling all student debt, and free college from pre-K through graduate school anchor the economic wish list, alongside healthcare that is universal, free, and includes gender-affirming care as a guaranteed right.

Unfortunately, a large number of Democrats who were indoctrinated in colleges think this is great.

The DSA is just as blunt about reimagining how the government works. The platform seeks statehood for Washington, D.C., self-determination for U.S. territories, and the abolition of both the Electoral College and the Senate, alongside an expanded House and a presidency and Supreme Court that answer to Congress instead of operating independently. The DSA wants to swap the two-party system for proportional representation and ranked-choice voting and pay for all of it through full public financing of every election.

Which would leave the Dems in charge permanently. Because Democracy or something.

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Climate Yutes Not Giving Up On Their Climalawfare, Want Full 9th Circuit Hearing

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

I’d actually like to see the 9th Circuit take this up, and ask the kiddies one question “have you stopped using fossil fuels/petroleum in your own lives?”

Youth climate lawsuit seeks full Ninth Circuit hearing

A group of young plaintiffs, who sued the federal government alleging a series of executive orders threaten their constitutional right to life by exacerbating climate change, are still fighting their battle in court.

After a three-judge panel on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the lawsuit’s arguments in June over a lack of plausible link between their alleged injuries and the federal actions, the plaintiffs are asking the full Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear their case and “correct the three-judge panel’s abdication of law and duty,” according to a press release by law firm Our Children’s Trust.

Look, I’m not a lawyer, but, that kind of language would rather tick me off as a judge, and would cause one of two things: A: reject the plea outright, or B: hold the hearing, and utterly roast the little idiots and their lawyers in open court.

“The panel’s decision is the first in American history to deny courts the power to review an unconstitutional executive order. That is not a small mistake. That is constitutional corruption,” said Julia Olson, Chief Legal Counsel and Co-Executive Director of Our Children’s Trust. “No president should be able to direct a sweeping fossil fuel agenda that endangers children’s lives and face zero judicial review. The full Ninth Circuit has the opportunity and the obligation to correct that.”

Lighthiser v. Trump is one of a series of youth-led climate change lawsuits brought by Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon-based advocacy law firm, which also successfully litigated Held v. Montana in 2023. The plaintiffs include young people from Montana, Oregon, Hawaii, California, and Florida.

Really, all the yutes are simply human shields to support the big money groups behind all this. It’s pure astroturf.

Federal District Court Judge Dana Christensen said he had dismissed the case “reluctantly,” but the scope of the request from the 22 young people was “an unworkable request.”

The circuit court agreed, saying granting an injunction rolling back three Executive Orders would require “extensive judicial supervision of executive branch actions related to energy policy.” (big snip to the end)

The Constitution gave us the tools to hold our government to its promise,” lead plaintiffs Eva Lighthiser said. “We are 22 young people using exactly those tools, and we are asking the full Ninth Circuit to do its part. Two hundred and fifty years later, the promise still has to mean something.”

Yeah, well, we have a voting system to deal with this. If the kiddies do not like this they should convince people to support their cause.

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Unhinged Rep Don Bacon Upset Over Opposition To His Cheap Foreigners Labor Bill

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

With allies like Don who needs enemies?

‘Hate,’ ‘Stupidity’: Rep. Bacon Slams Citizen Opposition to Visa Workforce Bill

Retiring GOP Rep. Don Bacon says “hate” and ‘stupidity” are motivating the citizens who oppose his support of a cheap labor bill for the rural economy– even as multiple other GOP representatives are quietly quitting the amnesty push.

“What polling shows us is that approx 35% HATE all immigrants … And they’re loud,” Bacon said in a July 22 tweet.

“It’s time we stand up to stupidity,” Bacon responded when the pro-investor bill was criticized by a former top official in President Donald Trump’s first administration.

Pennsylvania Rep. Glen Thompson’s Securing America’s Workforce Act (SAWA) would massively expand the number of wage-capped H-2A visa workers in the rural economy. The bill would also allow many U.S-based illegals to gain legal status by working for food companies.

“This is about replacing entire segments of American [agriculture workforce] with foreign serf labor,” Rosemary Jenks, founder of the Immigration Accountability Project, told Breitbart News. The resulting loss of rural jobs and spending power — and the resulting out-migration of young Americans — will wreck many local businesses, including those owned by the members of many Chamber of Commerce groups, said Jenks. 

Look, I’ve long stated that I support getting back to the system where the US provides visas for things like agriculture and home building, where they come for a bit of time and then leave, with the visas typically lasting less that a year. They don’t bring their whole families. Back when this was the norm the biggest complaint was about money being sent out of the country, with some blowing off the visa requirements and not leaving.

At this point, though, it’s difficult because there are so many damned illegals/fake asylum seekers, all the Dreamers, etc, who refuse to assimilate, who fly their own flags, won’t learn the language, and demand that the US change to accommodate them, all while receiving tons of taxpayer funded largess.

And squishy Republicans like Bacon do not help when they slam Republican voter. Can you imagine Democrats blasting their own base in this manner?

So far, four of 47 GOP members have announced they are ending their support of the bill: Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood, plus North Carolina’s Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., Georgia’s Brian Jack, and Indiana’s Mark Messmer.

Go away.

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You Know What Would Be Cool? If Polluters Had To Pay For Climate Doom

By William Teach July 28, 2026 – 3:49 pm

What if they had to pay?

What if polluters had to pay for the effects of climate change?

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into small questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall.

This year, the Rhode Island General Assembly considered a type of bill that’s been popping up across the country: it aims to make fossil fuel emitters pay for the impacts of climate change.

Rhode Island didn’t end up passing the legislation this year, but Nat Hardy from our Possibly Team spoke with one of the bill’s sponsors about what comes next in Rhode Island.

Nat Hardy: Hi, Megan! Thanks for having me.

I guess PBS is able to operate without all that federal money

Nat Hardy: Yeah, it’s called a climate super fund bill. It’s a pretty new idea to address the impacts of climate change.

Jennifer Boylan: The concept is to make the polluters pay for the damages that they caused.

Nat Hardy: That’s Representative Jennifer Boylan, the lead sponsor in the House, for the Rhode Island Climate Superfund Act of 2026. She’s introduced this bill two years in a row with her colleague, Senator Linda Ujifusa,

Has anyone asked if Jen and Linda still use fossil fuels themselves?

Megan: Who would pay these costs?

In reality, that would be you, Megan. In Reality Land companies will pass those costs on. Or, just stop operating in the state.

Nat Hardy: The bill specifically targets the biggest polluters: companies responsible for more than one billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. So we’re talking companies like Chevron, Exxon Mobil, B.P., Shell. And the companies would be charged proportionally, based on their emissions over the past few decades.

Megan Hall: Interesting! I didn’t realize states could do something like that.

Yeah, they really can’t, per multiple losses in federal court and multiple lawsuits

Nat Hardy: So climate superfund bills are trying to do the same thing. If you caused the damage, you pay to fix it. And the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are causing the more powerful storms, heatwaves, and other impacts we’re seeing from climate change.

This BS. Let’s, for the sake of argument, say that the products of these companies have a massive role in the (minor) temperature increase of the world, that are causing all sorts of Bad Weather: they aren’t doing it in a vacuum, there are people who use those products. Why don’t we make them pay? Why don’t we stick it to the citizens of Rhode Island? That’s where all this breaks down, all these people wanting Something Done, wanting That Guy taxed, but, refusing to pay themselves and refusing to stop doing the things and using the products they say is setting the world on fire.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible plastic bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bearing Arms, with a post on “Seattle Shooting Another Failure of Gun Control”

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Berlin Islamist Attack Could Roil German Elections Or Something

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

For the most part this terrible attack has disappeared from the news. Those who publish articles are making them lower tier. Why? Because the attacker was a Muslim radical. Some Germans are worried

Expert: Berlin Pride attack polarizing key German election campaigns

The suspected Islamist terrorist attack on Berlin will have a significant impact on election campaigns in three eastern German states, a leading political scientist warned on Tuesday.

“We’re already seeing the focus of the media, and thus also of the public, shift,” Professor Thorsten Faas told dpa on Tuesday. “Issues of domestic security and integration are taking centre stage.”

Faas fears that the attack on Saturday – which left a Polish woman killed and 29 injured in the German capital’s Tiergarten park during Berlin’s Pride celebrations – could “lead to even greater polarization.”

The attack came weeks before elections are due to be held in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6, and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin on September 20.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is leading in polling for all three states and could even win an unprecedented absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt, allowing it to take power in a regional government for the first time.

Faas noted that attacks such as the one on Berlin Pride – where a 21-year-old suspect with ties to Islamist circles was shot dead following a day-long manhunt – “tend to play into the hands of right-wing parties.”

So, it’s a concern that people might decide that allowing all these radical Muslims in Germany is a bad idea? This is what many on the political left are concerned with. Not that the Islamists might attack (as well as how they are taking over areas and elections), but, that some might object to the Islamists being Islamists in Germany.

However, the fact that the LGBT+ community was apparently targeted could also “mobilize the centre-left,” he added. In addition, with nearly two months until election day in Berlin, Faas said the issue “won’t dominate public discourse for eight weeks – too much else is happening.”

Yeah, well, a lot of the LGBTwhatever crowd are unhinged

They just do not seem to understand that LGBTwhatever is not acceptable in Islam, and targets of opportunity to the radicals. When they aren’t being used as Useful Idiots

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Wacko Federal Judge Tells EPA To Restore $2.8 Billion For “Climate Justice”

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

Sounds like slush money to me

EPA Ordered—Again—to Release $2.8 Billion in Climate Justice Funds

A South Carolina federal judge this week ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to resume distributing funds designed to address environmental and health challenges in underserved communities.

In June, US District Judge Richard Gergel voided the Trump administration’s termination of the $2.8 billion Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program. But the court ruling did not explicitly require the Environmental Protection Agency to resume distributing the block grants.  (snip)

After reviewing additional court filings from both sides, Gergel confirmed this week that the EPA must resume distributing the grant funds. He rejected the Trump administration’s argument that his decision “required no further agency action.” (snip)

Gergel ordered that the agency “must comply with its statutory obligations to administer the [Environmental and Climate Justice] Program” through the end of September, when the grants were originally scheduled to expire under President Joe Biden. (snip)

The Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program, created under the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, was designed to help communities address problems like air pollution and extreme heat and bolster local infrastructure, according to federal budget documents.

OK, here’s how this should work: where groups are specified, the EPA should keep a massive watchful eye on where the money goes. Is it going in people’s pockets, flowing through lots of NGOS and companies, or helping the people it was meant to help? Prosecute any fraud. For where it’s not specified, put it to other things with a “hey, you wanted us to spend it, we did. Just not the way you like.”

I suspect that the EPA’s lawyers will file an appeal in an attempt to run the clock out.

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Bummer: New Rule Sends Illegals To ….. Immigration Court

By William Teach July 28, 2026 – 7:00 am

Isn’t that where they normally go?

New federal rule sends hundreds of thousands of asylum cases to immigration courts

In its latest move to restrict the legal immigration system, the Trump administration announced a sweeping change Monday that could lead to the deportations of thousands of asylum seekers.

The change from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants and instead refer them directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings.

The agency estimates that up to a third, or 444,000 of the more than 1.4 million asylum cases in its backlog, could be affected by the rule.

The administration framed the move as an effort to streamline the process and reduce the backlog of cases. The interim final rule takes effect Tuesday and is subject to a 60-day public comment period.

“For far too long the asylum system has been exploited for purposes of delay and work authorization, not legitimate claims of protection,” USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said in a news release.

“America’s asylum system exists to protect individuals who genuinely fear persecution and this rule will help ensure that resources are directed to the timely adjudication of those claims instead of to those seeking to use the system as a loophole,” Edlow added.

The “legal immigration system” has been used and abused for for decades, even by the Bush 43 admin, but, that ramped up during Obama’s 8 years and skyrocketed during Biden’s years. 10% and under typically qualify for asylum, and not all of them get permanent asylum. The Biden regime simply let them all in, zero vetting, zero care if they were gang members, if they just paid tens of thousands to travel from around the world, who they were. Then gave them food, shelter, clothes, phones, money, healthcare, education, etc.

Now it’s time to see who they really are, and start booting those who do not qualify.

Todd Schulte, president of the immigrant advocacy organization FWD.us, noted that the rule change comes just after the Trump administration terminated temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and others, many of whom entered the U.S. legally and applied for asylum the “affirmative” way. On X, Schulte called the move “a terrible harbinger.”

Why are they applying for asylum? Liberals have told us that Haiti is great! Why wouldn’t they want to go back?

The earthquake was over a decade ago. Time for them to go back.

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AITA: Neighbors Moving Out

By William Teach July 27, 2026 – 1:16 pm

AITH?  The next door townhome is being rented out. I previously had neighbors who were being loud, almost put in a complaint with the HOA, which agrees per the covenant that it needs to be quiet after 7pm, it’s a nice middle class neighborhood, mostly professionals, many with kids. Someone else did put a complaint in. They left.

The next people to move in were loud, bass jamming through the walls, night one. I nicely warned them. After that they mostly turned it off by 9-10. Bass resonates, keeps me up, and this is not the party area near NC State. Then they jammed it one night at midnight. Last warning. But, didn’t have to do it again. So, there’s a little animosity.

The big event was a few weeks ago. Apparently, they did not have power, I suspect it got cut off for some reason. One night about 1130pm I heard a noise coming from the side, sounded like someone was opening the door to the crawlspace. I get off the couch where I’m close to falling asleep, go out back door, lights on, look over side with a flashlight, looks like something is hanging from electrical outlet.

I grab my 9mm Ruger, which was downstairs for cleaning, put a magazine in my left pocket, put shoes on and go outside. There’s a phone charging. I put gun in Left hand, unhook phone, walked to front where I was going to call police. Neighbor walks around, says “I thought you were asleep.” Excuse me? You were intentionally stealing my power? Sure, not a lot monetarily, but, I remembered seeing the outlet cover open several days ago.

I kept the gun along my left leg, and, decided to be nice and told him he could charge in the front, I figure he and his wife are having enough troubles (there is a car in driveway that hasn’t moved for at least this whole year, no tag on it). After a couple days they disappeared, except for showing up briefly, looks like they are packing stuff up. On one hand, I feel bad, like I drove them out, concern for gun. On the other, he was intentionally stealing power, and, can’t blame me for their monetary issues. So, am I the AH? I don’t want the owner of the TH to think so, I really have no way to contact them anymore.

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