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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If All You See…

By William Teach July 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on “Woke Games versus Profitable Games”

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Several States Have Ballot Initiatives This Fall To Stop The Gender Confused From Playing On Female Teams

By William Teach July 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

Too bad most do not restrict transgender “females” from being in female bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers

How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girls

When Bella, a high school senior in Washington, heard that a ballot initiative to restrict transgender girls’ participation in school sports would appear before voters in her state this November, she already had her misgivings. She wasn’t trans, but some of her teammates on her school’s ultimate frisbee team were — girls she considered family after years of competing side by side.

Bella, 17, who asked to be identified only by her first name, couldn’t imagine another season without her trans teammates.

“They deserve to be on my team as much as anybody else,” she said. “At the end of the day, we’re just a team trying to play together, and we’re just a group of girls supporting each other and hanging out on and off the field.”

Bella won’t be old enough to vote on November 3, but she still felt a responsibility to stand up for her friends, so she gave the initiative, IL26-638, a closer look. The stakes, she learned, were far higher than she thought.

“My knee-jerk reaction was like, ‘Ew,'” she said. “It was an immediate reaction of, like, disgust and offense.”

If that’s her reaction, maybe she shouldn’t be commenting, because that sounds as from a juvenile with little knowledge. But, hey, I wonder how the girl who didn’t get a spot on the team because of the gender confused male feels?

Washington state’s proposal, introduced last year by Let’s Go Washington, a political action committee founded by conservative hedge fund manager and multimillionaire Brian Heywood, is among several this fall asking voters to limit transgender athletes’ participation in school sports. Similar initiatives will appear on the ballot in Arizona and Colorado, and another, in Nebraska, is pending approval from the secretary of state. (Nebraska law already prohibits trans students from competing in line with their gender identity, which the ballot initiative aims to codify in the state constitution).

But unlike those measures, which would broadly require schools to designate athletic programs as definitively male, female or co-ed, Washington state’s initiative applies to only girls’ sports. It’s also the only initiative with a direct bearing on girls who are not transgender: Under the state’s proposal, every girl in kindergarten through 12th grade will have to have her sex assigned at birth verified by a doctor — through either genetic or hormone tests or an examination of her reproductive anatomy — to be eligible to play girls’ sports.

Can it pass in very liberal Washington with the testing requirement?

“It’s the most extreme measure of its kind,” said Libby Watson, campaign manager for No Hate in WA State, the primary coalition fighting the initiative. “People are often appalled when they hear that and when they see it in writing on the initiative.”

Watson said her organization is already preparing legal arguments in case the initiative becomes law.

The “democracy is in peril” folks sure seem unhappy and unaccepting when they lose, eh?

Opponents of the measure say its requirement for girls to verify their sex can be easily exploited, putting both transgender and cisgender girls at risk. Survivors of sexual assault could be retraumatized, Watson said, and students without health insurance or a regular primary care doctor may be at a disadvantage. Some girls, she said, may decide to forgo sports altogether.

The kids should be seeing a doctor for a yearly checkup, and said doctor can attest to the child’s actual gender.

Tori, the mother of a transgender 7-year-old in Washington, who spoke on condition that only her first name be used to protect her family’s privacy, said the initiative would cause “direct and immediate harm” to her family. Tori’s daughter runs girls’ cross country and track with her school and plays soccer on a local club team.

A 7 year old is doing that? Also, in a sane world Tori would be prosecuted for child abuse.

Stella Keating, a 21-year-old college student in Washington, wouldn’t be directly affected by the initiative if it passes in November, but, as a transgender woman, she can’t help but feel the measure is still leveled at her.

The feeling has taken her back in time to 2015, when she was in middle school and another initiative on Washington state’s ballot was trying to block her from using the girls’ bathroom at school. That measure ultimately failed, but Keating still internalized its underlying message — that she was different in a way that could not be accepted. Now, she suspects other young trans girls in Washington are harboring similar emotions, exacerbated by the initiative’s broad impact on their peers across the state.

Obviously, the whole article is against the ballot measure, but, what of the young girls who have to deal with the gender confused in their bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers? Taking their spots on women only teams? Why is there never really a thought for them?

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One Aussie Had Some Plumbing Done, So, Obviously There Is A Link To Climate Doom

By William Teach July 27, 2026 – 7:15 am

But, what appears to be a doomsday cult supporting piece takes a hard turn

Plumbing vs climate change

We had the plumber in the other day, and were grateful that he even turned up. Although he charged us nearly $800 to replace a tap in the kitchen and fix a leaking tap in the bathroom. Evidently, washers are so yesterday, and a $50 cartridge was required to fix the drip in our modern looking tap.

I hope that’s like $100 in US dollars from Aussie. Because, otherwise, you should have checked out Youtube or something

He was a cheerful, chatty type. He even offered to show me how the new tap works, but I declined. I thought about asking him his views on the Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre, but I was pretty sure I would have drawn a blank. He was more interested in making money and getting to the next job.

Now, I’m not sure what the link between plumbing and climate action is, but the PICAC, which is controlled by the Plumbers’ Union, has received $60 million in grants from the Commonwealth, Victorian and New South Wales governments.

The $60 million (about $42 million US) probably explains why they care

What does the PICAC do? It’s a good question, and I am really none the wiser having trawled through the expensively produced website of the centre. To be sure, there are bespoke buildings, and there is a board. Evidently it is engaged in training, but if you look at the accounts, the sum of money the centre receives for training is trivial.

Hmm, so, like most of the climate money it’s a scam?

In fact, the piece goes on to notice how much taxpayer money goes to unions with no requirements for return, even as union membership declines in Australia.

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Oh Noes: Employers Worried About Labor Shortage From Loss Of Illegals

By William Teach July 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

Maybe they should not have been depending on illegal aliens. fake asylum seekers, and those on TPS as essential employees to run their business

Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status

Around Washington, Salvadoran-born crews have helped renovate, rebuild and maintain the Capitol, the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. In senior living facilities in Florida, Massachusetts and New York, Haitian caregivers assist aging Americans with daily activities.

These workers are among more than one million people who have been allowed to live and work in the United States under a decades-old humanitarian program, and who now face the prospect of deportation.

Last month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status, as the humanitarian program is known, and now industries are bracing for the loss of vital workers.

Why was SCOTUS even necessary? Most of the TPS had ended and there was nothing in law that said it had to be renewed.

About 70 percent of T.P.S. holders were participating in the U.S. labor force, many in construction and health care, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.

But on Monday, about 350,000 T.P.S. recipients from Haiti and several other countries will lose their work permits in the first wave of fallout from the Supreme Court ruling. About 190,000 Salvadoran beneficiaries could be next to lose their status when it expires in September.

Still, as the clock ticks toward the end of Temporary Protected Status, business organizations, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have mounted a campaign for action on Capitol Hill, joined by a growing number of state and local leaders from both parties.

“Congress can, and should, exercise its plenary authority over immigration policy to prevent significant disruption to America’s work force and avoid an unnecessary humanitarian crisis,” the chamber wrote in a July 10 letter to Senate leadership.

First, Congress already exercised it’s authority in making TPS temporary for 18 months and giving the Executive Branch the authority to renew or not. Second, this is all exactly what the pro-illegals want to happen: teeth gnashing and sob stories after they created the conditions to do teeth gnashing and sob stories. And raging. Let’s not forget raging!

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