Washington Post Editorial Board Lauds Artemis II Launch, Notes It’s A Stepping Stone To Mars

By William Teach April 2, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is rather a breath of fresh air, since so many Credentialed Media outlets and liberals are doing some hating, often saying we could have spent the money on something else because it happened while Trump is president

Of course, at least 70% of the money would have been wasted and disappeared into people’s pockets. The NY Times thought it was best to discuss China first

Anyhow

America launches its bid to reach Mars
The Artemis II mission is an extraordinary feat of American ingenuity.

The launch of NASA’s Orion spacecraft off the coast of Florida on Wednesday began the first crewed flight around the moon in a half-century. But it also marked the beginning of something more exciting: The Artemis II mission is America’s opening bid for deep space exploration — an ambition that is well worth its hefty price tag.

Some taxpayers watching Artemis II might think, “Been there, done that.” Americans first went to the moon in 1969. And by the time the Artemis program puts humans back on the moon’s surface in 2028, it’s projected to cost $105 billion.

This mission is best understood not as a return to the moon, but as the stepping stone to landing humans on Mars. NASA’s robots have discovered tantalizing clues to potential ancient microbes on the Red Planet. The space agency is hoping to use Artemis II to help demonstrate life-support and communications systems for a Mars mission, which would take two to three years round trip. Perfecting that technology is the largest remaining technical hurdle to sending humans to Mars.

The agency also hopes this flight can lead to a permanent human presence on the lunar surface, which would involve setting up a colony and regularly launching crewed spaceflights there. Such a colony — as well as a “Gateway” space station above the moon — could support research on Earth’s partner in orbit and serve as a training ground for a Mars mission.

There are three more paragraphs in the editorial, and, the funny thing is, the WP fails to mention Donald J. Trump once, even though this started under his leadership and with requests for funding from his administration. Hell, they don’t even mention Joe Biden, as the development continued during his time in office with more funding allocations. One of the only Trump 1st term things he didn’t kill off.

Regardless, cheers to the mission, and cross your fingers that it is a success.

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“Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?”

By William Teach April 2, 2026 – 7:15 am

I have some ideas

Who gives up land for the world’s climate fixes?

Planting trees has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change. As forests grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while offering habitat for animals, plants and other organisms. The idea is straightforward: Expand forests, and the planet gains both climate mitigation and renewed biodiversity.

Yet the land required to remove large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere may place these goals in tension. Efforts to plant forests or cultivate bioenergy crops with carbon capture need vast areas. In some places, those projects could displace ecosystems that already support rich biodiversity. A recent analysis suggests that roughly 13% of globally important biodiversity areas overlap with land that climate models designate for carbon-removal projects, reports John Cannon.

The research, published in Nature Climate Change, examined five widely used models that outline pathways to limit global warming to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. Ruben Prütz of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and his colleagues mapped where these models anticipate land-intensive carbon dioxide removal, such as new forests or bioenergy plantations. They then compared those locations with important wildlife habitats.

How about we build a bunch of nuclear power plants to replace coal and petroleum, even natural gas?

The study also highlights an uneven geography. Many of the lands identified for carbon removal lie in the Global South. That distribution raises questions about fairness, since wealthy countries have produced most of the emissions now warming the planet.

I think we should take the land from so many Warmists and turn them into forests. How about all those rich folks and politicians who attended the Brazil climate (scam) conference? They can move into townhomes or something. We can take large government owned pieces of property and turn them into forests. Demolish the buildings, and the workers that are necessary can work in tiny buildings elsewhere. How about Obama’s seaside properties? Al Gore’s? Sheldon Whitehouse’s? Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home property is not that big. Let’s take the entire town.

Any good ideas for property we can turn into forests? And, did you notice that the doomsday cult is happy to simply take Other People’s property?

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9th Circuit Limits California Judge’s Ruling On Mass Detention Of Illegal Aliens

By William Teach April 2, 2026 – 7:00 am

When I ran across this I thought “Didn’t I already read this? Didn’t I already blog this?” Nope. That was the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals shooting down a Minnesota judge on mass detentions, in a slightly different manner. And now

US appeals court halts nationwide rulings rejecting Trump’s immigration detention policy

A federal appeals court has put on hold a California judge’s nationwide rulings barring the Trump administration from ?detaining people arrested in its immigration crackdown without giving them a chance to seek release on bond.

A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th ?U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Tuesday largely paused, opens new tab those rulings while the administration pursues an appeal, saying the judge likely went too far by granting class action status on a nationwide basis to non-citizens facing mandatory detention.

The appeals court said the ruling declaring the detention policy unlawful would remain in effect only in the Central District of California, where the judge ?is based.

A lawyer for the plaintiffs did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.

The ruling was the Trump administration’s latest appellate ?win after the 5th and 8th Circuits endorsed its detention policy. Other appeals courts are reviewing the issue, which the ?U.S. Department of Justice expects to eventually reach the Supreme Court.

So, basically, the Trump admin should build a detention center outside of U.S. District Judge Sunshine ?Sykes’ of Riverside, California outside her dominion. I’m not sure if she is ruling in the Western, Eastern, or Southern, or all 3, so, how about right outside LA County in Rosamond? Anyhow, these wacko judges just keep ignoring the SCOTUS ruling on nationwide injunctions. They do not care. Their support of illegals overrides everything.

In Tuesday’s ruling, the 9th Circuit panel said the administration had made a “strong showing” that Sykes wrongly certified a nationwide class, saying claims concerning the validity of someone’s detention “must be brought in habeas proceedings in the appropriate district ?of confinement.”

The appeals court said Sykes ?also likely lacked jurisdiction to vacate ?the BIA’s decision, as the administration had already lodged an appeal of her December ruling, which stripped her of the ability to expand it.

The same judges keep over-reaching and keep getting smacked down.

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Bummer: UN IPCC Running A Bit Short On Money

By William Teach April 1, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Hey, maybe a bunch of the Elites who take long, fossil fueled flights to IPCC conferences could sell their private jets

Funding gap threatens next round of IPCC climate science reports, chair warns

A lack of money is hampering the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a substantial funding boost is needed to ensure its scientists can complete their next set of flagship reports, the chair of the UN body has warned.

Funding from governments fell in 2024 and 2025 and the organisation could run out of money by 2028 unless it receives fresh funds or implements spending cuts, chair Jim Skea told an official meeting of IPCC scientists in Bangkok last week, according to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB), which provides coverage of UN negotiations.

Skea told the IPCC’s 64th session that without a substantial increase in contributions, the completion of the next set of reports, known as AR7, would be jeopardised.

To deal with this crisis, the IPCC is now considering cutting costs by holding meetings virtually, reducing staff travel, media training, recruitment, pay and website upgrades and cutting down on the editing, translating and printing of its reports, according to scenarios prepared by the IPCC secretariat.

Shouldn’t they be doing this anyway, because all that travel puts out a lot of “carbon pollution”. When you have 40K-50K take long, fossil fueled trips to UN climate events that is super bad for the climate, right?

Nepal’s representative Manjeet Dhakal told Climate Home News he was concerned about the situation, while the ENB report said Japan’s government had called the funding crunch alarming.

While South Korea and Sweden announced increased funding, the European Union – a major funder – cautioned against assuming past contributors will continue to give the same amounts, ENB reported.

Hey, there’s lots and lots of super-rich Warmists, can’t they pony up? I’d personally like to offer to have them send large checks to the UN for the scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 1, 2026 – 1:49 pm

…is an ocean that will soon rise up dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Biden’s DEI justice asking stupid questions.

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Moonbat Federal Judge Says Trump Admin Must Restore Legal Status Of All Those Who Came In Using Biden’s CBP One App

By William Teach April 1, 2026 – 10:30 am

Another week, another leftist federal judge putting out a ruling which will be overturned on appeal

Judge rules Trump administration unlawfully terminated legal status of migrants who used Biden-era app

A federal judge in Massachusetts unwound the Trump administration’s termination of parole status for some 900,000 migrants who were given permission to temporarily live in the United States.

The Biden administration launched the CBP One app to address high flows at the border, allowing migrants to make an appointment to seek asylum, while others were “paroled” into the country for up to two years.

U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, found that the Trump administration violated the law last April when it emailed the group en masse telling them, “It is time for you to leave the United States.”

“The regulations do not give the agency unfettered discretion to terminate parole,” Burroughs wrote.

“When Defendants terminated the impacted noncitizens’ parole without observing the process mandated by statute and by their own regulations, they took action that was ‘not in accordance with law.’”

These left wing wacko judges are amazing. There is no law regarding the use of CBP One for immigration related purposes such as the Biden admin did, nor to provide any sort of legal status. Nor was a federal rule passed. The Biden admin simply started using the existing CBP One app for this. You know what it was originally created for during the end of the first Trump admin? To help commercial trucking companies schedule cargo inspections. That was it. And somehow it morphed into the only way illegals could request asylum. Which, on top, seems like a good idea, except, 900K did, and instead of waiting to process the claims, the Biden admin just let them all in.

So, where does Judge Ally get off thinking that cancelling it and legal status is against the law? The Trump admin should round up a whole bunch of the worst of the worst and drop them off outside her court and in her neighborhood.

The Trump administration had argued that former President Biden abused parole authority by broadly awarding the status, rather than awarding it on a case-by-case basis.

And now the ruling will go to an appeals court, and Judge Ally will lose. Further, per the Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions, Judge Ally’s ruling would only apply to her little fiefdom in Massachusetts.

And here’s another wanker

Citing First Amendment, federal judge blocks Trump order to end funding for NPR and PBS

Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities.

The operational impact of U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss’ decision was not immediately clear – both because it will likely be appealed and because too much damage to the public-broadcasting system has already been done, both by the president and Congress.

Moss ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order to cease funding for NPR and PBS is unlawful and unenforceable. The judge said the First Amendment right to free speech “does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type.”

These people. The government cannot shut down their speech, but, they do not have to fund it. Nothing in the Constitution says the government must fund any news outlet. This will also be destroyed on appeal, and, again, the SCOTUS decision would mean that only PBS and NPR within Judge Randy’s fiefdom would be funded.

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European Commission Wants The Peasants To Travel Less

By William Teach April 1, 2026 – 7:15 am

Obviously, the people pushing this won’t be cutting down on their own travel, which usually includes private jets and large limo SUVs (via Climate Depot)

Brussels says Europeans should consider traveling less to avoid energy shortages

The European Commission is asking member countries to consider cutting back on oil and gas use, especially in the transport sector, in preparation for “prolonged disruption” to energy supplies from the Iran war.

The request, made by EU energy chief Dan Jørgensen, reflects fears that the conflict in the Persian Gulf is graduating from a price problem to an all-out energy supply crisis, with serious implications for the global economy.

In a letter to national energy ministers, seen by POLITICO, Jørgensen said that national governments should consider “voluntary demand saving measures … with particular attention to the transport sector.”

That could mean governments asking citizens to drive or fly less to save fuel for more essential purposes, as is already happening in some Asian countries.

European energy ministers will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss how to address the energy crisis.

And how soon till asking becomes demanding? Kinda forcing citizens to live the Warmist life, just like during COVID. As a sidebar, the European Union and their Commission was never, ever meant to be this powerful. It was never meant to be a central government for European member nations.

In his letter, Jørgensen said Europe’s transport sector faces rising costs and supply shortages due to the industry’s heavy reliance on the Persian Gulf, which the EU relied on for over 40 percent of its jet fuel and diesel imports.

“Member States should refrain from taking measures that may increase fuel consumption, limit the free flow of petroleum products or disincentivize EU refinery output,” Jørgensen said. He added that countries should consider the cross-border impact of national measures to preserve “EU-wide coherence.”

What, you mean all those windmills and solar panels aren’t providing energy? Huh. Maybe the EU nations should have been digging for petroleum and natural gas, building nuclear plants instead of going full climate cult.

Activists fear long term shift to coal, as Italy, Germany talk of keeping coal plants open for years now…

The trend is spreading. Coal, the stranded asset of a bygone era, is hot property again everywhere. All it took was a few weeks of an energy crisis, and decades of brainwashing against coal is evaporating.

On Friday, I wrote about how countries like Japan, Korea, and India were redirecting themselves towards coal power. Now Bloomberg, Fortune, and others are reporting this trend. As I write, Italy is considering delaying the closure of all its coal plants til 2038, Germany is reopening old coal plants. Thailand is restarting two coal plants it only shut down last year. Bangladesh is going to run its coal plants at max capacity all summer.

And the Ecoworriers are starting to fear this crisis will trigger a more permanent  shift back to coal — which it absolutely will — not because of ‘sunk costs’ or any of the other excuses the greenies tell themselves, but because the oil crisis will break the sacred exorcism spell cast upon coal. Governments have been shocked at how vulnerable they are without fossil fuel energy.

Now, remember, I’ve said many times I am not a fan of coal, it is dirty, and not from CO2, what they call carbon pollution. Perhaps if the idiot cult nations had worked more on natural gas and petroleum, along with nuclear, they wouldn’t have to resort to super easy coal. Read the rest.

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Good Grief: NY Times Digs Deep Into Justice’s Histories To Protect Birthright Citizenship For Illegals

By William Teach April 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

I don’t know what is more disturbing: the narrative baiting or the lengths the Fish Wrap went to

In Supreme Court Justices’ Histories, a Story of Immigration in America

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s father was a baby when he and his mother left their home in Italy bound for New Jersey, where he later became a U.S. citizen.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors’ passage remains unknown, but her relatives were enslaved in Georgia, becoming citizens only through the bloodshed of the Civil War.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s great-grandparents emigrated in the late 1800s from a mining town in what is now Slovakia, bound for Pennsylvania coal country. In the United States, the couple had a son — the chief justice’s grandfather. Albert Podrasky was born before his parents were naturalized, but he was nevertheless an American, guaranteed by the nation’s principle of birthright citizenship.

So, Alito’s father did not get birthright citizenship, he applied for and got it. Podrasky was not yet a citizen, but, with his legal immigration he was subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America. Possibly the dumbest justice of all times, Brown Jackson, had her ancestors, if they were slaves, were exactly the people Section 1 of the 14th Amendment was talking about.

With the case approaching, The New York Times scoured passenger ship manifests, census records, voter registration lists and naturalization petitions and interviewed scholars and genealogists in an effort to better understand the nine Americans who will decide the issue.

The justices’ stories show how the nation’s changing laws and attitudes toward newcomers have guided waves of immigration, determining who is allowed to become a citizen and contribute to the American story.

For most of the the time since the passage of the 14th post Civil War it was understood that birthright citizenship did not apply to aliens, meaning foreigners, legal or illegal, unless they were in fact subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning, political jurisdiction. Who do they pay allegiance to? When illegals, fake asylum seekers, visitors, people on work or student visas are flying the flags of their home countries, well, their political allegiance is to their old country.

The one that gets me is that 1st paragraph in the above excerpt: this is the same paper, like most, who couldn’t be bothered to do any investigation into Biden’s mental issues, into Hunter’s laptop, into Benghazi, into what Obamacare would do to health insurance and healthcare, into why Democrat run colleges are charging so much for so little, into why America’s school systems are failing so often, into how elected politicians are getting so damned rich in office, into all the fraud in Minnesota (and so many other places), who George Floyd really was, into the origins of COVID, and so much more. Things that matter heavily. Yet, they can do deep dives into the backgrounds of the justices all for their pro-illegal alien narrative.

And, let’s not forget, the who idea is to make the kids citizens so that the parents won’t be deported, and will be give citizenship. Or, at least permanent resident status, for which Dem states, cities, and counties will let them vote. And they’ll vote Democrat

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Could Make Allergies Worse And Cause More Suicides

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 4:10 pm

Are they implying that seasonal allergies could cause suicides?

Climate change leads to worsening seasonal allergies … and maybe even more suicides

This is not an April Fool’s Day joke, even though many may wish it were. March is coming to a close, but for those with seasonal allergies, the suffering is just beginning.

Cities like San Diego, which have ranked low on lists of the worst cities for seasonal allergies, jumped into the top 20 this year, thanks to high pollen counts.

The cause? Climate change.

It couldn’t have anything to do with the types of trees, bushes, and flowers being planted in San Diego, could it? And the fact that warm periods have been happening on and off throughout the Holocene?

Numerous studies have found that climate change is to blame for longer allergy seasons and worsening symptoms. Freezing temperatures are waning sooner, allowing plants and flowers to bloom and release pollen earlier.

“There are these extreme, chaotic conditions that climate change is associated with,” Kari Nadeau, chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told a Boston television station. “And that warming is affecting our pollen seasons.”

A few extra days a year? Big deal. This has happened before and will happen again.

That toll can also affect mental health.

In a study published last October, the Journal of Health Economics said deaths by suicide rose by about 7.4% on days when pollen counts were the highest. Although the study did not establish a definitive link, it suggested that allergy symptoms lead to diminished cognitive function and disrupt sleep, both of which are “predictors of suicidality.”

So, no link, but, they’ll fear monger regardless. Cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible pool made with carbon polluting concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on the EV bubble being about to burst.

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