Portland Goes All In On Refusing To Work With Federal Immigration Authorities

By William Teach May 6, 2026 – 7:00 am

Portland, Maine seems like a great place for the next big immigration operation

Portland limits immigration enforcement assistance, going beyond other cities

Portland further restricted local assistance with federal immigration enforcement, even more so than other Maine cities in response to President Donald Trump’s operation in the state this winter.

Similar to ordinances passed in Rockland and Lewiston, the Portland City Council amended its city code Monday night to ban employees and resources from being used to assist or cooperate with any federal agency in any immigration enforcement operation, except where legally required to do so by law or court order.

However, Portland’s ordinance goes a bit further by adding more restrictions for city employees that are only applicable to police under a new state law, such as preventing them from using immigration authorities as interpreters for local law enforcement.

Several cities in Maine have considered limiting cooperation with immigration enforcement in response to Trump’s mass deportation agenda, specifically since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s large-scale operation in January resulted in the detention of Maine residents who were pursuing lawful immigration processes and had no criminal records. Bangor and Waterville are currently deliberating their own ordinances.

Get this: if Portland and the other cities would hand over the illegal aliens arrested for breaking the law to ICE with no fuss, heck, get proactive and call them and hand them over, then there would be less chance of operations that will scoop up those who simply broke the law in coming to the US illegally. But, you know, good luck, this could be them

Trump immigration czar pledges punishment if NY lawmakers limit cooperation with ICE

Republicans are firing warning shots at Gov. Kathy Hochul and other Democratic state lawmakers: If you pass new laws to protect immigrants across New York, there will be consequences.

Tom Homan, an upstate New York native who serves as President Donald Trump’s border czar, said he would respond to any new law by sending more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the Empire State.

“We’re going to flood the zone. You’re going to see more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen before,” Homan said Tuesday at a border security conference in Phoenix, seen in a video posted to social media by a Newsmax reporter and widely cited in media reports Tuesday. “So congratulations, because when we send these teams out there, we’ll find a bad guy. Most times we do. And when we find a bad guy, he’s with others, others who may not be a priority target, but they’re in the country illegally.”

Why do Democrats want to protect so many criminals? It’s not just because Trump is in office, they did this while Obama and Biden were in office.

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We’re Saved: Amsterdam Bans Ads For Meat And Fossil Fuels

By William Teach May 5, 2026 – 3:41 pm

I’d be more impressed if they actually banned citizens from eating meat in the city, using fossil fueled vehicles, and closing Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Major city bans ads for meat, fossil fuels in sweeping crackdown critics call overreach

Amsterdam has reportedly become the first capital city in the world to ban public ads for meat and fossil fuels — wiping burgers, gas-powered cars, and airline promotions from billboards, tram stops and metro stations.

Since May 1, the Dutch capital and tourist hotspot’s advertising landscape has undergone a dramatic shift. Ads once showcasing chicken nuggets, SUVs, and budget flights have been replaced with promotions for museums and concerts, according to BBC News.

Local politicians say the sweeping move is part of an aggressive climate agenda, with goals to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and cut meat consumption in half, the outlet reported.

“The climate crisis is very urgent,” Anneke Veenhoff from the GreenLeft Party said. “I mean, if you want to be leading in climate policies and you rent out your walls to exactly the opposite, then what are you doing?”

If it’s so urgent then why do they have fossil fueled buses and boats? Cars? In fairness, a lot of people ride bikes in Amsterdam, it’s just kind of the thing over there, and it has over 250 miles of bike lanes. Ban everything that uses fossil fuels in the city. Ban meat in the city. If they really care

Supporters, however, are framing the policy as a broader cultural shift — even comparing meat ads to cigarette campaigns of decades past.

“Because if I look now back at like old pictures, you have Johan Cruyff,” Hannah Prins, a paralegal at Advocates for the Future, told the outlet. “The famous Dutch footballer. … He would be in advertisements for tobacco. That used to be normal. He died of lung cancer.”

Prins added, “I don’t think it’s normal to see murdered animals on billboards. So I think it’s very good that that’s going to change.”

It’s an authoritarian cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 5, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on your daily feel good stories.

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Unhinged Judge Apologizes To WHCA Dinner Shooter

By William Teach May 5, 2026 – 10:30 am

Where the hell are all these wackjob judges coming from? I know it’s D.C., but, sheesh, this is a federal magistrate

Judge Apologizes to Alleged WHCD Attacker for Treatment in Jail

A judge issued an apology to Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attacker, for how he has been treated while being held in jail.

During a hearing on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui expressed his apologies to Allen, who has been “held in the safe cell,” according to ABC7 News. Faruqui reportedly said the safe cell was “tantamount to solitary confinement.”

The judge also gave the Washington, DC, Department of Corrections a deadline of Tuesday “to notify when the jail’s housing board will” make a decision regarding “which section of the jail” Allen will be placed in, according to the outlet.

Faruqui’s apology to Allen comes after Allen’s attorneys said in court filings that Allen “was placed on suicide watch shortly after arriving at the D.C. jail.”

Due to Allen being placed on suicide watch, he was put in “what’s known as a ‘safe cell,’ a padded room with constant lighting and 24-hour lockdown conditions,” according to the outlet. Allen’s attorneys claimed that he showed “no signs of being a risk.”

It’s hard enough getting a decent jury in D.C., now we have a wackadoodle judge being barking moonbat

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro criticized the judge for believing “a defendant armed to the teeth and attempting to assassinate the president is entitled to preferential treatment.”

“Welcome to Washington, D.C., where U.S. Magistrate Judge Faruqui believes a defendant armed to the teeth and attempting to assassinate the president is entitled to preferential treatment in his confinement compared to every other defendant,” Pirro wrote in a post on X.

I wonder if the DOJ could apply for a change of venue after this?

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DOJ Sues Minnesota Over Climate (scam) Lawsuit

By William Teach May 5, 2026 – 7:15 am

Man, now that’s a real shame when your scam lawsuit gets hit with a lawsuit

US Justice Dept sues to block Minnesota’s climate change lawsuit

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Monday to block Minnesota from moving forward ?with a long-running lawsuit seeking to hold Exxon Mobil , opens new tab and other ?oil industry participants responsible for harms caused by climate change.

The lawsuit marked the latest in a series of cases President Donald Trump’s administration has filed that have sought to prevent Democratic-led states from ?enforcing laws or pursuing lawsuits that target fossil fuel companies over climate ?change.

Judges have recently dismissed two similar lawsuits that the Justice Department ?filed against Michigan and Hawaii, which are among the numerous states and local governments that have ?in recent years pursued climate-change-related investigations or lawsuits against fossil fuel producers.

The Justice Department’s ?latest lawsuit took aim at a lawsuit that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed in 2020 during Trump’s first term against Exxon, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute. (snip)

The Justice Department argues that through its ?lawsuit, Minnesota ?is seeking in violation of the U.S. Constitution to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which are the exclusive domain of the federal government.

Ellison in a statement pledged to seek the ?dismissal of ?the “frivolous and meritless” lawsuit.

You mean like Minnesota’s shakedown suit? Have they considered what would happen if they win, namely that Exxon Mobil will simply stop selling their products in the state, and other fossil fuels companies will follow suit?

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LOL: Now Connecticut Tries Restricting Federal Immigration Agents

By William Teach May 5, 2026 – 7:00 am

This is going to die a nice legal death like the rest

New Connecticut law bars ICE from warrantless arrests in certain locations

Gov. Ned Lamont signed a sweeping immigration bill Monday that state leaders say will limit where federal immigration agents can make arrests in Connecticut and expand legal protections for people who believe their rights were violated.

Senate Bill 397, titled “An Act Concerning Democracy and Government Accountability,” restricts immigration enforcement agents from making warrantless arrests in certain locations, including churches, schools, hospitals and courthouses. The law also allows individuals who have been detained to sue agents if they believe their rights were violated.

“We didn’t waste any time, and now it’s the law of the land here in the state of Connecticut,” Lamont said. “We’re standing up and fighting for each and every one of you. That’s what Connecticut is all about.”

The bill covers several aspects of immigration enforcement. In addition to limiting warrantless arrests and expanding the ability to pursue civil action, it requires federal, state and local officials to show their faces and wear badges or name tags while conducting enforcement actions.

The DOJ will certainly file a lawsuit within a week, but, really, there is no hurry, because it’s unconstitutional, and has no power over federal law enforcement. Connecticut could keep ICE from conduction big ops by simply handing over the illegals who commit crimes.

Students and workers across the state say the law brings a sense of relief.

“This means my parents don’t have to think twice before driving me somewhere,” said Melany Yunga, a senior at Wilbur Cross High School. “My siblings will grow up in a more just and safe place. We can live now with a little more safety and peace. That’s what this bill is about—our ability to exist without constant fear.”

Good luck, sweety. Maybe you should read the Constitution.

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Study Says New Orleans Must Start Relocating Now Or Something

By William Teach May 4, 2026 – 3:00 pm

This is a city that has pretty much been at barely above sea level to below sea level, right? The one that needed all those dikes and such?

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesThe process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.

Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

Low-lying southern Louisiana faces multiple threats, with rising sea levels driven by global heating, compounded by strengthening hurricanes, also a feature of the climate crisis, and the gradual subsidence of a coastline that has been carved apart by the oil and gas industry.

So much BS

Southern Louisiana is facing 3-7 metres of sea-level rise and the loss of three-quarters of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline “to migrate as much as 100km (62 miles) inland”, thereby stranding New Orleans and Baton Rouge, according to the study, which compared today’s rising global temperatures with a period of similar heat 125,000 years ago that caused a rise in sea level.

This scenario makes the region the “most physically vulnerable coastal zone in the world”, the researchers state, and requires immediate action to prepare a smooth transition for people away from New Orleans, which has a population of about 360,000 people, to safer ground. (snip)

Keenan said the timeframe available to plan a retreat isn’t certain but “it’s most likely decades rather than centuries”.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.”

That part of the Gulf has serious apparent sea rise because of land subsidence. Florida is not seeing anywhere close to the sea rise Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama are. If you look at the elevation map for New Orleans and the whole area south of it, it’s not pretty, and hasn’t pretty for probably at least 1,000 years, if not going back to the beginning of the Holocene. Just more scaremongering. When is this 3-7 meters (9.84 to 22.96 feet) going to happen? Especially when the 20th Century saw a completely average 7 inches of sea rise?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 4, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an island that will soon be swamped by the rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on letting non-citizens vote in local elections in Los Angeles.

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Politico: Should Congressional Creeps Be Investigated Or Shamed?

By William Teach May 4, 2026 – 10:30 am

Politico is missing the 1st point

Investigate them or shame them? Inside the debate over how to deal with creeps in Congress

double standardsTwo recent lawmaker resignations over sexual misconduct allegations have Congress wrestling with a familiar challenge: How can it encourage survivors of abuse to come forward in one of America’s most sensitive workplaces?

Former Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) were both accused of sexual misconduct with staff, putting a fresh spotlight on Capitol Hill’s apparent culture of exploitation — nearly a decade after the #MeToo movement sparked a bipartisan push to improve the reporting process.

Now current and former members are reckoning with the shortcomings of those efforts.

“What we know is that the process is not working, because women staffers are not coming forward with the allegations, the accusations,” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) said in an interview. “They’re not telling us what happened to them.”

They have zero trust in the process when it comes to investigating Congress members

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), for instance, has asked any congressional staffers experiencing mistreatment or misconduct to bring their allegations directly to her office. Boebert has pledged to keep accusers anonymous as she uses her media platforms to publicize any credible allegations.

While Boebert said in an interview that she hasn’t written off the official channels completely, other options have to be open.

“Whatever actually holds people accountable,” she said. “I mean, that’s what it’s all about — holding creeps accountable.”

The problem with many of these cases is that they do not rise to criminal complaints that would be best in the legal justice system: they are technical violations of the rules of Congress, much like at most people’s places of work. But, in most private companies the harasser would be terminated in a week, tops

There is no traditional human resources department on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers run their offices as fiefdoms with total control. And employees of the legislative branch are not covered by federal whistleblower protection laws like federal workers in the executive branch.

The House Ethics Committee can take months to issue any formal decisions or disciplinary recommendations, sowing doubt among lawmakers that it is the best means for survivors of misconduct to seek justice.

And, if the mostly women being harassed blow the whistle and name names Congress critters can take serious revenge, with all their buddies throughout government getting involved. Or, they get paid off and the Congress critters can continue with their bad behavior. I wonder if they can be sued? Sexual harassment would not be protected actions under the Constitution.

This is a pretty long piece, and worth the read, in terms of many GOP and Dem women saying they are coming after the abusers, but, Politico is missing that important piece: freedom of the press is mentioned specifically in the 1st Amendment, in order for the press to keep government honest, to investigate wrong doing, to hold government accountable. How many in the press knew about what Swalwell was doing, and ignored it, mostly because he is a Democrat? The press needs to do their job.

The person involved is Former state Rep. Cecil Brockman (Democrat), who’s looking at life in prison with all the child sex charges he’s charged with. Maybe the news should be investigating elected people more deeply, along with where all that government money is going.

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Sigh: Climate Cult Using The Day After Tomorrow Again To Scaremonger On AMOC

By William Teach May 4, 2026 – 7:15 am

Look, I love horror movies and books, especially zombie ones, but, I don’t use them to scaremonger on policy

Infamous disaster scenario can rapidly unfold, study finds

Add another study to the pile of research raising alarms about a looming climate disaster.

Scientists have been closely watching the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) for years. In April, two studies noted the critical current is in danger of weakening or even collapsing due to climate change, which could impact the climate and weather for hundreds of millions of people.

If you missed those studies, you might still know the current from the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” which took quite a few liberties in its depiction of what would happen if the current suddenly collapsed due to climate change.

Now, a new study released April 29 says the AMOC has changed rapidly in the past, due to “violent volcanic eruptions” that eventually cooled the entire planet.

The current threat to the AMOC isn’t volcanoes, but excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from human-caused climate change. According to the lead author of the new study, Lucien Nana Yobo of Texas A&M, his research “shows how sensitive the AMOC is to climate disturbances.”

If so, then why do so few Warmists give up their own carbon footprints? Bueller? Bueller? Nothing like using a doomsday movie to push your cult business.

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