Homeland Security Ends Use Of Biden Era Fake Asylum Seeker App For Boarding Domestic Flights

By William Teach February 25, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Trump admin keeps give the “migrants” more and more excuses to not come. They’ve already cancelled the use of the CBP One app. Now the ones here won’t be able to freely fly around the country, especially on the taxpayer dime.

Noem ends Biden-era use of controversial app to allow migrants to board flights, except to self-deport

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is ending the use of the controversial CBP One app to allow migrants to board domestic flights – unless it is being used for their self-deportation.

“Secretary Noem is reversing the horrendous Biden-Era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country and do so without identification,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this. Aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” they said.

The Biden administration had expanded the use of the CBP One app to allow migrants to enter the U.S. at ports of entry or via a separate parole process. That process involved them uploading information including a photograph. The Biden administration also allowed for the app to be used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to verify a migrant without sufficient ID by comparing a photograph of a migrant in DHS records, and also use biometric matching. Those verified would also receive additional physical screening.

Of course, how many actually received that extra screening? It seems like a goodly chunk barely got basic screening, if any.

“Secretary Noem is reversing the horrendous Biden-Era policy that allowed aliens in our country illegally to jet around our country and do so without identification,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

“Under President Trump, TSA and DHS will no longer tolerate this. Aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” they said.

You and I have to go through the who rigamarole when we fly, because we are illegals. Well, now they cannot even fly unless leaving the country.

Trump administration directing ICE to track down unaccompanied minors: Source

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing immigration agents to track down unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S., a source familiar with the plans told ABC News.

An internal document from Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE), headlined the “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” said the initiative claims to prevent children from being human trafficked or other types of exploitation.

There are more than 600,000 migrant children who have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a legal guardian or parent since 2019, according to government data.

And the Biden-Harris admin lost almost 300K of them.

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Climate Cult Now Blaming Egg Prices On Global Boiling

By William Teach February 24, 2025 – 3:00 pm

I’m surprised it took this long. Heck, they weren’t even blaming ‘climate change’ for egg prices during Bidenflation. And mostly saying there was no problem with eggs. But, now Trump is president, so….

What climate change means for bird flu — and the soaring price of eggs

Buying eggs at the grocery store has become a major headache for U.S. consumers, with the average price of a dozen large eggs in a typical American city reaching $4.95 last month. Since the start of 2020, the cost of eggs has increased by nearly 240 percent, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Recently, acquiring eggs has become a game of luck — as shoppers find barren cooler cases and limits on how many cartons they can buy at the grocery store. The kitchen staple has gotten so hard to come by that thieves stole 100,000 eggs — worth $40,000 — off of a distribution trailer in Pennsylvania earlier this month.

President Donald Trump ran his reelection campaign on, among other things, a promise to bring down the cost of groceries. But in the first two months of 2025, egg prices have continued to climb, sending government officials in search of answers and interventions.

Well, yeah, Biden killed off 100 million chickens. I do not blame him or his administration, they were worried about bird flu. Unless someone can provide solid proof that this was done in order to hose Trump. I’ve seen the conspiracy theories, and I wouldn’t put it past Democrats, but, I need proof. I really wasn’t blaming Biden for eggs during COVID/Bidenflation, except in terms of him making fuel prices higher. Anyhow, here we go after many more paragraphs

Climate change is also playing a role in rising egg prices — albeit differently from how it’s increased the price of other kinds of food. In recent years, extreme weather events like drought and flooding have disrupted food supply chains and sent shock waves through the economy that end up hitting grocery shoppers. In 2022, the Mississippi River entered a period of such extreme drought that ships transporting crops for cattle feed couldn’t navigate its channels. Meanwhile, in California, flooding and extreme heat hit some of the nation’s biggest suppliers of lettuce. As a result, the price of salad greens and some dairy and meat products rose. A study published last year projected that extreme heat driven by climate change will exacerbate overall inflation in nearly every country in the world by 2035.

When it comes to eggs, climate change is affecting supply more indirectly — by changing the migratory patterns and nesting habits of birds that carry avian influenza. As global average temperatures rise and extreme weather events scramble animal migration patterns and force some species north toward increasingly temperate climes, animals are crossing paths in entirely new configurations, making it easier for them to swap diseases.

Sigh.

Because bird flu evolves quickly and mostly in the wild, it’s hard for researchers to pinpoint exactly where and how climate change may be affecting its spread. What the handful of scientists who work on this topic can say for certain is that warming temperatures and rising sea levels are changing when and how birds move across continents, which may be influencing the unusually fast-paced and large outbreaks of bird flu that have been occurring for the past half decade or so.

So, they know jack shit, but, feel the need to fearmonger.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 24, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing dog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on rekindling the fire at a California lithium battery plant.

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USAID Begins Process Of Putting Employees On Leave And Terminating, While LA Times Says Agency Is Awesome

By William Teach February 24, 2025 – 10:30 am

Such a shame, putting people involved in graft, waste, fraud, siphoned aid for idiotic projects on leave and terminating them. Closing USAID and folding any worthwhile projects directly under the State Department. None of the people defending them had any problem with terminating people who didn’t take the COVID “vaccine”

The Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and firing at least 1,600

The Trump administration moved its fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development toward what appeared to be its final phases, telling all but a fraction of staffers worldwide that they were on leave as of Monday and notifying at least 1,600 of the U.S.-based staffers they were being fired.

The move was the latest and one of the biggest steps in what President Donald Trump and cost-cutting ally Elon Musk say is their goal of gutting the six-decade-old aid and development agency in a broader campaign to slash the size of the federal government.

The move comes after a federal judge on Friday allowed the administration to move forward with its plan to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job in the United States and around the world. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected pleas in a lawsuit from employees to keep temporarily blocking the government’s plan.

“As of 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, February 23, 2025, all USAID direct hire personnel, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and/or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative leave globally,” according to the notices sent to USAID workers that were viewed by The Associated Press.

Perhaps they should have done a better job. Should have not treated USAID as their personal slush fund for funding their personal beliefs

Lawsuits by government workers’ unions, USAID contractors and others say the administration lacks the constitutional authority to eliminate an independent agency or congressionally funded programs without lawmakers’ approval.

First, it was created by Executive Order, so, Trump can erase it the same way. As for funding, did Congress specifically authorize money for transgender comics in South America? Or, just for USAID? Anything specifically allocated can be disbursed properly by the remaining USAID employees, or, moved to State.

But, hey, this gets fun from the LA Times

Opinion: We may all regret dismantling USAID

American foreign assistance is experiencing an existential moment. The foreign assistance budget appears to be on the chopping block, and the primary agency responsible for delivering foreign assistance, the U.S. Agency for International Development, is undergoing rapid, unplanned disassembly. Some are saying it’s time to give up on foreign assistance altogether, but is it?

As someone who worked on USAID-funded projects around the world for nearly 15 years, I can say that USAID deserves much of the criticism it receives — critiques such as poor performance, misplaced focus and insubordination. Many of its projects run far behind schedule or fail to achieve their intended results. Others appear to be poorly aligned with U.S. foreign policy objectives or simply disconnected from them. Even the more successful programs cost substantially more than one might expect. And U.S.-based contractors and nongovernmental organizations take home a large portion of the assistance, all while working on contracts and grants that minimize their risk and guarantee a profit (where permitted).

So, basically, Ryan Crow just gave enough reasons to close USAID. Probably not the best way to start a defense of the agency.

But our strategic interests, including energy, critical minerals and counterterrorism, among others, span the globe. A few billion dollars wielded effectively in countries around the world can do far more for American interests than some want to believe, especially in the long run. Dismantling the agency may be something we come to regret.

Is giving lots of money to jihad supporting organizations helping American interests? How about transgender puppet theater? And what portion cannot be, again, performed out of State?

  • $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza
  • $70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland
  • $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia
  • $6 million in non-emergency funding for redundant administrative supports for the Center of Excellence

Maybe this money should be spent on Americans.

Effectively shuttering USAID will also take important power projection capabilities off the table. As many have already noted, containing disease outbreaks, reducing migration and bolstering political stability are all more difficult without the unique set of skills and expertise built up (often painfully) over decades at USAID. The value of these activities can be difficult to recognize in the short term because they often work far upstream and geographically far away from the consequence they are intended to avert, such as strengthening the justice system in Honduras to reduce migrant flows. But they do have demonstrable value. A safer, healthier, less violent and more prosperous world is in the United States’ interests as much as anyone’s, and foreign aid can help achieve these goals where military force, private interests or markets cannot alone.

All can, and should, be performed within primary agencies. And USAID emboldened illegal immigration. So, bye!

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Report: Trump To Shut Down All Federal EV Chargers

By William Teach February 24, 2025 – 7:00 am

Real? Not real? Do these EV chargers require payment for use? Or, are they simply free? Are federal employees charging for government business, or, for their own personal use?

Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide

The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge.

The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to charge vehicles owned by the government and by federal employees. A source told The Verge that federal workers will receive guidance next week to shut those chargers down, with some regional offices already told to take their chargers offline.

Earlier this week, Colorado Public Radio obtained an internal email stating that charging stations at the Denver Federal Center would be shut down as they are “not mission critical.”

Let’s flip to that link

According to an internal email CPR News obtained from multiple sources, the U.S. General Services Administration says the government-owned chargers are not critical to how it does its work.

“As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA-owned charging stations are not mission-critical,” the email reads.

The GSA’s website says the Federal Center has 22 “fully functional” charging stations at 11 locations on the campus in Denver’s western suburbs. The email, sent from a GSA official, says some will be taken offline within the next week and others will be shut down once contracts are canceled.

“Neither Government Owned Vehicles nor Privately Owned Vehicles will be able to charge at these charging stations once they’re out of service,” the email says.

They are supposedly operated by solar power, so, if 100% so, let them run. And if there are lots of GSA owned EVs, let them operate. They are already in operation. But, I’ve had no luck in finding out how many EVs operate out of Denver. If there are lots, leave the charging stations operational. Certainly more cost effective to charge than at privately owned stations.

I say leave any anywhere that are operating up and running. Can’t hurt. But, the report will surely make the moonbats bark. Oh, and the last paragraph

Local officials also are worried that the administration’s plans to slash federal workspace could mean the closure of the Federal Center itself. Many federal workers who have not been terminated, however, are being instructed to return to the office.

If they can prove they are just as productive at home as at the office and do not need to be there everyday, I’m OK with remote. But, the employees do not get that choice.

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Bummer: South American Fake Asylum Seekers Turning Around, Going Home

By William Teach February 24, 2025 – 6:45 am

This is what happens when the federal government institutes policies that entice people to not come illegally/seek fake asylum. When the government rounds them up and deports them. When it says “don’t come.”

They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S.

Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to the countries they once sought to escape.

One of those speed boats zipped through dense jungle-cloaked rivers near the Colombia-Panama border on Sunday, headed south. Inside were around 20 migrants clinging to their backpacks and shielding themselves from the water’s spray.

Many of those same people waited months, sometimes more than year in Mexico to get an asylum appointment in the U.S. through a Biden-era CBP One app, which ended under Trump.

“ When Trump arrived and eliminated the application (CBP One) all our hopes went up in smoke,” said Karla Castillo, a 36-year-old Venezuelan traveling with her younger sister.

If they had real asylum claims they would continue, right? Except just 10% are accepted for asylum. Anyhow, they call this a “reverse flow.”

The boats were part of a well oiled migrant smuggling machine that once raked in money from the steady flow of hundreds of thousands of people headed north nearly a year ago.

The boat route, which crosses through Indigenous Guna Yala lands, was once part of what smugglers called the VIP route, in which migrants paid more so they wouldn’t have to take the deadly trek through the Darien Gap.

But now that much of the Darien’s migrant smuggling industry has collapsed, some smugglers are taking advantage of the reverse migration to charge steep costs to migrants – between $200 and $250 per person, including minors – for the boat rides.

And Democrats abetted this by enticing the illegals to make the dangerous trek. How much did they aid this by providing US taxpayer money to help the illegals make the trek? How much was fed from federal agencies such as USAID to NGOs and other private groups to distribute that money to helping illegals? All while pocketing quite a bit themselves.

Now, notice that photo, which is the first one in the AP article: go scroll the others. There are very few women and children. It is mostly men. As usual. How many are criminals? Why do we see so few families?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on the AP style book.

It’s ladies in nature week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 23, 2025 – 8:52 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America! The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and baseball is in pre-season. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right: Transgender Animal Surgeries Are A Thing, And Our Government Spent Money Them.
  2. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: Racial Arsonist Joy Reid Has Been Canceled
  3. Gates Of Vienna: Empty Words in the Face of Knife Jihad
  4. Geller Report: Zelensky SURRENDERS to President Trump and Will Be Signing a Mineral Deal
  5. Jihad Watch: Germany: Machete-wielding Muslim migrant rapes teen girl, ‘You’re not leaving here until one of you has sex with me’
  6. Legal Insurrection: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Wants to Change ‘Mother’ to ‘Inseminated Person’
  7. Moonbattery: Jasmine Crockett Openly Sides Against USA
  8. neo-neocon: Is Trump “politicizing” the military?
  9. Pacific Pundit: Woke Connecticut releases man accused of cannibalism and murder because of his race
  10. The First Street Journal: Will any of the pro-#Hamas demonstrators rethink their positions following the brutal murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas?
  11. The Gateway Pundit: Bizarre: Trans Activist Says “Why Not?” to Combining Paralympics and Olympics
  12. The Last Refuge: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Discusses Blurred Line Between Liberty and Security
  13. This ain’t Hell…: President Donald Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  14. Watts Up With That?: Climate Change Weekly # 535 — Paris Climate Treaty Is Going Down
  15. And last, but, not least, Real Science has Defending Democracy In Ukraine

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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LAS: Federal Employees Need To Explain Their Work Or Be Fired

By William Teach February 23, 2025 – 7:00 am

There’s some serious Liberal Apoplexy Syndrome going on, because Trump and Elon are requiring federal employees to show their work, you know, something that happens in the private sector. Employees have to actually show that they are doing something. You can bet at Musk owned business employees cannot just sit around and lollygag while being paid

Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be let go

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.”

The email — sent with the subject line “What did you do last week?” just two hours after Musk’s post, and shared with POLITICO — asks employees to please reply with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.”

It instructs employees to not send any classified information. The deadline for response: end of day Monday, just over two days hours from when it was sent. The email did not include any threats for punishment for those who don’t respond.

It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.

Perhaps Politico could have asked? You can bet Politico employees must show their work. Federal employees must do the same. Democrats and their Comrades in the media surely do not want to die on the hill of federal employees not having to show that they actually worked, right? That surely won’t go over well with the American people. It’s easy

  1. Sold 5 cars
  2. Made 45 calls
  3. Sent a lot of emails and text messages to customers
  4. Sent out birthday cards and thank you letters
  5. Finished the new online training class
  6. Figured out a way to get another rep’s customers phone to work with Android Auto
  7. Told another how to use XM Radio with Apple Carplay, which sealed her deal
  8. Got another’s minivan set up with Firestick for the media player and their BT headsets

Not hard, right? Oh, wait, I broke the requirement with more than 5. And there were more, like the customers who didn’t purchase (a 530 with multiple derogatories for bad payment on two leases goes nowhere)

Michael Fallings, an attorney specializing in federal employment law, told POLITICO the actions Musk described in the post would be illegal.

“I don’t believe it would be legal, and I don’t think he really understands right now how he will even do what he’s threatened to do,” Fallings said.

Requiring federal employees to show they are actually working is illegal? Would love to see that law.

Dissent from Democratic lawmakers has already started pouring in, calling for employees to reject the move from Musk. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) said Musk has “no authority” to do what he’s claiming. “This is a good opportunity for mass civil disobedience,” Casten wrote on X.

He wants federal employees to protest having to do their jobs and prove that they work? Really?

As the employer of federal employees, as a person who’s earnings go to paying their salaries, I’d like to know what I’m paying for.

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ZOMG: Trump Has Shifted The Burden Of The Climate (scam) Onto Individuals

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 4:01 pm

And it makes climate cultists very apoplectic that they might actually have to practice what they preach, rather than forcing Other People to bear the burden

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

electric vehicleOne of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy is buried deep in a sweeping Inauguration Day executive order focused on “Unleashing American Energy.” Half way through the lengthy document is a directive that would obliterate an obscure but critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change is imposing on the U.S. economy.

Getting rid of the measure, called the “social cost of carbon,” would upend energy and environmental regulations meant to address climate change and could have the long-term effect of shifting costs from polluting industries directly onto Americans as the expenses of climate change rise.

The measure essentially establishes a price for each ton of carbon emitted, based on the long-term damages it is expected to cause in the future. It has become the government’s primary tool to weigh the economic costs of climate change — such as disaster cleanup or health impacts from warming — against the burden of regulations.

The executive order disbanded the working group, which included the treasury secretary, energy secretary and director of national economic policy, that set the social cost of carbon and advised how it should be implemented. It revoked that group’s previous decisions. And it directed the Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates the figure and bases regulatory proposals on it, to reconsider using the social cost of carbon altogether with the goal of eradicating “abuse” that stands in the way of affordable energy production.

In other words, the hyper-leftists at Pro Publica hate that communist social cost of carbon, which is something more akin to what they have in China, is going bye bye

If carried out, the shift away from using the social cost of carbon measure would not only make it exceedingly difficult to enact new rules slowing climate change and its growing costs in the future, but it would send the signal that the Trump administration doesn’t believe that climate change carries economic consequences.

Well, gosh darnit, the whole Progressive (nice Fascism) government thing will have to go away as it pertains to the doomsday climate cult. Shucks! Go pound sound, wackos, do things in your own lives, leave the rest of us alone.

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