SCOTUS Rules In Trump’s Favor On Keeping The Venezuelan Repatriation Flights Going

By William Teach April 8, 2025 – 6:45 am

At least temporarily

Supreme Court grants Trump request to lift stay halting Venezuelan deportations

The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s request to vacate a lower court’s ruling barring the administration from using a 1798 wartime immigration law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals – including alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang – from the U.S., marking a significant victory for the administration as it advances key immigration priorities.

Justices on the high court ruled 5-4 to grant the administration’s request to lift the stay, in a temporary victory for Trump and his allies.

At issue was the Alien Enemies Act, or the immigration law passed by Congress in 1789 to immediately remove certain migrants from U.S. soil.

Lawyers for the Trump administration had urged the court to vacate the lower court ruling, arguing in a Supreme Court filing that the lower court orders “rebuffed” their immigration agenda, including their ability “to protect the Nation against foreign terrorist organizations and risk debilitating effects for delicate foreign negotiations.”

Well, that’s good an all in a nutshell, but, let’s go to MSNBC, if you can believe it, because, did you notice the 5-4 decision?

A divided Supreme Court vacated temporary restraining orders issued by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., which had halted certain deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. The court split 5-4, with Republican appointees in the majority and Trump appointee Amy Coney Barrett dissenting alongside the court’s three Democratic appointees.

I hate to say she has become a disappointment, because I appreciate when Judges follow the Constitution and the law, but, she sure seems to be voting with the liberals quite a bit on big cases, eh?

In an unsigned “per curiam” ruling, the majority said detainees must bring their challenges in habeas corpus proceedings and must do so where they are confined. “The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” the majority said.

The majority also said detainees under the act “must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.”

The Trump admin should have an immigration judge on hand to adjudicate before they are packed on planes and shipped out.

Writing a dissent joined by the other two Democratic appointees and partially by Barrett, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the majority’s legal conclusion “suspect.” She said the court granted the government “extraordinary relief” and said the court did so “without mention of the grave harm Plaintiffs will face if they are erroneously removed to El Salvador or regard for the Government’s attempts to subvert the judicial process throughout this litigation.”

What of the grave harm to American citizens from murderers, rapists, child predators, and gang members?

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Senate Republicans Look To Kill PRC EV Mandate

By William Teach April 7, 2025 – 3:00 pm

It’s a shame that the People’s Republik Of California’s EV mandate won’t just be about the PRC: every experiment needs an experimental group, plus, it’s always fun watching people who voted for leftist government dictates get hit with leftist government dictates

Report: Senate Republicans Look to Axe California EV Mandate

Senate Republicans are looking to scrap a Biden-era rule that essentially allows Democrat-run California to impose an electric vehicle (EV) mandate across the United States.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) proposed a resolution on Friday that would repeal California’s “Advanced Clean Cars II,” which Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed off on weeks before Trump’s second term, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported. The rule would ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles in California and 11 other states by 2035.

Capito proposed the resolution despite the Government Accountability Office (GAO) stating in March that the EPA waiver was not subject to the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Capito, who is chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, is arguing that the California EV waivers are rules that can be repealed under the CRA, according to the report.

“By submitting these waivers, the Trump EPA is complying with the law and giving Congress the opportunity to reject California’s effort to impose its EV mandate on all Americans,” Senate Environment and Public Works Republicans posted to X on Feb. 14.

Opponents of California’s EV mandate “are optimistic” that Senate Republicans will secure a full repeal, despite uncertainty over procedural hurdles, the report states.

I wonder if the EPA under Trump could rescind the approval?

California’s EV mandate is set to go into effect for model year 2026 and would phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The eleven states who have planned to implement the standard, as allowed by the Biden EPA waiver, are: Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Vermont, as well as Washington, D.C.

The thing is, those states are in a pact with the PRC to follow the PRC’s lead. But, do consumers really want this? Not too mention that there isn’t infrastructure or the energy production for this. Not that the Elites in those states care. Even though most do not drive EVs themselves. Oh, and that the PRC mandate was imposed by the California Air Resource Board, not the PRC legislature.

Oh, and this is fun, from the enviro-weenies

Best comment at the story: “Apparently it’s not private property but it’s rental property from the environmentalist and city however you pay all the taxes and required to maintain the property the way they want you to. I would sell and leave!”

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 7, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle having water wasted on it, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on an ex-federal worker and his Green NGO wife were arrested for vandalizing Teslas.

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Deal In The Works For Congressional Proxy Voting For New Mothers

By William Teach April 7, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s not going to be quite the big deal the new mothers who are federally elected representatives want

Johnson strikes deal with Luna on parental proxy voting

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has reached a deal with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) over her push to allow new parents to vote by proxy, a development that is set to unlock the House floor after the explosive issue — and the GOP rebellions it sparked — brought the chamber to a standstill.

Under the agreement being worked out, the House would formalize “vote pairing,” two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.

The procedure allows a member — in this case, a new mother — who must be absent for a vote to coordinate with a lawmaker voting opposite their stance who is willing to abstain from the vote, that way the new mother’s absence is canceled out.

As part of the deal, according to the sources, Luna would not force a vote on her discharge petition, which she successfully executed last month to dispatch Rep. Brittany Pettersen’s (D-Colo.) resolution to the floor that seeks to allow members who give birth or lawmakers whose spouses give birth to have another member vote for them for 12 weeks.

Additionally, Johnson is still looking at increasing accessibility for young mothers in the Capitol, one of the sources said, a prospect that the Speaker revealed last week. He said he is eyeing a room for nursing mothers and potentially allowing mothers of young children to use their official funds to travel between their home districts and Washington.

Proxy voting is absolutely nothing new. It has been done forever, because lawmakers have been skipping votes for one reason or another forever, though it is rarely used these days. There was no real agreement, just that two reps who would vote opposite agreed not to vote. Even though their job requires them to be present for votes. Requires them to debate it. But, hey, sometimes people get hurt. I guess Johnson is just trying to avoid a vote on the petition, which would cause issues, and would be a waste of time since the Quorum Clause requires lawmakers to be physically present to vote. If they have a problem with that, they should attempt to get an amendment passed allowing remote voting. That is the only Constitutional method that would change anything.

But, you know, it doesn’t seem like Luna has any problem speaking to the press about it. But, what of Brittany Peterson? Will she agree?

She is showing up even in person to talk about it. Can her husband, and other husbands of federally elected lawmakers, not watch the baby while they do the job they campaigned for?

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Your Fault: Sea Lions Are Attacking Californians

By William Teach April 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

Wow, this looks pretty bad

Sea lions are attacking people in the waters off California’s coast. Here’s why

Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in the water. The animals are being poisoned by the ocean they live in, experts say, citing reports of sick sea lions at unprecedented levels. And many are dying.

Pheobe Beltran, a 15-year-old girl in Long Beach, was swimming on March 30, when a sea lion attacked her right arm.

“I was just so scared, so shocked, but I still felt the immense pain on my arms, like, over and over again,” Beltran, who was finishing up a 1,000-yard swim during tryouts to become a junior lifeguard, told CNN affiliate KCAL. (snip)

Up the coast in Ventura County on March 21, a surfer near Oxnard, was bitten by a sea lion in open water. The attack left him “shaken” to his core, he said.

The cause is less demonic and more likely domoic acid toxicosis caused by toxic algal bloom, often referred to as red tide, experts say.

“The sea lions are coming in almost comatose by the time they’re stranding. Something is happening in this particular bloom that seems worse on multiple levels,” John Warner, CEO of the Marine Mammal Care Center in Los Angeles, told CNN. “But volume-wise, it’s definitely the worst we’ve ever seen.”

Dolphins also have been affected.

So, exactly two incidents mentioned, and, really, you have Californians putting lots of pollutants into the ocean causing red tides and other issues, not too mention too many people encroaching on the territories of the sea lions, who are very aggressive in defending their territories. And many people are too stupid to stay away, just like tourists go and try and pet the fluffy cows in Yellowstone.

Anyhow, there can be numerous reasons for red tides. A big one is runoff with excessive nutrients from agriculture, as well as sewage. Warm water, which isn’t really a big concern, because California waters aren’t exactly like Florida. Calm waters can cause this. And upwelling of deep water, which is something that can happen quite a bit on the California coast. But, mostly, the main cause is chemicals, be it sewage or fertilizer, or even naturally occurring as there is runoff. But, CNN knows the real answer

Human-induced climate change makes unwanted changes to the ecosystem

The toxin, domoic acid, is naturally present in the Pacific Ocean. Now, a process called upwelling is responsible for pushing the acid into the aquatic food chain. As winds churn up cold water off the Southern California coast, sediment rich in nutrients is swirled up from the ocean floor and becomes feed for smaller creatures in the water who are eaten by larger ones like pelicans, whales and all kinds of fish. The nutrients are a “huge amount of food that is just everywhere in the water table,” Warner said, explaining how the abundant toxic algae enter the food chain.

Human-caused climate change and land development are also making unwanted changes to the ecosystem and feeding the outsized toxic algal blooms, Warner said. The warmer temperatures on the ocean surface are more acidic, which favors algae. Nitrogen fertilizer from farming is also running into the ocean, carried by rivers and streams, which feeds the algae just like it feeds plants on land.

Got that? Your fault. Even though the majority of those two paragraphs say it’s mostly things other than the climate scam. Doesn’t mean Mankind doesn’t bear responsibility for a lot, but, not the climate scam. For which CNN offers no proof. Literally just mentions it but makes no attempt to explain how this really factors in, especially since the Pacific is not really warmer, and the Ph is on average 8.1, which is alkaline. You’re really going to have to get down in the upper 5s before you really get dangerous acidity. Just another case of having to yell “Climate Change!” in every story possible.

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Excitable Al Green (D-Moonbatlia) To File Articles Of Impeachment

By William Teach April 7, 2025 – 6:45 am

I wonder how many of his fellow Democrats are saying “Al, please, for the love of Government, please, no”?

Al Green says he’ll present articles of impeachment against Trump in next 30 days

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) said he will bring articles of impeachment against President Trump in the next 30 days, telling protesters at an anti-Trump rally in Washington that he does not “deserve” to hold the executive office.

“We need a Senate that will convict him this time, and I want you to know, from my heart, from my heart, I understand that he is a Goliath. He is a Goliath. He has control of the generals in the military. He has control of the Justice Department. He has control of the Republican Party, but my friends, my friends, for every Goliath, there is a David,” Green said while addressing demonstrators at D.C.’s “Hands Off!” rally on Saturday.

“And I want you to know, Mr. President, this David is going to bring articles of impeachment against you within the next 30 days. Within the next 30 days, I’m bringing articles of impeachment. I’m coming for you. Mr. President, this David is coming for you,” the Texas Democrat said.

For what? Since Excitable Al was speaking at the wackadoodle Hands Off thing, is Al going to file articles of impeachment for Trump booting out rapists, murderers, child predators, and gang members who are foreigners? Or, maybe for trying to root out graft, waste, and fraud in federal spending, which is money forcibly taken from US citizens? For trying to make sure women’s sports are for actual women? We don’t know, because Al likes to yap.

But, will he actually do this?

On Feb. 5, Green said during a speech on the House floor that he would file articles of impeachment against Trump after the commander in chief suggested that the U.S. should take over the Gaza Strip.

“Injustice in Gaza is a threat to justice in the United States of America,” Green said at the time. He reiterated a similar message on Saturday, saying that the war-torn enclave “is not going to become a resort. There must be a home for the Palestinian people.”

Maybe some Republican should submit articles of impeachment for Green, since he is aiding and supporting a US State Department designated terrorist organization.

“$17 million of taxpayers money to settle their sexual assault and rape charges.

In 2017, as other members of Congress were facing accusations of sexual assault and rape, the sex-predator Al Green once again bribed Daniels to sign a joint statement to get ahead of the scandal resurfacing.

Lucinda Davis,

“We are friends, and have long been friends. At an unfortunate time in our lives, when both of our feelings were hurt, we hastily made allegations and charges against one another that have been absolutely resolved.”

In other words, $875,000 of taxpayer fund turns a rapist into a ‘friend.’”

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 6, 2025 – 1:48 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle causing the air to be hazy, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on “Tulsi Gabbard to declassify and release the Biden Admin’s classified domestic surveillance and censorship strategy.”

It’s a great week to wash the car.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 6, 2025 – 9:56 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers have started the season 9-1. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Gate Of Vienna: Welcome to Sharia City, Texas
  2. Geller Report: Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Bring MS-13 Gang Leader Back to US After “Administrative Error”
  3. Jihad Watch: Should Foreign Students Who ‘Voice Support’ or ‘Actively Support’ Terrorist Groups Be Deported?
  4. Legal Insurrection: Getting Rid of DEI Is Like “Getting Soap Out Of A Sponge”
  5. Moonbattery: Los Angeles Hits Itself With Derelict Tax
  6. neo-neocon: Tariffs again
  7. Pacific Pundit: Finally! Fauci’s wife fired from NIH
  8. The American Conservative: Despite U.S. Aid, Somalia’s Government Is as Weak as Ever
  9. The First Street Journal: Another Philly illegal immigration sob story
  10. The Gateway Pundit: Trump Administration Puts Loud-Mouthed Illegal Alien On Notice with a Perfect Response After She Brags About Her Status During Anti-Trump Rally in DC (VIDEO)
  11. The Lid: Even Bill Maher Says We Need to Defund PBS and NPR
  12. The Other McCain: Texas Murder: An Exclamation Point on My Argument About ‘Adolescence’
  13. The Right Scoop: HORRIBLE: Colorado House Dems pass bill that will make it CHILD ABUSE for parent to ‘misgender’ their own child
  14. This ain’t Hell…: Bloated University staff contributed to tuition changing to $93,064
  15. And last, but, not least, Watts Up With That? has Court Delivers Massive Blow to Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics

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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Politico Seems Upset That America May Win With Tariffs

By William Teach April 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

They really, really do not want Trump to win. The thing is, if Trump wins, America wins. Too many countries have high tariffs on American goods, yet, America has low or no tariffs on imports. One would think the American news media might root for America

Why Trump May Get Away With His Tariff Trauma

As President Donald Trump announced historically high tariffs across the world this week, I expected a number of affected governments to rapidly and collectively fight back.

Instead, with the exception of China and a few scattered reprisals from allies, we’re seeing mainly cautious reactions. Foreign officials are talking about “calibrated” responses and keeping a “cool head.” Some are clearly hoping diplomacy will persuade Trump to back off some or many of his tariffs.

Or, they could remove the majority of their tariffs and have free trade with the US, allowing our goods into their nations with the same low, or no, tariffs we put on their goods coming into America

In conversations with diplomats, economists and former U.S. officials, I asked why. Weren’t they concerned this muddled, cautious global reaction would be too weak to persuade Trump to change course, or even embolden him to get tougher?

But these experts argued that there are compelling reasons many governments are not acting fast or in unison — not the least of which is that the world’s countries are not good at collective action, and many believe they have a better shot at accomplishing more, for themselves at least, if they avoid escalating the fight with Trump.

Besides, it’s not at all clear if any moves by other countries will deter Trump’s tariff mania.

One would think that Politico writer Nahal Toosi, who escaped from Iran with her family when she was 6, might root for America. But, she went to very liberal UNC Chapel Hill and has spent a lot of time working for very liberal outlets, and has seemed to criticize American policy, at least when Bush 43 and Trump were president. And, criticized Israel, of course. Is it really too much to ask for American news outlets to support America? Maybe American news outlets should be trying to convince foreign nations to change their course and axe their tariffs on American goods.

The European Union is a long-established exception on the trade front, obviously, and it is preparing at least two sets of retaliatory tariffs, though it’s spacing them out, reportedly in hopes of negotiations. But other groupings have yet to emerge to take on Trump’s tariffs.

They could negotiate for equitable tariffs. They could significantly reduce theirs.

Even if that day comes sooner than expected, one thing is for certain: One of the biggest costs of Trump’s trade war is the trust of other countries in America as a stable, reliable pillar of global trade.

In other words, Americans are just supposed to sit there and take the tariffs other countries place on the goods they make and ship from the US.

But, screw those penguins

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Makes It Harder To Spot Submarines

By William Teach April 5, 2025 – 3:12 pm

If true, this would make submariners very happy

Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines

The pentagon “does not do climate-change crap”, said Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defence secretary, on March 9th. “We do training and warfighting.” Fair enough. But a new nato study illustrates how closely the two are linked.

A submarine must remain undetected, eluding hydrophones towed by ships, dropped from planes and strung along the seabed. Just how quiet it needs to be depends on the surrounding water’s acidity, salinity and temperature.

Higher carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere change all these things. The gas’s mere presence acidifies seawater. Its warming effects alters its temperature, and by melting ice changes the salinity, too. Sources of ambient noise such as winds, waves and whales are all affected. And the changes all differ from place to place.

The oceans are slightly alkaline right now, on average about a PH of 8.1. To even start being acidic it has to be below 7.0. They have a long way to go, but, then, this is all about doomsaying for the future.

To work out the consequences for submariners, a team led by Andrea Gilli of the nato Defence College in Rome and Mauro Gilli of eth Zurich used computer modelling to examine how sound travelled through deep water in the past (from 1970 to 1999) and how climate models suggest it will do so in the future (from 2070 to 2099).

Computer models. Pffft

In the Sea of Japan, however, local conditions will make life easier for the hunters. North Korean submarines operating in those waters at a depth of 100m could previously get to within 10km away without detection. In the future, estimate the authors, they could be seen from 45km off.

The hypothetical scenario the study considers is based on a worst-case outcome in which nothing has been done to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions; a trajectory most scientists now consider unrealistic. All the same, the trends identified in the paper are noteworthy. In recent years there has been much talk of new detection methods making the oceans more transparent. In fact, argue the authors, the seas might become more opaque.

See? Future doom. Based on computer models. In other words, bullshit.

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