Trump D.C. Crime Crackdown Already Seeing Hundreds Arrested

By William Teach August 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

One question now is “will they be held and tried for their crimes, or, will left wing loon judges release them with a slap on the wrist?”

Hundreds arrested as Trump’s Washington, DC, crime crackdown hits full stride

The Trump administration’s crackdown on violent crime in Washington, D.C., has already netted more than 240 arrests and taken 38 guns off the streets, a White House official told Fox News.

The show of force has swept up gang members, robbery suspects and immigration violators. On Friday alone, 52 people were arrested, including 28 illegal immigrants, while three guns were seized.

Federal teams also cleared 25 homeless encampments, and officials said those removals were carried out without confrontations or arrests.

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller hailed the scale of the operations and said the numbers are “breathtaking.”

“We have seen a record number of violent offenders, bad guys, gang members and all kinds of threats to public safety removed off the streets as well as their illegal weapons that they’ve been using to terrorize the citizens of this city,” Miller told “Fox News Live.”

This is what Democrats are caterwauling about, what they’re fighting against.

Other arrests included drug distribution, weapons violations and outstanding warrants. Police also detained suspects accused of fleeing law enforcement, reckless driving, assault with a dangerous weapon and kidnapping.

Good, good

Trump Administration Live Updates: West Virginia and South Carolina Sending Troops to Boost Guard’s Presence in D.C.

West Virginia aid: Gov. Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia, a Republican, said on Saturday that he was sending 300 to 400 troops from the state’s National Guard to Washington at President Trump’s request. The troops are believed to be joining about 800 Washington National Guard members already there as part of Mr. Trump’s operation to fight crime in the nation’s capital that he has claimed is “out of control,” even though official data shows that it has been falling sharply.

That actually helps, considering the D.C. Police Dept was down about 800 officers.

And realize that many of those heat zones are happening in what would usually be safer neighborhoods, because that’s where the nice cars are

They’re really whining about cleaning up crime and the homeless. I wonder how many actually live in D.C.?

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Good News: “Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump”

By William Teach August 16, 2025 – 4:09 pm

This looks like something to celebrate, but, it give the NY Times and Warmists the sads

Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump

In the Biden administration, the American environmental movement reached what many of its supporters considered an apex. Congress passed the largest ever federal law to combat climate change. Coal-burning power plants were shutting down. Hundreds of billions of dollars of federal investment in renewable energy, batteries and electric vehicles was beginning to flow.

But in just months, President Trump has attacked much of that work.

The Biden-era climate law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, is in tatters. The White House is trying to revive coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, while boosting oil and gas and hindering solar and wind power. And it is weakening or trying to scrap environmental policies and regulations, some dating to 1970.

The abrupt reversal in fortunes has led to a moment of crisis for the environmental community. “The morale is destroyed,” said Ramon Cruz, a former president of the Sierra Club. “I won’t try to sugar coat it. This is a generational loss.”

In case you were wondering, this piece was not in the opinion section

After a series of stinging defeats and other challenges, some prominent environmental groups are adrift. This week, the Sierra Club’s executive director was fired after a rocky tenure in which he oversaw several rounds of layoffs and clashed with employees. Greenpeace is facing a $670 million legal verdict that could put its future at risk. Rewiring America, a nonprofit group that works to electrify buildings, has slashed nearly a third of its staff.

Actions by the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress have set the environmental movement back years, activists said. Chief among them has been the passage of Mr. Trump’s domestic policy bill, which curtailed many of the core elements of the Inflation Reduction Act.

I have a solution for them: instead of trying to force everyone to comply via Big Government rules and laws, how about all Warmists make their lives Net Zero?

“With one election and one bill, most of the signature climate work that organizations, advocates and movements have been working toward is largely undone,” said Ruthy Gourevitch, a policy director at the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive research organization.

Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor who has supported past efforts to mobilize climate voters and pass climate initiatives on state ballots, said the lesson of the 2024 election is that the public wants solutions that have immediate economic effects.

“If we want to win, we need a fundamental recalibration,” Mr. Steyer recently wrote on Facebook. “Climate can no longer be a separate cause. It must be the context for making people’s lives better. It has to feel like relief. Like opportunity.” For example, he wrote, clean energy must mean lower electric bills.

In other words, Government will control your lives and “make them better.” How’s that worked out for those living in government housing areas?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 16, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on a major court victory for Trump on USAID.

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Florida To Open New Illegal Alien Facility, “Deportation Depot”

By William Teach August 16, 2025 – 10:30 am

I can see that federal judge who screeched “stop building at Alligator Alley!!!!!” after it had pretty much been built having a meltdown over this

Florida to open ‘Deportation Depot’ at shuttered prison weeks after launching ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility

From “Alligator Alcatraz” to a new “Deportation Depot,” Florida says it is leading the way in enforcing federal immigration laws.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the state will open a new immigration detention center dubbed “Deportation Depot” at a shuttered former prison in Sanderson, north Florida, expanding the state’s capacity to hold and deport migrants.

The new facility will be located at Baker Correctional Institution, about 43 miles west of Jacksonville and will initially hold 1,300 beds and can be expandable to 2,000. (snip)

DeSantis said that there are an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 illegal immigrants in Florida who already have final orders of removal but have not yet been deported. He touted state and local law enforcement agencies’ participation in ICE operations with the latest move expanding Florida’s 287(g) program, where state officers collaborate with ICE.

And they can all avoid being sent to either facility by self-deporting. It’s that easy. Don’t forget, federal law states “be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months” then deported. So, as long as they are deported within 6 months, no problem.

Meanwhile

Pam Bondi threatens prosecution for leaders not complying with immigration officers

Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said she has sent “sanctuary city” letters to the mayors of 32 cities and a handful of county executives, warning that she intends to prosecute political leaders who are not in her view sufficiently supportive of immigration enforcement.

“You better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because if you’re not, we’re going to come after you,” she said, speaking to a Fox News reporter. “Our leaders have to support our law enforcement.”

Bondi’s letter asks the recipients to provide a response by 19 August that “confirms your commitment with complying with federal law and identifies the immediate initiatives you are taking to eliminate laws, policies and practices that impede federal immigration enforcement”.

US Code 8 makes it illegal to do things like shelter and hide illegal aliens. I wonder if any will comply, or, will one of the mayors or sheriffs have to be arrested and charged first?

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Your Fault: Burgers Going Up Due To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach August 16, 2025 – 7:00 am

If only you had stopped eating meat

Burgers Bending Your Budget? Blame It On Climate Change

climate cowOver the last year or so, you may have felt the sting of higher prices as you ordered your favorite burgers at your local restaurant or when you’ve been stocking up at the grocery store. You’re not imagining it: burgers and other red meats cost more today than in years past. The reason why is part of an interlocking network of environmental factors that have prompted a financial turnabout for the agriculture industry.

To get a fuller picture as to why burgers cost more today than ever, we need to take a deep dive into climate change, industrial agriculture, and economic strategies. Here’s a primer to help out.

(blah blah blah, cows evil)

What does all this mean for you and your Cheeseburgers in Paradise? A warming planet with intensifying extreme weather is affecting the price of your favorite red meats. Unprecedented conditions are set to become increasingly common across the world, say the authors of a 2025 study. They outline how “new records for extreme conditions will continue to be set, further from those to which agricultural production and economic systems are currently adapted.”

What’s the projection for drought in future years? US climate projections suggest drought conditions may become more frequent and intense. That means the cost of beef in your grocery or neighborhood restaurant will likely continue to rise. Climate change is making catastrophic, multiyear “megadroughts” much worse in the US and around the world.

Good lord, it’s always doom with these people. Did they forget what happened during COVID, with all the inflation, much of which was caused by Democrat policies?

Are rising beef prices new in 2025? Since 2020, studies have shown that climate change is driving up the costs of food, insurance, and other basic goods. Climate impacts on economic productivity indicate that climate change may increasingly threaten price stability. The costs to buy burgers, as a result, isn’t going to fall at least for the next few years.

Yes, they did forget. Or, is this just gaslighting? Cultlighting? These people are dipshits.

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Wacko Judge Considers Whether To Go Against Home Rule Act

By William Teach August 16, 2025 – 6:45 am

The Supreme Court just needs to start taking up these cases and putting out one page decisions that amount to “you’re wrong, just stop, you’re embarrassing”

Federal judge casts doubt on Bondi’s move to sideline DC police leadership

A judge on Friday weighed limiting the power of the Trump administration to assume control of the police department in Washington, D.C., after suggesting the appointment of Drug Enforcement Administration head Terry Cole to assume the police chief’s duties was illegal.

Judge Ana Reyes gave lawyers for the Department of Justice and the D.C. government until early evening to reach a deal that would limit Cole’s authority, or she would issue a temporary restraining order.

Reyes, a Biden appointee, said broader questions over President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order declaring a crime emergency in the nation’s capital would be addressed in a court hearing next week.

In the immediate future, the Trump administration will still largely have control over the Metropolitan Police Department regardless of whether it reaches a deal with the D.C. government or becomes subject to a court order.

Is Reyes familiar with the Home Rule Act? Is she familiar Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution, which established the District Of Columbia, and gives the federal government ultimate control of it? I mean, again

 the Home Rule Act grants the President authority to federalize the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under “emergency conditions”. Though rarely contemplated, this represents an ultimate check on local authority.

It’s pretty specific.

The hearing was a small setback for the administration, as Reyes indicated that Cole must go through Mayor Muriel Bowser to give any further directives to the police force.

These leftard judges just do not care what the law actually says.

The judge made clear she did not plan to immediately rule on whether there was a crime emergency, as Trump stated in his executive order, but that some temporary resolution was still needed.

That is not up to her. It’s not in her power. It’s power delegated to the Executive Branch per duly passed Legislative Law. If Reyes wants to rule against it then she kills the entire Home Rule Act, and the entire DC government collapses and reverts to straight Legislative Branch control.

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Wackjob Cultists Whine About Dogs Again

By William Teach August 15, 2025 – 4:37 pm

I’d prefer 1,000 dogs rather than 1 Warmist

Your dog is part of the climate change problem: ‘I can adopt 100 bunnies that will not be close to the emissions of a dog, because my dog is a carnivore’

A study recently published by the National Academy of Sciences found that when asked to rank actions, such as swapping a car that uses gasoline for an electric one, carpooling or reducing food waste, participants weren’t very accurate when assessing how much those actions contributed to climate change, which is caused mostly by the release of greenhouse gases that happen when fuels like gasoline, oil and coal are burned.

“People over-assign impact to actually pretty low-impact actions such as recycling, and underestimate the actual carbon impact of behaviors much more carbon intensive, like flying or eating meat,” said Madalina Vlasceanu, report co-author and professor of environmental social sciences at Stanford University.

The top three individual actions that help the climate, including avoiding plane flights, choosing not to get a dog and using renewable electricity, were also the three that participants underestimated the most. Meanwhile, the lowest-impact actions were changing to more efficient appliances and swapping out light bulbs, recycling, and using less energy on washing clothes. Those were three of the top four overestimated actions in the report.

Weird, I would have thought that Warmists giving up their own use of fossil fuels would be in the top 3, since people really do not fly all that much

Dogs are big meat eaters, and meat is a significant contributor to climate change. That is because many of the farm animals, which will become food, release methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Beef is especially impactful, in part because around the world cattle are often raised on land that was illegally deforested. Since trees absorb carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas, cutting them to then raise cattle is a double whammy.

“People just don’t associate pets with carbon emissions. That link is not clear in people’s minds,” Zhao said.

Some days I seriously hate these people.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 15, 2025 – 1:33 pm

…is horrible leather that comes from world killing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on an illustrated history of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Heartache: Info On Illegals In D.C. To Be Shared With Los Federales

By William Teach August 15, 2025 – 10:30 am

How crazy is it that the police in the District Of Columbia, the seat of US government, know who the illegal aliens are in their sector and had been actively hiding people who broke federal law. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the average officer liked doing that, they were just forbidden from sharing the information by their crazy superiors

DC police to share information with federal immigration officers

Washington, DC, Police Chief Pamela Smith signed an executive order Thursday allowing DC police officers to share information about people not in their custody with federal immigration enforcement agencies such as ICE — as President Donald Trump continues his federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital and crackdown on illegal immigration.

Along with providing information in situations like traffic stops, the order also allows DC police to assist federal law enforcement agencies with transporting personnel and detainees.

However, the order — citing DC law and police code of conduct — continues to prohibit officers from looking through police databases solely for a person’s immigration status, from making inquiries about a person’s immigration status “for the purpose of determining whether they have violated the civil immigration laws or for the purpose of enforcing civil immigration laws” and from arresting anyone based only on federal immigration warrants.

DC police also may not provide any information about a person in DC police’s custody or allow federal immigration enforcement agents to question them.

Smith may think she’s taking a middle ground, trying to protect the “home ground” and the illegals in our nation’s capitol, but, she forgets that DC government operates at pleasure of the federal government. Ultimately, it is Los Federales who have complete control over D.C.

AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown operation

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a two-page order on Thursday rescinding illegal immigration protections in Washington, D.C., and naming an “emergency police commissioner” for the city’s Metropolitan Police Department.

Bondi’s order, titled “Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia,” mostly took aim at sanctuary city policies within the nation’s capital, rescinding any order that limits how Metropolitan police officers can handle interactions and incidents with illegal immigrants.

She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith by naming Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as the department’s “emergency police commissioner,” granting him all the “powers and duties vested” in the position.

This is entirely legal. The Constitution granted the Legislative Branch full control of D.C. There have been a few laws passed investing the Executive Branch with some power over D.C. operations, including control of the DC National Guard. Remember, in 1973 Congress passed the Home Rule Act, creating the current government of D.C. Congress is still ultimately in charge, and then you have this

Furthermore, the Home Rule Act grants the President authority to federalize the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under “emergency conditions”. Though rarely contemplated, this represents an ultimate check on local authority.

Police officers protecting illegals? That’s ended for now. Moonbat DEI’s in charge of the D.C. police? That’s over for now.

Quick more

D.C. Sues Trump Administration Over Takeover of City

The District of Columbia government filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s “brazen usurpation” of the city’s authority by trying to take control the D.C. Police Department, in a marked escalation of tensions between local and federal authorities in the nation’s capital.

The suit argues that both President Trump’s executive order on Monday federalizing the Police Department and a follow-up order by the U.S. attorney general “far exceed” the president’s authority under the Home Rule Act of 1973, which granted D.C. its limited degree of self-government.

Blah blah blah. The Time finally gets around to mentioning near the end of the article that Congress invested the President with the authority to take over DC law enforcement per the excerpt above. All self government in DC is, again, subject to the whim of the Congress, much like a teacher allowing the kiddies to pretend they are running the classroom.

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DOE Report Says ‘Climate Change’ Is Not Apocalyptical

By William Teach August 15, 2025 – 7:15 am

It’s nice when we have people who are not hysterics and doomsday cultists doing reports

The Department of Energy Just Admitted Climate Change May Not Be Catastrophic

stop global warmingA new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it—but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of middle course would be unremarkable. Today, it feels revolutionary.

The debate over climate change and responses has become so polarized that acknowledging the problem of human-driven warming without accepting a narrative that can sound apocalyptic invites attacks from all sides. I understand that the findings are controversial and hope climate scientists debate every detail. Considering the upside of getting this issue right, you would think more people would encourage open debate.

That is exactly what led energy analyst Travis Fisher of the Cato Institute to return briefly to the administration and help organize the Climate Working Group, which generated the report. Like many of us who read from outside our ideological circles, Fisher was frustrated that many members of the left treat climate-crisis dissent as a thought crime, while many on the right still dismiss climate change as a joke.

I don’t treat the mostly natural changes to the climate as a joke, I treat the Cult of Climastrology as a joke. A scary, authoritarian, doomsday joke. Once again I’ll note that I do believe Mankind plays a part, most via UHI and land use, with a smattering of greenhouse gasses.

What does the report say? In a nutshell, as Fisher puts it: “Climate science—let alone climate policy—is far more nuanced than the summaries for policymakers (produced by previous government efforts) would have you believe.”

The report affirms that greenhouse gases are warming the planet but tempers several claims. For example, the authors found no convincing evidence that U.S. hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts have become more frequent or intense in recent decades, despite what you’d gather from headlines. This debate will continue, as it should, with many related dimensions to consider. But at least there is now high-profile evidence on record to give a say to reasonable experts who disagree with other more alarmed perspectives.

A tiny increase from those GHGs.

Another finding in the report is that drastic policies meant to reduce warming could do more economic harm than good, and that even the most heavy-handed climate policy can’t make much of a difference. Even if we eliminated all U.S. emissions, the authors argue, it would have an “undetectably small” effect on global temperatures. Far from denying climate change, this perspective puts it into context and reminds us that sometimes the strongest medicines can hurt more than the disease.

But, that’s not the point of those policies. They are meant to install authoritarian governments which control everyone’s lives. A soft control, but, a control nonetheless. That’s it.

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