DOJ Sues Several Democrat States Of Climate Scam Policies

By William Teach May 2, 2025 – 4:48 pm

I’m not sure how I feel about this: if it is not a power expressly delegated to the federal government than it is reserved for the States and the People, and, if they want to do stupid cult stuff, that’s on them. But, is this something that would be part of the duties of Los Federales? Let’s take a look

Justice Department sues Hawaii, Michigan, Vermont and New York over state climate actions

The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda.

The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change. On Thursday, the DOJ sued New York and Vermont, challenging their climate superfund laws that would force fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on previous greenhouse gas emissions.

“These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement, noting the office hopes to stop “these illegitimate impediments to the production of affordable, reliable energy that Americans deserve.”

The DOJ lawsuits, which legal experts called unprecedented, mark the latest of the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental work and raises concern over states’ abilities to retain the power to take climate action without federal opposition.

The DOJ’s four filings said the state efforts undermine the federal government while “increasing energy costs and disrupting the national energy market.” It said the states’ plans and policies are unconstitutional, violate the federal foreign affairs power and are preempted by the Clean Air Act — a federal law authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate air emissions.

Now, since fossil fuels mostly come into those states from other states/nations, that would be part of Article I section 8 “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” If those states want to do deal with companies that take fossil fuels from the ground in the state and sell it in the state without the product ever leavign the state, than, sure, lawsuits. If they want to deal with product come from outside the state? The power of Los Federales.

The DOJ argued the act “creates a program for regulating air pollution in the United States and ‘displaces’ the ability of States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions beyond their borders.”

OK, that gives me a hearty laugh, because the Trump DOJ just used the Democrats own words against them, in that the climate cult Dems have stated that the law gives sole power to the federal government.

“This lawsuit is at best frivolous and arguably sanctionable,” Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement Thursday. Nessel noted that Michigan hasn’t yet filed its lawsuit, but confirmed her intent to, and said the White House and the oil industry “will not succeed in any attempt to preemptively bar our access to make our claims in the courts.” A spokesperson for Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office deferred to Nessel when asked for comment.

I have a solution: ban the sale of all fossil fuels in your states. That is your power. Which would mean that all you Elites, like Nessel, Whitmer, and the others from the affected states, would have to stop taking all those fossil fueled flight and SUV trips. Whitmer’s husband wouldn’t be able to use his fossil fueled boat. Real shame, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 2, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that is rising dozens of feet a year because Other People won’t ride the train, you might just be a Warmis

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on eco-terrorism by Palestinians in Israel.

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Heartache: Trump Signs EO To End Government Funding Of PBS And NPR

By William Teach May 2, 2025 – 10:30 am

Oh, yeah, this is causing category 5 moonbattery

President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting.

The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the “maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.” It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS.

The executive order also directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to investigate NPR and PBS for possible employment discrimination, and it instructs the heads of all other federal agencies to “identify and terminate” any direct or indirect funding of the media organizations, as allowed by the law.

The order follows previous attacks on the public broadcasters by the Trump administration and prominent Republicans.

Each year, the CPB disperses $535 million in taxpayer funds to public radio and TV stations nationwide, stations provide free and universal access to educational shows, emergency alerts and a wide array of news and cultural content.

Republicans have been attacking both stations long before Trump won back in 2016, as they are a government funded propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and ever Progressive idea there is. Here are two Americans commenting about NPR at Quora

I listen to NPR all the time because it’s a great source of current event news (pretty much the only one on my drive to work) and has no ads. To me though, the liberal bias is pretty obvious. If you don’t see it, it’s because they are simply confirming your own biases. One thing that comes to mind immediately is that every 3rd story is about transgender or other identity politics issue. I’m not saying all these stories are completely one sided, but the selection of topics itself is skewed. They can’t even review TV shows, or new seasons, without talking about the fraction of minority, gay, transgender characters. These are not things that non-liberals care or think much about. A hugely disproportionate number of stories also end up blaming whatever problem they are talking about on climate change. I see it coming and roll my eyes every time. Science Friday seems to circle around to “what to do about climate deniers” every few months.

Of course it does. When I was younger, my college friends and I called it National Pinko Radio. And we loved it!

As someone who has listened to NPR for decades, I can assure you that NPR indeed has a liberal bias. NPR’s biases show up in their reporting, in their interview subjects, and most of all in their story selection. Given their largely liberal audience and overwhelmingly liberal reporting and editorial staff, it would be amazing if they didn’t have a liberal bias.

I remember NPR being far left all the way back in my college days in the 80s. Let me reverse this: if NPR was akin to Breitbart or The Blaze, would Democrats be trying to pull government funding? Of course they would. Would they be saying that the government should not be funding propaganda with taxpayer appropriations? Of course they would. And PBS has gone pure Woke, as well. Having drag queens on programing for children, gays and lesbians for Sesame Street (there shouldn’t be any sexuality of any type on children’s shows), raaaaacism, reparations, every Progressive agenda.

It was a mistake creating this back in 1970, it’s not what the government should be doing, having broadcasts with government propaganda. If liberals want to give their own money to the two, have at it.

Congress specifically set up the corporation as a private entity “to afford maximum protection from extraneous interference and control,” according to a law passed in 1967. The legislation expressly forbids the government from exercising “any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting.”

Except, anything created by Congress and funded via taxpayer money appropriated by the federal government should, in fact, be under the purview of the federal government. That’s their freaking job. Obviously, liberals will sue and a left wing judge will tell Trump to fund them, regardless of what the law says.

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Trump Admin Ends Biden Era Lawsuit Against Ranching Family

By William Teach May 2, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Biden admin decided they would be the lords of the people. The Trump admin wants to protect The People from the government. This opinion piece is written by Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture

Brooke Rollins: USDA Ends a Biden Administration Injustice

Fifth-generation ranchers Charles and Heather Maude make their living raising cattle and hogs on the wide plains of western South Dakota. Since 1907, Charles’s family has been on the land where they now farm thousands of acres.

Twenty-five acres of their property run alongside the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, administered by the U.S. Forest Service—unfortunately for the Maudes, with a poorly demarcated boundary between the national grasslands and their property.

The Maudes never worried much about it: In an informal agreement, the Forest Service allowed their cattle to graze, and they assumed in good faith that a process was under way to survey the land and establish clear boundaries.

Their good faith wasn’t matched by the federal government’s. Last year, the Biden administration’s Forest Service surveyed the boundary—without informing the Maudes of the outcomes or even the process—and then shortly thereafter accused them of “theft of government property.” For reasons unknown, the pitiless federal bureaucracy bent itself toward the destruction of a hardworking and upstanding family. That’s the bad news.

Well, of course they did. Government bureaucrats already like to throw their weight around: during the Biden admin they felt even more empowered, and thought no one would stop them

The good news is that while the Maudes had no immediate recourse for this roughshod treatment under the Biden administration, the Trump administration sees its role as representing rather than ruling Americans.

As agriculture secretary, I have a responsibility to enact the president’s will in policy and practice. And as an American entrusted with the stewardship of governance, I have a responsibility to defend my fellow Americans’ liberties.

Funny how Democrats say Trump is the Fascist, yet, it was Biden (and most Democrats) who actually tried to act as a ruling class, in direct opposition to the meaning of the Constitution

That’s why I am stepping in and ordering an end to the legal pursuit of the Maudes by the Forest Service and any other branch of USDA. The federal government has dropped all civil and criminal charges against the Maude family. I am also ordering that all USDA pursuits of other Americans in similar situations be immediately halted. Meanwhile, we are investigating how and why this wrongful persecution of an American ranching family ever occurred.

Bureaucratic unaccountability has been a byword in American politics, from lives ruined in the name of public health and lost wars to needless prosecutions and beyond.

Rollins has her work cut out, and I hope she succeeds. I also hope that the Maudes will be reimbursed for all the money they have wasted in fighting the feds.

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Trump Asks SCOTUS To Allow Ending TPS For Venezuelans

By William Teach May 2, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m confused as to why any permission is needed: the TPS for the Venezuelans already ended

Trump administration asks SCOTUS to strip legal protections from 350K Venezuelan migrants after Obama-appointed judge put hold on plan

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.

The Justice Department asked the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelans that would have otherwise expired last month.

The status allows people already in the United States to live and work legally because their native countries are deemed unsafe for return due to natural disaster or civil strife.

A federal appeals court had earlier rejected the administration’s request.

President Donald Trump’s administration has moved aggressively to withdraw various protections that have allowed immigrants to remain in the country, including ending TPS for a total of 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. TPS is granted in 18-month increments.

The protections had been set to expire April 7, but U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ordered a pause on those plans. He found that the expiration threatened to severely disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and could cost billions in lost economic activity.

Chen, who was appointed to the bench by Democratic President Barack Obama, found the government hadn’t shown any harm caused by keeping the program alive.

And why is it up to this one judge? Congress established the program. Then the Executive Branch enacts it. The Venezuelans had their time, and, now it is up. One single judge is encroaching on the separation of power. Under what statute did the judge rule? The law is specific. If the Executive Branch or Congress wants to extend the time, that is up to them. The judge is making law/executive orders.

But Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote on behalf of the administration that Chen’s order impermissibly interferes with the administration’s power over immigration and foreign affairs.

It does, but, this judge, who looks to have been captured by the system, or be GOPe who love illegals, thinks he can run the Executive Branch.

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Begun, The Climate Wars Have

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 5:15 pm

OK, not quite begun, but, they’re coming! The doomsday cult pinky swears

Climate wars are approaching — and they will redefine global conflict

Climate change is increasingly recognized not merely as an environmental crisis but as a threat multiplier, worsening political and economic tensions worldwide. Two factors — water scarcity and mass migration — are poised to completely reshape global conflict dynamics.

Without coordinated global action, these pressures may induce a vicious circle of interlocking issues: destabilization of livelihoods, unprecedented waves of civil unrest and political violence, mass migration and surging border conflicts.

The world is interconnected. A shift in one location will impact another. Fresh water is a resource we all need to survive, and as it dwindles, conflicts can flare. At the same time, rising sea levels and soaring temperatures will make many cities and huge swathes of land uninhabitable. Put together, these human-induced changes will lead to the widespread movement of people into countries that are hell-bent on protecting their resources.

In response, governments will likely deploy ever-more sophisticated military technology to protect their own citizens, becoming more insular in the process. Once capitalism is at risk of crumbling, social divides increase, and nations, corporations, or even ultra-wealthy individuals may begin to take matters into their own hands — addressing climate change in a way that benefits them, potentially at the expense of others.

Got that? Without massive governmental control of everything the world is doomed. And, we must end capitalism and put control of money in the hands of The Government.

Consider Iraq: The once-rich agricultural areas near Basra have become increasingly barren due to upstream Turkish dams and accelerating climate change. This scarcity has heightened tensions between Iraq’s diverse regions, including the upstream Kurdistan Regional Government (which has proposed adding 245 dams to the governorate), central Baghdad, and the downstream southern populations near Basra.

So, really, creating damns in a desert region, nothing to do with you driving a fossil fueled vehicle. Anyhow, the rest of this long stupid cult article is stupid, just a regurgitation of the same old doomy dogma we’ve seen time and time again. They can all just bugger off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from carbon pollution spewing fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a new twist on the New Orleans terror attack.

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Politico Wonders Why RFK Jr’s Search For Autism Cause Is Divisive

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 10:30 am

Politico does finally get around to the “why”, and, I bet you can guess what it is

Why RFK Jr.’s search for autism’s cause is so divisive

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to investigate autism’s “root cause” has split advocates for people with the condition: Some, like Kennedy, want to know what’s causing it, while prominent groups think his search could do more harm than good.

Kennedy’s grim depiction of the most profound cases of autism — many “will never use a toilet unassisted,” he said in April — sparked condemnation from several groups devoted to championing autistic people. They said his remarks perpetuate stigmas associated with a condition that has a broad spectrum of manifestations — and, coupled with his well-known vaccine skepticism, color any attempt by the agency he leads, the Department of Health and Human Services, to conduct further autism research.

But others who say they speak for people with severe autism were heartened that Kennedy is promising to devote HHS’s resources to help them as autism diagnosis rates continue to climb.

“America has a big problem, and we have to face up to it,” said one of them, Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism.

The divide shows how Kennedy’s search for autism’s source — he’s pledged to have some answers by September — has inflamed a long-simmering debate among people who advocate for those with the neurodevelopmental disorder and suggests that his investigation, whatever its findings, will be politically explosive.

I’m really not sure why investigating the root cause would be divisive at all. If this was some other disease, would they be against scientific research? What if he said they would figure out alzheimers? Or cancer?

But many in the autism community said Kennedy’s not the person to lead the effort. After his speech, several leading groups, including the Autism Society of America, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, and Autism Speaks, slammed him for spreading misinformation.

So, it is mostly because Kennedy is doing this. And, I’m sure there is some TDS involved. Because these Democrat leaning groups are more interested in politics than solving a medical issue. Why not offer their help instead? Or, is it also that the make good bank off keeping autism going? In increasing the numbers who are diagnosed with autism? When Biden said he wanted to solve cancer, only the extreme wackos who vote Republican had issues. Beyond that, Biden only caught some flack because he didn’t seem to be working toward that goal.

“Claims that Autism is ‘preventable’ is not supported by scientific consensus and perpetuate stigma,” they said in a statement. “Language framing Autism as a ‘chronic disease,’ a ‘childhood disease’ or ‘epidemic’ distorts public understanding and undermines respect for Autistic people.”

That is not a scientific statement, and shows that they really do not want any investigation into knowing anything about autism. I wonder why? ($$$$$$) Anyhow, many groups do support the scientific inquiry. And

Many autism advocacy groups have shifted their efforts in recent years toward amplifying the voices of people who have autism and urging society to accept them — and away from the search for a cause or cure.

Money. Influence. They want to keep this cash cow going instead of looking for an answer. And, really, this has been going on for awhile. Heck, had Biden tried to look for answers he probably who have received a lot of pushback.

Critics of Kennedy’s interest in environmental toxins point to studies that have found that genetics play a role in who develops autism and that autism can run in families.

And, what if there is a way to change that so they do not develop autism, or, maybe, the symptoms could be minimized? People are not born with measles, yet, we can give them a vaccine to stop it.

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House GOP Tilts Some Windmills To Nix PRC Clean Truck Rules

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 7:15 am

We all know there is zero chance this will pass in the Senate: there are not enough Democrats, if any, who will vote for it. But, hold on, wait, it looks like the House Republicans grew some cajones

House votes to axe California clean truck rules

The House voted to axe the Biden administration’s approval of the California rules, which aim to cut pollution and planet-warming emissions from trucks, using a tool known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

The CRA allows Congress, with just a simple majority in both chambers and presidential approval, to reverse recent regulations, evading the Senate filibuster’s 60-vote threshold. It’s sometimes used at the start of a new administration to eliminate regulations put forward by the last one.

However, the votes come in defiance of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan congressional watchdog that sometimes issues legal opinions.

That office has determined that because the EPA’s approval came in the form of a waiver rather than a rule, it is not subject to the CRA.

Last time I checked, Congress voting carries more wait that a bunch of bureaucrats in the Executive Branch.

The House was initially slated to also vote to axe California’s phaseout of gas-powered cars, but postponed that vote until Thursday.

Too bad they can’t add some language in that every lawmaker and bureaucrat who supported these rules should be required to drive and EV themselves.

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Report: Trump Admin Considering Sending Illegals To Libya and Rwanda

By William Teach May 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

Real? Fake? Trump trolling the Credentialed Media and their leftist viewers?

Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say

The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to those two countries, according to multiple sources familiar with the talks.

The proposals mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s push to deter people journeying to the United States and remove some of those already here to countries thousands of miles away, some of which have checkered pasts. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January directing top officials to facilitate international cooperation and agreements to send asylum seekers elsewhere.

In addition to sending migrants with criminal records, Trump officials are also hoping to enter formal negotiations with Libya to strike a so-called safe third country agreement, which would allow the US to send asylum seekers apprehended at the US border to Libya, according to one of the sources. No decision has been made yet, and it’s unclear which nationalities would be eligible.

Obviously, no one on the record. That said, Marco Rubio did state last Wednesday that the US was talking with may 3rd party nations to get these illegals out. Hey, if the illegals and fake asylum seekers refuse to go to their home countries (or elsewhere, I don’t care) on their own, we can ship them elsewhere. The deserts of Africa, or deep jungle, sound great. You don’t have to go home, but, you got to go.

Meanwhile, that was CNN melting down. Now it’s the Washington Post’s turn

First migrants charged with entering restricted military zone at border

The Justice Department has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants who breach a newly expanded military zone at the southern border that is patrolled by U.S. troops, threatening people with additional penalties for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

At least 28 migrants were charged Monday with crossing into the 170-mile-long “National Defense Area,” a 60-foot strip of land that stretches across the bottom of New Mexico and has effectively been turned into part of a U.S. military installation. Prosecutors added the new charge of violating security regulations in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces to the more common misdemeanor of entering the United States illegally.

Both crimes are classified as misdemeanors. But the new charge increases the possible penalties to up to a year in custody and $100,000 in fines, whereas the traditional illegal-entry charge carries only a maximum six-month jail term and up to $5,000 in fines.

I hope the penalty simply ends up being “bye!”

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