Gazans Trek Home, Learn About FAFO

For all the caterwauling and commiserating and sympathizing in this NY Times piece, they really never get to the heart of the matter, which is “maybe you shouldn’t have attacked Israel and all those civilians. Don’t start a fight in which you cannot hope to compete.” Seriously, the WNBA players and Team USA women’s soccer have better chances when play a high school boys JV team

Thousands Return to Northern Gaza, Hopeful, but Faced With Devastation

Thousands of people continued to travel by foot toward Gaza City on Saturday as a cease-fire held overnight, but early accounts described devastation across the area.

“The scale of destruction is really staggering,” said Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the United Nations’ humanitarian office, who visited the city this past week. “We have a lot of people moving north to Gaza City and arriving to find the ruins where their homes used to be, so there is a lot of conflicted emotion.”

Mediators hope the cease-fire will lead to the end of two years of war. For many of those walking a coastal road to the north of Gaza, the pause in fighting offered a chance to return to home and to learn what remains of their lives there. (big snip)

In Gaza, joy at the pause in fighting has been tempered by the scale of destruction that many face as they return to the north.

On Saturday, Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defense emergency rescue service, said that 63 bodies had been recovered in the streets of Gaza City since the cease-fire began on Friday. He said he believed dozens more were probably under the rubble.

Yeah, well, Bassal has been credibly accused of being a member of Hamas, and, overall, the CDERS is run by the Ministry of Interior, which is wholly run by Hamas. Anyhow

If you drive a Ford Fiesta you shouldn’t challenge someone with a Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport to a race. If you’re a casual guitar player like me you don’t challenge someone like Steve Via to a guitar duel. If you’re 14 and love basketball you don’t challenge LeBron to a 1 on1. Of course, all that happens is you get embarrassed and go home with your tail between your legs. If you live in Gaza and backed Hamas you get rubble. Watch this long video to see what the moron Islamists gave up with their foolish attack on Israel.

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Climate Cultists Threaten “Sustained Sabotage Campaign”

Well, this will definitely earn them converts and good will, right?

Activist group threatens to carry out ‘sustained sabotage’ campaign: ‘They have a choice’

Police in London are looking into claims that climate activists sabotaged the offices of several financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Allianz, and Barclays.

The group Shut the System said it cut cables and glued electrical service cabinets in what it called the beginning of a “period of sustained sabotage” against companies financing fossil fuels, aka dirty energy sources such as oil and gas.

The Guardian reported that London police confirmed they’re aware of social media posts from the group, which included photos purportedly showing activists carrying out this sabotage. The group says it targeted JPMorgan for being the world’s largest fossil fuel investor, Barclays for being Europe’s largest, and Allianz for its role in insuring fossil fuel projects.

However, police said: “We have had no reports of any criminal activity at this time, but we’re speaking to those companies mentioned in the post and the wider business community.”

These actions highlight growing tensions around fossil fuel finance. Extracting and burning fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, is a primary contributor to rising global temperatures. It also pollutes the air and water, harming public health. Activists say financial institutions can make or break the clean energy transition. They argue that by continuing to fund oil, gas, and coal projects, they’re locking societies into more climate and social harm.

It’s no surprise that they’d resort to violence: the extreme enviroweenies have long done stuff like this, and as they became climate cultists they continued. From stupid crap like gluing themselves to roads and buildings and stuff to throwing soup on paintings to blocking roads and trains to spiking trees that could hurt loggers to defacing buildings and planes and so on. If they did do what the article says, it would be expected as they get more and more violent from their cult brainwashing. When you buy into the whole “the planet is doomed unless we Do Something” you get loopy. And violent.

According to The Guardian, Shut the System has threatened to escalate its campaign if financial institutions ignore its demands, which include ending fossil fuel financing, aligning goals and values with the 1.5 degrees Celsius climate target, and protecting Indigenous and human rights. Meanwhile, global pressure is mounting on the financial sector to phase out fossil fuel investments in favor of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.

And, of course, their beliefs are all over the place.

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If All You See…

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

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on Green Antoinette’s and private jets.

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Wacko Colombian President Takes Credit For Trump Gaza Peace Plan

This should make the moonbats happy, they can follow this lead so Trump doesn’t get credit

Huh? Gustavo Petro Takes Credit for Trump’s Gaza Peace Deal

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro claimed on Thursday that “pressure” from Colombia and other countries led to a peace deal between Israel and Hamas brokered by President Donald Trump, detracting from Trump’s direct efforts in the situation.

Petro further claimed that it was the alleged “pressure from humanity” that caused Trump to “learn despite his arrogance” to “say no to Israel.”

The far-left president levied his wild assertions in remarks given on the sidelines of the Global Gateway Forum 2025, an event hosted by the European Union in Brussels. Petro represented the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) regional bloc as the current chair of the group’s rotating pro-tempore presidency.

“There is a war, there is genocide, and what must be stopped is the genocide. And we knew that many countries around the world, including Colombia, which was one of the first, understood that only pressure from humanity could stop this genocide,” Petro said.

“Only the large demonstrations we have just seen in Europe, the diplomatic pressure from Latin America, which never voted against a ceasefire, the pressure from Africa, which never voted against a ceasefire, plus the positions taken by Asia, would ensure that countries, more than half of the countries, including the United States, would be isolated in their support for Israel,” he continued.

Petro then claimed that he thinks President Trump “has learned, let’s say, despite his arrogance and the blows he has dealt, he has learned that it is global pressure that is leading him to say no to Israel and to impose, together with other mediators such as Qatar and Egypt, the need for a truce.”

This allows the wacko pro-Hamas nutjob moonbats to congratulate themselves for the peace plan

And they’re still protesting. Why?

Because they want Jews killed and Israel replaced with an Islamic caliphate, and the loony left doesn’t seem to realize that radical Islam wants control and is in direct competition with Progressives.

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St. Greta’s Hamas Loving Flotilla Had Huge Carbon Footprint

Perhaps they should have actually used the sails, instead the gas engines

Greta Thunberg’s flotilla creates 165 tons of air pollution, same as 206 trips from Tel Aviv to UK

Greta Thunberg’s Sumud Flotilla produced a total of 165 tons of air pollution during its trip from Spain to Gaza, which the energy company Volta Solar calculated to be the same as 206 trips by plane from Tel Aviv to London.

“Over the course of 5 weeks of sailing, the almost 50 vessels in the flotilla consumed a total of about 53,600 liters of diesel,” the study from Volta Solar explained and added, “This fuel consumption is equivalent to direct emissions (tank-to-wheel, TTW) of about 144 thousand kg of CO? – that is, about 144 tons of carbon dioxide emitted from the engines alone.”

“It is not surprising that those who act hypocritically in the field of climate also chose the side of the forces of darkness and not the forces of light,” said Eran Tal, CEO of Volta Solar and a reserve officer who founded the first solar unit in the IDF.

The analysis also points out that the main polluters were those who made the trip using only large, motorized ships, while sailboats that used their engines to a limited extent had a lesser impact.

Volta Solar pointed out that the flotilla’s trip to Gaza was equivalent to 206 flights from Tel Aviv to London in terms of air pollution. It was also equal to the total amount of pollution that 82 family cars produce on average in a year.

These wackos care more about cosplaying as protectors of terrorists than as protectors of the climate. There’s always something that keeps Warmists from practicing what they preach.

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Border Apprehensions Lowest Since Hendrix Was Still Alive

But, Democrats and their Credentialed Media really, really, really want them to skyrocket

Illegal border crossings plunge under Trump in 2025, but numbers are rising

The last time illegal border crossings were this low, disco music and bell-bottoms were in fashion.

Illegal crossings in 2025 have plunged to the lowest level since 1970 amid an aggressive crackdown by the Trump administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. Border Patrol recorded roughly 238,000 migrant apprehensions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, down from more than 1.5 million apprehensions in fiscal 2024.

Remember, a good chunk happened during September 2024-January 20, 2025, while Biden was still notionally president. Oh, and even though disco was around, it wasn’t till the mid-70s that it became fashionable. Hippy music. Black Sabbath. Beatles broke up. Elvis’ first tour since 1958. Workingman’s Dead.

Most encounters happened under the previous administration: 172,026 apprehensions — 72 percent of the total — occurred during the under the Biden Administration during the first 111 days of the fiscal year. Over the next 254 days, this administration recorded 65,539 apprehensions, accounting for just 27 percent of the year’s total.

And zero releases.

The dramatic drop in migration at the U.S.-Mexico border began during the final year of President Joe Biden’s term, after Mexico cracked down on migration through its territory, Biden suspended access to asylum at the border, and his administration implemented new “legal pathways” for migrants to present at a port of entry.

But of course the USA Today wants to give Biden credit.

But the decline in illegal crossings accelerated rapidly after Trump took office in January.

If you take away the incentives to come most stop coming.

“Word has gotten out about the climate of fear here in the United States,” Isacson said. “We’re all seeing the videos of mass deportations, and people are hearing what life is like in our detention system right now.”

There were more during August and September, but, as it gets cooler they will drop.

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Causing Spring To Arrive Later In NYC Parks

No matter the question, the answer is climate doom

Climate change is delaying the arrival of spring in NYC parks, researchers find

As climate change drives warmer winters, environmental scientists have long expected to see spring arrive earlier. But Yale University researchers analyzing satellite imagery of New York City parks found the opposite: Spring is starting later.

“This is completely a flip, and also contrary to our expectations, because you would think that if it’s warmer, the leaf-out would be earlier,” said Karen Seto, the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science at the Yale School of the Environment.

In the study, published July 30 in Environmental Research Letters, Seto and other researchers analyzed the start of the growing season at 379 parks across New York City, comparing trends between 2000 to 2009 and 2013 to 2022. Researchers focused on how the impacts of climate change and the urban heat island effect — how a city’s heat-absorbing buildings, roads and infrastructure increase its overall temperature — shape the temperature of green spaces.

When it comes to mitigating the effects of climate change, Yale researchers found that the size of the park matters. They analyzed parks ranging from large green spaces like Central Park and Prospect Park, to medium-sized ones like Bryant Park and Madison Square Park, to even smaller, playground-sized spaces.

In the smallest parks, temperatures inside and outside the green spaces are similar, said Juwon Kong, a postdoctoral associate and the study’s lead author. Big, sprawling parks, which are more protected against the urban heat island effect, are not only cooler internally, but can also cool the surrounding area, he said.

Wait, what’s that about the urban heat island effect? Oh, right, sorry, still your fault

Analyzing detailed satellite imagery of the parks, researchers found that the delayed onset of spring was most significant in medium-sized parks. For those parks — ranging in size from one hectare (about 2.5 acres) to 18 hectares (about 45 acres) — the average start of spring was delayed by 2.62 to 4.43 days.

In smaller parks, of less than one hectare, researchers recorded an average delay of spring of 0.90 days. And in the biggest parks, of more than 18 hectares, researchers recorded that the average arrival of spring was delayed by about 1.41 days.

So, delayed minimally, but, still in complete contradiction of climate cult doctrine.

In the near term, though, the findings have implications for the management of green spaces in New York City, and perhaps other cities, she said. For instance, the findings might help inform tree-planting strategies that maximize cooling benefits.

The research, Seto said, “helps us think about ways in which we can better manage the green space in cities so that they can thrive in a hotter and hotter climate and be more resilient.”

Give us money.

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If All You See…

…is an evil fossil fueled boat causing Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on what Trump’s doing to end Antifa violence

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Suddenly, Leftist Judge Want ICE’s “Warrentless” Arrests Restricted

Funny how these same types of judges didn’t do this when Obama and Biden were presidents. Or Bush43 or Clinton

Warrantless arrests by ICE in Chicago area ruled unlawful by federal judge

A U.S. District Judge has ruled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violated a previously agreed-upon consent decree over warrantless arrests in the Chicago area and unlawfully detained more than two dozen people in the first months of President Donald Trump’s second administration.

“Collateral arrests” or people arrested while ICE agents are patrolling the street, often without a previously signed warrant, have been a major tactic deployed during the local immigration enforcement crackdown branded “Operation Midway Blitz.”

Now, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings (Biden nominee, who worked with Obama back in 1995 on ACORN and their shady dealings) has imposed limits on when agents can make those kinds of arrests as part of an extended consent decree that will last until Feb. 2, 2026.

Cummings also imposed reporting requirements for ICE to share how many people are being arrested in the Chicago area without a warrant.

Yeah, well, at best, this will only apply to Cumming’s district, per Supreme Court decision.

The ABC7 I-Team has been following this case closely after attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) and the ACLU of Illinois accused DHS and ICE in March of violating the 2022 Castañon Nava settlement after the warrantless arrest of 26 individuals during the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second administration.

Those kinds of arrests have ramped up significantly in the last month, said NIJC attorney Mark Fleming.

They’re in the US illegally. That’s it. The law says they are to be detained and deported.

The NIJC says it will seek the release of hundreds of people they claim were unlawfully arrested, including men arrested during a raid in Elgin where Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was present, and a family detained in Millennium Park last month.

All those arrests are examples of what Cummings ruled is an ongoing pattern of ICE violating the terms of the consent decree.

“If they [ICE] made a warrantless arrest, they need to justify and document the specific information justifying that warrantless arrest,” Fleming said during a Wednesday news conference.

These people will do anything to protect illegal aliens. But, hey, once again, I recommend that Trump and Holman direct ICE to go after the illegals in Republican areas first, which will cause many to flee to sanctuary cities like Chicago, forcing those cities to spend a lot of money on the illegals, burdening their systems.

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Palisades Arsonist Was Apparently Trump Deranged and A Climate Cultist

Let’s learn a bit more about this wacko

Alleged Palisades firebug posted anti-Trump screeds, blamed wildfires on climate change

The Florida man accused of sparking the flames that burned swaths of Los Angeles to the ground in the Palisades Fire posted on social media about how global warming causes wildfires.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, regularly took to Facebook to share posts about eco-apocalypses, mocking President Trump and his supporters, and pushing people to become vegans.

One article he shared – “Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration,” from ProPublica – even included a thumbnail showing wildfires raging across a California hillside neighborhood.

That 2020 story opened by discussing blazing West Coast temperatures.

It’s eerily – and ironically – similar to the situation Rinderknecht is accused of creating himself on Jan. 1, when he allegedly hiked to the hills above Los Angeles and started a brushfire. Prosecutors allege that blaze was never fully extinguished and six days later it sprang back to life — burning nearly 24,000 acres, kill 12 people, and destroy over 7,000 homes and businesses with damages worth about $150 billion.

Everything looks like ‘climate change’ when you start the fire.

Other posts on the alleged firebug’s Facebook included photos of Trump supporters apparently crying after he lost the 2020 election, linking to a Harris-Biden fundraiser page, and more climate-alarmist headlines.

“Senator Kamala Harris Says Meat is Destroying the Planet,” read one article.

“Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Have Lost Millions of Metric Tons of Ice,” read another, from Scientific American.

“A Shift to Plant-Based Diets Would Create 19 Million Jobs in Latin American and the Caribbean,” a third from Forbes read.

Lot of Trump derangement and climate cult doomism. Probably driven wacko by the schools, the Credentialed Media, and other cultists.

He also threatened to burn down his sister’s house, so, he’s being held without bail.

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