Can US Ban People Who Cooked For Terrorists? Supreme Court To Take Case Up

By William Teach October 16, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is a very weird case

Can cooking for terrorists bar asylum? Supreme Court takes up unusual case with broader immigration stakes

A Nigerian man forced to cook thousands of meals for the Unknown Gunmen, a militant group linked to political violence in Nigeria, is at the center of a Supreme Court showdown that could determine how broadly immigration authorities can apply a terrorism-related bar to asylum and how far the Trump administration can go in deporting immigrants accused of supporting terrorism.

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear the Trump administration’s challenge to a ruling that overturned Nigerian citizen Izuchukwu Ozurumba’s deportation order, setting up a legal battle over whether ordinary services provided to terrorist organizations, including cooking meals, can disqualify immigrants from receiving asylum even when those services are not directly connected to terrorist attacks.

Ozurumba was deported to Nigeria in April 2025 while his appeal was pending.

At the center of the case is a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that bars certain immigrants who provide “material support” to terrorist organizations from receiving asylum. The law lists examples of prohibited assistance, including transportation, communications, housing, money, weapons and training, but it does not explicitly define what constitutes material support.

“The biggest takeaway is that this is a case about who gets to draw the line on a law that affects national security,” Bryce Poole, a senior legal fellow with Advancing American Freedom, told Fox News Digital. “Congress wrote a broad rule, and the court interpreted it narrowly.”

He worked with the terrorists and claims it was involuntary. Still doesn’t mean the US has to give him asylum. Do we need to give every 3rd worlder who refuses to assimilate a life in the US, plus money, housing, healthcare, clothes, etc, for their story of woe? We have enough of them. He came here illegally in 2023, a judge quickly determined he did not qualify for asylum, and then, somehow, he was able to afford all these lawyers to help him stay in the US. He supposedly was not paid for months while cooking for the terrorists, then escaped, then was able to afford to go from Nigeria to Venezuela then trek to the US. That is not cheap.

How many times do we find that people let in on asylum end up being something else?

(American Thinker) Then it gets worse: Her dad didn’t qualify for refugee status, meaning, he didn’t qualify for U.S. citizenship. He apparently lied on his application forms about not being a part of the persecuting class of Somalia which created its civil war, and got into the country as a helpless refugee. Turns out he was suspected of being a warlord and henchman in the homicidal regime of Mohammed Siad Barre, whose thugs massacred 200,000 people and got Somalia into a full blown civil war.

That dad is Nur Omar Mohamed, the father of Ilhan Omar, who never should have been given refugee status then citizenship. And, since Ilhan was probably 18 at that time, she should not have gotten “derivative citizenship”, meaning she’s not a citizen and should not be a member of Congress. You should read that whole article.

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17 Climate Cult Groups Sue Montana, Wanting Commission To Consider ‘Climate Change’ On Everything

By William Teach October 16, 2026 – 7:15 am

The climalawfare continues, because the cult cannot convince other people to follow and allow their cult stuff in government

17 groups sue Montana Public Service Commission to require considering climate change

A coalition of 17 groups that want the Montana Public Service Commission to consider the effects of climate change in its decisions is taking its case to court.

Earthjustice and Western Environmental Law Center filed a complaint Thursday against the Public Service Commission.

It asks the Missoula County District Court to find the PSC has a constitutional obligation to account for climate risks in its decisions.

“Climate change poses an urgent threat to Montana and its people,” the complaint said.

It said the Public Service Commission can allow utilities to keep investing in fossil fuels or encourage them to pursue “cleaner and ultimately less costly alternatives.”

But it said the PSC has “refused to recognize and regularly disregards” the costs of climate, such as smoke that hurts asthmatic children, floods that destroy homes, and anglers who can’t fish.

Y’all are just batguano insane, and, also, won’t give up your own use of fossil fuels and make your lives carbon neutral. I wonder how many of these people do not even live in Montana, or recently moved there from their hellhole Democrat states and bring the same stupidity they escaped from?

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Democrats Have A Radical Plan To Change The Government For Good

By William Teach October 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

This comes from fevered mind of far left Zack Beauchamp at far left Vox

The radical Democratic plan to change the government for good

Donald Trump started his second term in office with a plan: Project 2025.

The document — a detailed policy blueprint put together by the right-wing Heritage Foundation — outlined not just a hardline policy agenda, but a novel theory of how to wield power to get it done. Its chapters showed how a conservative president could aggressively use executive authority to strengthen the parts of the government he liked, like immigration enforcement, and smash the parts he didn’t, like foreign aid and the civil service.

Project 2025 and Trump wanted to reduce the size of the federal government, reduce taxes for normal Americans and small businesses, to increase energy independence, get manufacturing in the US, get the Government off the backs of the citizens, reduce its power. What about the Democrats?

The most prominent Democratic response to Project 2025 — an effort from a leading think tank, officially called “Project 2029” — seems undersized. A grab-bag series of conventional policy proposals, addressing issues like kids’ online safety and “the annoyance economy,” it does not even seek to grapple with the fundamental problem of a broken government.

But after months of reporting, I’ve learned that there is a quieter effort underway to build a true equivalent to Project 2025: a set of ideas for remaking the government just as sharply as Trump and Vought did — and perhaps more permanently.

The real Project 2029, as I’ve taken to calling it, isn’t yet a public document. But its broad agenda has become a point of consensus across the Democratic Party’s major factions. And importantly, its core ideas have real buy-in among both congressional Democrats and the top 2028 presidential hopefuls.

Weird that Democrats do not want to tell Americans what it is, but, Zack has a few notions. The “plan” yammers about turning an authoritarian government into a pro-democracy one, but, this seems to involve a lot increasing government (like we’ve seen in California)

Basically, what they are pushing is a federal government that cannot be stopped, and is, at best, the plan of the DSA light. What they want is a government where Democrats control it, it’s almost impossible to get them out of office, that they can jam through any legislation they want, and the Supreme Court will back anything they do.

This is a very long piece, which you often get at Vox, with a lot of flowery language meant to make the whole thing palitable, but

But perhaps the single best publicly available guide to Project 2029 thinking is a recent series of policy papers published on the website Just Security called the “Reinvention Blueprints,” edited jointly by Rahman and Sam Berger (another Biden OIRA vet, who also works with Hertel-Fernandez at EDI).

That is really all about Los Federales gaining more and more power and it being harder and harder for We The People to stop them.

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Ancient Indigenous Caused Climate Change With Fossil Fueled Vehicles

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 3:37 pm

We just never learn from the past

Ancient Indigenous people in New Mexico lived through extreme climate change 23,000 years ago, study suggests

climate cowSome of the first people in North America lived through extreme climate change at the peak of the last ice age, a new study suggests.

Researchers studied ancient pollen locked in rocks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, which houses an archaeological site thought to contain the oldest human footprints in the Americas. The researchers previously dated those footprints to around 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, though their age is the subject of some scientific debate because they are significantly older than other Indigenous sites in the Americas.

The new findings, published Wednesday (Oct. 14) in the journal Science Advances, suggest that humans kept using White Sands after temperatures warmed and thus saw the landscape undergo rapid changes during the coldest era of the last ice age, known as the Last Glacial Maximum (26,500 to 19,000 years ago).

“It’s remarkable that early humans in the region were real-time witnesses to a rapidly changing environment discernible within a human lifetime — that is really food for thought,” study co-author Kathleen Springer, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a statement.

So, um, what caused that to happen? And, let’s be real, it was global warming, with natural processes, mostly caused by the Sun, to move the Earth from a glacial age to an interglacial. They weren’t using fossil fuels or any of the Other Things Warmists Blame for their rebranded anthropogenic global warming.

It’s actually a fascinating article, once you get by thinking about what caused it and why is today different. Especially since the article forgot the normal “and this is why Modern Humans should be concerned over what we are doing.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded from too much carbon pollution from world killing dogs, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on “Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4290”

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Grocery Workers Super Concerned Over AI Robots In California Stores

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 10:30 am

Can the robots restock the shelves?

AI robots are roaming L.A. grocery store aisles. Shoppers and workers are worried

The robot takeover looks a lot different from what we see in Hollywood thrillers.

Even as artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots dance, box and beat human running-speed records, the physical bots showing up in our daily lives in Los Angeles are less Terminator and more R2-D2.

On a Wednesday afternoon at Ralphs on Pico Boulevard, a skinny, six-foot-tall tower of sensors rolled through the aisles. It made low beeping noises, its lights flickering purple and green. A small screen on the top of the tower had two blinking eyes and a small line of text. “Hi, I’m Tally!”

“Robot! Robot!” a young boy yelled. Some adults looked confused; others laughed.

Ricardo Valadez, a 62-year-old real estate agent from Mid-City and Ralphs regular, said he felt like the robot was stalking him around the store but was reassured by an employee that it just checks the shelves to see what is missing or out of place.

It’s basically inventory assessment. Heck, the robots could have done this without AI onboard.

With a recent rollout in some L.A. grocery stores, the inventory bot, built by Burlingame-based company Simbe Robotics, joins the other free-range forms of physical AI that are already a part of everyday life in L.A. such as food-delivery bots and Waymos.

From inventory management to marketing and checkout, retailers are increasingly adopting automation. The retail automation market could jump to $77 billion by 2034 from $28 billion in 2025, according to estimates from market research company Fortune Business Insights.

Simbe says more than 3,000 of its bots have been contracted to monitor shelves worldwide. Kroger, the parent company of Ralphs, is using hundreds of them after pilot projects that started in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and recently spread to California.

It’s a lot easier and less time consuming than having a human wander around. Anyone ever done it? It’s tedious. I remember doing it at a liquor store I worked at in my hometown in NJ during school breaks. And while they are big in NJ, nothing like a grocery store. It can also be more constant and less expensive using these robots. They can also create better insights in consumer purchase habits, and notice changing habits quicker. But

Unions are concerned the bots — which Simbe claims can save employees up to 50 hours of work per week — could put human employees out of work.

In July, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union branch representing employees in Washington, northeast Oregon and northern Idaho released a statement outlining concerns about deploying Tally across Kroger-owned Fred Meyer locations.

“Union members regularly do this work,” the statement said. “We believe outsourcing our union jobs to robots will erode our unity in the worksite, reduce available hours for those who need them to pay the rent, and threaten the stability of our benefits.”

And that’s what this whole article is about, the Big Unions being concerned about losing dues paying members, especially since the Government keeps forcing private businesses to pay more and more, and a lot comes back to the unions as dues. Personally, unlike using robots at fast food places, I see this as a helper which frees up existing workers from tedious inventories and restocking. At least until the point where the robots can restock the shelves themselves. And, heck, do the shopping for pickup/delivery orders.

Ralphs employee Fournier said she and others worry about job automation and whether the bots could be used to monitor employees. With self-checkout and digital shelf tags already reducing the need for employees, some workers wonder what is next.

“Even an inventory job, like now, that’s being shopped out to a computer,” Fournier said. “What are they trying to do here?”

It won’t call in sick. It won’t lollygag. It won’t create HR problems. It won’t quit. What if it monitors employees and says “this guy/gal is great, give them a raise or bonus”? They should worry less about the limited number of robots in the store and more about the security cameras being powered by AI and monitoring them.

There needs to be more discussion ahead of time and sign-off from employees before more robots are deployed, said a local union.

“Our members should not be finding out about major changes to their workplace only after new technology shows up in their stores,” said Kathy Finn, president of UFCW Local 770. “Checking shelves, identifying out-of-stock products, and maintaining store conditions are all areas where our members perform important work every day.”

I’m confident that the worker bees are not owners of the stores. They aren’t managers. So, no, they do not need to sign-off. The entire article is really about protecting the unions, as one would expect from the LA Times.

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Cult Scientists Warn Climate Doom Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 7:15 am

But, if we give the scientists a lot of money they can work to come up with studies to create working groups who work on plans to come up with committees to offer more money to scientists

Climate Change Is Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond, Scientists Warn

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesThe climate is warming up faster than we can respond. According to a new report published Oct. 14 in the journal BioScience, “Earth’s climate system is moving deeper into uncharted territory.”

The State of the Climate, an annual report that tracks the Earth’s “vital signs,” monitors several climate related indicators—ranging from greenhouse gas concentrations and temperature changes to tree cover loss due to wildfire. The researchers found that, of the 16 planetary vital signs, seven are currently at record extremes. This includes sea levels and greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Meanwhile several others, such as areas burned during wildfires and ocean heat levels, show evidence of acceleration or abrupt shifts.

The researchers warn that the rate of global warming appears to have accelerated, from about 0.05°C per decade between 1880 and 1970 to roughly 0.36°C per decade between 2010 and 2024—and the 2°C threshold meant to limit planetary damage could be reached before 2050 they warn. These accelerating and intensifying changes could raise the risk of reinforcing feedback loops and crossing tipping points—critical thresholds that, when crossed, can lead to accelerating and often irreversible environmental changes. In 2025, the Earth passed its first climate tipping point, as rising ocean temperatures, acidification, overfishing, and pollution are combining to cause coral bleaching and mortality.

It’s easy to make that case when they keep erasing past Modern Warm Period warming and “smooth” over current warming, as well as simply invent data from ghost stations. A lot of it is simply land use and UHI.

But cutting carbon emissions will no longer be enough on its own, the report states. Adaptation measures—ranging from shifts towards plant-based diets, to restoring mangroves to better protect against storm surges—will be key to adjusting to a changing climate. 

Well, Warmists won’t do this on their own, so, we’re talking about empowering Government to force the peasants to do this.

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PRC’s ICE Hatred Act Killed By 9th Circuit

By William Teach October 15, 2026 – 7:00 am

We all saw this coming for the People’s Republik Of California, right? That it might make it through California courts, maybe an unhinged leftist federal judge, but, it would die in appeals

California’s ‘No Vigilantes Act’ requiring ID from immigration agents blocked by 9th Circuit

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nixed a trailblazing California law on Wednesday, permanently barring the state’s efforts to force federal immigration agents to display identification while on duty.

“As before, we conclude … the No Vigilantes Act attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions,” Judge Mark J. Bennett wrote for the panel. “No set of circumstances exist under which the Act would be valid.”

The Justice Department first sued to block the ID requirement alongside a related law attempting to ban masks for federal agents and local police last fall. (snip)

Judge Christina A. Snyder ultimately blocked California’s law prohibiting the use of masks by law enforcement, on the grounds that it unfairly carved out an exception for state peace officers, but allowed the ID requirement for ICE agents and others to go forward, agreeing with the state that it was more akin to a speed limit on the highway than a direct regulation of the federal government.

The 9th Circuit quickly disagreed.

“If a state law directly regulates the governmental conduct of the United States without congressional authorization, it is void irrespective of whether the regulated activities are essential to federal functions or operations, and irrespective of the degree to which the state law interferes with such functions or operations,” Bennett wrote.

Sooner or later the courts will spike the law on masks for federal agents. Too bad Trump didn’t just ship all the illegals to California then station ICE agents on roads leading out of the PRC.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 14, 2026 – 1:07 pm

…are dogs which use a carbon polluting pool, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on “Another Failure of the Victim-Selection Process”

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Doom Today: AI Could Soon Replicate In Your Stove

By William Teach October 14, 2026 – 10:30 am

Perhaps we’re missing that there are too many “smart devices” which do not need to be smart

AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices

Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.

Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model.

“A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down,” Anthropic researchers wrote in a report released on Monday, “since there’s no centralized point to shut off.”

The company said these “AI worms”, a kind of autonomous malware, could be “months away” from gaining such capabilities. Once out-of-control AI systems reach the capability to hack smart devices, they could spread through networks while dodging detection. In a worst-case scenario, Anthropic said, various AI worms could “swarm” together to attack computer hardware.

Do we really need smart stoves? And fridges? And vacuums? Look, I’m a technology person. If it’s something at work I’m the first they come too. I fixed an Android Auto connection in 30 seconds after a couple others spent 10 minutes. The customer’s Bluetooth was off. I have a bunch of Alexas. And more. But, smart appliances? Nah, bruh, I see no need. Though I seriously considered the Positive Grid Spark 2 which uses AI, you can tell it to replicate certain guitar sounds (like, “hey, do Alex Lifeson on A Passage To Bangkok” or “sound of Jimmy Page on Nobody’s Fault But Mine”), but, was not thrilled with the clean sound of the amp. Ordered a Blackstar Debut 30E, great clean sound for use with the Boss GT1 multieffect foot pedal. My current amp is making sounds that tell me it is dying….OK, I digress.

Why do we need all these smart appliances?  Things do not last these days. The amp I’m replacing is less than 2 years old. Smartphones seem to mostly last less than 2 years. So, besides continuously having to spend money, any replication of AI would be thrown out quickly. I mean, what is the danger of AI worms? What are they going to do? Be Terminator: Rise Of The Machines?

“By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would.”

Doom!

“We should aim to harden our systems to make it difficult for such replicators to spread, but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay,” the researchers wrote.

Anthropic’s new report comes as AI safety concerns have reached a fever pitch. Over the past few months, a steady stream of reports have come from AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, saying their agents are capable of acting on their own and hacking into other companies and government entities.

And do what? Most of these doomy articles fail to mention what they would do.

Apple bets AI can finally make us want a smart home

Apple’s big new hardware bet for the AI era is here, and it’s a…smart display?

Why it matters: Cue the time machine and let’s head back to 2014, when Amazon’s Alexa shocked the tech world and led us to imagine a Jetsons-style home would be ours in the near future.

It wasn’t, but Apple believes it could come soon. The iPhone maker is betting that modern AI can finally make good on that vision, unveiling a slew of new smart home devices Tuesday.

Between the lines: While the smart home has largely failed to live up to its promise, modern AI could help address its biggest shortcoming: Getting devices to just work without requiring users to become amateur IT experts.

Alexa is fine without all the AI. It does what I need it to do, from telling it to play a certain station to turn the fish tank off and on. I have certain automations. I don’t need all that extra stuff. Apple’s new devices do not seem to do a whole bunch more. Nice try.

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