Bummer: Trump Plan To Not Count Aliens Could Strip House Seats From Certain States

By William Teach September 12, 2026 – 7:00 am

It’s a plan, but, I’m not sure if it will survive judicial review all the way up to the Supreme Court

Trump Census Plan Could Strip House Seats From States With Large Immigrant Populations

The Trump administration is moving to change who counts in the 2030 census, proposing to exclude millions of noncitizens from the population totals used to divide House seats among the states. The shift could cost states with large immigrant populations representation in Congress and Electoral College votes.

Under a Census Bureau rule proposed Thursday, U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, commonly known as green card holders, would count toward congressional apportionment. Other foreign citizens would not, including undocumented immigrants and many people legally living in the United States under temporary or less permanent immigration status.

The plan goes further than excluding undocumented immigrants. Some people who have legally lived and worked in the United States for years could also be left out of the population used to determine how much representation their state receives in Congress. (snip)

States with large immigrant populations could see the biggest effects. A 2020 Pew Research Center analysis found that excluding undocumented immigrants alone could have left California, Florida and Texas with one fewer House seat each than they would have received if those residents were included. The new proposal would reach a broader group because some legally present immigrants could also be left out.

This plan is, obviously, driving the Libs nuts, and, really, should non-citizens be counted in the census? I guess we could allow permanent residents (should there be such a thing?), and, obviously, Native Americans who do not consider themselves Americans should still be counted. But, the Constitution kinda says everyone in the US needs to be counted, including legal and illegal aliens.

The 14th Amendment requires House seats to be apportioned among the states according to the “whole number of persons in each State.” Previous challenges to efforts to exclude noncitizens have focused on whether the government can remove residents from the apportionment population based on immigration status.

The administration is relying on a different reading of residency, pointing to the historical meaning of “usual residence” and arguing that the concept can include allegiance or a lasting connection to a state.

Interesting. Will it work? It would also require that a Republican win the White House in 2028, because a Democrat would kill this rule in a heartbeat.

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How To Teach 9/11 To Kiddies Who Weren’t Old Enough Or Born

By William Teach September 11, 2026 – 10:30 am

For many of us older folks, we remember the tragedy of things like Pearl Harbor, because our teachers taught it with reverence. Even though I was born in 67, I do not really remember anything about Vietnam or a lot of the early 70s, because I was too young. I have vague memories of 1976 and all the celebrations. How do the kiddies know about 9/11?

Teaching 9/11 to a generation that didn’t live through it: ‘We just heard tales of it’

Trent Nettles was a toddler on Sept. 11, 2001.

Now 27, Nettles is an 11th-grade Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher — too young to remember the day but responsible for teaching it to students who weren’t yet born when it happened. His challenge was to make this lesson more than just another unit on the syllabus.

Nettles told his students this week at Alliance Cindy & Bill Simon Technology High School in Watts, “I just remember, as a kid, that there was a lot of chaos. That’s all.”

Twenty-five years after the attacks, the anniversary has crossed a generational threshold. In a growing share of American classrooms, 9/11 is part of a past era, often taught by teachers with little more memory of it than the students in front of them. Some do recall the morning but struggle to convey the magnitude of pain and fear to students for whom 9/11 is another date in a social studies course timeline.

The shift begins in early childhood, when children may first hear the date amid adult conversation or catch a newsflash. It runs through middle and high schools, where teachers debate how much of this history adolescent and teen students can absorb — and into college lecture halls, where professors who once taught 9/11 as a current event now teach it as decades-old history.

The problem here is that so many of the teachers are wackos and uber-leftists, and do not like the United States. Many of them identify more with extremist Islam. Like so many subjects the teachers teach the moonbat version. If they really want to teach it, there are plenty of movies and videos available, like

You can’t teach the horror, though, because you had to be there, though, perhaps a movie like The Falling Man would give the kids, and the young teachers, perspective. But, they can teach respect.

9/11 was truly the first tragedy in the Internet age. There had been others, but, this was on every TV station. Every cable news station. It was part of sports. And this was the time period of the rise of high speed Internet. Chatrooms. Seeing news from other countries and their news outlets. It was days and weeks of coverage where almost everyone tuned in. It is burned into our brains.

Oh, and then the NT Times has to chime in

After 9/11, Islamophobia Shaped a Generation of Muslim New Yorkers

Once-friendly neighbors started to keep their distance. Undercover police officers began to monitor community events. And passers-by would give them dirty looks on the street, and sometimes harass them, when they left home in hijabs or other religious garb.

Many American Muslims have faced a quarter-century of suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks, which reshaped life for all Americans.

In New York, a generation of Muslim New Yorkers responded to the Islamophobia by organizing their communities: Mosques hosted makeshift legal clinics. Small businesses became hubs in a citywide civil rights network. Muslims of different racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds formed alliances the city had not seen before.

Their political organizing helped, years later, to elect the city’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani. But anti-Muslim prejudice still endures, echoing the Islamophobia that arose in the earliest days after Sept. 11.

Yeah, this is where the Times goes on a day when we remember Islamic terrorists attacking America, including not far from the NY Times building. They’ve forgotten that while many Muslims were appalled, so many in the US and around the world ranged from “don’t care” to cheering the action of al Qaeda. We saw it on video. We witnessed how many take the extremist side.

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Never Forget, Never Surrender

By William Teach September 11, 2026 – 7:30 am

As I have done every year since the 5th anniversary of September 11th, I remember two wonderful individuals, Brook Jackman and Andrew Golkin, who I’ll never have a possible chance to meet and converse with, due to 19 murderous Islamist terrorists and their superiors, who attacked our country on that fateful day.

If you have not seen it, I highly recommend watching 102 Minutes That Changed America over at Tubi. No narration. No background music. Just video from people from the time the first plane hit to when the towers fell. It is chilling. There’s a part where you see the courtyard, with Muzac version of a Billy Joel song playing, and every bang you hear is a person falling to their death.

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Surprise: Michigan To Test Pay Per Mile Program Due To Eroding Road Taxes

By William Teach September 11, 2026 – 7:15 am

I wonder why they are giving this a whirl (besides the fact that Democrats just love to tax citizens)? (via Climate Change Dispatch)

Michigan pay-per-mile pilot program: What to know

Michigan is looking at ways to make up declining transportation revenue as vehicles become more fuel efficient and electric vehicles become more prevalent.

The state is exploring a road user charge program, also known as pay-per-mile. Here’s what to know:

The backstory: Michigan taxes drivers at the gas pump and relies on that revenue to build and maintain the state’s roads, bridges and tunnels.

The state changed how fuel is taxed in Michigan at the beginning of the year. Michigan drivers used to pay 6% sales tax in addition to a 31 cents per gallon motor fuel tax.

By the numbers: Currently, Michigan drivers do not pay sales tax on fuel and pay a motor fuel tax of 52.4 cents per gallon.

But, you know, you had that huge push for EVs

Big picture view: A road user charge is an alternative way to charge drivers to use the roads. Under the program, drivers of all vehicles pay a flat fee of a few cents for each mile driven instead of paying state fuel taxes.

So, they are going to nail everyone. They are also raising the registration fees for EVs AND hybrids because of the loss of revenue. This is not the first time we’ve seen this. During the Obama years he forced a much higher CAFE standard, so, gas revenues went down. So, states raised taxes. Now we had Biden, Newsom, Whitmer, and more Democrats pushing the EVs, and then going “whoops, the money is drying up, let’s tax the peasants.”

How it works : Your driving data could be reported to the state in a variety of ways, including:

  • Plug-in devices
  • Smartphone apps
  • Self-reporting via vehicle factory settings
  • Self-reporting via manual data

Yeah, and you can bet that it will soon be mandatory.

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Cool: Over 90% Of Charlotte Illegals Hearings End In Deportation

By William Teach September 11, 2026 – 7:00 am

Can we get this number to 100%?

Nearly 90% of Charlotte immigration court cases this year have ended in deportation

Immigration judges at Charlotte’s immigration court ordered more than 18,000 removals from January through August, more than twice the number ordered during the same period in 2024.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review data shows judges ordered 18,286 removals this year. That is up from 14,521 removal orders during the same period in 2025 and 8,840 in 2024.

The court completed fewer cases overall this year, 20,594, compared with 23,245 last year. But nearly 90% of completed cases ended in removal, compared with about 62% last year and half in 2024.

Only 203 cases resulted in immigrants being granted legal relief, allowing them to remain in the U.S.

Yeah, I suppose a few do have legitimate asylum cases, and it can always end up with more of those currently granted legal relief getting the boot in the future. What should be happening is that the minute they lose their case they are transported to a detainment facility and deported within days.

Houston immigration attorney charged in alleged mail fraud scheme

A Houston-based immigration attorney was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing money from over 100 victims, according to authorities.

Alla Nowowiejski, 44, was charged with mail fraud and making false statements, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. Nowowiejski was indicted by a grand jury on both counts on Sept. 2.

According to the indictment, Nowowiejski is accused of accepting payments from clients under the pretense of providing legal services she allegedly never provided.

It’s wild how many immigration lawyers are being charged by state and federal authorities these days, but, the lax everything under the Biden admin enabled the rise of all these scams.

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UN Says World Must “Reject Climate Culture Wars”

By William Teach September 10, 2026 – 4:43 pm

Can you guess what they mean by this?

World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell

Attempts to stoke a climate crisis culture war must be rejected or the world will face economic disaster, the UN’s climate chief has warned.

Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, warned that this year’s “hot as hell” summer had killed tens of thousands of people in Europe alone and “hammered” infrastructure, businesses and economics, costing a likely €180bn (£155bn), as well as leading to forced migration around the world.

“The climate crisis is now a continent-wide economic security emergency,” he told a committee of the European parliament on Thursday morning. “We’ve seen mass evacuations. Power stations closed. And trade routes choked. Crops lost. Yields down. And food prices up – and set to rise further.”

He said political polarisation over climate action was not in the interests of voters and would lead to far worse outcomes. “Climate is sometimes seen as a partisan issue, as territory in the culture wars,” he said. “That is palpably false … Climate cuts across the core concerns of voters, whatever their politics: [affecting] family health, community safety and economic stability; affordable food and available water; jobs, business costs and household bills.”

OK, so, then maybe the cultists could stop bleating and going all cult over it? Trying to force government to take our money and control our lives?

Stiell said: “If humanity doesn’t cut the fossil fuel pollution … this summer’s brutal heat, fires and droughts will seem mild compared to the permanent climate nightmare that will follow.”

What Stiell and the other UN Warmists want is for those who do not Believe in the climate crisis (scam) to be forced to shut the hell up. Even a little blog like mine would be shut down if they had their say.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 10, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are trees dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on “ICE launches CDL fraud tip line for Americans to report illegal alien truck drivers”

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Washington Post: Orange Man Bad Turning “Security State” Inwards Or Something

By William Teach September 10, 2026 – 10:30 am

Obviously, the Democracy Dies In Darkness wackos saw the 25th anniversary of 9/11 coming in thought “what kind of hit piece can we do about Trump?”

Trump has turned the post-9/11 security state inward to domestic targets

Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, powerful agencies and vast legal authorities created to stop another terrorist catastrophe are being turned inward, with the Trump administration using many of those powers to round up immigrants, battle drug traffickers and target political dissent.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, birthed in response to pre-9/11 intelligence failures, has been central to President Donald Trump’s pushing of false election conspiracies and retribution against his perceived political enemies.

Trump has directed that Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which spread nationwide after 2001 to harness federal and local resources, investigate groups that challenge White House views on immigration, gender and religion. Another post-9/11 creation, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has aggressively surveilled and rounded up immigrants on Trump’s watch, sometimes catching or killing U.S. citizens in its dragnet.

As to challenging White House views, the WP offers zero evidence. Not one link. As to ICE, well, that’s part of their f’ing job, and, if the wackos didn’t try and run them over they wouldn’t be in the grave now.

As memories of the worst terrorist attack in American history fade, former senior U.S. officials say the rapid remolding of agencies and laws created a quarter-century ago has contributed to a dimming focus on looming external threats. They cite not just anti-U.S. terrorism, which has ebbed but not disappeared, but a host of largely post-2001 challenges including advanced artificial intelligence, cyberthreats, drones and biotechnology.

Wow, they are really swinging for the fences, Orange Man Bad is just bad on everything.

Trump is dismantling or repurposing “almost all of the agencies that were created by the Bush administration to protect us from terrorism,” said John Bellinger III, who was President George W. Bush’s National Security Council legal adviser on Sept. 11, 2001, and helped craft the reforms that followed.

Let’s also not forget that Obama heavily used the powers of the government to go after his “enemies” and the Credentialed Media, including the Washington Post, turned a blind eye. That he, along with Bush and Biden, let in and brought in huge numbers of Muslims who seem to hate America, hate Israel, hate Jews, and support the extremist version of Islam, and want to change America into a Muslim nation.

Yet Trump’s definition of terrorism is far different from his predecessors’. He has designated drug cartels as terrorist groups and used lethal military force dozens of times against alleged narco traffickers. Many former national security officials and legal experts say narcotrafficking does not fit the definition of terrorism because cartel members are motivated by money, not ideology, violence against civilians or overthrow of the U.S. government.

OK, and? What’s the problem? Oh, right, Orange Man Bad.

At home, Trump has targeted leftist groups, including the loose amalgamation of militant antifascism activists known as antifa, which he designated as a domestic terrorist group last year. The Treasury Department said it will pursue financial probes of left-wing groups, including any international support.

You mean the very violent people causing lots of problems? Anyhow, this article continues on and on and on with their TDS whines (here’s a non-paywalled version), and, you know what would be hilarious? If Trump was using all those post 9/11 tools to go after Islamists then the WP would be upset over that, yammering about “Islamophobia”. Let’s also not forget that the leftists, like those at the WP, tend to take the side of the Islamists, just like they did when Hamas attacked Israel. And that outlets like the WP were super upset when Bush used all these same post 9/11 methods against Islamists. That the WP has worked hard since 9/11 to protect Islamists.

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Makes Tropical Systems Worse

By William Teach September 10, 2026 – 7:15 am

Did they really stop and consider before publishing this bit of cult propaganda?

Climate change fuels more intense tropical system impacts

We are in the peak of hurricane season. While the 2026 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been historically quiet, experts say that climate change is partially responsible for more intense tropical system impacts over the years.

Climate change is also increasing the amount of moisture available to hurricanes. Warmer air can hold more water vapor, which can contribute to heavier rainfall. That increases the potential for flooding, including areas well inland from where a hurricane makes landfall. (snip)

It is important to note that climate change will not necessarily lead to more hurricanes overall. Instead, experts are increasingly concerned about changes in hurricane intensity and impacts.

Even during a quiet hurricane season, it’s best to stay prepared. Know your evacuation zone, have multiple ways to receive weather alerts, and make sure your emergency supplies are ready before a storm threatens. For more tips, read our 2026 Hurricane Guide.

The guide is still good advice, but,

The next scrolling article at 13Newsnow is

Atlantic hurricane season nears historic milestone

Hurricane season has now entered the month of September, and the Atlantic will be entering what is typically its busiest stretch.

But so far this year, we still have not had a single Atlantic hurricane form. That will put 2026 within striking distance of some pretty unusual hurricane history.

Looking at the satellite era, which begins in 1966, the latest date the Atlantic has seen its first hurricane of the season was Sept. 11. That record has happened twice: first in 2002 with Hurricane Gustav, and again in 2013, with Hurricane Humberto.

Eh, I’m sure this is your fault, too.

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Bummer: Salvadorans May Lose TPS

By William Teach September 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

I must say, CNN really should have considered whom they were going to use as a sob story in the article

Another group of immigrants may be on the verge of losing deportation protections

Soledad Miranda’s eyes fill with tears as she packs boxes for a move she’s hoping she won’t have to make.

“I feel defeated,” she says.

For 25 years, the program known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, has allowed Miranda and around 170,000 other Salvadorans to work legally in the United States and protected them from deportation. Now many are on edge awaiting the Trump administration’s decision on their futures.

Some Salvadorans had hoped the rapport between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and US President Donald Trump could pave the way for a reprieve, even as administration officials have revoked deportation protections for many other nationalities.

But the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t yet made an announcement on TPS for El Salvador. And on Wednesday, which had been the scheduled ending date for Salvadorans’ protections, a written statement from a DHS spokesperson provided few answers.

But, hey, how about this

Miranda, 52, came to the US in 1997 and built a life for herself and her 16-year-old daughter, who is a US citizen. Working as a cleaner in a government building, she saved enough money for an apartment she says she can no longer afford if her work authorization expires. So she’s started packing treasured mementos from more than 30 years of her life.

“Now all of that is in this box,” Miranda tells CNN en Español as she gestures at an empty wall in her apartment. “It’s over.”

So, she’s been here since 1997 and she has to give the interview in Spanish? She couldn’t take the time to learn English?

Real? There are no articles yet. But, sure seems likely.

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