SCC Mayor Bans ICE From Using City Property

By William Teach October 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

Mayor Johnson does know that federal law, particularly on immigration, trumps (sic) state and local law, right? And that localities are duty bound by law to assist federal law enforcement, especially when there are felonies involved, right?

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs order prohibiting use of city property for immigration enforcement

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Monday morning prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies from using city property for civil immigration enforcement.

The order prohibits federal authorities from using city-owned or controlled parking lots, vacant lots and garages as staging areas, processing locations or operations bases for civil immigration enforcement activity.

The order defines as “staging area” as “any location used to assemble, mobilize or deploy personnel, vehicles, or equipment for immigration enforcement operations. This includes sites used for surveillance or logistical coordination,” according to the mayor’s office.

The order applies to all city-owned and city-controlled parking lots, garages and vacant lots, including Chicago Public Schools property, CBS News Chicago confirmed.

Additionally, the order supports private property owners, tenants and institutions to deny access to ICE and other federal agents working on immigration enforcement unless they can produce a warrant. The city will design and distribute official signage that will be given out, for free, to any private landowner or tenant can post on their property. The signage will clearly state no law enforcement official may enter for civil immigration enforcement, or use the property as a staging area, processing location or operations based.

And this gives the Trump admin all they need to deny Sanctuary City Chicago lots and lots of federal funds. Which won’t help when SCC has spent around $1.6 billion on illegals, money which could have gone to helping US citizens in SCC. Better schooling. Better streets. More cops in high crime areas. And more.

Still, I’d rather Trump let these sanctuary jurisdictions have the illegals for now and go after those in Republican areas first. Which would also mean illegals would stream into sanctuary jurisdiction to avoid being picked up.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 6, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Science Daily, with a post on over 40% of fatal car crash victims having THC in their systems.

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Washington Post Editorial Board: “the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable”

By William Teach October 6, 2025 – 11:30 am

You have to make it to paragraph 7, but, this is one hell of an admission

The shutdown conversation no one wants

As the partial government shutdown enters its second week, neither party is leveling with the American people about the hard choices required to get federal spending off a fiscally ruinous trajectory.

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used covid-19 to justify chasing the mirage of a European-style welfare state without raising the necessary taxes to pay for it. Now, prodded by the left, party leaders have shut down the government in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021 as emergency subsidies to help people struggling during the pandemic afford health insurance.

And now they do not want to cut a dime, even back to pre-COVID levels which were too high

Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade. These temporary benefits were included in the American Rescue Plan of March 2021 and extended the next year in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025.

The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable. President Barack Obama’s signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.

It was never meant to be affordable. And, those risk pools tended to be pretty damned big. From the get-go it was expensive for deductibles and premiums, often offset by Other People. Remember this gem from 2013?

But people with no pre-existing conditions like Vinson, a 60-year-old retired teacher, and Waschura, a 52-year-old self-employed engineer, are making up the difference.

“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,” Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.

“I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.”

“Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”

Ocare was always meant as a waypoint towards Single Payer, hoping to drive the insurance companies out of business, but, what happened was that deductibles, premiums, and the cost of service went up, because, hey, if the government is going to pay for it, why not charge more? That’s how you get $500 hammers, instead of going to Lowe’s and buying a good one for $50.

Anyhow

This is how entitlement programs work. Once you habituate people to some generous government handout, they grow dependent on it. And it becomes politically perilous, if not impossible, to fully claw it back. Conservatives fought so hard to stop Obamacare 15 years ago because they anticipated fights like this one.

But, someone is paying for that handout. Let’s not forget that Ocare was so great that Democrats excluded Congress from participating

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Weird: Connecticut Spending $100 Million A Year On Healthcare For Illegals

By William Teach October 6, 2025 – 10:30 am

I’ve been told by the Credentialed Media and Democrats that this is not happening

CT spends over $100M on health care for immigrants without legal status as shutdown debate rages

More than $100 million in state funds have been used to pay for health care for children and expectant and postpartum mothers without legal immigration status since this coverage became available through Connecticut’s Medicaid program two years ago.

The issue of government-funded health care for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally is at the center of a national debate following disputed political allegations that Democrats forced the federal government shutdown over the issue.

Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally are ineligible for traditional federal Medicaid programs, but states can use their own funds to cover their health care and Connecticut is one of 14 states that has made that choice.

The state legislature and Gov. Ned Lamont in 2021 initially authorized state-funded coverage for income-eligible children up to age 8 regardless of their immigration status who are ineligible for Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program or affordable employer-sponsored insurance. The legislation also provided coverage for prenatal care to income-eligible women regardless of their immigration status and for postpartum care for 12 months after giving birth.

Does anyone think that the program is being limited to kids and mothers, particularly when the vast majority of illegals seem to be under 30 males? Also, is the state actually segregating the money from Los Federales from state money? Doubtful.

Enrollment significantly outpaced projections when the eligibility age for children increased to 15 in July 2024. The projected enrollment was 7,000 children, but actual sign-ups topped 15,000 children.

That’s what happens when you’re a sanctuary city and your party invites illegals to stream into the U.S.

The higher-than-expected participation contributed to a $284 million shortfall in the state Medicaid program in the last fiscal year. Some $32 million of that 2025 fiscal year deficit was attributed to health care for immigrants who are not in the U.S. legally. The legislature in May approved a $500 million supplemental appropriation bill that made up the Medicaid shortfall and deficiencies in other agency budgets.

$32 million could have done a lot of good for US citizens, eh? And jamming even more people into the system means that costs for healthcare will rise. Surprise!

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Did You Ever Wonder How Many Climate Scam Lawsuits There Are?

By William Teach October 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

The doomsday cultists can’t convince Other People to practice the beliefs of the Warmists (particularly since the cultists fail to practice what they preach) and have been having a tough time getting governments to force cult beliefs on the peasants, so

Global: Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy currently

Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before according to a report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University.

The 78-page Climate Change in the courtroom: Trends, impacts, and emerging lessons report is the fourth edition of a series first launched in 2017. It reveals how legal action is addressing issues such as greenwashing, carbon offsets, and energy-intensive data centres. Drawing on data from the Sabin Centre’s Climate Change Litigation Databases, the report examines key trends, pending cases, and court decisions.

UNEP executive director Inger Anderson said, “Climate litigation has evolved into a powerful global tool for advancing climate action, and accountability. Transforming our energy, mobility, housing, and food systems must be a collective effort, through ambitious and science-based policymaking.

The best tool would be Warmists living the life, making their own lives carbon neutral

As of 30 June 2025, a cumulative 3,099 climate-related cases have been filed in 55 national jurisdictions and 24 international or regional courts, tribunals, or quasi-judicial bodies. This continues a trend in climate-related cases filed by 2022 (2,180 cases), 2020 (1,550 cases) and 2017 (884 cases). While cases from the Global South still represent less than 10% in 2025, their share is steadily growing.

I never considered suing the government to make sure my neighbors listen to heavy metal and watch horror movies

At the same time, the report also identifies anti-climate litigation is on the rise, with lawsuits aimed at deregulating environmental protections or deprioritizing environmental, social, and corporate governance issues in investments. Particularly concerning is the increase in lawsuits against public opposition to high-emitting projects, which target climate advocates, journalists, and civil society organizations.

We shouldn’t really have to have any but, hey, as the ancient Tibetan philosophy states, don’t start none won’t be none.

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Pro-Hamas Jew-Haters To Demonstrate On October 7th

By William Teach October 6, 2025 – 6:45 am

Of all the days to choose, picking the day where a group designated as terrorists by most 1st World nations attacked a festival and slaughtered, raped, and tortured around 1,200, while kidnapping 251, killing, raping, and torturing many of them, would really be a bad choice.

This is like protesting in favor of al Qaeda on 9/11

Anti-Israel activists return to Sydney Opera house, ‘flood’ NYC streets for October 7 anniversary

Anti-Israel activists and groups are set to protest worldwide around the anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, with planned marches to the Sydney Opera House and in the streets of New York City echoing the demonstrations that erupted immediately after the Hamas-led pogrom in Israel’s south.

The marches and rallies sought to mark two years of a supposed genocide in Gaza.

Within Our Lifetime called for supporters to “flood New York City for Gaza” on October 7, 2025, a call to action that evoked the Gazan name for the massacre, Operation al-Aqsa Flood.

I pretty sure it’s not mean to evoke, it’s meant to represent the Hamas murder spree.

“Honor the martyrs of Gaza and all of Palestine. For 77 years Israel has waged genocide against the Palestinian people, and for the past two years Gaza has endured a new stage of that genocide while the world has watched it unfold live on our screens,” WOL said on X on Friday. “The media has spent these two years lying and manufacturing consent for genocide, dehumanizing Palestinians over and over. Hundreds of Palestinian journalists who livestreamed the truth and humanized their people were killed by Israel. Honoring the martyrs means putting their names and stories right in front of the news outlets that erased them and forcing the truth into the spotlight they tried to bury.”

And you know this will be happening in the UK, Germany, France, the rest of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as across the US in Dem run cities. Literally demonstrating for terrorists who would be happy to destroy the way of life of the non-Muslim demonstrators. How did it come to this point, having all these Islamic extremists in the US, post-9/11?

In Japan, a group calling itself Peace for Palestine is organizing a Tuesday nationwide protest, with the main effort at United Nations University. The group is calling for “solidarity with the Palestinian resistance” and for the Japanese government to sanction Israel.

I wonder if Japan will shut this down? The nation hasn’t exactly been welcoming of Islam. Wisely.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 5, 2025 – 1:04 pm

…is a fast rising ocean that will kill everyone, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the week is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Steak N Shake going full patriot.

It’s pink week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 5, 2025 – 9:34 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers beat the Phillies in game 1. Supposedly, someone did this pinup with AI. It does have that old time feel, eh? Except one mistake.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Egad! Greta Thunberg Has Been “Abducted” By Israel … Again!
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Pope Blesses Block Of Ice
  3. Watts Up With That?: Net Zero Business? Energy Prices Now Aussie Business’ Number One Concern
  4. American Greatness: Liberals Work With Lobbyists Against the Interests of First Responders
  5. Bearing Arms: Why Women Don’t Need Training from Anti-Gun Organizations
  6. Blogs For Victory: What Do We Do With Evil People?
  7. Campus Reform: Fordham University ‘Girl Boss’ program for women in business faces civil rights complaint
  8. Climate Depot: Youth-Led Sunrise Movement Goes to War with Trump to Protect Its ‘Major’ Financier George Soros
  9. Cold Fury: Sink, Britannia
  10. Common Cents Blog: Virginia Dems go from “Let your rage fuel you” to fantasizing about political assassinations “2 bullets to head” – RePost
  11. Gates Of Vienna: 20 Years After the Muhammad Cartoons
  12. Geller Report: Biden Judge Gives Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Trans Assassin Minimum Sentence Because He’s Trans
  13. Jihad Watch: Biden’s ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ Still Wants Speech Restrictions
  14. Legal Insurrection: Sen. Kennedy of Louisiana Lists Lesser Known Shutdown Demands From AOC and Dem ‘Socialist’ Wing
  15. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery has Spanish Priest Faces 3 Years in Prison for Having Once Criticized Islam

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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No Landfalling Hurricanes In US For First Time In 10 Years

By William Teach October 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

Hey, remember this from a month ago?

How Climate Change Is Fueling Stronger, Wetter and More Destructive Hurricanes

It’s always doom with these people, and doom due to your fault

No hurricane landfalls so far this year. Here’s why, and what to expect next

By the end of September, the U.S. usually has at least one hurricane landfall, if not several.

Not so in 2025. Four hurricanes have formed so far in the Atlantic season and none have hit the U.S.

In fact, this is the first hurricane season in 10 years that no hurricanes have made landfall in the U.S. through the end of September, points out AccuWeather’s hurricane expert Alex DaSilva.

Where have all the storms gone, and why?

Remember when there was a 12 year span after the 2006 season without a major hurricane making landfall in the US, the longest period since the Civil War era? And the number of minor hurricanes and even tropical storms making landfall were minimal. Heck, going back through my archives for “hurricane” I see all sorts of posts of Warmists lamenting the fact that hurricane activity was minimal even though the oceans of the Atlantic and Gulf Of America were above average for warmth.

The hurricanes that did form were strong — Erin, Gabrielle and Humberto all reached Category 4 strength, and Humberto reached Category 5.

But they’ve all arced north, away from the U.S. east coast, eventually U-turning back out into the Atlantic.

This is due in part to the Bermuda High, a semi-permanent high-pressure system that shifts position and size over the Atlantic.

Bermuda High’s have been blamed on anthropogenic climate change.

Another storm-steering force has been the jet stream. “Overall there’s been more dips in the jet stream over the east.” He said that creates a high-altitude wind from southwest that can collide with approaching storms, pushing that storm away from the U.S.

Dry air coming off Northern Africa has hindered storms, as has wind shear, both over the Atlantic and the Gulf.

Yup, Warmists have blamed those on ‘climate change’ in the past.

And, of course

This brief lull in hurricanes could be a glimpse of the future. But it won’t last

An Atlantic Ocean devoid of swirling tropical waves is a welcome but unusual sight for mid-September. (snip)

An emerging theory — and it should be stressed that it remains only scientific speculation at this point — is that the air high above the Atlantic hurricane breeding waters is also warming, narrowing the temperature gap between sea and air and creating what meteorologists call atmospheric “stability.” It’s instability — the clash between hot ocean and cooler air high aloft — that really helps get a tropical system churning.

Which is your fault. Anyhow, later in this Miami Herald article they dive into Hotcoldwetdry and all sorts of the same kooky theories the cult has pushed over the past 20 years.

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MAGA Pounces On Pope Leo Over Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach October 4, 2025 – 3:57 pm

I’m highly confident that it isn’t just MAGA, but, Catholics and Christians around the world who are not climate cultists, because I saw plenty of tweets from around the world, but, hey, CNN’s gotta CNN – say, how much in the way of fossil fuels does CNN use to operate?

Pope Leo faces MAGA ire after immigration and climate change remarks

Republicans PouncePope Leo XIV has adopted a more low-key, less combative style to his predecessor in the early months of his papacy. Pope Francis’s openness to the LGBTQ community, advocacy for migrants and critiques of unrestrained capitalism saw him run up against strong conservative opposition inside and outside the church.

Leo, after gently dipping his toe into the US political fray, is now facing criticism from similar quarters to Francis. The opposition is coming from conservative Catholics in the US and MAGA supporters, some of whom, after Leo’s election, had hoped he would take the church in a different direction from Pope Francis.

The first American pope was asked on Tuesday about plans by the cardinal in Leo’s home city of Chicago to give an award to Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a member of Senate Democratic leadership. Cardinal Blase Cupich, an ally and friend of the pope, was planning to give Durbin a “Lifetime Achievement Award for?support?to?immigrants,” but the move faced a backlash given Durbin’s support for abortion rights. Durbin decided to refuse the honor.

Unusually, around 10 US bishops even spoke out publicly against the award. Two of those who did – Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Bishop Thomas Paprocki – were both appointed a religious liberty advisory body by US President Donald Trump and had been at odds with decisions made by Francis. (snip)

Leo’s comments were immediately criticized. One conservative Catholic described it as “disappointing” and “largely irrelevant”, right-wing political commentator Matt Walsh said it was a “terrible answer from Pope Leo” and Jack Posobiec, an influencer who is supportive of Trump, posted on X simply: “Some popes are a blessing. Some popes are a penance.” Joseph Strickland, the outspoken retired bishop of Tyler, Texas, said Leo’s remarks had created “much confusion”.

The day after, however, Leo generated more MAGA opposition when he took part in climate conference where he called for action on protecting the planet and blessed some ice. It all comes during a period when Leo had a private meeting with Reverend James Martin, a leading advocate for LGBTQ Catholics, spoke up against the “pandemic of arms” following the Minnesota school shooting and criticised huge CEO salaries and singling out Elon Musk.

Let’s not forget that Durbin is a big supporter of abortion on demand. I also do not see the Vatican taking in a lot of illegal aliens with 3rd world mentalities. But, you know, Leo doesn’t want to get involved in culture wars and polarization

This week they were disappointed. Leo has shown he will, like Francis, try and avoid the culture wars. He doesn’t want to fuel any polarization. “They are very complex issues, and I don’t know if anyone has all the truth?on them,” the Pope pointed out when asked about Durbin’s award. Leo will also speak up, when necessary, particularly on the treatment of immigrants, an issue close to his heart from his time as a bishop in Peru. While Leo’s aim is to be a peacemaker his intervention this week show he’s unafraid to face opposition when drawing lines on where the church stands.

Yeah, didn’t the entire article show him wading into culture wars and polarization? Anyhow, how dare you MAGA (and people around the world) complain!

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