Hmm: DHS Investigating If PRC Gave Illegals Social Security

By William Teach May 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

I wonder, though, if DHS finds out that the People’s Republik Of California did give illegal/non-citizens Social Security benefits who gets punished?

DHS investigating if migrants received Social Security in California

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a California state-funded program that assists disabled migrant residents, alleging it provided Supplemental Security Income benefits to immigrants who entered the United States illegally and whom federal officials say were not entitled to receive financial assistance.

DHS sent a subpoena to the State of California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants’ Los Angeles field office, ordering that it hand over records relating to SSI payments made to migrants since 2021. The agency said that under the leadership of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, it will not allow U.S. taxpayer dollars to be “squandered” on migrants.

A DHS news release did not specify how much financial assistance was provided to immigrants who benefited from CAPI between 2021 and the current time.

“Radical left politicians in California prioritize illegal aliens over our own citizens, including by giving illegal aliens access to cash benefits,” Noem said in a statement issued by DHS. “The Trump Administration is working together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally.

“If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over. While this subpoena focuses only on Los Angeles County – it is just the beginning.”

A 1996 federal law bars non-citizens from receiving SS benefits. Reportedly, 2 million improperly receive SS in 2024. So, if DHS finds out that they were given SS, who in government goes to jail for violating federal law? Because if no one gets in trouble than other liberals in government will feel empowered to do the same thing.

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Warmists Upset Trump Trying To End State Climate Scam Initiatives

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 3:14 pm

I love how Democrats suddenly discover the 10th Amendment when Trump is president and it interferes with their moonbattery

Trump is illegally trying to overturn state climate laws

The foundation of American government rests on a simple but powerful principle: states are not mere departments of the federal government. They are sovereign entities with both the right and the responsibility to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of their residents.

President Trump’s recent executive order, which instructs the Justice Department to block state climate laws such as New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, is a direct attack on that principle. But executive orders cannot undo duly enacted state laws.

Trump’s action is a political stunt, not a legal reversal. New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act stands on strong constitutional ground.

Across the country, states are stepping up to respond to the rising toll of climate-fueled disasters. More than ten states have introduced climate superfund legislation based on a simple idea: those massive, multinational oil and gas corporations that caused the climate crisis should help pay for the damage. This is not only fair but necessary. The costs of climate change are staggering, and without action, those costs are already falling entirely on the shoulders of working families.

Under our system of federalism, states have always had broad authority to enact laws that protect their people. That authority is rooted in the Tenth Amendment and reinforced by centuries of precedent. Whether regulating public health, consumer safety, or environmental protection, states serve as both innovators and defenders when federal action falls short.

Huh. But, when Democrats work to force states to comply with the notion that CO2 is a danger to the United States the 10th Amendment doesn’t apply? Weird. They want it both ways. And one of the ways they did this was by saying it was interstate commerce, hence, Los Federales had authority. Which is it, Dems?

Trump’s executive order does not simply challenge this one law, but rather the very idea that states have the right to hold powerful interests accountable when Washington will not. By branding state efforts as “illegal” simply because they conflict with his administration’s ideological agenda, the president undermines the same state sovereignty that he once claimed to champion.

So, when the feds pass ‘climate change’ laws that force companies in states to comply that is un-Constitutional? Make up your minds.

I know how we can solve this: all fossil fuels companies should stop operating in these states. Let’s see how well they do without gas, diesel, natural gas, and lubricating oils. It would be fun.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on Canada’s war on the disabled.

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Trump – China Announce Interim Tariffs Deal

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

Oh, this must be giving Democrats a serious case of heartburn

US, China announce reduced tariffs for 90 days after trade talks

The U.S. and China announced on Monday that tariffs against one another will be reduced for a 90-day period after officials held trade negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.

The tariffs President Donald Trump announced against China on April 2 are being cut by 24 percentage points for this temporary period while retaining the remaining ad valorem rate of 10% from that announcement, according to a joint statement.

China agreed to the same stipulations, adding that it will “adopt all necessary administrative measures to suspend or remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2,” the announcement stated.

Under the deal, reciprocal tariffs for both countries would be reduced by 115%. The U.S. will temporarily lower its tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, and China will reduce its levies on American products from 125% to 10%.

Both the U.S. and China agreed to take the aforementioned actions by Wednesday.

Could this turn into something long lasting? The NY Times, Washington Post, and many other Credentialed Media outlets are gently naysaying this, almost like they want Trump, meaning America, to lose. Reducing tariffs on exported American goods would be a good thing, right, especially to China? Hey, maybe this would lead to all those Chinese EVs being brought over. You’d like that, NY Times and Washington Post, right? You’ve posted articles about how great they are and so much less expensive many times.

The two sides also agreed to “establish a mechanism” to continue discussions about economic and trade relations, which will be led by Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, according to the joint statement.

It’s good that you have business people who want to protect the U.S. first, rather than squishy diplomats squishing around.

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Doom Today: Bananas Under Threat From Global Boiling

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, this is horrible

Bananas under threat as rising temperatures killing crops – report

Bananas are coming under increasing threat from climate change, and farmers saying extreme weather is “killing” their crops, according to a report.

An analysis by international development charity Christian Aid released on Monday shows rising temperatures and climate-related pests are putting bananas at risk.

It found that nearly two-thirds of the most suitable banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean – a region responsible for around 80% of the world’s banana exports – could be lost by 2080 due to climate impacts.

Bananas grow in a temperature range of between 15-35C but are also very sensitive to water shortages, meaning increasingly extreme weather is affecting the plant’s ability to photosynthesise.

Oh, phew, it’s in the far flung future. Surprise? It was just last year that we were told that climate doom would just make bananas more expensive.

In light of the findings, Christian Aid is urging developed nations to urgently reduce their carbon emissions to stem the growing impacts of climate change.

It also calls for international climate finance to support banana growers and agricultural communities to adapt to the changing climate.

Government force and redistribution of money from the 1st world to the 3rd.

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UK Plans To End Mass Immigration Or Something

By William Teach May 12, 2025 – 6:45 am

Could this be the Trump effect, stopping all the criminals and parasites from coming in? Maybe getting them out of the UK?

UK plans to end ‘failed free market experiment’ in immigration

The British government outlined plans on Sunday to end what it called the “failed free market experiment” in mass immigration by restricting skilled worker visas to graduate-level jobs and forcing businesses to increase training for local workers.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to cut net migration after the success of Nigel Farage’s right-wing, anti-immigration Reform UK party in local elections this month.

Under the government’s new plans, skilled visas will only be granted to people in graduate jobs, while visas for lower-skilled roles will only be issued in areas critical to the nation’s industrial strategy, and in return businesses must increase training of British workers.

The Labour government said the changes will be part of a policy document, known as a white paper, to be published on Monday setting out how ministers plan to reduce immigration.

After Britain eventually left the EU in 2020, the then Conservative government reduced the threshold to allow workers in categories such as yoga teachers, dog walkers and DJs to be eligible for skilled worker visas.

“We inherited a failed immigration system where the previous government replaced free movement with a free market experiment,” Yvette Cooper, the British interior minister, said in a statement. “We are taking decisive action to restore control and order to the immigration system.”

Are you getting the idea that this only applies to productive people, ones who contribute, who aren’t on the public dole and looking to change the UK into something else?

Net migration, or the number of people coming to Britain minus the number leaving, rose to a record 906,000 people in the year to June 2023, up from the 184,000 people who arrived in the same period during 2019, when Britain was still in the EU.

So, nothing about kicking out all those who do not contribute? Those who simply showed up and said “I’m here, where’s my free stuff”?

“The mayor of Rochdale is a Muslim.

Today in England there are over 3,000 mosques, there are over 130 Sharia courts in England and there are more than 50 Sharia councils.

78% of Muslim women do not work and receive state support and free accommodation. 63% of Muslims do not work and receive state support and free housing state supported. Muslim families have an average of six to eight children who all receive free accommodation.

Every school in the UK is required to teach about Islam. the No. 1 most common baby name in England is Muhammad.

This is not immigration this is invasion”

But, the government has no intention of booting them out.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 1:56 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles causing heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post what happens when there is too much solar power.

It’s brunette’s week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 8:55 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the eye doc fixed my contacts prescription. Actually went down .25 in each eye, so, now everything is not super blurry at distance. And even within 3 feet. This pinup is by Art Frahm with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog: Hypocrisy, thy name is Ocasio-Cortez
  2. This ain’t Hell…: Mikie Sherrill Accused of Stolen Valor
  3. Theo Spark: Marxist Monuments to CRT ………………from Rico
  4. The Right Scoop: BREAKING: President Trump says great progress made with China in Switzerland
  5. The Lid: College Palestinian Group Admits Their Job is to ‘Destroy the United States’
  6. The Hayride: Despite House Democrats’ ire, DEI bill passes committee hurdle
  7. The Gateway Pundit: Democrat Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho Turns Herself in to County Officials – Arrested and Charged with Vote Harvesting Scheme Targeting Seniors During Her Primary
  8. The First Street Journal: As always, the credentialed media report on an individual point, and miss the real story
  9. Sultan Knish: Obama’s Sexism
  10. Pacific Pundit: Rachel Levine will be administratively discharged at the end of the week after SCOTUS upholds Trump military trans ban
  11. neo-neocon: Meet the potential 51st state: Alberta
  12. Moonbattery: Effect of Black Lives Matter on Murder Rate
  13. Legal Insurrection: HHS Officially Suspends Research at NIH High-Security Pathogen Lab
  14. Jihad Watch: While Biden Pentagon Was Fighting the Houthis, the Biden State Department and USAID Were Funding Them
  15. And last, but, not least, IOTW Report has Poland: Thousands Protest Against Migration Ahead of Presidential Elections

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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Bummer: States Sue Over Trump Admin Freezing Charging Station Funds

By William Teach May 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’m not so sure why they are upset Mayor Pete barely built any while serving under Biden

US states sue over Trump freeze on funds for electric-vehicle charging stations

California and 15 other states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, saying the federal government was illegally withholding billions of dollars awarded to states for building electric-vehicle charging stations.

The U.S. Transportation Department in February suspended the EV charging program and rescinded approval of state plans pending a review.

Senate Democrats said President Donald Trump was withholding more than $3 billion from the program, which was approved as part of former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

The lawsuit, joined by the District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey and Colorado among others, was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington State.

The states said the administration’s decision “will devastate the ability of states to build the charging infrastructure necessary for making EVs accessible to more consumers, combating climate change, reducing other harmful pollution, and supporting the states’ green economies.”

Well, why can’t they use their own taxpayer money to build them? Surely they can get The Rich in those states to pay, right? And the peasants won’t mind paying for the chargers as good little Liberals, right? All mostly Dem states, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Gavin gave a press release

When America retreats, China wins.

President Trump’s illegal action withholding funds for electric vehicle infrastructure is yet another Trump gift to China – ceding American innovation and killing thousands of jobs.

Instead of hawking Teslas on the White House lawn, President Trump could actually help Elon – and the nation – by following the law and releasing this bipartisan funding.

You know what would be really funny, once a Democrat judge says the money must be spent? To spend all the money building EV charging stations in Republican states. The bullshit Inflation Reduction Act never said what states the money had to be spent in, you know.

And Gavin can spend California money building the chargers. It’s not like the Biden admin did such a great job building them. A grand total of 58 by the time he left office.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heatsnow and summer freezing from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on a secret Iranian nuclear facility.

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