Bummer: Trump Admin Ends Climate (scam) Partnership With U Of Washington

By William Teach May 9, 2025 – 3:48 pm

What UW is going to miss the most is all the climate scam money

Trump administration pulls plug on UW climate research partnership

climate cowThe Trump administration has ended a climate research program hosted at the University of Washington that helps communities in the Northwest adapt to extreme heat, drought and other threats from climate change.

The UW’s Climate Impacts Group, which relies on federal support and hosts the program, said in a Thursday statement that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ended its grant award for the research in a Monday letter.

Did they ever consider that it is not a good idea to rely so much on federal taxpayer money? Because administrations change

The program, called the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, has developed a plan to reduce illness and save lives in extreme heat in the wake of the 2021 heat dome, has built an air-quality dashboard to mitigate the health impacts of wildfire smoke and has expanded drinking-water testing and filtration in rural Oregon, among other things.

I made the mistake of reading their plan, which boiled mostly down to “give government lots and lots of power and taxpayer money.” Drinking water? Has nothing to do with ‘climate change’. But, researching, it also calls for more Big Government, this time for rural Oregon which votes Republican, and they want to control.

The Climate Impacts Group has hosted the program since 2021 and funding was set to run through August 2026.

NOAA was a specific target in Project 2025, a conservative blueprint created by the Heritage Foundation and intended for the second Trump administration. The document called the agency “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”

Maybe they shouldn’t have been so cultish and dictatorial.

The May 5 letter from the acting director of NOAA’s Grants Management Division states the program funding was axed as “part of efforts to streamline and reduce the cost and size of the Federal Government.”

We don’t need to pay for it. But, hey, if Oregon and Washington state want to, have at it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 9, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on a Swedish clergyperson beating herself up and blaming “right wing extremists”

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Trump Admin Now Coming After In-State Tuition For Illegals

By William Teach May 9, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s always been absurd that illegals who are illegally present in the U.S. get in-state tuition: if a student is from New Jersey they do not get in-state in North Carolina. At least they are from the U.S. But, does Trump have the power to do anything about it?

Trump Executive Order Seeks to End Undocumented In-State Tuition Programs

Undocumented students in Colorado have gone on to be teachers, nurses, and business owners thanks to a program that allows them to pay in-state tuition at public universities.

Now the future of that program and ones like it in 23 other states are in doubt after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seeks to punish states and cities with so-called sanctuary policies.

The order, signed on April 28, also specifically calls out programs that provide in-state tuition for undocumented students who graduated from high school in that state or who meet other residency requirements.

Allowing in-state students who are not citizens to pay less tuition than out-of-state students who are citizens represents discrimination, according to the order, which says that the attorney general, in cooperation with the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, “shall identify and take appropriate action to stop the enforcement of state and local laws, regulations, policies, and practices favoring aliens over any groups of American citizens that are unlawful.”

Advocates for immigrant students say that without in-state tuition, many undocumented students will struggle to afford college. They don’t qualify for any federal financial aid and face other barriers to college.

They shouldn’t be attending college in the U.S. in the first place, because they shouldn’t be here in the first place. If they want to pay full price, I guess that would be OK, just like with students from other states and other countries.

The Trump order sets up a possible legal showdown over the state-supported tuition programs that immigrant rights and higher education-advising groups have called essential to help undocumented students access higher education and educate them to fill in-demand jobs.

Not surprising: they sue over everything Trump does.

The order adds to an already uncertain environment for immigrant students, who worry about the risks of filling out financial aid paperwork while grappling with deportation fears. Denver Scholarship Foundation’s Natasha Garfield said the college-advising nonprofit will continue to provide students information about their options and allow them to decide whether college is right for them during a time when Trump’s immigration stance has brought incredible uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a big part of everything Trump does on immigration. But, in this very long, whiny article, they forget one big thing: does the federal government have the authority to do this? Sure, the Constitution gives the federal government authority on immigration. And the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) prohibits states from offering pos-tsecondary education benefits to undocumented immigrants based on residency unless the same benefits are available to all U.S. citizens, regardless of state residency. But, these are states giving a discount. That has nothing to do with the feds, right?

Yes, but, most, if not all of the schools and states take federal money to fund the schools. That gives Los Federales power to dictate policies. Like not giving illegals in-state tuition. Whoops!

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Bummer: NOAA To Stop Tracking Cost Of Weather Events

By William Teach May 9, 2025 – 7:15 am

It is good to know what the costs of weather events is, though, it is skewed since there are so many more people and buildings in the way, and the property is more expensive. However, NOAA has been using those costs to push their climate cult beliefs

US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change

stop global warmingThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.

NOAA falls under the U.S. Department of Commerce and is tasked with daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring. It is also parent to the National Weather Service.

The agency said its National Centers for Environmental Information would no longer update its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database beyond 2024, and that its information — going as far back as 1980 — would be archived.

For decades, it has tracked hundreds of major events across the country, including destructive hurricanes, hail storms, droughts and freezes that have totaled trillions of dollars in damage.

The AP shows exactly why this doomsday cult crap needs to end

Scientists say these weather events are becoming increasingly more frequent, costly and severe with climate change. Experts have attributed the growing intensity of recent debilitating heat, Hurricane Milton, the Southern California wildfires and blasts of cold to climate change.

Assessing the impact of weather events fueled by the planet’s warming is key as insurance premiums hike, particularly in communities more prone to flooding, storms and fires. Climate change has wrought havoc on the insurance industry, and homeowners are at risk of skyrocketing rates.

Except, not of that is actually true. Weather events are not becoming more frequent, a 1.7F increase in global temps in 175 years is no big deal, the SoCal wildfires were caused by human idiocy, and, wait, blasts of cold? Yeah, it’s a cult.

But, the constant bleating does freak out insurers, and, yeah, it is more costly, because things are more costly and there are more buildings.

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Trump Admin Petitions Supreme Court To End TPS Protections For Four Nations

By William Teach May 9, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’m not sure why it’s even necessary, but, crazy left wing judges have decided they run the Legislative and Executive Branches. This adds on to Trump already asking to end TPS for Venezuelans.

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow for the End of Biden-Era Migrant Program

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to proceed with a plan to revoke deportation protections for migrants from four troubled countries.

In an emergency application to the justices, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to lift a block imposed by a lower court on its effort to reverse a Biden administration program that had allowed migrants from certain countries to fly into the United States and remain temporarily.

“This court’s immediate intervention is warranted,” Mr. Sauer wrote in the application, adding that a lower court had “nullified one of the administration’s most consequential immigration policy decisions.”

The Biden administration introduced the program, known as humanitarian parole, in early 2023. Under the policy, migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela could fly into the United States if they had a financial sponsor and passed security checks. Approximately 532,000 people entered the country under the program, which allowed them to remain for up to two years. (snip)

On March 25, a federal judge in Massachusetts temporarily paused the administration’s revocation of the program. The court determined that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked authority to categorically revoke parole for all 532,000 people without providing individualized, case-by-case reviews.

Except, that is not what the law actually says. Further, TPS for Venezuelans started October 2022. Haiti, Nicaragua, and Cuba started January 2023. The program was for 18 months. So, it’s over for Venezuelans. Where the hell does this judge get off thinking there needs to be a case by case review? Come June, those from the other countries can be repatriated.

But, hey, if liberals love them so much, the Trump admin should round them up and ship them to sanctuary cities. Especially rich areas

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New Pope Picked. Climate Cult Already Jumping In

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 4:11 pm

It was seriously just a few hours ago that they announced the new Pope

and, already

Pope Leo XIV Might Be the Climate Champion We Need

In picking a new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican had a chance to honor the late Pope Francis’ legacy as the greenest pope in modern history. In choosing the American (and Peruvian) Cardinal Robert Prevost — henceforth known as Pope Leo XIV — his fellow cardinals appear to have seized that opportunity. Humanity’s hope of avoiding the worst of climate change can only benefit.

We’ll learn more about the pope’s views in the days to come. But he is on record telling a seminar last November that the world must move “from words to action” on climate change. In the same speech, he warned that humanity’s “dominion over nature” shouldn’t be “tyrannical” but “a relationship of reciprocity.” He also touted the Vatican’s green record, including purchases of solar panels and electric vehicles — a fleet that now includes the first all-electric Popemobile.

Will he continue to prioritize the climate cult, blowing off the whole “thou shall have no God before me” thing, as Francis did? Supposedly he voted Republican when he was back in the US, but, he is also Trump deranged, and an open borders advocate. So, yeah, I expect him to yammer about climate doom a lot.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a cup of coffee which will get so expensive from ‘climate change’ that only The Rich can afford it, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the EPA cancelling all “environmental justice” grants.

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Good News: Trump Will Announce Trade Deal With UK At 10am

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 10:30 am

I’m sure this is giving all those Trump hating Credentialed Media outlets a big sad. Like the Washington Post

Trump expected to announce trade agreement with United Kingdom

President Donald Trump will announce a trade agreement with the United Kingdom on Thursday morning, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The deal is the first the administration hopes to sign with dozens of trading partners across the world. Trump in early April announced tariffs on more than 70 countries worldwide, but then implemented a 90-day pause to allow for negotiations before they went into effect.

Details of the expected agreement with Britain were not immediately available but were confirmed by a person with knowledge of the agreement, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Trump teased the announcement in a Truth Social post Wednesday night.

That’s good, right?

Experts have been skeptical that any agreements reached in such a short amount of time will significantly alter trading barriers between the United States and other countries. Administration officials have suggested Trump might first reach agreements that would serve as frameworks for future negotiations.

It’s no surprise that the Washington Post is skeptical: they do not want it to happen. They want Trump to fail, even if it hurts Americans. They want Americans to hurt so that Democrats can win the mid-terms and stop Trump, even impeach him.

(NY Times) Timothy C. Brightbill, an international trade attorney at Wiley Rein, said the announcement would probably be “just an agreement to start the negotiations, identifying a framework of issues to be discussed in the coming months.”

“We suspect that tariff rates, nontariff barriers and digital trade are all on the list — and there are difficult issues to address on all of these,” he added.

That would still be a good thing, right? Again, I disagree with the way Trump did the tariffs. I would have preferred using them as threats and trying to negotiate for a year or so first. Regardless, there needs to be a better trade balance, since most of the nations put big tariffs on US goods coming into other countries, while the US has zero to low tariffs on goods brought into the US. Tariffs need to be equitable.

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Trump Probably Just Put The Death Nail In California’s Train To Nowhere

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 7:15 am

Of course, calling it a train to nowhere assumes that there is actually a train. Actually tracks. First off, here’s Politico providing some cover and press for Gavin Newsom

Newsom jabs at ‘MAGA trolls’ as he broadens information war

And here’s Gavin’s government

No tracks have been laid. None. The comrades in the People’s Republik Of California voted on this all the way back in 2008. It’s about $100 billion over budget. No tracks. No trains. It was supposed to be from LA to San Francisco by 2020, now they’re talking about Bakersfield to Merced by 2030. Look at a map: who’s really going to ride the train? Provided it ever gets completed. The Burj Khalifa in Dubai took six years to build. Big, giant skyscraper. Tallest in the world.

But, the money train from Los Federales stops

Donald Trump says US government ‘not going to pay’ for California high-speed rail

President Donald Trump says the U.S. government will not pay for California’s high-speed rail project, fueling growing concerns that the bullet train will not have stable federal funding for the foreseeable future.

“That train is the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen,” Trump said during a Tuesday news conference in the Oval Office.

“It’s, like, totally out of control.” “This government is not going to pay,” Trump added. “We’re not going to pay for that thing.” (snip)

The president directed the U.S. Department of Transportation in February to launch an audit to determine whether he should rescind roughly $4 billion in unspent allocated funds for the project. The audit is not yet complete.

I think we can all agree that Trump will rescind it, even if it was part of a specific, named allocation in the federal budget. Whether it is in the budget as a named allocation or not you can bet a left wing federal judge will Demand that Trump give California the money. Even as an audit by the Department of Transportation is auditing the project. Even as it is a huge waste of money. And the legal rangling could take years, so, even if eventually restored, this could be the death knell of this boondoggle.

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NY Times Attempts To Scaremonger On Recession Fears Despite Data

By William Teach May 8, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s so hilarious, and expected. You knew that a big media outlet would be required to do this at some point due to Trump Derangement Syndrome. But, it is also funny because the data and all the measures, such as consumer sentiment, rising food, housing, medical, auto, gas and energy prices were all skyrocketing, and outlets like the NY Times said you peasants were stupid, it wasn’t happening

Recession Warnings Are Everywhere, Except in the Data.

Americans are spending less at McDonald’s. Fewer container ships are expected at the Port of Los Angeles. Procter & Gamble is raising prices. Mattel is shifting production out of China.

Evidence for the economic impact of President Trump’s trade wars is everywhere — except, for the most part, in economic data itself. Consumer spending hasn’t fallen. Layoffs haven’t risen. Businesses haven’t stopped investing in equipment or buying supplies.

Could there be other reasons for fewer people spending at McDonald’s? No, sorry, right, it’s Trump’s Fault. Anyhow, you stupid peasants also need to ignore the data.

Economists say it is a matter of time before the impact of tariffs and the uncertainty that Mr. Trump’s on-again, off-again approach to trade policy has created begin to show up in the hard data. But until then, they are left sifting through crumbs of evidence that wouldn’t get a second glance in more normal times: customs revenue, hotel bookings in Las Vegas, freight shipments by truck and rail.

Crystal ball time. And the NY Times and other Trump deranged wishing for a recession. Heck, they’d be uber-happy with a depression.

“The problem is we don’t have much to hang onto at this point,” said Marc Giannoni, chief U.S. economist for Barclays. “We have to rely on anecdotes, on indicators that are nonconventional.”

We had more than anecdotes during the Bidenconomy: we had the actual rising prices. Which, in fairness, were not all his fault. Let’s start with China screwing around with coronaviruses. Anyhow, they have no actual data, just whiny Democrats on social media. And the Times writes a long piece on this, hoping to scare people. And get those who actually pay to read the Times to fearmonger because TDS.

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