Trump Threatens Serious Penalties On Russia And Those Who Deal With Them

By William Teach July 16, 2025 – 7:00 am

The Credentialed Media doesn’t know what to think of this. When Trump goes in on sanctions he goes all in, but, they hate Trump, so, they want to figure a way to portray this as not good

Trump threatens ‘very significant’ Russia sanctions, bashes ‘all talk’ Putin

President Donald Trump upped pressure on Russia to “stop the killing” in Ukraine within 50 days, warning Tuesday that his threatened economic penalties against Moscow and its trading partners would be devastating.

Trump said yesterday he would impose secondary tariffs of up to 100 percent on countries that still trade with Russia in an effort to force the Kremlin to the negotiating table with Ukraine, giving Moscow until early September to respond.

A bill by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that has 85 Senate co-sponsors would authorize the president to impose secondary tariffs of at least 500 percent on imported goods from countries such as China, Brazil and India.

“They are very biting. They are very significant. And they are going to be very bad for the countries involved,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

But

Russia rejects Trump’s demand for a Ukraine war ceasefire in 50 days as unacceptable

Russia has rejected President Trump’s “ultimatum” for Moscow to sign a ceasefire deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days on Tuesday as “unacceptable,” calling for continued negotiations and insisting that the invasion ordered by President Vladimir Putin would continue until its goals are achieved.

Russia is trying to slow walk this so they can take even more Ukrainian territory.

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Green Caterwauling: NASA To Blow Off Publishing “Major” Climate (scam) Report

By William Teach July 15, 2025 – 3:42 pm

Do we really need it? Per Cult of Climastrology dogma doom would be cancelled if each Believer stopped using fossil fuels and made their lives carbon neutral

Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.

Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark. Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it. At the time, the White House said NASA would house the reports to comply with a 1990 law that requires the reports, which the space agency said it planned to do.

But on Monday, NASA announced that it aborted those plans.

“The USGCRP (the government agency that oversees and used to host the report) met its statutory requirements by presenting its reports to Congress. NASA has no legal obligations to host globalchange.gov’s data,” NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens said in an email. That means no data from the assessment or the government science office that coordinated the work will be on NASA, she said.

Sad trombones. What is done with that assessment? More fearmongering and more requests for government money to do more research to uphold cult principles.

And you know who cares? Virtually no one except those whose prestige and money depends on it. The average American couldn’t care less.

Meanwhile

Indigenous Australians lose climate change case against government

An Australian federal court ruled Tuesday that Indigenous residents of the Torres Strait Islands are not owed environmental protections from the nation’s government.

Justice Michael Wigney said in his dismissal that “changes wrought by the escalating impacts of global warming and climate change in the Torres Strait have had, and continue to have, a devastating impact on the traditional way of life of Torres Strait Islanders.”

However, he concluded that the case brought by island community elders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai “failed because the law in Australia as it currently stands provides no real or effective avenue through which the applicants were able to pursue their claims.”

Wigney further explained that current common Australian law is not written in a way that the plaintiffs could seek relief in regard to what they considered a failure of the federal government.

Wow, a judge who actually looks at the law as written by the duly elected legislative branch. I guess the islanders aren’t going to get their free money.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 15, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on the political betrayal of Britain to Islam.

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Supreme Court Rules Trump Admin Can, In Fact, Fire Education Department Employees

By William Teach July 15, 2025 – 10:30 am

Vox thinks this is the most important decision from the Court so far. They must be upset that the government won’t be funding so many Democrat party supporters. And how so much money won’t be flowing between elected Dems and Dem supporters

The Supreme Court just handed Trump his biggest victory of his second term

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass terminations that, in Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s words, are “the first step on the road to a total shutdown” of the entire department.

The Court’s decision in McMahon v. New York, was handed down on the Court’s “shadow docket,” a mix of emergency motions and other expedited matters that the justices often decide without full briefing or oral argument. As is often the case in shadow docket decisions, none of the Republican justices explained their decision. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent, which was joined by both of her fellow Democratic justices.

Most liberal outlets point out that there is really no explanation without mentioning it being the shadow docket. Sotomayor wrote a silly, unhinged, long dissent.

Technically, the Court’s decision in McMahon is temporary — it permits the Trump administration to fire most of the Education Department’s workers while this lawsuit is still pending in federal court. But it is far from clear how the Education Department could unwind a decision to fire more than half of its over 4,000 employees.

The McMahon decision is particularly unnerving because it suggests that President Donald Trump is allowed to “impound” federal spending — unilaterally refusing to spend money or to continue federal programs that are mandated by an act of Congress. While McMahon does not explicitly authorize impoundment, it allows the Trump administration to fire so many federal workers, in so many key roles, that the practical effect is to cancel entire federal programs.

He could simply send the money to State education departments for their use, rather than running it through the politicized federal ED.

(NBC News) “The United States Supreme Court has handed a Major Victory to Parents and Students across the Country, by declaring the Trump Administration may proceed on returning the functions of the Department of Education BACK TO THE STATES,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Now, with this GREAT Supreme Court Decision, our Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, may begin this very important process.”

Really, he cannot shut it down without Congress eliminating it, but, hey, they could whittle it down to 10 employees. It would still be technically open, just, utterly ineffective.

(WRAL) North Carolina is joining other states in a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over more than $165 million in frozen education funds intended for nearly all of the state’s school systems and charter schools and several nonprofit groups.

The administration has canceled billions of dollars in federal education grants nationwide since February. Several states have sued, but North Carolina had not yet done so when it comes to education funds.

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, who announced the state’s role in the lawsuit Monday, said the cuts could result in the elimination of about 1,000 North Carolina education jobs.

Are those jobs necessary? Who are the nonprofit groups? Is the money treated as a slush fund for Democrat supporters and elected officials?

A White House spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The federal Office of Management and Budget has previously cited issues with the way at least some grants were spent as the reason for the delay, while the office reviews the entire funding programs.

“This is an ongoing programmatic review of education funding,” the office previously said in a statement. “Initial findings show that many of these grant programs have been grossly misused to subsidize a radical leftwing agenda” that helps unauthorized immigrant students, among other things.

Reviewing the funding, digging into where the money is going, is not something Democrats want.

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State Department Says Adios To Remain Climate Hysterics

By William Teach July 15, 2025 – 7:15 am

Well, now they can go work in the private sector

The State Department fires remaining employees who worked on climate change

The State Department on Friday fired the remaining staff working in the office responsible for international climate policy, including annual U.N. negotiations related to climate treaties, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Most of the staff in the Office of Global Change had left voluntarily after President Donald Trump took office and moved rapidly to pull the United States out of international climate talks. Nearly a dozen people who remained on staff were fired Friday, and the office will be shuttered as part of the wider downsizing of the department, the people familiar with the firings said. (snip)

Firing the staff of the Office of Global Change, many of whom worked under both Democratic and Republicans administrations, leaves the State Department without employees who are knowledgeable about global climate negotiations, said Alden Meyer, a senior associate specializing in climate diplomacy at the think tank E3G.

“Without the office in place, there’s not a focal point for the organization of U.S. climate diplomacy, but that seems to be the point, right? To not have the U.S. engaging in climate diplomacy seems to be the policy goal of the administration,” Meyer said.

It’s a real shame that there will no longer be fancy-pants, Ivy League Elites working to take your money and spread it around the world for absolutely no return. No longer be negotiating deals that force Americans to change their lives.

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Bummer: ICE Plans To Hold Illegals Without Bond Till Their Day In Court

By William Teach July 15, 2025 – 7:00 am

They can all avoid this by self-deporting

ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings

The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

In a July 8 memo, Todd M. Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told officers that such immigrants should be detained “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years. Lawyers say the policy will apply to millions of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few decades, including under Biden.

In the past, immigrants residing in the U.S. interior generally have been allowed to request a bond hearing before an immigration judge. But Lyons wrote that the Trump administration’s departments of Homeland Security and Justice had “revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities” and determined that such immigrants “may not be released from ICE custody.” In rare exceptions immigrants may be released on parole, but that decision will be up to an immigration officer, not a judge, he wrote.

The provision is based on a section of immigration law that says unauthorized immigrants “shall be detained” after their arrest, but that has historically applied to those who recently crossed the border and not longtime residents.

Doesn’t matter: they are here illegally. The law states they can be held. We’ve seen what happens when they are let go on bond/own recognizance: they disappear for years/decades.

Since the memos were issued last week, the American Immigration Lawyers Association said members had reported that immigrants were being denied bond hearings in more than a dozen immigration courts across the United States, including in New York, Virginia, Oregon, North Carolina, Ohio and Georgia. The Department of Justice oversees the immigration courts.

All they have to say is “I want to leave the U.S.” and they will escorted out of a detention facility and put on a plane or across the border. It’s that easy. And it is a whole lot easier to run deportation hearings when all illegal alien is right there. This also entices illegals to just leave and avoid the whole thing.

In its 2024 annual report, however, ICE said it detains immigrants only “when necessary” and that the vast majority of the 7.6 million people then on its docket were released pending immigration proceedings. Keeping them detained while their case is adjudicated has not been logistically possible, and advocates have raised concern for migrants’ health and welfare in civil immigration detention.

That was 2024. As we were told, elections have consequences.

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NY Times Goes All Satan And Fall Of Man For European Climate Doom

By William Teach July 14, 2025 – 3:00 pm

I wonder if NY Times Warmist Jason Horowitz even understands the meaning of Paradise Lost?

Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton that was first published in 1667. The poem explores the biblical story of the fall of man, focusing primarily on the rebellion of Satan and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Amidst the cosmic struggle between God and Satan, the poem delves into themes of free will, disobedience, and the consequences of sin. Milton’s work is richly layered with classical allusions and theological reflections, showcasing his profound knowledge of literature and theology. The intricate narrative unfolds in twelve books, and Milton employs blank verse, a non-rhyming iambic pentameter, to give the poem a majestic and elevated tone.

I also wonder if he took a fossil fueled trip in order to “report from Barcelona, Spain”, considering he is stationed in Rome

It’s Paradise Lost as Climate Change Remakes Europe’s Summers

Not so long ago, families coming to the shore in Montgat, Spain, just outside Barcelona, built sand castles, played paddle games and lounged around on the broad band of sand that was the picture of the European summer vacation. But now in some places, there is hardly enough room to put down a towel.

“From here to there,” said Sofia Mella, 19, as she pointed far out to sea, “it was all sand.”

Climate change is changing Europe into a summer paradise lost. Across Spain, Italy, Greece, France and beyond, sand-devouring storms, rising seas, asphyxiating temperatures, deadly floods and horrific wildfires have year after year turned some of the continent’s most desired getaways into miserable locales to get away from.

Well, stop the idiots from starting wildfires. The Med has basically been rising since the end of the last glacial age. Before than the Atlantic was too low to fill it, and creatures walked on the sea floor, hence why elephant bones have been found on the sea floor. It’s why there are all those salt mines. And, really, asphyxiating temps? Fearporn much?

As southern Europeans dream of fjords, the traditional hot spots and fixtures of travel agency package deals no longer seem so desirable. This past week, even though temperatures broke across much of the continent, experts and officials warned that the next heat wave would come soon, endangering vulnerable locals and making tourists question what they had gotten themselves into. Even activists seeking to free their cities from the scourge of overtourism saw no silver lining to the brutal conditions.

People go to hot spots because they are hot.

“It’s hell,” said Daniel Pardo Rivacoba, who lives in Barcelona, and who spoke for a group fighting overtourism — and its climate-change fueling flights. He saw the scorching sun not as an ally to keep the tourists away, but as a common enemy that will melt them both.

It really is a cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 14, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon means of transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on Tom Homan never disappointing.

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Democrats Willing To Shut Down Government Over $9 Billion In Cuts To Foreign Aid And PBS

By William Teach July 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

Is this the hill they want to die on?

Virginia Democrat on possible shutdown: ‘It’s time to stand up for the American people’

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) said he supports Democrats’ threats to shut down the government if Republicans proceed with a planned rescissions package, saying his party should use all the leverage they can to prevent cuts to previously approved funding.

“I say it’s time to stand up for the American people,” Subramanyam said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” when asked what he thinks about a potential shutdown.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. I mean, I’m hearing from both sides. They’re fed up with this administration, and they want to see some changes, not just in this administration, but even in the Democratic Party,” he continued.

“And, so, yes, absolutely, the time to fight was yesterday,” he added.

Republicans are ramping up efforts to pass a rescissions package that President Trump requested last month, which includes more than $9 billion in funding cuts for foreign aid and public broadcasting programs.

So, what are these cuts? From that “Democrats’ threats” link

Democrats are referring to a package of funding cuts Senate Republicans hope to take up in the coming days that calls for $8.3 billion in cuts to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and foreign aid, and more than $1 billion in cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides some funding to NPR and PBS.

How is it standing up for the American people when $8.3 billion is for USAID, meaning the money goes to foreign nations?

Also, why is any money going to USAID? I thought that was shut down? Also also, Dems are upset because USAID really ends up being a slush fund, as the appropriation ends up being spread to friendly NGOs who take their cut to do nothing but give some money to other NGOs/companies (and lots goes back into Democrats’ coffers), and a whopping 12% ends up being used as actual aid.

But, hey, if Democrats really want to shut down the government over this, have at it. This won’t look good.

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UK Energy Secretary Says UK’s Way Of Life Under Threat From Global Boiling

By William Teach July 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

Hey, I wonder how many fossil fueled trips Ed has taken? Certainly he didn’t take a long, fossil fueled flight to COP29, and won’t travel to COP30 in Brazil, right?

Miliband says UK’s way of life ‘under threat’ amid extremes of heat and rainfall

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said Britain’s way of life is “under threat” from climate change as the Met Office said extremes of heat and rainfall are becoming the norm.

The latest state of the UK climate report, published in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology, shows the impact of human-caused global warming on the UK’s weather, seas, people and wildlife.

For the first time, the report also found UK sea levels to be rising faster than the global average.

There’s zero evidence to support that, which is why they do not publish it.

The Energy Secretary called the findings “a stark warning” to take action on climate and nature.

“Our British way of life is under threat,” Mr Miliband told the PA news agency.

“Whether it is extreme heat, droughts, flooding, we can see it actually with our own eyes, that it’s already happening, and we need to act.

“That’s why the Government has a central mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower and tackle the climate crisis.”

And, this gives the government more authority to crack down on their citizens, whether they like it or not. But, maybe they should be worried about something else

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