NY Times Caterwauls About Little Boy “Detained” By ICE

By William Teach January 23, 2026 – 7:00 am

All the news that is fed to them by hyper-left wingers

Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis

A 5-year-old boy wearing a Spider-Man backpack and an oversized hat was detained with his father by immigration authorities on Tuesday, one of four students who have been apprehended in a suburban Minneapolis school district during the past two weeks, school officials said.

The prekindergarten pupil, Liam Conejo Ramos, is pictured in a photo released by the school system as he stands next to a vehicle with an adult’s hand on his backpack. His father is not in sight. The image prompted outrage in the Twin Cities area, where many people have been angered since mid-December by the Trump administration’s surge in deportation operations.

“Why detain a 5-year-old?” Zena Stenvik, the superintendent of schools in Columbia Heights, Minn., asked at a news conference about the episode on Wednesday.

Exactly what happened on a snow-covered block in Columbia Heights during the arrest is in dispute. The small school district and the federal government have given conflicting accounts.

No, it’s really not, but, the Times will give it a shot

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that when the agents sought to detain the father, he fled on foot and left Liam behind in the vehicle.

Ms. McLaughlin said that Mr. Conejo Arias was Ecuadorean. She did not suggest he had any criminal record, and he does not appear in any Minnesota criminal court records.

Yeah, that is what happened

The kid wasn’t detained or abducted or any of the other things the unhinged are saying: his father abandoned him when law enforcement came calling

School officials said that they had reviewed paperwork showing that Mr. Conejo Arias’s family has an active asylum case and no order of deportation. School officials accused immigration agents of making the child knock on the door of his home as “bait” to apprehend others, something that immigration officials denied.

Were the school officials there are at the home? If so, that’s weird. If so, why is there no video? Did the NY Times attempt to find out? Or, just take their word? This is the state of today’s “reporting”. The information was known at least half a day before the Times published this late Thursday. But, really, most of the Credentialed Media ran with it, which is rage baiting and could get people killed.

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We’re In A New Era Of “Water Bankruptcy” Or Something

By William Teach January 22, 2026 – 3:52 pm

The doomsday cult just loves to create new types of doom

The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report.

Do we need more than that? It’s the United Nations, who hold lots and lots of climate conferences a year, including the big one every November where 50K take fossil fueled trips to demand Everyone Else give up their use of fossil fuels and their Freedom

The global situation is so severe that terms like “water crisis” or “water stressed” fail to capture its magnitude, according to the report published Tuesday by the United Nations University and based on a study in the journal Water Resources.

“If you keep calling this situation a crisis, you’re implying that it’s temporary. It’s a shock. We can mitigate it,” said Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health, and the report’s author.

With bankruptcy, while it’s still vital to fix and mitigate where possible, “you also need to adapt to a new reality… to new conditions that are more restrictive than before,” he told CNN.

And the UN would be happy to be the ones in charge of everyone’s water, you know.

The concept of water bankruptcy works like this: Nature provides income in the form of rain and snow, but the world is spending more than it receives — extracting from its rivers, lakes, wetlands and underground aquifers at a much faster rate than they are replenished, putting us in debt. Climate change-fueled heat and drought are compounding the problem, reducing available water.

Perhaps if everyone treated the water with respect and didn’t pollute it there would be no problem. Of course, the UN wants a problem, because they’re leaders in the climate cult and it allows them power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 22, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on a Canadian book banning books in the “name of inclusion”.

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Pro-Illegals Agitators Now Going After K-9s

By William Teach January 22, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is going too far

These people are horrible

(Fox News) Federal officials on Wednesday said a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) K-9 was targeted in Minneapolis after an employee at a kennel wrote “ICE OUT” on the dog’s feed chart.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said anti-ICE agitators in Minneapolis are targeting CBP K-9s, including a K-9 named “Dina.”

“At the kennel where K-9 Dina was staying, it was discovered that an employee had written “ICE OUT” on her feed chart,” DHS wrote in a social media post. “THEY’RE EVEN GOING AFTER THE DOGS!”

They damned sure aren’t going to win hearts and minds targeting the dogs.

Meanwhile

(PBS) An appeals court on Wednesday suspended a decision that restricts immigration officers’ aggressive tactics in Minnesota, while Maine declined a request for more undercover license plates for U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles, citing “abuses of power” during the Trump administration’s crackdown.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was persuaded to freeze a judge’s ruling that bars officers from using tear gas and other steps against peaceful protesters while the administration pursues an appeal. Operation Metro Surge, an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, began in early December.

Well, that was expected, most of the orders by the wacko leftist judges get overturned on appeal, even if just for during the appeal, because the wackadoodle federal judges are always exceeding their power.

(ABC News) A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit immigration detention facilities.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., concluded that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed a seven-day notice requirement for congressional oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.

Cobb stressed that she wasn’t ruling on whether the new policy passes legal muster. Rather, she said, plaintiffs’ attorneys representing several Democratic members of Congress used the wrong “procedural vehicle” to challenge it. The judge also concluded that the Jan. 8 policy is a new agency action that isn’t subject to her prior order in the plaintiffs’ favor.

There’s long been a requirement for notice to visit ICE detainment facilities. This makes Democrats mad. They can’t just show up and disrupt operations for their photo-op. Strange how they don’t visit other jails holding Americans to see the conditions. Just for illegals.

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Oh Noes: Climate Change May Have Ended The Tang Dynasty

By William Teach January 22, 2026 – 7:00 am

Is this your fault? Or those Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles

Climate Change May Have Led to the Demise of the Tang Dynasty

Climate change in recent years has fueled migration worldwide. Floods in Pakistan have forced millions from their homes, while the island nation of Kiribati’s entire existence is in doubt due to rising sea levels, according to NASA. A new study suggests that mass migration due to changing climates is not a new occurrence. The research explores the impact of droughts and floods in China between the years 800 and 907.

Writing in Communications Earth and Environment, a multinational research team detailed how these unusual weather patterns influenced political and social upheaval during this period, which was marked by the collapse of the previously dominant Tang dynasty.

This dynasty ruled Imperial China from 618 to 907 and achieved remarkable social and political organization. The era was marked by complex administrative systems and a “golden age” of cosmopolitan culture that supported arts such as woodblock printing, poetry, and painting. They also allowed diverse religious freedom.

The authors focused on the hydrology of the Huanghe River (Yellow River) during this period. They analyzed climate proxy data from sources such as tree rings. These rings can indicate climate conditions over huge time spans. Each annual ring can tell researchers whether the year was dry or rainy, as wet years help trees grow faster and produce thicker rings.

Regardless of which source determines the Dark Ages start and end, 900AD was in the Dark Ages, a period of cooling. Most think that ended about the year 1000, leading to the Medieval Warm Period. So, it wasn’t warming that caused the issue. Funny how nothing in the article mentions this.

Citizens in the region had increasingly shifted from cultivating millet to wheat and rice. Although the reasons for this change are unclear, it meant that climate-resistant millet was replaced by more vulnerable crops. Wheat and rice require more water to grow than millet. Drier periods would have exacerbated food shortages, said Kempf. This increased the risk of famines during droughts.

Drier due to cooling. And here we go

The dynasty eventually splintered into smaller kingdoms after the collapse. The study raises important points about how the weather shifts. In combination with social pressures, it can destabilize societies. As man-made climate change makes our weather more unpredictable, lessons from the past may help societies of today reckon with a less certain world.

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Next ICE Target? Maine

By William Teach January 22, 2026 – 6:45 am

Well, this is unexpected

ICE launches immigration enforcement operation in Maine

Do these old white folks have nothing better to do?

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched a new operation in Maine, an expansion of a Trump administration campaign that has sparked tensions across the country.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement that ICE “arrested illegal aliens convicted of aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and endangering the welfare of a child” during the first day of the initiative, dubbed “Operation Catch of the Day.”

She also called out Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, alleging that the governor “and her fellow sanctuary politicians in Maine have made it abundantly clear that they would rather stand with criminal illegal aliens than protect law-abiding American citizens.”

Mills said in a statement that “many people across Maine are fearful” in the wake of ICE launching its operation in the state.

If they are in the U.S. lawfully and with no conviction or charges they shouldn’t be fearful, right?

“If the Federal government has warrants, then it should show them. But if they are separating working mothers from young children, solely because they sought freedom here and have committed no crime, then the Federal government is only sowing intimidation and fear and fostering division and suspicion among neighbors – none of which is welcome,” she said.

Yeah, that’s not how it works Janet, dammit. I bet if a working mother cam and stole a bunch of your stuff you’d be all for prosecuting them. We are a nation of Law, not of Men. If laws mean nothing then why do we have them? And the law saws, shockingly, that anyone unlawfully present in the US gets deported.

Portland City Councilor Pious Ali said most of the people arrested by ICE on Tuesday were from Maine’s greater Portland area, including South Portland, Westbrook and Lewiston.

Local officials in the state have cautioned that the presence of federal officials in Maine could lead to heightened tensions, with Portland Mayor Mark Dion warning last week that “Our community is anxious and fearful regarding the understanding that ICE is planning to send agents to Portland and Lewiston next week.”

Oh, good, they’re going to protect murderers, rapists, and child abusers.

ICE Deputy Assistant Director Patricia Hyde told Fox News in Scarborough, Maine, on Tuesday that the operation was targeting approximately 1,400 individuals— including immigrants from Senegal, Somalia, Honduras, Guatemala and the Congo — and that authorities arrested more than 50 people during its first day.

The Biden admin kept good records on those they let in, and now the Trump admin can use those records to round them up.

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Coming Big Winter Storm Is, Of Course, Your Fault

By William Teach January 21, 2026 – 3:00 pm

PBS is just one of many who are turning a winter storm into Other People’s fault for driving fossil fueled vehicles, eating meat, and holding on to their Freedom

Still days out, and, really, things are changing enough that we won’t really know till sometime Friday, but, I do not want ice/freezing rain. Whatever happens, I blame you

Stretched polar vortex, moisture and a lack of sea ice all to blame for dangerous winter blast, meteorologists say

Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United States a devastating dose of winter weather later this week with swaths of painful subzero temperatures, heavy snow and powerline-toppling ice.

Meteorologists said the eastern two-thirds of the nation is threatened with a winter storm that could rival the damage of a major hurricane and has some origins in an Arctic that is warming from climate change. They warn that the frigid weather is likely to stick around through the rest of January and into early February, meaning the snow and ice that accumulates will take a long time to melt.

Forecasts have the storm, expected to hit starting Friday, stretching from New Mexico to New England and across the Deep South. About 230 million people face temperatures of 20 degrees (-7 degrees Celsius) or colder and around 150 million are likely to be hit by snow and ice, with many Americans getting both, according to the National Weather Service.

The polar vortex, a patch of bitterly cold air that often stays penned up in northern Canada and Alaska, is being elongated by a wave in the upper atmosphere that goes back to a relatively ice-free part of the Arctic and snow-buried Siberia. As the bone-chilling temperatures sweep through the U.S., they’ll meet with moisture from off California and the Gulf of Mexico to set up crippling ice and snow in many areas.

So, too much warmth from ‘climate change’ and too much snow from ‘climate change’ is driving this storm, totally manmade, as opposed to the storms long ago which did the same and were totally natural. And, yes, there is supposed to be another big blast of winter weather next week, too.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 21, 2026 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on if anyone cares what the government says on eating

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Almost 300K Dutch Sign Petition To Buy California Or Something

By William Teach January 21, 2026 – 10:30 am

Well, they’re getting a bit uppity

Over 200,000 sign Danish petition to buy California from U.S. and even rename Disneyland

A Danish petition to buy California has flown past 280,000 signatures, as fury in Europe grows over Donald Trump’s plan to annex Greenland.

The satirical petition includes a plan to rename Disneyland to “Hans Christian Andersenland” and would even rename the Golden State itself. If the poll is successful, California would be rebranded as New Denmark.

The appeal is currently live on a website named Denmarkification.com. The ironic page includes a huge list of reasons for buying California and even uses Trump’s own justification for taking Greenland, a Danish territory, against him.

“It is in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation, so California will become New Denmark,” the website reads, in Trump’s familiar manner of speaking. “Los Angeles? More like Løs Ångeles.”

Well, it’s a good think it’s satirical, since the GDP of Denmark is around $425 billion for 2024 and California’s is $4.1 trillion, but, maybe we could make a deal and give you the Democrat run areas that you’re making fun of

However, over 286,000 people have signed the Denmarkification petition, which promises to bring “hygge,” a Danish concept of cozy contentment, to Hollywood.

Hey, maybe they could turn Hollywood and the entertainment industry around from their idiocy?

And then there’s Greenland

BTW, just to be clear, while I understand the point of buy Greenland, I’d rather Trump work on other things.

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Good Grief: They Want To Phase Out Fossil Fuels In Davos

By William Teach January 21, 2026 – 7:15 am

This Davos?

Remember, they were just there at the beginning of December 2025

At Davos, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Is No Longer Debatable

As leaders gather at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, they do so at a moment of real consequence for humanity’s shared future. The choices made now about energy, finance, and cooperation will shape not only climate outcomes, but economic resilience and global stability for decades to come.

The evidence is no longer in dispute. Continued expansion of coal, oil, and gas is incompatible with planetary stability and long-term prosperity. Fossil fuels remain the primary driver of global warming and ecosystem degradation, creating material risks to food systems, public health, infrastructure, and national economies.

Yet despite these realities, the fossil fuel economy continues to exert outsized political and financial influence. This was evident at COP30 in Belém, where negotiations once again failed to deliver a clear, binding commitment to phase out fossil fuels, and where one in every 25 attendees represented fossil fuel interests. The gap between what science demands and what politics delivers remains dangerously wide.

Still, leadership is emerging. The Belém Declaration on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels signaled a shift toward coalitions of countries choosing action over paralysis, guided by science and informed by Indigenous knowledge. Initiatives led by Colombia and The Netherlands to advance a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Conference show how progress can be accelerated without abandoning the annual United Nations climate summits. Strengthening global cooperation  remains essential, even as new coalitions accelerate action where progress has stalled.

No mention yet of all the people who flew fossil fueled jets, especially private ones, to Davos and COP30

For business and finance leaders, the message should be unmistakable. The question is no longer whether the fossil fuel era will end, but how. Who will lead, and who will be left behind? A just and orderly phase-out that does not unfairly burden nations least responsible for the crisis is not only a moral imperative; it is a strategic economic opportunity.

Treating fossil fuels as instruments of short-term geopolitical leverage may appear decisive, but it entrenches fragility, delays diversification, and misreads the future of energy security.

A whole-planet approach is essential. That means phasing out planet-harmful fossil fuel subsidies, redirecting finance toward renewable energy and storage, and investing in living forests through platforms such as the Tropical Forest Forever Facility. Addressing climate change, food systems, health, and economic stability in silos is no longer viable.

Nope, no mention of climahypocrisy. Just doomsday cult Authoritarianism.

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