Heartache: Info On Illegals In D.C. To Be Shared With Los Federales

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

How crazy is it that the police in the District Of Columbia, the seat of US government, know who the illegal aliens are in their sector and had been actively hiding people who broke federal law. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the average officer liked doing that, they were just forbidden from sharing the information by their crazy superiors

DC police to share information with federal immigration officers

Washington, DC, Police Chief Pamela Smith signed an executive order Thursday allowing DC police officers to share information about people not in their custody with federal immigration enforcement agencies such as ICE — as President Donald Trump continues his federal takeover of law enforcement in the nation’s capital and crackdown on illegal immigration.

Along with providing information in situations like traffic stops, the order also allows DC police to assist federal law enforcement agencies with transporting personnel and detainees.

However, the order — citing DC law and police code of conduct — continues to prohibit officers from looking through police databases solely for a person’s immigration status, from making inquiries about a person’s immigration status “for the purpose of determining whether they have violated the civil immigration laws or for the purpose of enforcing civil immigration laws” and from arresting anyone based only on federal immigration warrants.

DC police also may not provide any information about a person in DC police’s custody or allow federal immigration enforcement agents to question them.

Smith may think she’s taking a middle ground, trying to protect the “home ground” and the illegals in our nation’s capitol, but, she forgets that DC government operates at pleasure of the federal government. Ultimately, it is Los Federales who have complete control over D.C.

AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown operation

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a two-page order on Thursday rescinding illegal immigration protections in Washington, D.C., and naming an “emergency police commissioner” for the city’s Metropolitan Police Department.

Bondi’s order, titled “Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia,” mostly took aim at sanctuary city policies within the nation’s capital, rescinding any order that limits how Metropolitan police officers can handle interactions and incidents with illegal immigrants.

She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith by naming Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as the department’s “emergency police commissioner,” granting him all the “powers and duties vested” in the position.

This is entirely legal. The Constitution granted the Legislative Branch full control of D.C. There have been a few laws passed investing the Executive Branch with some power over D.C. operations, including control of the DC National Guard. Remember, in 1973 Congress passed the Home Rule Act, creating the current government of D.C. Congress is still ultimately in charge, and then you have this

Furthermore, the Home Rule Act grants the President authority to federalize the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under “emergency conditions”. Though rarely contemplated, this represents an ultimate check on local authority.

Police officers protecting illegals? That’s ended for now. Moonbat DEI’s in charge of the D.C. police? That’s over for now.

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D.C. Sues Trump Administration Over Takeover of City

The District of Columbia government filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s “brazen usurpation” of the city’s authority by trying to take control the D.C. Police Department, in a marked escalation of tensions between local and federal authorities in the nation’s capital.

The suit argues that both President Trump’s executive order on Monday federalizing the Police Department and a follow-up order by the U.S. attorney general “far exceed” the president’s authority under the Home Rule Act of 1973, which granted D.C. its limited degree of self-government.

Blah blah blah. The Time finally gets around to mentioning near the end of the article that Congress invested the President with the authority to take over DC law enforcement per the excerpt above. All self government in DC is, again, subject to the whim of the Congress, much like a teacher allowing the kiddies to pretend they are running the classroom.

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DOE Report Says ‘Climate Change’ Is Not Apocalyptical

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

It’s nice when we have people who are not hysterics and doomsday cultists doing reports

The Department of Energy Just Admitted Climate Change May Not Be Catastrophic

stop global warmingA new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it—but no, it’s not necessarily the impending catastrophe we’ve been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of middle course would be unremarkable. Today, it feels revolutionary.

The debate over climate change and responses has become so polarized that acknowledging the problem of human-driven warming without accepting a narrative that can sound apocalyptic invites attacks from all sides. I understand that the findings are controversial and hope climate scientists debate every detail. Considering the upside of getting this issue right, you would think more people would encourage open debate.

That is exactly what led energy analyst Travis Fisher of the Cato Institute to return briefly to the administration and help organize the Climate Working Group, which generated the report. Like many of us who read from outside our ideological circles, Fisher was frustrated that many members of the left treat climate-crisis dissent as a thought crime, while many on the right still dismiss climate change as a joke.

I don’t treat the mostly natural changes to the climate as a joke, I treat the Cult of Climastrology as a joke. A scary, authoritarian, doomsday joke. Once again I’ll note that I do believe Mankind plays a part, most via UHI and land use, with a smattering of greenhouse gasses.

What does the report say? In a nutshell, as Fisher puts it: “Climate science—let alone climate policy—is far more nuanced than the summaries for policymakers (produced by previous government efforts) would have you believe.”

The report affirms that greenhouse gases are warming the planet but tempers several claims. For example, the authors found no convincing evidence that U.S. hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or droughts have become more frequent or intense in recent decades, despite what you’d gather from headlines. This debate will continue, as it should, with many related dimensions to consider. But at least there is now high-profile evidence on record to give a say to reasonable experts who disagree with other more alarmed perspectives.

A tiny increase from those GHGs.

Another finding in the report is that drastic policies meant to reduce warming could do more economic harm than good, and that even the most heavy-handed climate policy can’t make much of a difference. Even if we eliminated all U.S. emissions, the authors argue, it would have an “undetectably small” effect on global temperatures. Far from denying climate change, this perspective puts it into context and reminds us that sometimes the strongest medicines can hurt more than the disease.

But, that’s not the point of those policies. They are meant to install authoritarian governments which control everyone’s lives. A soft control, but, a control nonetheless. That’s it.

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Bummer: Californians Not Down With Gavin’s Redistricting Plot

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

Gavin Newsom is spending all his time, seemingly, on opposing Trump, rather than being the chief executive of California, what with all the arson wildfires, out of control prices for everything, and rampant crime. He’s having a hissy fit over the Texas redistricting fight, because redistricting is only OK when Democrats do it

Poll: California voters back independent congressional maps, complicating Gavin Newsom’s redistricting push

California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a major hurdle in his quest to revamp his state’s congressional lines, according to a new poll: Californians’ deep support for its current independent redistricting commission.

By nearly a two-to-one margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state’s House seats, the latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found. Just 36 percent of respondents back returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.

“It’s not surprising, in the sense that California has voted twice for this independent review commission not all that long ago,” said Jack Citrin, a veteran political science professor at UC Berkeley and partner on the poll. “And there’s a lot of mistrust and cynicism about politicians and the Legislature. That’s reflected here as well.”

California Democrats are plowing ahead with a high-stakes gambit to redraw the state’s lines to counter a proposed gerrymander by Texas Republicans spurred by President Donald Trump. California officials are expected to unveil newly redrawn maps at the end of this week that would position Democrats to nab five extra seats, neutralizing the Texas redraw.

Do you think Gavin and his Elitist Democrat cohorts in the general assembly will listen, or go ahead with their little scheme?

California Democrats have also promised not to do away with the state’s independent redistricting commission entirely. Instead, they plan to ask voters to approve a constitutional amendment that would put new maps approved by the Legislature in effect for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 election cycles, according to legislative sources familiar with the draft measure. The independent panel would then resume its role as the state’s line-drawer after the 2030 census.

Right, it’s not going away, it will just be toothless and the Dems in the GA will draw the lines.

Independent voters were the most enthusiastic backers of the panel, with 72 percent in favor of the commission keeping its line-drawing authority. Support among Republicans and Democrats was roughly equal — 66 percent and 61 percent, respectively — marking a rare spot of bipartisan agreement in this hyper-polarized political moment.

And if Dems go ahead with the scheme, how many Republicans and Independents will take their businesses and money out of the People’s Republik Of California? Will the GA and Gavin act like the British govt?

Their govt basically said “piss off”.

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Doom Today: Easter Island Faces Doom In 2080 From (non-existent) Sea Rise

By William Teach August 14, 2025 – 3:25 pm

Everybody Panic?

Let’s look at that article

By the end of the century, rising sea levels could push powerful seasonal waves into Easter Island’s 15 iconic moai statues, according to a new study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage. About 50 other cultural sites in the area are also at risk from flooding.

“Sea level rise is real,” said Noah Paoa, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. “It’s not a distant threat.”

You know what’s missing from the article? Data. Anything saying how much sea rise there is. So, let’s go to the NOAA website, and see that the short term gauge, 1970 to 2020, shows a whopping 0.08mm a year rise, “equivalent to a change of 0.03 feet in 100 years”. This is what they are freaking out about in the real world.

In the unhinged cultist world paper we get

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects sea level in Rapa Nui to reach 0.32–0.70 m to 0.48–0.94 m relative to a 1995–2014 baseline by the end of the century under the intermediate and very-high greenhouse gas emission pathways (SSP2–4.5 and SSP5–8.5, respectively)

Which is not supported by ANY actual factual, observed data.

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If All You See…

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

…is a river flooding from too much carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on Trump fighting crime, beating Democrats.

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Good Grief: UK Foreign Minister Could Be Fined For Fishing With JD Vance

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

I love the CNN headline for this

Britain’s foreign minister went fishing with JD Vance. Now, he could be fined for it

It sorta kinda implies that it was against the law to go fishing with JD Vance. At least, that’s what so many unhinged Democrats will think, as they see the headline but fail to read the article, because, really, they are that unhinged

Last week, British foreign minister David Lammy went fishing with US Vice President JD Vance at his retreat in the English countryside. Now, he could be fined for doing so.

Lammy on Wednesday referred himself to the UK’s environment watchdog for fishing without a rod license – an offense in Britain that could land him with a fine of £2,500 ($3,400).

$3,400? Really? I can’t find any US state that gets close to that. I mean, it’s fishing. On public lakes and rivers. Oh, wait, it gets better

“The foreign secretary has written to the Environment Agency over an administrative oversight that meant the appropriate licenses had not been acquired for fishing on a private lake as part of a diplomatic engagement at Chevening House last week,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said.

“As soon as the foreign secretary was made aware of the administrative error, he successfully purchased the relevant rod fishing licenses,” the spokesperson added.

“He also wrote to the Environment Agency notifying them of the error, demonstrating how it would be rectified, and thanking them for their work protecting Britain’s fisheries.”

He’s getting fined for fishing on a private lake. Private. Not owned by the UK government. I could understand if the lake owner was upset, but, Vance apparently had permission, but, why is this the business of the UK government?

Oh, right, they’re government is nuts.

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Climate Cult Sues To Stop The EPA From Listening To People Who Are Climate Cultists

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

We’ve gone from “we need a debate” to “shut these people up”

The Consensus Strikes Back: Climate Empire Launches Legal Assault on EPA

Yesterday, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) stormed into federal court, clutching their pearls and a 40-page complaint, to demand that the EPA and Department of Energy be stopped from—brace yourself—listening to people who don’t think “climate change” is the meteorological equivalent of Armageddon.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, reads like a mashup of Chicken Little’s autobiography and a high-school debate club’s “Appeal to Consensus” handbook. According to the plaintiffs, the great crime here is that Secretary of Energy Christopher Wright dared to assemble five well-known climate skeptics—John Christy, Judith Curry, Steven Koonin, Ross McKitrick, and Roy Spencer—to review the evidence and produce a report questioning the EPA’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”. That’s the sacred ruling declaring greenhouse gases an official public health menace, without which the climate policy priesthood fears their altar might crumble.

The complaint is a parade of consensus incantations—“overwhelming scientific consensus,” “ocean of evidence,” “confirmed time and again”—interrupted only by ad hominem swipes at the Working Group’s résumés and reading lists. Curry, they note with horror, has criticized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for “corruption.” Koonin once worked for BP. Spencer testified on behalf of a coal company. In other words, these people are contaminated by thoughtcrime.

EDF and UCS accuse Wright’s Climate Working Group of operating in secret, holding no public meetings, stacking the deck entirely with “contrarians,” and failing to genuflect before the holy consensus. They demand the court erase the group’s report, bar EPA from using it to justify repealing the Endangerment Finding, and—naturally—extend public comment periods until the paperwork gods are appeased.

This reminds me of Scientology, where friends and relatives are hit with “disconnection”, and just cut from the lives completely of those in Scientology. But, at least Scientologists are not trying to force their cult on other people.

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Chuck Schumer Has Meltdown Over Trump “Takeover” Of DC Law Enforcement

By William Teach August 14, 2025 – 6:45 am

Are Democrats really listening to themselves? Is this the hill to die on?

Schumer: ‘No f???ing way’ Dems will back Trump DC takeover extension

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared on Wednesday that Democrats will not go along with a potential request by President Trump to extend federal control of the Washington, D.C., police department and deployment of the National Guard in the District.

Trump can unilaterally control the department for up to 30 days, but any extension beyond that period is up to Congress, meaning it would require the support of Senate Democrats. Schumer made clear in an interview on Wednesday that wouldn’t happen.

“No f???ing way,” Schumer told host Aaron Parnas.

“We’ll fight him tooth and nail. … He needs to get Congress to approve it, and not only are we not going to approve it, but there are some Republicans who don’t like either.”

Let’s say there has been a nice little drop in crime in 3 weeks, will Democrats still be fighting this? Do they understand that 90% of DC residents voted for Kamala, and that if they said “we’re going to back Trump within reason. We want to reduce the crime in the District, it looks bad for our nation’s capitol to have the crime. We want our constituents to be safe walking the streets, in their cars, and in their homes” the Democrat voters wouldn’t give Trump the credit, but, Democrats.

Both Maryland senators on Wednesday also told Semafor that they will not support any further plan to federalize the MPD.

“What Donald Trump is doing is, in some ways, a dress rehearsal for going after others around the country. And I think we need to stop this — certainly by the end of the 30 days,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). “This should never have started, so I definitely want to make sure it doesn’t continue.”

“We want our streets to be lawless” is a hell of a pitch, eh?

How moonbat do you have to be to throw a sandwich at cops?

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Dentist Warns Adults Sucking On Pacifiers Is Really Bad For Their Teeth

By William Teach August 13, 2025 – 3:38 pm

Wait, what?

from the article

This trend might come back to bite you.

Dentists are gritting their teeth over a bizarre new fad that has adults popping pacifiers like babies, as the self-soothing practice popular in China begins to take hold in the US.

“There is a reason we don’t drink out of baby bottles or suck on pacifiers as adults,” Dr. Ben Winters, an orthodontist and creator of Something Nice oral care brand, told The Post. “It wreaks havoc on swallow and bite patterns.”

But what’s got grown-ups going ga-ga over beefed-up binkies anyway?

The silicone soothers are being pitched as sleep aids and stress relievers — and they’re flying off the shelves.

Some online sellers reportedly move thousands of adult pacifiers every month, with prices ranging from a bargain 10 yuan ($1.40) to a jaw-dropping 500 yuan ($70), according to the South China Morning Post.

The youts really aren’t alright

“When I am under pressure at work, I suck on the dummy. I feel I am indulged in a sense of safety from childhood,” one user told the outlet.

Others swear the pacifiers have helped ease ADHD symptoms, support weight loss and even curb the urge to smoke.

“It gives me psychological comfort and makes me not so fidgety during my smoke cessation periods,” another buyer told the SCMP.

And while it’s super popular in China and South Korea, it is gaining steam in the U.S., because of course it is with TikTok idiotness. Forget the teeth and swallowing problems: these are adults, or, at least supposed to be.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on the Muslim Marxist running for mayor in Minneapolis.

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