Bummer: Groups Supporting Unfettered Illegal Immigration Being Investigated

The LA Times has a big sad over this. They do not care about the groups that are funding the riots and all the gear delivered in LA, though

Death threats, vandalism, investigations: L.A. immigrant rights groups in the fight of their lives

“No firmes nada,” a union organizer shouted into a bullhorn as he stood atop the flatbed of a truck outside Ambience Apparel, doling out battlefield legal advice not to sign anything. “You have a right to a lawyer. You are not alone.”

Advocates and lawyers had arrived at the downtown store minutes after tips began to pop off at the hotline set up by the Los Angeles Rapid Response Network, a coalition of 300 volunteers and 23 labor unions and immigrant rights and social justice groups that was organized last year to respond to enforcement. (snip)

Although she had never seen any sweeps like it in scale and aggression, she said advocates were prepared. “It’s a very well-organized community. That’s why coming into L.A. is so important for this Trump administration, because what they want to do is they want to break us.”

You might be over-estimating what Trump thinks of y’all.

Two Republican Congress members announced Wednesday that they would lead committee investigations of 200 nongovernmental organizations, including CHIRLA, “that were involved in providing services or support to inadmissible aliens during the Biden-Harris administration’s historic border crisis.” And Josh Hawley, a Missouri senator who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, threatened an investigation solely into CHIRLA, saying that it was “bankrolling” civil unrest.

And well they should, as should all the others. Let’s see what was happening with the money. How much that was allocated from the government ended up in the pockets of the people working for the NGOs, and how much went to aid. Anyhow, it’s a long, long piece, meant to tug on the heart strings, but, failing to deal with what the law says.

As far as death threats

Salas said her office has received death threats. Two weeks ago, vandals threw bricks through the front office window, smashing a few items inside. Workers have reported threatening calls.

“It’s always been hard, and it’s always been, what I would say, controversial,” she said. “But this is at a different level.”

And we know the vandals were anti-illegal alien supporters in Los Angeles how, exactly? Did they offer any proof of the death threats? Did the LA Time reporters as for any? Were the death threats reported to law enforcement? Because the story doesn’t say.

The newest fear — one she never would have thought possible in the past — was that the federal government would start prosecuting them for simply doing their jobs and trying to uphold the right to due process.

On Friday federal officials arrested Huerta, the president of Service Employees International Union California, on suspicion of interfering with federal officers. The union is part of the rapid response network. The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, seemed to suggest on Sunday that other union officials and organizers would be investigated.

Well, don’t get in the middle of riots. Does anyone think ICE had any idea who Huerta was? No, they didn’t. He was just another chump interfering with federal law enforcement.

In Los Angeles County, 1 in 3 residents were born elsewhere and 1 in 4 children live in families with mixed legal statuses.

“These are people who you know were working, who had kids in school, and who were just ripped out of our communities. And I think that it feels like a real attack on our city,” Salas said. “They’re testing California. They’re testing our city.”

That’s on them. The law is the law. No one complains when a parent or parents are taken from their kids and put in jail for breaking the law. And it is a big failure on the part of government for failing to stop all these illegals.

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Bummer: Warmists Are Losing The Culture War

This is interesting: Politico is saying that this is not about science, but, other stuff

‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate’

President Donald Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming.

In some ways, the effort has barely started.

More than 15 years after federal regulators officially recognized that greenhouse gas pollution threatens “current and future generations,” their most ambitious efforts to defuse that threat have been blocked in the courts and by Trump’s rule-slicing buzzsaw. Wednesday’s action by the Environmental Protection Agency would extend that streak by wiping out a Biden-era regulation on power plants — leaving the nation’s second-largest source of climate pollution unshackled until at least the early 2030s. Rules aimed at lessening climate pollution from transportation, the nation’s No. 1 source, are also on the Trump hit list. (snip)

“There’s no way around it: The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought,” said Jody Freeman, who served as counselor for energy and climate change in President Barack Obama’s White House. “We’ve lost the culture war on climate, and we have to figure out a way for it to not be a niche leftist movement.”

Well, perhaps if they hadn’t framed it as being about government control of people, of telling them how to live their lives, taking away their freedom, liberty, and life choices, and taking more of their money, it wouldn’t have failed. Perhaps if the people pushing the climate scam hadn’t been all about fearmongering while refusing to practice what they preach it wouldn’t have failed. Perhaps if they relied on science rather than bloviating.

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WWIII Watch: Neocons Whine At Hegseth Over Ukraine

I wonder what kind of financial stake they have in continuing to prop up Ukraine?

McConnell Tells Hegseth America’s Reputation Is at Stake in Ukraine War

Two senior Republican senators sharply criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday over the Trump administration’s handling of Russia in its efforts to end the war in Ukraine, revealing a deepening public split in the party on foreign policy.

Senator Mitch McConnell — one of three Republicans who opposed Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation in January — opened a Senate budget hearing with a blunt critique of President Trump’s approach to Ukraine.

“It seems to me pretty obvious America’s reputation is on the line,” said Mr. McConnell, the former Senate majority leader who leads the Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee. “Will we defend democratic allies against authoritarian aggressors?”

Mr. McConnell, an outspoken hawk on Russia and military issues, has been critical of the Trump administration’s defense spending plan, and countered Mr. Hegseth’s argument that the administration was making the largest investment in the military in 20 years through Mr. Trump’s reconciliation package.

Mr. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said that putting military spending into that package and not increasing spending in the regular budget “may well end up functioning as a shell game to avoid making the most significant annual investments that we spent years urging the Biden administration to make.”

Yeah yeah yeah

The exchange between Mr. McConnell and Mr. Hegseth offered a glimpse into the widening foreign policy gap between the diminishing cohort of internationalists in the Republican Party, like Mr. McConnell, and an emboldened wing led by figures like Mr. Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance, who articulate an “America First” view of U.S. involvement around the globe.

“We don’t want a headline at the end of this conflict that says Russia wins and America loses,” Mr. McConnell told the Pentagon chief, chiding him for failing to include additional military assistance for Ukraine in the Pentagon’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

What they never really say, and Lindsay Graham, is how, exactly, Ukraine can win. And how WWIII can be avoided.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, also challenged Mr. Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was going to stop at Ukraine, if successful on the battlefield there.

“I don’t believe he is,” General Caine said.

Russia is having a tough time taking Ukraine: how will Putin go after other nations?

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Bummer: Carbon Capture (scam) Industry Having Issues Because Trump

If your business model cannot survive without massive influxes of government cash it might not be the most stable idea. It’s one thing if you are a defense contractor or provide specific things that government needs. But, carbon capture? It was really based on Government giving them money

Carbon Capture Comes Back Down to Earth

Six months ago, the prospects for the nascent carbon removal market seemed as vast as the sky.

Bill Gates and other investors were lining up to fund start-ups that promised to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, helping to curb global warming. Big-name companies like Google, Airbus and Amazon moved in to buy carbon removal credits. And McKinsey projected the market could be worth as much as $1.2 trillion by 2050. One investor called it “the single greatest opportunity I’ve seen in 20 years of doing venture capital.”

But less than six months into President Trump’s second term, in which he has moved to drastically reshape climate policy, the carbon capture industry is decidedly more subdued.

The Energy Department last month terminated 24 awards worth $3.7 billion, most of which had been earmarked for carbon capture and storage projects. Applications for new carbon capture and sequestration permits in the United States were down 55 percent in the first three months of the year.

If these start ups were so great why can’t they do it without the government money? Surely Gates and the others could fund them 100% with their own money, right? Or, is it that they were looking for a big return based on Los Federales spending a ton of taxpayer money on the projects, not caring if they succeed, but, just looking good temporarily?

Yet it’s not just the political landscape that has changed. There are also new questions about the viability of some prominent carbon capture technologies.

Climeworks’ flagship plant in Iceland, which uses so-called direct air capture to scrub carbon dioxide from the sky, removed just a sliver of the carbon dioxide it had hoped to during its first 10 months in operation, according to Heimildin, an Icelandic news organization.

In other words, it’s BS. Maybe some of these projects around the world should be audited, see where the money has gone. Did it enrich some people, while doing little, just like with lots of solar projects (Solyndra, for instance)? If it is projected to be so big, then why is it failing and unable to operate without vast sums of taxpayer money, whether taxpayers like it or not?

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If All You See…

…are wonderful low carbon skateboards, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the damage an EV can do on one bad day.

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Mexican Flag Is Defining Symbol Of LA Riots

Many of the violent illegals being picked up are not Mexicans, but, I guess it’s a little harder to find flags of their home countries

CNN: ‘Mexican Flag Has Become a Defining Symbol’ of Los Angeles Riots

CNN, the left-leaning media conglomerate, has declared that the Mexican flag is “a defining symbol” of riots across Los Angeles, California, over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents enforcing federal immigration laws.

Days worth of photos and footage from the riots have depicted rioters burning cars, assaulting police, and throwing bricks at vehicles, all while waving the Mexican flag.

CNN, in a piece titled “The Mexican flag has become a defining symbol of the LA protests,” is boasting that rioters are using the foreign flag to “express solidarity with immigrants and denounce the Trump administration’s raids…”

But the waving of foreign flags speaks to the generations of people from Mexico and other Latin American countries who have called the US, and particularly California, home, Hinojosa-Ojeda, the UCLA professor, said. [Emphasis added]

“The flags mean their families. The flags mean their communities. It’s not about having an international invasion,” he added.  [Emphasis added]

It’s one thing if they are actually citizens and celebrating their heritage on Cinco De Mayo, much like Irish flags are flown on St. Patrick’s day. But, they are being flown in support of illegal actions, much in the same way people flew Palestinian flags, in support of terrorists.

Mexican flags have become so prominent at the riots that organizers are now reportedly handing out American flags following intense criticism.

Vice President JD Vance has called the rioters “insurrectionists” and said the riot is even further proof why Republicans ought to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which includes a remittance tax on money transfers from immigrants sending funds to their native countries.

“Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers, while one half of America’s political leadership has decided that border enforcement is evil,” Vance wrote on X. “Time to pass President Trump’s beautiful bill and further secure the border.”

If the illegal alien Mexicans want to be Americans they should be flying US flags to start with. For the American liberals, well, they hate the US flag, and, I hope the Mexicans and other illegals realize they are just being used.

And here’s the NY Times dropping some seizing!

Mexican Flags Have Become Republican Fodder, but Protesters Keep Waving Them

As images of protests in Southern California have flooded television and social media in recent days, a key question has emerged: Why are so many protesters carrying Mexican flags at an American political protest?

The sea of red, white and green Mexican flags at anti-deportation protests this week in Los Angeles has been seized upon by conservatives who argue that the demonstrations are inherently un-American, causing some protesters to consider leaving them at home.

Photos of masked provocateurs waving Mexican flags atop burning Waymo taxis spread instantly across conservative social media this weekend. Republicans pointed to them as a prime example of why President Trump called in the National Guard and how immigration had gone too far in California.

Oh, NY Times, never change

But protesters said this week that they see the Mexican flag as a symbol of defiance against Mr. Trump’s immigration policies or of solidarity with other Mexican Americans. The flag has become so ubiquitous in recent decades that it is a part of the Southern California landscape, adorning pickup trucks and flapping from bridges. Few mass gatherings occur in the region without a Mexican flag or two, from weekend soccer matches to Los Angeles Dodgers championship parades.

You mean as a symbol against the laws of the United States?

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Good News: EPA To Propose Ditching Climate Scam Rules For Power Plants

I’ll say again, I’m no fan of coal. But, until real clean energy can be dependable, affordable, and reliable, we need coal and especially natural gas (and to build nuclear)

EPA to propose rolling back climate rule for power plants Wednesday

The Trump administration will move Wednesday to repeal federal limits on power plant climate pollution, attacking the Biden era’s most ambitious attempt to use regulations to rein in heat-trapping gases from the electric grid, according to six people familiar with the situation.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will announce the repeal of the power plant carbon dioxide rule along with a separate regulation to curb hazardous air pollution such as mercury during an event at agency headquarters, the people said.

The two repeal proposals are the most important EPA regulatory actions of President Donald Trump’s second term to date. Without offering details, EPA said Tuesday that Zeldin will make a “major policy announcement” at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Scrapping the Biden-era power plant rule would effectively shelve regulations for the nation’s second-biggest producer of climate pollution — the electricity sector — which accounts for one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gases.

The move will come one day after the executive director of Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, Jarrod Agen, defended the administration’s focus on coal and natural gas for maintaining the reliability of the electric grid. Speaking at POLITICO’s annual Energy Summit on Tuesday, Agen said Trump is not considering renewable sources such as solar power for the nation’s energy mix, despite those technologies’ support from some GOP lawmakers as well as business leaders such as Elon Musk.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of rolling back mercury rules, but, some say the current regulations are overly strict. Further, really, all of this should have been done by legislation to start with, not regulations. But, Congress likes to abdicate its responsibility on everything to federal agencies.

The rules should be finalized by the end of the year.

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House Passes Bill To End Non-Citizen Voting In D.C.

Really, D.C. never should have had the authority to allow non-citizens to vote in the first place, being the seat of the federal government

House passes Republican-led bills to repeal D.C. laws on noncitizen voting and policing

The Republican-controlled House is poised to pass a trio of bills this week to repeal Washington, D.C., laws on immigration, voting and policing, even as it has yet to restore a painful $1 billion cut to the city’s budget.

The House passed two of the bills Tuesday. One would bar noncitizens from voting in local elections in the nation’s capital, overturning a Washington law that was passed in 2022. It passed 266-148, with 56 Democrats joining Republicans in support.

The other bill would restore collective bargaining rights and a statute of limitations for Washington police officers involved in disciplinary cases. It passed 235-178, with 30 Democrats voting for it and four Republicans voting against it.

Will there be enough Democrats in the Senate to push these through? Will the be down for cutting off the noncitizens voting and treating the police well? The force is already down about 16%, thanks to the anti-police sentiment of Democrats

Then, on Thursday, the House is expected to pass a third bill, the District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act, which would require the Washington government to comply with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to share information and detain undocumented immigrants. Under current Washington law, local authorities do not work with federal immigration officials unless they have judicial warrants.

Altogether, the bills represent House Republicans’ attempt to assert authority over deep-blue Washington at a time when the GOP has unified control of the federal government.

Congress is supposed to have control over D.C. government, and the city should not be protecting illegal aliens, being the seat of the federal government, for goodness sakes.

“D.C.’s City Council made radical decisions in our nation’s capital under the Biden-Harris administration, passing local laws that are woefully inconsistent with national standards or constitutional principles,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee who authored the GOP voting bill, told NBC News in a statement.

Of course, a problem here is that Los Federales try and put their hands in way too many cookie jars, instead of dealing with the core mission as defined by the Constitution, particularly Article 1 sections 8 through 10.

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Your Fault: Cheese Is Doomed From Global Boiling

Have I seen this before? I don’t remember if the climate cult has done this before. This comes from “Science News”, which looks like a cult outlet

Climate change is coming for your cheese

climate cowBy affecting cows’ diets, climate change can affect cheese’s nutritional value and sensory traits such as taste, color and texture. This is true at least for Cantal — a firm, unpasteurized cheese from the Auvergne region in central France, researchers report February 20 in the Journal of Dairy Science.

Cows in this region typically graze on local grass. But as climate change causes more severe droughts, some dairy producers are shifting to other feedstocks for their cows, such as corn, to adapt. “Farmers are looking for feed with better yields than grass or that are more resilient to droughts,” but they also want to know how dietary changes affect their products, says animal scientist Matthieu Bouchon.

For almost five months in 2021, Bouchon and colleagues at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment tested 40 dairy cows from two different breeds — simulating a drought and supplementing grass with other fodder, largely corn, in varying amounts. (snip)

They found that a corn-based diet did not affect milk yield and even led to an estimated reduction in the greenhouse gas methane coming from cows’ belching. But grass-fed cows’ cheese was richer and more savory than that from cows mostly or exclusively fed corn. Grass-based diets also yielded cheese with more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids and higher counts of probiotic lactic acid bacteria. The authors suggest that to maintain cheese quality, producers should include fresh vegetation in cows’ fodder when it is based on corn.

So the taste of cheese is doomed. Because there have never been droughts before. Except during the Little Ice Age, which led to a revolution in France. It’s always something.

French producers will possibly need different strategies to fit their environment and cow breeds. But Bouchon is certain of one thing: “If climate change progresses the way it’s going, we’ll feel it in our cheese.”

Yes, because a whopping 1.6F increase in temperatures since 1850 is bad.

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If All You See…

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

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Harvard’s $3 billion grant loss.

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