Senator Markey Soft Threatens Google Over Schools, Sen Warren Threatens Businesses

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 10:30 am

Democrats sure like to threaten private companies, eh? Maybe some of them need it, but, it’s problematic when an elected federal official, ie, a public servant, does it

Senator Tells Google to Let Schools Disable A.I. Features in Search

Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent a letter to Google on Monday telling the tech giant to allow schools to disable the artificial intelligence features within its search engine.

The letter cited a New York Times article last week reporting that Google planned to turn off student access to certain A.I.-related services — including its Gemini A.I. tool and search — giving schools the option of turning any back on.

But schools will not have the ability to turn off A.I. features in search if they want to keep using it to run queries, Google said. That’s because tools like A.I. Overview and A.I. Mode are too “deeply integrated” into search, the company said. A.I. Mode is a chatbot-like feature while A.I. Overview generates search summaries. There will also be a new student A.I. chat feature, Guided Learning, meant to assist with schoolwork while tamping down on A.I. cheating.

The tech industry is facing heightened public concern that chatbots can hinder students’ learning and pose risks to children’s mental health. And Google’s announcement last week set off criticism from some politicians and nonprofit groups that the tech giant’s insistence on keeping A.I. features in search was undermining schools’ abilities to make learning and safety decisions for their students.

Interesting. They’re worried about AI, but, not all the other things Democrats support, such as enticing children to declare themselves trans and wanting drugs and surgeries. Or growing up too fast and sexualizing themselves. Or legalizing drugs, for which children will have a lot easier access to them then when they were illegal (yeah, we could get marijuana back in the day, but, we actually didn’t start till 10th grade).

Elizabeth Warren gears up to take on Wall Street, Big Tech in new role

Brace yourself for the most progressive — and aggressive — Senate Banking Committee chair in decades.

Elizabeth Warren, the longtime Wall Street antagonist poised to take over the Banking panel next year, is preparing a sweeping policy and oversight agenda that will put her in a key position to influence the Democratic Party’s debate over economic populism ahead of 2028.

According to an initial rundown of her plans provided to POLITICO by a Warren Banking aide, the Massachusetts Democrat is preparing to use her new perch to confront corporate America on multiple fronts, from investigations to legislation aimed at curbing corporate power. As Banking chair, Warren will be in charge of a wide-ranging policy portfolio that includes banking, housing, cryptocurrency, the Federal Reserve and more.

Chief want big wampum from those companies, eh? But, really, does she have any evidence that any of these companies are doing wrong, or is this a fishing expedition because Democrats hate big companies? Despite getting vast amounts of campaign (and other types) money from those same companies. I bet a lot of them she’s targeting have played nice with Trump.

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Your Fault: Rice Krispies Have No Rice

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 7:15 am

All you had to do was take a fossil fueled flight to Turkey for the last climate conference, which starts today, along with 50K+ others to discuss taking fossil fuels usage away from Other People, but, no, you had to be a Skeptic

Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Don’t Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore

Snap, Crackle, and Pop! The sonic slogan of Rice Krispies is now becoming an anachronism.

The classic puffed rice foodstuff now no longer contain actual rice grains, at least in UK and European markets, the manufacturer Kellogg’s recently admitted. It will now use rice flour and corn flour, which aside from gustatory concerns, will result in it being noticeably quieter than it used to be. Kellogg’s, in the face of complaints online, insists that retaining the original sound was a “huge focus.”

It’s yet another example of the corporate cost-cutting putrefaction we’ve come to expect — and the reason for it is grim: climate change.

A spokesperson told media outlets that the reformulation will help “maintain consistent quality at a time when changing weather conditions are affecting the quality and availability of some of the rice and grains used in our cereals.”

Things change. Manufacturers have had to deal with The Weather for pretty much forever.

The company didn’t get into specifics, but the recipe change comes as a powerful “super El Niño” climate phenomenon has devastated agriculture in South and Southeast Asia, where more than half the world’s rice is grown.

El Nino is not caused by Mankind. It is entirely natural and happens. This is all doomsday cult BS. Let’s look at the BBC article in the “recently admitted” link

The cereals have already undergone some change, with reductions in salt content in the 1990s and lowered sugar in 2018. The company said Rice Krispies and Coco Pops will continue to meet UK food standards on levels of fat, salt and sugar in food.

A backlash against processed foods in recent years, especially those low in fibre and high in sugar, has put breakfast cereals generally under the spotlight from healthy eating advocates.

Kellogg’s stressed the cereals contain no artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners and the nutritional benefits in each bowl, such as fibre, Vitamin D and iron are staying the same.

Sounds like taking rice out is more about complying with wacko British and EU regulations, and, the price of rice has skyrocketed over the years with all the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern imports, and, all the rice for the UK and EU is imported.

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Surprise: Trump Admin Not Going To Back Down On Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

Did they think he would?

ICE unlikely to scale back crackdown, sources say, citing Stephen Miller’s promotion

The Trump administration is unlikely to scale back its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration following the results of the midterm elections, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News, citing the elevation of immigration hawk Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff.

Republicans suffered huge losses across the country on Election Day, including in some historically red states like Texas. Exit polls indicated that immigration was one of the top issues, alongside the economy, among Texas Latinos, who swung heavily toward Democrats. And 58% of voters nationwide said the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown had “gone too far.”

In January, Democratic lawmakers will take control of both chambers of Congress and assume sweeping powers to investigate the administration’s immigration crackdown and its most controversial policies.

They can investigate all they want: unless they can get a bunch of Republicans in the Senate to vote with them there is nothing they can do, especially since Trump can just veto anything they pass.

Still, officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have not received instructions to reduce immigration enforcement since the election, the sources said, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

In recent weeks, ICE officials have been instructed to try to carry out around 19,000 arrests per week, or about 2,700 per day, an increase from a prior 2,000 daily arrest target, agency sources told CBS News. That target was set before the midterms.

The U.S. officials cited Miller’s appointment to the top post in the White House as a clear indication the Trump administration is likely to continue ICE’s deportation blitz, as well as its quieter yet far-reaching campaign to sharply restrict legal immigration.

If Trump wraps up the Iran war and moves on from any tariffs, focuses on economic issues the GOP could be in a good spot in 2028, particularly for the White House (my money is on Rubio), and no one will care about deporting illegals, especially since the big actions are done with, as they were more about deterrence. But, it won’t stop. It’s literally the law of the United States.

(KRGV) After Democrats’ overwhelming midterm victories this week, winning candidates spoke of the need, once they are sworn in, to rein in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine. Some suggested putting forward a new vision for immigration reform while both houses of Congress are in Democratic control.

Democrats care more about illegals than US citizens. Nothing unusual.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 8, 2026 – 1:30 pm

…is horrible early Heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog off the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on There It Is: Democrat Rep. Robert Garcia is Unable to Name a Single Crime Stephen Miller Committed as He Threatens Trump’s Top Advisor (VIDEO)”

It’s skipping Fall and going straight to snow week.

I’m letting the server ride, instead of constantly restarting it, which has seemed to work a little better with the bots and spiders.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 8, 2026 – 9:44 am

Happy Sunday! Another good day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the Devils are winning, and, Christmas is next week, according to what I see in stores, right? This pinup is by Arthur Sarnoff, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Change Dispatch: When Alarmist Messaging Fails, Grist Turns To Climate Fiction
  2. Jo Nova: Freedom lovers and young families are leaving Australia for Bali
  3. Watts Up With That?: Free Palestine Activists Occupy a Dutch Data Center Protest Against AI
  4. American Greatness: Trump Orders Justice Department to Investigate Democrats Over Impeachment Threats
  5. Bearing Arms: More on Amtrak’s Firearm Policy Change: Possession on Auto Train
  6. Blogs For Victory: Maybe We Should Try Socialism?
  7. Chicks On The Right: The Left Wants BLOOD?! Democrats Discuss Political Payback After the Midterms!
  8. Climate Depot: U.S. lawmakers will go to UN climate summit COP31 in Turkey – Declare ‘America is All In’ with UN agenda after landslide midterm victory
  9. Cold Fury: Welcome Back (hope you doing better, Mike!)
  10. Da Techguy’s Blog: Under the Fedora 10 Years at DaTechGuyblog
  11. Doug Ross @ Journal: Why Democrats Are Terrified of AI
  12. Gates If Vienna: Peak Cultural Enrichment in Frankfurt
  13. Gatestone Institute: Is It Too Late to Save France?
  14. Geller Report: SHARIA POLICING: NYPD Muslim COPS Manhandle Nurse Walking Her Dog, Threaten to Arrest Her, Seize Her Pet
  15. And last, but, not least, Jihad Watch has “In France, Three-Quarters of Those Arrested Have Arabic-Muslim Names”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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El-Sayed Calls Michigan “Capital Of Arab America”

By William Teach November 8, 2026 – 7:00 am

Huh

(Israel National News) Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed declared himself the next US senator from Michigan during a speech in Washington, DC, describing the state as “the capital of Arab America.”

“My name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, and I’m honored to be the next United States Senator from the great state of Michigan,” El-Sayed said.

Acknowledging that he was speaking in the nation’s capital, he added: “Obviously Washington is the capital of the united States of America, but Michigan is the capital of Arab America.”

Strange how he really avoided using his full name during the campaign season, eh? But, it’s not really about “Arab”: it’s about Islamism. About links to the Muslim Brotherhood and their beliefs. In fairness, many are more circumstantial, and can go to indoctrination, not necessarily hardcore participation, such as being part of the Muslim Student Association during his college years early in the century. The MSA is a hardcore MB backed and created group, used to push the beliefs of the MB.

(NY Post) However, according to his half-sister Eman Abdelhadi, their mother was an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect,” Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 X post, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.

Their mother, Fatten Elkomy, had attended Egypt’s Alexandria University, which, according to a report from the Brookings Institution, had strong Muslim Brotherhood activity back in the 70s.

Let’s remember, his parents emigrated from Egypt to the US over opposition to Anwar Sadat, who was no nice guy, but, a lot who bolted Egypt were members of the MB, which is of course banned in Egypt now, and had long been kept down by the Egyptian government going back to the 1950s. Speaking of the MB

Cair shuts down Florida office as judge declines reversal of terrorist designation

The Council on American Islamic Relations (Cair) has shut down its operations in Florida after a judge declined to reverse the terrorist designation of the group that the state legislature and the governor had imposed earlier this year.

Chief Judge Allen C Winsor of the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida made his decision on Wednesday, while acknowledging Florida’s “novel – and perhaps unprecedented” new law allowing for terrorist designations of non-profit groups without due process.

But ultimately, he said Cair’s emergency request did not adequately prove that the group was suffering a criminal punishment.

CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood backed and created group, operating on those MB beliefs.

White Liberal Women also continue to be more and more broken

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 7, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a very windy day from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on “WOW: Elon Musk sends message to Democrats over his companies and federal contracts”

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Democrats Have Hissy Fit Over Stephen Miller Becoming Chief Of Staff

By William Teach November 7, 2026 – 10:30 am

This would be the same political party promising to go after Trump, Hegseth, RFK, Jr, everyone else in Trump’s admin, companies who supported and/or donated to Trump, and, basically, everyone who voted for and supported Trump

Democrats blast ‘dangerous’ elevation of Miller as refusal to learn from the election

To congressional Democrats, President Trump’s decision to promote aide Stephen Miller to serve as his chief of staff meant two things: an elevation of the aide’s extremist views and a refusal to heed the will of voters who delivered the left a historic victory.

“Donald Trump learned nothing from his historic defeat. Stephen Miller is the architect of the most barbaric, inhumane policies of this administration. Trump couldn’t have made a worse choice,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote on social platform X shortly after Trump’s announcement.

Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), expected to serve as the next Speaker, said Miller should instead be fired.

“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands,” Jeffries said in a statement after the announcement. (snip)

“Just days after the American people rejected his corrupt and lawless presidency, Donald Trump is doubling down. Stephen Miller is the architect of the unconstitutional ICE raids that have terrorized our communities and kidnapped and killed American citizens and immigrant families,” Garcia said in a statement.

There’s just example after example of Democrats being Full Moonbat in the article

But, Trump’s the Fascist.

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Climate Change Is Messing With Your Restaurant Bill Or Something

By William Teach November 7, 2026 – 7:15 am

If only you hadn’t driven a fossil fueled vehicle to the restaurant to eat meat

How climate change is affecting your restaurant bill

A late April freeze is still squeezing Philly restaurants with its lasting effects on produce into the fall.

“The farmer is the first person to feel the impacts of climate change,” said Christa Barfield, founder and CEO of FarmerJawn. “It trickles down to the consumer later on.”

The spring freeze hit Pennsylvania’s orchard and fruit farmers particularly hard.

“Their blooms were already on their trees, and they lost pretty much every one of them,” Barfield explained. “Most farmers in the Northeast said that they lost about 70% of their crop, and that is financially devastating.”

The event caused major damage on apples, plums, peaches, kumquats and other tree-born fruits. Some Pennsylvania apple orchards have even had to cancel their apple-picking season or source from Midwest and Western states.

This is what they call “unpredictable weather” later on, because, apparently, spring freezes are now Your Fault. Maybe the idiocy of the headline is why they went on to change it to “A spring freeze, a fall squeeze for Philly restaurants”. Weather happens. Always has.

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Excitable Maxine Waters Coming After Crypto, Prediction Markets, Private Equity

By William Teach November 7, 2026 – 7:00 am

What could possibly go wrong? And this is totally about affordability, right?

Launching chair bid, Waters targets crypto, prediction markets, private equity

Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday launched her bid to again lead Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, vowing to “pursue a bold agenda focused on affordability, accountability, and accessibility,” according to a letter to colleagues obtained by POLITICO. (snip)

Waters laid out an array of details about her potential agenda as chair, writing that she wants to pursue housing efforts “expanding affordable housing programs and reforming mortgage finance,” find a way to “permanently and independently” fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and “help our community banks by reforming deposit insurance.” She also said in the letter she wants to “pass legislation to stop Trump’s crypto corruption, establish tough but fair rules of the road for legitimate crypto ventures, and create safeguards to protect consumers, small businesses, community banks and the financial system.”

The five-page letter, which represents the most detailed preview of her agenda yet, vows to “rein in bad private equity actors and bring this unaccountable industry out of the shadows and subject it to oversight and regulation” and “eliminate the junk fees that are nickel-and-diming our constituents, such as overdraft fees, late fees, convenience fees, and over-the-limit fees.”

Affordable housing tends to raise prices, especially when government is involved. Crypto? As Reagan said “if it moves Democrats want to regulated it.” Mess with deposit insurance? Moron. Private equity? I think we all kind of hate it and what it does to businesses, but, you know this will seriously backfire on the economy and private investment. All those fees? Yeah, we hate those too, but, we all know Democrats will turn the amp up to 23 and there will be serious unintended consequences.

She also pledged to “pass legislation to ‘AI proof’ our financial system and economy” and “rein in predatory lending and predatory platforms, including prediction markets, so that our constituents keep more of their hard-earned dollars in their pockets.”

Prediction markets are simply gambling on things other than sports and racing. If people want to waste their money that’s on them, not the government’s business. Especially since government legalized all this gambling. Most predatory lending has being reigned in. AI proof? Unintended consequences.

Waters touted her record in the letter, writing that she knows “how to strike deals, even with Trump officials.”

“At a time when Americans are demanding that Congress deliver results, the Financial Services Committee needs experienced leadership that will address the crushing affordability crisis, expand access to housing, foster a dynamic and fair financial system, and hold the corrupt Trump Administration accountable. I am ready and fired up to lead that charge,” she wrote.

Strike deals with Trump but also screw him and his people.

This might be 7 years old, but, her district is still like this. Maybe she should be concerned about them.

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