Trump Admin Looks To Claw Back $7 Billion For Low Income Solar

By William Teach August 6, 2025 – 7:00 am

Trump is such a big meanie, he wants to take free energy away from po’ folk

Trump wants to roll back $7 billion in grants for solar projects in low-income communities

The Trump administration is reportedly considering terminating a $7 billion grant program aimed at helping low- and moderate-income families install home solar panels, part of the White House’s larger campaign to claw back billions in Biden-era climate spending.

The Environmental Protection Agency is in the process of drafting termination letters to the 60 state agencies, nonprofit groups, and Native American tribes awarded the funding through the Solar for All initiative, part of the Biden administration’s landmark 2022 climate law.

The agency said Tuesday it has not made a final decision about the grants.

Environmental groups say if Trump does go through with the cancellation, the effort will face legal challenges.

Wiping away the grants would halt many projects before they were complete.

Let’s be honest, most of this money has gone to friendly companies which donate to Democrats, and the low income folks aren’t really going to see any benefits. How many of them actually own the homes?

The first Solar for All projects, efforts to install residential solar and battery storage systems for tribal communities in Montana and South Dakota, went online in October 2024.

“One in five households on reservations lack access to electricity, and this program was an opportunity to close that gap,” Cody Two Bears, the chief executive of Indigenized Energy, told The New York Times, which first reported on the cancellation effort. “But those were just two kickoff projects to show what was coming for the next five years.”

Instead of cancelling the money, how about the EPA audit the companies that got the money? Let’s see how it was spent. Let’s see if the government and homeowners were overcharged, if way too much money was being pocketed by the companies.

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Trump Warns DC Over Violent Youth Gangs, May Federalize D.C.

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

Here’s a good question: has Congress delegated any power to the Executive Branch to do this? Because Congress has delegated authority for some of the day to day work to local government, but, ultimately, Congress has with plenary legislative authority over the federal district

Trump threatens to federalize DC after ex-DOGE employee ‘Big Balls’ violently beaten

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to federalize Washington, D.C., calling for local minors and gang members over the age of 14 to be prosecuted as adults, after a famed former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee was allegedly beaten in the nation’s capital.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said local youth and gang members are “randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released.”

Along with the post, Trump shared a photo of a bloodied man on the street.

Multiple sources told Fox News Digital the person in the photo shared by the president is Edward Coristine, the teenager known as “Big Balls,” who previously worked for DOGE.

Obviously, Democrats will oppose cracking down on crime. Quite a few of them have their own security and/or live in tony, high class buildings, divorced from the violence.

The president said it appears criminals are “not afraid” of the police, because “nothing ever happens to them.”

“Washington, D.C. must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see,” he wrote in the post. “If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore.”

Consider: The District Of Columbia is rated a 2 by Neighborhood Scout. That means it is safer than 2% of U.S. cities. Meaning it is high crime. You have a 1 in 95 chance of being a violent crime victim, and the 10.47 (per 1,000) rate is over double the national rate of 4. Assault and robbery are off the chain. Property crime is 1 in 24, with a rate 3 times the national rate. Theft and motor vehicle theft are super high.

Look at the map at the link: this is our nation’s capitol. Should any part be beyond a light blue? Let’s not forget that these are Democrat doing the crime, since 90% voted for Kamala.

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‘Climate Change’ Is Coming For Your Potato Chips Or Something

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Now they’re trying to hit people in the comfort foods

The snackdown: We need to talk about chips

It’s a cruel irony: the very snacks we reach for in uncertain times could soon be victims of uncertainty themselves. Snack time might not feel like a climate casualty. But it’s heading that way.

And this isn’t a distant worry. Scientists predict global potato yields could plummet by up to 16% by 2035 if temperatures keep rising. That has far-reaching consequences – not just for profits, but for farms, jobs and the supply chains behind the world’s most popular snack. From Lay’s in New York to Calbee in Tokyo, no brand is insulated.

Japan’s biggest snack producer has issued a red alert. Climate change is threatening the very foundation of its business, warned Calbee CEO Makoto Ehara. “Climate change is now a direct threat to our ability to produce snacks,” he told CNBC recently. A dramatic warning, yes, but one that should rattle the entire industry.

The threat isn’t abstract. It’s about potatoes – one of the world’s most essential crops – now faltering under extreme heat, erratic rainfall and disrupted supply chains. If Calbee’s struggling to keep chips on shelves, other snack brands aren’t far behind.

In reality, 2024 had record potato crops all over the globe.

The risks are far from hypothetical. Calbee has lived through a crisis like this before. Back in 2017, after a series of record-breaking typhoons devastated the Hokkaido potato harvest, the company was forced to temporarily suspend the sale of around a dozen chip varieties.

Disasters happen. Was it global warming that caused the big Irish potato famine? How about the lack of wheat in France, leading to the French Revolution? Anyhow, lots more cult yapping through the middle of the piece, ending with

As climate change hits potato production, consumers may soon see the fallout on their shelves. Here’s what might be coming:

Higher prices: As harvests shrink and imported spuds get pricier, chip prices could start creeping up, especially in countries that rely on foreign supply.

More shortages: Typhoons, droughts and freak weather events could lead to empty shelves – again.

New ingredients: To ease pressure on potatoes, expect to see more chips made from corn, lentils or blended bases.

Shifted sourcing: Brands may start highlighting ‘locally grown’ or ‘climate-resilient’ ingredients as a badge of honor.

More transparency: As supply chains come under strain, expect companies to talk more openly about the climate risks they’re facing and how they’re responding.

Here’s the question: when this doesn’t happen who gets fired?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a place flooded by carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Political Hat, with a post Eastern Vs Western Marxism.

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Too Bad: Abbott Orders Arrest Of State Democrats Who Fled

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 10:30 am

This is great

Woo!

Texas Republicans vote to arrest Democrats blocking redistricting plan

Texas Republicans have voted to track down and arrest dozens of Democratic legislators who have fled the state to block passage of a plan to re-draw electoral boundaries to favour Republicans.

After the vote, Republican Governor Greg Abbott ordered state troopers “to locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”.

Abbott has also threatened to charge the absent Democrats with bribery if they raised public money to cover the daily fine they incur for boycotting the chamber.

The redrawn Congressional map would create five more Republican-leaning seats in the US House of Representatives in Washington DC, where Republicans hold a slim majority.

At least two-thirds of the 150-member state legislative body in Texas must be present to proceed with the vote. The quorum became unreachable after more than 50 Democratic lawmakers left the state.

Most of the MIA Democrats flew to Chicago on a fossil fueled airplane, despite many having missives about climate doom on their webpages.

Obviously, the media and other Democrats are incensed over this step, including one of the dumbest members of Congress

Now, I wonder, what happened to get Democrats worked up about the arrest orders?

Oregon Republicans flee, facing fines, state police chasing — Democrats demand they return

Republican state senators in Oregon continued to engage in a high-stakes game of brinksmanship Friday with Democratic lawmakers, saying they are prepared to sue if the Senate president goes through with her threat to impose a $500 fine for each day they delay a vote on a landmark climate plan that would be the second of its kind nationwide.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown deployed the state police Thursday to try to round up 11 Republican senators who fled the Legislature — and in some cases, the state — to thwart the passage of a cap-and-trade proposal that would dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The minority GOP caucus wants the plan to be sent to voters instead of being instituted by lawmakers — but negotiations with Democrats collapsed, leading to the headline-grabbing walkout.

“It’s time for the Senate Republicans to show up and do the job they were elected to do,” Brown, a Democrat, said at a news conference Thursday.

They were also being fined. The media and Democrats were fine with this. Why not now?

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“Scientists” Sorta Maybe Possibly Link Starfish Die-Offs To Climate Doom

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 7:15 am

Seriously, this is what they call science, and it actually gets published as news

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming

After years of scientific sleuthing, a team of West Coast researchers reported that they have identified a particular strain of ocean bacteria that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars since 2013. In a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, they said the die-off was caused by a type of Vibrio bacteria that was previously only known as a pathogen in some shellfish larvae.

Vibrio bacteria are more frequently causing problems in a warming world. The bacteria sometimes cause dangerous infections and intestinal illnesses in humans, including cholera.

The breakthrough finding will help scientists determine possible conservation or adaptation measures in response to the intensifying consequences of the sea star die-off. Sunflower sea stars, which can grow up to 3 feet across and sprout 24 arms, are critical to West Coast kelp ecosystems, where they devour certain types of sea urchins that can eat through the forests of seaweed if the sea stars don’t check their populations.

I mean, I’ll agree that the die-offs are bad. I just wonder, though, if it could possibly have a different cause, or, did they simply say “anthropogenic climate change”?

Human activities are speeding disruptions in many ecosystems and the rapid expansion of the Vibrio-driven sea star die-off shows how the impacts sometimes outpace scientists’ ability to study them.

The sudden spread of the disease caught scientists off guard, and for many years they suspected a viral pathogen, Gehman said. But researchers didn’t have much information about what the ecosystem was like before the outbreak.

“We didn’t know what was normal for the microbes and bacteria and the viruses in these systems,” she said. “When you don’t have a good idea of what used to be there, it’s hard to find what’s new. And that’s part of why we found the wrong thing for a while was because we found a virus and then it turned out to be a normal virus.”

So, they really do not know much, especially a baseline of what is normal.

“It is possible that warmer water temperatures combined with other ecological and evolutionary factors led to this devastating outbreak and die-off,” she wrote in an email, “but we don’t have that evidence definitively yet.”

So, they really do not know much, but, they’re happy to drag ‘climate change’ into it. I wonder though, has this happened in previous warm periods? Or, when the Earth was much, much warmer and the seas much, much higher?

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Visitors From High Overstay Countries Could Be Forced To Pay Up To $15K Bond For Entry

By William Teach August 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is a fantastic idea, which is surely going to send Democrats into apoplexy

U.S. to Require Some Foreign Visitors to Pay Bonds of Up to $15,000 for Entry

Addressing what it calls “a clear national security threat,” the Trump administration will require that some foreign visitors pay bonds of up to $15,000 to help ensure they do not overstay their visas, under a State Department trial program announced on Monday.

Foreigners seeking to enter the United States on tourist or business visas from countries with high visa overstay rates will be expected to put down no less than $5,000, the department said in a public notice. Visitors who fail to leave the United States before their visa expires will forfeit their bond; those who comply with their visa requirements will get their money back.

The notice did not specify which countries would be subject to the program, saying only that they would be determined based on visa overstay data collected and published by the Department of Homeland Security.

The move is the Trump administration’s latest in a multifront effort to crack down on illegal immigration after President Trump made the issue the centerpiece of his 2024 campaign.

They should apply this to people on school visas, as well.

Citing Department of Homeland Security data from 2023, the notice said that more than 500,000 people admitted to the United States through air or sea ports of entry most likely remained in the country past the end of their authorized stay.

Like that person hired as a police officer who was way over his visa expiration? You know, who was carrying a department issued handgun and was caught trying to buy?

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Your Fault: More PRC Comrades Will Go To ER From Atmospheric Cancer

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 4:09 pm

Of course, if this was true, they’d all be waiting a long time due to the illegal aliens jamming up the ERs in the People’s Republik Of California

Climate Change Will Send Many More Californians to the ER

California’s emergency departments will be more clogged than ever as climate change pushes daily temperatures higher, a study finds.

But there is one silver lining to the new research, however: Thousands of fewer deaths in California from extreme cold.

Nevertheless, high temperatures will also be flooding hospitals with patients as heat triggers injuries and worsens chronic health issues.

“Heat can harm health even when it doesn’t kill,” explained study first author Carlos Gould, assistant professor of public health at the University of California San Diego. “Warmer temperatures were consistently associated with more trips to the emergency department, so studies and planning that only consider mortality [death] miss a big slice of the burden.”

It’s on average 1.7F higher than it was in 1850. Can anyone tell the difference?

Working alongside researchers at Stanford University, Gould’s team looked at data on deaths, emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations and daily temperatures in California from 2006 to 2017.

The good news: projecting the health-related effects of climate change to 2050, California should expect to see around 53,500 fewer deaths overall due to less cold weather, the data showed.

So, are they say fewer deaths is a good thing or bad thing by 2050?

Of course, heatstroke is the effect that most people might associated with extreme heat. But many ED visits will be due to other heat-linked events or conditions: injuries, mental health issues and poisonings, especially.

“We often think about only the most extreme health impacts of heat waves: deaths. This work is showing that many things that we may not think about being sensitive to extreme heat are, like poisonings, endocrine disorders, injuries and digestive issues,” said study co-author Alexandra Heaney.

“We need to focus on the full spectrum of health impacts when we think about heat waves, now and in the future,” said Heaney, who is assistant professor of public health at UCSD.

So, give us money. For a whopping 1.7F in 175 years.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is grass dying from too much carbon pollution caused heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Democrats fleeing Texas to avoid redistricting.

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Moonbats Go Nuts Over Trump Reinstating The Presidential Fitness Test

By William Teach August 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

There are many things that The Donald does and says just to tweak Democrats, send them into apoplexy. On this, he was probably surprised that there is such a freakout

Opinion | Why Trump’s revival of this outdated fitness program is likely to do more harm than good

Everyone knows that American kids — and adults — need more exercise. If President Donald Trump’s recent decision to reinvigorate the federal Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test helps get more kids moving, as he promises, it would be a welcome step in the right direction. But what we know so far about this reboot — and Trump’s record on fitness — should make us wary of its ability to actually combat the epidemic of sedentariness that contributes to all kinds of health conditions, from obesity to mental illness.

The executive order re-establishes the council, which Trump had renamed during his first term to place “sports” before “fitness,” a subtle choice that apparently prioritizes competitive athletics over recreational exercise. Much of the language of the new order echoes the initiatives of earlier administrations, highlighting issues of obesity and insufficient military preparedness. Most notably, though, the order hits a competitive note, aiming to “reward excellence in physical education” and to develop criteria for a Presidential Fitness Award, an initiative in keeping with maintaining “America’s global dominance in sports.”

MSNBC’s Natalia Mehlman Petrzela has no idea how this is all going to shake down, what the test will look like, what the plans are for fitness, she (and so many more Liberals) just knows she’s against it. Natalia then offers up 5 paragraphs of whining about Trump and Robert Kennedy, who was probably behind this. Like him or not, he’s in pretty good shape.

Upon this week’s announcement, many took to social media to express how traumatizing they found the Presidential Fitness Test. That is, how the test Trump is resurrecting undermined the council’s goals, in that it celebrated the best athletes and alienated others, turning off many from a future of movement. For this reason, the Obamas retired the Presidential Fitness Test in favor of the Fitnessgram, which was less hierarchical and more focused on holistic lifestyle. And Trump apparently didn’t learn from one of JFK’s key mistakes: While the PCF’s campaigns encouraged citizens to lobby their local communities to spend on these programs, they were not funded with significant federal appropriations, meaning they were never more than an advisory and marketing campaign, albeit a very effective one at shifting Americans’ association with regular exercise in a positive direction.

Oh, good grief. Traumatizing? I would hope no one in Gen X is saying that. Gotta be a liberal Millennial and Gen Z thing. As far as what Obama instituted, did it make any difference? Holistic? Anyhow, Natalia rages for 3 more paragraphs till the end

I too am deeply concerned about the lack of exercise among American children and adults, and am thrilled this is an administration priority. Yet I worry that Trump is bringing back the narrowest version of JFK’s vision, having learned little from fitness culture since, making it unlikely that this endeavor will improve the fitness and overall health of everyday Americans.

“I too am deeply concerned, but, Orange Man Bad, so, I’m against it.” Seriously, as one comment says “Back in the early 70s we all did it , its not a pass or fail it’s to get people to be aware of the benefits of physical Fitness and the health that you get that comes with daily excersize.” Same in the 80s. Gym was for exercise. It’ll be OK, Democrats.

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