22 Dem Led States Sue Over Defunding Planned Parenthood

By William Teach August 2, 2025 – 10:30 am

They do realize that it is lawful for the duly elected Congress to decide what they will and won’t fund, right? And that those Democrat states can provide funding out of their own budget, right?

Democrat-Led States Sue Trump Admin Over Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood

A coalition of Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration this week over the “Big, Beautiful Bill’s” provision defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

The lawsuit was brought by 22 attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), whose state has a Republican attorney general. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed in a press conference on Tuesday that the provision is “punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion.”

“The hypocrisy is really hard to ignore: a party that claims to be defenders of free speech only seem to care about it when it aligns with their own agenda,” he said.

Democrats filed their lawsuit in the same Massachusetts district court that Planned Parenthood filed a separate lawsuit in. An Obama-appointed judge in that lawsuit issued a preliminary injunction last week against the provision, effectively mandating Medicaid funding for the organization’s affiliates as litigation continues.

They’re going to lose. Nowhere in the Constitution nor in federal law does it say that funding any private organization is required. There is a law called the Hyde Amendment, which bars the federal government from funding abortion.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) previously argued in its opposition to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit that the abortion organization “has no right to taxpayer money” and the “court should not invent such a right.”

“The Court should uphold Congress’s lawful exercise of its authority to decide to whom it will entrust taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” the filing reads.

Do the states of Ca, NY, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Mass, Michigan, Minnesota, NJ, Nevada, NM, NC, Oregon, Josh Shapiro (as explained above), RI, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and D.C. (unsurprising, the 1 office they have in DC is an a majority black neighborhood. Dems love aborting black babies) think they will win? The Supreme Court will most likely mention that they can provide funding themselves.

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Say, What Does The ICJ’s Climate Cult Ruling Mean For The US?

By William Teach August 2, 2025 – 7:15 am

Hint: not much

The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US?

The International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion in July 2025 declaring that all countries have a legal obligation to protect and prevent harm to the climate.

The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed that countries must uphold existing international laws related to climate change and, if they fail to act, could be held responsible for damage to communities and the environment. (giant snip)

In the U.S., this advisory opinion is unlikely to have much legal impact, despite a long-standing constitutional principle that “international law is part of U.S. law.”

U.S. courts rarely treat international law that has not been incorporated into domestic law as binding. And the U.S. has not consented to ICJ jurisdiction in previous climate cases.

Contentious cases before international tribunals can be brought by one country against another, but they require the consent of all the countries involved. So there is little chance that the United States’ responsibility for climate harms will be adjudicated by the World Court anytime soon.

Really, the only “long-standing constitutional principle” is when a treaty is signed and ratified by the US Senate. International law is not part of US law. Only treaties, but, that doesn’t mean the US is going to follow all the laws passed by other countries, and, damned sure not an unhinged court of which the US is no party to.

But, the ruling does make the climate cult lawyers happy

(Climate Home News) Among the ICJ pronouncements, its judges said government activities that support the expansion of fossil fuels – including by private actors – may represent an “internationally wrongful act”. They also said that historically large polluters could be liable to pay reparations for the damage caused by their contributions to the climate crisis.

In US courts, the advisory opinion “will strengthen the claims made by climate activists suing the federal and state governments, and also strengthen the claims of states and cities that are suing fossil fuel companies to claim damages”, said Ashfaq Khalfan, director of climate justice at Oxfam America. (snip)

Phillips of the UCS argued it would be impossible for the US government to ignore the ICJ opinion entirely. “Regardless of what their feelings are, they can’t dismiss this ruling just because they don’t like it,” she told Climate Home. “[It] has shown that countries around the world are bound by international law to address climate change.”

Well, yes we can. I just find it interesting that the cult is super-intent on using lawsuits to force people to comply with the Beliefs that the Warmists won’t practice themselves, nor can get through in legislatures.

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Cool: Florida Is Buying Airplane Tickets For Illegals To Self-Deport

By William Teach August 2, 2025 – 7:00 am

The NY Times thinks they have something her, that this is Bad, but, really, this is awesome

Florida Is Buying Plane Tickets for Unauthorized Immigrants to Self-Deport

Florida has started to pay for plane tickets for certain unauthorized immigrants to self-deport, officials said this week, in what appears to be the first such program run in part by a state.

Unauthorized immigrants who are in custody and have no prior felony convictions may be offered direct commercial flights to return to their home countries as part of the program, which is a collaboration between the Florida Highway Patrol and the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami sector.

The program is underway in law enforcement stations in West Palm Beach and Dania Beach, south of Fort Lauderdale, Madison Kessler, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said in a statement. The Border Patrol also confirmed in that the program is in effect.

On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said that unauthorized immigrants could avoid being taken to the state-run detention center in the Florida Everglades named “Alligator Alcatraz” if they chose to self-deport. “We do have options for you to short-circuit that whole process if you’re here illegally,” he said.

This obviously has made the pro-illegal alien crowd upset

Nayna Gupta, the policy director for the American Immigration Council in Washington, said that Florida’s “coercive offer of money to a flight to safety” so as to avoid the harsh conditions reported at the Everglades detention center might be pushing noncitizens “to give up their fundamental, constitutional, Fifth Amendment right to due process.”

If all they did was enter illegally, well, as the Dems like to say, it’s just a civil offense, hence, no need for a lawyer or anything. The penalty per law is a small fine and deportation.

“There is no clear authority for the State of Florida to interfere in federal immigration enforcement in this manner,” she said.

Same people say it’s perfectly OK for state, county, and local governments to help illegals avoid federal law enforcement and federal laws.

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Warmists Super Upset Australia Is Having A Climate Lottery

By William Teach August 1, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Can you guess why, exactly, these uber-lefties are upset (technically, they are uber-right, out in the Authoritarian model, but, let’s not confuse things)?

Australia’s climate visa lottery model sets a troubling precedent

Yvonne Su is Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, at York University

A new era of climate migration is here, and Australia wants to be at the forefront. When the applications opened for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia, more than half of Tuvalu’s population of 10,643 applied for it. As the first country in the world to likely become uninhabitable due to climate change, Tuvalu is facing an existential crisis.

The offer? A mere 280 spots a year, selected by lottery. Billed as a landmark agreement and a forward-looking climate adaptation strategy, the scheme was hailed as generous, humanitarian and innovative. But it also sets a troubling precedent.

I had to include that first line. Of course she’s in “Equity Studies”. Anyhow, the number of spots should be really zero. Anyone let in is going to demand that the government, and citizens of Australia, give them everything. That they change for the lottery winners. Because They Are Owed

Lotteries feel fair. They sidestep messy debates about who is most deserving, most at risk, or most responsible. But in doing so, they flatten complex realities. Climate change does not roll dice. It follows decades of underinvestment, colonially imposed infrastructures, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

For Tuvalu, a small island nation whose carbon emissions are negligible but whose territory is disappearing into the sea, the climate crisis is not a random event. It is a result of choices made elsewhere.

The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union is, on the surface, a humanitarian gesture. But the mechanics reveal much more complicated political manoeuvring. Lotteries depoliticize climate displacement. They reduce it to a numbers game, where the line between inclusion and exclusion is drawn by chance, not accountability.

Depoliticize. Huh. It’s like I’ve been saying for over 20 years: this is not about science, but, far-left politics.

Anyway, this is a long, whiny cult screed, and this is her other point

If climate lotteries become a best practice to pacify populations facing future displacement, we risk turning migration into a series of humanitarian sweepstakes. We ask the world’s most vulnerable to play fair while the game itself remains rigged. For the losers to accept their fate because luck didn’t fall in their favour.

In other words, she wants them all let in. Surprise?

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If All You See…

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

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

The blog of the day is GeeeZ…, with a post on The Media doing their thing again.

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Dozens Of Democrats Vote Against Arming Israel

By William Teach August 1, 2025 – 10:30 am

I’m sure they’d prefer to arm Hamas and see Israel and the Jews wiped out

In Major Milestone, Dozens Of Senators Vote To Block U.S. Weapons To Israel

Large groups of senators on Wednesday voted against selling $700 million in American bombs and rifles to Israel ? sending a major signal from Congress of U.S. frustration over the mass casualties and starvation caused by the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza.

The bills to block the transfers were organized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and each drew support from more than half of Democrats and their allies in the Senate. Twenty-seven senators voted against the rifle transfer, including Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the Democratic ranking member on the powerful armed services committee, who had never previously voted against weapons for Israel. Twenty-four opposed the shipment of bombs. (Reed and Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island had different positions on the two motions.)

No Republicans supported the effort despite indications that some conservatives want President Donald Trump to be less deferential to Israel.

“Today’s vote was a new high water mark … It reflects the rising tide among voters against continuing to subsidize and arm Israel’s actions in Gaza and its other grave violations of Palestinian rights,” Ari Tolany of the Center for International Policy, one of several progressive groups backing the legislation, said in a Wednesday night statement.

That’s the way the uber-Progressive Jew hating Huffington Post put it. Democrats are thrilled to abandon an ally and empower the Islamic terrorist groups that want to destroy Israel and kill Jews. Hell, many have it in their charters that they want Israel destroyed and replaced with an Islamic caliphate.

Politico, among others, tried to be less Jew hatey

Senate votes down Israel arms sales ban, despite growing Democrat support

The Senate on Wednesday voted down a resolution to bar U.S. arms sales to Israel, exposing new divisions among Democrats and highlighting rising frustration with the country’s conduct in Gaza.

The first of two votes pushed by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders — which came to 27-70 — renewed efforts to halt American weapons transfers in protest of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and a deepening humanitarian crisis. Democrats split on the vote, with 12 new supporters who previously backed arms sales to Israel. (snip)

New supporters included Maine Independent Sen. Angus King, who said this week he would no longer support Netanyahu’s government because Israel appears to be using starvation as a weapon of war.

“I had just had it,” King said in an interview. “I kept expecting that Israel would wake up and realize what an awful thing they were perpetuating, and that surely they would at least open up humanitarian aid. They just continued to not do it, and I just reached the point where enough was enough.”

It’s a war. One that Hamas started. And I cannot find anywhere where King called for the release of the hostages. He mostly rages against Israel and those evil Jews. In fact, a goodly chunk of these Democrats never call for Hamas to release the hostages nor castigate Hamas for their blatant terrorist attack on civilians in October 2023.

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The Taliban Wants To Be Included In Climate (scam) Talks Or Something

By William Teach August 1, 2025 – 7:12 am

I fully expect the UN to comply and include a brutal, vicious, repressive Islamist regime

The Taliban’s top environment official wants the UN to include Afghanistan in climate talks

The Taliban’s top environment official on Monday called for Afghanistan’s inclusion in U.N. climate talks, saying extreme weather and water scarcity are having a “profound impact” on people’s lives and the economy.

A Taliban delegation attended last year’s COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan, but as observers.

Matiul Haq Khalis, the head of the National Environmental Protection Agency, said the suspension of environmental protection projects after the Taliban takeover in 2021 had resulted in widespread harm to Afghans. Khalis said he wanted inclusion at COP30, which is being held in Brazil later this year.

Russia is the only country to recognize the Taliban’s government.

“Afghanistan is severely affected by climate change,” Khalis told a conference in Kabul. “ Drought, water shortages, declining arable land, flash floods, and threats to food security are having a profound impact on people’s lives and the economy.

“Although Afghanistan’s contribution to global climate change is almost nonexistent, it suffers greatly from its consequences.. As a victim of climate change, Afghanistan has the right to be present at global platforms, especially at COP30, to voice the damages it has endured.”

What the Taliban wants, really, is free climate scam money and goods. Money and goods with zero strings attached, because they are “owed” the money and goods because 1st World countries live a 1st World life. They are saying the exact same things that small island nations and other 3rd world countries say. The 1st World, and even the UN, used to give them money with strings. Climate cash has no strings.

In Baku last November, Khalis told The Associated Press that authorities had prepared national action plans to deal with climate change and would be updating their climate goals.

He said the country had great potential for wind and solar power, but needed international support to develop it.

In other words, “give us money. We’re owed it. We’re not going to stop treating our women as 2nd class citizens, as chattel, nor stop working with Islamic terrorists, but, you still owe us money.”

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Unhinged Judge Blocks Ending TPS For 60K In Most Unhinged Manner

By William Teach August 1, 2025 – 7:03 am

Last time I checked the duly elected members of the Legislative Branch gave the Executive Branch the ability to make determination of all Temporary Protected Status, which can only be overriden by the duly elected Legislative Branch. Not the Judicial Branch.

Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for 60,000 from Central America and Nepal

A federal judge ruled on Thursday against the Trump administration’s plans and extended Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Temporary Protected Status is a protection that can be granted by the Homeland Security secretary to people of various nationalities who are in the United States, preventing from being deported and allowing them to work. The Trump administration has aggressively been seeking to remove the protection, thus making more people eligible for removal. It’s part of a wider effort by the administration to carry out mass deportations of immigrants.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem can extend Temporary Protected Status to immigrants in the U.S. if conditions in their homelands are deemed unsafe to return due to a natural disaster, political instability or other dangerous conditions. Noem had ruled to end protections for tens of thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans after determining that conditions in their homelands no longer warranted them.

The secretary said the two countries had made “significant progress” in recovering from 1998’s Hurricane Mitch, one of the deadliest Atlantic storms in history.

That’s right, 1998. Other people are having no problem living in Honduras (51,000) and Nicaragua (3,000), it’s time for these folks to go home. Their TPS was scheduled to end September 5th. And Nepal? There are 7,000 here. People travel to Nepal all the time to climb mountains, or, at least get close to see them. Their TPS ends August 5th.

U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson in San Francisco did not set an expiration date but rather ruled to keep the protections in place while the case proceeds. The next hearing is Nov. 18.

In a sharply written order, Thompson said the administration ended the migrant status protections without an “objective review of the country conditions” such as political violence in Honduras and the impact of recent hurricanes and storms in Nicaragua.

What case? TPS was granted, TPS ends. That’s the way it works

And, here we go

If the protections were not extended, immigrants could suffer from loss of employment, health insurance, be separated from their families, and risk being deported to other countries where they have no ties, she wrote, adding that the termination of Temporary Protection Status for people from Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua would result in a $1.4 billion loss to the economy.

Well, yes, they won’t have it here. And exactly none of that is the judge’s business. It’s not her authority, and, even if she tried, it would only cover her district. TPS is temporary.

“The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood,” Thompson said.

Oh, good grief. That’s absolutely not a legal ruling, it’s a passion ruling. And beyond unhinged.

Judge Thompson said in her ruling that the Trump administration’s decisions to end the programs “were based on a preordained determination to end the TPS program, rather than an objective review of the country conditions.”

It’s still not in her bailiwick to make a determination.

(CNN) The government argues that Noem has clear and unreviewable authority over the TPS program and that her termination decisions reflect the administration’s objectives in the areas of immigration and foreign policy.

Justice Department attorney William Weiland said it is not a pretext to have a different view of a program that provides temporary safe harbor.

“It is not meant to be permanent,” he said Tuesday.

Democrats want it to be permanent, to create more voters.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 31, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on Islamists stealing flowers.

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Maine LEO Arrested By ICE Was A Visa Overstay

By William Teach July 31, 2025 – 10:30 am

Democrats freaked out over this, saying ICE was going after good, upstanding legal aliens who had permission to work in the U.S.

(AP) The chief of police in a Maine resort town has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of one of its officers, who the chief said was federally approved to work in the country in May. (snip)

Chard said the town submitted information via the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify Program. E-Verify is an online system launched in the late 1990s that allows employers to check if potential employees can work legally in the U.S. Some large private employers use it, but most do not.

I guess that’s possible. Perhaps the Biden admin entered him into the system as employable. But, the reality has come out

ICE Arrests Visa Overstay Illegal Alien Employed as Police Officer in Maine

An illegal alien employed as a reserve police officer in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after he overstayed a visa.

Jon Luke Evans, an illegal alien from Jamaica, was arrested by ICE agents on July 25 in Biddeford, Maine, after initially arriving on a visa in the United States on Sept. 24, 2023.

According to ICE officials, Evans was supposed to depart the United States on Oct. 1, 2023, under the terms of his visa, but did not. As a result of overstaying his visa, ICE classifies him as an illegal alien.

Evans was arrested by ICE agents after he attempted to purchase a firearm for his job as a police officer in Old Orchard Beach. The attempted purchase of the firearm triggered a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) alert, which was then sent to ICE.

“Jon Luke Evans not only broke U.S. immigration law, but he also illegally attempted to purchase a firearm,” ICE’s Patricia Hyde said in a statement. “Shockingly, Evans was employed as a local law enforcement officer.”

He was hired in May, and given a department issued firearm. Seasonal cops are not allowed to take them home or carry personal firearm on duty. This could jeopardize any arrest he made, though, being a fancy beach town, could any of the busts be more than misdemeanors? Why did he need a personal firearm? For one thing, federal law precludes non-citizens from purchasing one.

Meanwhile

They already live on the edge. Trump’s immigration crackdowns now threaten their housing

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President Donald Trump’s intensifying immigration crackdown leaves those renters more vulnerable to eviction and exploitation, which could plunge more immigrants into homelessness or overcrowding, or even lead some to “voluntarily” leave the country, housing rights attorneys and scholars say.

The fear of retaliation from landlords has created what advocates describe as a chilling effect on immigrant renters, which “substantially undercuts” California’s strong tenant protection laws, said David Hall, co-directing tenants’ rights attorney with Centro Legal de La Raza, a nonprofit legal aid group in Oakland.

It’s a big tearjerker of an article, but, if they are worried, they can always leave the U.S. Simple. And you know what happens if 2.6 million illegals, along with all the fake asylum seekers, leave California? Millions of residences open up on the market, which could reduce rent. That would be a good thing, right?

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