PRC Refuses To Comply With Feds On Title IX Regarding Gender Confused

By William Teach July 8, 2025 – 7:00 am

Democrats: if the federal government says it’s so you have to comply! Arizona SB1070? Comply. Biden sending illegals to small town America? Comply. Obamacare? Comply!

Also Democrats: we’ll only comply when it’s something we want to comply with

Linda McMahon calls out Gavin Newsom as California officials reject proposal to keep state Title IX compliant

Education Secretary Linda McMahon told California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday that he will be hearing from Attorney General Pam Bondi after the state was found to be in violation of Title IX.

The California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) rejected the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) proposed resolution agreement following transgender athlete controversies in high school athletics over the course of the school year.

Linda McMahon shared CDE general counsel Len Garfinkel’s letter to OCR regional director Bradley R. Burke on Monday.

“The California Department of Education (CDE) received the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR’s) June 25, 2025 Letter of Finding and Proposed Resolution Agreement in the above-referenced OCR matter,” the letter read.

“The CDE respectfully disagrees with OCR’s analysis, and it will not sign the Proposed Resolution Agreement.”

Hmm. If the People’s Republik Of California wants to do their own thing perhaps they shouldn’t have taken all that federal money for their schools, which means that Los Federales can dictate policies. Perhaps they shouldn’t be so gung ho to keep the Education Department, which gives whomever is in the White House the ability to make these kinds of demands. Of course, what is the Trump Education Department demanding? That biological males with gender delusions stop competing in sports against real women. That they not be in female locker rooms, bathrooms, showers, and changing rooms

Additionally, “The CDE will issue a Notice to all recipients of federal funding (Recipients) that operate interscholastic athletic programs in California requiring them to comply with Title IX. This will specify that Title IX and its implementing regulations forbids schools from allowing males from participating in female sports and from occupying female intimate facilities, and that Recipients must adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female.’

Take their money away.

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UN World Court To Issue Proclamation On July 23rd Or Something

By William Teach July 7, 2025 – 3:00 pm

It has no force of law, is utterly non-binding, but, it’s Super Important, you know!

World Court to issue climate change opinion on July 23

The top United Nations court will on July 23 issue a nonbinding opinion on countries’ legal obligation to fight climate change, a decision expected to be cited in climate change-driven litigation around the world, the court said on Monday.

The so-called advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is also expected to address whether large states contributing the most to greenhouse-gas emissions should be liable for damage caused to small island nations.

So, it’s utterly meaningless, just a court ruling for the climate cult on feelings? What laws will this ruling be based on? We all know that they will rule in favor of the Cult of Climastrology, right?

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a similar opinion last week finding that its 20 Latin American and Caribbean member states must cooperate to tackle climate change and not take actions that set back environmental protections.

I never got around to addressing that ruling, it’s just sitting in my Instapaper account (much better than Pocket, which is closing down, BTW). And not one article I read on the subject featured any reporter asking the members of that court if they had given up their own use of fossil fuels and gone carbon neutral in their own lives. I’d love to see someone sue through that court over the Amazon being cut down to build road for COP30, as well as block the 40K who plan to fly in to Brazil.

During two weeks of hearings before the World Court in December, wealthy countries of the global north broadly argued that existing climate treaties like the Paris Agreement, which are largely nonbinding, should be the basis for deciding countries’ responsibilities.

The Let’s Go Brandon Admin was involved, I believe, but, the Trump admin will blow any ruling off.

The World Court’s advisory opinion is part of a global wave of climate litigation as countries, organizations and individuals are increasingly turning to courts for climate action.

While nonbinding, the court’s interpretations of law carry a lot of legal and political weight. Experts say its opinion could set a precedent in climate change-driven lawsuits in courts from Europe to Latin America and beyond.

Well, we in the U.S. can watch other nations destroy their economies while taking away freedom, liberty, money, and life choices from the peasants. None of this will change the lives of the Elites.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 7, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising sea that will doom all the coastal cities, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on a solar farm paid to switch off.

Just an easy breezy bikini week.

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Democrats Could Be Overthinking Their Strategy Or Something

By William Teach July 7, 2025 – 10:30 am

I wasn’t aware that they had any strategy other than Orange Man Bad with a side of Republicans Are Evil

Democrats might be ‘overthinking’ strategy to recapture voters

Democrats are rethinking ways to recapture voters they’ve lost to President Trump in recent election cycles, and they may have been offered an important lesson in the New York mayoral primary.

In various post-mortems and focus groups done on the heels of their devastating 2024 election loss, Democrats have thoroughly examined exit polls and voter demographics in search of the gaps in their party’s appeal.

But Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha, who served as a senior adviser on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2020, said Democrats are “overthinking” the solution by analyzing the voters who flipped sides or skipped voting during the last election.

“It’s more simple than that,” Rocha said. “Just concentrate on people who are frustrated as hell and get both of them.”

Rocha pointed to the New York mayoral race as proof. He says progressive upstart-turned-party nominee Zohran Mamdani (D) was able to capture voters — including those who did not vote a few months ago in the presidential election — by talking about affordability and other tangible economic issues that appealed to them.

Rocha said voters “want anything that’s different” from the status quo when it comes to the cost of living.

If they want to settle on a hardcore Islamist Extremist and full on Jew hater masquerading as a hardcore Modern Socialist, have at it. Mamdandi won with around 20% turnout in a closed primary with ranked choice to Andrew Freaking Cuomo, and it was really the Youts who truly do not know better that drove the win. Youts that saw a crappy economy post-COVID, with Biden in the White House, and Democrats in charge of NY and NYC.

While many Democrats disagree with Mamdani’s politics, they say the campaign he ran shows the unwavering preeminence of economic issues. And Trump taught the same lesson in 2024, political observers say, by telling voters what they wanted to hear on the economy and his message on “draining the swamp.”

Trump campaigned on freedom and capitalism, Mamdani campaigned on Government giving people everything and being in charge of their lives. With zero idea how to do it.

But the New York City electorate is drastically different from the rest of the country, political observers say, noting someone like Mamdani may not appeal to moderates and centrists.

“Being a self-proclaimed democratic socialist … doesn’t play in swing districts. It plays in New York City primaries,” Del Percio said. “The Democratic candidates have to look more like Elissa Slotkin talking about the cost of living than they do Mamdani talking about the cost of living.”

Gee, you think? Why is NYC so unaffordable? Who has been and is now in charge of NYC? Really, if they want to go full on Modern Socialist for the 2026 midterms and 2028 general, this should be fun. Trump won’t be running in 2028, but, they’ll still run against him. If they want to run on Big Government in charge, that will be fun to watch.

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Whoops: Sweden Really Wants Its Airlines To Fly Again After “Flight Shaming”

By William Teach July 7, 2025 – 7:00 am

As I always say, every experiment needs an experimental group, and Sweden has done their part in seeing what flight shaming has wrought

Sweden invented ‘flight shaming’. Now it is begging airlines to return

The country that invented “flight shaming”, a concept championed by climate activist Greta Thunberg, has scrapped its air tax in a bid to boost its ailing economy.

As of July 1, Sweden has dropped the levy of 76–517 kroner (£5.50–£37.40) per passenger per flight, an eco measure introduced by the centre-left government in 2018.

The U-turn will be seen as a disaster by environmentalists, and it exposes a tension at the core of the aviation versus climate debate. When jumbo jets disappear emissions drop, but other things begin to dwindle too: regional growth, connectivity and – it appears in Sweden – public support for eco concerns.

It doesn’t seem a lot, $7.54 to $51.32, but, it adds up, and it goes with the government and all the cultists literally shaming people. Which had an impact

In a short period of time the “flight shaming” (“flygskam”) movement took hold. A survey in 2019 showed that nearly a quarter of Swedes were abstaining from flying in a bid to reduce their climate footprint, up from 17 per cent the year before.

The impact on Sweden’s aviation industry was stark. Swedavia AB, which runs 10 Swedish airports, saw passenger numbers drop for seven consecutive months in 2019. The country witnessed its slowest growth in airline passenger numbers for a decade. Meanwhile, state train operator SJ saw passengers leap to 32 million citing “big interest in climate-smart travel.”

But

The pandemic was the catalyst for change. The country suffered a recession in 2023 and the economy shrank by 0.3pc between April and July 2024. It was within this economic climate that the new right-wing government, elected in 2022, said that there were “few reasons to feel flight shame” as they announced plans to invest £76m into the aviation sector and drop the air tax entirely.

Airlines were quick to praise the decision. Ryanair promptly re-introduced two new aircraft to its Swedish fleet and added ten new routes. EasyJet said “we strongly welcome the abolition of taxes on passengers to help keep flying affordable” and Norwegian announced it would add new routes from Norway to Sweden.

This wouldn’t be happening unless the Swedish citizens wanted it. All over the EU nations have adopted all sorts of cult regulations and fees (which, of course, only apply to the peasants, not the rich folks, who couldn’t care less, and are generally exempt on their private jets)

The question is where these countries will go next. Clearly the Swedish U-turn highlights the complexities around marrying green policies with national interconnectivity and regional prosperity.

“Until electric planes and emissions-free aviation are viable options, we all need to fly less,” says Justin Francis. “Aviation fuel needs to be taxed in line with other transport fuels. The industry has had a free pass here for too long, and the proceeds need to be ring fenced for investment in lower-carbon aviation and improving rail infrastructure.”

Oh, piss off. Go pedal your cult elsewhere, leave people alone.

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Bummer: BBB Hits Illegal Aliens And Legal Immigrants Over Health Care

By William Teach July 7, 2025 – 6:45 am

Is Politico trying to get me to like the bill, which still spends too much, even more?

Megabill hits health care for immigrants, including legal ones, hard

illegal alien DemocratAs President Donald Trump intensifies his targeting of undocumented immigrants, the GOP megabill passed Thursday takes aim at those here legally by revoking their access to subsidized care.

Under current rules, those immigrants — green card holders, refugees, survivors of domestic violence, and individuals on work and student visas — can purchase health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace and receive tax credits to offset the cost. Some of them are also eligible for coverage through Medicaid, the state-federal program for low-income people, if they earn incomes below the poverty level, as well as Medicare, the federal program for elderly people.

But the provisions in the GOP megabill narrow immigrant eligibility for these programs, allowing only green card holders, immigrants from Cuba and Haiti, and immigrants from certain Pacific Island countries access to federally funded health care.

The move to restrict coverage for legal immigrants comes as the Trump administration pushes ahead on its aggressive immigration campaign, delivering mass deportations, challenging birthright citizenship, and ending temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

When people apply for visas, be they work or student, they are supposed to be self-supporting, not having the citizens of the US pay for them to be here. That is part of the terms of those visas. So, they shouldn’t be on Obamacare and getting tax credits. They shouldn’t be on Medicaid. For one thing, an immigrant is really more defined as someone moving someplace and intending to stay. Visa holders are temporary visitors to the U.S. Green card holders, many of whom are on a path to citizenship, should be able to pay for their own way as a term of their legal path to citizenship. Why do we even have permanent residents in the first place? OK, discussion for another day

“These are the largest cuts to health coverage that we have seen, and this will be one of the largest cuts to immigrants in recent years,” said Drishti Pillai, director of immigrant health policy at KFF, a health policy think tank in Washington. The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan scorekeeper, estimated similar provisions would leave 1.3 million lawfully present immigrants uninsured in 2034. Low-income green card holders in the five-year waiting period that applies to them for Medicaid, but who are currently eligible for subsidized Obamacare coverage, are expected to be the largest group hit.

Well, then those illegals and visa holders can leave. Better yet, do not come. Why do we have low-income green card holders? All those leftist wackos threatening to move to Canada, the UK, or elsewhere, well, those countries require them to ba able to earn their keep.

The provisions have been overshadowed by broader Medicaid cuts, and the politically fraught nature of immigration has made Republicans reluctant to speak out about the restrictions. Still, they have raised concerns in both red and blue states because it would mean their already financially strained health care systems would have to bear the higher costs of uncompensated and emergency care.

There are no cuts: there is a reduction in the rate of increase, which is easily offset by not giving illegals and others government funded healthcare. If Democrat states want to pay for the illegals, have at it. That’s on them.

Under fiscal pressure, blue states, including Minnesota and Illinois, have moved to roll back health care access for undocumented immigrants, who are not eligible for any federally subsidized health care programs. Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, approved a state budget that will scale back free health care for undocumented immigrants.

I thought they weren’t eligible for it in the first place? Was that another lie?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 6, 2025 – 2:12 pm

…are horrible carbon pollution driven Bad Weather clouds streaming in, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is bluebird of bitterness, with a post on turning oatmeal raisin cookies into chocolate chip ones.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 6, 2025 – 9:31 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. The Sun is shining (briefly, stupid tropical depression remnant is coming this way, almost right over Raleigh overnight), the squirrels are barking on tree right outside door, and finally getting the beginning of a song down (Robert Plant’s Big Log. Has a couple tricky guitar parts). This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog: New York Times Has To Defend Telling The Truth About Mamdani
  2. The Right Scoop: UM… Tucker Carlson just announced a new interview with the President of IRAN
  3. The Lid: Liberals Claim Illegals Pay Taxes and Add to Society… The Numbers Don’t Show That at All
  4. The Last Refuge: When an Intransigent Resistance Meets an Immovable Object – EU Trade Team Accepting Baseline Tariffs
  5. The Gateway Pundit: FIFTEEN Democrat Officials Indicted in Frio County Texas Vote Harvesting Scandal Including a Local Judge, Former Rep. Candidate, and Two Former Mayors
  6. The First Street Journal: Why do the left always root for the bad guys?
  7. Sultan Knish: Concertgoers Cheer Muslim Terrorists Killing Them
  8. Powerline: The CIA Critiques Itself
  9. Pacific Pundit: Autopen Joe Biden says European leaders are begging for his advice on how to deal with Trump
  10. Newsbusters: AP Fact-Checks Trump’s JOKE On Evading Alligators at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
  11. neo-neocon: On appetite
  12. Moonbattery: Dem Pols Denied Entry to Alligator Alcatraz
  13. Legal Insurrection: Elon Musk Says Will Launch The “America Party” In Third-Party Attempt To Punish Republicans
  14. Jihad Watch: ‘They shoot people deliberately’: ‘Palestinians’ in Gaza say that Hamas intentionally targets aid sites
  15. And last, but, not least, IOTW Report has DNC Insider: What Jill Biden Did ‘Was Absolutely Elder Abuse’

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?

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

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Good News: DHS Did Deport Criminal Illegals To South Sudan

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

The crazy leftard judge tried to stop this, but, nope. And he should be impeached

DHS: Several criminal illegal aliens deported to South Sudan after delays from ‘activist judges’

Eight criminal illegal aliens were deported to South Sudan on Independence Day, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Saturday, after what it called “weeks of delays by activist judges” that left ICE officers stranded and at risk.

“These sickos were finally deported to South Sudan on Independence Day,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

“After weeks of delays by activist judges that put our law enforcement in danger, ICE deported these eight barbaric criminal illegal aliens who are so heinous even their own countries will not accept them.”

The deportation effort had been blocked by a series of lower court rulings, which the Supreme Court overturned July 3, granting the Trump administration’s motion to enforce its third-country removal policy. The eight men had been held in Djibouti as legal challenges played out.

So, who were these upstanding illegals that the Democrats were doing all they could to protect?

Enrique Arias-Hierro, a Cuban national, was convicted of homicide, armed robbery, kidnapping and impersonating a law enforcement officer. Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, also from Cuba, was convicted of attempted first-degree murder with a weapon, battery, larceny and drug trafficking.

Thongxay Nilakout, a Laotian national, was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery and sentenced to life in prison.

Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, from Mexico, was convicted of second-degree murder and also sentenced to life confinement.

Kyaw Mya of Burma was convicted of lascivious acts with a child under the age of 12 and served part of a 10-year sentence.

Nyo Myint, also from Burma, was convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a mentally and physically incapacitated victim and faced additional charges of aggravated assault.

The other two were also horrible people. And Democrats tried to protect them and keep them in the U.S. Sexually assaulting children and the disabled. How sick are Democrats. They can make all the excuses they want, they are horrible.

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Doom Today: We Need More Government Control To Stop Tipping Points

By William Teach July 5, 2025 – 3:02 pm

Notice the part about “civil society action”: that means government controlling your life and taking your money

From the doomy tirade

World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say.

The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almost 200 delegates have endorsed a statement calling for action from policymakers – especially leaders meeting at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil later this year. (snip)

The Brazilian Presidency of COP30 has repeatedly highlighted tipping points in its communications, and the new statement joins the COP organisers in calling on governments to help trigger positive tipping points in their societies and economies.

Would this be the same Brazil that will see over 40,000 take fossil fueled travel for COP30? So much that they are cutting down the rainforest to build a big, wide road for all those fossil fueled vehicles after they fly in on commercial and private jets?

“Governments and businesses must rapidly align their policies and financial flows to limit global warming and halt the destruction of nature to minimise the risk of triggering further dangerous tipping points. Instead, we must catalyse positive tipping points, especially in restoring nature which is one of our major allies in tacking climate change.”

Climate Fascism. From the full statement

These include a collapse of deep water formation in the Labrador-Irminger Seas triggering abrupt climate changes that reduce food and water security in northwest Europe and West Africa. Particularly alarming is the risk of collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which would plunge northwest Europe into prolonged severe winters, while radically undermining global food and water security. The Amazon rainforest is also at risk of widespread dieback from the combined effects of climate change and deforestation.

There have been contradictory statements from “scientists” on the collapse of the AMOC. Again, they’re cutting down the Amazon for the road to COP30’s meeting place.

To achieve such targets we join the COP30 Presidency in calling on governments to enact policies that help trigger positive tipping points in their economies and societies, which generate self-propelling change in technologies and behaviours towards zero emissions. We also support the Global Mutirão initiative to catalyse collective action from civil society to help trigger positive tipping points to achieve common climate goals.

Again, Government. This is not science, as I’ve been noting since 2004.

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