Minnesota Climate (scam) Initiative Is Making Strides 3 Years On Or Something

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 3:46 pm

They’re doing a great job at really doing what they were supposed to to in the first place

Three years on, Minnesota’s climate change initiative spurring projects across the state

Another summer-like day, another air quality alert. Now almost an annual recurrence, hazy skies from Canadian wildfire smoke beg the question: If the underlying cause is climate change, what are we doing about it? In Minnesota, it’s quite a lot.

Funny, they weren’t worried about air quality when BLM/Democrats were torching businesses in….Democrat/Black areas

Leading that effort is Kate Knuth, the climate director with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). (snip)

In addition to addressing the causes of climate change, much of the work focuses on mitigating its impacts. For wildfire smoke, people can stay indoors or wear a mask outdoors. To deal with increasing rains, cities can improve stormwater and wastewater systems.

Got that? The cult’s big idea is to stay indoors or wear a mask. Glad the citizens of Minn are spending lots of money on this! And, isn’t rather a function of cities to deal with sewers?

Now entering its third year, the Climate Action Framework is undergoing an update to be rolled out this fall. Changes may include ideas from a public comment period that received about 200 responses, Knuth said.

“People are excited to help move the state forward on climate, they are really engaged,” she said. Knuth said many have attended information meetings in-person and virtual.

200? That’s all who were excited?

For instance, the state received $200 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program for “climate-smart” food systems projects in Minnesota. This includes agriculture, with grant applications due July 9 to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for the market development of cover crops, a tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Sounds like a nice slush fund.

The majority of climate grants to communities address stormwater. With increasing rainfall and severe storms, managing stormwater becomes more challenging for cities, particularly smaller ones in rural areas.

It’s, again, literally the job of the cities and states, a basic civic function, nothing to do with the climate scam.

More than 3,000 Minnesotans helped shape the Climate Action Framework. An MPCA statement says the CAF “sets a vision for how the state will address and prepare for climate change. It identifies immediate, near-term actions to achieve the long-term goal of a carbon-neutral, resilient, and equitable future for Minnesota.”

The main goals of the CAF include: “Clean transportation, climate-smart natural and working lands, resilient communities, clean energy and efficient buildings, healthy lives and communities, and clean economy.”

In other words, to force Other People to comply. I’d love to see a breakdown on how many of those 3,000 are driving EVs, taking a bus, and using “clean energy.”

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If All You See…

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

…are horrible, evil, no good fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Hamas collaborating with campus protesters.

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Loopy Judge Rules Trump Admin Must Give 30 Days Notice To Deport Venezuelan Illegals

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 10:30 am

It just goes to show that even Trump appointed judges can be wackos

Judge halts deportation of Venezuelan migrant under Alien Enemies Act

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Venezuelan migrant under the Alien Enemies Act, saying it hasn’t provided adequate notice or due process for it to be challenged.

U.S. District Court Judge John Holcomb, a Trump appointee, ruled that those subject to deportation under the Alien Enemies Act have to be given a chance to challenge the move.

“The Government is hereby preliminarily ENJOINED and RESTRAINED from removing or transferring out of this district any member of the putative class pursuant to the Proclamation pending further Order of this Court regarding the amount of notice and process that is due prior to removal,” Holcomb wrote.

In a win for Trump, Holcomb also said the president has “unlimited” authority to invoke the AEA, which is being challenged separately.

Well, there is that. But

Monday’s ruling came amid a complaint by Darwin Antonio Arevalo Millan, a Venezuelan citizen being held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Adelanto, California.

In his lawsuit, Arevalo said he is a “vocal dissident” of the Venezuelan government who was granted a permit authorizing him to work and reside in the U.S. pending the review of his asylum application.

Arevalo’s complaint was filed on behalf of himself and other Venezuelan citizens subjected to Trump’s AEA executive order proclamation. He is asking a judge to require the government to provide at least 30 days’ notice before any removal or transfer.

Where was the due process for Aravalo being brought in on Biden’s Temporary Protected Status? ICE thinks he’s a member of Tren de Aragua. Where did the Biden admin do due diligence on all those brought in? Right, they did none, ending with lots of criminals, including violent gang members. Also, the Alien Enemies Act doesn’t have any requirement for a time frame. The judge’s order only applies to the central California district. So, ICE holds the illegals for 30 days and then sends them packing.

It really is nuts that they can be brought in in mass numbers without any process but each individual has to be given a lengthy exit due process.

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Oh Noes: Sacramento Could Be Doomed By Flooding

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s always some sort of doom with these people

Could this major California city see mass ‘abandonment’? New risk model predicts just that

The flood plains of Sacramento are a geologic world away from the more cinematic California of coastal crags and lofty peaks. Yet, that sometimes overlooked region could be home to one of California’s great disasters waiting to happen, according to a February report from First Street, a prominent climate risk prediction firm.

The firm’s models suggest that the mounting risks of catastrophic flooding will drive Sacramento County — the heart of California’s fourth-largest metro area, at about 2.4 million people — to lose, in the average scenario, 28% of its population by 2055. Increasingly bad air quality, higher insurance costs and demographic shifts could also be drivers of population decline.

But is this scenario, which First Street calls “climate abandonment,” actually likely?

Sacramento isn’t the only Central Valley locality with a dire outlook. First Street predicts that Fresno County, which anchors the Valley’s second largest metro area, will lose almost half its population. Together, those urban declines are two of the five largest predicted by First Street nationwide, and the largest predicted in the nation outside of low-lying coastal areas on the East and Gulf coasts.

This is all based on one event

In 1861, California had been suffering the effects of a long — possibly a 20-year long — drought. But in December of that year, the dry spell abruptly ended. Storm after storm pummeled the state, causing nearly endless rains and prodigious mountain snows. Then, in January, a sudden warmup caused much of the snow to melt, almost instantly flowing into the Central Valley. As rivers overflowed their banks and the waters spread, the valley became a fishbowl. Forty days after the rains started, floods had inundated an area some 300 miles long and 30 miles wide, devastating the new state’s towns and farms and drowning hundreds of thousands of livestock.

That’s right, First Street is fearmongering (they have a long rapsheet for climate fearmongering) on something that happened all the way back in 1861. And blaming the possibility on human caused climate change. What caused it in 1861, when the world was barely out of the Little Ice Age?

Anyhow, it is a very long fable. Yes, fable. Because it’s all based on something that may possibly maybe happen due to computer models.

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NY Times Seems Surprised That Jews In America Have Anxiety

By William Teach June 3, 2025 – 6:45 am

Did anyone at the Times consider that American Jews are living in fear thanks to the Times and other media outlets taking the side of the pro-Hamas people? That when they all take the word of Hamas it turns Democrats against Jews? When they go soft on the pro-Hamas folks they enable them against Jews?

After Several Attacks, Heightened Anxiety Among American Jews

The attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colo., marching in support of hostages being held in Gaza would have been disturbing to Jewish people across the country even if it were the only recent event of its kind. The suspect told investigators after his arrest that he had been planning the attack for a year, according to court documents. Eight people were hospitalized.

For many, the connections to other recent outbursts of violence were impossible to miss. The attack in Boulder came less than two weeks after two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed as they left a reception at a Jewish museum in Washington. A month earlier, an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on the first night of Passover while Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, slept upstairs with his family.

“What we’ve seen these last few months is a shocking pattern of anti-Israel sentiment manifesting itself in antisemitic violence,” said Halie Soifer, chief executive of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. “With each incident, there’s a further shattering of our sense of security.”

The drumbeat of violence erupting across the country and taking an unpredictable variety of forms has deepened anxieties among many American Jews, and contributed to a sense that simply existing in public as a Jewish person is increasingly dangerous. One of the victims of the attack at the march in Boulder was a Holocaust survivor, according to a friend of the victim who was at the scene.

That all three attackers alluded to political objections to Israel raised concerns among many about the threat of left-wing political violence connected to the war in Gaza.

Maybe I’m being to harsh on the Times. Or, maybe the usual folks at the Times missed what Ruth Graham was going to write, because it is rare that you see them blame left wing violence, meaning Democrats.

In April, an opponent of Israel’s war in Gaza circulated a “Wanted” poster online that showed the faces of seven council members, writing that they were “complicit in genocide” for not passing the resolution.

Across the country, many Jews say they have observed an uptick in antisemitism, both personally and in the broader culture, in recent years.

These are Democrats. These are the Democrats learning to hate Israel and then Jews in their left wing colleges. These are the Islamic radicals brought in to the US in large numbers without verifying their backgrounds. But, the Israel hatred, which translates to Jew hatred, never ends

The AP is citing the Ministry of Health, which is run by Hamas.

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Maryland Governor Vetoes Climate Scam Legislation

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 3:57 pm

This is rather unexpected, especially since Wes Moore is a Democrat

Moore Vetoes Key Maryland Climate Studies, Reversing Course on Environmental Justice Commitments

electric vehicleMaryland legislators and environmental advocates expressed dismay after Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a series of widely supported climate and environmental study bills last week, actions they believe not only mark a sharp departure from his climate promises, but also reflect a breakdown in communication between the governor and members of his own party in the legislature.

On May 16, Moore vetoed more bills than he had in the past two years combined, including multiple proposals that had passed with strong backing from legislative leadership and key climate coalitions.

The vetoes—affecting studies on climate costs, energy reliability, data center impacts and racial reparations—have left activists and lawmakers questioning whether Moore remains a reliable ally in the fight for climate and racial justice and whether his political calculus may have shifted, placing short-term cost savings above long-term structural reform.

Among the vetoed bills was the Responding to Emergency Needs from Extreme Weather (RENEW) Act of 2025, which would have tasked the comptroller and state agencies with assessing the total cost of greenhouse gas emissions and reporting findings by December 2026. Stripped down from its original version, which proposed financial penalties for fossil fuel companies, the bill was seen as an important step toward documenting climate damages and laying the groundwork for future polluter-pay policies. (snip)

In a letter to the Senate and House leadership, Moore stated budget shortage, agency workload and redundancy as key reasons for the vetoes (of the various bills). “Many of these reports are never read and simply collect dust on shelves,” Moore wrote, calling the expected $1.28 million cost “an unsustainable commitment given the state’s current financial constraints.”

It’s only $1.28 million, as they say, but, the money never really does what it says it does, it just ends up in people’s pockets.

Also vetoed was the Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act, which would have created a Strategic Energy Planning Office within the Public Service Commission to assess long-term electricity reliability, model resource scenarios and recommend planning strategies. It was designed to help Maryland manage increasing energy demands as the state transitions toward clean power. The office would have released a major report every three years, coordinating with state agencies and collecting public input. The veto stalls forward-thinking energy planning, critics said.

An initiative that would have just been yap yap while giving climate cult groups lots of taxpayer cash to make cult recommendations

In a separate letter to Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Adrienne Jones, Moore justified his veto of the Energy Resource Adequacy and Planning Act by citing fiscal constraints and overlaps. He pointed to the estimated annual cost of $4.4 million to $5.3 million, warning it would duplicate efforts and pass costs on to consumers. “This cost would ultimately be passed along to Maryland ratepayers at a time when we are actively working to limit their burden, not add to it,” he wrote.

Well, duplication was the point, so that the money went to friendly NGOs to do nothing.

“This veto is extremely frustrating and simply does not support the state’s climate goals,” said Kim Coble, executive director of the Maryland League of Conservation Voters. She said the RENEW Act study was a recommendation of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change and was supported by 69 percent of the members of the General Assembly.

Was it supported by the citizens of Maryland?

“Holding fossil fuel companies accountable will take time and legal action,” [Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, a climate advocate and member of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change] noted, and added that Maryland needs to act now because climate harms are accelerating and lives are at stake. She warned that denying communities even the data to affirm their lived experiences undermines trust and preparedness.

Has anyone asked her and the rest on the commission if they have stopped using fossil fuels?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a field of wheat that will soon die from over-heating drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on the Trump admin uncovering a big food stamp bribery and fraud scheme.

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Media Having A Tough Time Describing Jihadi Who Attacked Pro-Israeli Protest In Boulder

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

Here’s the “Paper Of Record”

A Man Attacked a March for Israeli Hostages in Colorado. Here’s What to Know.

Witnesses said the man threw an incendiary device into the crowd in a downtown pedestrian mall, according to the authorities. The suspect, identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman of Colorado Springs, yelled “Free Palestine” during the attack, the witnesses said. Mr. Soliman, 45, was booked on multiple charges in the Boulder County Jail.

The attack may intensify deep unease in the Jewish community in the United States. In recent months, two Israeli embassy aides were murdered in Washington, and a man set fire to the residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who is Jewish.

Why would they have unease, what with all those Democrats and visa holders, especially from the Islam world, yelling “globalize the Intifada” and stuff?

The victims — four men and four women, who range in age from 52 to 88 — were participating in a weekly event called Run for Their Lives that is held in cities around the world, including Boulder. It is designed to call attention to the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Soliman was taken into custody after witnesses pointed him out, Chief Redfearn said. The F.B.I. was investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, Chief Redfearn said, adding that the preliminary facts made it “clear that this is a targeted act of violence.”

OK, that’s all we get from the NY Times, and it was not even a top of the page article. How about the Washington Post?

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, of El Paso County, Colorado, threw Molotov cocktails and yelled “Free Palestine” before he was taken into custody, police said, citing witness accounts of the attack. Two victims were airlifted for treatment at a burn unit, officials said.

That’s all we get. ABC News is lacking. Same with NBC News. The LA Times is running an AP article, which is lacking. Which mean the AP is derelict. CBS News gets close

Soliman is an Egyptian national, government officials confirmed to CBS Colorado. He arrived in California in 2022 on a non-immigrant visa, multiple sources told CBS News. That original visa expired in Feb. 2023, the sources said. Soliman had recently been living in Colorado Springs.

So, brought in by Biden, and is now illegally present

(Breitbart) Fox News’s Bill Melugin revealed that “three senior” DHS sources said Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is “an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally,” and has overstayed his visa after entering the United States under the Biden administration.

Melugin added that he was “told” Soliman “arrived at LAX on 8/27/22 on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa with an authorized stay through 2/26/23, but he overstayed & never left.”

“I’m told on 9/29/22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim, and on 3/29/23, USCIS under the Biden admin gave him work authorization, which expired on 3/28/25,” Melugin added.

He overstayed which is a legal violation, so, they gave him more legal status and the ability to work. Shameful

Expect this story to disappear from the Credentialed Media quickly, just like the Israelis murdered by a Leftist.

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Bummer: Aviation Ditching Climate (scam) Targets

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

It was never gonna fly, if you’ll excuse the pun. The only way would have been to either stop fossil fueled flights altogether or make a breakthrough in aviation fuel. Considering they haven’t come up with one for cars, it’s a long shot

Key climate target of airline decarbonisation ‘in peril’: IATA

The airline industry’s flagship goal of decarbonising by 2050 is now “in peril” due to climate-sceptic policies, including those of US President Donald Trump, the leading airline association IATA warned on Sunday.

The emergence of leaders favouring fossil fuels and recent regulatory rollbacks are “obviously a setback… it does imperil success on the 2050 horizon”, Marie Owens Thomsen, the International Air Transport Association’s senior vice president for sustainability, told reporters.

“But I don’t think it’s going to halt or reverse progress. I think it will just slow progress,” she said at the IATA annual industry conference in India.

Sounds like a position that offers nothing but nagging, but, I bet it pays a lot.

The air transportation industry has faced growing pressure to deal with its contribution to the climate crisis.

Currently responsible for 2.5 percent to three percent of global CO2 emissions, the sector’s switch to renewable fuels is proving difficult, even if the aeronautics industry and energy companies have been seeking progress.

To achieve net-zero emissions, airlines rely on non-fossil sources known as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

However, SAF biofuels are still three to four times more expensive than petroleum-based jet fuel.

Guess who pays for these fuels that are about as worthwhile as ethanol.

Owens Thomsen estimated on Sunday that $4.7 trillion in investment is needed to establish SAF sectors capable of meeting the needs of air transport by 2050.

“It is entirely achievable,” she said, adding that the raw materials and technology already exist and simply need to be developed.

And they can get that money from ending fossil fuels “subsidies”, which are really just tax breaks. Which would mean the cost of living would go up. Not that the Elites care. But, come on, most of the airlines are just greenwashing to placate the climate nuts.

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MSNBC Says Dems Should Win Back Young Men By Going To The Gym

By William Teach June 2, 2025 – 6:45 am

This is from the same people who made being obese normal and telling men to be beta

Opinion | How Democrats can make “Speaking with American Men” a success

After losing big with men under 30 in the 2024 election, Democrats have spent $20 million on a program called “Speaking with American Men” (SAM) to help figure out which “spaces” they need to show up in to fare better with this demographic. A smart place to start would be the gym; the booming men’s fitness market is expected to more than double by 2029, growth driven by men under 25, who are joining gyms almost twice as fast as women. And as SAM co-director Ilyse Hogue and I wrote here last year, the right has done an excellent job parlaying young men’s healthy interest in exercise into an embrace of reactionary politics.

The right has done an excellent job parlaying young men’s healthy interest in exercise into an embrace of reactionary politics.

We have? That’s a new one. I wasn’t aware of that. I do not go to the gym because I’m a conservative, like I don’t play guitar because I’m a conservative.

But it doesn’t need to be that way. Across the political spectrum, craving the surefire sense of accomplishment the gym provides is an age-old response to an unstable political and economic environment. And historically, championing physical fitness with appeals to American manliness has not been a partisan issue. If the SAM initiative is going to net the Democrats more than online snark, its leaders should appreciate that this history suggests the party’s path forward might just begin at the gym.

They want to turn exercise political.

In the vast digital universe targeting young men, the idea that exercise is imperative to self-actualization is inescapable. It’s most obvious in fitness-focused influencers like Ashton Hall, whose six-hour “morning routine” recently racked up nearly a billion views on X. But plenty of public figures with grander concerns insist exercise is integral to achievement. Take Andrew Tate’s obsession with “plummeting masculinity” or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quest to make America healthy again.

Have no idea who Hall is, Tate is a horrible human being, and, really, being healthy is a bad thing? Oh, right, Democrats came up with “fatphobic.”

When the world feels confusing or out of control, make a man of yourself, beginning with your body is an especially enticing proposition. If, despite one’s best efforts, landing a rewarding career or a loving mate proves elusive, then why not capture a sense of self-efficacy at the squat rack? Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg’s billions may be out of reach, but attaining their newly sculpted bodies only takes some discipline and protein shakes.

What they do not get is that being a man starts with a mental belief, not being in shape. And, yeah, it never used to be a political thing, but, we have seen how the Democrats have hated on men doing manly things over the past couple decades. Then we get some blah blah, ending with

Yet destabilizing moments like the one we are now living through reveal an enduring dynamic: Men are encouraged with particular urgency to get moving when their social status feels in flux. Generation after generation, boosters sell men the irresistible idea that at the gym, if nowhere else, the sweat of your brow is all that stands between you and success. It’s an understandable, even healthy impulse, and Democrats would do well to start rebuilding their political muscle quite literally, by seeking to identify with the guy at the gym.

Most go to the gym because it makes them feel good and helps get them in shape. Democrats want to make it political. This will not go well. These are most of the young Dem males

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