Bummer: SCOTUS Allows Trump Admin To Revoke TPS For Venezuelans

By William Teach May 20, 2025 – 7:00 am

I mean, I’m not sure what all the kerfuffle was, TPS for them was going to end in June 2025, anyhow. Or was it April 2nd? Or September 10th Or 2026? Of course, what the illegal alien lovers wanted is for TPS to be extended for a fourth time, and then permanently

Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans

The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light Monday to revoke special legal protections for thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, which could pave the way for at least some of them to be deported.

The high court granted an emergency application filed by the administration, meaning officials can move forward with reversing a decision made at the tail end of the Biden administration to extend protections for almost 350,000 Venezuelans under the federal Temporary Protected Status program.

The brief order noted that liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the application. Litigation will now continue in lower courts.

“This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history,” Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the lawyers representing Venezuelan plaintiffs, said in a statement.

It was “truly shocking” that the Supreme Court authorized the move without giving the case more consideration, he added.

TPS is good for 18 months. The Biden regime extended it twice, the last time on October 3rd, 2023, hence the April 2nd, 2025 date. So, really, it is over. It was not extended by the Trump admin. I do think that the Trump admin made a mistake in trying to cancel it early in February. They should have just let it expire, and started sending them home. There’s no need for any sort of “due process”. It’s over. Bye now. One would think

People accepted into the program have legal status in the United States and can get work authorization for up to 18 months, subject to extensions. Without that protection, affected people are subject to deportation via the normal legal process but can seek other avenues for remaining in the United States by, for example, claiming asylum.

The problem with all these measures is that most find ways to never leave. If they apply for asylum it will take years for the hearing to happen, and, when it is denied, they often do not leave. Then, when caught after 20 years, they say they are now Americans. Despite many not speaking the language and on all sorts of government benefits. The Trump admin needs to surge immigration judges to tackle all the claims.

Meanwhile

‘Flood the system’: US attorney unleashes new task force to crack down on blue state’s sanctuary policies

United States Attorney for the District of California Bill Essayli is taking major action to crack down on “sanctuary” policies in the Golden State.

He’s launching “Operation Guardian Angel,” which is a task force, made up of assets from ICE, HSI, DEA, FBI, ATF, and Border Patrol, to begin scanning a criminal database every single day to identify arrested illegal aliens in local jurisdictions that DOJ can charge with felony illegal-reentry.

“They’ve made it almost impossible for ICE to do their job, issue detainers and get criminal illegal immigrants out of jails. So what we’re doing instead is we’re going to start issuing warrants,” he told Fox News.

Start flooding, guys!

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Trees In Yemen Under Threat From ‘Climate Change’ And Goats, But, Mostly Goats

By William Teach May 19, 2025 – 3:00 pm

It just goes to show that no matter what happens, ‘climate change’ has to be included. Because it’s a cult

These surreal trees survived for centuries. Scientists worry for their future

On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of dragon’s blood tree — a species found only on the Yemeni island of Socotra that is now struggling to survive intensifying threats from climate change.

“Seeing the trees die, it’s like losing one of your babies,” said Keybani, whose family runs a nursery dedicated to preserving the species.

Known for their mushroom-shaped canopies and the blood-red sap that courses through their wood, the trees once stood in great numbers. But increasingly severe cyclones, grazing by invasive goats, and persistent turmoil in Yemen — which is one of the world’s poorest countries and beset by a decade-long civil war — have pushed the species, and the unique ecosystem it supports, toward collapse.

So, goats and Islamist nutjobs. Cyclones have always happened.

Without intervention, scientists like Van Damme warn these trees could disappear within a few centuries — and with them many other species.

And what does “intervention” look like? They don’t say. But, it usually involves large amounts of money being redistributed from the 1st World.

But storms aren’t the only threat. Unlike pine or oak trees, which grow 60 to 90 centimeters (25 to 35 inches) per year, dragon’s blood trees creep along at just 2 to 3 centimeters (about 1 inch) annually. By the time they reach maturity, many have already succumbed to an insidious danger: goats.

An invasive species on Socotra, free-roaming goats devour saplings before they have a chance to grow. Outside of hard-to-reach cliffs, the only place young dragon’s blood trees can survive is within protected nurseries.

It’s the goats, not a tiny increase in the world’s temperature.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 19, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a waste of water for human enjoyment, which is bad for global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post 17 states suing over a wind turbine project that kills whales.

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Progressives Rather Unhappy That Democrats Are Going Through A Presidential Nomination Process

By William Teach May 19, 2025 – 10:30 am

How dare you peasants be allowed to vote on and pick the next person who will compete in the general election for president

Democrats, addicted to nominating senators, prepare for a 2028 pileup

Democrats look like they’re headed to another presidential primary dogpile in 2028, whether they want it or not.

“I feel it in the air,” said Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., who joined the 2020 primary — as a governor — and wants it “official” that he’s not running this time.

He hopes, in fact, that the party can winnow down its field to six to eight candidates over the next two-and-a-half years. That would avoid a replay of what he called the “ridiculous adventure” of 2020, when more than two dozen Democrats ended up seeking the nomination.

Well, that was before the party foisted Sleepy Joe on the electorate. Then deciding to replace Biden with Kamala. When the Dem voters wanted a primary. How’d that work out?

But even as Democrats prepare for next year’s midterms, the already-crowded stage looks set for a 2020 replay. Some contenders are playing coy about it. Few are ruling it out.

And a party that’s plainly addicted to nominating senators and ex-senators — 1940 was the last year Democrats ran a ticket without at least a running mate of senatorial heritage — may end up doing the same in 2028.

At least a half-dozen senators are now viewed as potential 2028 candidates by their colleagues and top Democrats on Capitol Hill, a mix of new faces and familiar ones.

How dare they run rather than be appointed by the Elites.

But replicating 2020 presents its fair share of risks for a party that’s still grappling with the fallout from the reelection decision by the winner of that primary, former President Joe Biden.

Democrats are sorting through a lot right now: their handling of Biden’s disastrous 2024 campaign, how to resist President Donald Trump’s agenda, and whether to compromise with Republicans on anything at all.

Weirdly, they do not mention coming up with an agenda that is good for Americans and that Americans will like.

BTW, we’re now at the point where the media is creating TDS stories. Remember this from all the way back in 2006 about George W Bush, as published by the Washington Post, entitled The Left, Online And Outraged?

In the angry life of Maryscott O’Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O’Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.

Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O’Connor’s reputation is as one of the angriest of all. “One long, sustained scream” is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.

She smokes a cigarette. Should it be about Bush, whom she considers “malevolent,” a “sociopath” and “the Antichrist”? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as “Satan,” or about Karl Rove, “the devil”? Should it be about the “evil” Republican Party, or the “weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving” Democrats, or the Catholic Church, for which she says “I have a special place in my heart . . . a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned”?

That was from Progressive bloggers. Now we get

Dining across the divide: ‘He asked what I think of Trump. He’s a dangerous idiot’

This is the far left UK Guardian, who puts two people on opposite sides of British politics, who discuss different things, and then the Guardian has to bring in Trump at the end, because TDS. We saw Credentialed Media outlets try this a bit with Bush 43, but, it was mostly blogs. Now you have so many of those bloggers and attitude at major news outlets, and they are waking up and thinking “what can I manufacture that is Bad for Trump?”

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Judge Tosses Suit By Bucks County Against Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach May 19, 2025 – 7:00 am

I mentioned this suit back in March of 2025. Bucks County is just north of Philly

Bucks County Sues Over Insulin Pricing, But Judge Tosses Suit Over Climate Change

Bucks County last week launched a new lawsuit against big pharma over the price of insulin in the same week that a previous county lawsuit over climate change was tossed. (big snip)

Just days after the county announced the insulin lawsuit, a common pleas court dismissed a lawsuit by the county against fossil fuel companies. That lawsuit, which was filed in March of 2024, claimed that companies including BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell knew about the harms that petroleum products can cause and engaged in misinformation to mislead the public. The earlier lawsuit sought damages to cover costs associated with climate change like flooding events.

On Friday, Common Please Judge Stephen Corr ruled that Bucks County lacked the jurisdiction to file the lawsuit, in part because of the interstate nature of the claim.

Too bad the companies didn’t just stop selling to the county. And, since Biden only won with 51.7% of the vote, I wonder how that would go over. Oh, and, again, if there were actually journalists left in the nation they would have asked County Commissioner DiGirolamo and the rest who voted for this if they drive fossil fueled vehicles themselves. If they take air travel. Have natural gas at home. They did try and contact the fossil fuels companies at the time and ask questions. Funny how all the Warmists in these areas suing want money but continue using fossil fuels.

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Pima County Sues Los Federales To Pay Up $12 Million For Illegal Aliens

By William Teach May 19, 2025 – 6:45 am

The main city, Tucson, used to be a declared sanctuary city. But, state law ended that. And a recent ballot initiative had 71% saying they do not want to be a sanctuary city. Would the city council have listened? Not sure, but, they and county want money to deal with the illegals that are there thanks to Biden’s big border opening

Pima County suing Feds for $12 million in migrant care money

Pima County says the Federal government owes it more than $12 million for migrant care. It’s now suing to try to get that money.

Pima County is joining with the cities of Chicago and Denver. The suits claim FEMA was wrong to withhold reimbursement for money the county and those cities spent to shelter migrants and keep them off the streets.

Pima County says that over about five years, it spent more than $52 million in Federal grants to shelter about half a million migrants, but only for a few days at a time, as they prepared to move to other locations and pursue asylum claims.

The money came from FEMA shelter grants approved by Congress.

In February, FEMA said it might withhold reimbursement for grants approved in the last months of the Biden Administration. For Pima County that would be more than five-point-seven million dollars, plus another almost three-point-seven million it has not put in for reimbursement yet.

Well, ask Biden for the money. He’s surely made enough via graft in office. Reach out to all those Democrats who support unfettered illegal immigration (as long as the illegals/migrants aren’t in their own neighborhoods). They could all donate to a Go Fund Me, right?

Pima County and the cities say since Congress approved the money, executive branch agencies have no authority to hold back funds.

Congress may have allocated money via FEMA, but, the allocation didn’t specify WHERE it had to be spent. Trump could send it to lots of small towns which vote GOP who were stuck with all the illegals/migrants.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 18, 2025 – 2:06 pm

…is wasting non-renewable water for pleasure which is bad for the climate, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on what “saving” land actually means in Canada.

It’s waterpark week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 18, 2025 – 9:34 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the squirrels are squirrelling, and I have a new foot pedal showing up today (BOSS Gt-1 multi-effects). This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Pacific Pundit: Trump impeacher Shri Thanedar draws a whopping 27 people to his Metro Detroit “Impeachment Town Hall”
  2. Powerline: Anti-Semitism Is Carefully Taught
  3. The First Street Journal: Will Bunch: #TrumpDerangementSyndrome much?
  4. The Gateway Pundit: Malia Obama Accused of Completely Ripping Off Indie Film for Her Nike Commercial Directorial Debut (VIDEO)
  5. The Last Refuge: Supreme Court Keeps, Mostly Punts, Temporary Block on Deportation of Terrorist Aliens Using ‘Alien Enemies Act’
  6. The Other McCain: Probably Not His First Crime
  7. This ain’t Hell…: Uranium Enrichment a “Right of the Iranian People”
  8. Victory Girls Blog: If You’ve Ever Been Afraid of a Man, Congratulations—You’re a Woman Now
  9. Moonbattery: Planning the Greatest Looting Spree in History
  10. Legal Insurrection: James Comey Wrecked Institutions, But Fury Over ‘86 47’ Post Is Way Overblown
  11. Jihad Watch: North Carolina: Islamic scholar says ‘you can marry a child,’ invokes the example of Muhammad
  12. IOTW Report: Massive sailing vessel collides with Brooklyn Bridge
  13. Geller Report: Iran Declares No Compromise, Won’t Shutter Nuclear Sites After U.S. Talks
  14. Cold Fury: Trust Teh Science™, baybee!
  15. And last, but, not least, Not A Lot Of People Know That has Dutch Cancel Offshore Wind Auction Due To Lack Of Interest

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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After Release Of Biden’s Hur Interview, Trump Wonders Who Controlled The Autopen

By William Teach May 18, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s not pretty, but, about what people who have been watching Biden melt down would expect, versus those who stuck their heads in the sand

Axios Releases Audio Showing Biden Struggling with Memory in Interview with Robert Hur

Biden Brain SuckerNewly released audio from Axios reveals that former President Joe Biden struggled with his memory during an interview with then-special counsel Robert Hur.

The audio recording reveals that Biden had difficulty remembering when his late son, Beau Biden, died and when now-President Donald Trump was elected during his first term in office, among other things, Axios reported.

“So, during this time when you were living at Chain Bridge Road and there were documents relating to the Penn Biden Center or the Biden Institute, or the Cancer Moonshot, or your book, where did you keep papers that related to those things that you were actively working?” Hur can be heard asking Biden.

“Well…. I, I, I, I, I, I don’t know. This is what — 2017, 2018, that area?” Biden asked.

It doesn’t get any better. It’s ugly.

President Trump: Joe Biden’s Autopen ‘Scandal’ Growing Bigger ‘By the Moment’

The Biden administration’s alleged use of an “autopen” is growing into a much larger scandal, President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday.

The president’s comments come after a Heritage Foundation report said in March the majority of official documents signed by former President Joe Biden were done so by using an autopen signature, raising many questions, per Breitbart News.

Trump’s post on Truth Social read:

“Whoever had control of the “AUTOPEN” is looking to be a bigger and bigger scandal by the moment. It is a major part of the real crime, THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN! Millions and millions of people knew that, but the Radical Left Democrats waged a campaign of inoculation and innocence like none that had ever been waged before. THIS IS WHY THE UNSELECT COMMITTEE OF POLITICAL THUGS, WHO WERE GIVEN A FULL AND COMPLETE PARDON BY THE PERSON WHO WIELDED THE NOW ILLEGALLY USED AUTOPEN, DELETED AND DESTROYED ALL EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM THEIR CORRUPT AND VICIOUS WITCH HUNT AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE, WHOSE LIVES WERE COMPLETELY SHATTERED AND DESTROYED BY THIS HISTORICALLY CRIMINAL EVENT.

There was more. And, quite frankly, Trump should have left all the election 2020 stuff out. He should have simply focused on the use of autopen by Biden, who really had no idea what was going on.

(Fox News) GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman and other Republicans are raising concerns about whether former President Joe Biden’s cognitive functions were good enough to authorize aides to use an autopen tool to sign important documents on his behalf.

On Friday evening, Axios released exclusive audio footage of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, which reveals clues about Biden’s cognitive functioning while president that the interview’s transcript did not elucidate. Biden can be heard slurring his words, muttering and taking long pauses. Meanwhile, he failed to recall the date of his son Beau’s death or the year Trump was first elected.

“It questions who was actually making the decisions,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said Friday night on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.”

“Clearly, from that interview, which was many, many months prior to the heavy use of the autopen, Joe Biden wasn’t capable of making decisions. He wasn’t coherent.”

Comer has now opened an investigation into who was authorizing and using the autopen. It’s not constitutional if it is not the POTUS.

“It does call into question these pardons – the use of autopen, and I think it may actually open the door – I’m not a lawyer – but I’d imagine Trump or his administration may try to make some arguments to federal courts about actions Joe Biden took because now we’ve got more information coming out, and they’re reasonably going to determine, ‘Yeah Joe Biden couldn’t remember anything. He didn’t even know when his son died, or when Trump got elected or when he left office,” political commentator Tim Pool added.

Could this lead to lots of people who were affected by not-Joe Biden signing legislation filing lawsuits? If Biden wasn’t competent enough to stand trial would that make him incompetent to sign legislation? Of course, I have to say that I’m rather sure that nothing will come of this, because the GOP is ultimately too squishy to play hardball. You know if the situation was reversed and it had been Trump with cognitive issues during his first term they would be suing left and right to get rid of anything he signed that was Bad for Democrats.

BTW, don’t you feel great that Biden was in charge of the nuclear arsenal and kept pushing the world into WWIII?

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Oh Noes: Spanish Winemaker Might Have To Move Due To Global Boiling

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 3:09 pm

This is all your fault

Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’

A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot.

Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as it tries to adapt to more extreme conditions.

“Irrigation is the future. We do not rely on the weather,” said its 83-year-old president, Miguel Torres. “I don’t know how long we can stay here making good wines, maybe 20 or 30 years, I don’t know. Climate change is changing all the circumstances.”

The family business has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but Torres said: “In 30 to 50 years’ time maybe we have to stop viniculture here.

Weird how it’s always in the future, eh? Also weird how “news” organizations have to go looking for this cult propaganda to write. It’s all very silly and cultish. If they cannot survive over a miniscule 1.6 F increase in temperatures since 1850, the end of the Little Ice Age, perhaps they aren’t running the business correctly.

“Tourists are very important for Catalonia and we are very close to Barcelona. This area could be for activity for tourists but viniculture, I don’t think is going to be here.”

The group, which invests 11% of its profits every year to combatting and adapting to the climate crisis, may instead have to move at least some of its vineyards “more to the west because it is cooler and we have to have water”.

Let me ask: how many of those tourists take fossil fueled trips to the region? How many fossil fueled vehicles and ships are used to make and transport the wine?

“We have no profit in exports to the UK, that is the reality. Hundreds of thousands of English people come to Spain on holiday and know the brand. We have to keep it alive in the UK.”

They ain’t coming on sailing ships or biking.

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