Amid the riots, Democratic leaders and politicians — including L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Massachusetts Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey — directed their ire at the lawful rather than at the lawless. California Gov. Gavin Newsom not only condemned the president but sided once again with foreign nationals.
I just watched a Miracle Gro TV commercial starring Peter Straus (of old TV fame) touting the viagra-like effects on plants of MG.
But the really interesting thing was the attractive but very grey haired lady (wife?) who gazed adoringly at super-gardener Pete as he preened for the camera.
Quite a switch from the typical trim geezer with the 20 year younger trophy wife.
Maybe the MG kept the marriage vibrant or is this a HORRIBLE new trend?
Pleeese, no...... I want commercials that are REAL!
Maybe a Henry Kissinger inching around on his walker as an adoring Carmen Elecktra snips the buds off their daffodils and has him lick MiracleGro from her fingers.....hmmmm
Ten Graphs Tell the Story - Roger Pielke Jr.May 30, 2025 There has been no tropical cyclone of hurricane strength anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere so far in 2025.
If we get to June 5th — which looks quite possible if not probable — then 2025 will have the latest date on record (since 1970) for the first NH hurricane, breaking the record of Ava, which reached hurricane strength in the Eastern Pacific on June 4th, 1973 (thanks to Ryan Maue for confirming — Give his excellent weather Substack a follow).
What does breaking a long-standing record of annual-to-date hurricane inactivity that has stood for 52 years tell us about the detection and attribution of changes in hurricane climatology?
Well . . . nothing.
Motivated by a recent commentary in Nature on Atlantic hurricanes that was all opinion and no data, in advance of the official 2025 North Atlantic hurricane season I thought I’d do a post on hurricanes that was all data and no opinion.
The 2025 hurricane season begins on Sunday, June 1. Enjoy!
Twleve-month running average counts of global hurricanes (top) and major hurricanes (bottom), 1980 to March 10, 2025. Source: Ryan Maue.
About a month ago, this very column documented several narratives repeatedly trotted out by climate cultists that have met their demise.
There were updates on
the phony narrative surrounding collapsing bee populations,
the phony narrative that volcanos have no effect on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere,
the phony narrative that populations around the world are clamoring for offshore wind power, and
the phony narrative that temperature stations built a hundred years ago produced a reliable temperature record even as modern cities grew up around them, no urban heat island effect to be seen.
One of the most consequential narratives revolves around the perpetual predictions of doom for the earth's polar ice caps, which should already have disappeared if Al Gore and the UN had any validity...
To cap that off, we have several other stories from the cult this week, including a
glowing review by a scientist about geoengineering projects to alter our atmosphere in the U.K.;
another week, another cargo ship full of EVs on fire;
the French government teams up with Brazil's communist president to call for more climate censorship;
Big Philanthropy lining up to replace government climate funding cuts; and
California's green utopia means $8 per gallon gas prices and regulating compost out of existence...
The city does not want protests to disturb residents and businesses.
While California officials are dealing with the ongoing rioting in Los Angeles, a suburban city announced that it will no longer house federal immigration detainees.
The decision was announced Sunday after days of rioting in nearby Los Angeles, where protesters attacked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents over deportation orders and demonstrations turned into violence.
And by violence, I would define that as throwing rocks at cars, torching cars, defacing government buildings, and attacking law enforcement. But here’s what’s interesting.
The mayor, Karen Bass, came down, in her public comments, on the side of the protesters who were protesting the idea of deportation at all.
And California Gov. Gavin Newsom then gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate...
Newsom called for the judge to halt the order within two hours of filing.
Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom was dealt a judicial defeat after he requested an emergency motion to halt President Donald Trump's order to use the military to oppose the Los Angeles riots.
Newsom named the president, the Defense secretary, and the Department of Defense as defendants in the request, and a judge allowed the defendants 24 hours to file a response to the request.
One of the most shocking and horrifying scandals of the Biden administration was its botched handling of unaccompanied minor migrants who flooded into the country amid former President Joe Biden's open border chaos.
Government whistleblowers sounded the alarm that the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, under the prior administration's leadership, failed to thoroughly vet sponsors, ushering children into unsafe homes.
The Clean Power Plan 2.0 was supported by a finding that carbon capture technology had been "adequately demonstrated."
The EPA sought and got comments from the DOE, which disputed that "demonstration."
Somehow those comments never made it into the administrative record.
Former President Joe Biden, as well as his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, pledged to “follow the science”when it came to climate policies.
Since President Donald Trump assumed office — a man accused of waging a “war on science” — revelations have shown that, when it came to previous administrations, sometimes science was either
"Give those who wish to destroy space to do that as well..."
"Fiery but mostly peaceful..."
"It is not looting, it is a form of reparations..."
"It isn't arson, it is the only way the oppressed can vent their frustrations..."
"It is only a couple apartment complexes..."
"He's just a Maryland dad..."
"It's not a riot, it's a peaceful protest..."
Some of the preceding statements are paraphrased, some are verbatim - but all are accurate to the situation when they were spoken by Democrats or their enablers. In honor of the LA ICE riots and the predictable responses from Democrats and media, I'm adding #14 to Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "If you can't deny, minimize. If you can't minimize, lie."
A Texas program that allowed illegal immigrants to pay the same rate as state residents when attending public colleges has been discontinued after the federal government intervened.
The law took effect in 2001, according to the Associated Press, at a time when various policy efforts were being directed at so-called “Dreamers,” who were children when their illegal immigrant parents entered the United States.
That precedent apparently is the incendiary model for the weird, but dangerous recent behavior of an increasingly unhinged California Governor Gavin Newsom.
He is currently supporting the often-violent protestors in Los Angeles and their resistance to federal officials’ enforcement of immigration laws.
Newsom claimed that Trump’s use of ICE to detain those here illegally in the U.S. was “reckless”, “chaotic” and “eroding trust”.
Does he think that his own rhetoric is creating calm and building trust by opposing the lawful enforcement of federal statutes?
Or is he following the baleful model of arch-Confederate rebel Jefferson Davis?
Does Newsom support the similar defiance of fellow resistor Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass?
She all but called for official city resistance to the enforcement of federal law, with an added threat, “We will not stand for this." What does Bass...mean by “we”? All of Los Angeles? The LAPD? Will Bass use the LA police to stand against federal officers who are implementing the law and have a constitutional right and indeed requirement to enforce federal laws within the states?
Does the governor grasp that his reckless states’ rights rhetoric empowers violent protestors who torch cars, pelt passersby, and assault officers?
Take, for example, fellow California Democrat, Congresswoman Norma Torres. She just messaged federal immigration officers with the obscene threat,“Get the f--- out of LA.” Does Torres believe that Los Angeles should become a modern-day South Carolina of 1861, boasting that it will defy the federal government?
Is Torres echoing Democrat and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries? He just boasted that he would dox endangered ICE agents, publishing their personal information and revealing their identities (“Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”). How exactly does Rep. Torres think she is going to get federal officers “the f--- out of LA”? Does Torres consider the now outnumbered and often threatened ICE officers to be the modern versions of surrounded federal troops at Fort Sumner?
Trump recently was merely following the precedent of the Obama administration that first issued such warnings of cut-offs to educational institutions that might not abide its own Title 9 federal policies and directives...
While automation and AI are conveniently blamed, hardcore reality comes into view when companies routinely cite "cost-cutting" and "corporate restructuring" – phrases that are often euphemisms for laying off American workers while hiring more foreign workers at lower wages.
At the same time, the government of India is openly celebrating the launch of its latest scheme to supercharge the export of Indian workers to the U.S. and other "high-income economies." Its goal is to facilitate the global mobility and employment of millions of migrant Indian workers directly at the expense of jobs for Americans.
At@SarahCensored’s request, I looked into the organizers behind yesterday's San Antonio, TX protest.
There, the protest was coordinated by the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the same group who also ran.
This was a coordinated nationwide effort, backed by Neville Singham—a billionaire Communist who bankrolls pro-CCP propaganda around the globe through his Justice and Education Fund.
This is not merely a local effort or a Newsom effort.
