We are only six months into the Trump Administration 2.0, and The Age of Trump is already in full swing. National Review hails his presidency as “truly historic,” outlining a laundry list of accomplishments he has already achieved. The left and right clash over what Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., really means. Is this a bold reset of a broken city or a dangerous power grab?

Also, California Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening a political counterstrike over Texas’ redistricting push, setting the stage for another coast-to-coast political showdown.

The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and S.T. Karnick will discuss all of this and more on Episode #506 of the In The Tank Podcast. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET and sound off in the live chat!

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
5:01 Sam Altman's AI Nightmare Coming True?
20:37 The Age of Trump
46:30 The Federalization of Washington, DC
58:28 Texas Redistricting and Gavin Newsom

A recent and highly disturbing New York Times article promoting the idea that doctors should expand the definition of death in order to harvest more organs is stirring up disgust and debate about utilitarianism and the role of doctors or so-called “bioethicists” in shaping medical policy. What is the current state of the organ donation industry and what kind of policy actually makes sense. How far is too far when it comes to medical care?

Along similar lines, in this week’s UNHINGED segment, we spotlight another disturbing case: ex-CNN reporter Jim Acosta conducted a ghoulish interview with an AI simulacrum of a teenager killed during the Parkland school shooting—all for the purpose of pushing gun control.

Finally, the Swedish Prime Minister is facing criticism for “consulting” AI language models for opinions on how to govern the country.

The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, S.T. Karnick, (possibly Justin Haskins), and AnneMarie Schieber, along with special guest Dr. Heidi Klessig, will dive into all of this and more on Episode #505 of the In The Tank Podcast. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET and sound off in the live chat!

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Over just the last seven months, Trump’s administration has landed one blow after another on the administrative state and “deep state.” Most recently, Trump’s EPA and Department of Energy teamed up to announce a pending repeal of the greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding, which has allowed the government to regulate nearly every aspect of our lives since its passage in 2009.

Democrats still try their best to “resist” the Trump administration—either petulantly, like Cory Booker’s grandstanding, or through activist judges. All of it began with the Russia Hoax, which we are still unraveling.

Meanwhile, on the culture war front: Leftists are losing it over an ad series put out by American Eagle featuring Sydney Sweeney and a pun involving “great jeans.” They claim this is literal fascism, and we wonder if it’s another sign that “woke” is falling out of favor in media.

The Heartland Institute’s Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and S.T. Karnick will discuss all of this and more on Episode #504 of the In The Tank Podcast. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET and sound off in the live chat!

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
6:43 Sydney Sweeney's Jeans
22:43 Endangerment Finding Trashed
39:40 Cory Booker Goes Bonkers
1:00:48 RussiaGate Update

Ever wonder what happens when political spin meets reality? It's like watching a magician whose tricks have been exposed – suddenly everyone can see the wires! 🎭 In this explosive episode, we're serving up a feast of political commentary that's more satisfying than whatever's NOT rotting in Kansas City's taxpayer-funded grocery experiment.

• 🎯 Obama's Russia-gate narrative gets the fact-check it deserved years ago
• 🎪 Hunter Biden's media circus tour – damage control or career suicide?
• 🤡 Cory "Spartacus" Booker's latest cringe compilation
• 🏪 Socialist grocery stores: when ideology meets produce sections

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
03:00 RIP Hulk Hogan
06:55 Spartacus' Cringe Ad
15:38 Hunter Biden Media Tour
35:06 Socialist takeover of Dems
50:30 Obama in Big Trouble

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A “1,000-year flood.” The hottest temperatures ever recorded! Wildfires “everywhere.” The legacy media and social platforms can’t stop peddling sensational “climate p0rn” — fear-based stories designed to shock, not inform. But behind the dramatic headlines lies a far different reality. This week, we pull back the curtain and show you the hard facts the alarmists leave out.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Chris Martz of CFACT will also dive into Crazy Climate News of the Week:
🌍 New evidence revealing just how high atmospheric CO₂ was during the age of dinosaurs
🌲 Are claims that climate change is making trees more flammable actually true?
⚠️ How the Climate Alarmist Industrial Complex works to crush science and common sense in public policy

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, and X as we tackle these stories, bust myths, and answer your questions in the live chat.

The two most important members of the Trump administration reversing years of climate alarmism and junk science in public policy have been crushing it in media appearances. Alarmist outlets like CNN are on the defensive, left with little to say after EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright finish with them. Never before have both public policy and public messaging been this coordinated and effective at pushing back against the alarmist narrative. We’ll break it all down.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week: Greta Thunberg’s Sweden is backing away from its climate-fighting commitments (with other European countries soon to follow), global warming supposedly makes kids dumber, the carbon footprint of heart surgery is now a “big concern,” and the National Academy of Sciences is throwing a Hail Mary to save the Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases.

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CThis is a historic week—historically catastrophic for climate alarmists who have bullied their way through every institution in the United States and around the world. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency formally announced, at long last, that it will repeal the so-called “Endangerment Finding” for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The EPA has determined that GHGs are not pollution and that their emissions from human activity do not pose a threat to human health. On the same day, Trump’s Department of Energy released a “critical review of impacts of GHG emissions on the U.S. climate.” This marks the first time ever that a climate report from the federal government can withstand scientific scrutiny, as it is based on actual science and data rather than politics or any particular agenda.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely will be joined by Dr. Judith Curry, president of Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN). Dr. Curry is one of America's most prominent climate scientists and a co-author of the Department of Energy’s critical review.

We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week from around the world. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, and X, and we will answer your questions in the live chat.

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Here is a link to the report by Judith Curry, et. al:
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
4:26 Climate Planet Returns
10:29 Trump Blows Wind Away
19:59 Ticks Make You Not Eat Meat
27:22 Judith Curry & the New 'Official' Climate Report
1:01:50 Death Blow to Climate Alarmism
1:10:13 Audience Q&A

The International Court of Justice at the United Nations this week ruled that failing to take poverty-creating “appropriate action to protect the climate system” — meaning ending the use of life-giving fossil fuels — could open nations to being hauled before a global tribunal to answer for their crimes. As a trio of climate attorneys wrote in The New York Times, “continuing fossil fuel production and use, let alone expanding it, violates the law.” We’ll see about that.

But this development is just the latest in a long line of legal actions trying to enforce climate communism, even as more and more countries reject it.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and our special guest Daren Bakst — director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute — will also cover some of the breaking and Crazy Climate News of the Week from around the world.

Thanks to Trump, those gasoline cans everyone hates will no longer be mandatory. We now have only three years left to save the planet, apparently. And the legacy media has finally caught up with this program and is reporting that the unscientific “Endangerment Finding” for carbon dioxide is about to be repealed.

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, and X — and we’ll answer the questions you leave for our panel in the chat.

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Losing the 2000 election was the best thing to happen to Al Gore. He has since become insanely wealthy and admired around the world by peddling climate alarmism. Hollywood gave him an Oscar for his fictitious documentary An Inconvenient Truth, and (like Michael Mann) he claims to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his environmental activism.

Yet despite trillions of dollars in propaganda, there’s a sign that Gore’s message of doom is in big trouble: He gave a TED Talk attacking “climate realists” by name. That’s BIG, folks—it shows that the truth, the data, and reality are winning.

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and our special guest Lois Perry, director of Heartland UK/Europe, will cover some of the breaking and crazy climate news of the week from around the world.

Antarctica is gaining ice, defying the predictions of climate doomers. A BBC presenter is worried that climate scientists might be a monolithic ideological bloc. An environmental protection charity in Scotland is finally pushing back against wind power because of how it kills threatened bird species. And a “controlled burn” by our government betters turned into a raging inferno at the Grand Canyon that destroyed a historic building.

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, and X—we’ll answer the questions you leave for our panel in the chat!

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
08:47 Antarctica Gaining Ice
15:27 Science Needs Non Leftists
24:28 Saving Birds in Scotland
31:00 Controlled Burn Damages Grand Canyon
38:29 Al Gore Attacks Climate Realists
1:08:29 Q&A

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Heartland Institute President James Taylor electrifies CPAC Poland with a rallying cry for faith, family, and freedom. Speaking in Jasionka on May 27, 2025, Taylor salutes Poland’s centuries-long defiance of tyranny and urges conservatives across Europe to “stand tall for freedom” in the face of mounting EU pressure to adopt Net-Zero policies. He reminds the crowd that for most of recorded history the climate has been warmer than today, yet humanity thrived, and he warns that “totalitarian socialists” in Brussels threaten both prosperity and national sovereignty. Taylor lays out a blueprint for economic revival built on abundant coal, natural gas, and nuclear power, echoing the energy boom unleashed in the United States under President Trump. Finally, he calls on every Pole—and every European—to raise their flag high and join a growing international movement for liberty and independent nation-states.

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In this eye-opening clip from The Climate Realism Show by The Heartland Institute, we dive into the alarming rise of climate anxiety among young people, fueled by media hype and unscientific narratives. A recent study from Nature Medicine reveals how climate-related fears are driving depression, hopelessness, and even suicidal thoughts in some, particularly among the younger generation.

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In this gripping segment from The Heartland Institute's In the Tank Podcast, we dive into the shocking firebombing of PA Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence by a radical leftist, Cody Balmer. We explore the attacker’s anarchist motives, the media’s biased spin, and the broader trend of leftist violence in American politics—from the Weathermen to the BLM/Antifa riots.

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In this riveting excerpt from The Heartland Institute's In the Tank podcast, we explain how the Holy Grail of the environmentalists — the EPA’s Endangerment Finding — is in serious peril. We explore the rule's flawed origins under Obama's EPA, its shaky legal foundation, and how the Trump administration might reverse it using Supreme Court rulings like West Virginia v. EPA. Are we on the verge or returning to a reality-based world? Will science, and not ideology, be the touchstone of government policy again?

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Climate alarmists frequently claim that ocean temperatures are soaring at dangerous rates due to human-caused global warming. In recent reports, they cite record temperatures from 2023 as proof that humanity is dangerously altering our planet's oceans.

But how accurate is this alarming narrative? In this quick climate fact check, Linnea Lueken explains the gradual nature of ocean warming, noting a modest increase of only 0.7 degrees Celsius since 1880. She discusses natural phenomena like the end of the Little Ice Age and recurring El Niño events as significant drivers of ocean temperature variations, raising the important question: Are human CO2 emissions really responsible for ocean warming, or are natural forces playing a much larger role?

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