This week, President Trump agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the Biden administration targeting him and his family, and in exchange the DOJ will set up a fund that will be available to cover the legal fees and losses of other Americans who were politically targeted by government. Democrats hate it, some Republicans hate it. Is this corruption, or compensating people the Biden admin targeted?

Plus, Gen Z is increasingly despondent that they will never own their own homes, and are extremely negative about the economy. How right are they, and where are they wrong? And what can the Trump admin do about it, if anything?

And on UNHINGED: credentialed members of the NYC press corps are actively campaigning in support of the murderer of Brian Thompson. So much for impartiality.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, S.T. Karnick, (AND DONALD KENDAL?) will talk about all of this and more on Episode #537 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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Trump went to Beijing this week to negotiate the path forward with China, as President Trump's administration has made multiple international moves to cut the CCP off from total control of global resources. China says they want "peaceful coexistence," even as they threaten other US allies in Asia. The panel discusses what we would like to see come out of these talks, and what we expect will happen.

Meanwhile, socialist mayor of New York City Mamdani claims that he has achieved a balanced budget for the city-- but it comes at the cost of billions from Albany and several short-term band-aids that are unlikely to fix the city's ballooning costs.

On UNHINGED - AOC says that it's not possible to become a billionaire ethically, demonstrating once again her socialist (mis)understanding of economics.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and S.T. Karnick will talk about all of this and more on Episode #536 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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AI is everywhere; from the silly videos you see on Facebook to the articles you read online, even within hospital systems and publishers. Where is the line? Where is AI useful, and where is it more trouble than it's worth?

The Heartland Institute team will play "AI or not?", review the absolute mountains of AI-generated content that Amazon is allowing on their publishing platform, and we'll discuss what role government plays in all of this, where intervention might be necessary, and where it will only make things worse.

On UNHINGED: Scammers are now using AI face and voice filters to fool people, and scambaiters have tests you should be aware of.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Donald Kendal, and S.T. Karnick will talk about all of this and more on Episode #535 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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Federal agents raided more than 20 businesses this week in Minneapolis as the fight against fraud continues, and Governor Tim Walz is trying to take credit, but the public isn't falling for it. Another scam was busted at the Supreme Court, which issued a decision on race-based gerrymandering in Louisiana, stating definitively that the practice is unconstitutional.

An advisor to Anthony Fauci has been charged with conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting, at the same time, former FBI director James Comey has been indicted over his threatening social media posts against President Trump. After yet another assassination attempt on the President, these issues are taken very seriously by the DOJ.

On UNHINGED: Ann Arbor Michigan is removing neighborhood watch signs to make neighborhoods feel more “inclusive.” Not a joke.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and S.T. Karnick will talk about all of this and more on Episode #534 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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By just a hair, Virginia voters approved a gerrymandering plan that would eliminate five Republican districts, all in the name of "restoring fairness" to Virginia's elections-- which we recognize is more like restoring Democrat domination. Luckily a court has already ruled the referendum is unconstitutional, so the fight is not over yet.

But the biggest news this week has got to be that a grand jury in Alabama has charged the Southern Poverty Lawa Center with 11 counts of wire fraud and other financial crimes, and the indictment revealed that SPLC has PAID members of white supremacist and other extremist groups as "insiders" and probably also instigators, most notably in the case of the infamous Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally.

And on UNHINGED; a conservative journalist was attacked by a whole family of anti-ICE protesters, and now they are doing a pity-party media circuit instead of apologizing.

The Heartland Institute's Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, and S.T. Karnick will talk about all of this and more on Episode #533 of the In The Tank Podcast.

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The world seems to not lack for climate alarmist Bond villains with wild schemes to “save the earth” by way of geo-engineering that ranges from the silly to the dangerous. A company is now poised to “cool the earth” by spraying the skies of the world with “sunlight-reflecting aerosols.” What could possibly go wrong?

On Episode #203 of The Climate Realism Show, we will also cover other Crazy Climate News of the Week, including how crappy it is to be a “climate migrant,” a push by alarmists to regain their policy momentum by declaring climate change a global public health crisis, and how Heartland’s push to spread climate realism in Europe has the alarmists in a bit of a panic.

Join Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest James Taylor LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.

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Stories covered on the show today:

1. CRAPPY CLIMATE MIGRANTS
BANGOR DAILY NEWS: This couple moved to Bangor to flee climate change in Texas
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/12/business/business-housing/moved-to-maine-climate-change-texas-joam40zk0w/

2. ANOTHER BOND VILLAIN PLAN
POLITICO: A closely guarded plan to cool Earth is revealed
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/a-closely-guarded-plan-to-cool-earth-is-revealed-00920438

3. ALARMISTS BE ILLIN’
That title is for all the Run-DMC fans out there.

THE GUARDIAN: Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/16/who-should-declare-climate-crisis-global-public-health-emergency-experts-say

4. HEARTLAND HAS THEM PANICKED
DESMOG: Reform ‘Advisor’ Launches Climate Denial Group in Poland https://www.desmog.com/2026/05/20/reform-advisor-launches-climate-denial-group-in-poland/

Voters in this month’s elections in Great Britain delivered a shocking win for Reform UK, and was a clear rebuke of the “green” Net Zero agenda of the political elites. Politicians and parties that put the environmental movement over the real-world concerns of Britons, especially energy costs, have no future. On Episode #202 of The Climate Realism Show, we will talk with special guest Lois Perry, director of Heartland UK/Europe, to break down what happened, why it happened, and what it means for the climate agenda on both sides of the Atlantic.

We will also cover the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including how masculinity is supposedly bad for the Earth, Danish nursing home residents are restricted to just 2.8 ounces of meat per day as punishment being “the biggest climate sinners throughout their lives,” and an big Hollywood producer says oil companies (or climate change) were responsible for the devastating Palisades fire in LA. If you believe it was an arsonist, you’ve been “misinformed.”

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
4:09 Manly Men Harm the Climate
13:08 Elderly Abuse in Denmark
22:40 Hollywood is Hopeless
31:47 British Voters Dump the Green Agenda
52:43 Advisor Metals Promo
54:47 Q&A
1:18:59 Hearland Central Europe is LIVE!

Upon taking office in 2025, Donald Trump immediately got busy reversing and defunding the previous administration’s radical climate and energy agenda. That sent a message to the world: You may still cast America as the “villain” in your narrative of panic, but America will no longer play the fool.

Net Zero may still be official policy in several European countries, but it’s clear they are decreasingly serious about implementing it. Governments are pushing once-critical deadlines to achieve Net Zero farther out into the future, or signaling the project will be wholly abandoned. Even Germany, once the poster child of Net Zero zealousness, is bringing fossil fuels back. Many private-sector titans joined the Net Zero craze with their own virtue-signaling promises. Those, too, are proving to be as reliable as a dieter who will always start tomorrow.

On Episode #201 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, and Jim Lakely will talk about all this, and more, including the Crazy Climate News of the Week. You can add getting old to the list of things that cause climate change. Did Al Gore really just say we now need to worry about a coming ice age? Bugs are off the menu again. And the newest threat to the climate is something we all do: get older.

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Links to what we covered on the show:

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought

CLIMATE CHANGE DISPATCH: Bug Out: Major Swiss Grocer Ditches Insect-Based Foods After Years Of Poor Sales
https://climatechangedispatch.com/swiss-grocer-abandons-insect-foods-poor-sales/

Watts Up With That: Apparently, Getting Old Causes Climate Change
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/04/apparently-getting-old-causes-climate-change/

CLIMATE CHANGE WEEKLY: Countries and Industries Are Abandoning or Reducing Net-Zero Commitments
https://heartland.org/opinion/climate-change-weekly-578-countries-and-industries-are-abandoning-or-reducing-net-zero-commitments/

Spring is here, which means it is Hurricane Season, Tornado Season, Allergy Season, all normal and natural aspects of life on Earth. Climate alarmists, however, will be telling you this year promises to be the worst season ever, and it’s your fault. We will prepare you to counter this propaganda with the truth.

We will also cover some of the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin slaying members of Congress (rhetorically) on Capitol Hill, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is finally abandoning its always-absurd worst-case-scenario for global warming, a hare-brained scheme to dam the Bering Strait to save the planet, New York’s climate mandates are dramatically spiking energy prices for middle class residents of a New York City co-op, and do we kind of agree with what King Charles said about environmentalism in front of Congress?

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, and Jim Lakely will talk about all this, and more, on Episode #200 of The Climate Realism Show. Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on YouTube, Rumble, X, and Facebook. Participate in the show by leaving your comments and questions in the chat.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
3:34 IPCC Unrings Loudest Alarm
13:32 Lee Zeldin vs. Congress
30:27 Dam the Bering Strait?
43:54 NY's Crushing Energy Policies
55:53 Climate King Charles
1:05:48 It's Weather Season!
1:20:01 Q&A

Earth Day 2026 came and went without the energy and attention of past years. There was less climate scolding and fewer denunciations of the “high-carbon lifestyle” than in years past. As Heartland’s Anthony Watts said, “Earth Day today feels increasingly detached from the kind of environmental problems that gave rise to it in 1970.” Is this the year climate realists — who know Earth Day is about ecology and genuine environmental protection — begin to take the holiday back from the radicals?

The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and special guest Marc Morano of CFACT will talk it over, as well as cover the Crazy Climate News of the Week. In 2023, two South Florida counties spent $100 million in taxpayer dollars on electric buses that were eventually going to replace the entire fleet. None of them have been in service for more than a year and … we told you so. Climate alarmists are so desperate to get their message out that they are resorting to OnlyFans. And do you remember the D.C. sewage spill in the Potomac? The New York Times remembers, but fails to mention that the main cause of one of the worst river pollution events in American history was environmental radicalism as government policy.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
3:57 Electric Avenue Is Closed
17:40 Stripping to Save the Planet
24:22 Green Is the New Brown
34:34 Climate Hugs for Everyone
42:29 Taking Earth Day Back
51:15 Q&A

At the World Prosperity Forum in Zurich—held alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos—climate scientist Anika Sweetland delivers a provocative and deeply personal address that challenges the foundations of modern climate orthodoxy.

Drawing on her own education and professional experience, Sweetland recounts how climate science training fostered fear, despair, and unquestioned consensus rather than open scientific inquiry. She argues that generations of students have been indoctrinated with alarmist narratives that distort climate history, suppress debate, and justify sweeping political and economic control.

In this speech, Sweetland examines:

- The psychological impact of climate alarmism on children and students

- Media-driven climate narratives and shifting doomsday predictions

- Historical climate cycles, ocean dynamics, and orbital forces

- The role of international institutions and the concentration of power

- Why carbon dioxide is portrayed as a villain—and why she disputes that claim

- How climate policy, finance, and governance have become tightly intertwined

Presented as a counterpoint to the centralized, collectivist worldview promoted at Davos, this talk embodies the mission of the World Prosperity Forum: to challenge prevailing narratives, defend sovereignty, and restore open debate on climate, energy, and economic policy.

Whether you agree or disagree, this is a speech designed to provoke critical thinking and question what is taught, what is funded, and who benefits from the dominant climate narrative.

As the World Economic Forum convened in Davos, an alternative vision was taking shape just miles away in Zurich.

On Day 5 of the World Prosperity Forum, James Taylor, President of The Heartland Institute, delivered a data-driven challenge to the centralized, alarmist energy narratives dominating global policy discussions. His message was clear: prosperity depends on energy that is affordable, reliable, and genuinely clean—not politically favored, top-down mandates.

Drawing from Heartland’s landmark policy brief, Affordable, Reliable, and Clean: An Objective Scorecard to Assess Competing Energy Sources, Taylor presents a full-system comparison of coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and biomass—factoring in real-world costs policymakers often ignore.

In this keynote, Taylor explains:
-- Why electricity demand is surging—and why blackouts are becoming inevitable under current policies

-- How wind and solar’s hidden costs drive higher prices, grid instability, and land destruction

-- Why natural gas remains the gold standard for affordability, reliability, and environmental stewardship

-- How rare earth mineral dependence and foreign supply chains create national security risks

-- Why voters are already punishing leaders who ignore energy affordability

This is not a theoretical debate. Rising electricity prices, grid fragility, and declining living standards are reshaping politics across the U.S. and Europe right now.

If you care about economic growth, energy realism, and policies grounded in evidence—not ideology—this presentation lays out the scorecard Davos won’t show you.

Watch. Share. Decide for yourself.

Ofcom called her "dangerous" because she was laughing at the net zero agenda—and the British people started laughing with her.

Lois Perry, Director of The Heartland Institute UK/EU and founder of CAR26, speaks at the World Prosperity Forum in Zurich to discuss the seismic political shift happening in Britain.

From being chased out of COP26 by security guards (and doing a live TV interview from a disabled toilet) to helping reshape the UK's political landscape, Lois shares how a "loud blonde Essex girl" took on the climate establishment—and won.

In this conversation:

🇬🇧 Why British citizens have "had enough" of net zero policies

🗳️ The rise of Reform UK and what it means for freedom

🤝 How Heartland UK is building bridges across party lines

📺 The media's failed attempts to silence climate skeptics

💡 How "follow the science" fatigue from COVID opened the door to questioning net zero

The World Prosperity Forum brings together leaders committed to freedom and prosperity as an alternative voice to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

For years, the World Economic Forum and its allies pushed the “Great Reset” as an inevitable future: lockdowns, net-zero mandates, ESG controls, digital currencies, food restrictions, and top-down global governance.

That future is now unraveling.

Speaking on Day 1 of The Heartland Institute’s World Prosperity Forum in Zurich, held alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Marc Morano delivers a sweeping, data-driven takedown of the Great Reset agenda, explaining why its momentum has collapsed in real time.

Morano walks through how COVID lockdowns became the blueprint for climate authoritarianism, why ESG and net-zero banking are imploding, how energy reality and AI power demands shattered green orthodoxy, and why even longtime climate activists, corporations, and governments are quietly backing away.

This presentation covers:
• The rise and fall of the Great Reset narrative
• How COVID destroyed elite “appeal to authority”
• Why ESG, net-zero, and climate finance are collapsing
• The energy reality confronting AI, tech giants, and governments
• Why public resistance is stronger than ever
• The ongoing danger of climate being merged into public health

The World Prosperity Forum exists to challenge the centralized, collectivist, and alarmist worldview promoted in Davos. This talk captures that counter-argument in full.

In this World Prosperity Forum speech, Linnea Lueken, Research Fellow at The Heartland Institute, examines the growing gap between mainstream climate alarmism and what measured climate data actually shows.

The World Prosperity Forum exists to provide counter-arguments to the World Economic Forum’s overly centralized, socialist collectivist, and alarmist worldview, bringing data, realism, and open debate back into global policy discussions.

Lueken contrasts headlines warning of “unprecedented,” “rapid,” and “dangerous” warming with observed trends that, in her view, do not support an emergency narrative. She explains the difference between climate model projections and real-world measurements, and why rapid single-event attribution claims are often treated as settled science before the evidence warrants it.

Topics covered include:

- Observed warming rates compared to hotter climate model projections, and why the “hot model” problem matters

- U.S. temperature trends and how measurement location and station siting can skew record claims

- Historical climate context using proxy records

- Drought and precipitation trends, including what the IPCC reports about Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes

- Wildfires, including global burned-area trends and European examples using European Space Agency and Copernicus satellite data

- Hurricanes, including frequency and intensity metrics such as accumulated cyclone energy

- “Billion-dollar disasters” and why rising costs do not necessarily indicate worsening weather trends

- A critique of rapid event-attribution studies and how outlets like CNN, BBC, and the Associated Press often frame them

- The human impact of alarmism, including fear, climate anxiety, and the case for energy resilience

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