Flat Earthers denying a warming planet

In 1991 after the Soviet Union fell Republicans began their war on the environment substituting a new Green Scare for the old Red Scare. This blog was established in 2010 as a vehicle for rewilding the American West. 

In 2023 the CO2 Coalition was booted from the National Science Teaching Association’s convention in Atlanta.

At a conference hosted by the prominent science-denying think tank the Heartland Institute last week, a crowd of mostly middle-aged men in suits claimed the world is finally waking up to the idea that the climate crisis does not exist. “I feel wonderful,” James Taylor, president of the Heartland Institute, said in an interview. “The truth is winning out.” As people entered the event, held in the basement of a hotel near the White House, they were greeted by wares promoting climate denial. “Good news,” read a banner outside the main ballroom, erected by the CO2 Coalition, a climate-denying nonprofit that co-sponsored the conference. “There is no climate crisis.” [Inside That Weird Anti-Science Conference Where Trump’s EPA Chief Delivered the Keynote]

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Happy Earth Day!!! 🌍🌱🌲

— Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) (@repstansbury.bsky.social) April 22, 2026 at 7:09 AM

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

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— Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) April 22, 2026 at 7:05 AM

Gambling still a leading source of anguish in chemical toilet: part n

According to WalletHub, gambling is a leading source of anguish and despair in South Dakota with a high suicide rate and few avenues for treatment. The state is tied for first in the number of casinos and machines and second in overall addiction to the poison. The reasoning is hardly mysterious. It’s all about the money video lootery, a too big to jail banking racket, a medical industry triopoly, prostitution, the Sturgis Rally, policing for profit, sex trafficking, hunting and subsidized grazing bring to the SDGOP destroying lives, depleting watersheds and smothering habitat under single-party rule. 

Source: WalletHub

South Dakota ranks as the second-most gambling-addicted state, with some of the most casinos and gaming machines per capita. It also has a high prevalence of gambling through lottery tickets, with the 11th highest lottery sales per resident age 18+. South Dakota has legalized betting on fantasy sports, regular sports and horse races, and it allows gambling machines to be put in stores. With so many different legal ways to gamble, it makes sense that many residents have a problem. The grip that gambling has on the Mount Rushmore State is evident in the fact that it has a high number of Gamblers Anonymous meetings per capita. 

Local author opening Epstein files

Here is more from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.

I’m working on a big piece about the Albuquerque contractor that built the main house at Zorro Ranch. You know, the house that seems to have been designed to intentionally mimic George Washington’s Mt. Vernon plantation house, down to and including a parallel to Mt. Vernon’s slave quarters, with the Epstein outbuilding having a prison-like sally port and being the only structure on the 7,600-acre property with bars on the windows. That one. Yeah. We know now who the general contractor was. And they continued to be the GC after Epstein’s conviction. Buried in the DOJ files are communications between Epstein’s people and this contractor, in which the contractor reassures Epstein that minimal documentation is being recorded for new upgrades to the property, including sub-basement floors. Unsurprisingly, this same contractor held multiple contracts with Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and Kirtland Air Force Base. They were also sending heavy packages to Les Wexner’s company in Ohio, via private plane, on behalf, it seems, of Zorro Ranch. Including diskettes. One 12-pound package was labeled, simply, PRINCESS.

New poll means doom for Trump's Earth haters

Trump Approval Polling: Disapprove: 63% Approve: 37% NBC / April 13, 2026 (Worst Trump Approval from NBC polling)

— Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM

Trump Net-Approval On: 🔴 Border Security: -12% 🔴 Iran: -34% 🔴 Cost of living: -36% NBC / April 13, 2026

— Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM

Among Dems - "Do you consider yourself more a member of..." 🟢 A Progressive Movement: 55% 🔵 The Democratic Party: 45% NBC / April 13, 2026

— Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM

House Model Update: 🔵 DEM: 230 (+15) 🔴 GOP: 205 (-15) - April 19, 2026 - (Seat change with 2024 Election) Full article available for Substack subscribers here - open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...

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— Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) April 19, 2026 at 9:23 AM