Trump Organization ending environment protection because eugenics

In a new @newsweek.com, leaders from the @sierraclub.org, @nrdc.org, Environmental Defense Fund, and @earthjustice.org warn that the Trump administration’s latest Environmental Protection Agency pollution policy puts corporate profits ahead of public health.

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— Sierra Club (@sierraclub.org) February 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM

In past years the Trump Organization used the federal courts to punish tribal nations who built casinos Trump said were competition but in 2020 the White House deployed COVID-19 as a biological weapon in Indian Country. 

Star Trek canon describes how the Eugenics Wars cause WW3 so an episode of ST: Deep Space 9 written in 1994 and broadcast in 1995 but set in 2024 is unfolding today in Minneapolis, Chicago and in other blue cities. That war against people of color was resurrected in ST: Picard. 

Michigan ophthalmologist, John Tanton held white nationalist beliefs and wrote that to maintain American culture, “a European-American majority” is required. Today the extreme white wing of the Republican Party is driving the abolition of women’s rights because they’re wedded to the Great Replacement Hypothesis.

Emails recently unearthed from the 

Jeffrey Epstein files have sparked intense controversy by linking his views on climate change to a radical solution for overpopulation. 

Epstein’s Views: Climate Change as "Culling"

New documents reveal that Epstein viewed environmental destruction as a potential remedy for a growing global population. 

• "Earth's Forest Fire": In a 2016 email exchange with AI researcher Joscha Bach, Epstein referred to climate change as the "earth's forest fire" and suggested it could be a "good thing for the species" by eliminating the "elderly and infirm".
• Eugenics Connections: These emails have been characterized by critics and scientists, such as climatologist Michael Mann, as part of a disturbing "eugenicist" ideology where mass death under climate stress is seen as "existential optimization". 

Trump Administration Actions (Feb 2026)

Simultaneously, President Donald Trump has significantly shifted U.S. climate policy, which critics connect to the broader "Epstein class" of indifferent elites. 

• Revoking the Endangerment Finding: In February 2026, the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revoked the 2009 "endangerment finding," which legally established greenhouse gases as a threat to public health.
• "Scam" Rhetoric: Trump has labeled climate change a "giant scam" and a "con job," arguing that federal regulations based on it were "overreach" without a basis in fact.
• Focus on Fossil Fuels: The administration maintains that fossil fuels have lifted billions out of poverty and that environmental regulations are "hidden taxes" on American families. 

The Intersection of Overpopulation and Climate 

The debate over overpopulation is increasingly viewed as a "third rail" issue: 

• Wealth as an Insulator: Critics argue that ultra-wealthy individuals may welcome climate impacts because their wealth insulates them from the consequences while the poor suffer most.
• Shifting Blame: Some experts suggest that blaming "overpopulation" for climate change is a tactic to shift responsibility away from high-consumption nations and fossil fuel companies toward the global poor.

Gaia continues her rage against Republican counties

This isn't national forest being blocked from fuel treatments by radical environmentalists; it's Republican ranch land decimated by a century of poor management practices and if livestock grazing is the key to preventing wildfires why is ranch country still suffering from near daily high even extreme grassland fire danger indices? Because Republicans are evil. Just a hundred and fifty years ago bison, wapiti, bighorn sheep, pronghorns and deer cleared the grasses driving western South Dakota's fire years. If grasses remained in the fall tribes burned the rest.

Unseasonably warm weather will combine with very dry air (RH as
low as 15 percent) and gusty westerly winds (gusts 25 to 35 mph)
to create critial fire weather conditions for Sunday afternoon for
portions of northeastern Wyoming through south-central South
Dakota.

NM Earth haters fail to field a US Senate candidate

My home state of South Dakota will suffer brain drain for years to come and New Mexico has its own set of challenges but living where the Republican Party is virtually meaningless and Democrats rule is well worth it.

For the first time since New Mexico became a state in 1912, Republicans won’t field a candidate in a US Senate race.

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— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) February 13, 2026

'When Power Silences Truth:' Jancita Eagle Deer's voice still matters

Editor's note: confusion still exists whether it's spelled "Jancita" or "Jacinta."

When Power Silences Truth

Jacinta Eagle Deer’s story is often misunderstood. It is not simply about personal harm it is about how authority, systems, and silence can outweigh truth.

In the late 1960s, Jacinta was only fifteen years old when she reported being assaulted by Bill Janklow, a lawyer working on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. She spoke to adults she trusted. Medical staff documented her condition. Her account was recorded. Yet no charges were filed.

What failed her was not a lack of evidence but a maze of jurisdictional rules that left Native women without protection, especially when the accused was a non-Native official. Her voice was caught between federal authority and tribal limitations, where responsibility was passed and accountability disappeared.

Years later, Jacinta chose to act where the courts had not.

With the support of the American Indian Movement and tribal legal advocates, she brought her case before the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court. In 1974, the court took a rare and powerful step, removing Janklow’s right to practice law on the reservation. It was a defining moment an assertion of tribal authority in defense of a Native woman.

That victory was brief.

In April of 1975, Jacinta was found dead along a rural Nebraska road under circumstances that raised unanswered questions. Her death was never resolved.

Her stepmother, Delphine Eagle Deer, refused to be silent. She spoke openly, demanded accountability, and continued to press for recognition of what had happened. One year later, Delphine was also found dead, her case likewise left without answers.

While two Lakota women were lost, the man Jacinta accused continued his rise eventually becoming Attorney General, Governor of South Dakota, and a member of Congress.

Today, his legacy is marked in public memorials. Jacinta and Delphine’s names are not.

Yet their story endures not through statues, but through memory, advocacy, and the refusal to forget. Their lives expose a system where credibility often follows power, and where Native women have too often been denied justice.

Jacinta Eagle Deer and Delphine Eagle Deer are remembered not only for what happened to them but for the courage it took to speak when silence was safer.

Their voices remain part of a larger call: to listen, to protect, and to believe Native women.

Obesity takes a front row seat in Brookings

Hot off my Brookings bingo card, Earth hating Representatives Mellissa Heermann, Roger Degroot and Senator Tim Reed, all representing District 7 in the South Dakota's deranged and demented legislature addressed a gaggle of white people some of whom can't even see their own genitals without a mirror.

Shad Olson noticed it, too.

Fred Deutsch and Katie Hoffmann are a grotesque love coupling. These are losers. Stupid people. Ugly people. Katie Hoffmann is an inarticulate untalented advocate for the continuation of state prohibition loopholes to allow baby death. Because in her family, with a man who is pint sized and acquiescent, she wears the oversized pants. And she invokes the one sister who is the only member of her family who will still speak with her after she falsely accused her stepbrother of rape, as a confirmation for her stupidity. Fred Deutsch is a neoconservative pussy who passed a bill specifically criminalizing anything that can be characterized as antismetic [sic] speech. Both idiots. Easily dismissed. I'm sure Lee Schoenbeck and Pat Powers both reached climax. Possibly in the same room.

Brookings County screwing taxpayers, shitting in their own water supplies

There was a time when settlers could make a living clamming on the James, Big Sioux and Vermillion rivers but the industry dwindled in the 1940s due to over-harvesting, watershed depletion and environmental degradation. Since then the number of acres in agroecosystems tripled so poor ag practices like tiling have made soils unable to absorb rainfall creating toxic runoff and flooding. 

In 2024 nine of eleven sites below Watertown tested positive for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances including a hot spot in Falls Park in Sioux Falls but researchers found thirty two samples with nine types of PFAS compounds all the way to the Iowa border. None of that is lost on the Brookings County Commission so that same year Brookings provided rain catchment barrels with hopes to reduce stormwater runoff. Tiling by farmers increases water flow into the Big Sioux and more hard surfaces, such as roads, parking lots and driveways are increasing stream bed scouring in the river. 

Now, after spending some $70 million granted by federal and state governments on a water treatment plant Brookings officials have admitted the system fails at removing all the PFAS created mostly by 3M. Contaminated stormwater often overwhelms the collection pond on Solventum (3M) property then spreads the contaminants into aquifer recharges, to soils under George S. Mickelson Middle School and to the already polluted Big Sioux River because the State Senators and Representatives of Brookings County and the Mayor of Brookings are all Earth hating Republicans.

Media should investigate the collusion between the state and polluters instead of pandering to the South Dakota Republican Party as it destroys watersheds by deconstructing the Waters of the United States rule protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act because South Dakota will flout WOTUS until the cows come home.

Yes, the grassland fire danger index will reach the extreme, very high, high and moderate categories again Monday for parts of the horrible red state even in Brookings County.

Learn more at the Brookings Register.

SD Earth haters hate education, love wage slavery

Just caught this on Faceberg in the early hours of this morning, sleepily scrolling and it woke me up with a start. It's a scary tale to begin my day posted at the Pennington County Earth haters' page.

Did you know in South Dakota that public school employers are allowed to use your tax dollars to support labor organizations? 

On Monday, a bill to end this, HB 1217, is being heard in the House Education Committee. This bill, sponsored by John Hughes for District 13 House would: 

~ Stop payroll deduction of union dues from employee paychecks  

~ Prohibit using compensation increases intended to route money to union dues 

~ Restrict sharing employee personal information without written authorization 

 ~ Prohibit coercing employees to meet or interact with a labor organization 

 ~ Prohibit distributing union communications through school channels 

~ Prohibit endorsing/favoring any labor organization 

 ~ Prevent spending public school funds on behalf of a labor organization 

 ~Limit paid leave for labor organization activities (with exceptions in the bill) 

Taxpayer money in our public schools should be centered on instruction, student outcomes and neutrality. 

This graphic was posted on the South Dakota Democratic Party Facebook page in opposition to this bill. Does the symbolism (clenched fist against a red background) remind you of anything? 

 Please contact your Representatives and Senators and ask them to vote YES ✅ on HB 1217! --Beth Hughes

Republicans want a police state, Libertarians want anarchy and Democrats just want a good ol’ fashioned representative democracy with all the warts of a constitutional republic so police unions in South Dakota are showered with cash while teachers' unions get the shaft. 

Yes, socialized agriculture, socialized dairies, socialized cheese, socialized livestock production, a socialized timber industry, socialized air service, socialized freight rail, a socialized nursing home industry, socialized water systems and now a socialized internet are all fine with Earth haters in South Dakota but then they insist teachers' union membership is socialism.

Gaia still targeting horrible red state

Update, 7 February: critical fire weather in overwhelmingly Republican counties again.

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Because of Republican failures Gaia is targeting parts of South Dakota.