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How the left is using death to fight climate change. We are highlighting one hero of the week up in Oregon. And we're going to talk about President Trump's review of the Smithsonian museums. All of that and more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. One thing we've talked about quite a bit on 10 minute drill is how climate activists have cut corners on things like the science or their own political strategy in an effort to get more people to believe in the hysteria around climate change. A recent example of that, you might remember the story of a woman from Washington who died while driving her car and her family was suing seven oil and gas companies, blaming them for climate change, causing her death due to overheat and exhaustion. What we later found out is that that woman was 65 years old, had just had surgery and was on an all liquid diet and had attempted to drive 100 miles without air conditioning. And that's when she had overheated and unfortunately passed away. But new unsealed documents have found that this case was actually brought by a radical climate group with ties to the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, a dark money organization behind much of the climate activism in this country. The Washington Free Beacon reports a first of its kind lawsuit seeks wrongful death climate damages from oil companies. Sealed court docs show a Rockefeller fund group is steering it. So again, as you hear this case, you'll remember right now, climate activists around the country are engaged in a shell game to try and destroy oil and gas companies in any way they can. However, as you look at this case of this woman overheating, one theme that we've talked about quite a bit on over the last few weeks is the political football of air conditioning. Both in Europe and here in the United States, climate activists are trying to get rid of air conditioning so that we can stop climate change. However, we're going to hear a lot more wrongful death cases like this example that they're suing over. And so they are on one hand trying to ban air conditioning and on the other hand trying to sue for wrongful death against oil and gas companies for people who died without air conditioning. Quite a paradox for our hero of the day. Meet Oregon's Irene Gilbert. ProPublica writes how one Oregon activist is using a decades old liberal policy to stall green energy projects in rural areas. In the 1970s, liberals in Oregon designed a very complex system for getting new energy projects approved because they were against massive developments in nuclear energy. Now this woman, Irene Gilbert, is using that same process to sue and file complaints against massive projects for solar and wind farms in Oregon. Now a 76 year old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from LeGrand, Oregon is spending her time filling countless complaints and lawsuits to stop wind and solar farms from flattening rural areas and farmland. The left's fight against Irene Gilbert is the latest reminder that the climate movement and the environmental movement are no longer aligned because the climate movement is willing to destroy the environment if it will help them save the climate. And if that sentence sounds incredibly stupid to you, you are not alone. The White House announced that they would be reviewing the exhibits at the Smithsonian Museums ahead of the 250th anniversary celebration of America's founding. One reason for that likely came from our friend Bethany Mandel's op ed in foxnews.com why are major museums pushing climate change instead of celebrating the spirit of America? On a sweltering day recently, I found myself in need of an indoor activity for me and my six kids. Living near the nation's capital has its perks, chief among them the Smithsonian Museums. So we headed into D.C. for a dose of air conditioning and culture. Our four year old chose the destination, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, specifically to see the dinosaur bones and dioramas, but we quickly got more than we bargained for. A large section of the exhibit is devoted not to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but to climate change. Bethany highlights pictures and images throughout the museum showing exhibits promoting political language around climate change, even criticizing fossil fuels, she added. Two years ago at the Hirshhorn Museum, my kids picked up a children's book titled My Own Celebrating Gender Freedom for Kids, one page reads. You may be both, you may be none. On that same note, another friend, Political Math, added on Twitter. The Museum of American History has a costume from Storm in Days of Future Past, and the caption is I'm not making this up. As Black Lives Matter went viral in the summer of 2014, one of the first black women superheroes was fighting discrimination on the big screen. Now I enjoyed X Men Days of Future Past. I don't necessarily remember that particular message being a focus of it, but maybe the people at the Smithsonian did. Moving on from the movie Alien, a display with Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley was a force to be reckoned with at a time when male heroes dominated the multiplexes. They write by exploring her maternal instincts. The film pointed to the burden carried by working mothers then and now to do it all. Apparently that burden includes fighting Aliens. Now my takeaway from the movie Aliens was not solely focused on motherhood and the joys of that, but hey, that's valuable. Moving on. Indiana Jones, however, was a traditional scene stealing stoic white male with confident righteousness. It would be interesting to go back and see how many of those exhibits were written in the raging years of 2020-2022 when everything was viewed through a very divisive race gender lens. But I think as the Trump administration and the Smithsonian team review these exhibits, it'll be great to find the opportunities to highlight what makes America great, not necessarily what divides us. That is all the time we had for today's special Wednesday episode of 10 Minute Drill. Please join us again tomorrow for our full 10 minutes. Thanks so much. See you next time.