They slapped a Tea Party face on a left-wing operation and hoped no one would notice. Humans First bills itself as a grassroots conservative rebellion against data centers and artificial intelligence. The media eats it up. Axios, The Hill, and The Guardian all ran with the “conservative” label like it was gospel. It is not.
One year after President Trump rolled out his AI Action Plan to keep America first in the technology race, a network of Green Party activists, Democratic operatives, and effective altruist money is trying to kneecap the very infrastructure needed to win it. They call themselves Humans First. The paper trail says otherwise.
Townhall and Fox News dug into the records. Incorporation documents list staffers from the Center for AI Safety, a San Francisco nonprofit, as the group’s initial employees. That same outfit provided a startup loan. Early funding traces back to Open Philanthropy, the vehicle of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, a major player in the progressive effective altruism world that has poured billions into left-of-center causes while hiring a few Republican lobbyists for cover.
Amy Kremer, the public face and Tea Party veteran, insists the group is now purely conservative. She says the left and right operate differently and that Humans First spun off cleanly. Maybe. But the July 18 protests told a different story.
Organizers included an Illinois Green Party chapter that supports abortion on demand, gun control, divesting from Israel, decriminalizing prostitution, impeaching Trump, and solidarity with Cuba. A transgender activist and Green Party-aligned congressional candidate helped run a protest outside Chicago and framed data centers as an ecological crisis. At one California event, protesters waved anti-ICE signs. Turnout was thin. Videos from California, Georgia, Missouri, and South Carolina showed sparse crowds despite the “nationwide movement” hype.
This is not a conservative uprising. It is a classic infiltration play. The left cannot stop Trump’s AI agenda through Congress, so it borrows a familiar name, a MAGA-adjacent organizer, and local grievances over noise and power bills to peel off Republican support.
Data centers do bring real local pressures. Energy use, land, water. Legitimate questions exist. But the solution is American energy dominance and streamlined permitting, not handing the brakes to people who want America second.
Trump’s plan is straightforward. Cut red tape. Build the infrastructure. Keep the technology out of the hands of woke engineers who would bake bias into the systems that will shape everything from medicine to national defense.
The Innovation Council, which backs that agenda, put it plainly. Tylor Budowich said Humans First is “lying about the nature of their organization by masquerading as a conservative grassroots movement.”
Their campaign, he added, is built on deception and serves the interests of America’s adversaries.
China is not pausing its data center construction. Beijing is not debating whether AI might hurt someone’s feelings or raise a utility bill. While activists here wave signs about “ecological damage,” the Chinese Communist Party races ahead. Slowing America’s buildout does not put humans first. It puts Beijing first.
Scripture warns about this exact tactic. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15.
The clothing here is the language of everyday Americans and Tea Party roots. The teeth are the same progressive network that has spent years trying to hobble American energy, manufacturing, and now the technology that will define the next century.
Real conservatives understand the difference between legitimate local concerns and a coordinated effort to divide the right. They also understand that American leadership in AI is not optional. It is a strategic necessity.
The same people who spent years calling conservatives conspiracy theorists now expect those same conservatives to trust a group whose founding paperwork and protest partners come straight from the left’s playbook.
The media will keep calling it conservative. That is their job. Ours is to notice the sheep’s clothing and refuse to follow the wolves. America’s AI future belongs to the people who actually want America to win, not to those who only borrow the label when it is useful.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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