99.9% the "garage fire" at LaCrosse Estates apartment complex was a meth lab explosion. North Rapid City under NDN Collective control is a drug cartel murder festival with the pretense of race baiting intimidation masquerading as political activism. A mafia protection racket with NGOs, cartels and useful idiot Democrats working to exploit the people for fun and profit and using MacArthur Foundation money to purchase the law enforcement policies required to keep their Sicarios out on the streets in complete mockery to South Dakota's "law and order" "red state" faux reputation. Nothing changes until leadership does. [Olson, Faceberg post]Closer to reality, NDN Collective has become a force of nature in western South Dakota and beyond.
4/30/25
Olson on NDNCollective
Shad Olson is not only a loose cannon and serial domestic abuser, he's a raving racist so he's perfect to run for statewide office in South Dakota.
Bengs will run as an unaffiliated candidate for US Senate
Despite being a shoo-in for the nomination at the state convention to run for attorney general it looks like Brian Bengs will run for US Senate outside the Democratic Party. South Dakota's secretary of state has yet to update how many signatures will be required for either Bengs or Julian Beaudion to get on the 2026 ballot. Splitting the progressive vote seems antithetical if not asinine but it's still early.
4/29/25
Olson on Rhoden
Republican is simply another word for Earth hater.
Fueled by Donald Trump and Republican politicians like Kristi Noem, Harriet Hageman, Dorothy Moon and Ammon Bundy white christian nationalists are the latest perpetrators of malicious attacks on public employees and judges.
If Shad Olson had any balls he'd run for South Dakota governor or any statewide office as an unaffiliated candidate in 2026.
South Dakota still among worst states for nurses
Source: WalletHub
So, it comes as little surprise that the red moocher state is 49th in opportunity and fifth worst state for nurses but third best state for doctors. Any RN with at least half a brain will leave for Minnesota, Colorado or the Southwest the instant they graduate so the work force in South Dakota will just get older, stupider and more Republican.
4/28/25
Johnson ahead in Earth hater poll giving Democrats a shot at all statewide seats
A poll just released by the Chiesman Center for Democracy and South Dakota News Watch shows US Representative Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson leading lackluster Governor Larry Rhoden in a potential gubernatorial primary likely leaving the US House contest wide open. Chiesman has known about voter disgust in South Dakota for at least two decades but it looks like some of that disgust is finally catching up to a few GOPers, too as twenty percent of the five hundred Earth haters polled are undecided.
Divorced, compromised Attorney General Marty Jackley is surprised at his poor showing in the poll so his focus might be on the seat Johnson holds now giving Democrats some hope for the AG post, too. It's not impossible portly Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen will desert the Rhoden ship and get into the US House primary. Polling at only four percent Toby Doeden could act as a spoiler by running as an unaffiliated or third party candidate for governor in the 2026 General Election giving the as yet unnamed Democrat a chance to win. Jon Hansen's tiny showing might send him seeking the nomination for attorney general instead.
Johnson is way ahead in funding since he's never stopped raising money so the South Dakota Democratic Party needs start running opposition ads on every commercial radio station in South Dakota. Johnson needs to be held accountable for coddling a would be dictator, building a war chest on the Big Lie, for his failures to support Medicaid, for voting against marriage, for not moving on immigration reform and for his culpability in driving talent from South Dakota. Johnson went from being a likable moderate to becoming just another tool of the oligarchs who hoard trillions in South Dakota’s banks and trusts because, hey, that’s where the money is.
"I’ve been receiving a lot of encouragement from South Dakotans to keep doing the job of governor," Rhoden told News Watch in reaction to the poll. "Sandy (his wife) and I are encouraged by this information — but campaigns are too long and a distraction from public service. South Dakota is a great state, and I’m focused on doing my job serving the people as governor." [Poll: Johnson, Rhoden set pace in South Dakota governor's race]So far this election cycle Democratic registration in South Dakota hovers at around twenty three percent, no Democrat has held statewide office since 2008 and the party struggles to stand up to Pierre's culture of corruption but frustration over lobbyist influence in the legislature is mounting in the populist wing of the SDGOP, too.
The only solution to better public policy in SD is a stronger Democratic Party. Republicans have had 50 years to address low wages, lack of childcare assistance, lack of pre-education funding, lack of housing, a regressive tax system that under funds schools and an ongoing brain drain of young educated and skilled people. At the federal level Rounds, Thune, and Johnson allow Trump to do whatever he wants. This post does suggest that “open primaries” has no intention of substantially challenging the political system that exists in SD. They would simply like to have slightly less fascist Republicans in power. I miss the old days when we fought wars to throw fascists out of power and onto the dung heap of history. There has never been a better time to show your dislike of Musk and Trump by registering as a member of the Democratic Party. [Faceberg post, Reynold F. Nesiba]Learn more at the Vermillion Plain Talk.
4/27/25
Neighbor Thom lists Madrid property; Heidelberger rides through
A new report from the realtors says that the median price of a single-family home in the city is $570,000 while in the county the median home price is a whopping $890,000. Condo and town home prices have dipped with the current median at $438,000. The Federal Reserve Board reports median household income in Santa Fe to be just over $78,000. To qualify for a loan to buy a median-priced home, a buyer would need a household income of $110,000. This gap is at the heart of the affordable housing crisis. [KSFR]
Former South Dakota activist, Cory Heidelberger rode the Turquoise Trail and went through Madrid.
Riding to Santa Fe on the Turquoise Trail #bicycle
— Cory Allen Heidelberger (@coralhei.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Santa Fe!
— Cory Allen Heidelberger (@coralhei.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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4/25/25
Nathan Barton is lying to his readers
Once in a while it's fun to check in on The Price of Liberty. That weblog is maintained by Nathan Barton, a Rapid City Libertarian who ran for governor in 1994 and again in 2002. Mr. Barton has clearly embraced the idea that the ground he lives on was seized for him from aboriginal cultures by liberal democrat, President Thomas Jefferson through an executive order that even he believed was unconstitutional.
The Landback Movement demands the return of all land – or at least all in the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. [Patriotic Evil?]
That's simply untrue. The LandBack Movement seeks to repatriate lands held in the public domain and managed by the US Bureau of Land Management, the National Forest System and some in the National Park Service but that's unlikely to happen during the Trump Organization's occupation of the White House especially since Donald Trump Fat Nixon loathes Indigenous Americans.
As a step toward land repatriation the South Dakota Democratic Party should advocate for paying the tribes and settling the Black Hills Claim, dissolving the Black Hills National Forest, moving management of the land from the US Department of Agriculture into the Department of Interior in cooperation with Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Forestry and Wildfire Management. Mato Paha (Bear Butte), the associated national grasslands and the Sioux Ranger District of the Custer/Gallatin National Forest should be included in the move.
Olson on Noem
Still think the SDGOP can survive? Anarcho-capitalist and domestic abuser, Shad Olson is flinging feces at such volume it's difficult to duck no matter who you are.
Under Trump, government overreach has become a sacrament.
The truth is that the X-files is a right wing hit job on Democrats
The X-files never caught the interest of this interested party until recently after realizing that the truth that's out there is that the series is a hit piece on Democratic administrations and even on representative democracy itself.
Like The Simpsons, anything that makes money powers the Murdoch wheelhouse. Fox Mulder is certainly a hero for FOX Entertainment and Dana Scully is a nearly pathological skeptic and damaged christian who wears a cross necklace as if it were vampire repellent. And, seeing cross necklaces on Earth haters like the press secretary, attorney general, Trump's personal lawyer Alina Habba, Nancy Mace, Katie Britt and Harriet the Hag likely reinforces their illusions of piety to raise campaign dollars. Bankrupt nutbag, Mike Lindell sells them for $250 a pop.
As a result, the quirky and mysterious plot lines of The X-Files are no longer representative of niche tin foil hat wearers. They are representative of a dangerously misinformed segment of the US citizenry that frequently overlaps with climate change deniers, 911 truthers, and birthers. [VICE]The late US Senator Harry Reid said he saw human built air and spacecraft at Area 51 that would impress even little green men so $20 says no one can prove to this interested party that humanity is anything other than a force for utter destruction.
Spearditch Republican Sam Kephart is a devotee of the franchise, too.
4/24/25
SD governor's son can't stand the heat
Reggie Rhoden is the son of the interim governor and an Earth hater who penned a comment at the South Dakotans Against Chem Trails group page but after withering pushback he altered his entire screed then deleted his pile. The Rhodens won't sign an anti-chemtrails pledge because it would jeopardize bringing the B-21, a massive polluter, to Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City.
Folks, the military has been doing this stuff since World War II. My dad was in the US Air Force with a Top Secret clearance and didn't like using chemicals on the farm because he knew how they were developed. Geoengineering was conceived because the USAF proved albedo modification could work.
There's a saying in chemical engineering: "dilution is the solution to pollution" so that's why the military dumps its problems into the atmosphere. Ellsworth is home to a Superfund site so are Malmstrom AFB, Montana; Minot AFB, North Dakota and FE Warren AFB, Wyoming. All participated in the deployments over the Powder River Training Complex.
Before exercises were suspended in the Powder River Training Complex and B-1s moved off Ellsworth they sprayed over four states an aerosol cocktail of silver iodide, lead iodide, aluminum oxide, barium, frozen carbon dioxide, common salt, water and soot from burning hazardous waste in pits concocted at Air Force bases including those at Ellsworth AFB near Rapid City. In the documents that give Ellsworth guidance in flaring off toxic materials and forever chemicals are the words, 'Waters of the United States' or WOTUS.
General aviation, private pilots, climate watchers, even some Republican landowners and ranchers are concerned the elevated atmospheric hijinx exacerbated drought conditions that persist in a region where dried grasses increase fire danger even in January.
Donald Trump created the Space Force to aid in albedo modification now the agency is looking at commercializing satellite services and capabilities that could be leveraged for broader applications, including those related to Elon Musk's dream for space-based geoengineering.
Seeding a thunderstorm might have been responsible for the 1972 Black Hills-wide flood that killed hundreds in Rapid City during weather modification experiments. Today, most experts believe cloud seeding is about 15% effective over mountains in increasing snowfall but virtually futile over flat land.
Despite being mostly water vapor contrails also contain unburned hydrocarbons and other organic compounds that fall as pollutants but the sheer volume of air travel produces the de facto result of albedo modification intentional or not.
Photo of the PRTC exercises over Montana was taken by a rancher who lives near Alzada.
4/23/25
SDGOP is grooming teens again
Remember when Jason Ravnsborg was grooming teenagers? It's impossible not to notice that the white people who influence the South Dakota Republican Party continue to brainwash kids to sell tyranny and exclusivity to the voting populace. Now portly Spearditch Earth hater Randy Deibert is baiting children.
4/22/25
Trump underwater? Duh
Trump being the worst and second worst among post-war presidents is objectively funny
— Polling USA (@usapolling.bsky.social) April 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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South Dakota still addicted to gambling: part n
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 10th 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.
4/21/25
Pope Francis knew Trump's evil; Cardinal Tagle in the wings?
Look at their faces. pic.twitter.com/0t84cBX8bZ
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 24, 2017
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle and Pope Francis pic.twitter.com/hv0QxMOd67
— monsenhor eves (@soevelly) April 21, 2025
4/18/25
Guest post: "South Dakota Amtrak - 'Train Trek' Presentations - Interest & Supporter Request"
Hello South Dakota!
Now that the FRA Amtrak Long-Distance Service Study is delivered to Congress, it is important we sustain and build the momentum needed to bring high-quality passenger rail services to South Dakota.
With the unfortunate failure of HCR 6008 in the South Dakota Senate this year, this reinforces why we need to redouble our efforts to educate and advocate to local officials about passenger rail and what it can mean for our broader economic opportunities.
With high-power leaders like Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senator Rounds, and Representative Johnson in Washington DC, we need to keep pressing our need to be included on the long-distance passenger rail network.
John Thune received the 2016 Rail Passengers Association Golden Spike Award for his efforts aiding Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker with Gulf Coast Service restoration (that is slated to begin later this year).
What are "Train Treks"?
Train Treks are a series of outreach and engagement meetings held in local communities. They are an efficient and effective way to meet local stakeholders, gain valuable information, make the proper connections, and build the coalitions needed to realize visionary, large-scale, infrastructure projects. These presentations help educate and empower local people to advocate to their state and national leaders for passenger rail.
When?
I would like to schedule them in mid June, depending on the ability of locals to help, in order to provide ample time to get notice out to the public and local officials.
What do we need from you?
Local coordination and communication support for the event. Sponsors are also highly appreciated.
Potential Locations
- Rapid City
- Wall, Kadoka or Murdo
- Fort Pierre or Pierre
- Mitchell
- Sioux Falls or Canton
- Other Locations: We are certainly open to other locations like Lemmon, Aberdeen, Milbank or Brookings if there is the local interest and funding to help make it happen.
Conclusions
Bringing passenger rail back to South Dakota is feasible, defensible, and achievable with your support and advocacy!
Let's make it happen!
Dan Bilka
Co-Founder & President, All Aboard Northwest
Coordinator, Greater Northwest Passenger Rail Coalition
Vice-Chair, Rail Passengers Association
- Fmr. South Dakota Councilman
4/17/25
Palate cleanse: SDGOP is continuing its circular firing squad!
The SDGOP is broke so if you are a South Dakota conservative with the fire in the belly who can get on the General Election ballot in 2026 and intends to run as an unaffiliated or third party candidate for any statewide office or for the legislature from your district I will support your efforts both with money and in print.
4/16/25
Leading contender in SDGOP gubernatorial primary pokes career politicians Thune and Rounds
We need Term Limits for every politician and every bureaucrat at every level of government.
— Toby Doeden (@TobyForSD) April 14, 2025
Our Founding Fathers envisioned a nation where public service was a sacrifice, not a lucrative career.
Proud to join @SDGOP Chair Jim Eschenbaum in Miller for tonight’s Lincoln Day Dinner.
— Toby Doeden (@TobyForSD) April 5, 2025
Career politicians from every corner of our state have been put on notice. We the people are in charge of this state, NOT you!
I have never been more proud to call South Dakota home. The… pic.twitter.com/M4EoyulTLW
4/13/25
Manosphere made up of incels, lost boys: part n
Donald Trump's pathologically narcissistic obsession with the boob tube has certainly warped his humanity and the phantasmagorical channels he surfs are virulent and toxic, too.
Most importantly, we found long-term risks associated with self-reported antisocial behavior in boys. The viewing of violent content in early childhood predicted, in 15-year-old adolescents, appearances in court for offenses, placements in youth centers, and interactions with law enforcement. Self-reported violent tendencies at age 15 years do not augur well for subsequent development, because such an inclination tends to persist and influence difficulties in personal, family, and school spheres. Aggressive adolescent males specifically exhibit more long-term depressive symptoms and stress, lower self-esteem, reduced empathy, and lower life satisfaction in adulthood. They also have greater chances of less effective communication skills and lower cohesion with their family, even years after adolescence. [Prospective Associations Between Preschool Exposure to Violent Televiewing and Externalizing Behavior in Middle Adolescent Boys and Girls]Misogynist Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA makes money by going from one college campus to the next telling whomever will listen to his hate speeches that liberals and feminists are bad and Earth haters are good.
The 80-20 rule allows men to, again, cast blame on women for their lack of romantic prospects. Instead of looking inward and examining what might be repelling a possible partner, it’s women’s fault for never giving the other 80% of men a chance. [Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ is a necessary lesson in modern day masculinity]
Image: the journal Nature has requested submissions on The Manosphere and Networked Misogyny.
4/12/25
Rep. Mary Miller: "God controls the climate because he controls the sun and the sun controls the weather, primarily."
It's improbable to imagine a more deplorable and despicable figure in history than Donald Trump but here we are.
Amanda Radke is a Mitchell, South Dakota-area, for-profit christianic nationalist, speaker and writer who is militantly averse to eminent domain unless it's for stuff she likes. In a recent column in Farm Forum she heralded the Trump Organization's call to violence as God's work so she marshals forces to defend the indefensible.
Mary Miller represents Illinois's 15th congressional district, is a committed Dominionist, prays for the End Times and welcomes a supernatural extraterrestrial to create a one-world government.
The video was flagged by Right Wing Watch.
4/9/25
Republican counties see fire weather again
Red Flag Warning
URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Aberdeen SD 939 AM CDT Wed Apr 9 2025 SDZ016>018-033>037-045-048-051-092245- /O.CON.KABR.FW.W.0008.250409T1800Z-250410T0100Z/ Potter-Faulk-Spink-Stanley-Sully-Hughes-Hyde-Hand-Jones-Lyman- Buffalo- 939 AM CDT Wed Apr 9 2025 /839 AM MDT Wed Apr 9 2025/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CDT /NOON MDT/ THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT /7 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA... * AFFECTED AREA...In South Dakota, Potter, Faulk, Spink, Stanley, Sully, Hughes, Hyde, Hand, Jones, Lyman and Buffalo. * WINDS...Northwest 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 20 percent. * IMPACTS...Any fires that ignite will spread rapidly and become difficult to control or suppress.
4/5/25
SDGFP wants to kill native bighorn sheep but mountain goats are the real problems
Six Rocky Mountain goats that came from Canada in the early 1920s escaped a facility in a South Dakota state park named for a war criminal but because of a dead-end gene pool they peaked at about sixty head so SD Game, Fish and Plunder began transplanting goats from Colorado in 2007. The State of South Dakota began a goat season in 1967 but only two were killed in 2022 after only two licenses were issued.
Non-native goats are aggressive and even killed a hiker in 2010 in Olympic National Park so the feds removed them. But even after contractors working for US, the People shot scores of invasive goats from helicopters between 2019 and 2022 in Grand Teton National Park a herd is rebuilding. Those critters are the descendants of goats released by Idaho Fish and Game sometime before 1977.
In South Dakota, goats at odds with efforts to reintroduce native bighorn sheep in the Black Hills. Bighorn sheep are native to the region but because of uncontrolled hunting they were extirpated from the Hills by the early 1900s. In 2002 the Grizzly Gulch Fire opened nearly 13,000 acres of overgrown and beetle-killed ponderosa pine but invasive weeds and cheatgrass moved in because cars and hunters have killed off the elk, white-tailed and mule deer. After they were reintroduced in 2015 bighorn sheep have taken up residence in Deadwood where they have become accustomed to some protection from predators like cougars.
So recently, the SDGFP Commission approved one license to kill a bighorn sheep in the Hell Canyon (site of the 2000 Jasper Fire), Deadwood, and Rapid City herds, two licenses in the state park named for a war criminal, three licenses for the Elk Mountain herd and one license for auction.
Spearditch Canyon has become home to at least twenty five goats so it's just a matter of time before one kills a looky-loo or a biker.
4/1/25
Dump your Tesla for a Scout!
Back in the mid 1970s the International Harvester dealer in Brookings, South Dakota debuted a Scout Terra. It was four wheel drive El Camino cool but really doggy with its automatic transmission and four cylinder Nissan diesel engine so the last one rolled off the line in 1980. IH rebranded as Navistar International Corporation in 1986 then entered a strategic alliance in 2016 with Volkswagen who bought the company in 2021. Herb loved "Binders'' too and we talked about driving that Terra right up until he left the Earth. Now, a factory in South Carolina is producing electric Scouts under the International® banner.
Here in New Mexico the two Tesla dealerships are on the Nambé and Santa Ana Pueblos to skirt state laws. It's become very complicated for the tribal governments especially now that a barely legal alien from South Africa is finding out after fucking around and gutting resources to Native communities.
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