Trump loathes Indigenous Americans: part n

Since at least 1851 treaties that served as constitutions for American Indigenous were broken and are still being rewritten for political expediency. Indian Country even had a champion in Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who practiced Liberation Theology and hated the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers.

Despite the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples American Indians are subject to at least four overlapping jurisdictions making tribes the most regulated people in the US without representatives serving in Congress and Native kids are slipping through the education cracks.

This week, the Education Department said it would break off several of its main offices and hand over their responsibilities to agencies like the Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior. “This transfer brings no additional support to our schools, and merely shifts us from one inadequate system to another,” said Steve Sitting Bear, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “This instability is unacceptable when the well-being and success of our students is at risk.” The education funding and resources the federal government provides to Native Americans are part of the country’s trust responsibilities, which are the legal promises that were made through treaties and acts of Congress in exchange for the land it took from tribal nations. Tribal leaders have said that the administration of those legal obligations have been uncertain and precarious ever since the Trump administration began slashing federal spending and reducing the federal workforce. [Tribal leaders not consulted on Education Department changes]

Learn more at Native Sun News.

What kind of short guy weirdo carries a barking bedroom slipper?

 

Murder on the high seas

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

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— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM

Speirs running for Deadwood Commission

It's not his first rodeo. 

Milbank boy, former South Dakota State University golf letterman, economics graduate, now golf club builder and retired house painter, Mark (Spiro) Speirs won a Deadwood Commission seat in 2015. Today, he's running again.

Michelle Powers no longer at NHTC

This interested party has confirmed that Michelle Powers is no longer employed at Northern Hills Training Center in Spearditch. An audit of financial and client records is apparently pending as the war within the failing SDGOP escalates.

The not very flattering image appears at the Black Hills Pioneer.

Shad Olson added more at his Faceberg page.

Dr. Michelle Powers, wife of fired SDGOP RINO shlock-blogger Pat Powers, has reportedly been forced out as Director of the Northern Hills Training Center in Spearfish.

Dr. Powers' alleged departure comes amid year of criticism and staff defections over what some called "dysfunctional leadership" at the NHTC facility which serves the special needs community of the northern Black Hills, including mass resignations by staff members, missed fundraising goals and even allegations of a potentially criminal coverup regarding illegal materials discovered on client laptops and personal devices.

Insiders say a missed fundraising goal at the Training Center's annual September charity gala was followed closely by mass resignations by longtime facility staff, continuing what had been a yearlong exodus of experienced staff members who publicly attributed collapsing client care standards and a festering atmosphere of NHTC leadership unaccountability which had imperiled the facility's ongoing mission effectiveness and credibility.

Political observers of the Northern Hills laylines of the "Mr. and Mrs. Powers" power couple dynamic have also noted a contemporaneous dovetailing of both target and critique published on Pat Powers' blog, Dakota War College, and frequently verbatim online rantings of amateur social media mouthpieces, which have included incessant scurrilous and unfounded attacks on prominent South Dakota conservatives.

Chaco in Trump's gunsights

When the people of the Chaco Wash were building in what is now northwestern New Mexico the ancestors of the Lakota were living in post-archaic North Carolina. 

Today, the oil field traffic some driven by Black Hills Gas Resources near Chaco Culture National Historical Park, creates hazards for Indigenous and visitors alike. Fracking just outside of Chaco threatens to trigger seismic activity under the fragile sacred site and contributes to the methane bubble over the Four Corners area. In 2015 Santa Fe-based Wild Earth Guardians joined other interested parties in suing the US Bureau of Land Management to stop the encroachment. 

In 2021 New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich asked then-Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to end leasing within a 10-mile radius of the park because Chaco is an International Dark Sky Park at risk to flaring. So, in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs BLM completed a draft resource management plan for Chaco and a decision released. 

In 2023, citing the scarcity and fragility of water supplies in the region a three-judge panel on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the BLM didn’t properly gauge long-term impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act so it suspended some 200 permits and blocked others issued by the Trump Organization. Trump's Interior Secretary has been invited to New Mexico to survey the destruction of the area's cultural resources. 

Genetic markers have identified the Picuris Pueblo predominantly among the Chaco descendants.

Mario Atencio (Diné) always looked forward to visiting his grandmother in Counselor, New Mexico. She lived what he describes as a “simple Navajo lifestyle” in the small rural town, raising dozens of animals on her lush green property, which he remembers as a magical and peaceful place. Two years ago, Atencio became the lead plaintiff in what could soon become a landmark climate litigation case. After winding its way through the legal system, the lawsuit will go before the New Mexico Supreme Court, which agreed this month to hear the case. If the court rules in Atencio’s favor, the case would join high-profile decisions like Held v. Montana, a suit brought by young people who accused Montana of violating their constitutional right to a healthy environment by not regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Atencio v. State of New Mexico could end up forcing the country’s second-largest fossil fuel producer to clean up its act. [Western climate litigants keep fighting]

In vindictive retribution and a slap at Native America the Trump Organization nominated New Mexico Earth hater, Steve Pearce to run the BLM.

In a related story, a coalition of community organizers is growing opposition to an extractive industry intent on raping the Black Hills.

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Kinney Law deserves space here

Editor's note: Matt Kinney and this interested party have a history.

Grassland fire danger returns to chemical toilet

"This is not America"

SD Earth haters in same primary racing to kill

Editor's note: Marty Jackboots and Casey Crabgrass apparently love bloodbaths. How conservative.

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1984

BIA Forestry hiring for SD, NE assignments

Uh oh. Even Fox 'News' poll shows Trump doing a shitty job

Read it all here.

Brutal

Marty Two Bulls on Epstein Trap

Marty Jackley is an unapologetic killer

Because he can't resist the urge to kill $20 says Marty would just love to dispatch a condemned handcuffed inmate with a shotgun blast to the abdomen just like someone did for Rich Benda.

Mr. Trump is clearly unwell

Trump: "They had restrictions on water. It comes down from heaven. You want to wash your hands, or like me, you wash your hair. I lather up. There's no water. I won't mention the 3rd item in the bc I always get criticized. If you don't know what I'm talking about you shouldn't be owning a McDonalds"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM

Norbeck Society, Mertz concerned about lack of timber competition

There aren't enough litigators to sue the Forest Service allowing Republicans to infiltrate management of the Black Hills National Forest and there is no evidence to support the claim that logging is effective insect control. Some imaginary war with the bark beetle on the BHNF is really more a fight for clean water because after all dead trees don't suck aquifers dry. Until forest managers and South Dakota's Earth hating congressional delegation get that they are being preyed upon by the Neimans to take legacy trees and leave the doghair for someone else to deal with because they aren't focused on hardwood release, prescribed fire and restoring the Hills bioregion to what it was 150 years ago.

The above images and the following copy appear at the Norbeck Society's Faceberg page.

Unit 5 of the Stinger Timber sale on the Northern Hills Ranger District. This timber sale was part of the infamous Black Hills Resilient Landscape Project (BHRL). The Black Hills National Forest has largely moved on from BHRL (which involved tens of thousands of acres of overstory removal) so hopefully this is one of the last timber sales covered by that terrible project.

Unit 5 was cut with an overstory removal prescription. This involves cutting most or all of the large trees on a stand and leaving the remaining understory of smaller trees. As you can see, what remains is a doghair thicket. This is some of the worst doghair we have seen on the Forest. How does a situation like this develop? It's hard to say exactly but it was probably a result of a really good pine cone crop years ago followed by really good spring moisture. In other words, perfect conditions for establishing Ponderosa Pine seedlings.

What remains now is a mess. These doghair thickets are really are not good for anything. Under the right conditions, they are a substantial fire risk. Virtually nothing grows underneath them, and they really don't serve any purpose for wildlife.

The Northern Hills Ranger District does have a fairly good track record of pre-commercially thinning young tree stands, as funding allows. Thinning allows them to grow substantially faster and healthier. The sticker is that there is never enough funding to thin all of these dense young stands. We want to be clear, these doghair thickets are a much bigger threat to the sustainability of the Forest than what remains of the sawtimber across the Forest.

We hope that the Northern Hills Ranger District will commit to thinning this doghair thicket.

Dave Mertz is a retired natural resource officer for the BHNF who attended a 2024 roundtable discussion in Spearditch hosted by South Dakota's Earth hating US Representative Dusty Johnson when Johnson sicced two fellow Republican congress members on Regional Forester Frank Beum and BHNF Supervisor Shawn Cochran. His comment below appears at the Norbeck Society's FB page.

Money paid for a regular timber sale can still be used in part to fund the KV Fund. KV stands for the Knutsen-Vandenburg Act. It was passed in 1930 and allows the Forest Service to use some of the proceeds of a timber sale to put back into the sale area for things such as pre-commercial thinning. I believe this is what you are talking about. The Forest used to have a K[V]  fund worth many millions of dollars. The problem is that it has been tapped so much to make up for other budget shortfalls that there is not that much left. Also, timber stumpage values have been relatively low, compared to times in the past, and that results in not much money going into the KV fund. Little competition also results in low bid rates. [Mertz]

Wildfires are still popping up on the Forest but the Bureau of Land Management conducted a prescribed burn north and east of Newcastle, Wyoming to control doghair and reduce fuels.

More socialism announced for welfare farmers

Editor's note: South Dakota is a perpetual welfare state because of poor governing and yet another budget crunch.

A proposed 12,000-head breed-to-wean sow farm in Edmunds County has received a grant of up to $1.3 million ($1,304,464) to build a new facility.

The Reinvestment Payment Program dollars for Century Swine RE, LLC (under Pipestone Management) were approved through the South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development. 

Also approved this month (Nov. 2025) were:

• Reinvestment Payment Program grant of up to $862,806 for Hord Family Farms of SD, LLC, under Pipestone Management, to support construction of an 8,773-head breed-to-wean sow farm in Miner County. The facility will enhance local agricultural output and create new employment opportunities in the region.
• Reinvestment Payment Program grant of up to $1,988,742 was approved for Whitewood Dairy, LLC to support development of a 9,500-head dairy facility in Whitewood. The project will include new barns and milking systems designed to improve efficiency.
• EDFA issued a Livestock Nutrient Management Bond of up to $12 million for Silverstreak Dairies, LLP and Warner Dairy, LLP to support solid waste disposal expenses associated with the expansion of the Warner Dairy project in Brown County. The expansion will accommodate approximately 5,100 head of wet milking cows and more than 300 head of dry cows and replacements.

Read it all here.

Chemical toilet will see extreme wildfire danger Friday

Igloo bunker residents could get a little test of survival Friday as extreme wildfire danger and a possible burnover intersect with the litigation that guides their grievance against Vivos xPoint.

Guest post: South Dakota spends too much on high school sport and not enough on education

Editor's note: Today, students in South Dakota are fifth in overall rank of those in debt and suffer that load at the highest proportion in the US. The Bendagate state is 37th in grant and work opportunities rank and is tied for 42nd in student work opportunities. But school boards spend a ridiculous amount of money on sport including one district that plans to close a rural school but spent $1.2 million on a field where American football injures students.

Republican South Dakota District 27 Representative Liz May sees red state failure in flat education results. 

More Spending, Same Results — and Now They’re Closing the Schools That Work 

By Rep. Liz May, South Dakota House of Representatives, District 27

Across South Dakota, we’re watching a troubling pattern unfold. Local school boards, faced with shrinking budgets and state mandates, are closing rural schools — the very schools that often outperform their larger counterparts in both academics and attendance.

In Meade County, for example, Atall and Hereford Elementary were targeted for closure to “save” about $250,000 from a projected $1.25 million general fund deficit. But that deficit wasn’t caused by bad teaching or overspending — it was caused by the way South Dakota funds schools.

When a district loses students, it automatically loses state aid because our funding formula is based on student count, not student performance. The smaller a district gets, the less funding it receives — even if its students are excelling. That creates a cycle where efficiency is punished, and “saving” the budget means closing good schools.

So, rather than rethinking the formula, the district moves students from successful rural classrooms into the larger town schools to boost headcount. Then they use Capital Outlay funds — which can’t go toward classroom instruction — to bus those same students farther every day. The general fund deficit shrinks, but not because the district became more efficient — only because it sacrificed local schools that were working.

According to the South Dakota Department of Education, per-student spending has risen more than 30% since 2017, from about $8,300 to over $11,000. Yet the state’s own Report Card shows proficiency in reading, math, and science has barely moved.

That’s not a classroom problem — it’s a system problem. Our formula rewards enrollment and administration, not learning and performance. And when test results reveal flat outcomes, we hear a new excuse: “The tests are wrong.”

But if the tests are so wrong, why do we still use them to collect federal dollars, determine accreditation, and justify spending? You can’t claim the tests are good enough for the money but bad enough to excuse the results. South Dakota has used the same state assessments since 2015 — and the results have been consistent year after year. That’s not a testing failure; that’s a failure of priorities.

Meanwhile, parents in Meade County and across the state are watching their smaller rural schools disappear — not because they aren’t working, but because the funding model makes them expendable.

If we truly value education, we should be rewarding performance, not paperwork. That starts by giving districts credit for sharing administrative services, streamlining operations, and prioritizing results instead of raw headcounts.

Closing schools that work just to prop up a broken formula is backwards. If we want to rebuild trust in South Dakota’s public education system, we need to prove that learning — not numbers — drives how we spend our education dollars.

RCPE touting socialized freight rail

Genesee & Wyoming, the parent company of the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad, conducts the business on the west end of its holdings and operates on the right of way that intersects the now-dead Keystone XL pipeline at Philip.

South Dakota is a sacrifice zone so if Earth haters like Pat Powers believe CO2 can be transported safely trains carrying it through Brookings to a site West River then buried under the Pierre Shale should be perfectly fine, right? 

SD Earth haters escalate not so civil war

Editor's note: Minnehaha County Earth haters are ready to come to blows and it's great fun! It would be a breath of fresh air if the SDGOP would decide host a circular firing squad of its top officeholders and finish the job of wasting money and beating the shit out the party’s candidates.

Statement from the Chairman

"An Executive Board meeting of the South Dakota Republican Party was held the evening of November 10th, 2025, with 11 of 12 members attending, to address the recent vote in Minnehaha County to remove their Chairman.

It was the majority voice of the Executive Board that our bylaws do not allow for the removal of duly elected officers by going to Roberts Rules of Order for guidance in the matter.

If the South Dakota Republican Party is to have a process for removing officers, it will require a bylaws amendment to be passed by a properly convened body of the State Central Committee.

The South Dakota Republican Party wishes the best for Minnehaha County, and they must find ways to move forward and be productive, so we don’t allow Minnehaha County to turn blue. There are too many votes there and Republican ideals and principles must lead the way."

Jim Eschenbaum

SD GOP Chairman

Old Montana stomping grounds featured in BBC report

Brud Smith is a proud Montana Democrat ranching near the Boulder River in Jefferson County but he also leases property from the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. He was recently interviewed by the BBC's Ellie House for a segment on the federal lands sell-off debate. Also interviewed was former BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning who sees the urban sprawl changing Montana as a destructive trend. 

The above image is posted at Xitter. 

Learn more at Grist.

Got MILF? Olson on Noem, Lewandowski

Editor's note: To cover her past criticisms of Herr Trump Mrs. Noem deleted her old Xitter feed. South Dakota's Earth hating, compliant, infidelitous, jaded or all the above former governor has been fingered for a having a fling with Trump henchman, Corey Lewandowski hoeing her way to a post within the Cabinet and Shad Olson must be jealous if his Faceberg post is any indication. 

I get it. You don't have eyewitness connections and are beholden to headlines put out by people who couldn't define investigative journalism if it was the grand prize puzzle on Wheel of Fortune.

Three people called me from CPAC in 2019 telling me that Corey and Krist[i] were at the bar and Corey had his hands down her pants.

There may or may not be audio from outside the hotel room door. Her own husband has confirmed the affair and commiserates with multiple parties about the ignominy of being cucked on the national stage.

These are not allegations or "rumors" except to people handicapped by distance and beneficial doubts.

And it isn't her first affair. Those who know, know.

Pull your head out. Even if Corey never does.

Shypoke passes

Nicknamed Shypoke by his boyhood pal, Dave Cheatham who passed in 2006, disabled Navy veteran and logger, Steve Parsley was the brother of Democratic former South Dakota legislator, Scott Parsley and cousins-in-common with this interested party. The nickname morphed into Shied through the decades over thousands of cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and packs of Marlboros at the Casino Bar in Central City between Deadwood and Lead.

 

Omaha tribe testing tribal cannabis sovereignty with tobacco tax

Advocates including this interested party point to Tenth Amendment rights empowering tribes to legalize cannabis. 

A dispute over cannabis has put the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska at odds with the state's attorney general and Omaha Tribe Attorney General John Cartier.

The Omaha Tribe says it seeks to keep 90% tobacco tax revenue while also taking on additional regulatory duties from the state, subject to negotiations. “Even if we think we have a legal right … they’re probably more than willing to fight that in the courts,” Cartier told commissioners Monday, referring to the Nebraska AG’s Office. State regulations from the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission, nearing final approval, have been criticized by many members of the public as overly burdensome. Cartier said the tribe hopes to provide a “stark contrast” to the state regulations and promote access to medical cannabis, a topic he said “should have nothing to do” with tobacco taxes. [Omaha Tribe moves ahead with marijuana, accuses Nebraska AG of ‘retaliation’ in tobacco tax talks]

The State of South Dakota receives revenue from the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe through a compact with the 423 member Isanti Dakota Oyate but disputes over cannabis, liquor and gaming have been ongoing for decades. 

White people in South Dakota are clearly too stupid to manage the industry and if the Neanderthal South Dakota Legislature had any integrity or ethics (they don’t) they would empower the tribal nations trapped in South Dakota to be the sole cannabis producers, inspectors and distributors in the state (they won't).

Trump tariffs, shutdown sinking credit in South Dakota, Midwest

Source: WalletHub

Little wonder bankers are freaking out—mortgage applications are down in five of the past six weeks. And, because of the hardships created by the Trump tariffs and Thune shutdown Creighton University's Ernie Goss and his Rural Mainstreet Index have been warning of collapse for months. Now, that's becoming even more evident in the Midwest as credit card delinquencies spike.

• Inflation Fuels Debt Growth: Nearly 3 in 5 Americans believe high inflation is the factor contributing the most to rising debt levels.
• Dreary Debt Outlook: More than 2 in 5 people expect their household debt to increase in the next 12 months.
• Drowning in Debt: 56% of Americans say their household is struggling with debt.
• Owned by Credit Cards: More than 1 in 3 people feel like credit card companies own them.
• Financial Stress Impacts Wellbeing: 38% of Americans think their household debt is affecting their health.
• What to Focus On: More than 4 in 5 Americans think it’s important for people to track their net worth.

Governor Larry Rhoden and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) have announced reduced interest rates for the state’s Rural Development loan programs, effective October 21, 2025. [KOTA radio]

 

TenHaken for Lt. Governor?

Ditching morbidly obese Tony Venhuizen for a svelt up and comer is not only a tell that Howdy Doody Dusty is really just a buck forty soaking wet, it's blatantly ballsy.

Another red flag warning puts Republican counties at risk again

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE

National Weather Service Rapid City SD
1253 AM MST Tue Nov 4 2025

...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY ACROSS SOUTHWEST SD...

.Gusty west winds will develop today ahead of a cool front in
southwest SD. Deep mixing and very dry air will allow winds gusts
to 40 mph with RH down to around 15 percent this afternoon. This
will support critical fire weather conditions when combined with
receptive fuels.

CounterPunch

Rewilding + fewer children = happier Earth

Ocean acidification is the seventh of nine planetary boundaries that Earth has crossed. Urban sprawl, accelerated global warming and drought are reducing productivity on the remaining grasslands of the High Plains and Mountain West so if some Republicans are angry about rewilding that means it's the right thing to do.

None of the advocates for lower population interviewed by NPR favor efforts that force people to have fewer kids, like China's infamous "One Child" policy, which ended in 2016. Instead they support access to reproductive freedom, family planning information, and contraception. [Could smaller families 'rewild' the planet — and make humans happier?]

Learn more at the Rewilding Institute.