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Snarking up The Right's tree: a blue view of red state failure
4/24/26
Landback gains momentum
Project 2025 and the extreme white wing of the Republican Party want a not so civil war over critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI because oligarchs fear an admission of guilt implies liability and they will be compelled to pay reparations to Indigenous and to the descendants of enslaved people.
"Landback isn’t a slogan; it's the solution to some of the biggest challenges we face as a society, from climate to racial justice to food sovereignty. Landback means reclaiming our power collectively to build the future that our great-grandchildren can thrive in."There are Indigenous Nations who can afford to buy much of the land in the public domain if it indeed goes up for sale and after a 23-year effort and $56 million about 47,000 acres in the Klamath Basin have been returned to the Yurok Tribe after studies showed how conservation goals are more effectively met when Indigenous peoples manage their own territories. There is at least a $billion in the fund for the Black Hills Claim just for instance so some day tribes will buy some of their own land from the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in occupied South Dakota and Wyoming.
Ahead of the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit and as part of the Cobell settlement the Interior Department's Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations, some three million acres in fifteen states were returned to tribal trust ownership including in New Mexico.
- Land Consolidation: The program aimed to address "checkerboarding" and fractionated land ownership—where a single tract might have hundreds of individual owners—by purchasing interests from willing sellers at fair market value and transferring them to tribal governments.
- National Context: Across New Mexico and other states, the program paid out approximately $1.69 billion to over 123,000 individuals over its 10-year lifespan.
- Related Land Efforts: In addition to the Buy-Back Program, other recent land transfers in New Mexico include bipartisan legislation to transfer land from a former boarding school to the state's 19 Pueblos (including Kewa) for the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
4/23/26
Yep, Trump's the Antichrist alright
Just say it: radical christianic terrorism. Marjorie Taylor Greene supported Donald Trump but now she's convinced he’s the Antichrist. The End Times fulfill a prophesy and welcome a supernatural extraterrestrial to create a one-world government but no higher being could be anything but predatory. It's dystopian fantasy run amok. Trump’s people are broke, broken, disaffected, debt-ridden, desperate and determined to destroy civil society to wipe their slates clean so they can string up the bankers who enslaved them.
The signs are not exactly subtle…
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) April 23, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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NEW: More people have left Catholicism than joined it in 21 of the 24 countries we analyzed. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/23/catholicism-has-lost-people-to-religious-switching-in-many-countries-while-protestantism-has-gained-in-some/
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett.bsky.social) April 23, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.
— Christopher Hale (@christopherjhale.bsky.social) April 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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ND Senator wants bigger bailout pool for welfare farmers
Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Hoeven, R-N.D., said today he favors increasing the $30 billion per year borrowing limit for the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Agriculture Department’s line of credit at the Treasury Department. The CCC was set up in the 1930s to stabilize farm income and prices, support agricultural exports, and provide disaster assistance. [Hoeven wants CCC limit increased]The Murphy Fire is threatening homes and structures three miles northwest of Hermosa. And yes, the grassland fire danger index will reach the high and very high categories again Thursday for most of the chemical toilet, sacrifice zone, perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area.
Crews battle grassfire near Harrold, SD https://t.co/OTFKIGJhxs
— KELOLAND News (@keloland) April 23, 2026
