Snarking up The Right's tree: a blue view of red state failure
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Nearly 19,000 of the state's residents have access to therapeutic cannabis amid a 62% growth in patients since partial legalization.
Longtime anti-cannabis crusader and pernicious, portly pug Pat Powers waddled onto the herb bandwagon after his amply jowled benefactor Dan Lederman found some success with Dakota Health and Wellness in North Sioux City.
The late Steve Hickey was a Sioux Falls pastor and Republican former South Dakota legislator. He and this interested party agreed on some things like executive clemency for Leonard Peltier and reconciliation with the tribal nations trapped in South Dakota through land repatriation. Hickey was also a scholar and Trump apologist who taught courses on Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Alaska Christian College.
Thinking through Cole Allen’s manifesto and its Christian convictions, I find there can be the understanding that Cole had reached his own “Bonhoeffer Moment”, a moment evangelicals have lauded for a long time, and acted against tyranny and fascism. His evangelical and conservative credentials seem clear and are only now under scrutiny because of his actions. But his manifesto seeks to explain himself succinctly, even using formal “Objection”/‘Rebuttal” language. His church is part of the United Reformed Churches in North America, which is stalwartly and historically Calvinist. They’re up front and proud of their theological and covenantal foundations. You expect this from Reformed Christians. They explain themselves thoroughly. [Burke Gerstenschlager]
The winner of the Republican primary in the 1st District will move on to the general election. They’ll face the winner of the four-man race for the Democratic nomination, along with Libertarian candidate Nick Sheedy, of Columbia Falls. [KTVH teevee]Lauren Boebert moved from Colorado's 3rd District to the 4th after being caught groping her date in a Denver theatre. She's one of Colorado's Earth haters who asked a federal judge to block unaffiliated voters from participating in that party’s primaries this year.
The Colorado Democratic Party has welcomed unaffiliated voters’ participation in their primaries and there’s been no concerted opt-out effort among its leaders. [Colorado Sun]South Dakota will suffer brain drain for years to come and New Mexico has its own set of challenges but living where Earth haters are virtually meaningless and Democrats rule is well worth it.
The Republican Party of New Mexico is in open civil war. The crisis erupted into public view in mid-March when RPNM Chairwoman Amy Barela filed for re-election to her Otero County Commission seat. The GOP cannot afford a civil war — and yet, that is precisely what it has entered. [2nd Life Media Alamogordo Town News]Earth haters want a police state, Libertarians want anarchy and Democrats just want a good ol’ fashioned representative democracy with all the warts of a constitutional republic so the faster all the deplorables taser themselves in the testicles until their myocardias infarct the better.
In January, 2027 after the Democrats retake the US House and Senate we will elect Hakeem Jeffries Speaker of the House, impeach and remove Trump and JD Vance then Jeffries will become President of the United States. After that, Democrats will impeach Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas then annul the Zionist stain smeared on Turtle Island by the Trump Organization.
Regime change is coming to Congress in November.
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social) April 25, 2026 at 11:39 AM