Gaia still targeting horrible red state

Because of Republican failures Gaia is targeting parts of South Dakota.

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Google AI on Epstein's South Dakota ties

Investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial network have identified South Dakota as a major hub for his domestic, secretive financial structures, 

utilizing the state’s specialized laws to manage his assets and provide privacy, often ahead of pending legal action. 

Key Findings on South Dakota Ties

• Concentration of Trusts: A 2021 probe revealed that Epstein utilized South Dakota to hold 81 trusts, the highest number of such entities in any single U.S. state within his broader network.
• "SoDa" Trusts and Secrecy: Epstein leveraged South Dakota’s "liberal" trust laws, which allow for high levels of privacy, asset protection from creditors, and no state taxes on income.
• Asset Protection: These South Dakota trusts functioned as part of a "secret" web, making it difficult for investigators and victims to trace his domestic holdings. 

The 1953 Trust and Final Actions

• "Pour-over" Will: Just 48 hours before his death in August 2019, Epstein signed a new will designed to move his estimated $577 million fortune into a "pour-over" trust known as the "1953 Trust".
• Setup and Purpose: While the 1953 Trust was established in the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was structured to interface with his broader network, including the South Dakota entities, acting as a shield against potential lawsuits and creditors.
• Trust Structure: The 1953 Trust was created to maintain maximum privacy and prevent immediate public access to the details of his assets. 

Financial Context and Later Developments

• Post-Mortem Investigation: The 1953 Trust remained private, but its existence was later uncovered as part of investigations into the Epstein estate's efforts to shield assets.
• Beneficiaries: Recent releases (as of 2026) have shown that the 1953 Trust was designed to benefit individuals including Karyna Shuliak, his brother Mark Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell.
• Estate Value: Despite initial reports of the estate potentially falling to less than $40 million, tax refunds and other holdings resulted in a higher, though fluctuating, value of over $130 million as of 2025. 

Outlaw obesity in South Dakota

If Republicans really want to end women's health care decisions state government should outlaw obesity and encourage businesses like airlines and taxi services to charge more for obese people. Food stores would have scales at tills that add surcharges according to body mass index, businesses with buffets would have scales, too and anyone with a BMI over 23 will pay an additional $1.00 for every whole number above that. Gas stations would have scales that determine price per gallon according to BMI unless you have documentation in your debit/credit card updated by your physician that you’re on a weight reduction regimen and Mr. Trump's health guru, Mr. Kennedy, apparently concurs.

Groups warn of ag sector collapse

Since at least 2017 Creighton University's Ernie Goss has been warning that the Trump Organization is bad for American agriculture.

Late 2025 marked the most severe three-month cost-price gap for U.S. agricultural producers since 2015, driven by soaring production costs and lower commodity returns.  

Key findings from the USDA data and analysis:

• Deepening Deficit: October 2025 was the worst month in over a decade for the cost-price spread.
• Worst 3-Month Period: The final quarter of 2025 saw record-breaking gaps, with October (-34.1), December (-32.2), and November (-27.9) being the most severe.
• Long-term Trend: This is not a new issue; farmers have faced a cost-price deficit in every single month since at least January 2015.
• Production Costs vs. Revenue: In late 2025, production costs reached a point where they were 50% higher than in 2011, while prices received for crops and livestock were only 21% higher.
• Contributing Factors: High input costs (fuel, fertilizer,, labor) combined with reduced commodity prices (e.g., corn falling from $7 to closer to $4 per bushel) are forcing difficult financial decisions for farmers.

So, a cynical observer might suspect bankers provided gloomy outlooks to the Rural Mainstreet Index for the last five months of the Biden administration especially in midwestern swing states to sink Democratic Party prospects in 2024 just as Republicans in congress stalled immigration reform because it makes sense to Earth haters that after he was elected again the Orange Julius would run America into the dirt so banks can foreclose on the whole dealio to massage auction price points. 

Data from December 2024 indicated that the average South Dakota household needed to spend approximately $191 more per month to maintain the same standard of living as the previous year, with cumulative costs since January 2021 being significantly higher, particularly for transportation, shelter, and food. Factors like tariffs have complicated anti-inflation efforts, and some sectors, such as the cattle industry, are experiencing higher costs. South Dakota experienced a 2.8% headline inflation rate in August 2025, with core inflation (excluding food and energy) at 3.0%.

A bipartisan group of former leaders of America's major agricultural commodity associations and biofuels organizations, farmer leaders, and former senior USDA officials sent congressional ag leaders a letter on Tuesday warning about the deteriorating state of the farm economy, stating there is a risk of "widespread collapse of American agriculture." The letter comes as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer (AEB) Index fell in January. [DTN/Progressive Farmer]

Yes, the grassland fire danger index will reach the very high category again Thursday for much of the horrible red state of South Dakota.

Earth hater Johnson breaks with Trump Organization

South Dakota Republican Party 

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Rep. Dusty Johnson is spot on with this one. “The reality is we’re $38 trillion in debt,” Johnson said. “We are in the process of going bankrupt. Now is not the time for us to borrow more money from the Chinese so we can send out $2,000 checks to every American.”

Absolutely agree, Congressman. We're already drowning in debt—over $38 trillion and climbing fast—and adding more borrowing (especially from China, our biggest foreign creditor) to fund another round of checks is fiscal insanity.

Tariff revenue should go toward paying down the debt or reducing deficits, not handing out short-term "dividends" that just kick the can further down the road. We need real spending restraint and growth-focused policies, not more stimulus that fuels inflation and piles on interest payments crushing future generations.

Thanks for speaking plain truth on this, Rep. Dusty Johnson. Time to get serious about the debt before it's too late.

Gaia targets Republican ranch country...again

Eastern Fall River-
Including the cities of Oral, Oelrichs, and Smithwick
327 AM MST Sun Feb 1 2026

...HIGH FIRE DANGER...

The grassland fire danger index will reach the high category this
afternoon. Unfavorable weather conditions and low moisture 
content of grasses, and other dry organic material on the ground,
indicate that there is high potential for a fire to spread. 
Outdoor burning should be restricted to early morning 
or evening hours when wind speeds are usually lower and the 
relative humidity is higher.

The outlook for Monday afternoon, The grassland fire danger index
will reach the very high category. 

Public lands management at risk to Trump's Earth haters

In 2002 Tracy Stone-Manning lectured on the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act or NREPA at the University of Montana where she earned her Masters of Science in Environmental Studies. In 2007 she became an aide to Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) then ran the state’s Department of Environmental Quality and in 2014 became chief of staff for Montana Governor Steve Bullock. As Director of the Clark Fork Coalition she guided dam removal and river cleanup and has been co-chair of Missoula's Open Space, Rivers and Farmland. 

After serving as Director of the US Bureau of Land Management she is now president of The Wilderness Society as the Trump Organization ruins the BLM and the US Forest Service faces the collapse of morale and preparedness.

The management structure itself is a tangle. Interior manages parks, refuges, and BLM lands. The Forest Service sits in Agriculture. Marine sanctuaries fall under Commerce. Energy authority is split across agencies. This fragmentation leaves land managers trying to solve twenty-first century problems with twentieth- and even nineteenth-century machinery. That kind of gridlock still plagues decisions across the West. Layer climate change on top of all this—megafires, water scarcity, shifting wildlife corridors—and the mismatch between current laws and present realities becomes even sharper. When the smoke clears, much of the architecture underpinning public-lands management will be in ruins. [Stone-Manning, What I Learned Running the BLM]

Democratic former South Dakota lawmaker Troy Heinert is currently serving as the Chief of Bison Management at Interior focusing on tribal buffalo restoration, returning the National Mammal to the land and working with tribal leadership and conservation groups who are advancing buffalo stewardship. 

In vindictive retribution and a slap at Native America Trump has nominated New Mexico Earth hater, Steve Pearce to run the BLM but his confirmation is hung up in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee because of bipartisan concern that he's a destructive industry apparatchik.

Rewild the West.