Neighbor Thom lists Madrid property; Heidelberger rides through

Thom and Alyssa bought a place outside of town so they’re selling their place in Madrid. Listing linked here.

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

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— Cory Allen Heidelberger (@coralhei.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM

Santa Fe!

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— Cory Allen Heidelberger (@coralhei.bsky.social) April 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM

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. 

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, Nancy Mace, Katie Britt and Harriet the Hag more likely reinforces their illusions of piety to raise campaign dollars. Bankrupt nutbag, Mike Lindell sells them for $250 a pop. 

Republicans suffer from a disease that influences their eschatologies because they worship a supernatural extraterrestrial as the ‘son of god’ and believe It is coming to Earth to rule under a one-world government. Our species will be the instrument to extinguish all life on Earth and some divine thing cares whether we off ourselves? If there is a divine creator why would It even care whether one of Its most destructive, malevolent and criminal creations chooses to restrict population growth? That anyone believes anybody can hold any moral high ground cements humanity’s doom.

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.

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. 

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.

 

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. 

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.