11/6/24
11/5/24
Bankers, corn and soybean glut driving farmers off the land as drought grips upper MO basin
Farmers are taking out loans at a rate and scale not seen in years as weakened crop prices weigh on the agricultural sector, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Farmers are grappling with weakened global demand and a glut of corn and soybeans, which has contributed to a decline in the prices paid to producers. [Farm Loans Soar as Ag Economy Deteriorates]Especially without a farm bill economists like Creighton University's Ernie Goss and ag groups like the National Corn Growers Association are sounding the alarm about the Trump tariffs. According to the most recent findings from WalletHub 75% of Americans expect a recession if Trump is elected. 60% of Americans think the economy is improving and 68% are concerned that cutting interest rates will make inflation worse.
Going back to 1950, 66% of all U.S. farms — 3.75 million farms in total — have stopped producing. The number of acres farmed has dropped by 323 million, which is roughly double the size of Texas. Agriculture experts worry as family farms across America gasp to stay afloat and go broke. [American Family Farms Going Broke]
David Andrews’ farm is about nine miles away from the small, aptly named Iowa town of State Center. The 160-acre farm has been in his family since 1865, and Andrews grew up there. So, 30 years ago, he decided to plant 60- to 100-foot strips of tall grasses within and along the edges of fields to prevent erosion. To pay for it, he enrolled a total of 14 acres, made up of those strips, in the federal government’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Project 2025, a conservative Republican presidential transition blueprint spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, proposes eliminating CRP. Project 2025 says farmers should not be allowed to get commodity payments if they get crop insurance subsidies. In Rep. Dusty Johnson’s case, when asked about conservation programs at the May equipment manufacturers’ panel, he answered with political dexterity, praising conservation programs but indicating he may in fact be on board with the RSC proposal to eliminate CRP. [Republican Plans for Ag Policy May Bring Big Changes to Farm Country]The US Army Corps of Engineers has put the upper Missouri River Basin on drought management status and tribes want to see the river managed more sustainably.
11/4/24
Rapid City finally takes blogger's advice
Harley owners, some of whom have ties to clubs with nefarious pasts and many of them pre-1970s graduates of Spearditch High School, cruise the streets in summer and then recuse themselves from the horrible Lawrence County winters for warmer white compounds in Scottsdale, Marana, Sedona or Mesa. Often, there are elderly parents in one of the ubiquitous long-term care facilities and cemeteries. These obese Republican slackers taking advantage of the dynasty trust industry are now fleeing the frozen tundra in their RVs ahead of another six-month winter and strings of below-zero days.
11/3/24
Noem in line to warp civil service, BLM
That means the Interior Department — a vast agency that oversees public lands, the national parks, Western water conservation and endangered species protections — is sure to witness drastic policy shifts if Trump reclaims the White House in January. Arguably, the most significant Interior workforce change during the Trump years was the relocation of the Bureau of Land Management’s national headquarters to Grand Junction, Colorado. The Trump administration’s Fish and Wildlife Service moved to rewrite the ESA regulations that determine how critical habitat is defined and whether costs are tallied as part of a threatened or endangered listing decision. [Trump 2.0 would bring whiplash to Interior Department]In a related story, a new study has revealed that heavy metals in the wildfire retardants that the Forest Service and other agencies use leach into waterways. One third of the Earth's tree species are at risk to extinction according to the United Nations.
11/2/24
Midwestern Trump states, ag groups still pessimistic: Goss
October's wholesale price gauge also continued to fall to 56.5 from 56.6 in September, indicating cooling inflationary pressures. However, Goss says supply managers remain pessimistic regarding the economic outlook, with roughly 41% expecting a recession--citing supply chain disruptions as the top concern. [Goss: October BCI numbers a mixed bag]Review the WalletHub release linked here.
10/31/24
SDGOP tampering with reliable voting blocs
The Department of Human Services has put Western SD Senior Services Inc. on notice that closures of meal programs in Timber Lake, Hot Springs, Dupree, Bison, Martin, Wall, and Faith could bring legal action and the loss of millions in public funds. Western SD Senior Services is under contract with the state through September 2025 and received reimbursements from the state totaling $2,279,461 in fiscal year 2024. Sen. Ryan Maher told The Dakota Scout this week that he’s urging his colleagues on the Government Operations and Audit Committee (GOAC) to look into the matter after he received calls from Western SD Senior Services subcontractors — restaurants and food service businesses hired to prepare and deliver meals — complaining they haven’t been paid since as far back as December. [Meals On Wheels Shuttering In Seven Western South Dakota Communities]So, the more Republican South Dakota gets the stingier and more cruel the residents become. Not only has the SDGOP failed Indigenous Americans by not expanding Medicaid it has failed veterans and the elderly: its historically loyal voter base. But hey, if Tony Venhuizen wants to feed from the Qochtopus gravy train he has to prove he’s numbed to the misery, hopelessness and despair his father-in-law and political party have heaped on South Dakotans.
10/30/24
Project 2025 proves Republicans hate American Indians
But the extreme white wing of the Republican Party wants 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. Trump's acting but unlawful Interior Secretary William Perry Pendley hates American Indigenous, too.
Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit that is driven by greed, excess, and selfish consumption (in Ojibwa it is windigo, wintiko in Powhatan). Now that the veils obscuring wetiko are starting to be lifted, let us give birth to, and become, living antigens, embracing the polyculture of ideas that are challenging the monoculture of wetiko capitalism. [Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition]Colorado's mineral extraction industries have effectively stolen over $500 billion from the Apache of Oklahoma, Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Comanche, Kiowa, Northern Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne, Shoshone, Ute Tribe of Utah, Southern Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute. Under the 1906 Antiquities Act and the America the Beautiful initiative President Joe Biden has moved to create the 400,000-acre Dolores River Canyon Country National Monument in Mesa and Montrose counties in Colorado but imagine the blowback if Pres. Biden remands that land back to the Ute Nation.
Outside the section on the Interior Department, substantive policy on Indian Country is slim. The section on the Department of Justice makes no mention of the long-standing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples, despite “renewing” a “focus on violent crime,” instead highlighting things like drug cartels and protections for protesters at abortion clinics. The section including the Indian Health Service acknowledges that “reforms are needed,” but lacks any detail concerning those reforms or information on how the federal government will fulfill its responsibility to provide tribes health care. Given the overall attempt by Project 2025 to reverse the Biden administration’s focus on climate, it’s all but certain that tribes would not receive continued support for climate resilience efforts under the Project’s vision. [What Project 2025 has to say about Native communities]Learn more at ProPublica.
Our WY/NE Wild Horse & Burro Program lead, June Wendlandt, was featured on @WyomingPBS in "Wind River Wild Horse Sanctuary," showing how the off-range pasture provides a home for non-adoptable wild horses while balancing conservation with cattle ranching. https://t.co/QsZakpFYEr
— BLMWyoming (@BLMWyoming) October 23, 2024
10/28/24
SDGOP on collision course in Pierre
Lil PP is as relevant to the future of SDGOP as Joe Biden is to the D party. IMO, the Grassroots Patriot movement in SD is on a trajectory to take over the party from the RINOs that have provem themselves beholden to special interests at the expense of We the People. More & more of us have awoken to the realization that we are being governed by the Wizard of Oz, metaphorically speaking.In 1888 L. Frank Baum of Oz fame began editing the South Dakota newspaper The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer where he advocated for the extermination of American Indians.
Jack o' Lantern filled with raw sewage expected to stiff ABQ again
Trump’s last visit to Albuquerque, in 2019, resulted in the city billing his campaign more than $200,000 — a sum that remains unpaid and has climbed to $444,986 with interest, according to the city of Albuquerque. [Democrat-controlled State Land Office says sublease quashes parking plans for Trump rally]
The rally is instead slated to take place Thursday at noon at a private hangar owned by CSI Aviation near the Albuquerque International Sunport, according to Trump’s campaign website. The president of CIA Aviation is former state Republican Party chairman Allen Weh, who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2014. [Trump wanted the ABQ convention center for his campaign stump]
The Secretary of State’s Office released data early Friday showing more than 324,000 of the state’s 1.36 million registered voters already had cast either absentee or early in-person ballots, with Democrats outnumbering Republicans 162,000-115,000. Nearly 44,000 unaffiliated voters had cast ballots. A little under a third of Santa Fe County’s 112,000 registered voters had cast ballots. The 25,000 Democratic county voters weighing in early, either absentee or in person, led Republicans 5-to-1. [GOP: Trump scheduled to make Halloween visit to New Mexico]In a related story, a federal appeals court upheld the conviction of former Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys 4 Trump insurrectionist, Couy Griffin for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
A rotund orange mass will be coming to ABQ on Halloween, and we're not talking about a pumpkin. Even though he still owes ABQ $$ from his last visit, the incoherent insurrectionist who's been found liable for rape will come back to the state he's already lost by 8% and 10%. https://t.co/cAuchFAeEt
— Democratic Party of New Mexico (@NMDEMS) October 27, 2024
10/26/24
Biden apology a start: NDN Collective
“Apologies must include meaningful action to repair the harm done – otherwise, they are just manipulative tools giving the semblance of care to distract from continued wrongdoing. Biden can and should make his apology real by:
Passing the U.S. Truth & Healing Commission Bill to ensure continued funding and support for the relatives who survived boarding schools;
Granting immediate Executive Clemency for boarding school survivor Leonard Peltier, freeing him from his 50 year incarceration;
Immediately investing in Indigenous language and cultural revitalization programs; Rescinding all medals of honor awarded to US soldiers for the massacre at Wounded Knee, in which 300 unarmed Lakota people – mostly women and children – were slaughtered;
Instructing the Bureau of Indian Education to conduct a full-scale investigation into failure by the Tuba City Boarding School system to address egregious misconduct and support the nationwide reforms being demanded by parents and students to keep children safe at BIE run schools." [NDN COLLECTIVE RESPONDS TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S PLANNED APOLOGY FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT’S ROLE IN NATIVE BOARDING SCHOOLS]In a related story, because the Roman church is being sued into bankruptcy, nuns in some orders are getting involved in activist capitalism to force social change.
Although an apology is the least a US President can do for over 150 years of taking our children away from our lands and communities, we deserve more. Meaningful apologies require actionable steps toward accountability, healing, and repair. #NoApologyWithoutAction
— NDN Collective (@ndncollective) October 25, 2024
10/24/24
Republicans using farm bill as a political weapon
Basically, Doug Johnson, who heads up Johnson Ag Outlook, said supply is out of sync with demand in ways the industry couldn’t predict. By creating new demand, for example, low corn prices could drive up ethanol production. [American farmers are feeling gloomy]Just like on border politics Earth hating Republicans are dragging their feet on the farm bill to make Democrats look like the villains and to elevate a convicted felon.
10/23/24
State of South Dakota involved in massive coverup of Brady Folkens' death: Aanning
In forensic autopsies where state authorities are concerned over their liability for wrongful death suits and their pathologist has already committed to being complicit in covering up the real cause of death, virtually no other pathologist will challenge the false diagnosis with a truthful cause of death. When responding to Dawn’s suspicion that Dr. Sulaiman was not truthful, the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners stated that their experts fully exonerated Dr. Sulaiman from any faults and that his autopsy result was “absolutely” correct. This proves that the SDBMOE is complicit in the coverup of Brady’s death[.] Both Dawn and I met with Marty Jackley at his office in Pierre and subsequently submitted a lengthy and minutely documented affidavit asking for an investigation into the coverup of Brady’s death – specifically focusing on the role of Craig Ambach heading Risk Management, present at every hearing during Dawn’s sabotaged litigation. [Dr. Lars Aanning]This interested party believes the Governor's Office of Risk Management also covered up evidence after Jason Ravnsborg killed Joe Boever.
10/22/24
Upgrades likely coming to NMRX
As ridership continues to rise for the state’s large commuter rail, concerns are being raised about the number of passengers it carries to offset CO2 emissions. The Rail Runner transports thousands of riders throughout the day, but a recent newsletter from the Legislative Finance Committee said ridership needs to go up if the train wants to offset its carbon footprint. However, they want to purchase more energy-efficient locomotives eventually. [Concerned raised over Rail Runner’s carbon emissions]On Monday NPR aired a segment that highlighted a $64 million federal grant Texas received for high speed rail. Listen here.
10/19/24
Rapid City's Eccarius channeling racist Tanton
In 1975, he wrote a paper titled “The Case for Passive Eugenics” and would later, in a letter to eugenicist Robert Graham, a millionaire businessman known for starting a sperm bank for geniuses, clarify his goals. Tanton’s ideas could also be found in the proclamations of the prominent “alt-right” white nationalist leader Richard Spencer. And Tanton’s ideas could be heard on Fox News. “The left used to care about the environment, the land, the water, the animals,” Tucker Carlson said on his show on Dec. 17, 2018. [The Ghosts of John Tanton]
10/18/24
Moving Rapid City railyard could speed passenger service
“There are a lot of railroad grant programs out there available," Harrington said. "We have spoken to the railroad about it, they’re all in favor of moving the railyard, except they don’t want to pay for it. So they’re looking for some other funding opportunity, so that’s something we’ll work on once we have the recommendations from this study.” [Bill Janklow's idea of public radio]The Railyard Relocation and Railway Configuration Study is linked here.
10/17/24
Pastor sounding the alarm on NAR
It took years for the scales to fall from my eyes. A major turning point occurred when I took a leave of absence from Faith and Action to pursue a late-in-life doctorate. Part of my research involved the German Christian movement of the 1930s, which supported the Nazi Party. One of the most respected Bible scholars of that period, Paul Althaus, declared Hitler’s ascent to the chancellorship to be a “gift and miracle from God.” I began to suspect that we evangelicals were similarly allowing our faith to be co-opted for political purposes. Devastating consequences seemed inevitable for evangelicalism and for our country. [Confessions of a (Former) Christian Nationalist]Listen to the Reveal broadcast linked here.
10/16/24
South Dakota suffering lack of political engagement
Blue states are twice as politically engaged as red states are.
In 2020 my home state of South Dakota was 47th in the percentage of the electorate who turned out to vote and 49th in percentage of women who voted that year. In May, 2021 a poll conducted by South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy at the University of South Dakota revealed that Republicans in the failed red state revel in authoritarianism when Republicans are in power and loathe democracy and progress when Democrats govern. Just 59% of the electorate turned out for the General Election in 2022 and only 17% of voters turned out for the June 2024 primary election. Chiesman has known about voter disgust in South Dakota for at least two decades.
Even the state's establishment Earth haters are on tilt about it.
"Hi Larry,
With Election Day coming up and only 66.8% of the voting-age population having cast ballots in the 2020 presidential election, WalletHub today released its report on the Most & Least Politically Engaged States in 2024, as well as expert commentary, to identify where Americans are making their voices heard the most. The more engaged voters are, the better chance they have to impact future economic and social issues.
WalletHub compared the 50 states based on 10 key indicators of political engagement. They range from voter registration statistics and laws to the percentage of people who voted in recent elections to political contributions."
Most Politically Engaged States | Least Politically Engaged States | |
1. Maryland | 41. Louisiana | |
2. Virginia | 42. Mississippi | |
3. New Jersey | 43. South Dakota | |
4. Oregon | 44. Nebraska | |
5. Washington | 45. South Carolina | |
6. Montana | 46. Indiana | |
7. Minnesota | 47. Oklahoma | |
8. California | 48. West Virginia | |
9. Arizona | 49. Alabama | |
10. New York | 50. Arkansas |
10/9/24
Johnson v. Noem in 2026?
A statement from Johnson’s family said “Tim always quipped that neither the left, nor the right, had a monopoly on all of the good ideas, but that working together, we can find common ground for the good of our country. In his work and life, Tim showed us never to give up. He will be missed. Our lives are fuller for having been loved and supported by him.” [Longtime Senator Tim Johnson dead at 77]ip photo: Sen. Tim Johnson attending the 2014 South Dakota Democratic Party's State Convention in Yankton.
10/8/24
The good news? Hurricanes disperse hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
In 2020, Hurricane Hanna passed through the central and western Gulf days prior to the research cruise and mixed the water column, disrupting the hypoxic zone which forms in the coastal ocean west of the Mississippi River delta. While the size of the hypoxic zone fluctuates naturally throughout the summer, it usually forms again within days or weeks after the passage of storms. [Dealing with Dead Zones: Hypoxia in the Ocean]Tropical cyclones cycle nutrients, too.
10/4/24
More cougars will be spared in the South Dakota Black Hills but in Wyoming not so much
The robust Black Hills mountain lion population has long been thought of as a conveyor belt of itinerant eastbound animals that will eventually culminate in Puma concolor reoccupying old haunts they were extirpated from long ago. The region’s reputation as a lion-dispersal factory is rooted in observation: Animals that have been fitted with tracking collars in the isolated bi-state mountain range have ended up treading into North Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska — and even well beyond. [Wyofile]Since then the large felid has rebounded enough that SDGF&P considered removing them once again but after a public outcry the Republican-glutted commission has junked their plan.
Paula Von Weller of Spearfish testified that mountain lions play a critical role as predators in the Black Hills, helping to reduce disease by preying on diseased, weakened animals. “Lions provide essential ecosystem services by removing chronic wasting disease from deer and elk populations,” Weller said. [State commission scraps plan to reduce mountain lion numbers after public pushback]
10/3/24
Unaffiliated Spearditch candidate could help send a progressive to Pierre
10/2/24
Midwestern Trump states in 'significant recession:' Goss
“The overall economy is not in a recession. However, certain sectors in a recession, and I would argue right now that the manufacturing sector is in a slight recession. The agricultural sector is in a fairly significant recession.” [Creighton mfg. index slumps in Sept., pointing to mixed economic conditions ahead]
Unprovoked In Pennsylvania, Trump attacks John Deere, "I'm notifying John Deere right now. If you do that, we're putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States. So that if I win, John Deere is going to be paying a 200%." pic.twitter.com/sPbm4MWFSR
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 23, 2024
10/1/24
Arizona's voucher plan a $400 million black hole
In terms of transparency, I mean, as a reminder, this is all of our money as taxpayers, is public money being spent on private schools and homeschooling. It seems to me that that should come with some level of accountability. So, like, I, as a reporter or any other citizen of the state can't see private schools' budgets to see how our taxpayer dollars are being spent or homeschoolers' budgets. There are states like Arizona where there aren't testing requirements. [Eli Hager, ProPublica]In my home state of South Dakota public money for private schools and homeschooling is still an explosive topic, too.
Trump alludes to eliminating the Department of Education so states can pump money into private schools.
— American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) September 29, 2024
"School choice is a very big deal. A lot of people don't know that, but it's a big deal. It'll be great." pic.twitter.com/dhVXyv1oHy
9/30/24
Utilities are not your friends: a tale of two pipelines
Catlinite is a variety of argillite found as an aggregate of Sioux Quartzite and named for American painter George Catlin who visited the quarries near Pipestone, Minnesota in 1835 where Indigenous peoples have worked since at least 1637. The Monument is still an oasis but now it's surrounded by sprawl, Republicans, glyphosate-saturated cornfields and overkill concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs.
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) during a Sept. 12 meeting approved with a 3-2 vote a pipeline route permit allowing Magellan to install a pipeline to the west and north of Pipestone. Representatives of Magellan said the pipeline was needed to restore services from Sioux Falls to Marshall and overcome reliability issues in the system, reduce transportation costs for gasoline, and handle specialty fuels as well as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel delivered to western Minnesota, eastern North Dakota and eastern South Dakota. [Pipestone County Star]Magellan is under fire from Colorado residents, too.
....RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTHWESTERN IOWA, SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA, AND NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA...Learn more at Minnesota Public Radio.
An Okla. company wants to run a gas pipeline through an area foundational to religious beliefs of many Native Americans & next to Pipestone National Monument.
— Walker Orenstein (@walkerorenstein) September 11, 2024
It's drawn thousands of comments in opposition. The company says it will prevent supply issues:https://t.co/yqlgaDs5sv
9/29/24
FEMA, tribes, states nearing funding disaster
But some lawmakers from disaster-prone states — on both sides of the aisle — were aghast this week at the lack of additional dollars for FEMA’s already depleted disaster relief fund and other federal disaster programs. Many of them were incensed that the typically bipartisan priority had fallen victim to partisan squabbles at such a dire time. “The right-wingers here, the MAGA crowd, even after disasters happen, they have opposed disaster aid for communities in need,” said a frustrated Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.). Republican Sen. Marco Rubio disagreed with his fellow Florida senator Wednesday, telling reporters that action to refill federal disaster coffers was long overdue. [Lawmakers stunned as disaster funds left out of stopgap bill]Tribal communities are concerned, too.
Results suggest Northwest coastal Tribes face significant barriers and unmet needs in realizing their adaptation goals, despite being leaders in climate adaptation. Key barriers and needs focus around five key areas: funding; Tribal staff and workforce capacity; collaboration and partnerships; technical assistance and climate services; and communication, education and outreach. [Climate Impacts Group]Oregon has nearly exhausted its disaster budget after spending some $250 million on wildfire suppression and remediation.
Flooding in southeastern South Dakota was horrific for those facing the worst of it. Late June’s flooding resulted in one known fatality and several washed away homes and roads. Months later, citizens are still questioning local flood plans and the government response. [Months after flooding, some residents still caught in the mud]Red flag warnings Sunday and Monday in overwhelmingly Republican counties in ranch country have welfare farmers and ranchers sweating the farm bill because it would provide relief for the voters who deny humanity’s role in climate calamities.
All Tornado Warnings issued with #Helene pic.twitter.com/fIGzbyklHH
— Collin Gross (@CollinGrossWx) September 28, 2024
9/28/24
South Dakota still a lousy state for women
9/25/24
More SD Republicans are turning on Noem and SDPUC
We are living in a state of deceit. In 2020 when Kristi Noem introduced SB157 she called it “South Dakota is open for business”. That bill should have been called “South Dakota is up for sale.” The PUC will take control of all permitting and the County and any local control will be deemed null and void. Summit Carbon Solutions is the Trojan Horse that will pave the way for making this happen with eminent domain. [Dear Editor, They want our land]Amanda Radke is a Mitchell area speaker and writer.
During the last legislative session, a package of pipeline bills, including HB 1185, HB 1186, and SB 201, was pushed through the House and Senate and signed by the Governor. None of these bills protect the private property rights of South Dakota citizens. [Radke Report: South Dakota landowners believe in protecting private property rights]So if Democrat Forrest Wilson withdraws from the PUC contest Libertarian Gideon Oakes has a very strong chance to defeat Earth hater Kristie Fiegen.
9/23/24
Despite millions spent Guard troops at southern border have little or no impact on migration
Hundreds of National Guardsmen have spent the past three years rotating through a deployment in Texas. “Political theater” is how immigration and border relations researcher Tony Payan describes the operation. Records show that the sensational arrests and busts Midwest governors predicted have been few and far between. With a combined $7.1 million spent to date, there appears to be no clear link between the aid provided by Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska and the operation's success at blocking illegal entry to Texas and stymieing drug traffickers at the border. Additionally, 17 Texas National Guardsmen have died during the three years of the operation, according to reporting by the Army Times. At least four of these troops committed suicide, the Times reported. [Midwest states far from U.S.-Mexico border have spent millions to send troops there]Recall that mercenaries, some from South Dakota, and National Guard troops brutalized many of the thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Dakota Excess pipeline who camped on federal land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. In its aftermath some 761 people were arrested between early August, 2016 and late February, 2017. Trump apparatchiks even referred to the American Indians and their compatriots as jihadists and insurgents.
If @GovAbbott doesn’t think that #NewMexico is important to the overall well-being of #Texas, then he must be forgetting about the #PermianBasin and the oil industry that straddles our two states. I don’t see him laying concertina wire there. https://t.co/gtWmWCvZYs
— Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) September 19, 2024