Morbidly obese Spearditch Earth hater Randy Deibert is a surveyor whose conflicts of interest compelled him to vote against the Black Hills environment and for his miner clients. According to a source within the South Dakota Legislature Deibert also has contracts with the LawCo lab named for a usurious pedophile.
Her father, who smothered in a 1994 grain bin incident and likely modeled extramarital proclivities, hated American Indians, she hates Indians and Donald Trump hates Indians.
With House Bill 1068 South Dakota Earth hating Republican Representative Bobbi Andera seeks to give pharmacists broad immunity to hand out ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine accelerating the chances that Republicans in the state will die off making America better again.
As they expose Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson for paying off Speaker Jon Hansen to stay in the Earth hater gubernatorial primary the South Dakota Freedom Caucus is having an event in early February in Sioux Falls featuring former legislator Steve Haugaard. Yes, the grassland fire danger index will reach the very high and extreme categories again Tuesday and Wednesday for much of the horrible red state of South Dakota.
Dusty Johnson votes for this AND to fund the National Endowment for Democracy.
— South Dakota Freedom Caucus (@SDFreedomCaucus) January 15, 2026
And he thinks he’s the conservatives choice for Governor in South Dakota?! @DustyJohnson https://t.co/TNe16hWGk9
The #sdleg might be rushing to give #tax incentives to #datacenters but Deuel County residents are not convinced that rapid industrialization is the right move https://t.co/GgpiZPLs7O?
— Dakota Rural Action (@DakotaRural) January 19, 2026
Editor's note: Madison, South Dakota is being considered to host an intelligence gathering facility despite the fact that would cost millions and isn't needed. Four current and former officials familiar with the planning were granted anonymity for their insights due to fear of retribution from Kristi Noem so officials at Dakota State University did not respond to requests for comment either according to POLITICO.
Madison Earth hater Casey Crabtree wants to live in DC because South Dakota is a failed state.
The 2026 Legislative kicked off in Pierre last week, and improving South Dakota’s economy needs to be the top issue for my colleagues and I, otherwise our economy will fall behind our neighbors, our kids will leave the state, and everyday South Dakotans will hurt. Getting South Dakota back on track requires bold leadership and vision, because the time is now to make an impact.Moody’s has flagged South Dakota as a state in or near a recession. At home, sales tax revenue fell 0.6% last fiscal year—only the third time in 30 years for South Dakota. Families feel it. Roughly one in five South Dakotans is delinquent on a credit card payment. People are buying fewer groceries and cutting back. When South Dakotans are asked what matters most, inflation and affordability top the list.That’s the backdrop for every debate in Pierre. Serious problems demand serious legislators and serious solutions.Driving home through whiteout conditions Friday, I kept thinking about my kids and their future. I don’t want a South Dakota where the next generation has to leave to build a life because they can’t find opportunities here. We like to say we’re “open for opportunity” in South Dakota, but it can’t be just a slogan. It has to be a commitment shared by the governor, the Legislature, local leaders, and every South Dakotan. The status quo won’t keep our towns alive. Closing our doors won’t either.That’s why I’ve been in the middle of the big fights—housing and infrastructure funding to keep housing costs low, standing up for biofuels so our farm families can compete globally, and pushing for opportunities that make a real impact across our state. I don’t shy away from a fight because it’s hard. I’d rather stand strong with courage on a hill than be found hiding in a bunker in fear.The big fight of 2026 is economic development and data centers. South Dakota needs to strengthen its economy, and we can do so in a thoughtful way that benefits hard-working South Dakotans and carefully balances concerns. Data centers play a pivotal role in our national security, provide new high-paying jobs, generate a steady stream of property and sales tax revenue, diversify our economy, and give the state and local communities a more reliable, predictable revenue base. This will increase property tax revenue that can fund our schools and roads in the future and keep more money in your pockets. This discussion is taking place at the federal level as well, with President Trump championing these data centers, while folks like Bernie Sanders lead the opposition.America First means securing our energy, building critical infrastructure here, and competing to win. South Dakota Always means doing it with clear rules, strong oversight, and built-in local benefits—no blank checks, no sweetheart deals, and no cost-shifting onto local families. If we get it right, we bring investment, expand the tax base, and create high-paying jobs for electricians, plumbers, HVAC workers, and cybersecurity grads who can live in places like Agar, Toronto, Sioux Falls, Rapid City, and communities across the entire state.As I always say: the best solutions aren’t found in Pierre, they come from folks at home that tackle real challenges every day. So, reach out with your ideas and solutions. If you’ll be in Pierre, let me know, I’d love to visit and recognize you on the Senate floor. Thank you. It’s an honor to serve District 8.
John Thune sat on the board of this bank and made the deal between Faceberg and Sioux Falls-based MetaBank. #thunefacebook https://t.co/u3OH2yYRHb
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) January 4, 2022
John Thune is simply another career politician who uses projection to avoid the Dan Nelson and MetaBank scandals.
Here are the details regarding the allegations mentioned:
- MetaBank/Dan Nelson Scandal Context: Reports indicate that in 2005, Thune, while in the private sector between campaigns, served on the board of MetaBank. Critics alleged he was on the audit committee when a significant loan was made to Dan Nelson, a former staffer for Thune, which was later described as a problematic, high-risk, or large loan. At the time, representatives for Thune stated he did not use his position to influence bank decisions.
- "Career Politician" Criticism: Critics in 2026 have characterized Thune as a "rino" (Republican in Name Only) or "spineless" for being part of the Washington establishment, with some commentators arguing he has not held a "true" private-sector job.
- Projection Accusation: Recent political commentary has accused Thune of using "projection"—blaming others for behaviors he is accused of—to deflect from his past, specifically regarding the 2005 MetaBank issues.
- 2025/2026 Controversies: In his capacity as Senate Majority Leader, Thune faced recent scrutiny in November 2025 for a provision he supported that could have provided $500,000 in payouts to senators whose records were seized, drawing bipartisan backlash.
As a Senator, Thune has held a complex relationship with the tech giant. He has chaired hearings questioning Mark Zuckerberg on issues such as data privacy and political bias, while also being noted as a significant recipient of campaign donations from the company.
Return to Sender: common sense conservative Shad Olson is taking fat Pat to the woodshed again and it looks like Katie Hoffman could stand to lose a few pounds herself. -- ed.
South Dakota's most famous living brain donor and vaccine recipient, Katie Hoffmann, now says that her unbridaled admiration and alliance with South Dakota's RINO doxxing and assassination blogger, Pat Powers, resides fully in his courageous slandering, smearing and defamatory attacks against yours truly. Heart emojis and subpar Starbucks bean juice all around.In a single oxymoronic breath, Katie praises RINO felatio artist Pat Powers for outing me for my "harassment and verbal abuse," against her and her subsequent gaslighting fantasies of me or any other biological male engaging in literal cannibalism of her corpulent flaccid physiognomy rather than what was my obvious and colorfully chosen metaphor for debate evisceration.I have eaten and do eat some women. Just not in the way Katie fantasizes for character distortion and expansion of social media presence aside from waistline. No cannibalism implied, nor indulged.Yes. Pat Powers. The same fat illiterate leftist blaggard who repeatedly doxxes South Dakota conservative female lawmakers to subject them to harassment, intimidation, property damage and threats of violence, is in Katie's world, a white-knighted champion of feminine empowerment. Chortle.Pat Powers. The same guy who published Brandei Schaefbauer's home address and the address of her AirBnB property in Lawrence County just four short days before the assassinations of Minnesota lawmakers prompted South Dakota leaders to put lawmaker metadata behind a firewall. That's Katie's paragon of moral virtue and chivalrous comportment in the treatment of "women."Katie is perfectly fine to target, besmirch, smear, slander and yes, endanger, anyone who doesn't supplicate to the altar of her idiotically chosen political idols, her chemical romance with AFP, or her amateurish description of South Dakota's hapless RINO preserve.Perhaps our hyperscale datacenter overlords will arrive shortly with requisite enlightenment to make cognitive dissonance and simultaneous contradictory beliefs evaporate with all the sizzle of a finite water supply pumped into a server farm.Thankfully, badly needed enhancements to South Dakota's online harassment laws will turn the Katie-Pat consortium's favored intimidation tactic into a felony offense. Instinctual leftists who use cancel culture, doxxing and online harassment to ameliorate their paucity of intellect will soon suffer rightful consequences for upholding their favorite targets to unhinged leftist violence and the constancy of an increasingly stupid electorate.And word has it, other things will happen long before the new law takes effect.
Yes, the grassland fire danger index will reach the extreme category again Sunday for much of the chemical toilet, sacrifice zone, perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area that South Dakota is today.
Editor's note: Donald Pay has a long history in South Dakota environmental politics and lived in Rapid City when career politician John Thune was elected to the US Senate by accusing Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of being a career politician.
Trump is not going to be controlled by Thune, a man who has gained his own perch of power by going along and getting along. Thune has proved over his long career that he has no real core and no courage. His Christian faith is wimpy, at best. His so-called “conservative” values about the sanctity of life vanish as fast as Trump’s thugs extinguish more lives on the streets of major cities. That’s how the Holocaust started, but Thune can't summon up the courage to confront the demon. He’s gutless, if not a demon himself, just as the Weimar conservatives were.
Thune brings dishonor on his party, but maybe he knows history a bit more than I give him credit for. Hitler, after all, killed off many of the conservatives, too. And, of course, he threatened family members of politicians who gave him too much trouble. I suspect that hangs heavily on Thune, as it would with many folks.
No, Thune will never be a hero. To find those, look to the streets of Minneapolis. That’s where you’ll find many ordinary folks confronting Trump’s thugs. They risk death to raise their voices against Trump’s Gestapo. The real heros of the Trump era are nowhere near the US Senate. They are in the streets.
The burning [of] the beetle has been postponed due to dry weather and forecasted wind. Organizers say the rest of the events will proceed as planned and the actual beetle burn will proceed as soon as some snow falls.
Editor's note: South Dakota's teflon teevee anchor Shad Olson is having none of Pierre's overt culture of corruption.
On the last day of last year's South Dakota legislative session, a patriot lawmaker stood feet away from a clearly audible conversation on speakerphone between another lawmaker and a former governor, (no, not her) negotiating a lucrative "donation" to the lawmaker's not-for-profit organization on condition of purchased support for the billion dollar prison boondoggle and lobbying influence for same.The witness immediately reported the incident to legislative leadership expecting at very least a face-to-face reckoning with the accused party and an explanation for what had every appearance of open bribery in exchange for vote switching on the prison project. The most egregious and hefty of several similar examples of alleged prison vote quid pro quo.Three attorney lawmakers and a spouse witnessed that report. And did nothing about it except plot the trashing, primarying, disgorgement and persecution of the select disgusted few who knew the story and lost confidence and respect for the do-nothings in caucus chamber.The public silence of that eyewitness has allowed the necessary space for the Odenbach-Hansen-Lems-Radke-Pat Powers cabal to continue their pretense of moral infallibility, and through their laughable passel of trundling special needs surrogates, a year long reign of cancel culture and defamatory terror against lawmakers and anyone else who was in Pierre and knew 2025 not as a rightful revolution in conservative majority policymaking, but as a melange of corruption, intimidation and fratricidal attacks against the likes of Phil Jensen, Dylan Jordan, Brandei Schaefbauer, etc.By a bunch of career politicians and neoconservative lightweights who cut the nastiest of deals to secure their perches atop the Pierre slag heap. The people who rode to glory opposing a single CO2 pipeline project but who now sing the AFP hymnal supporting data centers.As always, the inherent danger of remaining silent when an enemy knows you know their secrets is suffering their survivalist urgency to preemptively destroy, discredit, and ostracize the source before the damning truth of their misdeeds reaches daylight. When slashed tires and doctored gas tanks don't convey the message.From the godawful HB1020, the billion dollar prison betrayal and the "Nice People" gubernatorial race where hired surrogates spit daily venom and acid at opponents and now, tell pernicious lies to law enforcement to engender new grist for their illiterate smear operations, the 2026 division in the South Dakota grassroots is intentional, pervasive and fatal to the movement. Carried by fools and justified by scripture readings.Telling public truth about secret corruption is a matter of survival as much as whatever courage is required to defuse a bomb before it detonates. Doing or saying nothing about deadly secrets guarantees the outcome as surely as failure to snip the wire before the timer reaches zero.Silence by whistleblowers is always more dangerous than disclosure.Always.
A High Wind Watch has been issued for counties west of Brown and Spink from 6 PM CST Thursday through 6 PM CST Friday. Winds of 35-45 mph gusting to 60 mph will be possible, with the highest gusts over central South Dakota. High winds may move loose debris, damage property and cause power outages. Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
Editor's note: Rapid City, South Dakota barker, Mike Sanborn began The Decorum Forum in 2009 which enjoyed a significant following for several years. Other local notables, Bill Fleming, a Democrat and Bob Newland, a Libertarian have been authors there. Mr. Sanborn is responsible for some of the most sexist and misogynistic Deadwood and Sturgis Rally billboards littering I-90 but perennial loser, Sanborn was destroyed in Rapid City's 2015 Ward 3 runoff election that kept incumbent Jerry Wright on the City Council.
Today, Earth hater Sanborn writes an occasional column for the Spearditch-based Black Hills Pioneer and like Pat Powers' Faceberg page Mike's is plastered with his own image likely signs of deep insecurity but hey—any issue that divides their party is progress.
The proposed Rapid City Destination District (Libertyland) tax increment financing district (TIF) has, due to its epochal $125 million price tag, generated news stories from around the region and nearby states. Certainly, no adult resident of Rapid City — and no Black Hills television viewer or radio listener — has been able to avoid seeing or hearing campaign advertising in favor of this gargantuan project, which has been sold as a necessity to make the unchallenged sports complex (Catalyst) TIF work.The Catalyst District TIF will receive a whopping $84 million in financing. According to a Sept. 19 summary article in Government Market News, Libertyland USA will include a theme park, restaurants, retail shops, a Western-themed resort hotel, an interactive living history attraction, a water park, a campground, a residential district with 400 homes, a conference center and event spaces.Proponents of the Libertyland TIF have sought to tie its fate to the sports complex. Among them is an organization called Team Rapid City, which tells Rapid City voters the Libertyland TIF is needed or infrastructure costs for the sports complex could rise as much as $10 million. If you find it odd that infrastructure couldn’t have been included in the Catalyst District TIF, you are not alone.Sports complex visitors need Libertyland parking, they say. They need the restaurants. They need the hotel.But what about Rapid City’s existing restaurants? What about existing hotels? And remember those of us who said there wasn’t enough parking for the Monument expansion? Parking would take care of itself, we were told. Doesn’t the same apply to the sports complex? Voters might ask: Why not?Libertyland.com tells us there will be no cost to the taxpayer. They tell us there is no risk. Both statements are admirably confident. Both are false.On Libertyland’s website, proponents say Libertyland funds essential public infrastructure. But according to the city’s own TIF project plan, the city is a partner in the TIF, and city taxpayers will fund the very infrastructure upgrades Libertyland claims it is on the hook for. It isn’t. You are.Libertyland proponents also tell us Rapid City has had multiple TIF successes. They list a number of projects they say “prove that TIFs are a smart, effective tool for growth.” They would have been more accurate to say “prove that TIFs can be effective tools for growth.” Some don’t work as planned. Some do.They also claim TIFs pay for themselves by using the new sales tax revenue they generate, thereby reducing property taxes. Have you noticed a reduction in your property taxes as a result of the successful TIFs Libertyland lists on its website? ...Neither have I.Out of the eight “facts” Libertyland lists on its website, the most egregiously deceptive is the claim that the $47 million grant for discretionary funding included in the Libertyland TIF must be used for the “public good” and cannot be used to develop housing.What the project plan actually says:“$46,517,513 of the request is structured as a grant. This is in compliance with SDCL 11-9-15 under item (8):‘(Payments and grants made, at the discretion of the governing body, that are found to be necessary or convenient to the creation of a district, the implementation of project plans, or to stimulate and develop the general economic welfare and prosperity of the state. No payment or grant may be used for any residential structure pursuant to §11-9-42.
‘Discretionary Costs and Grants will be used for the development of the Commercial and Entertainment Zone and amenities of the Resort Village. These funds will also be used for professional service costs, including costs incurred for architectural, planning, engineering and legal advice and services. Grant funds cannot be used to developed (sic) residential structures.’”In other words, if the governing body — the City Council — wants to grant (give, not loan) Libertyland a large sum of cash to build a pool at its resort village, or a tavern or retail store in the commercial and entertainment zone, it will be free to do so, and taxpayers will be powerless to stop it. And it will have a $47 million slush fund of taxpayer dollars to play with.Personally, I doubt Libertyland can succeed. The idea is as full of flaws as a feasibility study written on a cocktail napkin. If it were my money — and under this TIF, it is — I would euthanize the idea. Libertyland investors have the right to lose their money. When they’re risking mine, we part ways.Voters have the power on Jan. 20 to mercifully put this one to sleep.
The three Earth hating crackers who represent District 31 in the South Dakota Legislature have been invited to answer to voters.
As the wealthy and corporations drive farmers and ranchers from the prairie wildland fire danger in January becomes ordinary.
Katie Fire Thunder is a 25-year-old Oglala Lakota activist who was recently appointed to the Montana House of Representatives for District 59. Fire Thunder is a legal assistant at the Gallatin County Attorney’s Office and co-founder of Bozeman Tenants United, a nonprofit fighting for safe and affordable housing. She served as a legislative aide and was a member of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Her grandmother, Cecelia Fire Thunder, served as the first female president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe from 2004 until her impeachment in 2006 purportedly for announcing plans sans council approval to open a clinic that would provide abortions on the reservation.
Yes, the grassland fire danger index will be in the high and very high categories again Sunday and Monday for much of the horrible red state of South Dakota.
I mean, like most people in this country, growing up, I really had little or no contact with the prairie because it was gone. I mean, I grew up in Michigan, I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, and the prairie was something I read about in books like Laura Ingalls Wilder, but not something that I had experienced. So it was only when I started exploring the prairie that was left and understanding what we had lost that inspired me to write, not only about agriculture, but about what we were losing by expanding agriculture in the Midwest. So you can sell a piece of land that has been plowed for much higher price than you can sell it if it hasn't been plowed. So prairies are vanishing largely due to commercial agriculture replacing grasslands with monoculture crops. But all of the outdoors is under threat, either from agriculture or development or from pollution, and the way to really protect all of them is for people to get outside and understand what they have and what they can do to stop whatever destruction is going on. [Sea of Grass and the Disappearing Prairie]This interested party gets the feeling that Pat Powers has never stepped foot on the prairie and knows less about it than every Earth hating Republican running for office in South Dakota.
That the Trump Organization would protect Iranian protestors and murder Americans is all we need to know about the End Times.
MINNEAPOLIS, United States -- Paramilitary forces under the command of President Trump expanded their campaign of terrorism to a new major American city, attacking a school and killing an unarmed civilian attempting to flee the violence.
— Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
This interested party has been following Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem's (KLAN's) career since she was elected to the South Dakota Legislature in 2006 and ordered a staffer in a leg cast to go into the Capitol parking lot during a blizzard so former South Dakota Snow Queen Kristi wouldn’t have to get into a cold car.
Noem's dive into the family operation led to posts agricultural boards - her first steps into politics. She served on the South Dakota Soybean Association board. In 1997, then-Sen. Tom Daschle nominated her to serve on the state board of the Farm Service Agency. That led to an appointment to the board from President Clinton. Noem also attended one of Daschle's leadership camps, which were intended to groom up-and-coming Democrats to compete for local and state offices. Noem said she attended when the camps were open to Republicans because she wanted to learn more about campaigning. Noem isn't sure how her name got to Daschle for the FSA appointment. It came when the board was being expanded from three members to five. Regardless, Noem was a Republican serving among Democrats. "I don't know why or how she got on that board," said Mike O'Connor, a former Democratic lawmaker who served as the executive director of the state FSA.Trump henchman, Roger Stone reportedly noted that when she was in Congress Noem was like a porcupine but all the pricks were on the inside.
It isn’t that uncommon in Noem’s family, based on court records since 1989. Noem’s husband, Bryon, had 18 recorded traffic citations during that period, 11 of them for speeding. Noem’s brother, Rock Arnold, had 34 citations during that period, 25 of them for speeding. He also missed court or fine payment dates four times and had warrants issued three times. Another brother, Robb, had 21 citations, including 12 for speeding. And Noem’s mother, Corinne Arnold, had 11 citations, nine for speeding.In 2015 while Noem was in Congress it was revealed that her brothers used the H-2A program to bring in workers during planting and harvest season. Today, people - particularly those using the H-2A program - have been a target of Immigration and Customs Enforcement including in South Dakota.
Noem was a partner in Racota Valley Ranch until 2008. Racota Valley Ranch received $3,058,152 in farm subsides in 1995-2008. Her ownership percentage was 13.5 percent in 2000-2001 and 16.9 percent in 2002-2008. Her 2009 financial disclosure form lists her as a partner in Racota Valley Ranch. EWG’s estimate of federal farm subsidies paid to Noem is $443,748.Racota Valley Ranch Partnership has received a total of $4,910,179 in taxpayer-funded subsidies between 1995 and 2024.
Three former Department of Homeland Security officials have made it clear that either numbed, radicalized, infidelitous Kristi Noem resign in 2026 or Herr Trump will fire her then replace her with Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin who is leaving that post. Mrs. Noem caused the murder of a Minneapolis woman and will not go unpunished.
Illinois U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly announced she is filing articles of impeachment again Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in the wake of a deadly ICE shooting in Minneapoli.
— CBS News Chicago (@cbschicago.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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In their 2024 tax return, Dakota Resources said they build the financial capacity of rural economic development corporations through community development loan products. They also reported that the own 51% of Dakotas America, LLC, which was formed through a joint venture solely for the purpose of applying for allocations of New Markets Tax Credits from the US Treasury which had totaled $460,000,000.Perhaps South Dakota News Watch should tell the story of the $1,000,000 loan Dakota Resources provided the Mitchell Area Development Corporation (MADC), the developer behind Mitchell TIF 31. The project plan is to extend 15 th Ave to the West to allow Echo Electric Supply to construct a new $2,500,000 building. “Without the assistance of a TIF, the project will not be built, and the Echo building project will not proceed,” according to the project plan. The South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development is providing a $362,500 grant for the project.Echo Electric Supply was acquired in 2024 by Sonepar, which is based out of Paris France. Sonepar is a member and active participate of the World Economic Forum and the world leader in B-to-B distribution of electrical equipment, solutions, and services. They are also involved in the controversial data center business.So the story is how Dakota Resources, who makes money off of the federal taxpayer, is loaning money to the MADC that is also subsidized with state money and will be diverting a million dollars in local property taxes allowing a multi-national corporation a competitive advantage over local electrical supply businesses.
This is not what we should call rural economic development. This is a story about how public-private partnerships are used in a communist-styled planned economy that sucks money out of rural areas, through the taxing authority of federal, state, and local governments, and ends up in places like Paris France.
The BWF is in its 46th year of supplying conservation information and activities to the Brookings community. Other issues that the federation members may bring up with the local Legislators are:
Legally define recreation as a beneficial use of South Dakota waters
Require a big game harvest survey (to reveal impacts of non-residents and help management)
Remove the nest predator bounty (less effective than habitat creation)
Reinstate pheasant brood counts (much needed for management decisions)
Define specific numbers of non-resident licenses for archery hunters
Re-establish rules for appointing GFP Commissioners — federation members feel that then-Gov. Kristi Noem’s appointments upset the balance of the commission [Brookings Register]
