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Climate scientist, meteorologist, resiliency, legos, snark, cats, horrible person, South Dakota Mines prof. All opinions are mine, but I'll blame my employers for my typos.

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Musical Monday: The Wizard of Oz - Tom + Lorenzo Yes, darlings! It's The Wizard of Oz! The tale of an epic clash between powerful witches and the disturbed little girl they use as a pawn in their

In Dorothy's defense, I can see why she first tried to run away from the farm, given how it was all "sepia-... yeah.. uh... sepia-" toned, but at least she caught on once she realized that Oz politics had a dark underbelly.

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07.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No, her husband gets the state in the deal, and if not, our Republican legislature will try to declare the whole state tribal land. Nobody at the adult table an stand her here. One of her gullible out-of-state cult members or Ohio/NVa cronies can take her in. We're done with her.

06.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't forget that Joel was gifted a $10k donation from the state GOP that matched his agreed plea deal's bail, before it all came to light the judge found out. And they knew that his war chest had plenty of cash in it beforehand.

06.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, the Blue-Anons here have no clue about what it's like to be a designated "scapegoat" here while Steve Miller is the golden boy of Santa Monica. People here still claim that Noem "went easy" on SD (everything DHS did elsewhere they've pulled here).

06.03.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Freedom Works Here, but so does cronyism β€’ South Dakota Searchlight Maybe freedom does work here. But from the way this marketing campaign started, it looks like it’s cronyism that prospers.

Well yeah, for *us*. Meanwhile, I hope her foster home (most likely Ohio or Northern Virginia) is smart enough not to give her a company credit card. www.thedakotascout.com/p/kristi-noe...

06.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And of course, you saw how SDSU's most famous Political Science degree graduate demonstrated her mastery of "Habeas Corpus" live on CSPAN. (**Our** students are better and they're just engineers.)

06.03.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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STARTED?!?!? Oh hon. Hold my beer. I was there in 2010 when she voted for ASTROLOGY to be taught in SD science classrooms (and no, not all Republicans voted for it, my own rep & senator reached out to us personally out of embarrassment).

06.03.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

We're not, crying, you're crying: Byron Nome gets SD in any settlement. She has to move in with one of YOU. Perfectly fair given that it was her gullible out-of-state base and connected out-of-state cronies that got our tax $'s that got her the DHS gig.

06.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our state senate president pro-tempore will turn the whole state into Tribal land just to keep her out.

Really, NOBODY at the grownups table likes her here.

06.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The state senate will declare the whole state tribal land before she gets here. You have no clue as to how many bridges she burned here.

06.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

She had the *worst* GOP victory for her party for the governorship since the 1970s. A head of lettuce can be relected here, given how voters fear the devil they don't know, but even there she was so scared that she had to steal her DEMOCRATIC opponent's long-held no-sales-tax-on-groceries platform.

06.03.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sillly Rex. Byron gets the state, and even our very red legislature would turn the whole state into Tribal land just to keep her out. Seriously, she burned all her bridges here and has spent the last several years trying to get an out-of-state gig.

06.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

She won the first gubernatorial election with the party's narrowest "win" since 1978. She was a minority win for the US House before. Incumbency typically gifts reelection, but she was so scared that she stole her Democratic opponent's long-term stance on removing the sales tax on groceries.

06.03.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Her out-of-state suckers she courted while leaving my fellow South Dakotans to die of COVID in high numbers, can take her in. Even our red legislature would turn Pierre into tribal land if they cook to keep her out.

I hear she has rich friends in Ohio and Northern Virginia.

06.03.2026 07:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, she has been fighting to get away from SD since Trump got in. She was angling for the NRA position when the GOP blew her national cover over Lewandowski. (I mean, really, everyone here knew it before she trash-talked the DC delegation for not going to her VP rally in Rapid. Then BOOM.)

05.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I'm not sure how much of the state GOP "establishment" wants her. Say what you will of Rounds or Thune (going back to the House will be slumming for her), they are more likely to deliver to SD as opposed to say... Noem, who's more beholden to Ohio or Northern Virginia.

05.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

She spent her entire time as governor trying to get out of South Dakota; it's just not fair to her or us to see our dreams squashed.

05.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm pretty sure Schoenbeck would declare Pierre to be tribal land if he had the power to do so.

05.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Byron gets the state...

... right?

05.03.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We here are just hoping that Byron gets the whole state.

05.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank god Byron gets South Dakota in any settlement.

05.03.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Governor Noem praised for avoiding conflicts of interest by sending open-bid contract IP developed by SD-based firms to out-of-state companies with no links to the state."

05.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Former official: Politically connected firm was 'obvious' favorite for Noem ad campaign β€’ South Dakota Searchlight A former Noem administration employee told legislators that a politically connected, out-of-state marketing firm seemed predestined for selection to carry out a state advertising campaign.

"Noem praised for avoiding conflicts of interest by sending open-bid contract IP developed by SD-based firms to out-of-state companies with no links to the state."

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/01/08/f...

05.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who has had a front seat to her certified dumb since 2010… She voted to teach astrology in SD classrooms when in the state house. And then there was where SDSU gifted her poly sci degree without as we saw on national TV that she didn’t know what habeus corpus was.

She IS that dumb.

05.03.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Former official: Politically connected firm was 'obvious' favorite for Noem ad campaign β€’ South Dakota Searchlight A former Noem administration employee told legislators that a politically connected, out-of-state marketing firm seemed predestined for selection to carry out a state advertising campaign.

Wait. You think she EVER cared about SD. Or more likely: you're just another blue-anon troll trying to drive a wedge between urban and rural democrats.

And you sure as hell aren't an IP hawk. She STOLE IP to give to her Ohio cronies' company. southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/01/08/f...

05.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why are you lying? Strategy Group
Is based in OHIO. This has been well known since she diverted intellectual property from a Sioux Falls SD OUT of SD *to* her cronies at *Ohio’s* Strategy Group.

04.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

True: Some of us need to be reminded of what we left behind what also understanding what people who need to stay there for outreach have to go through.

04.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a reason so many of us left Twitter to rot into 4chan-2.0. I can see why some stay but, ugh.

04.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If she tries to come back here, our *Republican* legislature will declare the entire state tribal land. People outside of South Dakota, from Blue-Anons here to her gullible out-of-state base, have no clue how many bridges she burned here.

04.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Byron Noem gets South Dakota in any settlement. Nobody here wants her. Maybe one of her gullible out-of-state fans in Ohio can take her in. Afterall that's where "Strategy Group," the people she sent our state contracts & tax dollars to after stealing an SD ad firm's contract bid's IP, is based.

04.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0