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Israeli settler attacks in West Bank threaten vital olive harvest Violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank are at a record high, the United Nations says, making it perilous to carry out the economically crucial harvest.

For Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank, the annual olive harvest has become a time of terror.

Across 77 towns and villages, according to U.N. figures, gangs of Jewish extremists have vandalized more than 4,000 trees and saplings.

Firm tied to Kristi Noem secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts • South Dakota Searchlight Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.

Firm tied to #KristiNoem secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts, reports @propublica.org.

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.

We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.

@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:

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Oh wow...

Photo of a Reddit post showing a flyer from Rapid City Public Library titled Notice to Library Users. It says Pennington County ended its contract and changes start Jan 1, 2026. Impacts listed: the library and bookmobile will close on Sundays, collections events and research databases will be reduced or eliminated, residents outside Rapid City will be charged an annual user fee, and partnerships with Wall, Hill City, and Keystone libraries will end. The flyer also lists county commissioners with phone and email contacts.

Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."

It has never been more 2003.

Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches

So much for a clean CR... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Whoaaaaaaaaa

Northern lights

I agree with everyone on being mad about this vote. If the party was smart they would have positioned this as a tactical retreat. Staying they did not want people to starve and freeze over the holidays. This leads to a pivot to affordability. We need now to hold the majority party accountable.

If, according to Trump, the government doesn’t have the tariff money available to refund all of it if he loses the lawsuit before SCOTUS, how can he be talking about giving away trillions in $2,000 checks?

We need to press the administration on this every day, and ask follow up questions.

Just getting dinner onto the table for the kiddos, will deal with this later.

Make him own it.

The Edmund Fitzgerald Teaches Men How to Feel Fifty years after its sinking on Lake Superior, the iron-ore ship remains a fascination among guys. There’s good reason for that.

This was worth a read.

Think about it…

We need to stop thinking how some t.v. viewer or Internet troll thinks on a policy to get a following. We need to look at what the community needs. Also, when we hear weird and untrue information we need to press people on sources and safeguards in place.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

More broadly, officials across ICE say Noem and Lewandowski have directed them to use a $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to launch splashy ideas that have proven ineffective or impractical. Among the examples some ICE officials have cited: A few weeks ago, the pair ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights— and for their own travel, according to people familiar with the matter. Some officials warned the pair that the effort would be prohibitively expensive compared with hiring more flight contractors, the people said.

Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn't own the planes. The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately. The project has since been put on pause, though DHS recently purchased two Gulfstream jets for $200 million, according to Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, who were notified by the department. A spokesperson for Spirit didn't respond to a request for comment.

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.

I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Great explainer

We’re at war?

Tax break for Libertyland USA heads to Rapid City referendum January vote, $27M boost for proposed Black Hills theme park drawing statewide intrigue

A state that refuses to fund SNAP benefits on principle is exited to give a MAGA theme park $27 million in taxes. open.substack.com/pub/thedakot...

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ WASHINGTON—Reaffirming the Trump administration’s promise to crack down on individuals providing supervision and instruction to youngsters across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

The Many Wrecks of the Edmund Fitzgerald

For your listening pleasure.

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At least 3 dead, 11 injured after UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport The aircraft was en route to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu. Kentucky’s governor said “a lot of families ... are going to be waiting and wondering.”

At least three people were killed and 11 injured when a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after departing Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, officials said. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) said some of the injuries were “very significant.”

White apartheid South African unfamiliar with how ballots work in New York State. More news at 11.

A defiant Trump vows no SNAP payments until Democrats cave on shutdown • South Dakota Searchlight President Donald Trump backtracked on a pledge by his administration in court filings to partially fund November food assistance during the government shutdown.

President Trump backtracked on a pledge by his administration to partially fund November #SNAP food assistance during the government #shutdown, posting on social media that benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government."

Via @statesnewsroom.com

Governor Rhoden, 75,000 South Dakotans going hungry sounds like a "rainy day" to us, and more than enough reason to reach into South Dakota's rainy day fund.

Do what the people pay you for: serve them, and keep South Dakotans fed.

Breaking: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has passed away Breaking: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has passed away

BREAKING: Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84
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