Suzanne

Good grief! Johanna and I drove by all the weather monitoring towers in OKC. They are the best in the country (what remains of NWS, anyway)

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Dem Senators who voted to confirm Kristi Noem as DHS Secy:
SD knows Noem. She:
*pocketed campaign $$
*used private $ to send SDNG to Texas
*was so racist was banned from indigenous reservations
*shot her dog
*used SD $ to campaign for Orange
*doesn't care about anyone but herself
*including FEMA

Agree. And deluded dems, please stop asking for $$ for the "next" election. Ain't gonna be one.

Opinion | This Is the Birthright Reckoning That America Needs

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

reading darkly: fantasy; murder mysteries; novels written in foreign lands; titles like Unquiet Bones, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, Wrong Girl and Other Warnings, How to Be Eaten, The Murderous Urges of Ordinary Women. Yeah, past 8 months? A dark time. Solstice passed. Each day losing the light.

And a not-so-wild flower for you, friend. Trellis fell down in the wind, but jackmanii don't care.

Pffft. You are assuming these are vertebrates.

Dear South Dakotans, Here's the guy who's gonna take away your health care, your kids' education, your retirement. Whatever money you have left, he'll give it to the rich. What a guy. Such a man for his constituents.

Whazzup? I am. After plaque attack, stent, slambam. Standing, walking, working in the garden, planning my getaway. After the wake-up call of all that, leaving Dumbfuckistan and going back to where I belong: the Lehigh Valley, looking down on the Forks of the Lehigh/Delaware.

And just because birds make me happy. Did you know the speed of a flicker's beak? 25 times PER SECOND. Here's the male of our pair.

Ready for Earth Day? What a joke. www.bbc.com/future-planet

Whazzup in Dumbfuckistan? Daffodils, flax, yucca. The chive patch and spring onions add flavor to supper. Apple trees budding. Squirrels nursing kits. But it could snow again. Nothing like hands in the dirt to erase the madness. And some comeuppance for the Sec'y Homeland Security? Heh heh.

I forgot to do #HandsOff #Resist

Even here, the malignant Heart of the Heartland (Sen. John Thune's State) Folks turned out in the 100s.

#booksky #writingcommunity #poem

Note to Self, DNC, DCCC, DSC, AOC, Act Blue, Emily's List, past small donor giftees:
1) By August, the pittance I get from a life's work of journalism, environmental NGOs, paying taxes & into SSA for 62+ years = GONE.
2) By the time Dems get around to the 2026 election, I will be dead.
3) Fuck off.

Garden dreams. . .Once this darned snow melts.

Thor’s Helmet (NGC 2359) is a 30 light-year-wide bubble sculpted by a powerful Wolf-Rayet star near its center. This pre-supernova giant blasts stellar winds through the nebula, which lies 15,000 light-years away in Canis Major.

Image credit: Brian Hopkins

🔭 #NASA #Astronomy #Space

Way to go! No diff between shut down or tear down.

Calling all Crafters! It’s windy & cold here on the High Plains, blizzards usually hit during March basketball finals. Use your craft & resist! Knit, sew, quilt, sculpt: Courage. Spine. Strength. Send it to the big men in Congress. How many South Dakotans will send a “package” to their tall fella?

A. Weissman: "If you are in a corporation and don’t want to be illegally or improperly targeted, you do what companies . . . do.

Companies in places without the rule of law capitulate.

They settle lawsuits . . . completely ridiculous and not meritorious.

They settle because they’re afraid."

I enjoy your posts and pushback. Keep it up. Been a Girl Scout since 1958, haven't been on a Council or Cookie Manager for 20 years, but still On My Honor!
Tnx for re-posting Takei's thing. Elon Musk is not a real human. Clearly a Lizard Alien in a skin suit. You GO, GIRL SCOUT!

Nuttin' new here in the land of Infinite Deprivation. Well, at least it's not -20 and snowing. There's that.

South Dakota legislators are celebrating hand-cuffing and jailing librarians, and granting permission for firearms on campus.
A book won't kill children, but guns at college certainly could.
What's next? Book burning to fully obliterate our libraries? Gunfights among fraternities across the green?

They pushed back to 2026 to do the big 1776 celebration, but between the BHNF layoffs and the NPS layoffs, all that planned winter burning, cutting, and thinning. . .?? Maybe they'll pass out the musk-brat dope and everything will be fiiiiine.

And fireworks on July 4. What could go wrong?

SD House defeats gender identity notification bill and taxpayer-funded education lobbying ban • South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota House voted down bills that would have barred taxpayer-funded lobbying by school districts and required school staff to notify parents if students talk about their gender identity.

After an uplift in California, back in the Land of Infinite Deprivation, Malignant Heart of the Heartland of Dumb****istan.
At least a few of the worst ideas in the SD Legislature got thrown onto the trash heap. See - and support! -SD Searchlight
southdakotasearchlight.com/briefs/sd-le...

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