Once the top-vetted hopeful for Donal Trump’s ticket for vice-president who has since seen her reputation tarnished (but probably irreparably—amazing that one could recover from something so heinous—due to 
the American values wars and backlash against cancel culture) by an autobiographical account of killing a family dog and a problematic goat as well as exaggerated or outright fabricated geopolitical meetings, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem has been banned from twenty-percent of the state’s territory as six Native American reservations exercise their sovereign right to declare Noem an outlaw and refuse her entry. The Tankton Sioux Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate joined the Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River and Standing Rock tribal branches for on-going jurisdictional feuds that began with suppressing the opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline in 2019 and recently suggesting that the independence reservations were dens for organised crime—drugs trafficking and illegal migration.
one year ago: assorted links worth revisiting, the Pantheon plus a classic from Boney M
two years ago: Our Lady of Fatima (1917), more links to enjoy plus Gรถdel and Einstein
three years ago: common areas of Singapore’s public housing plus St Glyceria
four years ago: anonymous scholarship, a quiet black hole, unmasked assailants plus an ancient herbal
five years ago: mushrooming traditions, technological middlemen plus open-sky requests from the incarcerated
