Noem’s Dominatrix Spills the Tea
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
For years, MAGA Inc. has sold America a fantasy: faith, family, values, and a steady stream of lectures about how everyone else is ruining the country. Then reality shows up with a crowbar. In this explosive episode, Shy Sotomayor tells the story of her alleged nine-year, on-again, off-again relationship with a man she says she eventually realized was Bryon Noem, husband of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and half of one of the Republican Party’s most aggressively marketed family-values power couples. Shy explains why she chose to come forward following the controversies surrounding Noem’s leadership at DHS and the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the breadcrumbs she says led her to connect the dots, and the moment the entire picture snapped into focus. Rick Wilson digs into the allegations, the timeline, the hypocrisy, and the breathtaking gap between the moral sermons MAGA delivers to everyone else and the chaos that so often seems to be unfolding behind the curtain. Because in modern Republican politics, the loudest people preaching virtue always seem to end up starring in the messiest episodes. Grab some popcorn—this one has enough irony to power the electrical grid.
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You can find Shy Sotomayor on social media:
X: @raelynnrileyxx
Instagram: xxtinyrainestormxx
TikTok:TinyRaineStorm
Facebook: Shy Raine Sotomayor
Rick Wilson is on X at @TheRickWilson, on Bluesky at @TheRickWilson.bsky.social, and you can check out Rick's Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. You can check out more of LP's work at www.lincolnproject.us and on X at @ProjectLincoln.
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| 0:00.0 | Content warning. This podcast is intended for adult audiences. We advise discretion as this |
| 0:07.8 | episode contains frank discussions of adult themes and explicit language. And then I wake up on a |
| 0:15.8 | random, I think Tuesday and I see Brian Nome's tits everywhere. I was just like, what is happening? |
| 0:23.8 | Because one, I didn't get those photos. |
| 0:26.2 | Two, who told, you know? |
| 0:28.9 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:31.3 | Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt. |
| 0:34.6 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:38.8 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:43.7 | Good night and good luck. |
| 0:45.6 | Hey folks and welcome back to the Lincoln Project podcast. |
| 0:48.4 | Our guest today is Shy Rain Sotomayor. |
| 0:50.8 | Now, you may or may not know that name, but you know the story in which she is a key |
| 0:56.4 | player. Shy was, and Shy, we'll get to the terminology properly in a moment, the counterpart to |
| 1:04.8 | Byron Noem's secret life. And the story blew up a few months ago that Byron Noem had had a long-running online relationship with Ushai was into a rabbit hole, which I did not know existed until now, but the whole bimbo fetish stuff. |
| 1:23.4 | And I wanted to have you on the show not because of the lurid, Byron Noam wearing spandex and balloon titties. |
| 1:31.6 | But I wanted to ask you about the dynamics of the relationships that you've observed and the relationship you saw there as an example of this sort of weird niche of Maga dudes |
| 1:46.4 | who are on some kind of down low, not necessarily gay, but in some kind of down low that |
| 1:53.7 | conflicts with their public image, the public image of their families and their public image |
| 1:58.1 | of their politics and all that. So I wanted to welcome |
| 2:01.1 | you to the show. And thank you for coming on. Thank you for help. And tell us first off, |
| 2:06.5 | what's the best way to describe your role in the relationship you had with Byron? It definitely |
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