If you're a woman in Mount Pleasant, you are truly screwed since Joe Bustos, Kathy Landing, and Tom Hartnett had no problem signing off on the House version and passing it off to Chip Campsen for the slam dunk in the Senate. Share this with every woman you know in Mt. P. #scpol
Republicans have already bailed out farmers with $44.3 billion of our money over the past year because of Trump’s policies and now want to give them $11.1 billion more for a total of $55.4 billion but the vast majority vote Republican because they are against socialism.
BREAKING NYT:
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed Trump in the 2024 election.
https://t.co/Zo5EtEW4U2
If you are the DOJ, it is unprecedented to lose 17 straight voting cases in 17 different courts without winning a single one. It's even more remarkable when 8 of them were decided by judges appointed by Trump.
How long will the networks ignore this?
How long will Trump?
it’s extraordinary that a president who won election—twice—promising no new wars has for nearly six months been completely consumed by a new war entirely of his choosing.
@RussellFrySC You only going after the Christian vote or what?? What about the rest of the South Carolinians who don't fit into your narrow world view?
@RussellFrySC You only going after the Christian vote or what?? What about the rest of the South Carolinians who don't fit into your narrow world view?
PEAK SOUTH CAROLINA GASLIGHTING A citizen files a FOIA for the tracking data on their own damn license plate, data the city already collected, stored, and can search at will through its Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system, and the city’s lawyers slam the door with a straight face.
Their excuses?
➡️S.C. Code Ann. § 30-4-40(a)(3): the records are “compiled for law enforcement purposes” and disclosure might “harm a prospective law enforcement action,” “reveal investigative techniques,” or “interfere with law enforcement operations.”
Oh, and suddenly they’re the champions of privacy. Releasing the historical location information on your vehicle would create “a detailed record of a person’s movements, associations, and activities” that undermines the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Section 10 of the South Carolina Constitution.
Let that sink in.
The same government that quietly blanketed public roads with ALPR cameras (Flock Safety systems in many SC cities and counties, feeding into SLED’s statewide database that has held hundreds of millions of plate reads for up to three years, accessible to thousands of users across dozens of agencies) now claims that letting you see what they already know about you would be the real privacy violation.
They admit the compilation of your movements is sensitive enough to implicate constitutional privacy interests… but only when you ask for it.
When they collect it without a warrant, without individualized suspicion, and without any meaningful legislative authorization or oversight, it’s just “public roadway” data and good policing.
➡️This is the classic surveillance-state two-step:
Weaponize “privacy” and “operational security” to keep the subjects from looking at the logs.
South Carolina has no comprehensive ALPR statute with real limits on retention, purpose, or sharing. Cities and SLED just did it.
Contracts get signed by police chiefs (see Greenville’s early deals under Chief Kenneth C. Miller), cameras go up (sometimes without even SCDOT permits), data flows to out-of-state servers and federal partners, and when a resident wants the records of their own car, the city’s legal team cites the very constitutional protections the system is eroding.
The denial letter is not protecting privacy. It is protecting the opacity of a mass location-tracking apparatus that treats every driver in the state as a permanent person of interest.
If the data is so sensitive that a citizen cannot see their own plate history, then the city had no business building the searchable database in the first place.
@AprilCromerSC April, trying to get MAGA voters to realize the sheer amount of corporate welfare that this Republican-led state doles out regularly is an impossible task. Why do you think they keep voting for it while also screeching about "socialism" and other contrived boogeymen??
*Trump defunds NPR, Voice of America, USAGM, has the FBI raid a WAPO reporter, sues broadcasters and threatens journalists over sourcing.
MAGA Congresswoman: the socialists are going to get rid of the media.
Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
GIllibrand: So essentially you're asking for literally $1.5 trillion for a war that President Trump said he already won? Secretary Hegseth, you are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can't feed their families.
Whistleblowers have come forward to report with evidence including receipts & documents that after Trump became Chairman of the Kennedy Center his appointed leadership gave FIFA control of the campus for 3 weeks for free costing us $5 million dollars & he got a fake medal for it.