Susan Lucas Hoffman

Charleston and my world. Trying to make a difference.

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

Alithia Ramirez, 10: Alithia loved to draw. She wanted to become an artist… After a car struck and killed her best friend last year, Alithia sent his parents a drawing of him sketching her portrait in heaven and her sketching his portrait on earth. #Uvalde

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

If you’re car rental shopping and see @NUCARRENTALS, don’t. Just. Don’t.

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

@Jaberuski Don’t

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

"Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. Action is the beginning of change."

-@JamesClear

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

Congress must pass the assault weapons ban.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Congress needs to step up and pass common-sense gun safety laws to protect our kids and educators.

Arming teachers is not the answer. Banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and ensuring extensive background checks are part of the answer.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Wait wait wait... the whole case was a hoax by far-right activists? Would this not suggest the litigant in question actually didn't have standing to bring the case in the first place? In what universe where rule of law exists is this case not now reviewed? https://t.co/QgFGayXPe6

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

Alito and Thomas just invent cases to drive their bigoted decisions, no doubt funded by dark money. The man named in the 303 case never asked for a website, and he’s straight and married to a woman. This court has a legitimacy crisis. https://t.co/KVjMmFIGCf

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

Crazy. You can do this?

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Colorado artist Lorie Smith said she had received a request to create designs for a same-sex wedding.

The man named in the request said he never asked for that. Stewart — who didn’t want his full name used out of fear of being harassed — is not gay.

“I’ve been active and vocal on LGBTQ rights,” he told The Post. “So it was frustrating to see my name being used.” https://t.co/ankLENjYRN

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

From today’s Trumpist mob in South Carolina to the latest DeSantis video, the competition between the Republican front runners over who can most recklessly mobilize and relentlessly intensify social hatreds is really something. And pretty horrifying.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Wow. A new report just found that, in just ONE week, cable news companies mentioned President Biden's age nearly *600* times while only mentioning Donald Trump's age not even 75 times — even though Trump is only 3 years younger than Biden. Our media truly fails us.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

DACA recipients are teachers, service members, business owners, doctors, and parents. They are our friends and neighbors. We are a better nation—a stronger nation—because they’re here.

As we mark the 11th anniversary of DACA, let’s continue to organize and push Congress to build an immigration system that offers these Americans a permanent pathway to citizenship.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

The five common causes of bad decisions from @FarnamStreet's weekly newsletter:

"1. Assumptions based on small sample sizes
2. Wanting the world to work the way we want rather than the way it doe
3. ..."

Read the rest. https://t.co/2ujkoa0Gnk

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

Normalcy https://t.co/vohEVMjzUQ

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

"The internet in general is getting less reliable overall, in part due to misinformation, disinformation, and the waves of garbage and glurge barfed forth by various bots and algorithms." @ChuckWendig Why I switched to @substack from Twitter.

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

@LightStalking Escalator @saks

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

I’ve already started campaign strategizing for Ron DeSantis because that’s what gay besties are for.😘 #WelcomeToDeSantis #Parody #NewVideo

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

That six-year-old is William Cho. He and his family went to the mall in Allen, Texas to exchange clothes that he received for his birthday. And his entire family was shot in the process. Just let that sink in. This is America & it’s because we have weak, spineless Republicans.

[Susan Lucas Hoffman @ksmg]

"A God-shaped Hole": https://t.co/l5hZ3SZPf9 so true.