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
Darline Graham Nordone... nothing says “I’m ready to serve” like filing for the U.S. Senate, delivering a few canned lines about carrying on your brother’s legacy, then immediately refusing every single question from the press because you need “grace” to bury him next week.
You took the appointment. You announced you’re running. You accepted the Trump endorsement, the PAC money, the inherited staff, and the front-runner status. You showed up for the photo op. But the moment the actual job of facing voters and reporters begins, suddenly it’s too soon and everyone else needs to show restraint.
Grief is real. Campaigning is a choice. If the wound is still too raw for basic accountability, maybe don’t launch a Senate bid until after the funeral.
South Carolina doesn’t owe anyone a free pass just because they share a last name.
“No new wars” = getting tangled up in another Middle East conflict.
“Support our troops” = refusing to count fallen servicemembers because they died after a politically convenient “ceasefire.”
Fake slogans. Real costs to American families.
Salmonella in the eggs.
Flesh-eating screwworms in the meat.
Diarrhea lettuce.
Smoke in the air.
Forever chemicals in the soil.
Data center pollution in our water.
Handing Saudi Arabia nuclear technology.
A war over a strait that was already open.
$5 gas.
Expensive groceries.
Skyrocketing healthcare costs.
Crushing utility bills.
Are we great yet?
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.