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I could tell you all about it, I could tell you why I doubt it, and why I still believe. /// Views my own, obviously.
North Charleston, SC
Joined February 2010
Don't forget *why* we're finally seeing the Epstein documents: The Miami Herald and its lawyers fought to unseal them in court for 5 years. Sometimes that's what it takes.
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2022: Unionize Starbucks. 2023: 🆄🅽🅸🅾︎🅽🅸🆉🅴. 🆆🅰︎🅵🅵🅻🅴. 🅷🅾︎🆄🆂🅴.
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W.E.B. DuBois on Robert E. Lee, March 1928. Brutal, concise, and correct.
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The inability of South Carolina politicians to talk straight about the Civil War, 150+ years after the fact, is a sight to behold.
Stunning moment: At a town hall in Berlin, N.H., Nikki Haley was asked by a voter what was the cause of the Civil War. She said the war was about government interfering in people’s freedoms. The voter then called her out for not mentioning slavery.
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A hard-right faction took control of the 4th-largest school district in South Carolina last night and immediately got to work smashing anything that wasn’t nailed to the floor. I took notes so you can be prepared when they come for your schools.
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I'll go ahead and say this: Calling Nikki Haley "Nimrata" as an insult has the same energy as saying "Barack HUSSEIN Obama." There are a thousand reasons to oppose her, but that ain't one of them.
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This is the Denny's headquarters building in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Built circa 1990, but it has strong '70s brutalist vibes.
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The 1st photo is the 1965 George M. Goodloe House, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, by William Morgan. The 2nd photo is what someone replaced it with in 2006 after demolishing it.
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@Ryan_Ken_Acts My daughter told me she's going to keep wearing hers on the playground because it keeps the pollen out and I can't argue with that.
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The strangling omnipresence of kudzu on the landscape and the edges of town is still a bizarre sight when I stare at it long enough, even though I've seen it my entire life.
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Hot Dog House by Stanley Tigerman. Harvard, Illinois, 1976.
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I don't know if South Carolina's incoming superintendent of education appreciates how widely loathed she is among teachers. About to find out, I guess.
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Ryan is Oklahoma's incoming superintendent of schools. Guess what he means by "woke.".
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That's cool I guess, but could we get broadband internet access in rural counties?.
Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon.
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Yeah wow, hate it when people politicize . bank regulation.
Idk, probably shouldn’t politicize such a serious issue. Also your statements are irresponsible, false and poorly timed. 🛑.
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Hey you! Are you thinking about rehabilitating the image of former U.S. President George W. Bush? Here's something you can do instead:. 1. Open the webite 2. Type "abu ghraib torture".3. Hit Enter.
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I went to the University of South Carolina and got a fine education, but what radicalized me was my experience as a worker and parent in a crumbling state overseen by capitalist boot-lickers like Tate here.
Want to reduce the risk of your kid going woke or changing their gender while at college? . Let them come to the South to get a great education —. Mississippi welcomes talented kids from all over 🇺🇸 at our universities and colleges!
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It sure looks like the South Carolina Supreme Court just shredded the state's voucher scheme that sent public funding to private and religious schools!.
Opinion: Candace Eidson v. SC Dept. of Education: Petitioners have challenged the constitutionality of 2023 Act No. 8 (S.39), also known as the Education Scholarship Trust Fund.
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This whole back-and-forth between @TheAngryGrandpa & @therealroseanne is blowing my mind. Mutual fans, apparently.
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George from Cannibal Corpse is a good Instagram follow because every other post is him stunting with stuffed animals he won at a carnival or claw machine
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Hi, South Carolina dad here. You're stealing funds from our public schools to subsidize private, religious schools. This is not only unconstitutional but morally wrong.
Today we took a long-awaited step to bring CHOICE to education in South Carolina! This legislation - now law - empowers parents to choose what is best when it comes to their child’s education.
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This Facebook group started by people defending Charleston's John C. Calhoun monument has, predictably, descended into violent fantasies. I reported the group to Facebook, but Facebook said it wasn't a Terms of Service violation. Screenshotting til they kick me out.
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Frank Loyd Wright's Johnson Wax headquarters, Racine, WI, 1936-39.
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Thousands of South Carolina teachers quit this year because our state is governed by people who fundamentally do not believe education is a public good.
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The Denny's Tower in Spartanburg, SC, would like a word
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Remember last year when Wando High teachers took heat for assigning books involving police brutality by @angiecthomas, @JasonReynolds83, & @KielyBrendan? Their principal had their back, & she just won an award for defending intellectual freedom.
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Since Nikki Haley is running for president now, I'm morally obligated as a South Carolinian to explain why you should never vote for her. Here you go:.
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Now is as good a time as any to announce I'm working on a book about brutalist architecture in the American South. Details to come.
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Ooh ooh, do my district next!
Here's the Alabama congressional map that was struck down today. It packs African American residents from Birmingham to Montgomery to Tuscaloosa to Selma into one single district (=everything that's blue on this map).
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Here's an editorial from the student newspaper at one of South Carolina's largest high schools. The students see what's happening too, and they aren't having it. Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
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Imagine being more upset about modernist architecture than about the public glorification of white supremacists
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With COVID cases skyrocketing in South Carolina, Gov. Henry McMaster just held a rambling press conference but announced no new action by the state. He instead chided "young people" and told us we should all be careful so we can go to football games in the fall.
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Incoming SC education superintendent Ellen Weaver's Palmetto Promise Institute released a report today on "indoctrination" in schools that lists every major teacher advocacy group as part of a "constellation of the left." She sees them as her enemies.
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Should I make an "Insane Moments in South Carolina Politics" account?.
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@SethAbramson Multiple sources confirm the commander in chief has been reading Kropotkin and is now booked on organizing zoom calls through the end of the month. Also he's bringing chili to Food Not Bombs in the park tomorrow. What a world!.
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I visited the newly opened International African American Museum with family this weekend. Absolutely worth a visit if you're in Charleston. Sharing a few photos in this thread. 🧵
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A few thoughts on Kelly Loeffler's mansion, a pointless anachronism with all the subtlety of a Cheesecake Factory:
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Remind me again, what's the term for a person who makes their money from armed conflict.
BREAKING: @RaytheonTech CEO Greg Hayes says the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has a $75 million impact in sales for the company.
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@NotABigJerk Our minor league team (Charleston Riverdogs) used to be called the Rainbows, so for pride night they just bring back the old name and merch. I dig it.
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I'm from North Charleston and my city has unfinished business. 5 years after a police officer shot Walter Scott in the back, we haven't repaired the relationship between law enforcement and my Black neighbors.
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My neighborhood has a Little Free Blockbuster now and I just think it's nice
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Did y'all know people died here because Nikki Haley refused Medicaid expansion to score political points? I'll not listen to her lectures on morality, thanks.
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Do you ever sit and think about how many years this city has left?.
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I'm not trying to idolize a baron, but if you're given a huge swath of land for no good reason, this is a reasonable thing to do with it.
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Lots of national reporters in Charleston today to cover Nikki Haley's 2024 presidential campaign launch. Howdy. Local ex-reporter here. I'll make a thread of things you should know if you don't want to be a stenographer for a hype machine. 🧵
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I'm at the Richland Main library for work today and they have a biscuit place? in the lobby?? Other libraries need to get on this level.
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can't stop thinking about the architecture of the downtown Orlando Public Library
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Everybody keeps dunking on Michael, but I personally think we should listen to the Fred Koch Endowed Chair of Country Club Studies at the Society for the Protection of Terrified Billionaires
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@turing_police I have a distinct memory of this! The number of drinks was symbolized by martini glasses. They made the game way too easy.
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It's been a long day and I just want to reiterate that we should chuck this statue into the Congaree River
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Guess who's about to file a FOIA request in South Carolina.
.@Trish_Crain FOIAed to see how many Alabamians emailed the state superintendent about critical race theory before he introduced a resolution attacking it. The answer: 2. He now admits he wasn't responding to concerns about what was going on in AL schools.
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In Berkeley County SC, teachers will be wearing black on Fridays. They are fed up after a newly installed school board fired the superintendent, banned "CRT," and set up a book-banning panel. #WhyTeachersLeave
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Both are fine towns and I'd love to vacation there, but at heart I'm still a Lowcountry boy
@Paul_Bowers If you are miserable here, why don't you go live in Norway, Denmark, etc? Low crime, very liberal, you would probably be a happier person.
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Back when Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina, she rejected Medicaid expansion under the ACA, leading to the unnecessary deaths of 100s of poor and elderly South Carolinians. Haley's invocation of dead soldiers is simply grotesque.
It is amazing that a liberal socialist won in Iowa and New Hampshire. The idea that we would give up the freedoms our veterans fought and died for is unthinkable. Other countries have to be scratching their heads wondering what we are thinking.
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New gig is with the @ACLU_SC. I start July 10 as communications director. I can't tell y'all how pumped I am to get started.
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@TimHillSC Tim, there are plenty of moral stands worth taking in this day and age. I want you to understand that this is not one of them.
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Reading the comments on a Nikki Haley facebook post is the closest thing I've ever experienced to having a stroke.
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Nikki Haley hasn't held elected office since 2017 and has spent her post-UN years in sorta-retirement as the figurehead of a thinktank called Stand for America that converts dark money into facebook memes. Tell me more about why she should run for president.
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If I were looking for a lucrative grift, I don't think I'd choose "doing leftism In South Carolina".
Imagine if these leftist grifters put half as much energy into supporting teachers and cutting the administrative bureaucracy as they do spewing corrosive woke propaganda.
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This man uprooted his family to come here and lead the school district, and Moms for Liberty chased him out of town in less than 4 months. What an absolute travesty.
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Props to @MickMulvaney, the king of South Carolina Republican shitposters, for penning this all-timer in the WSJ
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The graph of SAT scores vs. parental income looks pretty much the same.
The most shocking thing I read in Piketty’s “Capital and Ideology”: The relationship between parental income and their kids’ enrollment in a college, 2014.
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My twin daughters' kindergarten teacher just asked the class for examples of non-living things. Daughter 1: Legos. Daughter 2: A dead person.
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It's hard to keep up with the assaults on public schools, trans people and their families, and the teaching of US history, but for today let me just register my blanket disgust with the South Carolina General Assembly.
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At my wife's work Xmas party and there's a karaoke machine and I just belted out Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" alongside a 75-year-old man who revealed afterward it was his first time singing karaoke and buddy he *killed* it.
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@jonathanbfine Imagine Sun Tzu being told he'd one day be in the esteemed company of the "Rich Dad Poor Dad" guy.
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South Carolina teachers, go on strike and I'll march with you.
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Prosecutors are seeking, at maximum, a life sentence for Alex Murdaugh after he was found guilty of murdering his wife and son. You know who the state is seeking to *execute*? This man, Richard Moore. 🧵
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On May 2 when the governor participates in the National Day of Prayer, remind him that he is actively choosing to let South Carolina children go hungry.
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Rudy Mancke has been part of my life since I was literally an infant and my parents put on "Nature Scene." He led a beautiful life and opened our eyes to a lot of beauty and wonder.
Rudy Mancke, a naturalist and host of SC Public Radio's NatureNotes and SCETV's Nature Scene, dies at 78.
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Just like Libs of Tiktok, Conceptual James, et al., they sound detached from reality when they try to explain themselves out loud.
"What do you mean by that?” Scott Pelley asks Moms for Liberty founders about claims, posted on the group’s social media, that students are being “groomed” by teachers and librarians.
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I'm a Christian millennial and father of 3 from Nikki Haley's home state of South Carolina, and I'm here to remind you this is nonsense.
A new poll was released showing a stark drop in young Americans’ feelings on the importance of patriotism, religion, & having a family.Too often, younger Americans are hearing about socialism & free stuff w/o regard for the future.They need to hear the truth. @standamericanow 🇺🇸.
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Wednesday was my final day of employment with The Post and Courier. I will always consider it an honor to have worked with such a dedicated team of reporters and photographers. If you know of good jobs in the Charleston area, please let me know.
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