“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated." -Anne Frank

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers. Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd. Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl show, freighted in all manner of bracing and defiant political symbolism, was the most-watched performance in history, with 133.5 million viewers. Democrats need to listen for the roar of the crowd. Brilliant @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

I’m becoming more and more concerned that people at high levels of public discussion cannot identify the difference between a genuinely viral conversation vs a bunch of bots making noise.

Class is in session. Fun fact about disinformation: In order to change actions, you don't always have to convince someone something is wrong. You might just have to convince someone that something might not be right. The friction of uncertainty can stop someone in their tracks.

If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace. Immediately.

@nhannahjones.bsky.social: Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

It is really frustrating to see these narratives develop around with the administration without people pointing at the pardons for Jan 6 and saying, "you pardoned people convicted of assaulting officers. You literally do tolerate violence."

A great example of the divide in America. It seems to me that the president of the red states of America is the great divider.

Roxane Gay: I have not been able to get those words out of my head. "The world will always be broken, she sings. Repair it anyway." gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Hidden recording device found in State Election Commission meeting room www.thestate.com/news/local/c...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Come work here-- a terrific environment and loads of research support: jobs.elon.edu/jobs/258d1c5...

FASCISTS: *taking over* DEM. CONGRESSMAN: Rejoice! My bill to award the 1980 hockey team a gold medal has passed!

Something is happening in South Carolina.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Grateful to have this man as dean when I was doing doctoral studies at USC. He was thoughtful, intelligent and he added heart and soul to the academic environment. Bierbauer made the university a better place, I appreciated every minute he spent on my work. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p...

Grateful to have this man as dean when I was doing doctoral studies at USC. He was thoughtful, intelligent and he added heart and soul to the academic environment. Bierbauer made the university a better place, I appreciated every minute he spent on my work. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/p...

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

Folly Beach yesterday. Photo: Grace Beahm Alford @postandcourier.bsky.social

Conservative ideology boils down the exclusive franchise to murder others, and if you think that's overstating it, I would invite you to observe that hundreds or thousands of unofficial lawless kidnappers cosplaying as official lawless kidnappers is no threat whatsoever to the conservative mind.

A hugely important point is that international students pay full tuition, so they actually make it CHEAPER for US students to attend college, by allowing for more money for scholarships. Across the board, the reality is we need MORE international students.

Choose Your Weapon

@drannieandrews.com keep working the upstate! The lowcountry got you covered.

Japanese glorybower, Charleston 🌱

yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saj6...

Local Republican forgets to credit Biden's infrastructure bill for this funding. Imagine that. @scdemocrats.bsky.social @drannieandrews.com www.live5news.com/2025/07/31/f...

an utter lack of curiosity is a defining quality of the worst people u know

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

I remember when this happened.

Beautiful

On his blog, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social writes: “Mass media are dead. […] The question is whether we — the people formerly seen as masses — can protect our voices and our independence from fascist authoritarians and craven capitalists.” And we have that answer. buzzmachine.com/2025/07/18/w...

The face you make while riding around in a luxury party bus while wearing $150 pjs right before you vote to take away healthcare from 1,000,000+ of your South Carolina neighbors. She ain’t right in the head. Vote her out!

Debate over the 'Alligator Alcatraz' ICE detention center is a personal one for members of Miccosukee and Seminole tribes. The homes of Miccosukee and Seminole people, as well as their ceremonial sites, surround the detention center on three sides. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump promised not to cut Medicaid and his signature legislation cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion.

This is the other problem. Many people have no idea they’re on Medicaid because it gets rebranded in every state.

I’ve seen more than one post now of people saying the Republicans will pay a political price for this vote in 2026 and I gotta say folks… you’re all way more optimistic than I am. Americans aren’t great with cause and effect. They’ll assume their Medicaid got cut because of Dems somehow

Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them

How a SC raid freeing 700 slaves became a Pulitzer Prize-winning book scdailygazette.com/2025/06/19/h... by @sky-latte.bsky.social

10 years today and a lifetime ago, Mother Emanual AME. He gave the eulogy in the college basketball arena. We remember: @theatlantic.com youtu.be/m9iYBifsOPI

10 years today and a lifetime ago, Mother Emanual AME. He gave the eulogy in the college basketball arena. We remember: @theatlantic.com youtu.be/m9iYBifsOPI

Assasinations of state senators is NOT common. Maybe if our intelligence agencies and military were doing their jobs, tracking threats online for example, this may have been avoided. Instead, they’re tracking Jose’s bodega and Jesus’s fruit stand #FAIL www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stop playing games DNC. Elect the leader we deserve, Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social

I was thinking this morning about small-town No Kings protests. In April, I door knocked for the WI Supreme Court race in a rural area. Most of the people I talked to thought they were the only non-Trumper in their neighborhood, and many were wrong. I hope some of them found that out yesterday.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

Charleston SC

Oh, fuck off, #BrokenPost. You and legacy media are failing us every day in covering the rise of fascism and here is a evidence. Move on. Wake up and smell the Nazis in town. Did legacy media fail in its Biden coverage? Not if you ask them! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...