We woke up to a fire in our home, we are fine minimal damage. Our fucking smoke alarms go off in when I cook but when the house actually was on fire they were as quiet and asleep as us and it took my cat to wake me up to out it out.

Allowing a private equity firm to build a massive data farm on or near a natural conservation area like the ACE Basin is like wadding up what's great about the South Carolina Lowcountry and flushing it down the toilet.

Families are getting crushed by exploding fuel costs, labor shortages, Trump’s tariffs, and weather-driven crop losses. Milk, eggs, bread, produce — everything’s up. The result? Skipped meals, smaller carts, and budgets stretched to the breaking point. #TrumpInflationCrisis

I've been asking this too. (gift article - link may expire after 14 days)

Watching the movie Splash for first time in years and just realized it's actually an immigration story.

Hot off the keyboard and gifted: Hegseth has to go. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Donate... Before some a$$hole billionaires buy it or something

Seriously Democrats?

Nuremberg movie: felt uncomfortable parallels with current events.... More Americans need to see it.

If you buy your health insurance from the ACA Marketplace - healthcare.gov - CHECK YOUR 2026 PREMIUMS right away! Post them. Tell the world what you think of Trumpcare - same as Obamacare, just 2, 3, 4 times as expensive.

The Vegasification of the White House continues...

If you look at the White House demolition story and your first reaction is "no one gives a shit about this, they're worried about their bills" and not "this is the easiest proof point ever that the GOP doesn't give a shit about your bills" I'm afraid you have failed a fairly easy political IQ test

What it was like to visit the White House under a Democratic president (2024). How quickly things change.

Answers a number of questions we're asking about the White House East Wing demo and new ballroom, such as can it be stopped and how large is this thing (Gift article gift link)

Associated Press live coverage of White House East Wing demolition

The #NoKings ❤️ My Country - ❤️ Democracy rally in Columbia SC.

Headline seems meant to convey wrong impression. The person arrested pointing a gun at the Myrtle Beach, SC, No Kings rally today was (checks notes) wearing a Trump shirt. Tricky.

Upstate SC 👏👏👏

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People need to look at these pictures and ask, is this America? Does this look like America? Does this look like the America you want it to be? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

(Gift article) The Atlantic America’s Zombie Democracy by George Packer Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity. (Gift link)

Bahakel owned stations did run Kimmel last night. Nice to know my own ABC affiliate is owned by Bahakel and not an anti-First Amendment telecom

Bahakel Communications owns many ABC affiliates in the Southeast. They have not announced if they will air Kimmel again. Contact them or your local ABC station to voice your opinion. Bahakel's HQ is in Charlotte. 704-372-4434 www.bahakel.com. You can also msg them on LinkedIn.

"I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources."

Because hate won't make us great again.

"Trump at one point paused the East Room meeting and left the European leaders to speak for 40 minutes by phone to Putin, according to one person familiar with the talks, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about the sensitive closed-door conversations."(Gift link)

If you voted for Trump and don't mind the price hikes on everything now, it was never about the price of eggs.

Whatever happened to "The White House is the People's House?" Do we have any say in this gauche addition? How much of an historic public building (that means owned by the American people) will be destroyed? (Gift article)

I could pour this rage into a glass, drink it, and pour another glass. @thedailyshow.com

I think we know the answer.

#Caturday says "Come hither #Caturday night."

Summer #Caturday

I'm in D.C. and I’m voting NO on Trump’s spending bill. It hands nearly $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1%, slashes over $1 trillion from health care, and still adds TRILLIONS to the debt. This is a betrayal of the working class—plain and simple.

A crowd rallied at the #SouthCarolina State House on Saturday to protest President #Trump during the #NoKings demonstration. #scpol 📹 Javon L. Harris 🔗 bit.ly/4emTbDH

Timeline and soul cleanser.

I could use an entire Green Day cover album of Beach Boys right now

A pretty flawless political address for this moment. It's worth listening.

#Caturday throwback to Louie, the greatest cat love ❤️ of my life for almost 16 years. He was about 6 months old when he found me after being declawed and abandoned to roam the streets. More personality and smarts than most humans & my cat soulmate.

"Will you please stop talking about politics, girl?!? It's #Caturday!"

Think Trump made a deal? Toy co. CEO: “It’s like they tried to feed us a rotten egg sandwich and hope we’re happy to drink spoiled milk instead,” he said. “We are going from possibly losing our company and going out of business to just losing our profits for the year.” Gift article wapo.st/4kjw52s

No.

It's #Caturday. Do what you can while you still can.

Support the public servants illegally fired and fighting back.

If your aim is to dismantle and delegitimize the federal government all of this makes sense

For Trump’s office: 24 karat gold. For you: #TwoDolls 🤡

#Caturday pro tip for #50501protests and demonstrations: relax and stretch before heading out - take a moment to reflect and focus on the goal. #50501Movement #50501SC

I've just discovered there are things called human dog beds and now I want one. I need to get a dog and, apparently, a guitar or the whole premise just falls apart.

Isn't the ideal role of government to protect people and improve their lives? How is anything Republicans are doing in sync with that?