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Lynn Teague

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retired archaeologist, active citizen advocate, weaver, family and local history enthusiast

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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Man, all they had to do to make AP African American Studies classes focus less on racism was make the last 400 years go a little better.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Yesterday our government was redefined not on the basis of the Constitution, which says nothing supportive of the Immunity decision, not on the basis of law, but solely on the basis of how 6 unelected authoritarian theocrats think things should be.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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John Roberts has described even simple straightforward statistics as gobbledygook. Having claimed superior ability to resolve complex issues, he and his SCOTUS friends have no problem from their ignorance — they have no intention of ruling on the basis of data & science. nytimes.com/2018/01/15/u...

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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They don't care about the difference between nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide because they have non intention of ruling on the basis of scientific data and statistically grounded scientific arguments. Simple really.

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The reactionary assault on democratic multiracial pluralism and the modern state won’t stop because the people behind it have an epiphany they shouldn’t go *that* far. It will either *be stopped* or entrench white Christian patriarchal rule and unfettered domination by the wealthy and powerful.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Beechgrove is filmed at Beechgrove Garden, Aberdeen, Scotland and at other Scottish gardens. It has been around since 1978. It is available on Amazon Prime and on YouTube. The climate-specific aspects are not very useful in my South Carolina garden but much of it is, and it is a lovely show.

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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Can't get over how much an asshole Roberts sounds like here

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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I'm seeing demands for an end to no fault divorce, along with ending abortion, contraception, and IVF. Apparently there are a lot of men out there who believe only a combination of legal coercion and threat of divine retribution will keep their girlfriends/wives with them.

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“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity.”

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Thomas Zimmer's avatar Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present
 
Reflections on the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the peculiar nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful “When the Clock Broke”
 
New piece:
 
thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-origin...

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Steph Sleeper 's avatar Steph Sleeper @drsleeps.bsky.social
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My son is approaching a total of 6 out of the last 9 months in the hospital and is missing his cats. Please share with him your finest fine bois! This is Big Lou who is an absolute unit of a cat. @darthbluesky.bsky.social
It would make his day to have a repost so we can fill this thread with 🐈‍⬛🐈?

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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Look, I was skeptical back when it just plagiarized words, sucked up water and energy and eliminated people’s jobs, but they really sold me on it by making it more expensive.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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One of the major challenges we face is environmental, with carbon-based energy at the top of the list and water shortage also major in many places. AI is making both worse, causing demands for energy generation and water to skyrocket. It isn’t clear the output is worth it.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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I just had the same conversation with my cats. No to the tandoori chicken and saag paneer.

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TEXAS GOP CALLS FOR THE DEATH OF 1 IN 4 AMERICAN WOMEN

The largest Republican Party in the state that executes the most prisoners backs the death penalty for abortion, reports @jessicavalenti.bsky.social

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Dorchester County SC gets $2 million taxes from the new Google data center. The rest of us may pay far more in escalated energy costs because these data centers are creating the need for increased generating capacity that we will all be charged for — while they get special deals.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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May has already been brutal. Alexander v. NAACP.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Alito’s decision in Alexander v NAACP reeks of privilege and entitlement, for himself and others like him. It is “odious” to challenge the good intentions of those in power. If seeking permanent power is fine, why did we dispose of King George?

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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From Kagan's dissent: "The Challengers introduced more than enough evidence of racial gerrymandering to support the District Court’s judgment." The goal of Alito and friends -- to reinforce the power of those who already have it. scdailygazette.com/2024/05/23/u...

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I read something once about the way public acts of wanton corruption that go unpunished leads to collective loss of faith in institutions that can can take decades to recover, if at all 🫠

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Unfounded scare stories about our elections from people who know very little about how it works — or assume we don’t know and will believe any nonsense — undermine our representative democracy. In many cases, that is what they are intended to do.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Very few races in South Carolina are competitive in November. Vote in June in the primaries if you want to influence how we are governed. If everyone in the state voted in the primaries our government would be more moderate than it is now — more like the people of SC.

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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I once again implore you all to imagine the reaction if a liberal Supreme Court justice flew an upside-down US flag in their yard.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Data centers gobble power and are leading to retention of coal generating plants, and in South Carolina to plans for a very large new gas plant. They pay local property taxes but the cost for everyone in their path is high. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Anyone in SC who cares about our energy future -- and their own pocketbooks -- should object to the rushed and one-sided consideration the Senate has given to H.5118, with plans to ram it through in the last days of the session.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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Yesterday the SC Senate Judiciary Committee rammed H.5118, a massive energy bill, through committee over the objections of committee members who objected to lack of opportunity for public testimony, inappropriate findings of fact, removal of public protections in regulatory process, lack of debate.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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State wants to use the map ruled a racial gerrymander by a federal court in the 2024 election (30,000 black voters were cut out of SC CD 1), but NAACP LDF and ACLU object.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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John Brooker of the Conservation Voters of South Carolina, asked a question that went to the heart of the issue: If the gas plant plan is the most cost-effective way to meet the state’s energy challenges, why do utilities need to undermine regulators? “Why can’t it stand on its own merits?”

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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In what alternative universe should the fate of Ukraine, as well as the potential for further war and Russian conquest in Europe, be in the hands of a delusional absurdly inadequate mediocrity like Mike Johnson?

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The logic here is apparently that a bunch of bad arguments add up to a good one? Throw everything at the wall and even if none of it sticks by itself, in combination they make a big enough mess to win?

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Dear Americans doing a version of "it can't happen here," "It" does not refer to something totally unprecedented, it refers to the US experiencing something similar to Turkey, Hungary, Poland, India, Israel, and some others too, known as "democratic backsliding." And yes, it very much can.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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A very ugly bill is moving in the SC House —H5118 would gut public protection in utility regulation. League of Women Voters Testimony — my.lwv.org/sites/defaul...

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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I am going to be very relieved when primary filing is over and we don't have to live in quite so much fear of what appalling (even deadly) legislation will be passed so legislators can get a little more protection from competitors filing against them in their primaries.

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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺's avatar Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social
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Folks, I am overseas, and this news is spreading like WILD FIRE. It’s been the TOP morning story in both Arabic & French speaking news. I’m not sure how it’s playing in the US, but, my god, I’m watching the news coverage here & I’m literally cringing. What a humiliation!!!

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As the Post’s Jennifer Rubin points out, truth and neutrality aren’t the same thing.

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I was kind of wondering why even with the Substack contrarian boys and half the NYT political desk working on it they could not find a single child who was rushed into gender surgery in a country of 330 million. turns out:

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Bradford Vivian's avatar Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social
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Pundits who adopt these tropes may not be aware of their authoritarian origins. But saying that the university has "failed" in its cultural mission, no longer teaches "truth," only promotes "ideology," etc., is common in eroding democracies or rising autocracies abroad. 8/10

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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You are in good hands, but you need to avoid being stuck in enclosed spaces with Jackson Lamb.

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Lynn Teague's avatar Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social
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My mother, a nurse, told me you never want to be medically interesting. I can now add that you never want to hear senior support at Apple say “wow, I’ve never seen this before!”

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