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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 4d

What percentage of the GDP of India is derived from spam calling to the United States? Surely it must be significant.

Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 12d

Ken Burns in an interview about his series on the Revolution — “the increase in executive power is perhaps the greatest existential threat to the United States right now.” This is not just what the executive branch but SCOTUS is explicitly committed to making happen, and Congress willingly helps.

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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 24d

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 24d

I am curious. Why do some political
figures answer every question with “trans!!!!!” Regardless of the question.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 24d

The League of Women Voters' case against South Carolina's gerrymandered congressional map is no longer active. The SC Supreme Court ruled this morning, finding it nonjusticiable. In short, they believe that they cannot act. Some thoughts on that: lteague.substack.com/p/gerrymande...

Gerrymandering Lives on in South Carolina

LWVSC vs. Alexander et al. Appellate Case No. 2024-001227

lteague.substack.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 24d

Corruption at an unprecedented scale. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 25d

This is what these data center companies are like — metastasizing without real concern for anything but their own bottom lines while we pay through environmental harm, escalating utility bills, or both.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 25d

Now Google says they need 497% more diesel tanks than they originally lied about needing and also they need 547% more diesel generators than they lied about needing and our city & county leaders are gonna pretend to think about it then say lol ok obviously sure

www.wane.com/top-stories/...

The proposal requests 179 generators onsite that will create about 528 megawatts of power, along with 179 storage tanks that will hold 1,074,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

The original request, approved in 2024, was for 36 generators and 36 tanks, which hold 6,000 gallons each of diesel fuel.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 25d

“Risks deepening humanitarian crisis” is so inadequate for what is happening. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Live Updates: Israel Launches Ground Offensive in Gaza City

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 26d

Go to Dave’s Redistricting. Free website, and the numbers are there. You can design your own districts or check out others.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 27d

CD1 gerrymander is still an active case in the S.C. Supreme Court while Norman wants an even more lopsided gerrymander. Yes, it is is technically possible to map so that 40% of S.C. voters have no congressional representation. But they shouldn’t. www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-...

Congressman wants to eliminate SC’s only Democratic district. Republicans say they have a plan.

Ralph Norman said he hopes to provide several map options to present to voters in the 6th district, which was gerrymandered in the early 1990s to give Black voters a shot at fair representation.

www.postandcourier.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 28d

My confidence in AI is not helped when a search for "Spoons Savannah, Colleton County" (an early family location) returns a suggestion that I'm confused about Lovin' Spoons, a no longer extant yoghurt shop in Savannah.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 29d

Just a personal take on this, but if you really believe in something a lot it is usually more helpful to dedicate your own life to working for it rather than taking someone else’s life. People who disagree on this point tend to be pretty confused.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Sep 8

S.323 would allow the government of South Carolina to control the lives of every person who is pregnant in the state. lteague.substack.com/p/small-gove...

"Small Government" Controlling Women

S.323 as Control and Power

lteague.substack.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 18

The SC General Assembly had a chance in 2025 to protect our state's residential and small business users from being compelled to subsidize some of the largest corporations on earth -- Meta, Google, etc. They failed. They must not fail again in 2026. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

AI Is Power-Hungry

And consumers are paying the price

open.substack.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 14

University of Arizona working on serious water issues, while a data center (usually a devastating hog of both water and energy) tries to locate in southern Arizona. Tucson apparently said no, but other nearby towns are considering it. www.kjzz.org/education/20...

As drought concerns grow, Arizona universities, Board of Regents work to safeguard groundwater

As concerns about Arizona’s water future grow, the state’s public universities and the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) are working to safeguard groundwater.

www.kjzz.org

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 12

I just got a notice from the company where I buy tea that Trump has put a 50% tariff on India. This is not to protect the non-existent US tea growers. It is yet another way of making us pay for billionaire tax cuts. The middle class will die by thousands of these cuts.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 11

They don't want a solution that doesn't advantage either side.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 10

Krugman today — Trump’s trade war should be seen as part of a package of policies that amounts to class warfare — class warfare against middle and lower-income Americans in favor of the affluent, especially the top 10 percent of the income distribution.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wilhoit's principle -- “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 6

PSE&G estimates 10-20% of queries from data centers will come to fruition. If utilities overbuild in anticipation of data center demand, who pays for building that capacity? Legislators must protect the rest of us -- residential and small business users -- from being the answer to that question.

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Aug 5

SC needs to be ready to go it alone on many expensive issues, among them election cyber security. www.postandcourier.com/opinion/edit...

Editorial: Election officials need help to combat cyberthreats without federal assistance

State election officials are worried about loss of support, coordination from US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as Trump turns to states.

www.postandcourier.com

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · Jul 29

FREE LUNCH. The SC Policy Council has released its summer poll. They found that 73% of South Carolinians want to eliminate the income tax.They didn’t ask how folks would choose to compensate for the lost revenue. They might as well have asked how many South Carolinians would like a free lunch.