SC_Steve 🇺🇸

Watch your money go up in smoke in real time. Fuck, this is depressing to watch. The war in Iran has cost U.S. taxpayers $6.4 billion in 6 days — that's $1 billion per day, per the Pentagon's own estimate. Track the running total: iran-cost-ticker.com

Maybe we should declare war on disaster areas so that money will be spent.

Lyndsey Graham has been in Congress and the Senate since 1995 (31 years). He also served in the SC State House 1992-1994 (2 years). It’s time for him to do something else.

Trump is hitting literally every single bullet point in the Declaration of Independence btw

Trump is going to thank Appalachia for voting for him by poisoning their groundwater

The "prerogative state" concept comes from Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish-German labor lawyer writing in the 1930s to explain the legal architecture of the Third Reich. He described an authoritarian state divided into two realms: the normative state, where rules are followed and laws upheld; and the prerogative state, where the state imposes its will and no law or right can protect its victims. Most people live in the normative state and experience ordinary life, while a disfavored group falls into the prerogative zone. Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick told Mother Jones: "ICE is the face of a prerogative state, emerging or actual. It swoops in, it ignores safeguards, you can't escape it." The documented record from this administration supports that framing. 2025 was the deadliest year for ICE detention on record. The American Immigration Council reports that federal judges have ruled more than 4,400 times that the administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully. ICE internal documents obtained through FOIA show a 353 percent increase in use of force incidents. The Minneapolis detention facility had no on-site medical care, no beds, minimal food, and detainees in leg shackles. 2026 is projected to be worse than 2025. The administration is now building a $45 billion detention infrastructure - converted warehouses, tent structures, military bases, and foreign prisons - targeting a capacity of 107,000 beds. Once those facilities exist, they are available for whatever the government chooses to use them for. That's not an accusation. It's how infrastructure works. A Minneapolis police commander told The Atlantic that years of community trust-building have been fractured. A rape survivor was arrested outside family court after testifying, almost certainly on a tip from her abuser. The prerogative state doesn't announce itself.

$47.6 billion - *poof*. Disappeared from your Treasury Department, meant to fund projects to help you.

Associated Press: “Too young for the MMR shot, babies become ‘sitting ducks’ in measles outbreaks” “Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in a measles outbreak. The disease can wreak havoc on their fragile bodies” apnews.com/article/measle…

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries. So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it. Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening. Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room. But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days. What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are. Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it. That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds. And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes. What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees. I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

For the second year in a row, the Trump administration is proposing slashing federal funding for tribal colleges and universities. If the budget passes, all tribal colleges & universities would close within a year. wral.com/news/ap/baac4-…

The American buffalo—those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States—have joined wind turbines, electric cars, and climate researchers in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

I don’t give a FUCK about anyone’s opinion on immigration at this point. THIS IS INHUMANE. THIS IS WRONG. PERIOD. THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE CAN SAY TO JUSTIFY THIS TREATMENT. THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS. THEIR LIVES MATTER. Fuck ANYONE who supports this.

And the coal ash isn't going to be dumped into the drinking water on Martha's Vineyard, the gated billionaire islands around Miami, or any tech bro enclaves — it will be dumped in the usual "national sacrifice zones."

ICE detain man with autism using illegal chokehold—threaten to shoot mom with taser. He does not comprehend much English or Spanish—mom was just trying to explain his disability to agents. 26-year-old is legally in U.S. under the DACA program—with renewal papers up to date. Garcia Cruz’s mother said her son has relied on her since birth due to his developmental challenges—and still needs her assistance with basic daily tasks. She is deeply concerned about his safety and ability to fend for himself while locked up in jail. Chokeholds are explicitly prohibited under ICE policy unless the legal standard for imminent deadly force is met. Incident occurred in Hendry County, Florida. #DemsUnited

@zilch_abby @LindseyGrahamSC What fucking job? Lady G is one of the biggest Bend Over Buddys Israel has.

President Trump said it best: @LindseyGrahamSC is the only man for the job!

The greatest music video of all time.

@badscbeach I hate to tell you this but I’m in Norman’s district and he’s not a good fit here either.

In my humble opinion Rep. Norman is a good fit for his border district that fit doesn’t work for our governor who serves the entire state.

New York City’s Mayor just said what most elected officials won’t. “We always seem to have money for war. But not to feed the poor.” Mamdani didn’t stop there. Thousands of civilians killed. Tens of billions spent. And every program that gets called “unrealistic” — housing, healthcare, schools — costs a fraction of what this war has already burned through. He’s right.

Bombshell from the AP: The Trump Administration was caught using bogus “fraud” data to investigate blue states. Is anyone surprised?

ICE detain 2 elementary students—deport them within 48 hours. 'This week ICE crossed a new alarming line," said lawyer. "Children are being targeted." They were deported with nothing but the clothes on their backs—to place where they have no home, no belongings, nor resources. 6-year-old Denis and 11-year-old Genesis—both students at Burton Magnet Elementary School—were detained with their parents while attending an asylum hearing. Their phones and documents were taken away before being driven away in unmarked van with dark tinted windows—so they couldn't even wave goodbye to their family. "If we do everything according to the law we can still get kidnapped in the middle of the day and taken away... What are people supposed to do?" Incident occurred in Durham, North Carolina.

@SecRollins @USDA @forestservice

Last week we announced we will move @forestservice HQ to Salt Lake City — closer to the actual forests we protect, not farther away. We’re not dismantling anything. We’re FIXING it and empowering career Forest Service leaders to be even nimbler. In 2025, we had the highest wildfire starts since 2016… yet we cut average acres burned in half, SAVING nearly 1 million acres. That didn’t happen by accident. We went faster, deployed more crews earlier, hit fires harder, and used proven science-based management. President Trump’s orders are crystal clear: restore and protect America’s forests from devastating wildfires and make the Forest Service the best in the world again. A huge shout out to the incredible @forestservice team and wildland firefighters. Humbled to serve you every day. breitbart.com/politics/2026/…