@KayeKoonce.bsky.social.
@kayekoonce.bsky.social
Retired Attorney in Charleston SC. Former journalist. Married 52 yrs. Yellow Dog Democrat 98% of the time. Voter protection vol since ‘82. DNC member. Horseracing fan-two minutes is long enough for a sport. 🚫DMs if I don’t know you. I apologize 🌍 esp🇺🇦🇨🇦
“When a country with less than five percent of the world's population has nearly half of the world's privately owned guns and makes up nearly a third of the world's mass shootings, it's time to stop saying guns make us safer.” ..(DaShanne Stokes) .. (cartoon David Horsey)
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Here’s an easy question for MAGA: If foreign countries were paying the tariffs, why has the Trump administration refunded $100 billion of the $166 billion in illegally collected tariffs to the importers who fronted the money that YOU paid? And you won’t see a dime of it. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/t...
Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?
Now Senate Republicans are set to confirm the nominee and make sure it happens. This vote is a vote to make President Trump above the law. It’s that simple.
If you don’t pay taxes, you face consequences. That’s how our system works. But not for Trump. Trump forced his nominee for Attorney General to promise to make him immune from any tax crimes Trump may have committed.
A single measles outbreak last year cost almost $5.4 million to contain, according to new research published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Single measles outbreak in 2025 cost almost $5.4M to contain
More than $53,000 was spent per measles cases, the study found.
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Mike Rogers, a former U.S. congressman who pushed false claims of a stolen 2024 election in Michigan and praised Trump’s recent primetime tirade against elections, won Michigan’s Republican primary election for an open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Mike Rogers, GOP convert to election denial, wins Michigan GOP Senate primary
If elected, Rogers will flip a key seat and be another Trump ally in the Senate who could help to pass more voter suppression measures, including the stalled SAVE America Act.
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Phones have power. Volunteer to make calls from your couch — talk with voters, answer questions, and remind them their voice matters this November! #BlueWaveIn90Days social.demcast.com/s/cvV3NxVq
Phone Bank to Flip Congress!
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South Carolina has no state minimum wage. The floor is still $7.25 an hour. Two parents working full time at that wage bring home $30,160 a year combined, before taxes. That is not enough to cover rent, groceries, and childcare. You are not the problem. The wage is. #NewSC #JohnsonSkardon
Graciousness is not dead. Interesting to note the difference in how losing candidates respond to defeat and also, how winning candidates respond to the candidates who lost. IMO, it’s a very important indicator of character and maturity.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 16h agoA gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
glad to see she did this; it's pretty important if Ds are going to win that senate seat.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 16h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Dem AG Raul Torrez doing more for Epstein victims than any US senator voting to confirm Todd Blanche
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 14h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Instead of meeting with Epstein survivors, what did Todd Blanche do? He rushed to Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison cell, and then she got transferred to a cushier prison camp. This is not justice. It is corruption of a system meant to protect the most vulnerable.
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
