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Lynn Teague

@lynnteague.bsky.social
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retired archaeologist, active citizen advocate, 12th generation South Carolinian, family and local history enthusiast, weaver

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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When thinking about whether to redistrict now or not, SC legislators should consider the impact on voters of playing such obvious self-interested games. Confidence in the fairness of the political process is already very low. This wouldn’t help either party.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
‘Just wonderful’: USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country’s 250th birthday scdailygazette.com/2026/04/19/j...
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'Just wonderful': USC musicians perform at Congaree National Park for country's 250th birthday • SC Daily Gazette
In a celebration of American music, the student performers also hoped to introduce more people to classical performances.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I’m sitting in Senate subcommittee listening to those testifying for extreme abortion ban S1095, and even demanding more punishment for women, claim they are speaking for God. This is blasphemy, taking God’s name in vain in support of their own desire for control over girls and women.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Hearing on S199, another bathroom bill. Fun fact — definition of female taken literally would allow no one to use the women’s restroom. We do not “produce, transport, and utilize eggs for fertilization.” We are born with every egg we will ever have. The eggs that we produce are used by daughters.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
People aren’t being violently manhandled and even shot because they threaten ICE officials. It is happening to make the point that this regime will hurt or even kill you if you dissent.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Trump’s new ship should be called the Vasa.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I don’t do ads, ever. However, I’d like to share that if you like really good tea, consider Teabox, available online directly from India. I had a large order lost due to US Customs delays and USPS failure. They are replacing the whole order and reviewing shipping methods. Good tea, good people.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Kushner’s involvement was a giveaway that this was a deal to give a nation away to make money on it, and the WSJ has confirmed it. Is there no decency at all?
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Why is our government murdering people in boats on vague claims of involvement in the drug trade, people who have not been convicted or even indicted for any crime, and giving presidential pardons to some of the biggest convicted drug dealers? Make it make sense.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.” This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I’ve read that the tech billionaires are saying they aren’t creating an oligarchy, but an aristocracy. They never miss a chance to flatter themselves. No. When such intellectual and moral mediocrities take over government by virtue only of their wealth, they are oligarchs, pure and simple.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Fascinating new word (at least to me) — “sado-populism.” Yes, this fills a gap in our political language, for “love this policy, it hurts people I want to hurt.”
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
From the report on Christian Nationalism by the Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops — “Christian nationalism is heresy for Christians, and dangerous rhetoric for all Americans.”
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Lee Bright was just re-elected to the SC Senate by 6.3% of eligible voters. 93.7% of SC SD 12 voters are unaccounted for. Too busy? Don’t care? Don’t think it matters? What?
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The cost of the tea that I’ve been drinking for ages just went up 35% because of tariffs to help pay for billionaire tax cuts. My money is being handed to Musk, the Trump family, and their friends who are very wealthy. This tells you whose voices, whose lives, matter to the current administration.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism. This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Justice Kavanaugh this morning in the Louisiana case asked if there should be a time limit on racial considerations in redistricting. If the answer is ever to be yes, it will have to be after young partisan allies of the Justice (yes, he is partisan) stop sending horrible racist misogynist texts.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
There is an intensive effort by members of the national administration to label everything in opposition to their positions, including No Kings rallies, as left wing extremism. It is not extreme to oppose morphing the presidency into a monarchy, unless all the founders of our nation were extremists.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
South Carolinians: Did you see the announcement that Google is investing billions in SC? Well, your General Assembly refused to protect you from skyrocketing utility bills to subsidize this and other super wealthy corporations. This must change before residential & small business users are bankrupt.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I continue to see media comments that Chief Justice Roberts is afraid to buck the Trump administration. Instead, the evidence is that Roberts is on board with the whole plan for an authoritarian executive shored up by extreme right wing evangelical and Opus Dei-style fundamentalism.
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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 14/10/2025
Why is the Louisiana v. Callais case so important? Callais is essentially a showdown between two legal claims: racial vote dilution in violation of Section 2 of the VRA versus racial gerrymandering in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Read more: www.lwv.org/blog/louisia...
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Louisiana v. Callais and Attacks on the VRA | League of Women Voters
After listing Louisiana v. Callais for reargument in the Fall 2025, term, the Supreme Court is set to test the constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. This will have massive…
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
What percentage of the GDP of India is derived from spam calling to the United States? Surely it must be significant.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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 · 17/09/2025
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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 · 17/09/2025
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...
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Gerrymandering Lives on in South Carolina
LWVSC vs. Alexander et al. Appellate Case No. 2024-001227
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Corruption at an unprecedented scale. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“Risks deepening humanitarian crisis” is so inadequate for what is happening. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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Live Updates: Israel Launches Ground Offensive in Gaza City
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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-...
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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.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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 · 12/09/2025
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 · 08/09/2025
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...
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"Small Government" Controlling Women
S.323 as Control and Power
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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...
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AI Is Power-Hungry
And consumers are paying the price
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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 · 10/08/2025
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 · 07/08/2025
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 · 06/08/2025
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 · 05/08/2025
SC needs to be ready to go it alone on many expensive issues, among them election cyber security. www.postandcourier.com/opinion/edit...
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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.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I recommend the worship Xipe Totec — guarantees interesting times. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplaces
Federal employees may discuss and promote their religious beliefs in the workplace, the Trump administration said on Monday, citing religious freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. scdailygazette.com/2025/07/16/r...
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AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill. • SC Daily Gazette
Research suggests that regular energy consumers, not corporations, will bear the brunt of the increased costs of a boom in AI.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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The Manhood Trap: From Epstein’s Island to Musk’s Baby Farm — How the Right Redefined Masculinity as Control
Underneath the memes, podcasts, and tradwife fantasies lies a dangerous agenda: train young men to reject equality, fear women’s power, and embrace authoritarianism disguised as masculinity…
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
So much of what some folks are nostalgic for — an era when women were subservient, LGBTQ+ closeted, oligarchs gilded and others desperate enough to be malleable — seems like nostalgie de la boue.
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My husband oversaw archaeological work at Manzanar Internment Camp and production of the NPS report on that work. Will that publication be unacceptable because it acknowledges the pain inflicted by these WWII camps? open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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The Trump Administration Goes After National Park Service Gift Shops
This week the National Park Service was ordered to review its gift shops for any items that disparage American history. The review is part of a broader campaign targeting interpretive assets, througho...
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