r/southcarolina

Can't believe the county I grew up in is leading the charge on this in South Carolina.

Greenville next!

I know there's a lot of popular sentiment around getting rid of flock cameras but they're definitely not the only AI driven surveillance tech departments use. In 2023, Kashmir Hill wrote a book called Your Face Belongs to Us about AI powered facial detection company Clearview AI and how their software was getting rapid adoption by law enforcement agencies across the US.

I'm hoping that this sentiment doesn't cease after flock gets reigned in.

 

Trump’s $500/month Social Security cuts will go nuclear in Alabama. The largest economic impact will be felt in in red states like Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, and West Virginia, among others.

 

By lowering taxes on millionaires, billionaire, and corporations, Trump and the Republicans have blown a huge hole in the budget to the point America is on the road to insolvency.

The only way to remedy the situation is to cut government spending to make up the shortfall. So when they imply their cost-cutting is good for  the budget, it is an out and out lie; it benefits only them!

Every dollar slashed from Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, other healthcare discounts to make private plans affordable, SNAP benefits for the indigent and hungry children, educational subsidies,  veteran’s benefits, food banks, and the entire social safety net goes directly into the pockets of Trump and his heartless plutocrat friends.

Stop and look for a minute at your budget, it wasn’t always this way. Just a short while ago Americans lived a reasonably secure life with opportunity available for all those who would work hard for their families.

What happened? Trump/Republican lies and their assault on you, and yours.

See this –Boldface mine:

 

Trump’s $500/month Social Security cuts will go nuclear in Alabama: report.

the largest economic impact in red states like Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, and West Virginia, among others.

Story by Adam Lynch • 13h • 2 min read

© provided by AlterNet

AL.com reports that the deep-red state of Alabama is one of the impoverished states lining up for a beating from presidential inaction from the White House it created in the last election.

“Barring action from Congress, millions of Americans who depend on Social Security could see their benefits cut by as much as 24 percent in 2032,” reports AL.com. “The deep cuts would average about $500 a month.”

One-in-five Americans – 63 million in total – are slated to lose monthly income if Social Security’s retirement program gets a 24 percent cut today, said AL.com. And for Alabama, this will mean an average cut of $486.

Total benefit cuts would top 1 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 40 states with the largest economic impact in red states like Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, and West Virginia, among others

“The latest projections from the Social Security Board of Trustees show that the reserves of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund are set to run out in the fourth quarter of 2032. After that point, Social Security would only be able to pay 76 percent of promised benefits,” AL.com reports.

Meanwhile, the Big Beautiful Bill that Trump and Republicans passed is preparing to deliver more immediate pain from an entirely different angle, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

“At the time of the OBBBA’s passage, it faced widespread criticism from Democrats. A July 2025 Quinnipiac poll found that 44 percent of Americans thought the bill would hurt rather than help them personally. The same month, longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted on Fox News that the bill could pose problems for his party in the next round of elections.”

“I think it'll have a huge impact on 2026, because, remember, as these changes, particularly the Medicaid changes, come into effect, they’re going to have, people are going to be losing their coverage,” said. Rove.

 

Meanwhile, voters are not buying into the tax cut Republicans and Trump touted during the bill’s passage.

“In a separate survey by Winning the Issues, part of the GOP-aligned Winston Group, almost half of U.S. voters did not think the bill prevented a tax increase on them and their families. That was a key part of Republican messaging as they campaigned to pass the bill last year,” reports CS Monitor.

“We’ve seen some Republicans run ads calling this essentially a tax cut, but that’s not how people feel,” said Julie Alderman Boudreau, the director of research at left-leaning Navigator Research. “This [bill] is a huge liability ... for any Republican on the ballot in 2026.”

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Richland County back to school was very recent. Already two incidents of guns brought in backpacks. Youth age 6 and 16.
I pray for all you teachers and everyone. 🙏🏻.
Good work on seeing it and telling someone!

My friends at GMT installed this!