Bill and Jumelle are on a little summer break so here’s a Best Of episode to tide you over until their return in August!

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• Photo: JD Vance In Drag at Beer Pong Party—Unlike His Friend (Daily Beast)
• JD Vance in the Donut Shop (@HowardMortman)
• JD Vance in the Park (@samcahntent)

• SC.Gov video archives
• Rep Stephen Frank’s website and tweet
• South Carolina's 'Senator Boobs' Don't Care [FITSNews]
• Fact Check: Donald Trump Blames 'Open Borders' For New Orleans Attack [Newsweek]

• Nancy Mace tells prayer breakfast she told fiancé ‘we don’t got time for that this morning’ (The Hill)

• The cost of runoffs and ranked choice voting (FairChoice)

• Moms for Liberty activists starting taxpayer-funded charter school (Popular Information)
• Charter School Programs in South Carolina (SC Department of Education)
• Ashley River Classical Academy (website)
• Moms for Liberty Charleston Chapter (website)
• Republican officials are turning to Hillsdale College in Michigan for teacher training, textbook reviews and a curriculum that celebrates American patriotism. (NBC News)
• The 1776 Project Is a Desperate Search for the Right Enemies (

Bill and Jumelle welcome back to BWaBitS the 2024 Democratic candidate for SC State Senate District 10 and our good friend, Francie Kleckley!

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• NATO secretary-general calls Trump 'Daddy' [ABC News]
• Video from [The Independent - YouTube]
• “Daddy” Trump lip sync [@bransennn on TikTok]
• Gay state senator zings Republicans over their new ‘Daddy Trump’ nickname [Independent]

• Council Crossroads: Resident challenges Greenwood City Council to act on hate crimes [Index Journal]
• S Carolina push to be 49th state with hate crime law stalls [AP]

• Lexington judge dismisses senate candidate Kleckley's suit against incumbent Garrett [Index Journal]

• Prothonotary Warbler Recognition Act [S.383]
• Prothonotary Warbler: Masters of the Swamp [Badgerland Birding YouTube]

• 5 things to know after the Supreme Court said states can block Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding [PBS]
• Vicki Ringer speaks about the Supreme Court decision [The State - Instagram]
• Ex-Doge employee ‘Big Balls’ gets new Trump administration position [The Guardian]

It’s just Bill and Jumelle today as they catch up with each other’s personal lives (surgery, wedding, graduations!) and cover some critical topics of today.

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• South Carolina state representative arrested, booked [WCNC, YouTube]
• State Rep. RJ May arrested, booked at Lexington County jail [News 19 WLTX, YouTube]
• SC representative arrested, booked in Lexington County jail [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
• SC legislator denied bond on charges of distributing child sex abuse material [The State]
• Republican Behind 'Trump Derangement' Bill Quits After Sex Charge [Newsweek]
• Bill’s video of RJ May tapping away at his phone mere months after having had all of this electronics confiscated [TikTok]

• Dysautonomia [Cleveland Clinic]
• The vasovagal response [NIH]
• Sketch the heart surgeon put on the whiteboard

• Bill’s bilingual speech at his daughter’s wedding (with captions) [YouTube]

• Greenwood City Council hears hate crime ordinance plea, reviews first reading ordinances [Index Journal]
• Richland County Hate Crimes Ordinance [Fox - YouTube]

• SC House tries again with 12 weeks of paid parental leave for state workers [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
• House Bill 3645 [