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 [

What is “true conservatism”? We find out from Trey Ward, a local musician, civil rights activist and former Republican operative in South Carolina!

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• Oliver Danner speaks about anti-trans lawmakers citing bad science to support their position. [YouTube]
• Oliver Danner gives a college graduation sermon [YouTube]

• Activists’ push for near-total abortion ban leads to split among SC Republicans [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
• SC legislator loses leadership role, asks to be reassigned, in another GOP spat [South Carolina Daily Gazette]
• Students for Life flyer
• McCravy fundraising mailer [front, back]
• Statement regarding censure motion against Rep John McCravy from Rep Hamilton Grant
• Democrats call for censure of SC GOP legislator [ABC15 News]
• H. 4556 Censure of House member

• Lintheads [South Carolina Encyclopedia]
• A History of Mill Villages in Greenwood and Ninety-Six, South Carolina [Local History Matters]
• Original plaque of those lost from Greenwood in the World Wars, segregated [The Historical Marker Database]
• The Story of "Fired up! Ready to go!" [YouTube]
• South Carolina War Plaques Are 'Glorifying Segregation,' Mayor Says [

Here in very red Greenwood, South Carolina, a “Greenwood for Democracy” protest occurred last weekend and it caught the MAGA natives by surprise. We welcome the organizer of the protest, Cynthia Halpin Brown, to get a behind-the-scenes view of what it was like to organize and be in a Democracy protest in a very red area.

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• Ms Curly McCatlady with useful dating questions (TikTok)

• Kevin Shwedo, Exec Director of the SC DMV (YouTube)
• Howie Knapp, Exec Director of the SC Elections Commission (YouTube)

• 'A step in the right direction': Reactions to new South Carolina liquor liability reform (Index Journal)
• Episode 45: Torts and Dram (with Rauch Wise and T.J. Jenks)
• Montague’s Restaurant, Greenwood, SC
• H3430 Tort Reform and Liquor Liability

• South Carolina Senate votes to remove state treasurer over $1.8B accounting error (AP News)
• SC House won't pursue removal of State Treasurer (ABC15 News)
• SC under federal investigation as auditors determine mystery $1.8B didn’t actually exist (South Carolina Daily Gazette)
• Rep Heather Bauer statement on the SC House’s refusal to take up the Senate resolution to oust Curtis Loftis (Facebook)
• Comptroller General Brian Gaines’s speech at Piedmont Tech (YouTube)

We welcome two candidates who may appear on every South Carolinian’s ballot next year!

• Kyle Freeman (for US Senate)
• Sylvia Wright (for SC Superintendent of Education).

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• Naloxone, sold under the brand name Narcan (Wikipedia)
• RFK Jr did heroin and went to the top of his class (Instagram)
• Rep Heather Bauer running for reelection (Instagram)

• Donald Trump accused of ‘sleeping’ at Pope Francis’ funeral as ‘Sleepy Joe’ insult turns on him (indy100)
• Trump posts AI image of himself as pope, leaving Catholics offended and unamused as conclave nears (CNN)
• Trump Budget Proposal Decimates International Food Aid Programs (Bloomberg)
• Education Secretary Linda McMahon confuses AI with A1, sauce brand capitalizes on blunder (USA Today)
• What we know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia and MS-13 allegations (BBC)
• Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights (AP)
• Kosta Explains the Stock Market For Fox News Viewers (The Daily Show on FB)

• https://kylefreemanforsenate.com/
• Is uranium legal to own in the US? (Quora)
• K2 knockout (ResearchGate)
• Kyle’s speech at the Greenwood County Democratic Party Breakfast Meeting, Feb 2025 (YouTube)
• FEC filing for KYLE FREEMAN FOR SENATE (C00888479) (

We are on Spring Break, so here is a best-of episode to tide you over. We’ve compiled a bunch of hilarious “Or Better Yet” segments that open each of our episodes.

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• Bill's video about gun safety vs boater safety regulations (TikTok)
• SCDPS Statement on the South Carolina Constitutional Carry/Second Amendment Preservation Act (SC Department of Public Safety)
• Sure, They're a Blast...But are Bazookas, Mortars and Other Destructive Devices Legal? (Military Trader)

• Woman sings at SC Senate Hearing (The State)

• Lara Trump thinks there are 81 states (Business Insider)
• Lara Trump before & after photo (Mastodon)

• Donald Trump Owned Several Atlantic City Casinos That Went Bankrupt (Yahoo!)
• Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech (The Guardian)

• Marjorie Taylor Greene, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jasmine Crockett spar in House meeting (YouTube)
• Crockett says Greene behavior was ‘absolutely’ racist (The Hill)
• Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body (Jelly D Remix) (YouTube)
• Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body Jasmine Crockett ft. AOC remix (TikTok)
• TN Brando - Country Song BBBBBB (Twitter)

• Sen Billy Garrett is worried about being attracted to transgender women (

We’re thrilled to host South Carolina House Representative Heather Bauer as we covered a wide range of topics and received an exclusive peek behind the curtains at how things operate at the SC State House.

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• VoteHeatherBauer.com
• The wrong Heather Bauer
• Emerge SC
• H.3868 Women in Hunting and Fishing Awareness Day (SC Gov)
• Heather Bauer: Woke Super Heroine (FITS News)

• SC House passes bill banning ‘illegal’ DEI across schools and government (South Carolina Daily Gazette)
• Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion (Abortion, Every Day)
• NASA website removes 'First Woman' graphic novel (Space.com)

• SC House passes bill to revive K-12 vouchers. The bulk of this year’s money will go unused. (South Carolina Daily Gazette)
• Rep James Talarico exposes how Elon Musk would get millions of dollars of education vouchers from Texas (Instagram)

• A $1.8 billion mistake could cost the South Carolina treasurer his job (AP News)
• How to Steal A Lot of Money -- Legally (forward by Curtis Loftis) (Amazon)
• SC Senate to consider removing state treasurer from office following $1.8B probe (Live 5 News)
• SC treasurer petitions state Supreme Court to stop efforts to remove him from office (