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Probably pondering: 1. how history, religion, education, civic engagement shape society and/or 2. sustainable community building, biking, walking, transit, trees, urban design #okc #cargobike #bikebus #mobilitycommissioner
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It's finally here. From Oxford University Press. If you want to understand the contours of American religion, this is my best effort. Over 140 charts, graphs, and maps. I visualize all the way back to 1776 through the modern day. Buy a copy, please.

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Un-ironically rocking out to the Twenty Trucks playlist. One of my favorite parenting phases. open.spotify.com/album/7bjzGh...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It feels silly to be fighting bullying on the playground blacktop when it's being modeled to our kids from the Oval Office.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My senators and my governor both complaining about government and its evils all day today... My dudes, YOU ARE GOVERNMENT. Your party has dominated Oklahoma for decades. You. YOU.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Sighs in public school advocate

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 117 comments

Good local reporting from Georgia Public Broadcasting about how the USAID shutdown will cost millions to Georgia peanut farmers. www.gpb.org/news/2025/02...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Hey Oklahoma. Here’s a list of Field Office numbers for our US Senators and Representatives. You should be able to save the pic or screenshot it.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

This feels like it will just fund suburban sprawl in red states. And just be creepy while doing it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a thought... Maybe if your Commander in Chief isn't eligible to vote or be armed in your state... Maybe he also shouldn't be Commander in Chief www.normantranscript.com/oklahoma-hou...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this but — courage is contagious.

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

"According to a 2013 UC Berkeley study titled “Pounds That Kill,” weight was found to be a critical factor in fatal auto crashes. The study found that each 1,000-pound increase in a striking vehicle’s weight increased the probability of a fatality in the struck vehicle by 47%."

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

So now I have a federal DOGE and a state DOGE? Oklahoma you make it hard to love you.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is not the way.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I’d love to see more studies about active transport and schools lowering absenteeism rates. But that might not happen when my fed govt is trying to dismantle my CDC and my public schools.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I’d just like to compare some posts from the Dept. of Education prior to Trump being inaugurated vs. post his inauguration. Below you’ll see four posts from before, and you’ll notice a lot of positivity and joy. You’ll see advocacy for our schools/students. #EduSky (post-inauguration posts in 🧵)

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

EPA, CDC, USAID and other data sites of federal government are all down or being scrubbed of long-term data that WE THE TAXPAYERS paid for. I teach with these tools! Why are our universities saying nothing about loss of access to information and research implications? I cannot believe the silence 🧪

submitted 36 days ago • 60 comments

This is a huge red flag for a crucial, non-political federal agency. Unlike NHTSA, NTSB has pulled no punches asserting that Tesla Autopilot is dangerously designed. Musk once hung up on the NTSB Chair: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

I know people are experiencing way worse things from the latest presidential administration, but I wanted to share an experience I'm having and how it has impacted me, my family, and our neighborhood school. Our school health committee has been working for months

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

who says america cannot build mass transit www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

“Whenever a new program rolls out, there are going to be some things that you have to work through … and work to improve it as you go forward,” Utah State Board of Education spokesperson Ryan Bartlett said.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Early result of Congestion Pricing show a 51%(!!) drop in traffic injuries compared to the same period in 2024. Obviously there will be some bounce back, but it means there are already ~40 in walking around NYC who *would* have been a crash victim otherwise. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Nation-wide racial profiling is being encouraged by Trump and his minions. Make sure that you and your communities are aware of your rights: immigrantjustice.org/know-your-ri...

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Love some place-based education!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

My elementary school was lost. All my family that evacuated is safe. Sharing so that others who went to school with me might elevate to help get Altadena and Pasadena stories told.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Something I wish I was seeing some more coverage/awareness of: these maps show the density of Black owner-occupied households in LA. In the first one Altadena is in the upper right. The second map overlays the Eaton Fire perimeter, showing how it devastated much of this historic community.

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

Well #blacksky my lil brother’s house just burned down in the #Altadena fires. Help me support my lil rel anything helps. 🙏🏾 t.co/2bAqEty5T3

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments