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"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, because the zoo and the fire department were both defunded, and now all the animals are on fire, even the sharks, which is even more disturbing than it sounds."

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BlackRock was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental policies of the world’s largest asset manager

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Hooooly shit. We've created a fake bullshit artist. No wonder human bullshit artists love it.

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NEW: Attorneys for MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell said in opening statements at his defamation trial in Denver that they won’t present evidence of his claim that the 2020 election was rigged. “It’s just words. All Mike Lindell did was talk,” said Lindell’s attorney. #copolitics

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We’re suing the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for not releasing records on deaths other violent incidents www.readfrontier.org/stories/okla...

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Paul Monies talks about a lawsuit Oklahoma Watch filed against OSDE. Keaton Ross breaks down several criminal justice measures that passed this session. JC Hallman discusses a woman who was being held on an old warrant in the Tulsa County Jail. ow.ly/aBjX50W3CKf

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Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson was joking when he said at a meeting Monday that he was not aware of the upcoming hurricane season, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

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Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

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Most criminal justice reform conversations at the Capitol focused on making the reintegration process easier as a strategy to reduce recidivism. ow.ly/UPqh50W1Qqv

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If you can't back up the theory you're selling with evidence ... make some up: The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Governor Stitt vetoes ethics training bill, saying it would create excessive bureaucracy: "It would mandate ethics training for every newly elected or appointed head of a state agency, board, or commission—imposing the extreme penalty of removal from office for noncompliance." 🧵

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If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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OK Supreme Court affirms the OK State Dept. of Health does have the right to perform surprise inspections at any time at the OK Co. Jail. Last summer the jail trust sued OSDH, arguing the inspections went above the law, straining their staff. (1/2) @kfor4.bsky.social www.oscn.net/applications...

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💥 NEW: Amazon shareholders have voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal presented by Oklahoma Treasurer, 98-2%. In Feb, OK Treasurer Todd Russ said he would target companies that "double down on DEI." Proposal cited AMZN relationship with GARM, an anti-hate group that folded after targeted by Elon Musk

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#foioklahoma From rcfp.org: On behalf of Jennifer Palmer and Oklahoma Watch, Leslie Briggs, the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative attorney for Oklahoma, filed this lawsuit against the state of Oklahoma.

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in another universe, “they crashed the economy and got rich off it” would be a very compelling rallying cry for an opposition party

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Do you double check your receipt when you buy groceries? Maybe you should. Kroger stores in multiple states show a pattern of listing expired sale prices on the shelves and then ringing up regular prices at checkout, an investigation by the Guardian US, @thefern.org and @consumerreports.org ‬found.

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Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department tried to bar a CNN journalist from serving as a pool reporter for an upcoming foreign trip. Other reporters threatened to boycott the trip. Guess what happened next. The Pentagon caved. Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/pete-hegse...

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#YNWA 🏆

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill, HB 1389, that would require health insurers to cover this type of enhanced mammography screening. www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.asp... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/h... #okgov #okleg

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200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner www.wired.com/story/a-heli...

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This is the federal grant the Trump administration canceled simply because it had the word "equity" in the name. It was supposed to help rural areas, veterans and older residents.

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Kermit the Frog told graduates at the University of Maryland that “dreams are how we figure out where we want to go, and life is how we get there.” The beloved Muppet and creation of the late Maryland graduate, Jim Henson, delivered the main address at the university’s commencement Thursday.

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The EU was formed to stop Europe from tearing itself apart after WW2 and was heavily influenced by the US through NATO and direct talks to create what would become the EU.

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Texas about to ban THC products. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/23/t...

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NCAA should have just let the athletes unionize. Now all the universities are dealing with the NIL fallout.

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“But environmental and public health experts warn the change could result in higher pollution levels in communities that neighbor industrial facilities like oil refineries, chemical plants, coke ovens, aluminum plants, lead smelters, things of that nature.”

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Oklahoma followed right behind Texas in signing on to this “invasion” legal theory on immigration.

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Split Decision Halts Oklahoma’s Plan to Open Religious Charter School oklahomawatch.org/2025/05/22/s...

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FAA Approves Elon Musk's SPACEX Starship return to flight--after two catastrophic explosions that sent debris falling down to earth. This means Starship will launch again soon. Will see if another Starship blows up.

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BBC Verify takes a closer looks at the claims of "white genocide" in South Africa that Donald Trump made in the Oval Office yesterday, calling some of them "demonstrably false". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The clearest conclusion I’ve come to doing a DOGE podcast for 4 months is that they’re not just incompetent at cutting waste and fraud, but that was never the real goal. And it’s vital to get folks who share that goal to recognize that.

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Trump is hosting a black tie dinner at his Virginia golf club for 220 investors who gave a combined $394 million to his crypto venture.

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The President will have dinner tonight with the winners of his meme-coin contest. Who are they? We mostly don’t know, because the White House refuses to say. So much for the “most transparent administration in history.”

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Tom Cole pressed EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over an environmental research center in his district. ow.ly/zmkB50VX0tE

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#foioklahoma By Ashlynd Huffman, readfrontier.org: A Tulsa County judge partially released a batch of documents Wednesday to The Frontier related to Tulsa police disciplinary records. www.readfrontier.org/stories/tuls...

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BREAKING: By an evenly divided vote, the Supreme Court affirms an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the creation of a Catholic charter school. Barrett recused, allowing for the deadlock. We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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"It’s not corruption if it’s done shamelessly in full view of the public eye. We haven’t read The Federalist Papers, but we’re pretty sure that’s in there somewhere." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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We broke the news today that the 747 plane donated by Qatar to become a new Air Force One is now in the possession of the United States. We now have updated our story with react from members of Congress and Trump's comments on the gift. Dems moving to try to block the gift. nyti.ms/439TqxR

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"The government would close Biden-era investigations of multiple other local police departments — including in Phoenix, Memphis and Oklahoma City — and retract the government’s conclusions that those agencies had violated the Constitution." wapo.st/437IsZH (via @washingtonpost.com)

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The solicitor general came to the court this morning urging the justices to temporarily pause a judge’s order that would require DOGE to provide information in a lawsuit about whether it is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

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"Nobody wants to be in law enforcement. It’s dying," one Missouri sheriff told @themarshallproject.org. Now, he thinks, ICE contracts could be what saves it... Such a well-written story: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/05/19/i...

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Thousands of State Employees Still Working Remotely Despite Return-to-Office Order oklahomawatch.org/2025/05/21/t... (via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social) #okgov #okleg

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Thousands of State Employees Still Working Remotely Despite Return-to-Office Order oklahomawatch.org/2025/05/21/t... (via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social) #okgov #okleg

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