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Sunday morning news shows love them some Oklahoma GOP senators.

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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White House: "Violent mobs have attacked ICE officers and Federal Law Enforcement Officers." LAPD: "Today, demonstrations across the City of Los Angeles remained peaceful."

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If you ain’t doing propaganda, the NEH ain’t interested.

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Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

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One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

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NEW: Here’s a look at our membership and the state of investigative journalism 🔍 Continued expansion in the nonprofit sector, a diversifying investigative workforce, and growing pessimism about the future of journalism are among the main takeaways. www.ire.org/ire-journal/...

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NEW: Texas legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after @propublica.org and @texastribune.org reported that lawmakers were again trying to fund the program.

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"Like Kerouac on bennies, I too have completed an entire scroll of to-do list items while on daycare."

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TL;DR readers like news summaries. you still need a human in the loop. yes, the tariff coverage is hard to follow. www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/lets...

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marfa national bank, texas street, marfa, texas, 1993

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Wow. “Mistakes were made,” seems to be the mantra for these DOGE boys.

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“Desire paths” are unofficial trails, usually bypassing a planned path, that reveal the most convenient route to get somewhere. The people (AKA meanderthals) that tramp along these routes often wear away grass, creating the secondary path Walk this way for more on desire paths (a thread / tread)...

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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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The entire internet right now.

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Great Sam Anderson story on the latest iteration of @okcthunder.bsky.social. (And it was fun to spot a couple of people I know among the crowd shots.) #NBA #OKC www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/m...

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Congratulations, Chief Twit. You DOGE-d yourself.

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elon broke up with donny so charlie and stephen de-friended elon and then elon was all like im defriending jd and jd was like me and don are besties but i totally like elon and then donny was like you gotta pick a side and then jd like totally cried and he defriended elon and donny was all i win and

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Me-OW, you catty bitch…

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I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

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After a month-long legal battle, a Tulsa County judge lifted a temporary restraining order filed by the police union to stall the release of police disciplinary records requested by The Frontier. www.readfrontier.org/stories/judg...

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NEW: A private religious school in Owasso emailed parents ahead of a GOP runoff, highlighting candidate stances on a school tax credit—raising flags over partisan activity by a nonprofit. oklahomawatch.org/2025/06/04/c... (via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social) #okleg #okgov #oklaed

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The total number of bills (other than Congressional Review Act disapprovals) passed by different Congresses in their first five months: 119th (2025–present): 3 118th (2023–25): 5 117th (2021–23): 15 116th (2019–21): 19 115th (2017–19): 22 114th (2015–17): 23 ... "Do-Nothing" Congress (1947–49): 85

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CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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Thousands of Marshallese live in Enid—but few know why. "67 Bombs to Enid" reveals the powerful story behind their journey. Premieres June 12 at deadCenter. | Film with Brett Fieldcamp by OKCMOA: freepressokc.com/new-doc-tell...

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STORY —> GOP bill for Trump's agenda would add $2.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says The nonpartisan CBO also found that the House-passed legislation would increase the number of people without health insurance by 10.9 million by 2034. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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#foioklahoma By Paul Monies, oklahomawatch.org: The Rejoice Christian School election involvement comes as Oklahoma lawmakers reacted quickly to restrict access to recipients of those state tax credits.

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NEW: A private religious school in Owasso emailed parents ahead of a GOP runoff, highlighting candidate stances on a school tax credit—raising flags over partisan activity by a nonprofit. oklahomawatch.org/2025/06/04/c... (via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social) #okleg #okgov #oklaed

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I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

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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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