Brandi 🌾
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Comms in OK energy industry. Veteran journalist. Amateur historian. Professional consumer of fried taters, tacos and baseball games🍊
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My sister-in-law is a RN in Tulsa. They are at 40% COVID. I wish I could post her texts for everyone to read. She cried for an hour in the parking lot after having so many patients code today and witnessed one of her doctors break down. The stories she has are haunting.
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Haven’t been inside a restaurant since March. Rarely leave my house except for groceries every 2 weeks. Attend church online only. Didn’t go to cousin’s wedding. Was alone on Thanksgiving. I’m covid positive. What we think is “being safe” is not safe unless everyone is doing it.
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#Firefighters
carrying children from tornado-destroyed gymnastics studio in West
#Tulsa
. All 60 ppl are SAFE.
#okwx
http://t.co/BW0t4NNX45
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@SarahRoberts___
But have you ever discovered a guy’s ex gf using their mini goldendoodle’s IG account to watch your stories? That’s a special kind of high 😂
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@itsbellagomez
The last woman in the tie dye shorts and black sweatshirt: Did she say “you ain’t got no life” to a smiling black man with the “my life matters” sign? People no longer hide behind hoods anymore. In a way, I’m thankful. At the same time, it makes me want to throw up.
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At the ATL airport and my Baseball Pete hat caught the eye of
@BrownMarcus12
, who is on his way to D.C. to show the Big Leagues how shortshop is played. Also just appointed myself the official MLB welcoming committee.
#cowboyfamily
#okstate
@OSUBaseball
#gopokes
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@thekitchn
I feel like maybe you accidentally mixed up the results with flu season foods.
#oklahoma
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This tweet is from Gov. Stitt’s chief of staff. I am “local media.” As a freelance reporter for weeklies, I document the pandemic. I also know nearly every one of the 600 (1 in 25) in my home county, and all of the 8 dead. Hype is not my game. Life is not a game (Cont’d)
Local media is so eager to hype the COVID numbers that most have overlooked the fact that today’s total represents 2 days, and the 7-day average is actually DOWN since November 25. No hype necessary, just vigilance and, hopefully, a mask. Stay well friends.
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So
@OSUBaseball
is now up 4-3 on TCU and this means I have to sit in the grocery store parking lot until the game is over. POSTSEASON BASEBALL IS NOT A TIME TO WORRY ABOUT ROTISSERIE CHICKEN, PEOPLE.
#okstate
#gopokes
#big12
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@utsdoc
One of my dear friends has Down syndrome. I’ve been worried for him over the last year bc of Covid. He is a sweet, kind soul and his life not only matters, it is a necessary presence in a world where goodness is needed. I would argue his life contributes more than mine ever could
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I will share this from her text: “People were dying left and right yesterday. I had a 25-year-old patient that I respiratory coded for 12 hours. I bagged him almost my entire shift. He has a 3-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son.”
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Appreciate the large-market journos who amplified this after the McCurtain Gazette-News likely took safety risks in breaking it open. Without that teamwork and statewide outrage forcing such a response, these ppl would continue their sham county gov’t on the taxpayer dime
News:
@GovStitt
calls for resignation of the McCurtain County Officials who were caught on tape talking about killing a reporter and lamenting about not being able to hang Black people.
He says he will ask the OSBI to open an investigation into the officials
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📌After 18 yrs in newsrooms, I’m taking a leap. I’m now the Exec Director of
#Route66
Main Street, a
@NatlMainStreet
group in
#Tulsa
. We’re at a turning point for
#oktravel
& our state economy. It’s an incredible time for the
#MotherRoad
. Let’s help her rise again!
@SavingPlaces
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I oversee a charity that awards grants to those in need. Today a thank you card came from an elderly man. He has no teeth. A Tulsa dentist wrote off half his $5k dentures; our foundation paid the other half. “I cried like a baby,” he wrote. Humility + empathy + gratitude
#HNY2022
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I’ve been having trouble sleeping since Saturday. Bluntly put, on the way to the airport in another state, my
@lyft
driver killed a pedestrian. I saw his face before impact. I saw his lifeless body after my screaming convinced the driver that he did, in fact, hit a person. 1/?
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Last night, I was honored to win four awards from the OK Press Association for news/in-depth reporting in 2020. And the pub I freelance for won the coveted Sequoyah Award, which is like taking Best Picture at the Oscars. It was incredible joy after a hard year. With that said...
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I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I could watch a million episodes in a row of
@hgtv
#Hometown
. Every small town needs people with a Ben and Erin mentality.
#historymatters
#strongtowns
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Straight fire.
Ump Cam forever. Amen.
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@DGoforth918
Many things strike me about this, aside from the condescending tone and apparent veiled threat. What stands out is how the student invtited the rep to hear students’ POV, and she said no, but she’d be happy to come to their class and make them listen to her.
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No country is free if its press cannot practice openly and fearlessly.
#JeSuisCharlie
http://t.co/YCXeKDyJEp
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I just called my grandma so she’d know I already took my shower and will not be struck by lightning in the bath like her friend Patsy was in the ‘60s. “Oh good! I was just going to call and remind you to do it before the storms,” she said.
#SafetyFirst
#okwx
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@RyanWaltersSupt
I don’t think “no indoctrination” means what you think it means. Also, five months of this. I am so tired of hearing about it. Is your department going to address any other issue?
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Unpopular take: Knowles is a huge loss. Cowboys need him. But if Ohio State is paying $2M, the best thing for the
#okstate
family is to wish him luck. A year ago, OSU cut salaries of assistants in other successful sports and laid off staff due to Covid. It’s bigger than one guy.
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Not really a beer-drinker, but when
@QuikTrip
employees showed up at the newsroom today w/
@MarshallBrewing
for our stressed-out staff, I got teary-eyed. It’s been a long couple of weeks. Kind, simple gestures like this are the
#oklahomastandard
!
#okwx
#Flood2019
#tvnewsers
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Confession: Christmas has been really hard on me for a few years. My heart has many broken pieces. So don’t listen to the fear that you’re the only one who struggles. Girls who seem happy and free-spirited cry, too. And it’s OK not to be OK. I wish you peace through your sorrows.
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To all of my Twitter hype men: I did it! Not even nervous for a nanosecond. It was the most incredible feeling to look around and take in the beauty of the world while in a freefall. I cannot put into words how that lit my soul on fire. Live for today 🔥❤️
#adventure
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Dressing up for “Fancy Friday” even though I’m quarantined and there’s nowhere to go. The garden cocktail party is nixed, so I’m being classy at home with pizza instead. Obviously more important issues rn, but it does a lot for the mental state to put on real clothes and laugh☀️
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Hospital conditions:
- Good
- Fair
- Serious
- Critical
Notice “stable” is not on the list. You can be stable and in fair condition. You can be stable and in critical condition. You cannot be in “stable condition.”
Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.😩
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@utsdoc
Also so glad to read Sean is doing better! Thank you for amplifying your experience as a father. Empathy isn’t natural for some, and I am hoping even one person saw your post and finally was able to humanize the statistics. Covid is aggressive, and we must protect each other.
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All I want for Christmas is the neighbor kid to run out of fireworks before the Fourth of July 🇺🇸🎅🏼
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6/6 I believe it is the right thing to note
@lyft
‘s safety team just called me and said they had not been notified of the fatal incident caused by their driver. I gave them the name of the key investigator and case number so they can contact him. The employee was very kind.
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It’s the details for me 🥰
@bravesorganist
played “I’m sorry” as Altuve walked to the plate after he played “It’s a Small World” during the last at bat. Baseball is the greatest game.
#worldseries
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Our mid-20s producer is freaking out bc he found out I was in elementary during
#TheChallengerDisaster
.
He thought I was 28 or 29😏, but now he knows I’m 41, 5 years younger than his dad, he says🤦🏼♀️
He’s shouting in the newsroom, “FORTY-ONE?” “FORTY-ONE?”
Yes, me and Betty White
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Groom tests positive. Wedding party keeps it secret until one bridesmaid slips up and tells the photographer.
“Oh no no no, don’t freak out. He doesn’t have symptoms.”
This story is wild. Reckless, selfish people.
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From a friend of J.R., thank you for this
@cowboyvoice
. I miss him already. Covid doesn’t care if you were one of the best TEs in the Big 8. Its grip takes hold, no mercy shown. It causes sadness for so many. Pls pray for his father, Jim, also an
#okstate
legend. They were BFFs.
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Can confirm
When Oklahoman’s say they’re going to Dallas. This is what they mean:
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@JL_Steele
@bobbyross
That’s a strange way to say that you hope I feel better soon😔 I am grateful the odds have been in your favor. I pray they continue to be.
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🗣 .
@OSUBaseball
fans now have to name their firstborn son Mitchell Stone. I don’t make the rules.
#okstate
#gopokes
#RoadToOmaha
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I’m not sure why I’m posting this other than it is Day 6, and I still don’t know how to cope with what I am feeling. I’m thinking of the victim’s family. Those who loved him. He mattered. And he deserved more dignity than the last horrific moments of his life. 5/5
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Go into QT wearing a Channel 2 jacket. Lady proceeds to tell me she watches me on the news every day. I try telling her I’m behind the scenes so it’s not me she’s seeing, and she keeps telling me over and over how I’m her favorite. So I just started smiling and nodding.
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Big guy would do anything big or small for anyone. Except stay up past 9 pm. Can’t tell you how many mornings he texted me over the years to ask a high school football or basketball score bc he had a bedtime. My friend was strong as an ox. But Covid destroys. Pls arm yourself ❤️
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I just got out of bed and made a PB&J sandwich at nearly midnight. There are no rules anymore and I’m regressing in life.
#QuarantineConfessions
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@BeschlossDC
This is the first pic of him I’ve seen that makes me think Angelina Jolie doesn’t look like her mother after all. Holy cow.
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9/9... none of my peers on daily deadlines at more than a dozen outlets did what Mr. Payne is accusing (and if so, perhaps the state’s unclear data would be why). He’s had time to show proof. Journalists are required to document, and so should politicians with grievances.
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I stopped to pay the boy who mowed my lawn. Some teenage girls yelled across the street to me. I turned & they said in unison, “We just wanted to tell you that you are really pretty.” And I cried, right there in the lawn boy’s driveway😳Sometimes you need to hear things, I guess.
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Earlier today someone said something snarky to me about how I was a typical trendy girl with my Carhartt sock hat.
I’ve been wearing them in the winter since I was 12 and shoveling horse manure out of the barn for my $5 allowance.
Come at me, bro.
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@alison_renner
“They all wanna be Hank Williams; they don't wanna have to die”
“Her kind of loving is a little like a fist fight”
“Let’s leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read. May we all get to heaven ‘fore the devil knows we're dead”
“In my heart you pay no rent”
Many more…
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@Ma______Fe
@LawCrimeNetwork
@jessecordweber
@GwynethPaltrow
That doesn’t even make sense. She was sued and forced to defend herself. I don’t know of anyone who wants to be sued and dragged to court for a week.
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4/9... Local media is not some kind of enemy. They are messengers of daily/weekly life in a community. People who live, work, volunteer, worship and contribute to the documentation of history in a place they love, where others they love live also...
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Horn toot: I have lost 9 pounds since Saturday (lots of exercise but I expect the rate to slow). Tomorrow the scale will show a number I haven’t seen since I was 26. The jeans I wore a week ago are too baggy today. Now for the toned stomach I had at 25. It IS happening.
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@OKCNM
@davidfholt
@FBI
We are so lucky to have a leader like
@kariwatkinsokc
at the national memorial.
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My sister-in-law officially is assigned to COVID-19 patients now. She and another nurse will be living/bunking together so their families (my brother, 2YO niece and 1YO nephew) won’t be at risk. Could go on for months. How is this real life?
#covid
#coronavirus
#Tulsa
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8/9...I’m local media, as Mr. Payne labels. I have a job to do that history demands. A job that pays little. I’m also navigating life in a deadly pandemic, like all. Hype would not be ethical of me, just like the Governor’s right-hand man is not at his best in this moment of his
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@AmmahStarr
A simple death notice for the record was the only appropriate choice. Instead, a glowing account of a life that, in reality, concluded with monsterous acts. Makes me sick for his victims, that their surviving family chose to bestow honor upon their killer’s memory.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T... OU Chorale sings
#okstate
alma mater in tribute to parade victims.
Cowboys-Sooners
#oneOklahoma
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Found out bad news about my parents’ neighbors a few farms away. Husband/wife both on ventilators. I used to sell them Little League candy bars & they thought I was a doll. They still encourage & support me as an adult. Really nice people who deserve better
#COVID19
#coronavirus
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Good afternoon, class.
🗣🗣🗣
She is an alumna. 👩🏼
He is an alumnus. 👨🏻
They are alumni. 👨🏻👩🏼
They are alumnae. 👩🏼👩🏼🦰👩🏾🦱
They are alumni. 👨🏻👨🏼🦳👨🏾
When in doubt, they all are alums.
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It was a good Friday in Stillwater! Got a little blonder 💁🏼♀️ and got my booster 💪🏼 from the great folks at
@TigerDrugOK
. I’ll let you know if that smile turns into a grumpy cat look later today, but for now, feeling OK 😊
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Family of J.R. Dillard (OSU ‘87) has asked memorials be donations to
@Pets4Pete
. Pete’s Posse is a mental health resource for
#okstate
students/staff. JR loved his pups & he was a major advocate for MH during his career w/ DHS
Until we meet again❤️
#covid
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Gymnastics studio at 45th West Ave/Charles Page Blvd. in Sand Springs. The 60 ppl inside, mostly kids, are SAFE
#okwx
http://t.co/yLMH6MCGKw
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@AutumnDamnIt
These are mostly people who have not even been through due process or convicted of a crime. Also, the convicted should not be given unapproved treatment either (with or without consent).
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Me: [answering door] “Hi! Look how cute you are!”
Girl: [big smile] “I’m a MOUSE!”
Me: [silly voice]“Goodness! I had a mouse in my house the other day. Was it you?”
Girl: “I don’t know you.”
Me: ...
Girl: “My mom said I can’t come in your house. I can only take your candy.”
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I’d just like to say I’m completely honored to continue my reign as queen of turning down plans so I can take Benadryl and go to bed early on Friday nights. Living my best life.
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I have left my butter on the counter my whole life, just like my Granny did. I ain’t dead yet.
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My friend texted from the dr. office.
Finally a diagnosis. But he was dying.
I sat at my desk in the newsroom, staring at the phone.
“Will you write my obituary?“
2 years later, I kissed his cheek goodbye and went home to write.
I kept my promise.
#ShareAStoryInOneTweet
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World champ! 🍊
THE FIRST 🇺🇸 WOMAN TO WIN A SHOT PUT OUTDOOR TITLE IS A COWGIRL 🥇
📸:
@TeamUSA
#GoPokes
I
@ealey_chase
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@Davis_Hammet
As if the possible violations of the 1A weren’t terrible enough… this is horrifying
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5/9 Yes, I report on bad news like the pandemic and crime. But I, like other local journalists, also tell you about the football game’s glory, the ribbon cutting at the new salon, the STEM teacher advancing
#oklaed
, the fight for rural Internet access & heroic veterans...
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Press box buddies! My dear friend and former co-worker at the
@tulsaworld
. So good to see
@MikeBrownTW
and work on some
#okpreps
football together tonight. 🎉
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Legislators, remove Ryan Walters. End his toxic crusade against Oklahoma teachers
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I really did it. Pic from this morning and one after my girl
@tuesdaycuts
made me look a little sassy. First time cutting length since I went bald in Dec. 2011. No more psychological security blanket. I’m a big girl now. For real, guys. I didn’t even cry🤗
#freedom
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Personal announcement: I got an electric blanket and my quality of life has skyrocketed.
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As a journalist, I say this with confidence- zero people care what real-life journos do in a newsroom. Spoiler: They eat food from paper bags, tell unfunny jokes, argue over semicolons and stress over whether an anchor would rather say “folks” or “people.” We’re incredibly boring
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Quarantine Day Eleventy Billion Hundred Seven Eighty Teen Forty Point Six. We’re gonna make it, y’all. I mean, probably. But thumbs up for optimism. Even when you’re delirious and don’t remember what month it is anymore, you never forget what time Sonic happy hour is.
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Dr. Shrum was a ballplayer herself at Connors State! 🍊
Today we welcomed Oklahoma State's next President, Dr. Kayse Shrum to Cowgirl Stadium!
Congrats,
@drshrum
on becoming the first woman to lead a public research institution in Oklahoma 🤠
#Pitch2Pitch
|
#GoPokes
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I need someone to put this throwback logo from the warmup jackets on alllllllllll the things
@ChrisUnivSpirit
#okstate
#duprees
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...I begin a new chapter tomorrow, as the PR lead/spokesperson for a company that supplies power and energy across 3,500 miles of lines in rural Oklahoma. I still love journalism. It’s in my blood, and I’ll continue to find time to feed my passion. But a fresh start is calling❤️
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A woman on the produce aisle just turned to me, lifted up some bananas and asked, “if they’re green that means they eventually turn yellow, right? Or is it the other way around?” Lord, come quickly.
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For 20 yrs I couldn’t state political choices bc of my job. Folks, State Supt. is the most important runoff in OK on Tuesday. I urge Rs to join me in voting for GRACE, not division.
#oklaed
students deserve a qualified leader, not a man who thrives on buzzwords & inventing issues
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In case you’re wondering how the first day of the new job was: 1.) My co-workers are all super-duper nice; 2.) I get to control my own thermostat; and 3.) Everyone flocks to the doors at 4:30 and not a minute past. Yeah, so Utopia. 🤗
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I posted a pic on IG of my brother and me at the lake while he is training for Ironman, and several triathletes followed me. I think they’re gonna be disappointed when they find out how much I post about inhaling Mexican food and skipping workouts.
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My sweet grandma just called to make sure I was feeling OK. Then, abruptly...
“Ohhhh, I have to go, baby. It’s 8 and The Virginian🤠 is on. With the quarantines it’s the only thing I have left.”
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Sleeping in on an October Saturday morning and waking to the sound of rain is heavenly.
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He circled back, but tried to put doubt into my head about what I witnessed. He called 911, and he didn’t tell the police the whole story. And because the damage to the van was not visible and underneath the front end, cops sent me off with a man who had just killed someone. 2/?
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