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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.”
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If you take out a loan, you pay it back. A student loan is no different from a house or car loan -- taxpayers shouldn't be forced to foot the bill. Student debt transfer is reckless and unfair to the 87% of Americans who either never took out loans or responsibly paid them back.
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Here's a list of
#Oklahoma
politicians who have taken money from EPIC charter schools' co-founders David Chaney and Ben Harris and former CFO Josh Brock, all of whom were arrested today on RICO and other criminal complaints. 🧵
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Mullin, who financial disclosure reports show has a net worth in the millions of dollars, had nearly $1.2 million in federal PPP loans forgiven by the federal government.
We do not need farmers and ranchers, small business owners, and teachers in Oklahoma paying the debts of Ivy League lawyers and doctors across the U.S.
This places undue burden on those already suffering due to the weight of Biden’s failed economic policy.
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“Now entering Oklahoma City city limits,” the sign says, 30 minutes away from the nearest structure fit for human habitation.
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Gov. Mary Fallin arrived in McAlester to tour a local business this morning, but was greeted by teacher protesters at the airport.
#OklahomaTeachersWalkout
#Oked
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I was just kicked out of a meeting at the Capitol between all
#Oklahoma
pension heads and state Treasurer Todd Russ. He also asked that all attorneys be removed. This meeting is over the Treasurer’s blacklist of financial institutions and millions in state pension funds
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Rep. Kevin Hern (whose net worth is several million, owns several McDonald's franchises and pushed Congress to allow those types of businesses to receive PPP loans) and his spouse, had at least $2.6 million in federal PPP loans forgiven by the government.
My full statement on Biden’s student loan giveaway ⬇️
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Just discovered the public access computers at the Oklahoma Secretary of State’s office have been removed and probably are not coming back. So if you want to learn about corporations, nonprofits, etc., you’re going to have to pay around $5 per record. Not cool.
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Two tweets posted within an hour of each other by Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin.
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Oklahoma is certainly a land of contrasts.
@GovStitt
pushes for hundreds of millions of $ in taxpayer subsidies for a multi-billion dollar international corporation, but said he doesn’t want to give the homeless “free stuff” and will not consider expanding affordable housing here
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Last night
@SPJFW
awarded
@jpalmerOKC
,
@reesejgorman
and I 1st place in investigative reporting for the
@OklahomaWatch
/
@readfrontier
joint investigation uncovering how federal education $ misspent thanks to lax oversight by the state. Well done guys!
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Congrats to my mom, who was just awarded Eufaula Public Schools’ teacher of the year. I may be somewhat biased in my assessment, but she’s absolutely one of the best.
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Woods is the same lawmaker who allegedly got punched in the face outside a flower shop by an angry mechanic shortly after being elected.
State Senator calls 2SLGBTQ+ Oklahomans 'filth' after question on legislation and nonbinary student's death
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If only that 82-year-old man with his words hadn't stopped me...
Just sat down with
@SenMullin
to talk about Tuesday’s confrontation with Teamsters Pres. Sean O’Brien. Mullin says he “absolutely” was prepared to fight
@TeamsterSOB
, saying he had already picked the spot…where I wanted him to land.” (1/2)
@NewsOn6
@NEWS9
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We’ve literally got the email from Mr. Walters to ClassWallet giving blanket approval for parents to buy anything on the ClassWallet platform with the taxpayer funds. He knows this.
Ryan Walters again blames a vendor tasked with helping distribute the money through an online platform. We previously reported that Walters granted “blanket approval” for parents to buy stuff like TVs, grills, and other noneducational items.
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OK AG Gentner Drummond withdraws his predecessor's legal opinion that would allow taxpayer money to be given directly to religious charter schools saying the previous opinion “misuses the concept of religious liberty by employing it as a means to justify state-funded religion.”
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Books included in AG O'Connors review under the state's obscenity law include:
* Of Mice and Men
* Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
* Brave New World
* I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
* Lord of the Flies
* The Bluest Eye
Full list here:
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Tribal citizenship ≠ race.
For example, Gov. Kevin Stitt is white, but is also an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.
Some think that certain races shouldn’t have to pay taxes while other races do.
I’ve taken a radical position: race shouldn’t play a factor in how much you pay in taxes. If some Oklahomans don’t have to pay taxes, then no one should.
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This story is wild. Bartlesville,
#Oklahoma
pastor dressed in blackface to “honor” Ray Charles, insists he has lots of “racial friends.” Hollers a lot about people wearing drag. Dresses as an American Indian woman. Insists it’s not drag.
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Somehow, my daughter and I got to talking about the Branch Davidian standoff and how it related to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Her: “Dad, you should be a history teacher.”
Me: “Teach history? Here? In Oklahoma?”
Us:
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Guys. A possible cannibal hillbilly black market castration operation got busted up in southeastern Oklahoma.
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Back in 2016, I went down to McCurtain County to investigate a jail death, a schizophrenic man who was strapped to a restraint chair for hours, beaten and tased. The jail refused to turn over even its policies & procedures manual, saying it was not public
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Every journalist covering this should be hammering the
#Oklahoma
Dept of Health to get the EXACT details of the "technical issues" that caused the delay releasing these numbers after
@GovStitt
's presser w/
@realDonaldTrump
-which show a single day 5% increase in
#COVID19
cases
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Gov. Stitt threatens to end the McGirt panel early if the shouting doesn’t stop. Is met by a chorus of boos from the crowd.
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Thread: The owner of a $1.7mm mansion and 50 acres surrounding it in south Tulsa County will pay less in property taxes on that than the owner of a small ~$49k house on a 1-acre lot just down the street.
Why?
The mansion's owner is a church.
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Take a look at these this “leaked” email from
@MattlangstonTX
. Notice how the wording is different between the sources? (“I am” in one, “I’m” in the other, etc). Wonder if someone may be trying to set a trap.
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100%
@RyanWaltersSupt
personally signed off on allowing parents the option to use taxpayer funds to purchase non-educational items on ClassWallet's platform. We got the receipts to prove it. Full info here:
Interesting. Cause per emails
@readfrontier
and
@OklahomaWatch
obtained last year, Ryan Walters gave “blanket approval” for all items on ClassWallet’s platform when given the opportunity to narrow it to just educational items
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Under newly introduced
#Oklahoma
HB3133 by Rep JJ Humphrey, any person who is a member of a street gang & convicted of a gang-related offense would be labeled as a terrorist — but only if that person is of Hispanic descent.
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Here's a friendly reminder that a wilful violation of the
#Oklahoma
Open Records Act can not only result in a civil suit against the offending person and agency for the records, but can also result in criminal charges against the public official as well.
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House Bill 3677 by Rep. Sean Roberts: would require all Oklahoma voters to re-register to vote by the end of next year and provide a birth certificate and other info to be able to re-register to vote in state elections.
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During the course of my research for the new
@readfrontier
McGirt v Oklahoma site, I was struck again & again by how similar some of the arguments for Indian removal were to the complaints we hear today in regard to the McGirt ruling. Hear me out…(thread)
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Social media entertainer stokes hatred for journalists, claims to be journalist.
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I don't know who needs to hear this (actually, I do), but witholding, delaying and trying to hide public records to try and maintain control of your narrative is a very, VERY stupid thing to do. And it will end up biting you in the butt. Have a great weekend.
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This morning wake up call brought to by Oklahoma's oil and natural gas industry.
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When a politician or one of their sycophants tells you “now is not the time” to talk or ask about the causes of a tragedy that just happened, it almost always means it’s definitely the right time to ask/talk about it. It’s a bad faith response. 🧵
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@MattlangstonTX
@elonmusk
@sde
@RyanWaltersSupt
You never answered my question, Matt. Was it your idea to set a canary trap for Oklahoma State Dept. of Education employees, or was Mr. Walters aware of your plans?
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I’ve got to admit, the energy in the air had me worried about what was going to go down after the
#TulsaTrumpRally
ended tonight, but seeing the
#BLM
protesters and
@TulsaPolice
both peacefully turn & go their separate ways after squaring off was awe inspiring. Good on you, Tulsa
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The one where sitting Oklahoma State Senator Rob Standridge basically accuses "white leftist wackos in this state" of being traitors to the white race.
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We also have a saying in Oklahoma - “Don’t piss on my boot and tell me it’s raining.”
“We have a free market in Oklahoma” and “we want everybody to have the same opportunities in Oklahoma” is a vague way of actually answering her question of “what will you do to help women?”
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It's an honor to be named Reporter of the Year by
@OKSPJ
. Thank you to all the board members and judges, as well as the rest of the
@readfrontier
team!
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@MattlangstonTX
@wsuares
@TheLostOgle
Mr. Langston, did you do this of your own initiative, or was Secretary Walters aware of your plans? Also, just a note - I pulled those images from social media from other journalists, not from anything directly sent to me. It was that obvious.
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One would think a person who spent years watching Cowboy athletics would have a far better understanding of the term “loser.”
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As you can see, that's a lot of money going to powerful politicians, and much of it likely originated from taxpayer school funds before going into EPIC's private management company and distributed to the owners, who it appears then showered it upon your elected officials.
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It's pretty silly for a govt agency to say it is banning a media outlet from interviewing a public official, as if it won't become that outlet's mission to crash every single press conference and public event that official holds from now until eternity to ask their questions.
When I reached out to
@RyanWaltersSupt
office asking for his response to criticisms of the Prager U partnership, his communications director
@DanIsett
told me Black Wall Street Times reporters are now banned from interview requests.
#OklaEd
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According to the recent Paycheck Protection Program data released by
@SBAgov
,
#Oklahoma
Congressman
@RepMullin
's companies received between $800k and ~$2million in taxpayer funds, while
#Tulsa
Congressman
@repkevinhern
's company received $1 million - $2 million.
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Well. We made The Onion. Again.
Oklahoma Schools To Teach Students That Tulsa Massacre Was Crime Of Passion From Loving Black People Too Much
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Here is the email exchange between
@RyanWaltersSupt
, weeks prior to him being actually appointed Sec. of Ed. by
@govstitt
, and a ClassWallet rep., who asked if they should restrict what items on the CW platform would be available for parents to purchase using federal GEER funds.
**Throwback Thursday **
“Did you vet that vendor?” (Class Wallet)
Watch Walters get flustered and lie.
We deserve to know the truth about his handling of the GEER federal funds.
Full video here:
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These records only go back to 2016, but you can see that the founders definitely spread their wealth around to numerous
#Oklahoma
politicians, including this year's two major gubernatorial candidates before they were opponents - Stitt and Hofmeister, as well as former AG Hunter
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Tiger King is now the No. 1 show on Netflix and has been viewed by millions around the world. So in the end, Joe Exotic got everything he wished for.
#TigerKingNetflix
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Among the recipients are businesses owned by two
#Oklahoma
congressmen, chain restaurants, the Pioneer Woman, two think tanks and others. Combined, between $90mm & $153mm in funds went to churches alone here. Going to keep digging into this data.
Oklahoma businesses and organizations receive billions in federal coronavirus aid through the Payroll Protection Program, new federal data shows | via
@cliftonhowze
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I sat in on a hearing yesterday in a Delaware Co case where an enviro group is suing the
#Oklahoma
Dept. of Agriculture, claiming it is ignoring environmental requirements & should notify neighbors if a poultry mega farm is moving in. There were some interesting revelations...🧵
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The McGirt panel was set to run until 8 tonight, but the Governor ended it early (questions for the panel were so being submitted, so they didn’t run out of questions)
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Was at the presser and heard this exchange. Here is the email from
@RyanWaltersSupt
to a ClassWallet rep, who had asked him whether they should restrict what parents could buy on the platform.
The
@Okla_OAG
office has determined…that is a lie 🧐
My first question for
@RyanWaltersSupt
on behalf of
@TheBWSTimes
and families everywhere.
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Say no. Destroy all but one copy, bury/hide it away and refuse to turn it over, even if they throw you in jail. Yes - I am encouraging people to defy a court order. No - I don’t care. There’s more at stake here than just turning over video and images.
Judge rules that Seattle media companies must hand over unpublished protest images and videos to the police.
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Like his multiple attempts to win higher office, Dahm’s bill is almost certainly DOA.
Oklahoma bill making journalists get licenses, drug tests sparks First Amendment pushback
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"Coordinating the effort is Saxum, an OKC-based PR firm w/ multiple state contracts, Every Kid Counts Oklahoma, a nonprofit recently managed by
@RyanWaltersSupt
, & the Walton Family Fndn, a pro-school choice org funded by the founding family of Walmart."
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If it’s demonstrably false, then why not release the requested records and demonstrate how it is false?
Asking for a retraction of a demonstrably false story is not bullying.
In fact, it's a very simple request.
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I tried to argue that it was in his best interest that I stayed, since I would be there to hear directly what he said, instead of getting it second-hand later for a story that is definitely getting written either way. No dice.
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I was at this event today (that's me, top/left in the video) & took the opportunity to ask Mr. Walters a few questions regarding his relationship w/ ClassWallet and its CEO prior to the company getting a no bid contract. Unfortunately, he declined to answer any of my questions.
Tulsa won’t go woke! Get out today and vote and help us push back on the national teacher unions and the far left.
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My wife seems to think me doing celebratory karate moves over coffee being ready while she’s on a zoom meeting at the kitchen table may somehow reflect poorly on her status as a professional. Pfff.
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BREAKING: The
#Oklahoma
judge in the unemployment case has issued a preliminary injunction against the state discontinuing expanded and extended unemployment benefits. Full order to be released Monday.
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Pinnell has accepted at least $196,751 in direct campaign donations from the oil and gas industry since 2018.
If you believe the EPA should have more power than your own elected legislators, then your understanding of the democratic process might be the issue.
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A cannabis lounge has stepped up to provide shelter, food and clothing to the homeless in Wagoner, and is serving as a public warming station. It’s the only organization in town doing so.
“We were watching it unfold on Facebook, people crying out for a need,” Hutt-Greenman said. “We watched it for about half an hour and saw no one step up and said forget that … We’re going to show what compassion and love look like.” | via
@cliftonhowze
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Oh, you mean the FREEDOM QUAKE?
i did not feel the earthquake so if anyone is writing a story, please cover both sides and interview me about how there was not an earthquake
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So,
@kfor
, did you check whether this guy had even filed any candidacy paperwork whatsoever before giving him and his white nationalist message free air time? Is just saying you’re running on social media good enough, as long as the message is inflammatory? Do better journalism.
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Here's the Oklahoma legislator who introduced this bill, which would ban history teachers and professors from telling students white people owned black people as slaves.
@PENamerica
A new bill in Oklahoma (also prefiled last week) explicitly *requires* teachers and university professors to lie to their students about American history. I'm not making this up!
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I’ve been having issues as well getting anything from
@Okla_OAG
besides press releases about lawsuits. A simple request that would’ve taken 1-2 days to fulfill now takes a quarter of a year. This is the office responsible for showing other public bodies how to comply w/ the ORA
His office refuses to comply with basic requests under the Oklahoma Open Records Act. Mike Hunter was not great but he complied with the act. I doubt O’Connor has read it or understands it. His PR folks certainly do not.
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Well, that’s probably why you’re a former reporter.
@CarlyAtch
@tulsaworld
@AndreaEger
@joy4ok
@GovStitt
As a former reporter, this is something you do when you don’t actually want a comment. You just want to “pretend” you tried to get an answer from the side you are writing a hit piece on.
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You guys I got my first Bill Gates Satanic Mind Control microchip installed today!
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“The Department of Education overpaid at least $290,000 in teacher bonuses and is working to claw back the money mere months after it was distributed. ... The overpayments occurred because the department did not verify teachers’ information before disbursement.”
Imagine receiving a big bonus. You pay off debt or use it as a down payment on a house or a car. Months later, you’re told you have to pay it back, including thousands of dollars in taxes you never even had. These teachers are living that nightmare.
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Earlier this year, we found most of the firms on the state’s oil/gas boycott blacklist don’t qualify for the list under the law, and state pensioners could lose millions if the state moves forward with divesting from some of those firms
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Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire who allegedly lavished gifts, trips and money on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made exactly one *publicly disclosed* donation in recent
#Oklahoma
state elections, according to state ethics records.
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Records show
#Oklahoma
State Superintendent Ryan Walters billed taxpayers for travel to a movie premiere in Dallas and a visit to a Glenn Beck/David Barton-owned museum there, labeling the trip as a “core function” of the state Dept of Education.
Oklahoma paid for Ryan Walters’ travel for speaking engagements, media appearances and a horror movie premiere. | via
@briOKC
@cliftonhowze
and
@DGoforth918
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Mullin’s companies took $1.4 million in aid from the first round of COVID aid.
I just voted no on the massive, $2.3 trillion spending package. It’s 5,593 pages and we only had a few hours to read it before we were forced to vote on it. We should govern better than this.
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So far, Gov. Fallin has not met with protesting
#OklahomaTeachers
, but yesterday they got a tip that she would be touring Spirit Aero Systems in McAlester this morn. Teachers, students, parents and state employees from around SE Oklahoma showed up to greet her.
#okteacherwalkout
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Here's one.
#Oklahoma
Senate Bill 176 by Sen. Julie Kirt would require the Gov's cabinet members & department heads to file financial disclosures w/ the Ethics Commission. That used to be the case, until the rules got changed a few yrs ago because reasons.
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I paid more than $750 in federal income taxes and had to forgo health insurance so I could send my kid to college, so there's no earthly way I can afford to be hospitalized. But thanks for the advice.
I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!
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The
#Oklahoma
Public Employees Retirement System estimates it will cost State retirees at least $9.7mm, likely more, to end relationships with companies under the state’s fossil fuel boycott law. Background here:
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Likely another dead-ender/troll bill, given the 1st Amendment exists, but new SB1837 by term-limited Sen. Nathan Dahm (also head of the
#Oklahoma
GOP) would require media outlets, reporters to be licensed, trained, and drug tested by the government.
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This brutal Oklahoma heat and humidity is for suckers. Heading up to Montana for a couple of weeks to fish all the blue ribbon trout streams I can get access to and breathe that clean mountain air again. Please be kind and don’t burn down the state while I’m gone.
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A few days ago, an Oklahoma legislator was talking about “colored babies” on the state House floor. He later said was just a “slip of the tongue.” He said he was sorry if anyone was offended by it. It’s been a banner week here for supposed involuntary bigotry.
The announcer who used a racial slur to describe high school basketball players who kneeled during the national anthem said he had "spiking" blood sugar when he used the n-word.
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Remember boys and girls: Politicians love posing for photo ops with firearms but often know little to nothing about how to safely handle them. Rule No. 1: Keep your damn booger hook off the bang switch.
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Why delete or hide posts of there’s nothing to be ashamed of?
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On Friday, the Gov’s office sent us a letter from the state to ClassWallet (dated that day) demanding the company pay the state for damages. However, we uncovered evidence the state could’ve put restrictions on what parents bought through the platform, but explicitly chose not to
ClassWallet: "Is there a blanket approval for items so long as they are purchased with the vendors on our platform?”
Ryan Walters: “Blanket approval with vendors on your platform."
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“If you really believe that a vaccine is going to melt your DNA, you’ve got some deeper issues than what your congressman is recommending,” Congressman Frank Lucas said.
In rural Oklahoma, suspicions run high while vaccination rates stay low
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The oil/gas corp accused of stealing water, damaging the refuge & trying to get the mayor involved is never named in this story (Revolution Resources & Select Services). If an outlet is fine posting low-level criminals' names/mugs, why not at least say the corpo-crooks' names?
OKC settles lawsuit against oil and gas company accused of damaging a wildlife refuge
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All legacy blue checkmarks aboard the Space X rocket that exploded shortly after liftoff this morning have been confirmed lost. Their brave, yet doomed, efforts to slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God will never be forgotten.
So what if he moved a bunch of SpaceX engineers over to Twitter to figure out how to remove blue checkmarks? What’s the worst thing that could go—
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Back to the debate. Hofmeister brought the issue up. Stitt said "that's not true", then chuckled incredulously “Oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California? That’s what she just said.”
Whether Oklahomans choose to believe it or not, it's true.
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