Good Senator from Norman Mary Boren

On January 10th, 1956: #ElvisPresley records single "Heartbreak Hotel", written by Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden, at RCA Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.

Immigration lawyers struggle with communication at Oklahoma facility Immigration attorneys have said they’ve been having problems contacting clients behind the doors of the Diamondback Correctional facility in Watonga.

Immigration attorneys have said they’ve been having problems contacting clients behind the doors of the Diamondback Correctional facility in Watonga.

On the last day of Black History Month, I'll end it the way I started it by honoring Clara Luper.

First Charged, Last Freed - The Pickup J. B. Stradford was one of the most successful men in Greenwood. His commitment to his community and defense of his ventures led him to indictments for instigating a riot in the aftermath of 1921. It…

J. B. Stradford was one of the most successful men in Greenwood. His commitment to his community and defense of his ventures led him to indictments for instigating a riot in the aftermath of 1921. It would take years for his family to clear his name. thepickup.com/first-charge...

Yeah they're all Trumpists, some more than others (Bice, Brecheen, Hern, and Mullin are particularly obnoxious), but their staffs have to keep track of calls. Now is the time for non-MAGA GOPers and opposition Oklahomans to let their "representatives" know they don't represent all of us.

Screenshot of "Trump" and "Hegseth" in the Saturday Night Live "cold open" last night

“Bottom line, all of you should be thanking us – we took out a horrendous, horrible leader who was oppressing his own people. But don’t get any ideas!” - "Trump" on SNL bluevirginia.us/2026/03/sund...

As Anthropic and OpenAI take opposite positions on the responsible uses of AI, keep in mind that Dario Amodei is an actual scientist with a Ph.D. in biophysics from Princeton, where he focused on electrophysiology of neural circuits.

Sam Altman is a high school-educated computer software salesman.

Local Mutual Aid Fair offers free groceries, resources to Norman community Red Dirt Collective’s Mutual Aid Fair, a quarterly Norman event of neighborhood support, will be held Saturday. This year marks the fifth anniversary of handing out groceries, clothing and other

Red Dirt Collective’s Mutual Aid Fair, a quarterly Norman event of neighborhood support, will be held Saturday, marking the fifth anniversary of handing out groceries, clothing and other resources.

Senate plan would spend $254 million to improve reading scores, raise Oklahoma teacher pay A $254 million plan from Senate Republican leadership would raise teacher pay, support literacy initiatives, and increase funding for public and private school students by capping extra funds put…

A $254 million plan from Oklahoma Senate Republican leadership would raise teacher pay, support literacy initiatives, and increase funding for public and private school students by capping extra funds put into the state’s teacher pension system.

www.kgou.org/oklahoma-sen...

$2,500 teacher pay raises could come from Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) funds Republican senators laid out their education and teacher pay raise plan Tuesday, with the funding coming from the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS).

Republican senators laid out their education and teacher pay raise plan Tuesday, with the funding coming from the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS).

Did we schedule our 2026 reelection campaign kickoff event on the same day/time of Trump’s State of the Union “speech” on purpose?

You bet your sweet democracy-lovin’ a** we did!!

Who’s ready for 2026? 🌊

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

"[Karen] kept hearing ... that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – ...,” Karen says.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wait, what? Greenland and Denmark have free, nationalized health care systems. The avg. life span in Denmark (incl. Greenland) is 82.39 yrs, in US it's only 79.76. They have better health care than we do, particularly since he's cutting Medicaid.
#ProudBlue

Fear not, Greenland, for we are sending you our unaffordable healthcare that will surely be better than your *checks notes* free healthcare and we are also sending *checks other notes* measles 🫡

Remember President Biden’s Infrastructure Act?

It would have put thousands of Americans to work in high paying jobs.

The pipeline now pouring raw sewage into the Potomac may have been repaired by now. City water treatment plants, the power grid, roads, bridges. All would help.

Trump killed it.

It does feel like we Okies are deep behind Christian Nationalist lines…this 👀 ⬇️ confirms it!

*Not all Christians are Christian Nationalists. Christians follow Jesus. Christian Nationalists want govt to push a conservative version of Christianity in laws; opposite of Jesus’ teachings/freedom. 🇺🇸

The jersey of former #Sooners men's basketball player Buddy Hield was retired during Saturday's game, making him the sixth person to receive the honor.

UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.)

Link: justice.gov/epstein/file...

Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...

‘We are America’: Norman High School students protest ICE in walkout Norman High School students held a walkout Tuesday in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Norman High School students held a walkout Tuesday afternoon protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters and a counterprotester spoke with OU Daily about student activism and what the walkout means to them.

Their Water Was Undrinkable. Oklahoma’s Oil Regulators Failed to Help. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

For @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org

Salty, oily drinking water left sores in their mouths. Oklahoma refused to find out why.

By @nickbowlin.bsky.social

Joe and Barack.

My favorite Valentine's Day tweet of all time 🤣

Eight years ago, Parkland was forever changed. Seventeen of our neighbors were taken from us at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and our community has carried that pain ever since.

The hair flip is exhausting.

Police announce 30 arrests in sex trafficking sting operation in Bloomington, MN:

"Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

#DefundICE #ICEout #Minnesota #ProudBlue

Kyle Steele wins Ward 6 Norman City Council seat, defeats incumbent Joshua Hinkle Information technology contractor Kyle Steele was elected to the Ward 6 council seat Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Joshua Hinkle.

Kyle Steele was elected to the Ward 6 council seat Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Joshua Hinkle.
https://www.oudaily.com/news/norman-kyle-steele-ward-6-city-council-election-result/article_2347a753-7aad-4480-ba35-fd58606adb1a.html? 

Ten Oklahoma legislators criticized high school students for leaving class and publicly demonstrating, in exercise of their First Amendment right, against ICE's conduct. None of them issued any statement critical of Trump for posting a racist meme depicting Barrack Obama and wife Michelle as apes.

Disabled US citizen's family says ICE stopped his father from attending his funeral Wael Tarabishi died three months after his caregiver father, Maher Tarabishi, was detained during a routine check-in with ICE in October.

A disabled man named Wael Tarabishi died last week after ICE abducted his father and full time caregiver.

Wael begged for his dad’s release.

He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him.

His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.

New bills seek to rein in oil companies’ pollution of Oklahoma groundwater The legislation comes after The Frontier and ProPublica found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth, releasing toxic chemicals — including some that cause cancer — nea...

Following our investigation into Oklahoma's uncontrolled wastewater purges, lawmakers have filed a slate of bills aimed at fixing the problem.
www.readfrontier.org/stories/new-...