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Dale Denwalt

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Awesome. Free literature rocks.

06.03.2026 23:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been thinking about getting a copy (read theory I know). Is it true that any yokel can ask the USMCU for a hardcover copy for free?

06.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s cool. I would’ve been interested in doing that, but I played the saxophone.

06.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

DCI?

06.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I can only quote the great Annie Dillard and her magnificent "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek: "Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. And insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another."

06.03.2026 06:24 πŸ‘ 341 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 1

I'd do it but I'm just a regular guy

05.03.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't write that part but I'll let the people know! Thanks for catching

05.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ahh ok I see what you're saying. That's right.

05.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Vacancies in Congress

That's an outdated statute. Reading the current law, it looks like the governor will appoint someone within 30 days, but whoever wins in November will then become the sitting senator about a week after the election.

www.oscn.net/applications...

Section C(3)

05.03.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Appointment from the "same party" would be a vacancy after party nomination. That hasn't happened yet in Oklahoma.

05.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Vacancies - Appointments - Special Elections

Citation? I'm going off 51 O.S. Β§ 10

www.oscn.net/applications...

05.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm probably way off

05.03.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Logging my educated guess re Oklahoma's impending U.S. Senate vacancy:

Gov. Stitt appoints himself

05.03.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin will replace Kristi Noem as DHS secretary In a post on TruthSocial, President Donald Trump said Oklahoma's Sen. Markwayne Mullin would replace Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security.

The nomination puts Mullin at the head of the agency that controls ICE, Border Patrol, FEMA, TSA, the Secret Service and peacetime activities of the U.S. Coast Guard.

05.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My first thought when seeing that post this morning was, "yeah but you're posting an AI summary"

05.03.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But this Claude incident highlights another problem with AI:

My story and the Post's work are carefully written and reported.

We deliberately choose what we can and can't say. Editors review our language and challenge us on facts.

AI summaries throw all that work into a copy blender.🫠

05.03.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 246 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6
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Local attorneys struggle to contact clients in Watonga ICE facility | Exclusive Immigration attorneys and families report restricted communication with loved ones detained at Diamondback Facility in Watonga.

Great story by local journalists.

www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...

05.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A special military operation, if you will.

04.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 180 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2
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Response & Accident Tracker View a map of active response calls in Oklahoma City.

This says an injury accident near that location: www.okc.gov/Services/Pub...

03.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Local attorneys struggle to contact clients in Watonga ICE facility | Exclusive Immigration attorneys and families report restricted communication with loved ones detained at Diamondback Facility in Watonga.

Three Oklahoma law firms said they have not been able to schedule video calls, visit clients or drop-off legal documents since the facility reopened in December. One attorney was turned away in-person, while phone calls scheduled through the warden's office have rarely actually happened.

03.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/grav...

02.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This guy who just got awarded the Medal of Honor was a WW2 POW. The Nazi boss of his camp ordered him to muster all the Jewish POWs one morning.

Not only did Edmonds instead have *every* prisoner come outside, he talked shit to the guy pointing a gun at him for doing it
www.army.mil/medalofhonor...

02.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Video from Kuwait of locals approaching one of the F-15 pilots from the earlier friendly fire event.

02.03.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 285 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 21
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My Middle East analysis boils down to this.

01.03.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Whoa that looks tasty. Is it eaten like soup?

28.02.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
We hold, then, that generally applicable federal laws extend to the acts of Indians committed in Indian country, even if the victim is also an Indian. Contrary to Waggerby’s arguments, nothing in the Major Crimes Act limits federal jurisdiction to only the crimes it enumerates. Rather, the Major Crimes Act functions as an exception to the Indian Country Crimes Act’s exception for Indianon-Indian crime. The Major Crimes Act has nothing to say about criminal statutes that apply by their own terms to everyone, everywhere, such as the Hobbs Act.

We hold, then, that generally applicable federal laws extend to the acts of Indians committed in Indian country, even if the victim is also an Indian. Contrary to Waggerby’s arguments, nothing in the Major Crimes Act limits federal jurisdiction to only the crimes it enumerates. Rather, the Major Crimes Act functions as an exception to the Indian Country Crimes Act’s exception for Indianon-Indian crime. The Major Crimes Act has nothing to say about criminal statutes that apply by their own terms to everyone, everywhere, such as the Hobbs Act.

11th Cir. joins every other circuit to consider the question and holds that the federal government can prosecute in federal court a crime committed by an Indian against an Indian in Indian country.

media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

27.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Actor Macaulay Culkin asks Oklahoma court to expunge 2004 arrest Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' star, seeks to expunge his 2004 Oklahoma drug arrest record after a deferred sentence.

Culkin has a misdemeanor drug charge from an arrest in OKC 22 years ago that he'd like off the books. Convictions can be expunged for several reasons, including when the person gets a deferred sentence and doesn't get into any more trouble with the law.

26.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*Engagement* is the ultimate dopamine hit for some people

26.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for all that you do

26.02.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0