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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

There is no mistake that George Floyd should still be alive today.

Image ID: A collage of flower surround George Floyd. A Black man wearing a black hoodie, with an ever so slight smile pulling at the right corner of his mouth as you at looking, and a short hair cut. the text on the image reads "George Floyd should still be alive".

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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

When it comes to the policies that govern us, we should all be concerned when those in charge find it laughable that someone would point out that the organization responsible for their bill language is a designated hate group. More info on our Insta www.instagram.com/freedomokl...

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Sometimes I get stuck worried if the meds even help, since they don't address feeling always tired. And then I have to go 2 days without meds because of pharmacy under-scheduling, and I can report, they are indeed doing a lot

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

One of the worst things about narcolepsy, is that none of the treatment makes me less tired. Instead it is solely stimulants to ensure I stay awake.

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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Valentine's Day might be over, but the love ain't! The Freedom Futures Gala is a week from today (February 22 @ 6pm) and there is still plenty of time to get a ticket! Meet us on the dancefloor?? 🌠🎉👀💫 bit.ly/FFGala25

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Losing Nex upended lives in and beyond Oklahoma. There's a profound grief in marking 1 year since Nex died with the conditions that killed Nex having only worsened. I'm grateful to @leximcmenamin.bsky.social for the care with which they told this story, and gave space for our community to reflect.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Is it useful for live coverage of committee meetings on this platform? Trying to feel out what a post-twitter strategy looks like in terms of where you look to stay updated and engaged.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And that folks making policy regardless of their party could use the reminder about the importance of non-gendered language in policy and their discussion around it (issue here was raised because the Dem author was talking about breast cancer screening only in terms of women).

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

But it's almost like by avoiding gendered language in legislation, we can limit unintended exclusion so everyone can access the resources they need.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ope, and now the clarification to make sure everyone knows that it's not to support inclusion of trans folks.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In House Public Health where there's been a question from the Republican Chair who has authored at least 1 anti-trans bill this session, to make sure a breast cancer screening bill authored by a Dem is available to folks of all genders because everyone can be impacted.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Love any unexpected space to not be subjected to anti-trans language at the #okleg

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I just ate the most necessary piece of chocolate. Grant yourself moments of peace, relief, pleasure -- whatever you can manage. Make space to feel something that isn't anxiety, fear, or dread. Make a practice of making that space.

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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We're in House General Government Committee this morning for the first targeted anti-2SLGBTQ+ bill of the session (yes, it's only day 2).

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

No demand I show my face at the #OKleg security station today. Seems like maybe yesterday's policy might have been more about fear of the dominant public presence at the Capitol being anti-fascist than actual security.

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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

After the recent State of the State address, which failed to adequately address the needs of Oklahomans, it feels like the right moment to share some of the bills we’re tracking this week. bit.ly/LegeTrkr25

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Now more than ever, I am asking you to mask in solidarity with all of us who need to mask for different reasons.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

That plus the trooper who flanked me as the Senators walked across the rotunda to the house makes me feel...real safe (read, absolutely not at all safe).

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As someone who masks for my health, having to expose myself to a large group of people during at the epicenter of the current flu outbreak, during the ongoing pandemic, is certainly a risk I would not opt into.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In fun (read not at all fun) new policies at the #okleg, you are apparently forced to unmask briefly at security. I was told it was both "so the system can get a picture of you" and so "everyone at the security desk can see you."

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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Been workin' hard to get the 2025 Legislative Tracker ready! We hope you can use this to see what bills we're watching & how policy moves through the state legislature. If you have questions feel free to reach out to us at info@freedomoklahoma.org

ID: "2025 Legislative Tracker" on a white background with a cutout image of the OK capitol building with a Trans Pride flag waving in front of it

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 26/01/2025

lots of things are bad right now but at least we are alive at the same time as nerds gummy clusters

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Freedom Oklahoma @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As many members of our community await a barrage of day 1 executive orders, of promised harm, we remind you that fascism thrives on overcompliance. We don't obey in advance. We keep fighting. We build the future where we all have the safety to thrive.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Bomb dogs on the gangway, random bag checks in line to board the plane. It's beginning to feel a lot like 2002.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/01/2025

“I don’t consider myself COVID cautious. I consider myself COVID competent,” Zebrowski said. “Cautious would imply that I have an unreasonable fear of something. I do not have an unreasonable fear of this disease.” Nailed it 🔥

apnews.com

Meet the Americans who still take COVID-19 precautions seriously

People with immune system health problems continue to take precautions against COVID-19 five years into the pandemic.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The TikTok ban permanently reshapes the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape towards the right. Cheering for it in any way is extremely shortsighted www.usermag.co/p/the-great-...

usermag.co

The Great Creator Reset

The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/01/2025

Reminder that Mitt Romney explicitly said the rationale behind the tiktok ban was pro Palestinian content. The renewed push last year was explicitly to help Israel conduct a genocide without scrutiny on social media. Imperial boomerang in action. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

axios.com

Sen. Romney links TikTok ban to pro-Palestinian content

Critics say his remarks belie the "national security" motive and expose free speech suppression.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"I have introduced this bill to ban trans kids from using anything but their given name," -some guy who has three different grown men he calls Bubba

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

And in bills specifically with regard to education spaces, SB 942 by Kristen Thompson and SB 954 by Julie Daniels.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For folks tracking bills, I have seen iterations of this language so far in HB 1218 by Kevin West, HB 1852 by Suzanne Schreiber and Avery Frix, HB 2243 by John Waldron, and SB 948 by Jo Anna Dossett.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

We're in a space where the state is poised to further silence and criminalize critique of the Israeli state and their genocidal actions.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Several of these bills then extrapolate that antisemitism as defined in this way should be evidence of discriminatory intent.

Screenshot of OK HB 2243 "All state departments and agencies shall consider
antisemitism as evidence of discriminatory intent for any law or
policy in this state which prohibits discrimination based on race,
color, religion, or national origin or provides for enhanced
criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant
intentionally selected any victim or group of victims or any
property as the object of the offense because of such victim's or
group of victims' actual or perceived race, color, religion, or
national origin."

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

One concerning thing I am noticing as I am reading through #OKleg bills this session, is several policies from folks in both parties defining antisemitism in statute using a definition that has examples of critique of Israel.

Screenshot from the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And yet for 16 months people have been in my comments with "free the hostages." It was never about the hostages. It was only ever about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, as it has been since 1948.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Octavia's Bookshelf owner Nikki High doesn’t know the state of her own house in Altadena — most houses burned — but she's turned her Pasadena bookstore into a help center for fire victims. Follow the IG/Threads accounts for updates. They still need first aid kits. We also brought bottled water.

Tananarive in front of donations at Octavia's Bookshelf with store owner Nikki High.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

And those conversations are always part of the work, but it lands so differently when it's the accusation of not honoring Nex in death, as I carry the immense grief of his loss, and the balance of trying to make sure he is fully honored after others chose a narrative for him.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

That means that in the months since, I, a nonbinary person who uses they/she pronouns, has to be on the responding end again and again of well meaning folks trying to tell me that it's wrong to use he/him pronouns for Nex or suggest that nonbinary folks are limited to only they/them pronouns.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

So when folks closest to Nex made clear that yes, Nex had used they/them pronouns, but had transitioned with trusted folks to he/him pronouns, and would have been most accurately remembered with he/him pronouns, few made the switch.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

But media and even many 2SLGBTQ+ orgs ignored my ask, because they felt it wasn't worth the extra effort to explain to the public that Nex may have still been exploring gender in a way that didn't fit nicely in a finished box. Those folks chose nonbinary and they/them pronouns for Nex.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

We similarly used 2STGNC+ to acknowledge that it seemed Nex was still on a gender journey, and it wasn't our role to choose for Nex in death an identity that maybe no longer served them.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

When I had the responsibility of sharing the news of Nex's death through my work at @freedomoklahoma.bsky.social, we knew Nex broadly used they/them pronouns, and used he/him pronouns with folks Nex was closest to. In initial sharing, we chose not to use pronouns and asked others to do the same.

Screenshot from a Freedom Oklahoma post with text "We have heard varying reports of how Nex communicated gender, and have avoided using pronouns for Nex here, as we don’t have 100% clarity on Nex’s correct pronouns, and will not engage in the harm of guessing or misgendering Nex or using incorrect pronouns. Using someone’s correct pronouns has a measurable impact on that person’s wellbeing, and we ask that others respect Nex in death until, if at all, we’re able to learn Nex’s correct pronouns. For more information about pronoun usage, here is GLSEN’s guide to pronouns."

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Next month marks 1 year since we lost Nex Benedict. There are so many waves of grief and rage for me as we approach a date where my life and many others were profoundly changed by the loss of Nex. And as I think about that, today I think about the particular harm of early reporting on Nex's death.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/01/2025

Your periodic reminder that if you need to get out of your house FAST, do not bother trying to stuff your cats into carriers, just scoop them up in pillowcases. (You can drop said squirming rage sacks into carriers for added security if you have time.)

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

He's now quoting MLK while talking about gutting equity and inclusion programs.

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nicole @mcafee2012.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

No the rules comments, starting with his new policy targeting immigrant students, making schools more hostile spaces for all of our community members who might be perceived to be immigrants.

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