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Steve Holcombe @steve-holcombe.bsky.social · 13h

A known known 👇 “Reduced funding and restrictions on how states finance Medicaid will put additional pressure on state budgets and hospitals, increasing the risk that communities lose essential maternity services and specialized providers close to home.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US maternity wards face wave of closures as Medicaid cuts kick in

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ spending cuts will be fully felt next year, but hospitals are already feeling the squeeze

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10h

American hubris, nationalistic fairytales, and profit incentives keep people from seeing it, but it's not that hard to understand that all national interests, including the living conditions of its people, have been superseded by petty and large-scale corruption. That's it. The whole thing.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We do not imprison anywhere near enough tech bros.

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okiestofokies.bsky.social @okiestofokies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s apparent Rs are running on transgender issues. 4 states I’ve seen today. Sherod Brown personally responsible for one person who regrets decision apparently. War, failing economy, economic and civil rights.. none of that matters. Just vote on hate and fear of those we don’t want to accept.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So the US is at war with Iran. We are now funding Russia. And Russia is helping Iran. We are paying our opponent to shoot at us, then? This whole thing looks like a foreign policy Rube Goldberg device to enrich the U.S. fossil fuel oligarchs.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Democratic candidates pivoting to right wing positions in the general is one of the reasons Democratic voters don't trust the party.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Under Trump and his Republican enablers, the richest Americans and biggest corporations have made out like bandits. Average working Americans are paying dearly for what the bandits have stolen. The grift and the graft must end.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All Trump’s overseas assets should be frozen. Hotels. Golf courses. Offshore accounts. Should not be permitted to enter the territories of the countries that are parties to ICC.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026

Oklahoma had approved the well, which injected toxic oil field wastewater underground, without first ensuring it would not pollute the city of Enid’s groundwater. The well then repeatedly failed structural integrity tests. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

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Oklahoma Oil Company Plugs Disposal Well That Posed Threat to City’s Drinking Water

The Frontier and ProPublica revealed that state regulators had approved the well in Enid, Oklahoma, in violation of rules meant to protect municipal groundwater. Now the well is permanently shut down.

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Tulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In recent years the pace of colleges shutting down has ticked up. According to analysis by the Hechinger Report, colleges are now closing at a rate of nearly one per week. barnraisingmedia.com/gutting-two-...

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Gutting Two-Year Colleges Leaves Rural Students Behind

Experts warns the demise of Wisconsin’s two-year liberal arts transfer colleges represents the equivalent of “desertification” of education for rural and first-generation students.

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Oklahoma Watch @oklahomawatch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oklahoma’s voter registration portal failed on the last day to sign up for the November election. The State Election Board didn’t return calls. Oklahoma Watch tested the system and confirmed it wasn’t working. ow.ly/V6BV50ZWyhp

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left.

Vertical bar chart titled "Norwegian wealth tax revenue, change from 2021 to 2024," in billions of Norwegian kroner (BNOK), nominal. Subtitle: top rate 0.85% to 1.1% and stock valuation discount cut from 2022.

Two bars. "Growth with no emigration": 13.71 BNOK, a tall bar. "Lost to reform-driven emigration": 0.65 BNOK, a barely visible stub, about one-twenty-first the height.

Notes: Growth includes the rate and valuation changes and wealth growth. Net of tax that emigrants still paid, the reform-driven loss is 0.49 BNOK.

Source: Ring (2026), NBER Working Paper 35854, equation 2 and figure 5.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I stand with Dartmouth students demanding Leon Black’s name come down. The House held him in criminal contempt of Congress. Thomas Massie and I exposed him as part of the Epstein class. No accountability for that class is a permission slip. That is the culture behind the gang rape at Cornell.

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Carrie Coppernoll Jacobs @carriecoppernoll.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The reason I can’t afford a house isn’t because Black and brown people are buying houses. It’s because the billionaire class is hoarding every inch of wealth and property they can and gobbling up every ounce of economic growth that should have gone to the workers who created it.

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Oklahoma Voice @oklahomavoice.com · 08/10/2026

Opinion: An ectopic pregnancy is not supposed to be a death sentence. Deaths from ectopic pregnancy in the United States have nearly doubled. The increase occurred nationwide, but the climb was much steeper in states with strict abortion bans. buff.ly/Mn7Plyp

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Commentary: Doctors know how to treat ectopic pregnancy in Oklahoma. So why are patients still dying? • Oklahoma Voice

An ectopic pregnancy is not supposed to be a death sentence.

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OKC405 @okc405.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hmmmm, RFK Jr . . . another kompromat.

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Wow Really? Skeptical Look

ALT: Wow Really? Skeptical Look

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FOIOK.bsky.social @foiok.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

/2 Records obtained through an open records request show the authority paid more than $20 million for the property. County records valued the property at more than $2.5 million.

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Tulsa Teresa @tulsateresa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Democracy can’t just be something to ask people to defend. We have to rebuild the places where people actually practice it. barnraisingmedia.com/2026-electio...

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People Won’t Defend a Democracy They Haven’t Experienced

For many Americans, democracy is an abstraction. We need experience with democracy as something we actually do: a system we participate in to shape the world around us.

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Andy Fugate for OK House District 94 @afugate.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Know someone who thinks SQ 847 is a tax cut? Send them this. Read the fine print: SQ 847 doesn't cut your property taxes, and the ballot says its cost is "unknown." It locks a tighter cap into the Oklahoma Constitution and squeezes your sheriff, firefighters, library and schools. #okleg #SQ847

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Oklahoma Watch @oklahomawatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

SQ 847 would lower how fast your home's assessed value can grow for tax purposes but it wouldn't lower your tax bill. Keaton Ross explains what it actually does. ow.ly/nqnw50ZVHtG

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...

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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America

Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.

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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Walmart's customers deserve to know if, how, and when their personal data is being used – especially when it comes to pricing. It's time for Walmart to set the record straight. @lindsayowens.bsky.social on @cnn.com breaks down exactly what Walmart should do to regain their customers' trust.

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Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“Who, in the age of MAGA counter-revolution and Democratic Party support for illegal war, thinks the US president should have push-button nuclear launch authority or options to ‘take decisive action against any target, anywhere, at any time?’” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/bernard-br...

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Bernard Brodie, Nuclear Lunatics, and the Folly of “Giving the President Options”

When I worked as a Pentagon strategist, I was taught that our job was to design a force that could prolong global primacy.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 07/10/2026

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Steve Holcombe @steve-holcombe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“When the police or the FBI show up at your door, it feels isolating, like it’s happening only to you,” he said. “But the problems people are facing are shared; we want to help de-individualize the experience and create collective leverage – like in a union.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back

NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026

President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)

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The $1 Trillion Black Box

The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...

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Steve Holcombe @steve-holcombe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"If the numbers are to be believed, almost 300 members of Congress have experienced hazing. They were forcibly trained to learn complacency, ..." 1/2 oklahomaobserver.substack.com/p/complacenc...

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Complacency Culture

A few years ago, I watched a conservative commentator – Steven Crowder – argue that rape culture was a myth.

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Rev Dr Shannon Fleck @shannonmfleck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Eyes open friends. The threat is not the voter who doesn’t sound like you. It’s the systems being used to shut that voter out. And if your faith can’t win a fair vote, maybe it’s time to revisit the scripture and remember who flipped tables when the house of God became a private club.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Political Consultant: Voters are terrified of Artificial Intelligence. Donald Trump: Let's call it Super-Intelligence.

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Andy Fugate for OK House District 94 @afugate.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Vote no on SQ 845 - here's why. #OKleg #OKElections

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Oklahoma Watch @oklahomawatch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ICYMI: "This signals to potential recruits that your state's leaders want to keep you insecure and don't value your institutions." A national expert on what Stitt's tenure ban says about Oklahoma's regional universities. ow.ly/jx5850ZUGfj

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.

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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It’s apparent that Howard has strong organizing chops and is bringing together people who are customarily overlooked by politicians, advocacy groups and foundations." barnraisingmedia.com/2026-electio...

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How Do You Build Working-Class Solidarity in Rural America?

A new memoir by Beth Howard, an organizer and daughter of a coal miner, explores the politics of organizing white working-class Appalachians.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026

Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”

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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 02/10/2026

I'm all for a popular front against Trump & I don't think @thebulwark.com is all bad. I appreciated working with them & I appreciate at least one of them (@timmiller.bsky.social) apologizing for helping create today's GOP. But they're a neocon project willing to sabotage Dems for their ideology.

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OKC405 @okc405.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bravo!!!

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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Francesca Albanese's last two books read as a sequence: When the World Sleeps, then La luce del risveglio, The Light of Awakening. She joins Clara Mattei on FREE to talk about both, the Palestinian lives at their heart, and the companies her UN report named. youtu.be/YGRBcGjvpxc

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Oklahoma Watch @oklahomawatch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did Oklahoma rank No. 17 in education under a Democratic governor in the 2000s? @gigafactproject.bsky.social ow.ly/rLn750ZSoiC

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very old fashioned I know, but I still have a hankering for a world in which people can live the life they want to live as long as they don’t seriously harm others or put their own life and health at too high risk (and in the latter case there’s room for discussion).

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the arc of centrism bends towards right-wing nationalist monoculture. or it would bend that way, if it had started anywhere else

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Corey Jones @jonesingtowrite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 10 years investigating OHP, I've uncovered reckless trooper actions and false or misleading statements, shoddy record-keeping, failure to address "alarming" concerns, and unwillingness to formally review several fatal chases despite red flags. tulsaworld.com/news/local/t...

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Tulsa World Special Report: Oklahoma Highway Patrol fatality pursuits, deadly shootings

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