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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Time to pull up the morning news and read the list of things the republican party has destroyed today [pulls out a newspaper that keeps unspooling longer and longer like a comically oversized CVS receipt]

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Oh hey, I remembered I made an account here.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

David Holt does this is because he desperately wants to be elected to statewide office & he (vainly) hopes that if he criticizes Trump without mentioning Trump by name he might be able to win a future GOP primary for attorney general (GOP primary voters will never support a guy who opposed Trump).

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

It's too cute by half that Mayor Holt would make a presidential endorsement w/out actually saying the name of either candidate (though he's clearly indicating he views Trump as an incompetent bigot).

oklahoman.com

Opinion: OKC Mayor David Holt says he's voting for character, competence, commitment

I took for granted that both leading candidates fundamentally respected all Americans, desired unity, and would at least attempt to foster it.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Remember how the legislature gerrymandered OKC so badly that parts of Tulsa & OKC are now in the same district? It's because the GOP is afraid of OKC's voters. They know how many of us are eager to support a democrat; so they gerrymandered OKC to deny us even the chance to elect one.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

It's late October, I want brisk evening air to help me get into the Halloween season mood. Instead Oklahoma's weather has decided to give us a second summer.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Nathan Dahm is truly one of the dumbest people to ever get elected to office in the state of Oklahoma (and the bar is set very, very high!). If he had any brains he might be bothered by his hypocrisy but luckily for him that's something he's never had to worry about.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

High speed police chases endanger the community & are mostly unnecessary given tracking technologies. But cops keep recklessly undertaking high speed chases because they think it's fun & cool; as a result an innocent college cheerleader is dead & her mother has been hospitalized.

tulsaworld.com

Chase kills Vinita woman, seriously injures her mother after stolen truck goes airborne

The agency that originally pursued the teen driver called off the chase in minutes because of the danger to the public, while two different agencies later picked it back up.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

To conservatives freedom is when your child's school budget gets looted in order to give handouts to wealthy private schools. Tyranny is when conservatives are forced to recognize that people of all races, religions, and sexual orientations deserve to be treated fairly.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

In Oklahoma the governor gets to appoint a new judge in the event that the voters decide to not retain the current judge. Do you want Kevin Stitt to be able to appoint even more far-right judges to Oklahoma's courts?

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Learning about another terrible thing the late James Inhofe did during his long career in the Senate: Inhofe praised a soldier who committed a war crime; when LTC West carried out a mock execution on a detainee Inhofe gave a speech calling for West to receive a commendation.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

See also, places like Oklahoma City—a purple city in a red state—where democrats are entirely capable of winning county or municipal elections but candidates starve for funding because the national party writes off the entire state as hopeless and not worth fighting for.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Remarkable how many people found it easier to believe a healthy sixteen year old dropped dead in the family living room 24 hours after having their head slammed into a bathroom floor than to consider the possibility that cops lie www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

nbcnews.com

Fight hasn’t been ruled out as cause of Nex Benedict’s death, police say

Lt. Nick Boatman told NBC News that previous statements that Nex Benedict didn’t die as a result of “trauma” didn’t rule out the fight as a contributing factor.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

It's very telling that when left-leaning accounts want to confront people they dislike what they're saying is that they should be heckled in public. But when LibsokfTiktok thinks of confronting people she can only interpret that as "commit murder."

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Pretty icy yet more than any national Republican will say about the mobs being given marching orders by Chaya, Trump, Elon, etc.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

It’s important to understand that religious freedom is a very important value and the actual way it is understood by the conservative movement is “sectarian exemption from the law for right wing christianity” bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

The biggest part of this to remember is that the official investigation of this by Oklahoma schools will be led by a raging bigot who has loudly and proudly and repeatedly declared his disgust for trans people. Any report from Walters of what happened should be viewed with great skepticism.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

In "The Dead Zone" Martin Sheen plays a president with messianic delusions who starts World War III by launching a nuclear strike on the USSR while attending a peace conference. Ryan Walters is the same sort of guy except he set his sights on trans students instead of Soviets.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Everyone keeps talking about a certain transphobic influencer but this kid died after a beating in a school managed by Ryan Walters, superintendent of Oklahoma schools and among the most hateful public officials in the country.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

It’s obscene that these parents have to bury their child but it sounds like Nex knew they were loved in a way a lot of parents regret not communicating

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Ryan Walter's political career is built around spreading fear about minorities and therefore people like Chaya Raichick are extremely useful to him as she constantly stokes the flames of anger. It's why Walters rewarded her with an appointment to the State Dept. of Education.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Chaya Raichick's public profile is entirely built around constructing campaigns of harassment to intimidate and silence anyone who expresses a gender identity or political outlook which makes her uncomfortable.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

This horrifying murder puts blood on not just Raichik's hands but also Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters, who gave Raichik an official position despite her having no connection to OK or background in education. He knew exactly what he was doing.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Not content with having gotten a child killed, LibsofTikTok is now marshaling her army of hate which she keeps on a leash to unleash a torrent of bile and death threats on the local journalist who reported on this student who suffered a fatal head injury in the bathroom of their high school.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Ryan Walter desperately wants to climb the political ladder & decided his path to power would be paved by stoking hatred for trans students & teachers. Walters & his friend LibsofTikTok have succeeded in cultivating so much hate that it got a kid killed in their bid to advance their careers.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Today is election day! I hope all my fellow OKC residents will join me in making your voice heard in today's election.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 11/12/2023

A ban with exceptions that patients find nigh impossible to obtain in a medically useful timeframe functions in practice as a complete ban. To say Texas has an essentially complete abortion ban merely states the facts.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Reminder for my fellow OKC residents we vote tomorrow whether we want to take a billion dollars out of the taxpayer's piggy bank and give it away to the owners of an NBA team. Don't listen to David Holt's bullshit. Vote tomorrow and tell the mega-rich NBA team they can pay for their own arena.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

The 1930s pastors who extolled Adolf Hitler as an emissary from God are indistinguishable from the sort of preaching that Jackson Lahmeyer and several hundred other conservative pastors launch into every Sunday.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Republican policy choices are very literally putting the residents of Oklahoman in early graves.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Remember that OKC metro cop who recently made the news for assaulting the clerk at the sex store? Turns out that he spends more time running his private security company than doing police work. Also, he's a wage thief who stole at least $157,000 from his employees a decade ago.

oklahoman.com

OKC business owner admits to not paying employees overtime

The owner of an Oklahoma City security company admitted Wednesday he failed to pay his employees overtime compensation.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

In the days following 1/6 Sheriff West told the press he drove his truck to D.C. rather than fly. We now have court documents showing that other 1/6 insurrectionists drove to the Capitol so they could bring weapons with them that would have been forbidden had they traveled by air.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

This can't be right. The Manhattan Institute tells me it's a myth that these sorts of attitudes pervade police culture. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/n...

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Remembering when there were a bunch of Oklahoma Republicans cheering the loss of the USWNT at the World Cup because they were mad that Megan Rapinoe is too woke or whatever.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Oh, so this is why Ryan Walters has been posting unhinged tweets attacking librarians as woke Marxists. Christian Nationalists like him hate the idea of young people who are able to think for themselves.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

But they told me Cindy Byrd was one of the good Republicans. I guess even good Republicans are happy to endorse a man who has announced his intent to be an American dictator.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

In 2020 Sheriff West created a posse of good ol' boys with their AR-15s because he got so frightened of the antifa bogeyman right wing media was telling him was going burn every small town in America to the ground. It would be real easy for a paranoid reactionary like him to do something heinous.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

The chief law enforcement officer in my county is a 1/6 insurrectionist. I think he'll happily do whatever Trump wants him to do and not be too bothered if he has to break a few statutes along the way.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

On a similar note I was well into adulthood when I learned that the reason Oklahoma has a panhandle is because Texas wanted to enter the Union as a slave state and to do so they had to cede their territorial claims that lay north of the line established under the Missouri Compromise.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I grew up in the heart of Baptist country but am somehow only now learning that the Southern Baptist Convention is a schism that came into existence because southerners wanted a religious justification for slavery and the national organization of Baptists refused to take a position.

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Chris Jones @cjonesny.com · 06/12/2023

Hamill has some bangers.

Mark Hamill quote tweeting Acyn quoting Johnson "We have the blur the faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don't want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DoJ.

He added a blurred image of Trump.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Republicans in Congress can't risk letting people like Canadian County Sheriff Christ West be identified as insurrectionists who were inside the Capitol. After all, if men like him got arrested they wouldn't be available the next time Trump tries to overthrow the government.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Absolutely sickening that the Uvalde massacre happened while hundreds of cops stood around uselessly and no one in charge of things was ever forced to answer for a school full of children being drowned in their own blood.

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.

Mendoza said officers knew they needed to get into the classrooms, including Mireles’, but they didn’t have the right equipment. His sentiment was shared by more than a dozen officers who, in interviews with investigators, expressed fear of the shooter’s semiautomatic rifle.

“Like I said, we didn’t have any shields, no, no flash-bangs, no nothing that we could’ve used to create a distraction,” Mendoza recalled, “to, not only, like, not to sound selfish, but make sure we go home at the end of the day, but at least more of these kids can go home at the end of the day.”

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

See also, the praying football coach that James Lankford kept talking about as if he were some sort of martyr who sued to get his job back when he was actually living on the opposite side of the country and had zero intention of going back even if he were reinstated.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

There's also one of these Jurassic Park vehicles I've spied a few times cruising around the OKC metro.

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Old North Clock @oldnorthclock.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I used to think of Oklahoma as a fairly midwestern state but as the Republican party has become dominant over the last ten or fifteen years I think Oklahoma has become more aligned with the south. (See also, OU's choice to abandon the Big 12 and join the SEC)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Brand-new "I'm the real victim" just dropped: if you can't proselytize using your government-funded position teaching children in the compulsory education system, then you're the real victim.

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