It feels like red states are continually trying to one-up each other when it comes to restricting reproductive rights. If, say, Kansas announces it’s going to make patients jump through hoops to access abortion services, Oklahoma may stand up and say, “Hold my middling, watered-down American simulacrum of a beer and...
I share an important date with former basketball coach the late Don Haskins, March 14, our birthday. Haskins led the then Texas Western Basketball team to the 1966 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball championship against the vaunted and famed Kentucky Wildcats, led by legendary coach Adolph Rupp. Coach Rupp...
Jeffrey Toobin returned to CNN as the network’s chief legal analyst on Thursday, eight months after he exposed himself during a Zoom call with colleagues at The New Yorker. Toobin was interviewed by anchor Alisyn Camerota on “CNN Newsroom” about that incident, and about recent legal news. “I feel like...
It is usually a minefield of critical backlash, and what about(s), when you compare the oppression of Jews to the descendants of enslaved Africans in America, but I am going to wade onto the battlefield. What I am not going to do is use the comparison of the holocaust and...
Living with the nagging uncertainty of being racially discriminated against and worst not being believed shatters the psyche. The most devastating effects are that people of color start to accept their treatment as their unchangeable fate. Asking white friends to hail a cab at night, telling one’s kids to keep...
If it were a perfect world, I would like to think that the most recent attacks on young black millionaires are just a coincidence. In a perfect world, the success of blacks would be applauded as a plus for the country. Unfortunately, American history is littered with incidents of racial...
This edited segment was the most powerful on Tiffany Cross’s Cross Connection. It completely addresses the moral and economic reasons for reparations. Tiffany Cross uses segment to make the case See full episodes here. Tiffany Cross was on Tulsa’s former black subdivision in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street. It...
Critical Race Practice. Organizers have canceled plans for an afternoon of speeches and performances commemorating the centennial on Monday of the Tulsa massacre. This reminds us that the early 1920s was a mass othering of America that includes events like the Wall Street bombing of 1920, whose death toll was exceeded in the Tulsa...
Oklahoma’s right-wing politicians would like to erase history because that’s what they do, whether it’s the omission of facts or rewriting them to favor those in power. Historical guilt and its associated media effects cooties can’t be part of public school curricula. H.B. 1775 implies that the past prior to 1776...
Remember hydroxychloroquine? It’s the anti-malarial, anti-lupus drug that people started taking last year because a sweaty, out-of-shape ball of malignant insecurities and congealed ghee saw a tweet about it, envisioned a miracle cure that could save his flailing presidency, and decided, oh, what the heck? Let’s get this in as many Americans’ bodies...
Only Republicans would encourage running over demonstrators by indemnifying and pitting RWNJs and their vehicles against peaceful crowds. Because who knew that the “unintentional” weaponizing of personal vehicles was possible when pretending you’re driving a Tesla into a crowd of demonstrators. “Five states besides Florida introduced similar bills this year, granting some...
President Joe Biden announced today that every state has removed age eligibility for Covid-19 vaccinations so anyone 16 or over can received a Pfizer/BioNtech shot and anyone18 or over can receive a dose of Moderna’s vaccine. Biden’s goal of 200 million vaccinations in his first 100 days should be reached this Wednesday, eight days...
The Center for Disease Control reports 76.9% of all Americans over the age of 65 have received at least one shot of Covid-19 vaccine as of yesterday. Some 33.7% of the entire US population has also received one or two doses. The percentage of adult US residents who have been injected...
Apparently John (no relation) Kennedy (R-LA) may endorse those sober drivers who run over demonstrators in Oklahoma, because a guy who “went to Oxford” should know something about logical fallacies. x Hours after America's second mass shooting in a week, Sen. John Kennedy downplays the gun problem by noting that...
Greg Abbott searches for #TexasBlackoout blame in the state’s power utility but Texas deregulated its grid to avoid the very regulations that would have prevented this problem. All in the name of profit. Greg Abbott now even blames the Green New Deal. 88% of Texas electricity is supplied by natural gas...
http://www.msn.com/… The Mike Hunter, Attorney General. of Oklahoma is trying to get back $2 million the state paid to acquire a supply of hydroxychloroquine, one of the favorite snake oil remedies for Covid 19 praised by Donald Trump for much of 2020. Fox News and other right wing news media touted it endlessly as...
The Rand corporation think-tank reports that there are bipartisan efforts to set up a 1/6 commission, but the reality is that there’s still so much fact-finding and discovery ahead. Trump mob actions go back far but gained importance in events like Trump’s trips to Arizona and Oklahoma, where armed elements chose...
I know this New York Times article is a month old but I wanted to reference it for the purposes of this diary: More than 180 years ago, as part of the Trail of Tears, the United States military drove thousands of Cherokee and Muscogee people off the land they...
The Jewish Action group Twitter account, shared an image of Senator Kelly Loeffler with a former leader of the KKK. Chester Doles, a fourth-generation Klansman, now leads the National Alliance and Hammerskins. He introduced the nation to the American Patriots USA in 2019. International Business Times writes: Kelly Loeffler claims she had...
Lack of standing is the reason for SCOTUS dismissing the Ken Paxton suit to overturn the votes of four states. Meritless frivolity remains. x #BREAKING: #SCOTUS throws out Texas's suit attempting to challenge presidential election results in four battleground states, granting Texas leave to file its complaint but summarily dismissing its...
The Kraken Caucus makes itself known. GOP sedition messaging harkens back to the 19th Century, except Trump's lost cause won't rise again. This time it’s not a Brooks Brothers Riot but pseudo-secessionist displays. “Trump can't handle the concept of the label 'loser'” as he pimps a 'seditious abuse of justice', and Jake Tapper...
The latest GOP logical fallacy is how not finding fraud is proof that there is fraud. Remember that one of the 17 AGs supporting the Texas AG’s attempt to get a pardon, South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg hit and killed a man in his car, left the scene, and told police the...
This news is terrible for everyone who gets a positive test result but this is pretty scary. Developing story. We just lost a nephew to the virus. He was 43 and in good health and his widow and child also have it. They are in Oklahoma. This madness has to...
Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA): Election Day is exactly seven weeks from today. People are already mailing in their ballots right now. So it's time to pour everything we can into this fight. Today, I'm endorsing ten more Warren Democrats who are...
Other than Trump’s deliberate mass-casualty response to COVID-19, there was an earlier event that had similar malevolence. This is not about “antifa” as a threat, rather it is the continuing, intergenerational threat of right-wing domestic terror, made more possible by Trump’s election and not triggered by isolated individuals. x TREASONOUS SABOTAGE OF...
No question, the November election is shaping up to be a unique one. Between the pandemic, the sabotage of the Postal Service (and have you thanked a postal employee today? I have), the fear of longer lines at the fewer polling places, lots and lots of voters are planning to...
Received this e-mail just now form former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), in support of the Biden-Harris ticket: I was honored to address the Democratic National Convention last night from the Early Childhood Education Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. In case you didn’t get a chance to watch...
Trump just said, and I quote: “absentee good, mail-in very very bad.” (Orange man… bad) President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting he’s intentionally withholding money from the U.S. Postal Service to undermine its ability to handle mail-in voting in the 2020 election. “They need that money in...
If Donald Trump is allowed to use the White House Rose Garden to accept the nomination of the Republican Party, should not Jo Jorgensen, candidate for the Libertarian Party, have that same opportunity? The White House is public property not just Trump’s prop. Howie Hawkins of the Green Party and...
Rootin’ — Tootin’ Sam is a member of antifa, despite his penchant for firearms. “Now say your prayers!” x Right-wing extremists have killed 329 victims in the last 25 years, while antifa members haven't killed any, according to a new study: https://t.co/GLo2gStPqA Cc @tedcruz https://t.co/6PjDk941zB— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 5,...
Received Slate Magazine’s weekly e-mail letter, The Surge, today. Every few weeks they will change up their battleground state rankings for the 2020 Election. Below are the seven states that are tipping towards Joe Biden and deserve the most attention: 1. Texas There has been some recent discourse about whether...
So much complicity so little time left, the GOP seems ready to lose the Senate because they back-ended the wrong horse. x Learn. Their. Names. pic.twitter.com/lYzH8LIj6d— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 8, 2020 Oklahoma, Arizona, South Dakota, and this weekend the Trump typhoid-tour goes to Hew Hampshire. x The city...
elections.ap.org/… The Associated Press has called a narrow victory in a vote to expand Medicaid by constitutional amendment in Oklahoma, one of the most Republican states. With all precincts reporting, the vote has 50.48% or 340,279 voting “Yes” for the amendment, and 333,761 voting against. The urban counties, primarily Oklahoma County and Tulsa County,...
Contradictions heightened this past week, as Trump/Pence continued to disinform the American public. 126,000 people have died. Troubling is a Pew poll that indicates that 40% of Americans think the “worst is behind us” for the pandemic. x President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have repeatedly attributed the...
US record for new COVID cases yesterday: 42,158 x New daily coronavirus cases are rising in 27 states, an NPR analysis shows. Here's the percent change compared to 2 weeks ago: Oklahoma: +255%Idaho: +176%Florida: +173%Arizona: +173%Texas: +169%https://t.co/EnrxwdSqtO— NPR (@NPR) June 25, 2020 x The pandemic is accelerating and is being...
Donald Trump wants his base to go pack churches and stadiums to see him while ignoring COVID-19. Yet he social distances from them all. He social distances from everyone. x x YouTube Video Watch the episodes here. Trump was in Arizona today. The state is going through a huge COVID-19 spike. Just like...
When you reach the point where absurdity obscures reality, we generally call that jumping the shark. The history behind the phrase dates back to an episode of the tv show Happy Days. Arthur Fonzarelli, The Fonz, dressed in his trademark leather jacket and shorts jumped a shark while water skiing....
Everybody was kung-fu fighting at the WH today. Those kicks were fast as lightning; in fact it was a little bit frightening, but they fought with expert timing. So much urination in the WH toilet but in the Brady briefing room, there is swimming in the former WH pool, as the...
On the night of the now-infamous Emptysburg Address, I posted this tongue-in-cheek tweet: x I'm waiting for the “Puppet Show and Donald Trump” phase of Trump's campaign to start. Probably be in early October or so. pic.twitter.com/6676Do0YkI— Aldous J Pennyfarthing (@AJPennyfarthing) June 21, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> Fans of the...
The only good thing with NYT’s access journalists like Maggie Haberman and Annie Karnie is they sometimes pan one golden nut of truth from the cesspool of disinformation that flows from Trump’s mouth and his campaign: the facts from the Tulsa Rally disaster hit Trump square in the face. The President’s...
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is doing a convention for Trump Youth and IMPOTUS* is a featured speaker on Tuesday. x Somehow I missed that Trump's next rally is in Phoenix in 2 days. Um … pic.twitter.com/gDRRSt8NDa — Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 21, 2020 x BREAKING: The World Health Organization...
The response to the Trump rally in Tulsa was peaceful as only 6,611 Trumpists showed up to a 19,000 seat venue. Protesters circled the BOK venue and then marched to the Greenwood area for a celebration. More than 1,000 people gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma’s historically Black Greenwood neighborhood Saturday night to...
Wear a Hawai'ian shirt, go to jail…Tulsa did have in attendance the anti-government gun-toting version of Proud Boys called Boogaloo Bois. Fortunately they chickened out on a mission to foment conflict for a second Civil War. Fortunately, the fashion police and the National Guard were present in Tulsa, and monitoring the Boogaloos’ paramilitary...
President Donald Trump faced a very small crowd in Tulsa after promising a full venue with large overflows. He got neither. BIG FAIL! Tulsa proves Trump's falling polls are accurate x x YouTube Video Watch the episodes here. Trump is conducting an experiment on his own supporters by gathering them in...
Today’s blog post is brought to you by Brawndo — The Thirst Mutilator. It’s got what plants crave! So, yeah, as you probably guessed, the MAGAs are maskless in Moronsylvania. NBC News: In conversations with dozens of Trump supporters lined up outside a convention center in downtown Tulsa to attend...
Aside from a provocative trip to Tulsa this afternoon, there were many naked attempts to get reelected despite all the criming going on. So many other potential crimes might get covered up by more blatant manipulations. Another Friday evening featured yet another flim-flam, this time with the prosecution of Rudy Giuliani. This...
The cover-up continues as Trump tries to disrupt what are continuing investigations into a number of crimes that might ultimately involve IMPOTUS*. The firing of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman may have been planned to happen with a confluence of Juneteenth and possible discord, only to be exposed with the shift...
There are now 119,000 deaths to date and 2.2 million cases of COVID-19 in the US. Trump will likely blame the virus superspread event in Tulsa on protesters, as the media frames can be written in the most arcane ways: “they pulled off my mask”, “they coughed on me”, as...
Generational wealth is the key to familial long-term success. Currently, the three richest families in America are the Waltons of Walmart, the Mars Candy family, and the Koch Brothers. Those three families according to a Guardian article have ‘4 million times the median wealth’ of American families. That combined accumulation...
Angry that Dick Cheney’s cardiologist called Trump’s Tulsa rally “criminal endangerment”, Trump cleverly references Cheney’s gun accident, probably because he associates John Bolton with the Bush administration. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1273633632742191106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The Supreme Court’s ruling today is a victory made possible by the courage and resilience of hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients...
