The Oklahoma Observer is the state's leading source for progressive news and commentary.
Oklahoma City, OK
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It’s less of a “switch” and more of a “co-equal branch of government” called Congress, and Mike, you’re not gonna believe me when I tell you who controls it
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Join this critical #OklaEd conversation THIS Thursday in OKC at 6 PM!
Mark your calendars: @okobs annual Back-To-School Newsmakers Aug 10 @fullcircleokc, featuring @jacobrosecrants, @middelsupt Rick Cobb & teacher Sandra Valentine. 6-7 pm. Admission is free. Light hors d'oeuvres on us! Presented by the Mary Lou Lemon Foundation.
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As right-wing extremism continues to negatively affect our #OklaEd public schools, we need people digging into our past so we do not repeat those mistakes today and in the future.
Mark your calendars for a special @okobs Newsmakers Wednesday June 7 -- @JeffreyToobin joins us @fullcircleokc to discuss & sign copies of his new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh & the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. 6-7 pm. Register at bit.ly/41EAfIg
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I am very grateful to the U.S. Supreme Court for their decision to grant a stay of execution. I will continue working to ensure justice prevails in this important case.
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This might be the dumbest analogy I’ve ever heard. Raising the debt ceiling would not authorize new spending. It would let the U.S. pay the bills that Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump ALREADY ran up with tax breaks for billionaires and giant corporations.
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Perhaps we shouldn’t spend upwards of $1.7 trillion on a failed F-35 fighter jet program when 94% of public school teachers are forced to spend their own money on school supplies?
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So far only $397.8 billion has been spent on the F-35.
The $1.7 trillion figure comes from an estimate by the GAO of the additional costs spent on maintenance ($1.3 trillion) over the 66-year service life of the planes until their expected retirement in 2070.
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When @VoteKendraOK sat for a Q&A with @okobs editor Arnold Hamilton those in attendance saw a much more assertive candidate than earlier in her political career.
-- @briwrites_ reports
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“This idea that Oklahoma is not a moveable place, or it’s such a red state that we can’t make any progress – it’s just not true.”
-- @briwrites_ reports on @HornForCongress in a recent open Q&A session in OKC
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Join us for the @okobs Newsmakers Series at @fullcircleokc, Thursday, October 13 at 6:00p.m.!
Can’t wait to see you OKC!
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Markwayne Mullin wins the OK GOP Senate primary. So Kendra Horn gets the more extreme and less qualified GOP opponent in the race for the open seat. "Longtime Oklahoma political strategists say if any Democrat could win in [OK], it’s Horn."
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We're calling it. One more hot day, then a smooth transition into early fall! Oh, it will still get hot here and there, but you get rid of that final August heat, you're on the downward slide. Come on, have we ever been wrong before? Okay, other than those times? #okwx #okmesonet
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Oklahoma politicians are afraid Oklahoma students will learn to think for themselves. Why? They don't want future voters to be able to see through their bullshit.
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I’ve decided to endorse @RepLizCheney for the Republican nomination for the House seat In Wyoming it’s my first time endorsing in a GOP primary. But I think Al Franken’s support will carry a lot of weight with WY Republicans.
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I don’t know who put that Hawley hit out, but right now his tiny tiny testicles are a hood ornament on Liz Cheney‘s SUV.
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Record-setting dry weather over the last 30 days...of all the June 11-July 10 periods in the last 100 years, none have been drier than 2022's version. The previous record holder is from 1936, smack dab in the middle of the Dust Bowl. Click for embiggenation. #okwx #okmesonet
