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Ahead of two votes next week on proposed massive data centers in Green Country, a community meeting discussed how to stop the centers from being built. #tulsa

The station earned top honors in categories including investigative reporting, anchoring and spot news. #tulsa

Phenomenal writing about a sad sometimes enraging but also supremely comical figure. www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

A suburb of Tulsa will fly the Muscogee Nation flag at its headquarters. #tulsa

"I'm getting tired even for a phoenix" is a pretty clutch quote from Taylor Swift.

When Charles Bethea climbed the world’s tallest volcano with the help of an altitude-sickness pill, he wondered: Had he denied himself some deeper experience or insight?

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

Even though he’s moved on to better things, it’s cool that @mbryanok.bsky.social was recognized for his painstaking work on this story…

I think @benhabrams.com nabbed the most awards for KWGS last night. He's Oklahoma's best public radio host, some are saying.

Super cool meeting @wsuares.bsky.social tonight! My own news team picked up 10 awards and I was recognized for the first time as an investigative reporter, too.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says it’s displacing long-standing homeless camps in Tulsa so that the people who live in them don’t get hit by cars. #tulsa

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

It’s finally happened. I don’t care enough to learn these words 👵

Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.

Jake Ramsey on the use of hostile architecture in Tulsa and OKC to deter homeless encampments. Elizabeth Caldwell discusses a tax credit that was supposed to make housing more affordable. Maria Guinnip talks about the latest installment in our “Justice in No Man’s Land” series. ow.ly/EKUl50WEU84

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

Two men from Texas bought more than a dozen properties across Oklahoma restricted to low-income Oklahomans. In Tulsa, they are booting out the very people the properties are meant to serve. #tulsa #oklahoma

There’s a shortage of drug treatment programs in Western Oklahoma. Many people don’t have transportation and the nearest provider is in another town.

“I think of those unknown people, who are the real heroes for me, who you never hear about, who hold out on frontiers of awful want, awful situations, and manage somehow to go beyond the given impoverishments and offer gifts of possibility and imagination and seeing.” onbeing.org/programs/joh...

A new law includes a provision that could mean bettors pay more during tax season. Major poker players are calling on Congress to royally flush the measure down the drain.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

If you are feeling down #bluesky?? Please, look at this cute duck... 💜

I wanted to do something to celebrate JAWS 50th anniversary last week but I was neck deep in a big deadline and I didn’t have time. Now that the deadline has been taken care of and since today is the 4th of July, what better time to finally draw something? Hope y’all dig my tribute :)

Listen to my conversation with @elizawell.bsky.social about my experiences covering protests and extremism

I really enjoy working with @danielshular.bsky.social He's great for our staff and for #Tulsa !

Photographers see a lot. Daniel Shular, who's on staff at Tulsa World, has seen violence and extremism. He's been knocked down, shot at, and even arrested while documenting civil unrest. #tulsa

The city says it has possibly found two more men who died in what’s been deemed one of the worst instances of racial violence in the country. #tulsa #oklahoma

Available data shows Tulsa’s homelessness numbers have increased again. #tulsa

I still think about many parts of this 2016 Brian Wilson interview. "Is there something you'd like to tell other people who've had some of the challenges you've had?" "My advice would be to not take psychedelic drugs." "Anything else?" "No, that covers it." 😆 www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Tulsa police chased a jaywalking suspect and tackled him. While they were arresting him, one of the officers’ cruisers was left in reverse and rolled over the suspect. www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-region...

I love it when @mikesimonsphoto.bsky.social takes my photo! 😍

The fisherwomen on Hengam Island are often the primary breadwinners in their families, and they’ve worked in defiance of Iran’s labor laws prohibiting women from performing “dangerous” work.

Karoline Leavitt drinking heavily as she prepares for the next press briefing

Pro tip- screaming at a reporter who is calmly asking you questions doesn't make me think "Wow, I really should NOT be pursuing this story." In the meantime, I'll be digging through more open records for my next investigation into state spending. #oklahoma

I still think about this @benhabrams.com photo and laugh. It's the Oklahoma Democrats after Kamala Harris announced her candidacy. www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-region...

❌GOVERNOR VETO ❌Rep. Melissa Provenzano, who recently was diagnosed with breast cancer, helped pass HB 1389, which would require mammograms and other early diagnostic breast cancer screenings to be covered by health insurance. Stitt gave this explanation for his veto...🧵

A lonely young woman in Texas has streamed every second of her life for three years and counting. Is this life, or a performance of one?

I just finished reading @michaelluo.bsky.social’s extraordinary book “Strangers in the Land.” It’s a must-read. Washington Post: “‘Strangers in the Land” deserves a place on the shelf beside other essential works of American history.’” WAPO Review: bit.ly/44mPiLP Order His Book: bit.ly/4jJg6e4

Republican Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District has returned from his trip to a notorious mega-prison in central America. #tulsa #oklahoma

Watch this video explainer about Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern visiting El Salvador where an illegally deported Maryland father is being detained in a notorious mega-prison. #tulsa #oklahoma #abregogarcia

Rep. Kevin Hern is reportedly in El Salvador, where a father illegally deported from Maryland by the Trump administration is being held in a prison that's drawn scrutiny for humans rights abuses. #tulsa #oklahoma #abregogarcia

Thousands of Afghan refugees previously welcomed to Oklahoma will face deportation next month. Many of them helped the United States in its 20-year war begun after 9/11. #tulsa #oklahoma

Inspiration can come from painful situations. For one Tulsan that meant turning a diagnosis into music. #tulsa

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Tulsans are organizing after President Donald Trump’s first month in office. #tulsa