Libs of TikTok often presents educators deemed as too liberal in a mocking light. The account’s owner who earns at least six figures is linked to Oklahoma. #tulsa

A decade after its creation, Patrick Gordon’s painting of a long-time Tulsa drag queen still speaks to viewers. #tulsa

In a rare study, two audiologists found that Taylor Swift's accent has, indeed, changed over the years, reflecting where she's lived, where she wants to go and who she's inspired by.

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The city of Tulsa has announced another excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery in search for victims of the 1921 Race Massacre.

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s. n.pr/474wJvJ

“Chicago police records shared with the Sun-Times show that a Border Patrol agent had called for assistance, reporting that roughly 30 agents had been “surrounded by a large crowd of people.” But police officials weren’t sent to help, the records show.”

The view from an ANTIFA landing craft June 6th 1944

New: four million people could be forced to leave public housing and other federally assisted housing under new plans from the Trump administration, according to experts who reviewed drafts of two unpublished rules obtained by @propublica.org.

“It’s disguised as work requirements and term limits, but in reality it’s a way to strip families of their benefits,” said Deborah Thrope of the National Housing Law Project. “This is a huge departure from how the HUD programs have been run.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

One of the more harrowing tales of an ICE raid I’ve read: ‘“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”’ chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The government's monthly jobs report was not published Friday as a result of the federal shutdown. That's left businesses and policymakers in the dark about the strength of the U.S. job market.

"God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles" — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'

Charlie Javice was sentenced to 7 years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by exaggerating how many students her financial aid startup served.

holy shit they did the meme

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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

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! 😍