“This idea exploded from working with one organization to working with several,” teacher Reese Hundley said of his students’ project on homelessness. ow.ly/hsS150XNbPg

“We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.”

Is He the Grinch or Just a Gen-X Man at Christmas? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/is-...

A controversial nickel refinery project in southwest Oklahoma is stalling out. www.kgou.org/energy/2025-...

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

Caveats apply, as this data is only through November, but so far, this year, 92% of the new power plants built in the U.S. have been solar/batteries/wind. 92%! In the year Trump tried to destroy clean energy! More in this week's chart for @canarymedia.com: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

CHARLIE BROWN: Lucy, what is this play we’re putting on? LUCY: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. CHARLIE BROWN: That’s a Christmas play? LUCY: Charlie Brown. In this age of mob thinking, it is our duty to resist the crowd. [The children begin dancing to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA.”]

#foioklahoma By Andrea Hancock, nondoc.com: With the calendar nearing 2026 — and the 2026 election cycle heating up — Guardian 2.0 still remains in the beta phase, allowing users to register and enter expenditures but not formally submit reports.

#foioklahoma By Alexia Aston, oklahoman.com: "The public nor the board knew what was going on or knew about the changes, and that's where [the court] found out the Open Meeting Act was violated," Tinney said. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...

🤣 Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth... (gift link)

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

The kids were *not* happy that speech interrupted the Survivor finale.

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

Local tequila salesman quits side gig. 🙃

"What [OG&E is] saying to me and my colleagues is, 'Do what we want, or else.'" — #Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett nondoc.com/2025/12/15/h...

#foioklahoma By Keaton Ross, oklahomawatch.org: The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has spent millions on body cameras with the stated goal of increasing transparency, but is refusing to release recordings to the public.

BREAKING: Indiana Republicans FAILED to pass a new 9-0 congressional gerrymander after enough GOP senators sided with Dems. The GOP's 7-2 map stays in place. Trump is trying to re-gerrymander maps nationwide. At least 11 Indiana Rs got death threats after he called for primaries—but it still failed

This is a really disturbing story on several levels and certainly anyone who interacts with the Pentagon specifically or the administration more generally should read it:

Republicans hold a greater advantage with older voters, who are more likely to turn out during non-presidential years, a Reuters poll found. And those voters may be less swayed by the kind of cost-of-living issues that have animated recent Democratic campaigns. www.reuters.com/world/us/hea...

A wave of big data centers is triggering a scramble for new electricity generation. OG&E and PSO are pushing to charge ratepayers more as they race to keep up.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Lol. I remember this box. Going to ask my Mum if she still has this game. Our family played Mastermind a lot when I was a boy. 🙃

“Maybe I took a wrong turn at Cloud 18 or something? I don’t know, they all kinda look the same: huge, majestic, riddled with angels playing their stupid harps at all hours of the day.”

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs. Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

After asking colleges and universities across the state to review their degree programs, the Oklahoma Board of Regents for Higher Education revealed which ones aren't making the cut. www.kgou.org/education/20...

"We’ve painted the walls a beautiful sage green, installed a double sink vanity, and replaced our perfectly fine, functioning bathroom door with a sliding barn door. It’s exactly like a regular door, except it never closes."

PIF Daddy Jared Kushner. 🫠

EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found. www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...

Not The Onion.

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

As a reminder, state lawmakers granted the governor pretty extraordinary powers in the first year of the pandemic. It was the first time the Catastrophic Health Emergency Powers Act had been invoked since its passage post-9/11. oklahomawatch.org/2022/10/25/o... #COVID19

my favorite responses on social media are the ones where someone takes the time to write "nobody cares." i want each of these people to imagine me leaning out from the screen and whispering, succulently, into his ear: i know

Months of delays by Oklahoma land commissioners in approving a commercial lease for a Lawton-area data center led the developer to withdraw, costing the state potential education revenue. oklahomawatch.org/2025/12/09/s... (via @oklahomawatch.bsky.social) #okgov #okleg #data #electricity #oilandgas

OU @aaup.org statement

From the Department of The More Things Change...: From 2019: Trump Trade Dispute Cash Helps Farmers, But Their Incomes Continue to Decline oklahomawatch.org/2019/12/31/t...

#foioklahoma By Alex Gladden, oklahoman.com: Oklahoma's campaign finance website has been offline for nearly three months, raising questions about access to public information ahead of a critical election year.

C’mon. Not another FIFA song and dance. 🙄 Just release the schedule already. This could have been an email. #WorldCup2026

Around 250 people protested on OU's campus Friday in support of the graduate instructor who was suspended after giving Samantha Fulnecky a failing grade on her Bible-based essay.

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

"I recently spoke with Santa Claus, who is currently coordinating his staff of immortal blue-collar elves, about the morality of children and his friendship with a creature whom many carolers consider a war criminal: Krampus." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The nation’s freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday.

US President Donald Trump has been awarded the first FIFA Peace Prize. "He has supported efforts to broker ceasefires and promote diplomatic engagement," says the FIFA announcement.

Pot 3 represent! #worldcupdraw

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

#foioklahoma By Scott Wright, oklahoman.com; New Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris is set to earn an annual salary of $3.8 million on a five-year contract, pending the approval of the Oklahoma State/A&M Colleges Board of Regents at their regular meeting Friday.