Hopped up on estrogen? On surgeries? Is there a gender-affirming scissorhands procedure?

Everyone should read more books 😊 everyone should use their local library 😊 everyone can use apps like Libby to read library books on their phones 😊 except for whoever is reading the same series I am at the same time and is one book ahead but is not reading fast enough so I have to keep waiting😡

May your butts be the light

Not a dude, but at 15 I'd already read Tolkien at least once and all the Dune books then available. However, 15 was the year my (very liberal) English teacher recommended William F. Buckley's Blackford Oakes (I KNOW) thrillers, and i've been a spy novel nerd ever since.

Jesus Christ that thing is UGLY

Happy 250th. Yesterday's rush hour bridge post. "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Farmer & farm worker tips on working outside in hot humid weather: First, the normal stuff. Stay hydrated. Take breaks in the shade. These are the basics! They'll get you pretty far & you won't make it without them! They are also not enough to get through a day on the farm IME!

45 years ago.

Oklahoma residents: We identified at least 114 oil field waste injection sites located within a half-mile of a public water well. Is your community impacted? Check out our map: https://propub.li/446vLhs

"Miller tells Axios he's "stunned" by the response, joking that while the internet knows him for his pants, he's better known around Danville for his dance moves."

A letter from James Dale, who was expelled from the Boy Scouts for being gay and lost a Supreme Court case about it 26 years ago, to Becky Pepper Jackson, a trans girl who wanted to run track and just lost her Supreme Court case. medium.com/prismnpen/to...

Plan to ease rules on mailing guns could help company Trump Jr. has stake in. (Gift Link) President Donald Trump’s eldest son is a key player in GrabAGun, a company that hopes to dominate internet firearms sales. wapo.st/3QwDSRm

Unlike the defendants, one of the Prarieland judges is part of an organized cell of extremists: defector.com/unlike-the-d...

Of a type that I’ve shared before. Also, disclaimer, this time happening to my friend. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

This confirms what the CDC leader said before she was fired. Kennedy wanted the science to be cooked until it aligned with his politics.

In this house, we take time to appreciate the magnificence of the carrion beetles before we bury that bloated, stinking possum corpse the human cadaver tracker has been trying to locate for the last 5 days.

Lots of chatter re: NYT's expose on car bloat. Want to do something locally to nudge people away from big, harmful models? Consider parking. Cities like Montreal and Paris charge SUV owners more to park on the street. In MTL (below) many car owners support it b/c big cars take up more curb space.

The Eviction Lab at Princeton University has launched an eviction tracker focused on Oklahoma City. Jake Ramsey analyzes the key points of the data. https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/06/22/okc-evictions-have-doubled-in-a-decade/

Calling all scientists and academics and researchers who want to raise money to fight voter suppression! Have you got a professional special interest? We have nerds willing to bid to pick your brain about it! form.romancingthevot...

How do they manage to make so many things weird?

I think the US Senate was a mistake

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

YES THERE IS lol. I have been reporting on this for 17 years! De Blasio vowed to ban the carriage horses (bc he was bribed by the anti carriage horse lobby, which is a front for a real estate scam to steal the carriage property) but lost to the more powerful tourist driven carriage lobby

Yesterday was Oklahoma's primary election. I worked the polls in a small town (not my town, and far enough from my town i've only been there a handful of times) down the highway from OU. Most of the voters were OLD and white. But one voter stuck out. 1/x

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said Ssekamwa. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.” "People with HIV, tuberculosis & other diseases could have their records exposed." By @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The answers to a question about jailing insurance executives provided distinctions between candidates in a race to lead a department that commands huge authority over Oklahomans’ finances. https://ow.ly/1Kif50Zbkte

NY times covered our cut today (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/s...

RFK Jr and HHS claim puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans youth - treatments that have been known, used, and studied for decades - need to be banned because the evidence base isn't strong enough. But sedating babies with ketamine to inject them with stem cells? Perfectly acceptable.

A conjuring of Argentina 78 when the military Junta hosted a World Cup with disappeared peoples in ear shot of the host stadiums roaring crowds…

The immunization schedule is specifically for pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women. It aligns with prior recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, before changes were made under the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A robust, labor-focused left in 2026 wouldn't be a bulked up white man with a hammer and sickle, it would be a pharmacy technician in Kansas, or a nurse in New York City. Both of whom have been at the center of nasty union fights in recent times.

Make Oklahoma Grassroots Again, based in Sheridan, Wyoming, is testing out an unusual political sweepstakes to garner support for its preferred candidates. Legal and political experts are skeptical. https://ow.ly/2VBu50Z68T1

Hey @spavel.bsky.social I hope you don’t mind but we did the thing for real

What's the probability we end up with food that is objectively unsafe to eat?

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

Greg Bovino at the far-right Remigration summit in Portugal: "Martin Sellner, you've invited me here today. Your ideas, we've talked a lot on that and those ideas mirror each other. We've never talked before face to face until yesterday and we're on the same sheet of music almost immediately".

What a pair of sleaze balls

THIS. Do I worry about the effects of social media on my 11-year-old? Obviously yes. Do I think she should be banned from it any more than young men falling into the manosphere on Reddit, middle-aged ladies being dragged into transphobia on Mumsnet, or pensioners radicalised by Facebook? 100% no.

What are folks' recent experiences at US immigration when presenting US passports issued with different gender markers than previous versions? My kid is considering a trip abroad later this year, and i need to gauge my anxiety for his passages through US official scrutiny.

A US-born woman born was confronted by sheriff deputies in Louisiana who were convinced her ID and social security card were fakes. They turned her over to ICE, who shackled her & took her an hour away. Even after a lawyer convinced ICE of the woman's citizenship the sheriff says they did no wrong

The rural east side of Norman, OK is threatened by a turnpike extension. The very same neighbors who are loudest in opposition to the turnpike (it is a very stupid plan when what we obviously need is restoration of passenger rail) also constantly complain about extension of a multimodal bike path

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's almost pride month. pterosaurs. #pridemonth #pterosaurs #paleoart #noai

“Hope will never be silent” Celebrate Harvey Milk today by bein' loud & PROUD Of how you identify Of who you love Of who you are! Our friend would have been 96 this #harveymilkday In his name & in his honor let us all love each other that much more 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️ @rustincenter.bsky.social

In this morning's email to University of Oklahoma employees: "To comply with SB-904 [new OK law banning state funds or facilities providing gender-affirming care to adults], the University must implement updates to the medical and pharmacy benefit plans. These changes include:" (1/x)

Someone in your family needs this book. Parents of young kids. Partners of folks with divergent food preferences. People who grew up being called "picky." I wish i'd had this 20 years ago when my kids were tiny.

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Scoop: There has been a massive shakeup at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My hometown

Picky by Helen Zoe Veit will hurt people. Food aversion has proven neurobiological factors and ARFID doesn’t typically respond to exposure therapy. There are social elements and some kids are “just” selective in their eating, but putting it all under one tent will kill kids.