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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 13m

No surprise that anti-education charlatans find support from Republicans like Stephanie Bice.

Oklahomans in the #OKC area deserve better representation by someone who values education like @jenanelson.bsky.social.

#OK05 #CD05

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 22h

democrats pretend winning elections is this Herculean task when all they have to do is follow the blueprint of the guy who won so hard they changed the rule to "you can only be president for 8 years"

logo, acting spoopy @logophobe.bsky.social · 1d

Step 1: disband ICE
Step 2: give ICE's entire bloated budget to the IRS
Step 3: record white collar crime task force kicking in penthouse doors and macing unresisting billionaires
Step 4: one hundred years of Dem reign

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 7h

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe it worked?

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 10h

Dudes rock

An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 13h

www.aol.com/articles/no-...

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 20d

There is no better job in the world than being a fired college football coach

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 20d

Update… his buyout was 15 million

I take back everything i said…

Give me my money

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 4d

I did NOT expect this levelheadedness by Oklahoma's Governor!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 4d

Were you wanting more Thunder content?

Were you wondering if @ringernba.bsky.social has more NBA pieces?

Were you hoping for more historic accolades for the Canadian star shining in Oklahoma City?

Good news courtesy of @robmahoney.bsky.social...

www.theringer.com/2025/10/09/n...

The Five True Originals of the 21st-Century NBA

The most talented era in league history has been marked by tectonic changes in style—most of which have stemmed from just a handful of irrepressible changemakers

www.theringer.com

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 5d

all I see is a Shins album cover

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s video of the incident

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

Masked military personnel pepper-spraying clergy is what they'd show in a film montage to make it clear The Shit Is BAD

Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social · 6d

This is the pastor.

Image of pastor who was praying at a peaceful protest in Portland being sprayed with a chemical weapon.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

"It's not that all technology is bad," OK state Rep. Chad Caldwell said. "It certainly has a place. But it is that balance, making sure we use technology as a tool and not a teacher."

(Oklahoma is currently failing to strike that balance well)

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

"The data is wickedly clear that computers don't help learning," said Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, an Arizona-based authority on learning. "It's been clear for a while."

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

I find myself becoming increasingly Amish-esque in my disdain for technology in the classroom:

- unreliable devices
- more distracting than helpful
- easy access for Big Tech to dominate education industry

tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...

In follow-up to cell phone ban, experts recommend curbing all classroom technology

Students interacting with good teachers — and each other — is paramount, speakers at a legislative hearing said Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

@ everyone in the whole wide world

you pray
you pray right nowright now
and you pray better than you've ever prayed before

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 6d

There we go

Home Depot 12 ft tall skeleton dressed up as the sandwich guy, even holding a foot long

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

*Wild* how much the OKC Thunder are wrapped up in multiple of these NBA "What-If"s by @howardbeck.bsky.social

@ringernba.bsky.social has been putting out some great pieces recently

www.theringer.com/2025/10/07/n...

NBA Sliding Doors: The What-Ifs That Changed Everything

Forget Oden vs. Durant or ‘The Decision’—these five forgotten twists altered the course of the league forever

www.theringer.com

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

this film is therapeutic in 2025

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 6d

renewing my wedding vows at the Braum's milk bottle building

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An Okie @ashirley.bsky.social · 7d

I’m a public school teacher who publicly called for firing Ryan Walters last year.

Trust me when I say EVERYONE hates him.

www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio...

Ryan Walters is hell-bent on ruining the teaching profession | Guest opinion

Oklahomans can say "enough" and not accept a politician's egregious behavior.

www.oklahoman.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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