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Oklahoma subsidized private school tuition for more than 27,000 students in 2024, the first year of the Parental Choice Tax Credit program. But there were only 1,565 fewer students enrolled in public schools that fall. #OKLAED ow.ly/ZtwX50VVc7X

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is outright murder. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Okemah residents told researchers about marijuana growers showing up with wads of cash to buy property at inflated prices. Real estate values increased more in areas with high numbers of marijuana farms, the study found. readfrontier.org/stories/oklaho…

Pulling back the curtain on Opus Dei As I began looking into the group, it really didn't take long for its carefully crafted public façade - that it was a completely transparent organisation with nothing to hide - to crumble away 🔗 Link in comments below

In the press release below from last week, the Trump Dept of Justice said the sentencing of Scott Jenkins, a Virginia county sheriff convicted of selling sheriff's badges, proves corruption in law enforcement would not be tolerated. Today, Trump announced he had pardoned Jenkins.

A researcher calculates that, without increased production, AI will consume up to 82 terrawatt-hours of electricity this year—around the same as the annual electricity consumption of Switzerland. wired.com/story/new-rese…

Stitt signs bill limiting Oklahomans' access to support ballot initiative petitions kfor.com/news/oklahoma-…

Inconsistent discretion in the enforcement of rapidly changing cannabis laws leaves law-abiding Oklahomans suffering in big ways and small. ow.ly/kiKJ50VYPWy

Deep dive into big, beautiful bill. What's worth considering is that 2/3rds of Medicaid recipients are already working. Arkansas may offer a preview of how this might work... (1/2) nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

The Trump administration dropped criminal charges against Boeing for its fatal 737 Max crashes, letting the manufacturer off the hook without a trial or even a guilty plea. levernews.com/the-return-of-…

Wearing a felt cowboy hat after Memorial Day.

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions execs at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. propublica.org/article/blue-c…

Governor Stitt vetoes ethics training bill, saying it would create excessive bureaucracy: "It would mandate ethics training for every newly elected or appointed head of a state agency, board, or commission—imposing the extreme penalty of removal from office for noncompliance." 🧵

I've got bad news. If you have health insurance of any sort, you're already part of socialized health care.

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" 404media.co/a-texas-cop-se…

JUST IN: The House has OVERRIDDEN Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of HB1389, adding contrast-enhanced mammograms and molecular breast imaging to the list of diagnostic examinations that insurance companies must cover without patient cost-sharing. It now goes to the Senate. #okleg

Right... "unsubsidized." In other news, here's a bill signed into law last week in Rep. Brecheen's home state of #Oklahoma, legally prohibiting utility companies from offering incentives to customers if they switch from natural gas to electric.

This just got an override in the house with nobody voting no…also onto the senate

UPDATE: Gov. Stitt's veto of an ethics-training bill was easily overridden by the House & Senate. It was one of almost 50 veto overrides. The Gov. said the bill threatened agency heads & commissioners who don't "follow and watch some video put out by do-gooder bureaucrats." (1/2)

“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.” propublica.org/article/red-st…