Newsflash
Trump, Tulsa, Pittsburgh, Maui, plastics
Wildfires, school closures, shootings, election
Too much info to comprehend
Chaos

#trump #election2020 #tulsa #mauiwildfires #pittsburgh #cinquain #poetry

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/morning-rundown-august-25-rcna101754

Walters plans to take over
Tulsa rocked by his powerplay
Do not oppose his will

#ryanwalters #tulsa #education #haiku #poetry

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-tulsa-schools-superintendent-rcna101448

Update (10:30 a.m. Thursday): A third bomb threat was emailed targeting Ellen Ochoa Elementary and an individual educator's home.

Union school gets bomb threats after 'woke ideology' tweet

#Oklahoma #Tulsa #BombThreat https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/crime-courts/update-bomb-threats-continue-after-woke-ideology-tweet-with-librarians-name/article_3622413a-41c8-11ee-90a0-9b5145aeb1d6.html

After the news of the first bomb threat, Walters' staff provided a statement in response to questions from the local Fox news affiliate. The statement reads: "The issue here is the employee's actions, that's why Supt. Walters commented on it. Supt. Walters will continue to do what voters elected him to do — hold schools and their employees accountable for educating young Oklahomans.”

School gets bomb threats after 'woke ideology' tweet with librarian's name

#Oklahoma #Tulsa #RyanWalters #BombThreat https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/school-gets-bomb-threats-after-woke-ideology-tweet-with-librarians-name/article_3622413a-41c8-11ee-90a0-9b5145aeb1d6.html

Who cares about Oklahoma's children's education? Tulsa Superintendent Dr. Deborah Gist does. She resigned because the disgrace that Oklahoma voters elected to State Superintendent wants to be nationally known as a culture warrior.

Tulsa school board accepts Gist’s resignation, names Johnson interim superintendent

#KOSU #Oklahoma #Tulsa #RyanWalters
https://www.kosu.org/education/2023-08-24/tulsa-school-board-accepts-gists-resignation-names-johnson-interim-superintendent

" 'We will bomb every school in the Union district': Tulsa school threatened for 'woke ideology' "

Oklahoma school district faces bomb threats after video shared by far-right TikTok account #KOSU #Oklahoma #Tulsa #PublicSchool #RyanWalters #BombThreat #Librarian
https://www.kosu.org/education/2023-08-23/we-will-bomb-every-school-in-the-union-district-tulsa-school-threatened-for-woke-ideology

The people that griped about a T-shirt being $25 are going to be so mad about losing the shipping fee if they pick up their TPS fundraiser shirt early but as someone who has been on the other side I’m so happy for the Mythic people not having to deal with all those refunds. #Tulsa #IStandWithTPS

Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).

The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #WestVirginia #matewan #BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #CivilWar #GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon

Recommended webcomic : Wilde Life

Oscar Wilde (not that one) is just some guy who moves to small town Oklahoma and begins running into the supernatural. Author is from Tulsa, and the art really reflects NE Oklahoma. I'm a big fan of Hanyi the world eater, giant frog

#webcomics #WildeLife #Art #Tulsa

http://wildelifecomic.com/

@engarneering

Because "a reaction" to #Racial concerns, destroyed #Tulsa, #Eatonville, #Rosewood, ..., I can't list them all. Not sure we have documentated them all.

But here's a start: https://www.blackpast.org/special-features/racial-violence-united-states-1660/

Court allows bar on #Tulsa’s #enforcement of municipal #laws against #NativeAmericans to remain in place
https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/08/court-allows-bar-on-tulsas-enforcement-of-municipal-laws-against-native-americans-to-remain-in-place/
#racism #racist #oklahoma

Everyone has reusables. The new #BYO app helps you use them.

I’m on a team turning the U.S. more reusable friendly. We asked people why they don’t use the reusables they already own and the top answer was not knowing where to use them.

BYO launched in #Tulsa and we're looking for more waste warriors to help us map reusable-friendly businesses nationwide.

Boosts welcome! The iPhone app is out now and Android is pending Google review.

#zerowaste #byo #reusable #eco

https://byo.eco

Any of my #tulsa friends know why the Goodyear Blimp is floating over town? Near ORU right now.

#Tulsa #Greenwood #Oklahoma #Black

Highway to healing: can removing a road restore America’s Black Wall Street?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/18/tulsa-highway-black-wall-street?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I'll admit, when I started skimming the article on the Oklahoma superintendent whitewashing the Tulsa Race Massacre on stream, I didn't expect my analysis to turn into optimism for evangelical Christians in America -- but that's what happened. I think when Trump dies, the singular glue which sticks Christians of that sort to Christian nationalism will be more or less dissolved, leaving a lot of them to rethink their politics.

#politics #trump #christianity #tulsa

https://youtu.be/f6H9l5xB5YY

[ Oklahoma judge throws out a suit seeking reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre ]

Judge Caroline Wall on Friday dismissed with prejudice the lawsuit trying to force the city and others to make recompense for the destruction of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood.

#History #histodons #BlackMastodon #blackhistory #tulsa #oklahoma https://www.npr.org/2023/07/09/1186690457/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-lawsuit

Aux #EtatsUnis, tout change et rien ne change 🇺🇸👉 Oklahoma judge dismisses #Tulsa race massacre reparations case filed by last known survivors 👇

https://us.cnn.com/2023/07/08/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-case/index.html #TulsaRaceMassacre #BlackLivesMatter  #Oklahoma #USA

Apparently the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Education thinks the Tulsa RACE Massacre was “not about race.”

I’m looking at the picture of these three survivors and while they seem to have something in common, I can’t put my finger on what it is. 🤔 #Tulsa

From: @QasimRashid
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/110680649655730389

This looks like a white man telling truths about white men, and I hope that is so.

#Tulsa isn't the only #massacre #white #Oklahomans committed.

That land, like all of this hemisphere and elsewhere, is soaked in the #blood of the #Indigenous and #Enslaved spilled in direct service to the greed of #white people.

That same greed exists all around us, no matter who or where you are.

#KillersOfTheFlowerMoon #MartinScorsese

#October on #AppleTV

https://youtu.be/EP34Yoxs3FQ

Been in #Tulsa during and after #storm. Power off since Saturday. No gas, no ice, no hotel rooms available. Hurricane strength winds (maybe derecho). Parts of Tulsa will never be the same.