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If you start to pay attention to this you'll realize how much we're socialized to associate 'mentally ill' with 'morally reprehensible' and how eager folks are to reach for mental health vocabulary to describe issues that are fundamentally moral.
The Tulsa City Council passed a nine month moratorium on data centers last month, it doesn’t apply to the data centers they approved before that. I think there are three currently planned for the Tulsa metro area. Hopefully the council sees the damage from those and doesn’t approve any more.
Meta reveals it’s behind east Tulsa data center attracting praise and protests
State and city officials trumpeted $3.3 billion in economic activity over the next three years. But protesters worry about the impact on resources.
Last year, Oklahoma lawmakers removed the option for individuals to replace their ID through fingerprint verification, meaning it now requires a birth certificate or another personal document — which many unhoused Oklahomans don't have.
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
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Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.
The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.
This is the “personal responsibility” lie we’ve all been fed by big business for decades. We’ve allowed industry to convince us we’re at fault for their harms. And we’ve allowed them to turn us against each other so we spend more time finger wagging individual people then we do fighting bad actors.
The average American spends about $290 to file. They also spend about 13 hours, often giving the government information it already has, which works out to another $486 worth of time assuming the average BLS hourly wage. The Trump administration says that Direct File was too expensive. Compared to what? Direct File cost IRS $16 million in its final year of operation. Between 2021-2025 Intuit also got almost $500 million dollars in federal tax credits.
Trump said Direct File was too expensive to operate. This feels like an indictment of our willingness to build things.
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, had *more lobbyists* than the Direct File team had employees. The cost of Direct File is a fraction of the tax breaks given to Intuit.
graph showing positive evaluations of Direct File by users
headline saying DOGE putting Direct File on the chopping block after meeting with lobbyists
Presidents since Reagan have been promising a tool like Direct File. Elon Musk even proposed an IRS app for taxpayers.
IRS actually built it!
Users loved it, but then DOGE killed it after a meeting with the private tax preparation industry.
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LAPD came back to the protest and grabbed multiple people
The Asiatic cheetah is on the brink of extinction, with just 27 left in Iran. Now, war visits fresh peril on this critically endangered species. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-...
those push notifications that pop up when you get a signal message? the fbi just forensically extracted signal message content saved to an iphone’s push notification data for a case. here’s how to make that more secure
The school board election in Tulsa finally rid the district of this horrible woman.
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RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa.
They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.
Oklahoma Republicans move to reverse Medicaid expansion
In 2020, Oklahoma voters passed Medicaid expansion, adding more people to Soonercare. Republican lawmakers are advancing proposed constitutional changes to reverse that vote: House Bill 4440 and House Joint Resolution 1067.
all of America's bravest elected Democrats jumping into action to post vaguely on social media about how somebody else should do something
This reporting is pathetic. Attacking hospitals and healthcare workers are criminal acts under international law.
Every single person should push back on this deliberate violation of medical neutrality unless you’d want it to happen to you and your loved ones when you are sick and seeking respite.
Accessibility I have to ask for isn’t actually accessibility.
“Ring the bell and someone will help you!”
Or you could make it so I can open your door just like anybody else.
“Call ahead for—“
Do you actually want my money?
“Submit proof of disability for—“
No, I don’t think I will.
Someone came to work sick tonight (at least they’re masking but 😑) and people are wiping down surfaces this person has touched. “I’m taking no chances!” But they are NOT masking. I see this in healthcare *all the time*. People do not understand (don’t want to understand?) mode of transmission.
Voters approved Medicaid expansion in 2020. Now lawmakers want to put it back on the ballot in August, when far fewer people vote.
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Remember that ABA is abusive, so never support ABA practitioners. Here are some others to consider this April Autism Awareness Month.
100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer
It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west
If anyone on here works at one of the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed and you want to tell me about your work there and why it's important, reach out: jmckenzie@thebulletin.org
Nearly 10 years after Tulsa police officer killed Terence Crutcher, family’s lawsuit is moving forward
A federal appeals court decided the Crutcher family’s civil lawsuit against a former TPD officer can continue. Their supporters celebrated the ruling Tuesday.
This is suuuuuch a long shot, but: I am trying to find demographic info about the corrections population (preferably jails) in Pennsylvania, especially York County Prison. I can't seem to rustle up any sort of annual report or anything to tell me the snapshot of like, age/sex/race.
Developer pulls out of Coweta data center project, ending plans for Project Atlas
After facing intense community opposition, Beale Infrastructure officially withdrew its proposal to build the 270-acre Project Atlas.
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