An image outlining the dates and titles for the Black Radical Tradition track of the Home Base reading group

Titles and dates for the Carceral State track of the Home Team reading group

The group will have two different tracks - Black Radical Tradition and The Carceral State, and you’re welcome to join either or both, and attend as you’re able! We’ll post podcast episodes prior to each meeting to help provide context as well! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

An image of grass with the words Home Team sprayed over it, a baseball sits in the middle of the image

You’re invited to a summer reading group through Home Base, a people driven organizing space focused on rejecting the carceral state and building community safety! www.hbok.org/home-team#re...

may 4th is such a special day to see the nation and really the world come together to share their love for a classic piece of pop culture, the 5-4 podcast

Today is publication day for Prisons Must Fall!! 🎉

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Sorry to beat a dead horse today but the first real scandal of the Trump administration being the flawed PROCESS of committing war crimes instead of the war crimes themselves is driving me a little crazy!

Like yeah, it’s bad they were using Signal, but also why are we bombing Yemen and how often do these strikes happen and the general public of the US never knows, regardless of who is in the White House?

While there was certainly more we could have done to make this board stronger, I am hopeful it is a positive step in creating more accountability for police abuse of power.

After recommendations from the 21CP report, this board has some new features that are intended to create more transparency about accountability for police use of force. Some of these include moving to public meetings, ward-based appointees & a requirement to host annual educational events.

Graphic with information about info session about a police advisory board in OKC

You are invited to an info session about the OKC Public Safety Advisory Board on Wednesday, March 26, 6pm at Capitol Hill Library.
Spanish, Vietnamese, & ASL interpretation will be available.

This is the first iteration of what will be an annual oppty to learn about this board & its functions.

Want some reading material for the big #AmazonBoycott next week, or to help explain to others why it matters?

We gotchu

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Gul Dukat to receive party line approval by the Senate as Secretary of Bajoran Worker Safety.

is it a good thing when the de facto president starts referring to the underclass as parasites? asking for a friend

The Truth about Retail Theft In October, retail lobbyists demanded that Congress expand the prosecution and policing of shoplifting, making it easier to charge theft as a federal crime. The National Retail Federation (NRF) claime...

Hi Brad! The retail theft panic and subsequent locking up items is on the retailers who ginned up a narrative that is widely untrue. More surveillance and buying into this false narrative won’t help people be able to buy their toothbrush or keep anyone safe. www.vera.org/news/the-tru...

WATCH: Sen. Tom Woods: Have you taken this issue to your local elected officials?

Sen. Nikki Nice: I was that local elected official.

Nice previously served on the OKC city council. #okleg

We are excited to announce that applications to join this year’s Walking College fellowship class are open now through the end of February. Learn how to we can work together to achieve safer, healthier, more accessible streets and communities. Apply today! https://buff.ly/3vw5RlB

Liz Lemon asks 'What a year huh?' and Jack responds 'Lemon, it's February'

I sent out my February Council newsletter yesterday - this was the vibe. mailchi.mp/b3b1e2077ac7...

Ryan Kiesel, KOSU commentator, lawyer and former lawmaker, dies at 45 Kiesel was a political commentator on KOSU’s weekly radio program and podcast This Week in Oklahoma Politics for 13 years.

Ryan Kiesel, a civil rights lawyer, former state lawmaker and political consultant, died Friday at the age of 45 following a long battle with cancer.

For 13 years, Kiesel was a political commentator on KOSU’s podcast This Week in Oklahoma Politics. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

It takes all of us being diligent to keep one another safe and healthy and I definitely haven’t appreciated that as highly until I became immunocompromised. I know it can be challenging but I want to share this in hopes that next time you are sick, you’ll take extra precautions to not share. ❤️

I just can’t understate how much this has sucked and despite my very imperfect efforts to mask up in most spaces, I neglected to a few times last week and am sorely regretting it. Someone I was meeting with sneezed and I remember thinking, “Oh no”. But even if I had been masking, it’s still not 100%

I’ve been laid out with the flu all week and it’s the first time I’ve had it while on this medication. Before I might be tired a day or two & have some congestion. This has absolutely wrecked my entire week & I’ve felt *horrible*. Today is the 1st I’ve been out of bed for more than an hour.

As someone who is immunocompromised due to a medication I have to take, I am begging you to - at the very least - stay home if you’re sick. Even if you think it’s just a cold! It could be something else & will hit someone like me way harder than it got you. And please wear a mask if you must go out!

Wait so you’re telling me that if we make one group of people into un-persons, that shit can spread to others, bro? Sounds bad. Someone should stop that before it starts.

So weird that all these extremely dangerous tools of empire are just lying around everywhere, ready to be picked up by a fascist. Maybe we shouldn’t have them in the first place.

Hey guys, was it bad to keep an offshore black site where laws and customs don’t apply for 23 years?

For every 100 extremely low-income Oklahoma renter households, the state only has 42 rentals that are available and affordable. The state has a shortage of at least 77,000 rental units for extremely low-income renters (less than around $23,000/yr for a family of four). okpolicy.org/oklahomans-w...

Oklahoma's Role in Genocide: From For Sill to Palestine. Saturday, January 25, 4-7pm, 712 N Broadway Ave. Attend virtually on Zoom!

Birds-eye view parking map with lots behind the event building circled, as well as a lot across the street

Join us for a teach-in on Saturday, Jan. 25, to learn about the systemic & ongoing violence perpetuated by this state against Indigenous people here & abroad in Palestine. Attend virtually or in person at 712 N Broadway Ave. Register online at actionnetwork.org/events/okrg-...