Oh how I miss chickpeas.

The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched.

This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?

The Taiwan scenario that could outfox the U.S. | DW News You've heard about the risks of a Chinese invasion or blockade of Taiwan. But another, gray-zone scenario is getting increasingly serious attention from expe...

What are the implications if China imposes a military quarantine on Taiwan? SFS Prof Rush Doshi joined DW News to explain why it might occur, how it would work and the risks it would pose for the global economy.

Watch here: https://bit.ly/4vnlERz

Senior rescues are the best! They are the only dogs we adopt. Arti, short for Artemis, is pictured below chilling on our couch. She is a brindle mastiff mix whom we dearly love! She is healthy now, but was terribly thin when we adopted her, as the previous owner abandoned her. Adopt Sr rescue dogs!

Loved the finger wag!

The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild.

Period

As a Tulsa resident I am so happily surprised by this!

Can we move on from ‘hoping and praying’ to actually, I don’t know, doing something?

German conservatives calling US an unreliable partner. This is openly crossing a taboo that would have ended a career. Now, said on the record. This is a once in a generation transformation in the international system.

This is exactly the type of move that had those of us with any sense here in Oklahoma laughing and shaking our heads in disbelief when he was appointed.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

As an Oklahoman, thank you!

I’m with you. Freaked me out for a very long time. Didn’t watch the remake that came out a while back.

lol, groan.

You may be a very nice person, but we could never be friends. The first LP I purchased as a kid was ABBA.

Ironically that is also the story of the Piña Colada Song

Oh, but there is a worse Christmas song: I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Dante would have made it the soundtrack of a level of hell in Inferno.

I am concerned for the mental stability of whoever made that mash up.

I will definitely groan at that (listened a million times with my son) but only the Caillou theme song would make me ask my captors to put me out of my misery.

I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At the disco. That chorus….argh

The first line he uttered had me thinking that this is going to be a looong night for him.

Majority of Canadians say it’s better to depend on China than on the US under Trump.
In other key allies - Germany, UK, France - a plurality say the same.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The A team, of course.

For those of you who cannot take the actual tour, here's the virtual version, created by students. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/dd39...

Hoya Saxa!

The scoreboard at CapitalOne Arena says, “HOYAS WIN” - Georgetown 80, Providence 79.

But the yell of all the yells,
The yell that wins the day
Is the “HOYA, #HOYASAXA!”
Of the dear old blue and gray!

HOYA
SAXA
HOYA
SAXA

Ode to a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

I wish I could have hope that the next senator would be better, but in blood red Oklahoma it is unlikely.