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Oklahoma City’s Homelessness Crisis

And the powerful people who could care less. “I urge every one of you to go out there and take a drive after you leave here.” - Clinton Betchan, local Oklahoma City business owner In the early morning, at the corner of Blackwelder and Sheridan, and all around the Western…

Homeless

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Oklahoma City’s Homelessness Crisis
Oklahoma City’s Homelessness Crisis
Homeless

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Apr 13

Homophobia Is Not Religious Freedom

I’ve been #BengeThinking lately about the folks who use the Bible as a scapegoat for their learned homophobia. To be honest, growing up in Oklahoma as a member of the Baptist Church, I used to be pretty, if not extremely, homophobic. I threw the word “f*g” around my friends a…

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Homophobia Is Not Religious Freedom
Homophobia Is Not Religious Freedom

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Jan 4, 2021

Justice For Bennie Edwards

What Oklahoma City should be demanding to receive it. — On December 11th, 2020, Master Sgt. Keith Duroy and Sgt. Clifford Holman of the Oklahoma City Police Department shot and killed a man by the name of Bennie Edwards. If you aren’t already aware of this incident, Bennie Edwards was a sixty-year-old Black man previously “diagnosed with bipolar disorder and…

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Justice For Bennie Edwards
Justice For Bennie Edwards

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Jul 9, 2020

Oklahoma is Venezuela.

Conservatives and moderate progressives love to blurt out a lot of blarney when the topic of democratic socialism arises in a friendly, political conversation. While us “lying liberals” go on about our unctuous utopia, opponents of our political theology foam at the mouth until they notice a momentary lull in…

Venezuela

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Oklahoma is Venezuela.
Oklahoma is Venezuela.
Venezuela

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Mar 30, 2020

Thanks For Nothing

$1,200 is not a stimulus. Just mail us our checks and go write a better bill. Recently, I decided to delicately dunk on Rep. Joe Kennedy III’s one-time payment stimulus proposal for the US…

Covid-19

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Thanks For Nothing
Thanks For Nothing
Covid-19

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Mar 17, 2020

Joe Kennedy III Almost Has It

The Congressman reveals his economic stimulus package to fight off a possible economic depression. It was all a tweet. Or at least that’s how I came across Rep. Joe Kennedy III’s announcement to defeat an impending economic crisis. …

Universal Basic Income

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Joe Kennedy III Almost Has It
Joe Kennedy III Almost Has It
Universal Basic Income

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Dec 14, 2019

MAPS 4 Voter Turnout Lowest in MAPS History

I read an article out of the Oklahoma City Free Press that left me utterly confused as to why our Mayor and so many other people are enthusiastic over the results of a vote in which only 13.5% of voters cast a ballot. In the Free Press article, Brett Dickerson…

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Dec 9, 2019

Vote No on MAPS 4

With the MAPS 4 vote just two days away, I thought I’d throw out one more crazy article to hopefully convince the citizens of OKC to vote NO on MAPS 4. In my last discussion on the topic of MAPS, I spent some time explaining how if one-fifth of all…

Soccer

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Vote No on MAPS 4
Vote No on MAPS 4
Soccer

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Oct 31, 2019

My Way Too Early and Batshit Crazy MAPS 5 Proposal

With just under two months left until my fellow Oklahoma City residents and I head to the polling stations to cast our votes on the MAPS 4 proposal, I thought this evening would be the perfect time for us all to start thinking about MAPS 5. Before I begin, I’d…

OKC

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My Way Too Early and Batshit Crazy MAPS 5 Proposal
My Way Too Early and Batshit Crazy MAPS 5 Proposal
OKC

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