As state slashes mental health funding, Tulsa adds 911 clinicians to divert crisis calls
https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/local-regional/2025-04-14/as-state-slashes-mental-health-funding-tulsa-adds-911-clinicians-to-divert-crisis-calls
The sheriff of McAlester, Oklahoma, sitting in front of the jail. He has been sheriff for thirty years
Tulsa ice cream shop scoops up storm season with weather-inspired flavors https://www.diningandcooking.com/2016570/tulsa-ice-cream-shop-scoops-up-storm-season-with-weather-inspired-flavors/ #BigDipperCreamery #Brookside #food #FoodTopics #Oklahoma #SamiCooper #TravisMeyer #Tulsa #WWTD
Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon
Viola bicolor wildflower in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on March 24, 2025
Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Mar31_birds_and_cats/2025mar24_wildflower_IMG_3142c.html
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ Black Sunday ✧
Black Sunday was a severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms in the American prairies in the 1930s. The storm first hit the Oklahoma panhandle and northwestern Oklahoma, then moved south into Texas. The conditions were the most severe in the Oklahoma and Texas panh...
#DustBowl #BlackSunday #Oklahoma #Texas #Stratford #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm)
Same bird as yesterday, different pose. #Red-tailed #Hawk ( #Buteo jamaicensis) at #LakeThunderbird in Norman, #Oklahoma, US on March 24, 2025 Camera settings I used are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Mar... #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography Also at 1-john-moyer.pixels.com/featured/haw...
Green Country mental health providers hit by sudden OMES contract termination notices https://www.byteseu.com/915854/ #ContractTermination #CREOKS #GrandMentalHealth #Health #MentalHealth #ODMHSAS #Oklahoma #OMES #services
https://www.europesays.com/1989271/ Warmer weather brings new health risks for children, doctors warn #america #Entertainment #health #Nebraska #NorthAmerica #Oklahoma #SamanthaAhdoot #sports #U.S. #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
Black and White Fire-Scarred Cottonwood by Debra Martz
After a fire came through northern #Oklahoma, burning much of the land and the visitor/ranger station of the Salt Plains Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, this scarred tree stood proud and tall with only black and white bark for several more years.
https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/black-and-white-fire-scarred-cottonwood-debra-martz.html
Anti-vaxxers are 100% to blame for this.
https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-measles-okc-aldi-exposure-osdh-cases/64444846
#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.2 strikes 11 mi SE of #Waynoka (#Oklahoma) 2 min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1793761
Untitled photo, possibly related to: Firebaugh, California. Came from Webber Falls, Oklahoma with two grown sons in 1938. Cotton pickers
#Firebaugh #California #WebberFalls #Oklahoma #Cotton #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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https://www.europesays.com/1987064/ Regulatory And DOGE-Style Reforms Are Happening In States Nationwide #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #EconomicGrowth #Economy #ElonMusk #Florida #GovernmentWaste #housing #jobs #Musk #Oklahoma #regulation #REINSAct
From 2024: States Are Restricting Protests and Criminalizing Dissent
United States of Suppression is a series documenting the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S. This op-ed discusses what happens when protesting becomes a crime.
By Elly Page and Alana Greer
June 26, 2024
Excerpt: "Since 2017, 21 states across the country have passed new laws that restrict protests — nearly 50 in total — with dozens more being introduced annually.
"Most of these new laws increase criminal penalties for conduct, like interfering with traffic, involved in some kinds of protests. Under laws passed in states such as #Arkansas, #Iowa, and #Tennessee, protesters can spend up to a year in jail for 'obstructing' public #streets or #sidewalks, even though these are traditional venues for First Amendment-related activities. After protests against the #KeystoneXL Pipeline, 14 states dramatically increased penalties for trespassing, which would usually amount to a petty offense, if protesters enter lands with #pipelines or #pipeline construction sites.
"In many cases, these laws go further than punishing individual protesters to include the people and organizations that support them, putting organizers and community groups at risk. Under a recent law in #Oklahoma, an organization that 'conspires' with people to hold a protest can face felony penalties if the protest is deemed to be an 'unlawful assembly' — which state law defines vaguely enough to include a three-person protest that 'disturbs the public peace.' "
Read more:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/states-restricting-protests-criminalizing
#CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #PipelineProtestors #TrafficInterference #DisturbingThePeace #BogusCharges #Crackdown #SLAPPs #VagueLaws #ProtestOrganizers #ProtestSponsors #ProtestSupporters #FirstAmendment
Running to Aldi for cheap groceries and some measles, BRB!
#Oklahoma #measlesoutbreak #measles
https://oklahoma.gov/health/health-education/acute-disease-service/rash-illness/measles.html
Calipatria, Imperial Valley. In FSA (Farm Security Administration) emergency migratory labor camp. Left Oklahoma December 11, 1937 with husband and two children and son-in-law. Ex-tenant farmers on third and fourths in cotton. Had fifty dollars when set out. Went to Phoenix, picked cotton and pulled bolls, made eighty cents a day with two people picking bolls. Stayed until school closed. Went to Idaho, picked peas until August, left McCarl with forty dollars "in hand." Went to Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, a distance of 700 miles. Picked peas through September. Went to Hollister, Calipatria. Picked peas through October. Left for Calipatria for early peas which froze. Now receiving FSA food grant and waiting for work to begin. "Back in Oklahoma we was sinkin.' You work your head off for a crop and then see it burn up. You live in debts that you can never get out of. This isn't a good life, but I say it's a better life than that was."
#Calipatria #ImperialValley #Oklahoma #third #McCarl #Parowan #700miles #Fresno #Calif #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
