Good Senator from Norman Mary Boren

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

"[Karen] kept hearing ... that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – ...,” Karen says.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wait, what? Greenland and Denmark have free, nationalized health care systems. The avg. life span in Denmark (incl. Greenland) is 82.39 yrs, in US it's only 79.76. They have better health care than we do, particularly since he's cutting Medicaid.
#ProudBlue

Fear not, Greenland, for we are sending you our unaffordable healthcare that will surely be better than your *checks notes* free healthcare and we are also sending *checks other notes* measles 🫡

Remember President Biden’s Infrastructure Act?

It would have put thousands of Americans to work in high paying jobs.

The pipeline now pouring raw sewage into the Potomac may have been repaired by now. City water treatment plants, the power grid, roads, bridges. All would help.

Trump killed it.

It does feel like we Okies are deep behind Christian Nationalist lines…this 👀 ⬇️ confirms it!

*Not all Christians are Christian Nationalists. Christians follow Jesus. Christian Nationalists want govt to push a conservative version of Christianity in laws; opposite of Jesus’ teachings/freedom. 🇺🇸

The jersey of former #Sooners men's basketball player Buddy Hield was retired during Saturday's game, making him the sixth person to receive the honor.

UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.)

Link: justice.gov/epstein/file...

Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...

‘We are America’: Norman High School students protest ICE in walkout Norman High School students held a walkout Tuesday in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Norman High School students held a walkout Tuesday afternoon protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters and a counterprotester spoke with OU Daily about student activism and what the walkout means to them.

Their Water Was Undrinkable. Oklahoma’s Oil Regulators Failed to Help. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

For @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org

Salty, oily drinking water left sores in their mouths. Oklahoma refused to find out why.

By @nickbowlin.bsky.social

Joe and Barack.

My favorite Valentine's Day tweet of all time 🤣

Eight years ago, Parkland was forever changed. Seventeen of our neighbors were taken from us at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and our community has carried that pain ever since.

The hair flip is exhausting.

Police announce 30 arrests in sex trafficking sting operation in Bloomington, MN:

"Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

#DefundICE #ICEout #Minnesota #ProudBlue

Kyle Steele wins Ward 6 Norman City Council seat, defeats incumbent Joshua Hinkle Information technology contractor Kyle Steele was elected to the Ward 6 council seat Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Joshua Hinkle.

Kyle Steele was elected to the Ward 6 council seat Tuesday night, defeating incumbent Joshua Hinkle.
https://www.oudaily.com/news/norman-kyle-steele-ward-6-city-council-election-result/article_2347a753-7aad-4480-ba35-fd58606adb1a.html? 

Ten Oklahoma legislators criticized high school students for leaving class and publicly demonstrating, in exercise of their First Amendment right, against ICE's conduct. None of them issued any statement critical of Trump for posting a racist meme depicting Barrack Obama and wife Michelle as apes.

Disabled US citizen's family says ICE stopped his father from attending his funeral Wael Tarabishi died three months after his caregiver father, Maher Tarabishi, was detained during a routine check-in with ICE in October.

A disabled man named Wael Tarabishi died last week after ICE abducted his father and full time caregiver.

Wael begged for his dad’s release.

He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him.

His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.

New bills seek to rein in oil companies’ pollution of Oklahoma groundwater The legislation comes after The Frontier and ProPublica found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth, releasing toxic chemicals — including some that cause cancer — nea...

Following our investigation into Oklahoma's uncontrolled wastewater purges, lawmakers have filed a slate of bills aimed at fixing the problem.
www.readfrontier.org/stories/new-...

Gov. Stitt highlights need for open transfer policy for high school athletes in recognition of NPS Gov. Kevin Stitt called for the elimination of an association responsible for governing high school athletics in Oklahoma during his recognition of Norman Public Schools for accepting open transfers in

During his final State of the State address, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt recognized Norman Public Schools for accepting the open transfer policy and emphasized the difficulties faced by high school athletes when transferring.

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet WINS Special Election runoff against Trump-endorsed and Patriot Mobile-funded Leigh Wambsganss in once deep red SD 9. This red to blue flip is HUGE.

In Tarrant County, a Hub for the Far Right, a Democrat Seeks a Major Upset In a runoff election for Texas Senate District 9, which has not elected a Democrat since 1991, Taylor Rehmet is betting his pro-labor message can flip disillusioned voters.

ICYMI: This Saturday, progressive Taylor Rehmet squares off against a billionaire-funded Christian nationalist for a +17 Trump state senate seat in Tarrant County, a hub of the far right. Rehmet already over-performed, and is confident he’s on the verge of a stunning upset in a bellwether county.

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative

ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Colleagues of ICU nurse Alex Pretti held a moment of silence on Monday, after he was fatally shot by an ICE officer over the weekend.
The photo shows workers of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center in the halls of the care unit, coming together in a heartbreaking tribute to the 37-year-old nurse.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal immigration officers tried to enter Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis but were stopped, foreign minister says www.axios.com/2026/01/28/i...

These untrained and uneducated ICE savages JUST CAUSED AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT!

Call your senators and demand accountability!

Not one more penny for DHS or ICE.

ABOLISH ICE & break up the Department of Homeland Security & restore agencies to how it used to be before Bush mucked things up.

Cooper: It’s incredible to me that 4 days after this shooting, you have not been contacted by anybody from the FBl or federal government. What does that tell you?

Carlson: That they’re protecting themselves and they don’t care about the truth.

#PinkJacketLady

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mike Johnson, you are SPEAKER (more like SQUEAKER) of the House. You know very well what Bondi and Noem are doing. Yet you remain complicit like the coward you are.