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Our experience as military leaders has taught us that this commitment keeps our military stronger and our communities safer. Any domestic deployment that fails to comply with the foundational principles of the Posse Comitatus Act and similar authorities5 poses multiple risks to the core mission of the Guard, the well-being of the troops, and the safety of the communities they are committed to protect. First, deploying military personnel in the context of domestic law enforcement diverts them from their primary mission, which is to train and to be ready to fight and win the nation’s wars and protect communities after disasters. Accordingly, such assignments come at the expense of local, state, and national safety, as well as troop morale. Second, activeduty National Guard personnel are neither intended nor specifically trained to conduct domestic law enforcement operations. This poses a danger to the safety of both the troops and the public. Third, use of federal military personnel in the context of law enforcement operations should be a last resort to avoid the politicization of the military, which inevitably erodes public trust, hurts recruitment, and undermines troop morale. Peaceful protests of government actions are constitutionally protected political speech deserving of the highest protection, not intimidation by the military

Meanwhile, here's part of the amicus brief from the military brass also filed today in the same case, in support of neither party, but definitely not in support of Trump.

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Trump is running everything into the ground while grifting billions for himself and his family.

It’s easy to focus on what’s right in front of us — our own families, homes, and needs. But if we want Oklahoma to truly thrive, we must look beyond our own fence line and recognize this simple truth: when our neighbors do better, we all do better. @okpolicy.bsky.social @shilohkantz.bsky.social

Read Tom’s piece. Every word. It’s incredibly important.

Triggered #TaxCuts sound technical, but here’s what they really do:

👉 Kick in automatically
👉 Don’t help job creation
👉 Mostly benefit the wealthy
👉 Strip funding from things we all need

It’s not policy. It’s autopilot budgeting — and it hurts real people. #TaxCutMadness #RevenueReality

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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoes bill to extend eviction process: A bill that proposed to give people who are late on their rent more time to resolve problems before facing eviction earned bipartisan support in the Legislature but met with the veto pen of the governor.

Homeless impacts us all. Fix it!

Oklahoma Agencies Publish Private School Tax Credit Recipients Under Transparency Law - Oklahoma Watch Oklahoma released names and tax credit amounts for thousands of residents using the Parental Choice Tax Credit, which mostly benefited higher-income families. The data release came after months of del...

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Seems like all kinds of #HIPPA violations 👀

Appointing a wellness influencer with an inactive medical license as Surgeon General is like naming a retired food blogger as Secretary of Agriculture. Credentialed branding is not a substitute for public health expertise.

$921 million

State agencies in Oklahoma at the beginning of this year said they needed an extra $921 million in the coming year to deliver its services to the people of Oklahoma.

🚑 When your neighbors can’t get care, we all pay the price through higher emergency room costs, lower productivity, and greater strain on public health systems. #ProtectPublicServices #PublicHealth

Listened to my cousin today about how they’ve ghosted some people out of Alabama and i guess folks aren’t hearing about it b/c it isn’t being covered?

Apparently there was an ICE raid at a school where they took peoples’ kids away and when some parents came to look they ghosted them too

This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared.

And we will remember their names.

YouTube video by MSNBC Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster

The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment.

youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

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Building a momentum is crucial for mass control over power. Without sustained collective action, authority consolidates unchecked. Mobilization must be continuous, not episodic, to ensure accountability and prevent the erosion of democratic influence. #3E

Proposing tax cuts absent any other factors has appeal to voters. But the resulting revenue loss has real, practical implications for the programs and services that Oklahomans rely upon daily.

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From OK Policy's Sabine Brown: "Workers should be able to afford basic necessities like housing; policymakers can help make this happen by increasing the minimum wage, incentivizing jobs that pay a livable wage, and supporting affordable housing development." okpolicy.org/a-job-isnt-e...

Can we stop using the word free in the expression "free market". Nothing free about it. Capital market makes more sense. He or she who has is, can play.

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

He's a russian asset since the 80s...

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

This is our “pro-life” president, folks. Heartless doesn’t even begin to describe the despicable treatment of these poor USAID people. Something’s gotta give!!!

Million will die because of the USAID shut down.

US Catholic bishops sue Trump administration for halt in funding for refugee settlement Catholic bishops are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s large...

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How much would the governor’s half-percent personal income tax cut cost? Depends on when you ask.

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