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Clear my schedule — new Nick Bowlin oilpatch story just dropped

How It Feels To Live In Minneapolis Right Now - The Pickup We interviewed a local living through Operation Metro Surge.

“My wife… saw masked agents pointing guns at an elderly man at a St. Paul gas station. She called to ask what she’s supposed to do. I told her to come home because I’m selfish and I don’t want to raise my child alone.” What it’s like to live in Minneapolis right now:

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How It Feels To Live In Minneapolis Right Now - The Pickup We interviewed a local living through Operation Metro Surge.

We kept his name out of it because he’s, shall we say, involved, but I interviewed a south Minneapolis resident about solidarity, resistance and what he’s seeing on the ground day to day: thepickup.com/how-it-feels...

Cop just pulled over a Tesla

Ford’s at 31/Harvard. Great spot. Cash only, no appointments. Same four barbers always in there cutting hair. Been going there for like 7 years now.

Two different guys at my barbershop reading Animal Farm this morning #MattsFacismReport

Hell yeah

There’s No Better Time To Start Reading Eddie Faye Gates  - The Pickup In honor of what would have been her 92nd birthday, I’d like to pay respects to this remarkable woman—historian, educator, and pillar of her community—whose work still calls us to witness, document,…

Born this day: Eddie Faye Gates, educator, pillar of her community, and historian of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Gates has some lessons for a moment like this: witness, document, and persist in telling the truth. Read here:

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It’s my time to shine baby

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Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”

This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

Thinking about visiting The Bone Temple here in a minute if you catch my drift

I Have A Great Idea For Retraining ICE Agents | Defector The several thousand federal agents currently running rampant in the Twin Cities have so far achieved little in the way of legitimate law enforcement objectives, but they have been rather more success...

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

ICE should stop killing people imo

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

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This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

We hard launched @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social a year ago today. I’m so proud of it. Thanks to our subscribers, and we’re looking forward to more big stories in Year 2.

The phrase “sentient Ford F-150” rattled around in my brain for months while we were editing this one thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...

In The Pickup, John Paul Brammer took issue with a proposal to build the tallest skyscraper in the United States in flat Oklahoma City: “I don’t mean to say OKC doesn’t deserve iconic architecture. Far from! I simply think that buildings should reflect the character of a place, like how Santa Fe is all adobe and how Dallas looks designed by a sentient Ford F-150.”

I had no idea there was a "Best Sentences of 2025" piece in the NYT or that I was in it lol that's funny. I do like this sentence @2011prius.bsky.social

it was this story, which I was very proud to be a part of - as local TV news in Oklahoma City lied about Muslims that day, I was able to work with This Land to show what Muslims at the capitol actually looked like - people, beseeching their govt to honor their rights:

Alicia Chesser’s knowledge of the Tulsa arts community is unsurpassed

What’s The State Of Radical Art In Tulsa Right Now?  - The Pickup For a range of reasons, many of the expressions of resistance happening now in Tulsa look a little different than the ones that get higher visibility at rallies and protests. They’re less about now…

What's the state of radical art in Tulsa right now? Here's how Tulsa artists are responding to a political nightmare: thepickup.com/whats-the-st...

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

Daughter just took a big rip out of a jalapeño. Thought it was a green pepper. She’s never known pain like this.

Folks would you believe that this guy’s on Facebook today saying only he and ChatGPT really understand what’s going on here?

norman rockwell's freedom of speech guy

I don't like the death squads

Polymarket futures for Ethan Hawke coming over to Matt’s house to smoke weed and listen to Terry Allen records are up following today’s Lowdown season two announcement

Tulsa Artist Scott Taylor Found Liable For $1.2 Million In Damages - The Pickup The judgment capped a multiyear legal battle over claims of sexual abuse and predatory behavior made against Taylor.

Sometimes you sue somebody, get your suit thrown out and then lose the countersuit to the tune of over a million bucks. Nobody’s doing it like Scott Taylor. thepickup.com/tulsa-artist...