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Mark Margolis movie marathon: Snowpiercer (2020), Valley of Bones (2017), Scratch (2014), The Fountain (2006), Hannibal (2001), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Pi (1998), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scarface (1983)

Walters aside, this OSDE admin is just ridiculous. I wish I could share with you all the email we just got, but it came with a warning "share this email with the public and we'll remove you from our distribution list." Pretty embarrassing stuff.

Ryan Walters just announced a press conference today at a TBD location in Tulsa. The announcement warns the press they’ll be removed from a public department’s email list if they share info about a public statement by a public official regarding public schools… with the public.

The Frontier found Oklahoma’s controversial schools chief stretched the truth at a recent public appearance in Norman. readfrontier.org/stories/we-fac…

Update: Ryan Walters is holding his press conference about the accreditation of our public schools at the Tulsa GOP headquarters. 📍 2816 E 51st St, Ste 100, Tulsa, OK Access is restricted so that no one without a media badge can get inside.

The number of times I’ve heard that charlatan say he’s bringing more openness & transparency to SDE than ever before—how sad and ridiculous. This man is using TPS as a political punching bag in order to elevate himself. That isn’t what someone who cares about kids does.

When asked why he chose a press conference at the GOP HQ instead of meeting w/ Dr. Gist to find solutions, Walters said he wants “to talk directly to Tulsans”. But he barred parents from attending the press conference, won’t commit to town halls & won’t attend the TPS board mtg.

Was at the presser and heard this exchange. Here is the email from Ryan Walters Superintendent Parody to a ClassWallet rep, who had asked him whether they should restrict what parents could buy on the platform. readfrontier.org/stories/stitt-…

- Walters deflected when asked if districts in the area are ready to take TPS students with an accreditation loss - Demanded TPS reach state reading score avg. this year; deflected when asked if he would discipline TPS if they still made significant progress but fell short

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Tulsa Public Schools parents, employees and supporters gather outside of the Tulsa County Republican Party headquarters and listen on phones as State Superintendent Ryan Walters speaks inside. Only credentialed press was allowed inside. tulsaworld.com/news/local/edu… #tulsa #oklaed

If I had to pick one thing journalists miss in police reporting, it's that cops have tried to surveil, infiltrate, and violently crush every major social, economic, labor, environmental, and racial justice movement since 1900. It's what they spent their budgets on in every city.

Took me 3.5 hours driving through rain & the dark to get to Idabel. Zach Bryan’s tunes were maybe the only thing keeping me sane. County commissioners are meeting with the jail trust, which is reportedly under FBI investigation. The sheriff tried to seize jail trust records.

In June, Oklahoma's state board of education voted 3-to-2 to approve plans for St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic School. It would be the first publicly-funded religious charter school in the country. kgou.org/2023-08-04/the…

After two vetoes are overridden, Governor Kevin Stitt asks the Oklahoma Supreme Court for ruling on whether the legislature has authority over state-tribal compacts. kgou.org/show/capitol-i…

Some of Stitt’s statements were accurate, but others were factually murky. Still others were misleadingly irrelevant to the issue of tribal compacts. OPMX gathered statements from state officials, tribal leaders and legal experts to clarify. kgou.org/politics-and-g…

The McCurtain County sheriff tried to not bring up the jail trust records, even though discussion with county commissioners (who he tried to seize the records from) was on the meeting agenda. When asked, the sheriff said he’s requested OSBI handle the matter.

Ultimately, Greenwood—the famous "Black Wall Street"—was destroyed twice: once by a white supremacist mob in 1921, and again by highway construction and "urban renewal" in the 1960s, Carlos Moreno explains in this article for Smithsonian Magazine: smithsonianmag.com/history/black-…

100 Days of Oklahoma Books (81/100) The Victory of Greenwood by Carlos Moreno (Carlos Moreno) 20 biographies of significant figures in the history and life of Tulsa's Greenwood District from its founding through today. #OKRead100 #greenwoodrising amzn.to/45obhiS