Healthcare lawyer committed to ending health disparities. Passionate about Tulsa, parks, animal welfare. Traveler, cook, lover of rivers & time in our canoe
@BethFratesMD
@matthewjdowd
Our last photo together, sharing a shared love of conservation and the environment with
@Nature_OK
A father’s love lasts forever. We are the lucky ones.
In his bankruptcy filing,
@RudyGiuliani
admits in court that he owes over $1,000,000 in unpaid taxes. That is far more than Hunter was indicted for even after he paid the taxes.
Rudy hasn’t paid his taxes.
#LockHimUp
The Tulsa killer bought his AR-15 at 2:00, no background check, disgruntled patient went to his doctor to kill him, went to the wrong pod, killed a different doctor, assistant, found his doctor, killed him. He went hunting. Doctors were the prey. Our elected leaders allowed this.
@Bobby_Don_Welch
@AlftaraDiana
My best boy was 8 when I adopted him and we had 6 more glorious years together, hiking the Ozarks and exploring every nook of Tulsa. I miss him still.
@JudiciaryDems
@Pegasus2077449
How embarrassing for
@SenateGOP
on Judiciary Committee to vote against the most qualified nominee in decades, and the first black female judge. We won't forget.
The public library in Enid, Oklahoma has jumped the shark. Due to bans on sexual content in presentations by public entities, the romance novel (“bodice rippers”) book club enjoyed mostly by older ladies in the community are now canceled. No thrilling novel sex episodes for you!
@m_d_mccoy
I made a traffic error that resulted in a collision, no injuries. The other driver was a Hispanic teen in work clothes. I was wearing my business suit driving an expensive car. The police laid into the brown teen. I had to correct them & persuade them I caused it.
#WhitePrivilege
#WhyIDidntReport
I was a young nurse. He was a powerful surgeon. I was going downstairs. He was going up. No one could hear me. I reported it to the charge nurse. She told me he brings in a lot of money. Nothing would be done. I’m now a lawyer, protecting other people’s rights.
You guys, Read this thread...You know how NBC reported 5% more Republicans than Democrats are showing up for early voting? A lot of them are right here 👇🏼 and they’re voting BLUE!!!!
#GOPVotingBlue
#GOTV
#BlueTsunami
Three cheers for Tulsa Public Schools! The sane candidates won. Ryan’s minions lost by far more than anyone expected.
We will have adults running our schools now. Call me grateful.
@greatgatsby8790
@MephsM
With new criteria for admission: lungs on the brink of collapse. Sustained 106 fever - no bed. Severe difficulty breathing - no bed. My friend’s mastectomy for metastatic breast cancer cancelled again, no beds. It’s not just COVID patients at risk. It’s terrible. From
@tulsaworld
It’s hard to fathom the idiocy of
@RyanWaltersSupt
who would direct his staff to tie the fire escape at the Oklahoma Department of Education shut with an extension cord. Who even comes up with such bad (and illegal) ideas? Time to arrest him.
The
@GOP
has stripped us of freedoms we took for granted. I never worried about my school’s library. I had no worries about getting the care I needed, not forced to be at the edge of death before getting needed care, I was not afraid of being shot at church or school. R did this.
@GOPLeader
Trump had 4 years to bring home Paul Whelan - he failed to do so.
Trump released 5000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for NOTHING.
Trump brought home comatose Otto Warmbier from North Korea and praised the NK leader as Otto died from the torture he suffered.
Spare us,
@GOPLeader
Thousands of dollars’ worth of free meals were given to Oklahoma GOP lawmakers this last year. They wine & dine at the governor's table while he lets our poor kids go hungry all summer long!
@GovStitt
Contact tracers in Tulsa identified over 500 positive
#COVID19
cases arising from
#TrumpRallyFail
in Tulsa last month, and fewer than 5 from
#BLM
protests, but sure, do the math, look at tracing,
@GOP
incompetence is the root cause of America’s
#COVID19
pandemic.
I thought it had to be a joke, but it’s true, reported on local
@NPR
station. The library board is banning the bodice ripper discussions by the widow group. Their frothy discussions are forbidden. This has to be good fodder for a late night host,
@jimmykimmel
#StephenColbert
#SNL
Many of you know I walk my Belgian Shepherd in different neighborhoods every day. Today, we picked a typically red south Tulsa neighborhood and I saw Biden Harris signs in quite a few yards. Wow! Not a single Trump flag or sign. That is pretty shocking if you know South Tulsa!
What in the heck happened to the
#Republicanparty
? When did it start? What caused it to snowball into nominating a crook, rapist, and insurrectionist?
Still baffles me as a former R. I could not run faster away from what they’ve become.
From the front section of the
@tulsaworld
Tulsa is finished with
@RyanWaltersSupt
Get on with his impeachment,
#okleg
Oklahoma schools, children, and teachers can’t wait. We are finished with this kook.
My husband and I got our newest COVID vaccines today. No need to take your card with data about prior vaccines. This was like getting a flu vaccine. The new era has begun. Grateful to be protected.
This constituent is proud of you, too,
@SenatorLankford
Thank you for proceeding in the face of the ignorant in your party who serve only Trump, not America.
My friend James Lankford, knowing that minutes later his entire party will vote against our bipartisan bill to fix the border, explaining what it means to be a United States Senator.
One of the most important speeches I've heard in 10 years in the Senate.
Proud of you, friend.
I’m sorry to hear that retired OK Senator Jim Inhofe-R is suffering from long COVID. Why did he oppose funding to address COVID for our country so long?
There wasn’t a single time in history where the book burners turned out to be the good guys.
Listen up,
@RyanWaltersSupt
@Moms4Liberty
We are onto you.
Why did the vast majority of Republican Governors decide in mass to reject federal money for hungry school children?
Cruelty really is their only point.
In the state of Mississippi more than 1 in 5 children face hunger.
And their Governor Tate Reeves, has announced that he won’t participate in a federal summer food program for children.
You see, he doesn’t want the state with the highest poverty rate and the most hunger in the…
I’m grateful to
#Kansas
tonight. I’m glad compassion & science won. I’m glad the crazies lost. For now, I have renewed faith in voters. Even in rural mid-America, women won’t go back. We could do this in Oklahoma, too, you know. 65% of Oklahomans want to keep Roe in place. We can
Oklahoma told you what we think last night. Your chosen candidates lost "bigly" and those who ran to challenge your poor management and leadership won with over 70% of the vote. You have lost power and influence, Ryan, and we won't forget about that.
In Oklahoma, we answer to parents, not a woke mob.
That's why I'm creating the Office of School Choice at OSDE so parents have a one-stop shop for information to make the best educational choices for their kids.
Having been a guest at the Osage dances over the years on the Tallgrass prairie of Oklahoma, it gives me goosebumps to watch the drums and chanting on national TV.
People ask why I stay in Oklahoma. No other place has this heritage with 39 sovereign nations within our borders.
One reason why I love Tulsa - Full page add from QuikTrip founder, lifelong R, reminding our
#GQP
Congressional delegation that “The stain and stench of your actions will remain on your record forever.” For you,
@jameslankford
@repkevinhern
@TomColeOK04
The huge fentanyl bust just announced by the
#DEA
involved drugs from China shipped to LA. In candy boxes, no less. It didn’t come over the Southern Border.
“This gun deal is easy. Anyone who wants to own a semiautomatic weapon gets one free. Along with a three month tour of Afghanistan.”
@wise_kaplan
Channeling Peter Kaplan tonight.
He has a good point - weapons of war should remain on the battlefield.
Study ranks Oklahoma as one of the worst states in the country to raise a family
The Oklahoma legislature is killing our workforce and economic future. Unbelievable incompetence in
#OKleg
.
Blue Oklahomans, I want to follow you. I search for you in all the most likely places, but it occurred to me, why not just ask. We need to stand together to help our state, elect decent people, clean up the
#MessThatStittBuilt
. It may take a while with follow limits on Twitter.
Tulsa couple Mark & Mona Whitmire delivered a rare gift during this pandemic: forgiving qualified medical debt for the entire county. That is about $28 million in debt wiped out for 28,321 families, who are receiving notifications this week that their old medical bills are gone.
Actually, that’s demonstrably incorrect. People move to states that have excellent public schools, affordable housing available, accessible child care, and well-supported outdoor recreation areas like trails and parks. Try again.
We don’t need more taxes, we need more taxpayers.
If we cut the income tax, it instantly makes Oklahoma one of the most attractive states to move to— that’s how we stay competitive and expand our revenue base.
Time for
@ChayaRaichik10
to go back to whatever rock she crawled out from before more Oklahoma school children die after
#RadicalRight
follows through on her suggestions.
@RyanWaltersSupt
needs to send her away immediately.
There are so many ways a person could’ve responded to this tragedy. Her take is trash. The same rhetoric she pushed to cause week-long bomb threats to our
#oklahoma
schools & children’s hospital is the same rhetoric that causes this kind of hate crime. It doesn’t belong here.
@SenatorLankford
@realDonaldTrump
All of the questions have been answered by courts over 35 times. All found NO evidence of fraud. You are embarrassing Oklahoma with this nonsense. It's like a banana republic level of ridiculous. Stop. Please. Just stop the nonsense
@SenatorLankford
.
Why did
@GovStitt
spend $544,000 of Oklahomans’ money set aside for our emergency disaster response fund to send 50 Oklahoma National Guard members 500 miles away to the Mexican border? Just because there’s money in OK savings account doesn’t mean you can blow it. Build shelters.
Every day brings new horrors. Listening to the challenge to federal regulations being argued at the Supreme Court today, the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine is at risk. This could allow states to gut all environmental, labor, airline, privacy,& guns regulation. This is terrifying.
In the first agreement of its kind, the Cherokee Nation signed a compact with the federal government to let the tribe control its own road construction and transit projects without oversight from Washington, D.C. I bet
@GovStitt
's mind is exploding. Comments
@carlyAtch
?
Stitt: “I’m going to run Oklahoma like a business.”
Hello? State government is not intended to be a profit entity. It is supposed to meet public needs that our citizens need to succeed. States fund things that are needed but that don’t make a profit: schools, roads, parks, etc.
Mary Trump:
"Biden’s old. Okay, well, Donald Trump is a racist, homophobic, anti-American traitor who tried to steal the election and, by the way is also old!"
‼️ BREAKING: Enid voters remove Judd Blevins from office. Cheryl Patterson won the city commissioner seat with about 60% of the vote. Blevins won about 40%.
Blevins was accused of having ties to white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups.
@OKCFOX
I asked a law professor friend at lunch today about the possibility of the McGirt decision making it impossible to prosecute a state crime against providers at a tribal health clinic that offers abortion services. She is intrigued. I think Stitt would explode! Teehee...
I have to carry liability insurance as a car owner. Why not require liability insurance for gun ownership? Assault weapon insurance would be wildly expensive since its only use is for murder. Felony to own a weapon without insurance. Insurers would demand safety of their insureds
Wow, wow, wow! Just absorbing the Oklahoma Supreme Court striking down the managed care plan for expanded Medicaid. SQ802 didn’t allow it, OHCA had no authority to do it. Win for hospitals and doctors today. Win for Oklahomans.
Medicaid expansion starts July 1. Let’s do this!!!
@RepMullin
Especially when the
@GOP
ends free school lunches for hungry children. You were happy to have over $700,000 in PPP loans for your plumbing business forgiven. Why shouldn’t young Americans receive up to $10K in loan forgiveness, a fraction of your own? Explain please.
My governor vetoed a bill to allow courts to consider domestic violence allegations if a woman kills her husband or domestic partner, and he refused federal funds to feed hungry children when school is out, and he gave teachers authority to beat disabled children. He's awful.
As
@GovStitt
refuses federal funds to pay for children's summer meal program in Oklahoma, saying "there are already many other programs," I wonder if he and
@RyanWaltersSupt
have connected the dots between hungry children and Oklahoma's lowest performing schools.
#WakeUpRyan
Jared and Ivanka made far more this year, $82M, while having no official role in the
@WhiteHouse
and without security clearances. They received copyrights and patents from China BECAUSE of their familial relationship to Trump. Go after them now. They don't pass the smell test.
I love Joe Biden as a person but we are not going to give a pass to what is obviously a conflict of interest.
I believe Hunter Biden’s association on the Burisma board doesn’t pass the smell test.
If a Republican was in the same position, they’d certainly be investigated!
When he was a Senator, he went home at night to Delaware even more often. What’s your point? He’s not forcing taxpayers to fund golf trips and rooms for Secret Service at his own resorts. Be a wee bit authentic someday.
You know what my company did? Provide proof of vaccination to HR by August 7. If you don’t do that, get a twice weekly PCR COVID test to prove you are safe. I checked, PCR tests cost about $200. Guess what? We are almost 100% vaccinated now. That $1600/ month works. No mandate!
So Oklahoma was the ONLY state to have no Senator at the trial today? I am livid,
@SenatorLankford
@JimInhofe
You represent Oklahoma. We don’t pay you to skip your job. Pathetic.
I am a lifelong Oklahoman. My grandparents leased land from native Americans before the land run. I am as Oklahoman as you get without being from an indigenous tribe. And I support my fellow Oklahoman,
@abbybroyles
It is
@JimInhofe
who fails to represent Oklahoma values, MINE.
At 85 years old,
@JimInhofe
seeks what could be his last waltz in politics, a fresh 6-year Senate term that lasts through his 91st birthday. Standing in his way is
@AbbyBroyles
. The lawyer & former KFOR journalist is the first woman that Inhofe has ever faced as his opponent.
@johnpavlovitz
DeJoy. Deliberately slowing the mail to undermine the election, plus depriving people of benefits and medications, I’d like to see him civilly responsible while going to jail, pay millions in damages to those harmed rather than donating to Trump again.
A local tribal leader is concerned that HB 1775 is affecting how Native American history is being taught to Oklahoma students after hearing that an educator has decided not to teach from the “The Killers of the Flower Moon.” Stitt is destroying public education in Oklahoma.
I see a sign for
@GovStitt
in town and I’m sad, I had no idea I have neighbors who are anti-Semitic racists who can easily shrug off scandals and fraud, who forget he led us to
#50
in the nation on per capita COVID deaths, wasted millions on HCQ, dismantled our public health lab.
Latest update on our homeless effort in Tulsa: we have lodging for 764 people now, 10 people have refused help, even a private motel room, but we know where they are and staff is checking on them regularly. Eliot Nelson of McNellie's group is providing 3 hot meals a day at motels
We know
@SenatorLankford
was one of just 14 senators, all Republicans, to vote last Thursday against a bipartisan bill that would expand access to health care treatment and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxins. Be sure to ask him why at every opportunity. Failure.
@Acyn
Does
@NikkiHaley
know the people on Medicaid and SNAP? I know quite a few of them, many work multiple hard jobs for low pay, and many of them are state employees in our schools and correctional facilities. They are NOT sitting on the couch; they have no time for that. They work.
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority: ‘We have to upcharge significantly for license plate tolling’: Drivers on Oklahoma turnpikes may have noticed a price hike in tolls after the rollout of the state’s new PlatePay cashless tolling system.
Wasn't that supposed to SAVE money,
@GovStitt
?
Oklahoma is a rare state where we have a bounty law to report abortions or assistance with access,
@1A
where over 60% of us want to keep the Roe standard. We are working on an initiative petition to put it on the ballot to protect abortion rights that most Oklahomans want.
@megynkelly
Your dad had the same doctorate degree Dr. Jill Biden has achieved: Ed. D. Your dad was called Dr.Kelly. Did you deride and chastise your own father? At least be consistent
@megynkelly
Not a single member of Oklahoma’s State Board of Education is a teacher or professional educator. Not a one has ANY connection to the public school system. Another sign that the
#OklahomaWorkforce
is doomed. Thanks
@GOP
Quote of Newkirk, OK, Mayor Brian Hobbs, “We could have tore that building down brick by brick,” from
@nytimes
So much awful in one quote (tore instead of “torn,” marble not brick, “that building” is US Capitol) but most of all, he is an elected official in Oklahoma. Horrific.
Those prisoners were freed as a result of Pompeo and Trump negotiation of a ceasefire in February 2020, trying to prop up the polls before the election.
@FOXNews
cannot hide or deny that fact.
Ivanka and Jared made over $640 million with fake security clearances while working as unqualified "advisors" in the Trump White House, and made an additional $2B on their White House adventures, plus salaries, but go ahead
@RepStefanik
, complain about President Biden's family.
It’s an especially sad day in Oklahoma when
@GovStitt
cheers the destruction of our public school system under the absent and incompetent
@RyanWaltersSupt
No wonder our economic development efforts repeatedly fail.
Staff fleeing, inept representatives sent to Legislative meetings, mismanagement of $8M in federal education funds, and seldom, if ever, showing up for work since he’s hired an out of state PR firm to place him on right wing media sites,
@RyanWaltersSupt
is a failure.
You know,
@NPR
, trying to blame President Biden for not getting his entire agenda passed in a 50/50 Senate with 2 recalcitrant senators and a filibuster roadblock is monumentally ridiculous. Blame Rs, blame the 2 Ds, but no one can realistically blame President Biden.
Whenever the Republicans hold the majority, they tank the economy. Then the Democratic Party pulls us out of economic tailspin again.
Why does ANYONE trust the Republican Party with our economy? I don’t understand their failure to understand history - it’s even recent history!
@RepMTG
Why are you obsessed with childrens genitals and sexuality. I know quite a few trans individuals, including family members, and not one of them regrets receiving gender affirming care, most wish they’d had access to it earlier. The
@GOP
obsession is weird.
Now we learn that after
@GovStitt
forced the resignations of independent Pardon and Parole Board members, he appointed new members sworn to do his personal bidding, like a third world country dictator. Time’s up. Let’s boot Stitt and get some Joy in Oklahoma. Vote for
@joy4ok
Our US Senator,
@SenMullin
, is deranged: Biden is only running for a second term “to protect his family” and that the FBI is covering up a bribery scandal involving Biden and his family. He also thinks Trump won the 2020 election. 🙄 We could have had Kendra!
Oklahoma makes the news on
#MTP
this morning. Millwood schools in OKC hired
@ACLU
to sue
@GovStitt
over the law that keeps schools from teaching any subject that might make a child “feel bad” because of their race. It sounds like a good 1st Amendment case. Watch
@Okla_OAG
flail.
So now we know that
@SenatorLankford
met with Officer Sicknick’s mother before voting against the 1/6 Commission to examine what led to her son’s death while protecting his life. How he could look in her eyes, see her sorrow, and vote no, I can’t imagine. Lankford has no heart.
The Buffalo Commons theory is coming for rural Oklahoma & too many of them did nothing to stop it. Lose the school, lose the community, those rural places will go fallow, return to the wild, tax dollars won’t be able to prop them up. I wish they cared more, I can’t care for them
My smiles today?
@RepMullin
announced he’s giving up his seat in Congress, opening the door for a decent person to run in the SE Oklahoma district. Let’s find one! I can’t imagine Mullin can win a senate race for Inhofe seat. 2 nuts out! A Choctaw or Chickasaw citizen, please run
@QuinBill
As long as homegrown terrorists are allowed to open carry assault style weapons throughout much of the country, I’m more worried about them than I am about the families coming here seeking safety and work. We need workers far more than we need AR-15s in the hands of Trump voters.
So
#TrumpRallyTulsa
will require temperature checks to enter the arena, but what is the plan when someone has a fever and has been in a crowd all day, coming with a group. What next? I predict hissyfits and violence. What is the plan? I bet there isn’t one, all window dressing.
Stitt trumpets that Oklahoma is a major pork producer without telling you that one of Oklahoma’s largest pork producers is based in China. Convenient for his narrative to leave that part out, right
@GovStitt
@CarlyAtch
?
Tribal nations in Oklahoma are stepping up their efforts to end the pandemic by expanding vaccination availability beyond tribal citizens. Many tribal nations are offering vaccine appointments to non-Native Oklahomans as well. We would be lost without Oklahoma's tribes. Thank you
@RyanWaltersSupt
Why are you there? The Governor and FEMA will provide power, housing and meet additional needs in Sulphur. You are just in the way.
That is NOT your job, @
@RyanWaltersSupt
. Get back to work and stop rubbernecking.