Nicole (they/she)

I need you to keep in mind that ANY bill that bans access to best practice medical care for trans people is unspeakably cruel. EVERY proposal is unconscionable. The arbitrary ages chosen to limit care to especially vulnerable young trans people don't make any bill less cruel.

1/ When his 7-year-old daughter ran to report a flooded bathroom, Mitch Meredith assumed a burst pipe, maybe a backed-up toilet. Then he saw the foul-smelling black fluid covering the floor… 🧵

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Gobsmacking statistic in this story: “While city pools and splash pads consume almost 2 million gallons of water over the course of a summer, a single Exxon plastics plant consumes 13 million gallons per day.”

Century Aluminum wants to build a new smelter in Oklahoma. In other states: • Residents reported headaches, nosebleeds • Regulators cited pollution violations • The company paid to settle claims Now Inola residents are raising concerns. Our latest: readfrontier.org/stories/one-of…

The dirty little secret about these broad, sweeping claims by police of "law enforcement exemptions" from #Oklahoma's public records laws is that there's actually nothing in the law that prohibits them releasing most records. They just don't want to, and feel they don't have to.

After Brian Bonner died from a treatable illness in Tulsa’s city jail, records reveal a pattern of preventable deaths and ignored warnings. readfrontier.org/stories/they-w…

Round 2 of being threatened to be removed if I wouldn't stand while also being told I must sit in the back closet to one of the sergeants. What a joy to spend my days in the people's house.

Love to live in such a bastion of free speech and freedom of religion 🙄

In fun new things at the Capitol, today Sargeants at Arms in the House told me I must stand during the invocation and pledge or I would be removed.

Oklahoma is racing to become a data center hub. But there’s a question looming over every development: What about the water? Our investigation found massive server facilities already using huge volumes — with more projects on the way. Read the story: readfrontier.org/stories/as-dat…

Posts like this are a painful but useful case study in what we disability scholars call “carceral sanism” which is a kind of maximalist fusion of “mental health stigma” with punitive social logics. It frames visible crisis as a breach of public order, not evidence of abandonment

NEW: Developers are using NDAs to keep data centers hidden while systematically choosing communities — often majority-Black rural counties — w/ less organized political and economic power In rural SC, a $2B project got pushed through during the ice storm: capitalbnews.org/secret-data-ce…

The fact that the most rabid fascists are totally willing to tout body cameras on DHS officers as a reform should, at the very least, make you very skeptical of body cameras. They're not some progressive reform. They're used for surveillance, copaganda, & increasing budgets.

Has anyone already done this Devon update meme? Or is this the kind of brilliance (absurdity) limited to waking up in the middle of the night?

OEM is asking residents and business owners who have been affected by the winter storm to report online at damage.ok.gov. Reporting helps emergency managers better understand the impacts to Oklahoma communities and can help connect residents to state or local resources.

A significant winter storm is still on track for our area this weekend. There will be periods when there isn't much precipitation - much of the day today and tomorrow afternoon. Heavier snow/sleet/freezing rain is expected later tonight and again tomorrow night.

why has gritty stayed silent on heated rivalry

I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. propublica.org/article/ice-of…

Happy ADA anniversary week from @fly_okc where TSA told me today that they offer no access options for security that don't involve unmasking.

Have I packed for my flight tomorrow? No. Have I started the closet overhaul I have avoided for several years and created giant messes across multiple living spaces? Yes, yes I have.