Cynthia Teague

Librarian. Weaver. She/her. Find me at @yarnlife.bsky.social.

[Wendy Suares📺 @wsuares]

A religious test? When contacting your elected representative?
This email exchange led one Oklahoman to file a complaint. #oklaed https://t.co/LBsIu8o4Id

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Can someone explain why federal agents are now allowed to arrest unarmed, innocent American citizens while depriving them of their Constitutional rights?

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours 'without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,' the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

56% of all Black Americans live in the South. The Supreme Court is threatening to wipe out Black political representation.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The ring leaders of the conversation are two years younger than Vance.

[Cynthia Teague @CynthiaMTeague]

@SenatorLankford How do senate republicans justify getting a paycheck when you refuse to negotiate at all with democrats? You used to be in favor of bipartisan government. Now you say whatever Trump tells you to, even as he gives $40 BILLION to Argentina to bail out his pals.

[Dylan Goforth @DGoforth918]

Who had Drummond to the right of Stitt on their bingo card six months ago?

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

ICE agents just snatched a Journalist & were Speeding away when they hit a woman’s vehicle that was going to work & doing nothing wrong! They almost left the scene after slamming into her,but then snatched her out of her car at gunpoint and took her with them! 🤬

[Michael Downes @downesphoto]

@jenanelsonforok Her minions at the state capitol gerrymandered my neighborhood out of the district. I live in the heart of OKC and have the same rep as the tip of the panhandle 🙄

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This story gibes with a lot of very similar accounts in recent months. People tell ICE that they have some kind of obstacle to deportation, and the ICE officers simply ignore them or insult them and say none of that matters anymore.

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

The entire State Dept office of multilateral nuclear affairs was dismissed last week, Alexandra Bell tells @CFR_org.

“These were people responsible for efforts to ban explosive nuclear testing, the production of weapons grade material, people working on nuclear disarmament verification, experts that simply cannot be replaced.”

[Cynthia Teague @CynthiaMTeague]

@QuorumCallShawn My condolences on her passing.

[Cynthia Teague @CynthiaMTeague]

@OHPAlerts If there’s no reason to believe he’s in OK why the alert? This is how you get people to disable alerts.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

In 2010, the UFW launched a “Take Our Jobs” campaign, which offered training to citizens wishing to perform farm labor. They got 35 applications. "In less than a month, everybody was gone (from the fields). Some of them were gone even before ending one day of work."

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Imagine this: a Kremlin-linked figure in charge of hiring every top U.S. official. Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Not anymore.

Meet Sergio Gor — Trump’s head of presidential personnel, tasked with selecting and vetting 4,000 political appointees across the US government.

1/n

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Problems with basic government services that are directly attributable to actions Trump and his appointees have taken are absent from headlines in major news outlets, leaving casual readers to believe these problems came out of thin air, which is its own form of disinformation.

[Rep. Veronica Escobar @RepEscobar]

🚨 Today, after giving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 24 hours’ notice, more than is required by law, I was turned away from the ICE facility on Montana Ave. where I planned to conduct my constitutionally authorized oversight duties.

🧵

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This "Democrats and Republicans" line is bullshit.

I wrote a bipartisan bill last year that would have stopped all asylum seekers from being released into the country. It gave POTUS emergency power to shut down the border. It put billions into border security.

Trump killed it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN: According to four officials inside FEMA.. a new rule that any expected expenditure over $100,000 needed sign off from Noem slowed the federal response. 

The sources tell us that FEMA's deployment of urban search and rescue teams, which are typically deployed in anticipation they might be needed instead, was delayed until Monday, three days after the flood. 

Now, a source also tells us that a request Texas made for FEMA aerial imagery to aid in the search was also delayed, waiting for Secretary Noem's approval. 

Now, additionally, multiple FEMA officials say that they were taken aback by the agency's relatively limited response in the immediate aftermath of the disaster

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Just so we’re clear about what’s happening here:

ICE has been instructed to leave cases of ACTUAL CRIMINALS alone (drug smugglers, etc.) so they can go after hardworking farmers and child care workers.

It’s not even about crime. It never was. This is about racism.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

"Most important, the {weather] service had issued three increasingly dire warnings early that morning — at 1:14 a.m., 4:03 a.m. and 6:06 a.m.

What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction — Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination” — had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. He was not replaced."
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