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Blue in a red state 🌊🌊

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Bodycam footage just came out of a farmer speaking against a planned data center, being handcuffed at a city council meeting for going a few seconds over the 3-minute public comment limit.

Darren Blanchard was speaking in Claremore, Oklahoma when two officers told him to leave, followed him to the front as he tried to hand documents to the council, and cuffed him as the crowd booed. He's charged with criminal trespass, a $200 offense, and is fighting it as retaliatory.

The case has become a marker for the wider fight over data center construction, where residents increasingly clash with developers over water, power, utility rates and farmland. Blanchard's sharpest point is about democracy itself: if attending a public meeting can get you cuffed, the chilling effect reaches well beyond one Oklahoma town.

[Clifton Adcock 🏴‍☠️ @cliftonhowze]

Pretty harrowing (and well done) story from @nondocmedia on an #Oklahoma Senate District 12 candidate praised as a conservative and "godly (abortion) abolitionist," who has been accused of child sex/physical abuse by multiple people over the last 20 yrs https://t.co/0TvrXsLwZ0

[Spencer Humphrey @SHumphreyTV]

🚨 SWADLEY PUSHING FOR POLITICAL FAVORS FOLLOWING CONVICTION

Got ahold of this jail call transcript between Brent Swadley and his team following his conviction.

Says he hopes Gov. Stitt “just does the right thing” and his publicist has something “top secret going on.”

@kfor

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

As the Trump DOJ mass-deletes government information about the Jan. 6 cases, reminder that you can still access NPR's database covering every single prosecution.

We also provide access to hundreds of videos presented in court.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender.

AOC: It’s not a secret the disdain Ted Cruz has for people who work working-class jobs. It’s not a secret what he thinks of the waitresses, the line cooks—he thinks we’re less than him. He thinks that because he has a Harvard degree and has never scrubbed a table that it makes him better than someone who has actually had to work for a living.

I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

This has gone off charts viral. It’s a transcript I made of the 60 Minutes interview that shows the exact cuts made by CBS. It’s free for anyone to read - No Paywall.

https://t.co/b1h16O5CwU

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.

Read more in my essay "The Next Coup Attempt"

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.
https://t.co/3EFUACrS3S

[Nick Coffey For OK @coffeyforok]

Issues like this take years to fix — and who your next AG is matters.

You deserve someone willing to hold corporations accountable. I’m not a career politician. I’m a prosecutor ready to enforce the law and fight for you.

Read more: https://t.co/O7RsENWm7V

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Here are the Republicans who just voted to block TSA funding:

Sen. Banks (R)
Sen. Barrasso (R)
Sen. Blackburn (R)
Sen. Boozman (R)
Sen. Britt (R)
Sen. Budd (R)
Sen. Moore Capito (R)
Sen. Cassidy (R)
Sen. Collins (R)
Sen. Cornyn (R)
Sen. Cotton (R)
Sen. Cramer (R)
Sen. Crapo (R)
Sen. Cruz (R)
Sen. Ernst (R)
Sen. Fischer (R)
Sen. Graham (R)
Sen. Grassley (R)
Sen. Hagerty (R)
Sen. Hawley (R)
Sen. Hoeven (R)
Sen. Husted (R)
Sen. Hyde-Smith (R)
Sen. Johnson (R)
Sen. Justice (R)
Sen. Kennedy (R)
Sen. Lankford (R)
Sen. Lee (R)
Sen. Lummis (R)
Sen. Marshall (R)
Sen. McConnell (R)
Sen. McCormick (R)
Sen. Moody (R)
Sen. Moran (R)
Sen. Moreno (R)
Sen. Mullin (R)
Sen. Murkowski (R)
Sen. Ricketts (R)
Sen. Risch (R)
Sen. Rounds (R)
Sen. Schmitt (R)
Sen. Scott (R)
Sen. Scott (R)
Sen. Sullivan (R)
Sen. Thune (R)
Sen. Tillis (R)
Sen. Tuberville (R)
Sen. Wicker (R)
Sen. Young (R)

[Dylan Goforth @DGoforth918]

Charges against one officer illustrate how confidential records can hide when officers accused of wrongdoing move between departments.

https://t.co/RLwibgdORG

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

If you changed your name when you got married, take notice. 

Under the SAVE Act, your driver’s license wouldn’t be enough to vote. You’d need a birth certificate that matches your current legal name. Most women who changed their name at marriage don’t have that. And getting it costs money you shouldn’t have to spend just to cast a ballot. 

Republicans aren’t targeting noncitizens. They’re targeting you.

[NonDoc @nondocmedia]

"They say that we were paid for it. We haven’t been paid for it." — Gov. Reggie Wassana of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes regarding #FortReno, which was originally tribal land https://t.co/2hZ4oypC2B

[Jason Leopold @JasonLeopold]

NEW: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is blocking the DEA from releasing an unredacted document from the Epstein files about an investigation involving drug trafficking & money laundering, according to a letter @RonWyden sent to Blanche Tuesday

https://t.co/XfZFPcHbTE

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Events from 2009 follow Senator Mullin into the nomination process.
"Police searched Mullin Plumbing based on a tip from a confidential informant who worked there and alleged that Saylor kept a weapons cache at the office and had threatened co-workers."
https://t.co/mxJGhbFM6z

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

NEW: House Oversight Committee wants to interview Epstein prison guard who worked the night Epstein died. Interview request comes after @miamiherald exclusively reported that she was overheard by inmate talking about covering up his killing. Here is a free link to our story: https://t.co/Fvb2SvZjrU

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

More details on the proposed elections executive order in our story for @lawfare:

https://t.co/gcqjmuwZYH

[The Frontier @readfrontier]

Profiles of those who died in the Tulsa municipal jail