RuralPhilosophy

Former cave dwelling Republican bring others into the sunlight. Graduate student, mother, wife, lifelong horse girl.

[N’Kiyla “Jasmine” Thomas @jasmineforok]

My team and I just got off the phone with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and he told me to tell you 🫵 to donate.

He was very confused about how we tackled a statewide primary with just $57,000. Impressed, nonetheless… confused.

While I understand this very valid concern, we told him that it was people powered. But people aren’t going to power the car when it runs out of gas 🤠

So please consider donating to a now, BIG grassroots campaign! So we can show Kilowatt Kev that when you show up for your community and not OG&E… people actually might power you.

Onward, OklaHOMIES! 🦋

https://t.co/mqg9UxnazV

[Nick Coffey For OK @coffeyforok]

This is the guy that’s promising you he’s gonna hold elected officials accountable. Oklahoma doesn’t need an AG who turns a blind eye to corruption because of party loyalty.

Elect a prosecutor, not a politician.

[N’Kiyla “Jasmine” Thomas @jasmineforok]

That was quick. Less than 24 hours after the OklaHOMIES made me the Democratic nominee for United States Senate, Kevin Hern already has my name in an official statement calling me “radical.”

Kevin… if I'm so unelectable and Oklahoma could never vote for me, why are we talking about me? 😂 But since we're talking about Oklahoma values, let's talk. I’ll jump STRAIGHT into it 🤠

What's “radical” about wanting Oklahomans to be able to afford healthcare?

What's radical about protecting Social Security and Medicaid?

What's radical about paying teachers enough to stay in Oklahoma?

What's radical about protecting farmers and ranchers when massive corporations want their land, water and electricity?

What's radical about believing working people deserve wages that actually pay their bills?

What's radical about expecting our elected officials to SHOW UP and work for the people who elected them? I don’t know if your tone deafness knows this or not, but the Oklahomans do not work for you, you work for them.

[RuralPhilosophy @SouthernJess85]

@CoryBooker Be so fucking for real right now! What a joke you turned into.

[Cyndi Munson @CyndiMunsonOK]

As I have traveled the state, I have met one-on-one with business and community leaders, including our cattle ranchers and beef producers. These are hard working Oklahomans who get up every day to run a business and feed Americans. They invest millions to just see a few thousand in return. They take risks, physically and financially, to grow their business and raise their families. They are dedicated members of their community and deeply care about their neighbors. But what I keep hearing, no matter what corner of the state I am visiting, is that they feel alone. Ag producers feel like they are the whims of a government that doesn't protect when needed, but unnecessarily interferes in their business and way of life. Many of them voted for President Trump and now feel betrayed by his policies. What I have told them is that I will continue to listen and bring their concerns to the State Capitol. Our farmers and ranchers need someone that has their back and will stand up for them. They don't need politicians who promise them one thing and then do another, whether that is the President or other elected officials here in Oklahoma. My word is my bond and as Governor that is my promise to all of our farmers, ranchers, and ag producers in Oklahoma.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

His version of America First was imposing suffocating tariffs on American farmers, increased diesel costs, and now has us importing goods he promised would be made here. We're losing more farms weekly, while he's made $2.2 Billion.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢🇵🇸 Another Palestinian Child Dies Due to Israel’s Deliberately Imposed Hunger Crisis in Gaza

Palestinian girl Maha Bashir has died from severe malnutrition on Tuesday, Palestinian media report, as Israel continues to deliberately restrict food and other necessities entering Gaza. The United States and President Trump, who leads the Board of Peace, has enabled the deprivation with weapons, funding, and diplomatic protection as Israel manufactures a starvation crisis by blocking sufficient food trucks from entering Gaza.

Journalist Osama al-Kahlout documented a loved one cradling Maha’s almost weightless body. Starvation had consumed nearly all the flesh from her frame. Her ribs, spine and pelvis pushed sharply through her skin, while her arms and legs had wasted to little more than bone.

Since the ceasefire began, Israel has allowed in only 35.3% of the minimum agreed aid deliveries, averaging 211.8 trucks daily against the required 600, a document shared by Palestinian authorities with mediators on Sunday shows. Palestinian negotiators said Israel also supplies mediators with misleading figures while refusing independent international monitoring of humanitarian aid.

Famine was confirmed in Gaza City in August 2025, and while the hunger crisis has eased from last year, it remains severe. The IPC warns that 74,200 children could require treatment for acute malnutrition through April 2027, including more than 11,400 severe cases. Without sustained aid, nearly 1.9 million Palestinians could face acute food insecurity by December.

Gaza’s Health Ministry had already recorded at least 420 hunger-related deaths, including 145 children, since October 2023.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

So far this year 7.2 million acres have burned across the United States, the largest year-to-date area in the past decade and nearly double what it was at this time last year.

[Nick Coffey For OK @coffeyforok]

The Attorney General’s job isn’t to climb the political ladder. It’s to have Oklahomans’ backs.

That’s the job I’m running for.

🔗 Read more here: https://t.co/jb6swIfw7c

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🐊 “We are going to do it our damn selves.”

Speaking at the “Chomp the Oligarchy” rally in Fort Lauderdale, democratic socialist Oliver Larkin, who is challenging Rep. Jared Moskowitz in Florida’s 25th District, condemned the genocide in Gaza and demanded an end to U.S. military support for Israel.

Larkin called for Medicare for All, universal childcare, tuition-free college, a $25 minimum wage, immigrant amnesty and transgender equality.

He attacked Moskowitz for joining Elon Musk’s DOGE caucus, voting for the Laken Riley Act and accepting corporate PAC money, saying the Democratic Party’s corporate wing has abandoned working-class Floridians.

🎥 @raygunscottie

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

If you care about 1) property rights, 2) public lands, or 3) government waste, what’s happening in Big Bend right now should have your attention. POTUS and DHS have awarded billions in border wall contracts to Trump campaign donors. They’re in a national park, where all environmental laws have been waived, constructing useless roads next to existing roads and preparing to dynamite the mountain range that gives “Big Bend” National Park its name… for a patrol road and vehicle barriers.

Their reasoning is “border security” despite the fact Big Bend is the most secure border sector in America — 25% of the border area CBP covers and 1% of all crossings or arrests. In a park where it’s literally impossible for vehicles to pass, and where a couple hundred migrants are apprehended in any given year. The park is bigger than Rhode Island.

Outside the park, the feds are sending private landowners letters offering a few thousand dollars to take their properties and their river access, threatening eminent domain if they refuse. This in counties where agriculture and river tourism are two of the biggest and only industries. And where the Rio Grande is the sole water source.

All of this sets an unbelievable new precedent where a president can simply declare an emergency, regardless of circumstance, waive all manner of law, and green light federal contractors to build in public lands and take private property. It’s a genuinely remarkable moment. That it’s happening in a “don’t tread on me” state like Texas, in the most pristine and untouched land in the lower 48, is even crazier.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen.

Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

Nearly 3 million acres of America’s protected public lands—gone with the stroke of a pen.

No vote. No debate. No public consent. Trump just gutted Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, slashing 90% of their monument protections in the largest land clawback in American history. Sacred tribal sites, ancient canyons, and irreplaceable habitat now wide open for mining, drilling, and industrial exploitation.

This isn’t “rightsizing.” It’s a brazen giveaway of land that belongs to all of us!

[Wendy Suares📺 @wsuares]

🚨 NEW REPORT: 45 rural hospitals in #Oklahoma are at risk of closing — the third-highest number in the nation. 18 are at immediate risk.

Hospital leaders warn closures could mean longer trips for patients needing emergency care.

Full report: https://t.co/TOhAc3cPAr

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: The UK has discovered that the Royal Navy's new spy drone fleet planned for the Strait of Hormuz and multiple Gulf spy missions against Iran have been secretly transmitting data from the drone's primary camera to China since March, per The Telegraph.

The £12M K3 Scout multirole uncrewed surface vessel (drone boat) fleet built by Kraken Technology had cameras with Chinese-made components transmitting "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China, with cameras remaining active even when the drones were switched off.

The compromised cameras were also near highly sensitive meetings between senior UK special forces staff, and preparations for Britain's Gulf plans against Iran had been conducted on the compromised drones.

The same K3 Scout model has also been purchased by US Special Operations Command.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Using flock cameras to watch a man drive from Wisconsin to a Michigan dispensary only to pull him over for possession when he got back home is so interesting to me when an estimated 460,000-600,000 children go missing in the US every year.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Ken Paxton's own party impeached him for bribery and corruption.

Paxton is the only Texas official to be impeached by his own party in nearly 50 years.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

[Texas Hemp Business Council @TexasHempBiz]

Breaking: Hemp businesses and consumers have filed a federal lawsuit against Texas officials after the state declared delta-8 THC and other non delta-9 cannabinoids to be Schedule I controlled substances.

The lawsuit argues the move conflicts with federal law, Texas law, and constitutional protections, and asks the court to stop enforcement before Texans face criminal penalties.