In September 2021, I went on a little vacation. I wrote a little story about how I got there. I'm both nervous and excited to see this issue! Thank you to @strange_matters for putting this together ❤️
Also featuring short and delectable pieces in our Futon section!
@DFManufracture's machine daydreams | @rubinwrites on Europeans discovering Friendsgiving | AL Wright's private hospital nightmare | Kyle Flannery on leaving the center | Madison Roze's folk tale of an Ohio cryptid
@FrancesSteere@tawandamulalu@bikewitfriends Issue Two brought us @allegedlywright's harrowing, moving, darkly funny story of a nervous breakdown due to awful working conditions in a private Oklahoma hospital. The resulting stay in a psych ward was, Wright wryly notes, her long-deserved vacation.
https://t.co/VVkIZ6O8GQ
Oooooooooooklahoma! Taken yesterday morning in Muskogee County 😅 part of that tree decided it was done and branched off in the wind.
Alt text - crepe myrtle, oaks, and other foliage whip around in the wind, with a big branch falling onto the fence. I say "oh great" 😅
1. Last month, I reported that Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok was appointed by Ryan Walters to "make schools safer" in Oklahoma.
One month later, a trans teen is dead after a year of transphobic bullying.
Their name was Nex.
What if it isn’t a mistake or incompetent lawyering?
What if, and stay with me here, he knows exactly what he’s doing - and by actively checking the box for a trial without a jury (which is what actually happened), he set the stage we’re in now - where an individual judge can be maligned and intimidated.
What if he’s a strongman propagandist out to tear down yet another of our Democratic processes?