The Oklahoma Observer https://okobserver.org To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:43:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://okobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Logo-O1-100x100.jpeg The Oklahoma Observer https://okobserver.org 32 32 True The Oklahoma Observer false podcast The Oklahoma Observer https://okobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/2020-02-19_Google_Business_Logo_1400x1400.png https://okobserver.org Stitt’s Unborn/Polution https://okobserver.org/stitts-unborn-polution/ https://okobserver.org/stitts-unborn-polution/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:43:30 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398754 ]]> https://okobserver.org/stitts-unborn-polution/feed/ 0 Today’s GOP: The Pro-Death Party https://okobserver.org/todays-gop-the-pro-death-party/ https://okobserver.org/todays-gop-the-pro-death-party/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:00:40 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398649 As Project 2025 unfolds before our eyes during the Trump regime’s current iteration and our democracy weakens by the minute, our nation’s most vulnerable communities are increasingly targeted. Trump’s maniacal administration methodically cuts services and programs for students, for the poor, the sick, and even the elderly. But what happens when programs serving the poor, […]]]> https://okobserver.org/todays-gop-the-pro-death-party/feed/ 0 Price Gouging Is Whose Problem? https://okobserver.org/price-gouging-is-whose-problem/ https://okobserver.org/price-gouging-is-whose-problem/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:05:55 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398659 Horrors. The profiteers running this year’s World Cup are forcing fans to shell out thousands for a single ticket. But they’re not. FIFA, which oversees the once-every-four-years soccer tournament, is slapping astounding prices on the tickets. No one has to buy them. This should be very obvious. That said, some products are priced in ways […]]]> https://okobserver.org/price-gouging-is-whose-problem/feed/ 0 AI Exacerbates Workplace Woes https://okobserver.org/ai-exacerbates-workplace-woes/ https://okobserver.org/ai-exacerbates-workplace-woes/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:00:22 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398645 On May 19, during an interview with Joe Rogan, billionaire software engineer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen bragged aloud about what many of his contemporaries see as the future American workforce – no workers. Extolling the “efficiency” [always a trigger word for management] of artificial intelligence, Andreessen noted how AI eliminates tiresome personal interactions in the […]]]> https://okobserver.org/ai-exacerbates-workplace-woes/feed/ 0 STANDIN’ BY HER MAN https://okobserver.org/standin-by-her-man/ https://okobserver.org/standin-by-her-man/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:47:11 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398707 ]]> https://okobserver.org/standin-by-her-man/feed/ 0 Counting Votes in California https://okobserver.org/counting-votes-in-california/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:35:07 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398691

There he goes again. As Democrats predicted before the first votes were in, President Donald Trump is, as is his way, challenging the results of the elections in California. With absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing, he took to Truth Social twice on Wednesday. “The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. Here we go […]

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]]> Running Government Like A Business? https://okobserver.org/running-government-like-a-business/ https://okobserver.org/running-government-like-a-business/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:00:20 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398644 Constitutionally, Oklahoma lawmakers are required to gavel their annual sessions to a close no later than 5 p.m. on the final Friday in May. This year, they formally exited the Capitol two-plus weeks earlier. In truth, they quit doing The People’s business even before then – hundreds of public policy proposals and gubernatorial vetoes twisting […]]]> https://okobserver.org/running-government-like-a-business/feed/ 0 Wages haven’t kept up — and working families are paying the price https://okobserver.org/wages-havent-kept-up-and-working-families-are-paying-the-price/ https://okobserver.org/wages-havent-kept-up-and-working-families-are-paying-the-price/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:13:44 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398678 By Gabriela Ramirez-Perez For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the minimum wage no longer keeps pace with the real cost of living. Today, even full-time work at the federal minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to rent a market-rate two-bedroom apartment anywhere […]]]> https://okobserver.org/wages-havent-kept-up-and-working-families-are-paying-the-price/feed/ 0 Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants https://okobserver.org/good-news-small-groups-can-defeat-corporate-giants/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:36 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398657

From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people feel helpless, too small to change the injustices of the system. Don’t bother is their message. But the feisty residents of Boxtown, TN, definitely did bother when they learned that a couple of profiteering fossil fuel giants were targeting them. Boxtown, a historic Black neighborhood of Memphis settled by former slaves 160 years ago, was […]

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]]> Mazzei’s Flip Flop https://okobserver.org/mazzeis-flip-flop/ https://okobserver.org/mazzeis-flip-flop/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:31 +0000 https://okobserver.org/?p=398643 Helter smelter! Mike Mazzei was against a smelter at Inola before he was for it! What changed? It’s simple: Donald Trump endorsed Mazzei for governor and Mazzei, in turn, endorsed Trump’s smelter. Making aluminum is an expensive, dirty and polluting process. Trump knows many Republican officials are just patsies for what he wants to do […]]]> https://okobserver.org/mazzeis-flip-flop/feed/ 0