Maps are not the territory . . .
Wednesday, June 3, 2026. It's Odin's day . . . moderate Southerlies bring slight rain chances to TulseyTown today. Mid 80's are in the forecasts for Green Country.
love is what you are, not something you find, earn, or lose
Today is a good reminder that elections start way before November. The choices made in primaries shape everything that comes after. The most important thing you can do is stay informed and stay registered. Check your status, find your polling place, and pass it on to someone who might not know theirs.
Re-reminding: Oklahoma Governor & Superintendent Candidate forums begin today and Thursday, June 4 at TU's Lorton Center. Doors and reception begins at 5pm. A Tulsa Press Club led Q&A starts at 6pm. Could be a packed house. Admission is free both dates.
In a U-turn in the right direction, Trump has signed an Executive Order seeking oversight of A.I.
And another move in the wrong direction: If you thought Tulsi Gabbard was a problem. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
And yet, more . . . “60 Minutes” is being “murdered,” as correspondent Scott Pelley called what’s happening at CBS,not because of economics but because of politics. Economically, is a goldmine. Politically, it’s dangerous as hell to Trump. – Robert Reich, 06.03.26
CBS fired Pelly yesterday.
Speaking of “60 Minutes,” Anderson Cooper is 59 today, born in 1967 New York City. He quit “60 Minutes.”
It's the 100th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's birth. One of the 20th century's most influential poets, and regarded as a founding father of the Beat Movement, he was born on this day in 1926 Newark, New Jersey.
The Pulitzer laureate for Lonesome Dove, author Larry McMurtry was born today in 1936 Wichita Falls, Texas.
120 years ago today, Josephine Baker was born in 1906 St. Louis, Missouri. The American-born French dancer and singer symbolized the beauty and vitality of Black American culture, which took Paris by storm in the 1920s.
Today is the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
In 1992 a lawsuit was decided on this day in favor of Torres Strait Islander peoples and Aboriginal peoples establishing land rights for all Indigenous peoples in Australia.
It is important to reassure each other that these terrible times will end. More Americans are seeing through the lies as well as the cruelty and corruption. They’re deciding they want this daymare to end, peacefully, and are committed to rebuilding and rectifying the nation. – Robert Reich, You're Not Alone, Nor Crazy.