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Marilee
@auntmarilee.bsky.social
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She/her, #OKC, Oklahoma, Unitarian Universalist, mom of 3+, restorative justice advocate, local politics follower, unpaid filler-of-gaps.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · Nov 10
If you live in or near OKC and are interested in local politics or social justice, let me know! I want to follow you! #okc #oklahomacity #oklahoma
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 17h
Mostly though, I miss knowing what tf is going on without having to sit through a bunch of meetings.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 17h
I miss public meetings being started in ways that are totally normal and appropriate, children leading loyalty oaths, and revocable permits!
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 18h
It’d be more exciting around here if you were live-posting city council meetings.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 20h
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revmagdalen.bsky.social Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social · 1d
I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 21h
Allow I220A recipients to be officially covered under the Cuban Adjustment Act.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah, gotta catch ‘em being good and praise them for it before they revert, just like with kids.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 1d
I wouldn’t try this just any old day. Our administrator keeps an eye on random cars parked in the parking lot. But when we have a planned event, folks are welcome to join us!
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 1d
This is good. I followed her.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 1d
I seriously considered it. 20 year old me was always climbing into fountains.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 1d
Something fishy about this photo. I saw no one in the fountain.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 2d
From OKC today.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
lolol
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 2d
This frog is mad in OKC today.
#okc #nokings
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 2d
OKC, if you are worried about parking today and are up for a 1 mile walk, you are welcome to park at First Unitarian (or the building catty corner across the street which we own) and walk with us! We are meeting at 9:30. #NoKings
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 4d
Body cameras don’t help if they never release the footage!
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 5d
Woah. Do violators get vaporized?
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 5d
I take slight satisfaction that the police item didn’t make it to 80%.
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
OKC, remember to vote today! Yes on 1-9, no on 10 and 11!
(Images from Home Base)
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
Not sure why they felt the need to barricade everyone out. We enjoyed the fireworks, glad we had made it through a scary situation unharmed! 8/8
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
We decided it was not safe for us and the kids to stay there but there was no way we could get out going back so we agreed that the next time a rush of people went through the barricades, we would all just go with them.
It soon happened and we made our way into the half empty Champs de Mars. 7/
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
We were trying to obey the guards and stay put but we got caught up in the rush of humanity. At one point I got pushed up against a lady and my body was pinning her to the corner of a building. I’m sure she was left with bruising. It was very scary! 6/
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
But when I asked for my husband and two boys to be let in too he said no. (What is this a nightclub?) But that left us right at the front of the crowd.
Soon, people started pushing the barricades down and jumping over them. 5/
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
So we started believing that after the concert everyone would be allowed in for the fireworks, so the crowds just kept growing.
At one point a security guard called me and my daughter (age 7) to the front and was going to let us in. 4/
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
Crowds gathered against the barricades. Most people were French and they were all mad.
Occasionally someone with a paper was allowed to get through and we learned it was a ticket to the concert going on before the fireworks. 3/
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Marilee @auntmarilee.bsky.social · 6d
It ended up being Bastille Day.
Since all the fireworks were happening near the Eiffel
Tower we decided to walk down for the evening.
Turns out they set up barricades just before we arrived, blocking people from the Champs de Mars. We tried a couple different streets but they were all barricaded.
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