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Satchel

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  1. This should serve as a reminder to all marginalized groups, including people of color. No victory, no matter how hard fought, stays won. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/21/texas-trans-students-college-hostility/ I’m looking around, like, ‘What’s going on?” said Graff, who transferred to the University of Texas at Austin from the University of Houston this fall but ascribes the change to the larger political atmosphere. “I’m being treated differently.” In September, a video of a Texas A&M University student confronting a professor for discussing transgender identities went viral, kicking off a blur of action. The professor was fired and the university’s president replaced. Hundreds of miles away, Angelo State University officials quietly unveiled limits to discussing transgender identities in class. Days later, the school’s parent system, Texas Tech, issued its own restrictions to faculty. And most recently, on Oct. 2, UT-Austin said it was “enthusiastically”reviewing an offer from President Donald Trump to receive federal funding advantages if, among other things, the college adopted a binary definition of gender. “I didn’t expect people to cave so easily,” said a transgender Texas Tech University alumna. “At the same time, I think people are legitimately very, very frightened right now, and I think that’s especially true of institutions.” Lubbock was once the nation’s second most conservative city, set in a county that has voted for the Republican nominee in every presidential election since 1948 with the exception of Texas’ own Lyndon B. Johnson. While political conservatism has long dominated the region, Texas Tech in the last decade has offered freedom for LGBTQ+ students to safely and openly celebrate their identities. Texas Tech held its first pride week in 2015. Three years later, it hosted its inaugural Big 12 LGBTQIA Allies Summit, a three-day event that ended with a screening uof “Love, Simon,” which chronicles a gay teenager’s coming-out story. Stickers signifying faculty and staff were LGBTQ+ allies adorned office doors. At one point, the campus pride index scored Tech five stars for queer friendliness. “There’s, like, this porous boundary between Texas Tech and Lubbock, and I think a lot of that progress probably started to bleed into the community,” the Texas Tech alumna said. “It was a big deal, because Lubbock is very conservative, and so you had people coming onto campus to support these events.”
  2. It’s important to correct the record for those who claim Hitler took control of Germany in 1933. Conservative Germans gave him control.
  3. Who didn’t see this coming? President Donald Trump is seeking a $230 million payout from the Department of Justice as compensation for the multiple federal investigations into him, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing several people familiar with the matter. And Trump’s own appointees and allies are the ones who will have the power to green-light the potential nine-figure payout. “The situation has no parallel in American history,” wrote the Times’ Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager, “as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.”
  4. These guys keep re offending: https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-capitol-rioter-pardoned-by-donald-trump-busted-for-threatening-to-kill-top-dem-hakeem-jeffries/ Donald Trump-pardoned Jan. 6 rioter was arrested after allegedly making threats to kill top Democrat Hakeem Jeffries. Christopher Moynihan, 34, is accused of texting plans to kill the House Minority Leader, 55, during a New York City speech on Monday. According to a court filings, he wrote, “Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live.” Moynihan, of Clinton, New York—who was pardoned by Trump nine months ago as part of a mass clemency for more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants—also allegedly stated, “Even if I am hated, he must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future,” the filing said. He was taken into custody by New York State Police and charged with making a terroristic threat, a Class D felony, according to a State Police news release… …Moynihan is not the first pardoned Jan. 6 defendant to face new charges since receiving clemency. In May, Zachary Alam, 33, who infamously smashed the Speaker’s Lobby door, was arrested in Virginia on burglary counts weeks after his pardon.
  5. More from the GOP Nazi “Youth.” If Trump doesn’t pull his nomination to head the Office of Legal Counsel, then the Nazi takeover will be complete: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608
  6. The strategy all along has been to neuter the Ivies and work their way down the food chain to the best private and public universities in the country. They believe the SEC schools and the like will be a piece of cake.
  7. Of course they’re trying to stall Epstein.
  8. Unless and until Trump’s sojourn into fascist authoritarianism is stopped, this won’t end well for higher Ed in America: The state of Texas is poised to become an academic wasteland: https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/
  9. The Senate Republicans could nullify the filibuster and reopen the government tomorrow. They have the votes. Why won’t they? Because they’re unserious and incapable of governing.
  10. Can maga people explain why they are not antifascists?
  11. He’ll get rich from his Kitara Ravache podcast.
  12. Was at the downtown Dallas rally. Was an awesome experience. Our march chant was probably more profane than most, but it served the purpose.
  13. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
  14. Now, that’s a weapons grade butter biscuit there. Damn.
  15. In some parts of California, they’re more than $9 a dozen.
  16. He really is evil.
  17. He said it was because Santos had the good sense to vote Republican. Seriously.
  18. The Vice President approves. So, there.
  19. But do they really throw them throughout the game? I’ve been to plenty UT-Tech games in Lubbock including the infamous 2008 game and I know tortillas were not thrown during that or any other game I’ve attended.
  20. Those are most likely exaggerations. I’d like to see the tradition continue. I hope they aren’t bullied in to discontinuing it.
  21. People should relax and let Tech fans do their thing. It’s a harmless college tradition.
  22. When it all goes to hell, they can blame the biscuit.
  23. Malicious prosecution notwithstanding, Bolton refused to answer a Congress subpoena during Trump’s impeachment. Screw him.
  24. I think Mark Cuban has weighed in: Indiana University has given head football coach Curt Cignetti a new eight-year, $92.8 million contract that averages $11.6 million per year. This extension was announced on October 16, 2025, and runs through November 30, 2033
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