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  1. Groups like TPUSA and after October 7, some pro-Israel orgs have really picked up on the opening in recent years. Their stuff is often astro-turfed but they are using the structures and arguments in place. Student “safety” has been a big winning argument to silence and sanction people and that one got ripped directly from left-leaning successes. The really disturbing new element is that the feds have put their thumb on the scale. This case is fairly boring on it’s face, what’s notable is that the university admin had the right initial instinct— to tell the student that no one was getting fired. And they did an about face under implicit threats to lose federal funding. The Feds and the right are being mendacious and hypocritical and have no good will here. At the same time academia as an institution has been woefully bad for a long time at genuine defense of academic freedom and free speech.
  2. The university administrators bit is just blatantly untrue. It’s been a problem for years. Universities have set pretty ugly precedent on this front. FIRE is a great group that takes an extremely principled stance on this. https://www.thefire.org/news/report-scholars-punished-their-speech-skyrocketed-over-last-three-years
  3. It’s not particularly new for college students to believe that they have a right to silence speech they believe conflicts with their moral values, and it’s not particularly confined to the left or right. You can’t even begin to count the number of guest lectures that have been pulled down on college campuses over the last 15 years or so after undergrad groups threw fits over the content. It is fairly new for the chief executive of the country to indulge their tantrums.
  4. Roy beat the hell out of him. The SK boxer lifted Jones’ hand on the stand and told him he was sorry.
  5. Saw they were picked 2nd in the Southland. A loss to a P5 school and a decent game against ranked ACU won’t sink them. UIW is the class of the conference but they may challenge for a 2nd playoff spot. For sure not an FCS power but they’ll be a challenge for UTRGV.
  6. He is LDS and I’m pretty sure that would have been a culture clash with both the bourbon set and the nerd set at UVA. UVA for years wanted to be Harvard all week and then Alabama on Saturday, but the Harvard set usually won fights. It’s a hard job. A really hard job for institutional reasons. If he was going to be successful at NM he was going to have to go and raid Utah, Arizona, Colorado for recruits and he can likely do that easier at Utah State. NM has woeful high school football. And he gets to be at home and close to grandkids as he winds down his career. I think he’s a case of a guy who got the perfect job for him (BYU) and only realized it after he left.
  7. This dude fucking rules.
  8. Telling all the idoits I don’t like that it seems they have mitochondrial challenges, so thanks for that one RFK.
  9. Open-mindedness and platforming for kooky shit was never a virtue. Irrational and conspiratorial thinking does not stay in a box and that’s why shit like UFO, ancient aliens, fake history, and fringe wellness stuff is not harmless. There’s a direct line from that to acceptance and then action on weaponized disinformation. People need to ruthlessly maintain cognitive discipline and allow no quarter to pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and shit like that. People need to tell their dumbass uncles and cousins to STFU and stop spouting nonsense.
  10. Except for people who were alive and politically conscious for Wallace’s run for President, most Americans have had no exposure to third world style ethno-grievance demagogue populism at a meaningful level. It’s like watching seals who have never seen humans waddle over to get clubbed by the fur hunters. There’s beginning to be a demand for this towards the left, too, and it’s going to be real hard to pull out of that spiral.
  11. I’ll make an exception for the Zebbie and Zach era black on silver.
  12. Somehow I missed that Bronco Mendenhall was the HC at Utah State. I thought he did some good stuff at BYU and should have either left earlier to a bigger P5 school or just stayed in BYU. Virginia has been a stupidly tough place to win since George Welsh tapered off. It seems like it should be a better job than it is. It’s a top school in a cool city in a state with decent talent and plenty in the near environs. The alums don’t seem to care though and I can’t imagine NIL is good. The wheels are really gonna come off if Reed gets injured at all. If he is healthy 8-4 seems about right. All of a sudden MSU is a bigger problem and Florida not as much.
  13. That kind of beat down means it’s over for the coach. For a lot of years Gundy had figured out how to make the Cowboys as good as they could be but he clearly doesn’t want to anymore. Time to pull the bandaid.
  14. The MAGA cult requires women to undergo ritual scarification.
  15. Up next a couple of NAIA games before they get to the meat of their FCS schedule. It’s good they already took one against an FCS opponent. Smart to let the team feel good and win some games and get the fans excited. I’d like to see then win 2 remaining FCS games and not get blown out against UIW or SFA.
  16. Coach Hegseth: “We are really focused on building a roster to take on Bethune-Cookman and New Mexico State. We don’t see a need to worry about Georgia or Ohio State right now.”
  17. Felon with multiple convictions stabs and murders a 23 year old Ukrainian refugee on a light rail in Charlotte. Iryna Zarutska sat down in front of him and within moments he had stabbed her in the throat. https://www.wbtv.com/2025/09/05/light-rail-stabbing-graphic-video-shows-moments-before-after-woman-killed-charlotte/?outputType=amp
  18. Is this part of the 85 percent sane or 15 percent crazy?
  19. Black-Red-Black is a great Red Raider look. Their beveled TT is good for a bevel but the block TT is still superior.
  20. But Liberty is the Flames? What is going on with this.
  21. If any org is planning to do a branding or design exercise the first thing to do is this: find the people who are excited about it and want input and then exclude them from everything. Total borg brain among these types and they love things that all look like the same dog shit. Find someone who doesn’t care and put them on the approval committee and you’ll be more likely to get something decent eventually.
  22. We have twice the fatality rate per mile driven on interstates-like highways too. Safe and fast is the key metric.
  23. Nope, the right lane rule is strict as opposed to speed limits. Left lane for overtaking only and they will hook you up for left-lane cruising. You can do center-lane if there are lots of trucks.
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