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Saint Tacky

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  1. . Trying out new slogans
  2. First to the SEC! SEC! SEC! First to the great enshittening. Whoop!
  3. The one chance is to tie this up in the federal courts.* I recently drafted a letter to the Texas Bar Journal citing the First Amendment violations inherent in the Compact’s compelled silence and viewpoint discrimination disguised as “institutional neutrality.” Plain and simple: compelled neutrality is not constitutional neutrality. The Compact fails at several turns. Here are a few takeaways. Agency for Int’l Dev. v. Alliance for Open Society Int’l, Inc. (2013), the Supreme Court struck down a federal condition that required recipients of HIV/AIDS funds to affirmatively oppose prostitution—even in privately funded speech. The Court held that compelled speech outside the funded program’s scope violated the First Amendment. Similarly, the Compact’s viewpoint restraints would apply across an institution’s entire governance structure, chilling academic speech well beyond federally funded activities. In NFIB v. Sebelius (2012), Chief Justice Roberts, albeit in more rationale times, drew a red line around such federal coercion: when financial pressure becomes so severe that states have “no real option but to acquiesce,” the condition is unconstitutional. The Compact’s penalty structure—unprecedented DOJ-led enforcement, a one-year clawback of federal funds, and donor-triggered refunds — goes far beyond compliance and ventures into compulsion. Justice Roberts compared such Spending Clause overreach to a “gun to the head.” The Compact is not “relatively mild encouragement.” It’s financial extortion. Additionally, only Congress (not the President) may condition federal funds, and even Congress may not do so with unconstitutional or coercive terms. *What I have not explored - yet - is standing. Who or what organization, outside of the State of Texas or the Board of Regents (complicit twats), has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Compact. .
  4. Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish I had done the Florida tailgate. Would have likely been the highlight of the trip.
  5. If he can't answer, I will. North Dallas.
  6. have you seen their schedule the rest of the way. Be patient.
  7. It will be interesting to see whether non-Compact graduate programs adopt "content-neutral," "skills-first" gateways - facially school-agnostic that they could argue are educationally justified - to intentionally screen applicants from universities that sign the Compact. Applied uniformly and tied to bona fide predictors of student success, that would look less like retaliation and more like quality control - though it’s still a First Amendment and antitrust mine field, for now. Over time, the separation will take care of itself: mandated cuts, shrinking instructional and research budgets, and faculty flight will constrict the talent pipeline and nudge talented undergrads elsewhere. Eventually, applicants from Compact campuses increasingly won’t clear neutral readiness thresholds - not because anyone flagged their alma mater, but because the skills evidence won't be there.
  8. I must still have PTSD from Gainesville.
  9. "Send the Hogs home!! Send the Hogs home!!" I was in that line that marched into Rosenblatt behind the pig's head on a spike. Good times. I thought that the head had wound up on top of the bat rack in the Texas dugout.
  10. "Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do?". Because Schumer is actually acting strategically and has taken away Trump’s advantage?
  11. Now THAT is an "American Hero." Godspeed, and thank you for your service.
  12. Rory yelling "shut the fuck up!" at the gallery before the second shot on 16 has been the highlight of the day.
  13. Yeah, it sounded ugly. There's a difference between “passionate,” and flat-out trashy—crossing the line from banter to harassment. Further, none of the bullshit shouted from the gallery was in the least bit creative. If today was bad, tomorrow could be a circus if the U.S. comes out and lays another turd. That wasn't Ryder Cup atmosphere, it was the 17th at Waste Management.
  14. I went to take an OGML lease from a woman in Vidor around 1998. I had to sit there with a straight face while she explained that Vidor gets a bad rap — that Black folks just choose to live in Beaumont or Port Arthur because, according to her, there were liquor stores and fried-chicken shacks on every corner over there.
  15. I’m usually overly bullish on Oregon’s clown suits, but this one works. I’d swap the black pants for something else (I can’t stand when pants and jerseys are the same color) and definitely ditch the gold shoes.
  16. So who are the coaching candidates being tossed around?
  17. Setting up the insanity defense. 3D chess right there.
  18. Thoughts and prayers. So, what's for lunch?
  19. No longer listed on the team's roster and no longer with LSU. Back in the portal.
  20. In for a penny, in for several hundred pounds.
  21. Salute the rank, not the man. Band_of_Brothers_We_salute_the_rank_not_the_man.mp4
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