Damn, Tech:
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Tedd Mitchell restricted the discussion of transgender and nonbinary identities during classroom instruction across the system’s five universities, according to a letter he issued late Thursday.
The letter makes Tech the state’s first university system to issue such limits. Mitchell didn’t explicitly detail what can and cannot be acknowledged in academic discussions or curriculum. He instructed university presidents to ensure faculty follow a presidential executive order recognizing only male and female sexes, Gov. Greg Abbott’s letter directing state agencies to “reject woke gender ideologies” and a new state law that requires a strict binary definition of gender for the collection of vital statistics.
Mitchell’s guidance comes after Angelo State University, one of the system’s campuses, instructed faculty not to discuss transgender identities in the classroom.
“While recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity, faculty must comply with these laws in the instruction of students, within the course and scope of their employment,” Chancellor Tedd Mitchell wrote in a memo Friday.
The Court just allowed Trump to withhold 4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress. Why is this noteworthy?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-withhold-4-billion-foreign-aid-funding-rcna230348
The court has now granted 20 emergency applications filed by the administration since President Donald Trump’s second term began in January. The volume of emergency filings and the rate at which the court has ruled in the administration's favor are both unprecedented. The latter has sparked criticism from within the legal community, including lower court judges.
The lifetime achievement award in leopard face eating should go to Jim Comey, who almost single-handedly facilitated Trump’s election in 2016. Had he not defied his boss, he wouldn’t be shelling out money to expensive lawyers to defend him against bogus charges.
So, ICE czar, Tom Homan caught the attention of the FBI in west Texas based on a tip from Republicans who accused him of being on the take. They expanded their probe to include Homan and successfully set a trap to ensnare him in a web of his own making.
It’s important to note that the Biden DOJ, which Trump routinely accuses of political prosecutions of Republicans, (much to their eternal credit) never once disclosed that Trump’s pick to abuse migrants in his second term was being investigated.
Now, Trump’s DOJ is denying Homan ever took the 50 grand offered by the FBI, while quietly closing the investigation into Homan’s actions:
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/judiciary-democrats-demand-doj-fbi-release-recordings-of-tom-homan-receiving-50000-cash-bribe
You no doubt heard that the shooter who predictably killed himself, had be radicalized online. No media outlet provided detailed who radicalized him. It should as surprised as to the reason why. The shooter had fallen under the spell of racist, virulently right wing, extremists.
I hate that it once again falls on black people to tell it like it is. I hate that I'm too much of a coward to do the same. I hate that black people have to be brave for me, in part because (I'm assuming) their thoughts are, "What else are they going to do to us?".
Variations of this sermon were preached in hundreds of black churches all across the country over the last two weeks.
Can you imagine how many times early success will be referred to derisively as “cash infused” billionaire bought, and “ just wrong” in ways OSU’s and Michigan’s builds never were?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2025/09/20/texas-tech-win-millions-championship-roster-cody-campbell/86268573007/?tbref=hp
Should UNT continue to surprise, he’ll get offers. For once, I’d like to see UNT put a package together that could make their coach grow where’s planted rather than replace a sought after one every 2 -3 years.
There are dark days ahead for higher Ed in Texas:
https://www.texasaft.org/membership/higher-ed/89th-legislature-closes-with-final-attack-ontexas-colleges-universities-and-health-institutions/
If that gimpy-eyed sack of shit can hang it straight, he can climb on my counter and hang it himself.
A federal judge a temporarily blocked SB10. We’ll see…
And just this week Forbes named UT as a top public Ivy and a viable alternative to the Ivy League schools which have lost some luster in the current political climate. They obviously don’t know what’s afoot here in Texas.