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  1. Okla State did.
  2. They’re doing their best to soften Americans resolve against these apparently illegal murders.
  3. It’s happening: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-supreme-court-breaks-with-american-bar-association-over-law-school-credentials/#:~:text=Texas will become the first,law schools nationwide for decades. Texas will become the first state to no longer use American Bar Association (ABA) for oversight of its law schools. The Texas Supreme Court will take over that responsibility, according to an order its justices issued on Friday, Sept. 26. The ABA has set standards for law schools nationwide for decades. Karen Sloan, who covers the legal business for Reuters, spoke to Texas Standard about the decision. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below. This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity: Texas Standard: Well, first, briefly explain why this accreditation process is so critical for law schools and their graduates. Karen Sloan: So law school accreditation is important because it kind of paves the way for graduates to go on and practice as lawyers. Most states require graduation from an ABA-approved law school in order to sit and take their bar exam. And of course you have to pass the bar exam in order go on to become a practicing lawyer. So it’s really kind of a key credential that you need in order pursue your legal career. Well, what has the American Bar Association done in the view of the Texas Supreme Court to drive its justices to this decision? That is a little bit unclear at this point. When the Texas Supreme Court back in April said that it was gonna be reviewing the ABA requirement, it never said why. And then last week when it said the court is going to assume the responsibility of approving law schools instead of the ABA, it also didn’t really provide a rationale for making the change – much to the chagrin of, I think, some legal educators in the state who wanted sort of an explanation of why the change was needed. So we’re left to read a little bit in between the lines as to what motivated the court to do this. But we do know that the Supreme Court of Florida, which a few weeks before Texas launched its review, said it was creating a work group to look at the ABA rule. Those justices came out and said, we’re doing this because the ABA has a diversity requirement for law schools. And they’re uncomfortable with some of the ABA’s quote, “political engagement.” So in that case, they were pretty clear that there are some sort of political reasons that led to their review. We didn’t get that from Texas. So we don’t have as clear of a picture as to their motivation. Well, you raise a good point. Texas is the first state to make this move, but could others follow? Absolutely. We already know that the Supreme Court of Florida is looking at a similar review. In recent months, Ohio has also said it’s looking at its ABA requirement. And just a couple of weeks ago, Tennessee said that it was as well. So it’s possible that Texas could be the first in a series of states that are backing away from their reliance on the ABA to accredit law schools. Well, could this isolate Texas law schools and alumni, making it harder for them to find jobs outside the state? It’s possible, but we don’t know very much about that yet. When the court said it intended to sort of take over responsibility for approving law schools, it said, when it asked for further public comment on that, that it intends to retain the portability of Texas law school degrees into other states and the ability of lawyers who graduated from law schools elsewhere to come into Texas. Now, the Texas Supreme Court gets to control how licensing happens in Texas, but they don’t control how lawyer licensing happens outside of the state lines. A lot of states require graduation from an ABA law school. So it’s unclear how this change could potentially impact law graduates in Texas who want to go into other states, but have not graduated from an ABA-accredited law school.
  4. Watch Stephen Miller and be horrified. And why is Hegseth there?
  5. He’s an Army veteran now retired after three decades working for the U.S. Postal Service. Federal agents pounded on the door of his South Shore apartment about 2 a.m. Tuesday. “I told them they must have the wrong apartment,” the man said. But armed agents busted open many doors after arriving in U-Haul trucks to raid the 130-unit apartment building at 7500 S. South Shore Drive. They woke up residents to handcuff them with zip ties and led them into unmarked vans The report didn’t mention women and children appear to be among the detained, said Brandon Lee, a spokesman with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Organizers worry many people were taken without warrants. “These were families with their children escorted out in the middle of the night,” Lee said. “This administration is using PR efforts to try to turn communities against their neighbors.”
  6. Ice agents rappel from helicopters onto the roof of a Chicago apartment building, zip tying everybody in sight - including children: https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/south-shore-residents-return-to-ransacked-apartments-try-to-move-out-after-ice-raid-it-looks-like-hell/
  7. Tech has 4 or 5 billionaires funding their ascendancy. Campbell just hogs all the publicity.
  8. Why is woke a pejorative? Before right wingers ever heard woke used in a sentence, black people who coined its modern usage, wore tee shirts with a quote from Luke 21:36 encouraging people to stay woke.
  9. As have woke, diversity, inclusion, equity and any other ideas that reflect egalitarianism.
  10. Did all of the criminals who marched through a ransacked Capitol yelling “hang Mike Pence,” lose their jobs?
  11. Well…
  12. I’m really worried about American corporate media. It appears it wasn’t until the due diligence of foreign media discovered the murderer’s connection to Trump and maga, that they published proof of same. We learned first from the British press that his mom’s social media posts supported Charlie Kirk. It’s one thing to be careful and responsible when reporting on incendiary stories. It’s quite another to know the guy was maga and sit on that fact out of fear.
  13. The “Rapture” is a nonessential Christian doctrine which pulls together a set of pericopae in support of a belief that a series of events must occur before the imminent return of Christ. Simply stated, the Rapture is about what a minority of Christians believe will happen. The General Resurrection is about who we will meet.
  14. The power of the brand is to compelling. They could finish last for the next 20 years and would never leave. It’s the football version of the Stockholm Syndrome.
  15. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that this shooting was payback for an LDS member murdering Charlie Kirk. Truck was equipped with big American flags…typical maga stuff.
  16. Yes.
  17. Fortunately for Israel and the US, Brazil has provided the blueprint for how to punish criminal presidents once they’re turned out of office.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. They’re humorless.
  21. 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.
  22. This farmer calls BS on the we were lied to narrative:
  23. I mentioned this in another thread, but it Trump’s quote bears repeating. “It can only good happen.”
  24. When did he Liberace up the Oval?
  25. It’s not clear that the shooting was directed at ICE. MIGRANTS were maimed, injured and killed. Ice agents were not.
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