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    My daughters and I talk about this. I’ve always been puzzled about where the idea of on-campus indoctrination comes from. I don’t think humanities and liberal arts faculty are any more or less toleran

  • Everyone here(Texas) thinks we are crazy for picking up and moving. I just couldn't keep staring my wife and daughter in the face day after day and telling them it will be ok. Meanwhile the state of T

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7 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Damn shame this state sucks as the real estate is cheap


Where? Odessa?

22 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


Where? Odessa?

loving county

8 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Have you never read the Daily Texan board?

Yep. The overwhelming majority of Texas alums are trump worshipers. It's not 99% like aggy, but it's over 75%

2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Yep. The overwhelming majority of Texas alums are trump worshipers. It's not 99% like aggy, but it's over 75%

Not sure I'd go that far. The demographics of a basically football board (or sports, anyway) skew things pretty decidedly, if not dramatically.

2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Yep. The overwhelming majority of Texas alums are trump worshipers. It's not 99% like aggy, but it's over 75%

This is some hyperbolic bullshit. Even in 2020 it was 50/47 favoring Biden among Texas voters with college degree. That gap widened in 2024. And that also includes an absolute shit ton of southwest conference grads so the D vote must be coming from somewhere in high numbers.

Also this, recent grads but even anm campus flipped blue recent times

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4 minutes ago, bluto said:

Also this, recent grads but even anm campus flipped blue recent times

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old army is pissed about this

36 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Not sure I'd go that far. The demographics of a basically football board (or sports, anyway) skew things pretty decidedly, if not dramatically.

yeah i mean anecdotes are meaningless but i am fairly good friends/in regular contact irl with (counts) 13 alums, 11 of which have been progressive/liberal since we met and 2 recovering republicans like me 😆 and i was in the Young Reps at Texas so it's not like i was self-selecting when we met 😜

otoh, as mentioned elsewhere last night, an entire branch of my extended family tree are almost all Texas grads, frat/sorority types, very well connected in Texas...are all on board with Abbott/maga.

whatever makes y'all sleep at night.

Texas set to ban smokable cannabis as soon as Jan. 25
Smokable cannabis products sold legally across Texas could disappear by the end of the month under proposed state rules that would redefine how THC is measured and dramatically raise costs for hemp businesses.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has drafted sweeping new regulations for the hemp industry, including child-resistant packaging, stronger warning labels, expanded testing, recall procedures and fee increases of roughly 10,000% for manufacturers and retailers.

Under the proposal, posted online for public comment the day after Christmas, annual fees for hemp manufacturers would jump from $250 to $25,000 per facility. Retailers would be required to pay $20,000 per location each year, up from the current $150 registration fee.

The proposed rules would still allow for edible hemp products, like gummies and drinks containing Delta-9, Delta-8 and potent cannabinoids such as THCP.

Those products would be required to carry warning labels, clear dosing instructions and web links to independent lab tests showing the concentration of active ingredients and the presence of any heavy metals, pesticides or microbial contamination.

More than 9,100 retail locations in Texas are registered to sell consumable hemp products, according to state health records. An emergency rule adopted in September prohibited sales of hemp products to people under 21, even though many, if not most, stores already carded customers.

State health officials drafted the new regulations in response to an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 10 directing state agencies to develop new rules governing what Texas calls "consumable hemp products."

The order followed a stalemate in the Legislature, where lawmakers failed to agree on whether to regulate mind-altering hemp compounds or attempt another outright ban. In June, Abbott vetoed an initial bill prohibiting THC products that had been championed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

Under Texas law, hemp is defined as cannabis containing no more than 0.3% Delta-9 THC, the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana. That definition was adopted by state lawmakers in 2019 and closely mirrored federal legislation passed the year before.

Neither state nor federal law explicitly banned THCA, a naturally occurring cannabis compound that converts into Delta-9 THC when heated or smoked. Even in states where marijuana is legal, most of the Delta-9 THC in smokable cannabis starts as THCA.

The proposed rules would include THCA amounts in the calculation of Delta-9 THC levels, a change that would effectively outlaw most smokable hemp products.

During a public hearing Friday morning, DSHS commissioners heard from dozens of small hemp business owners and cannabis users. Many said they supported stricter packaging rules and age limits, but objected to the effective ban on smokable products and the sharp increase in licensing and registration fees.

"These proposed fees don't regulate small businesses, they eliminate them," Estella Castro, owner of Austinite Cannabis Co., told commissioners. "This proposal would force me to close, despite doing everything right."

Several speakers accused the health department of exceeding its authority by attempting to redefine THCA as Delta-9.

"Changing Delta-9 to total THC is a legislative function, not administrative," said Jesse Mason, owner of the San Antonio hemp store Reggie & Dro. "By counting THCA prior to heat, you are banning products the legislature legalized."

A handful of speakers testified in full support of the regulations and called on the state health department to go even further.

"Thank you for increasing license fees. The more difficult it is for the industry to addict users, the better. Age limits should be higher than 25," said Christine Scruggs, an anti-THC activist who said her son had developed psychosis from cannabis use and required medical treatment to recover.

Dr. Lindy McGee, a Houston pediatrician who spoke to commissioners on behalf of the Texas Medical Association and the Texas Pediatric Society, called for stricter labeling requirements, including statements that THC can be habit forming and take more than two hours to kick in.

"[Label warnings] should be easily recognizable and large enough for a grandparent who is babysitting to be able to tell that the gummies are edibles and not something they should be giving their grandkids," she said. "That's another thing we see in the emergency department."

State health officials can still revise the rules based on public feedback. The regulations could take effect as soon as Jan. 25, or the department could delay or phase in enforcement.

The drafted rules would not affect the state's medical marijuana program, which was expanded in 2025 to allow for 15 dispensaries statewide, up from three.

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