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A protest at Texas Tech University where students and faculty hold signs reading "Stop Censorship at TTU" and "My Students Deserve Better" in front of a campus building.
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Texas Tech Achieves Peak Innovation by Deleting Decades of Social Progress with a Bot

Chancellor Brandon Creighton (our favorite former state lawmaker turned academic overlord) has finally solved the…

April 13, 2026
A photo of an empty white curved bookshelf in the middle of a school library, symbolizing the books being removed from the Texas mandatory reading list.
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Texas SBOE Solves Literacy Crisis by Deleting Frederick Douglass and Doubling Down on Sunday School

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has spent more than five minutes…

April 10, 2026
A mugshot of Joseph Gonzalez, former Shallowater band director, sporting a hairstyle that suggests he tried to conduct a lightning storm with his baton. He is pictured against the blurry backdrop of the Lubbock County Detention Center, where hair gel is presumably the least of his worries.
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Shallowater Band Director Moves Up from Local Creep to Federal Felon

Just when you thought Shallowater’s reputation for “family values” couldn’t get any more tarnished, Joseph…

April 9, 2026
The Cactus Islamic Center located at 203 North Dr in Cactus, Texas, featuring a modest green building with a gold dome and crescent moon, which serves as a home for part of the less than 2% of the population currently being targeted by "fear mongering" rhetoric and used as a "political football" by state officials.
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Texas Politicians Brave Enough to Fight a Scary 2% of the Population

Our fearless leaders in Austin have finally identified the greatest threat to the Lone Star…

April 8, 2026
An overhead shot of the Texas Capitol rotunda floor covered in student-made posters that say "WE BELONG HERE" in an optimistic attempt to explain basic human dignity to a state government that is currently building a "woke" snitch-line without a manual.
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Texas’ New Anti-Woke Police Are Taking Snitch Reports via the “Trust Me, Bro” Method

Welcome to the latest installment of “Texas Government: Making It Up As We Go.” Our…

April 3, 2026
A mugshot of Camilo Reyes Castillo, a bald man with a salt-and-pepper goatee wearing a bright orange inmate jumpsuit. His face is superimposed over a bleak, gray background featuring a prison facility and a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire—the upscale real estate he'll be occupying for the next six decades.
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Levelland ISD’s “Employee of the Month” Trades the Classroom for a 60-Year Residency in Federal Prison

Ah, Levelland. The crown jewel of the South Plains, where the horizon is flat, the…

March 26, 2026
A mugshot of 29-year-old Nicholas Alonzo, a former Frenship ISD fifth-grade teacher, appearing with short dark hair and a beard against a gray and white barred background.
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Frenship ISD’s Latest Extracurricular: 5th Grade Teacher Traded the Classroom for a Jail Cell

Well, Lubbock, it’s time for our favorite local pastime: reading a press release from a…

March 26, 2026
The exterior of McCool Academy in Lubbock, looking deceptively peaceful for a place where the commute involves dodging bumpers.
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Human Frogger: Quaker Avenue Edition

In today’s episode of “Lubbock Drivers vs. Basic Physics,” a middle schooler from McCool Academy…

March 25, 2026
The aftermath of a 125-degree "learning experience": a middle schooler’s hands and wrists heavily wrapped in medical bandages after being forced to bear crawl across the Evans Middle School track while the district looked the other way.
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Burned Cheerleaders Get the Cold Shoulder: LISD Escapes Lawsuit for ‘Brutal’ Track Torture

Remember back in late 2024 when an Evans Middle School coach decided the best way…

March 23, 2026