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Lubbock Tackles the Complex Legacy of Juneteenth the Only Way It Knows How: With an Ice Cream Eating Contest

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:29:31 +0000

Juneteenth is upon us once again, commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger rolled into Galveston to inform 250,000 enslaved Texans that they were legally free—a mere two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Naturally, Texas took its sweet time processing the paperwork. Flash forward to 2026, and Lubbock [...]

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Texas GOP Achieves Ultimate ‘Unity’ By Telling Muslim Conservatives to Get Out of the Country

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:55:25 +0000

The 2026 Texas State Republican Convention just wrapped up in Houston under the inspiring, totally-not-ironic banner of “Unity drives victory.” And nothing says “unity” quite like bringing a literal circus elephant into the convention hall while party leaders frantically try to purge lifelong conservative delegates for the crime of practicing Islam. Mohamed Hussein, a fiscally [...]

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Pissing Away Unity: Texas GOP Welcomes a Urinating Elephant and Boos Lubbock’s Own Dustin Burrows

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:50:00 +0000

Governor Greg Abbott wrapped up his convention speech in Houston by promising to “demolish” the opposition, promising a “larger than life surprise” to rally the troops. That surprise turned out to be Paige, a 9,000-pound African elephant hauled in from a sanctuary in Cut and Shoot, Texas. Draped in a banner reading “Unity Drives Victory,” [...]

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Lubbock PD’s Guide to Crime Fighting: Ignore the Chain-Smoking Serial Rapist, Arrest the Innocent Asthmatic

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:59:46 +0000

Back in 1985, a serial rapist was terrorizing the Texas Tech campus. According to survivors, the predator was a chain-smoker who threatened them with a knife. Naturally, Lubbock’s finest locked their sights on Timothy Cole—a decorated Army veteran, Texas Tech student, and severe asthmatic who didn’t smoke. Why? Because an undercover cop saw him offer [...]

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LPD Chief on SB4: We’re Not Doing Anything Different, We’re Just More Confused Now

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:54:07 +0000

Texas has officially decided that every local cop should moonlight as a junior Border Patrol agent, but Lubbock Police Chief Seth Herman isn’t exactly rushing to buy his officers olive-drab uniforms. SB4, the law that turns illegal entry into a state crime, is technically set to go into effect on May 15. However, Herman basically [...]

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Texas GOP Claims Victory for “Equality” (By Making Sure Your Vote Matters Even Less)

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:44:54 +0000

The Supreme Court finally gave the Texas GOP the permission slip they’ve been begging for. In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has paid attention to the last decade of Texas politics, the court decided that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act isn’t technically dead—it’s just been moved to the intensive care [...]

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LPD Officially Joins the Border Patrol (Despite Being a Six-Hour Drive from the Border)

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:41:13 +0000

SB4 is back from its brief legal nap, and our favorite local lawmakers—State Rep. Carl Tepper and State Senator Charles Perry—couldn’t be happier. The law finally gives Lubbock police the power to arrest people for “illegal entry.” Because if there’s one thing we’re known for here in the Hub City, it’s our bustling international coastline [...]

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Ernest Butler Park: Lubbock’s Premier Destination for Tetanus and Loneliness

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:40:31 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted your child to experience the existential dread of being the only kid with a swing in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, head over to Ernest Butler Park on the East Side. It’s a local landmark, mostly because it currently looks like the set of a low-budget movie about a society that forgot how [...]

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Trump Kills $7M Grant Because Apparently Learning to Farm is “Too Woke” Now

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:08:23 +0000

Meet Diana Padilla, a woman from Harlingen who had the audacity to think that teaching Texans how to grow their own food was a good idea. For years, she and her husband have been running a community garden, giving “pep talks” to people who couldn’t afford organic kale at the farmer’s market. It was all [...]

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Texas Tech Law: Where “Vibes” Are Illegal and Racial Slurs Are Just “Irrelevant” Background Noise

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:41:13 +0000

Welcome to the Texas Tech School of Law, where we’re training the next generation of legal minds to be as delicate as a West Texas tumbleweed in a hailstorm. Meet Ellen “Ellie” Fisher, a third-year student who is currently suing the university because she dared to have an unauthorized emotion in public. Apparently, being “loud, [...]

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Texas AG Candidates Compete to See Who Can Send Us Back to 1950 the Fastest

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:42:19 +0000

Our potential future Attorneys General, Chip Roy and Mayes Middleton, recently held a “Who Can Be More Like Ken Paxton” contest in Tyler. Apparently, they’re bored with just suing the feds a hundred times a year and have decided to start a legal garage sale where they try to toss out every Supreme Court ruling [...]

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Texas Politicians Brave Enough to Fight a Scary 2% of the Population

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:37:19 +0000

Our fearless leaders in Austin have finally identified the greatest threat to the Lone Star State, and no, it’s not the crumbling power grid or the fact that it’s 95 degrees in April. According to a recent Texas Tribune chat with State Representative Salman Bhojani—one of the first two Muslims ever elected to the state [...]

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Texas’ New Anti-Woke Police Are Taking Snitch Reports via the “Trust Me, Bro” Method

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:25:43 +0000

Welcome to the latest installment of “Texas Government: Making It Up As We Go.” Our glorious state leaders decided we needed a new watchdog—the Office of the Ombudsman—to ensure pesky universities like Texas Tech aren’t accidentally teaching students empathy or, god forbid, diversity. This office is the ultimate arbiter of what counts as “too liberal,” [...]

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Texas Reinvents the “Wheel” (By Making Sure 1.7 Million People Can’t Turn One)

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:47:18 +0000

Well, pull up a lawn chair and grab a Dr Pepper, because Austin has decided that the best way to handle a workforce shortage and rising insurance premiums is to make it legally impossible for a massive chunk of the population to work or drive. In a stunning display of “if we close our eyes, [...]

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Bo French Wants to Deport 100 Million People, Because Clearly the Railroad Commission Wasn’t High-Stakes Enough

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:11:59 +0000

Just when you thought the Texas Railroad Commission was a boring-as-dirt agency that handles oil permits and gas flaring, candidate Bo French showed up at CPAC to remind us that it’s actually about global demographic engineering. French, who is currently in a runoff to oversee our pipelines, decided to pivot from “fracking” to “firing everyone” [...]

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Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows Proposes Manifest Destiny 2.0: The New Mexico DLC

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:58:46 +0000

Lubbock’s favorite son and current House Speaker, Dustin Burrows, has released his “interim charges” for 2027, and it’s exactly the kind of ambitious, slightly unhinged wishlist you’d expect from someone who spent too much time staring at the horizon on I-27. Topping the list is a plan to study the “secession” of New Mexico counties [...]

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Lubbock Loses a Legend Who Actually Cared, Leaving the Rest of Us to Deal with Walgreens Hold Music

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:31:03 +0000

In a shocking turn of events for a city that usually makes headlines for things like “Truck Drives into Sonic” or “Dust Storm Reaches Sentience,” we actually have some legitimate history to mourn. Billie Caviel, one-half of the first Black couple in the entire nation to own and operate a pharmacy, has passed away at [...]

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Lubbock Discovers “The East Side” Exists, Continues to Do Absolutely Nothing About It

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:53:09 +0000

In a shocking revelation that surprised no one who has ever looked at a city map, residents of East Lubbock are pointing out that while the rest of the city grows at a terminal rate toward New Mexico, their neighborhood has been treated like the junk drawer of the South Plains. Longtime locals like Sonya [...]

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Lubbock-Cooper Senior Learns the Hard Way That “Complexity” is Code for “We’re On Lunch Break”

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:44:59 +0000

Lubbock-Cooper High School senior DeTayevion “Taye” Lang—a 17-year-old Black student with a straight-A average—is currently getting a crash course in West Texas “justice”. On January 17, 2026, Taye attended an off-campus bonfire, which apparently turned into a scene out of a bad movie when a group of individuals allegedly chased him down and beat him [...]

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LISD Invents a Spreadsheet to Decide Which Schools Live, While the State Sharpens the Axe

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:02:47 +0000

Lubbock ISD has unveiled its shiny new District Optimization Framework, a very official-sounding checklist to decide which schools get to keep existing. To stay safe, a campus now needs more than 450 students, at least 70% of its building actually being used, and expenses within 5% of the district average. Miss all three and—congrats—you’ve earned [...]

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MLK Day, Confederate Heroes Day, and a 74-Page Campaign Flier Disguised as Law

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:16:40 +0000

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day — which, in Texas, also happens to be Confederate Heroes Day because of course it is — Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped a 74-page “legal opinion” declaring large chunks of Texas diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts unconstitutional. Conveniently, the document also takes direct aim at John Cornyn, Paxton’s opponent [...]

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ICE Is Busy in Texas – Lubbock Pretends Not to Notice

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:50:37 +0000

While Lubbock’s local news continues its proud tradition of strategic silence, the rest of Texas is watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement ramp up arrests at a pace that would make a traffic blitz look quaint. According to The Texas Tribune, daily ICE arrests in Texas have more than doubled under Trump’s second term, jumping from [...]

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LISD Forgot the Bus, Found a Scapegoat

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:15:29 +0000

The Lubbock Coalition of Black Democrats had to step in this weekend because Lubbock ISD is apparently trying to fire Estacado High School coach Tamarick Courtney for the high crime of… getting his players to a game. After LISD failed to provide a district bus on Jan. 6, Courtney used private vehicles to transport student [...]

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Texas Wants Cheap Houses, Fewer Immigrants, and Apparently a Magical Workforce That Doesn’t Exist

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:32:39 +0000

Down in South Texas, construction sites are turning into ghost towns—not because people don’t want jobs, but because ICE keeps showing up like an unwanted OSHA inspector with handcuffs. According to the Texas Tribune, immigration raids at construction sites have spooked workers so badly that many are staying home, bringing major building projects to a [...]

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Federal Racism Probe Ghosts Lubbock Schools, Racism Decides to Stick Around Anyway

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:38:20 +0000

The local NAACP meeting in Lubbock opened with a prayer and quickly turned into what can only be described as a greatest-hits album of racial abuse in local schools. Parents and grandparents recounted Black students being called the n-word, falsely accused of crimes, interrogated by police without parents present, and sent to alternative schools for [...]

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Texas Teens Finally Get What They Need: More Political Indoctrination, Obviously

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:58:06 +0000

Gov. Greg Abbott has teamed up with Turning Point USA to make sure every Texas high school gets its very own chapter of the right-wing youth organization. Because when kids said they needed more funding for counselors, teachers, and textbooks, clearly what they meant was “please sir, may I have some culture-war propaganda?” Abbott, Dan [...]

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Texas “Helps” Small Businesses by Booting 97% of Them Out of Support Program

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:05:45 +0000

In a plot twist no one asked for, Texas’ acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock approved thousands of small businesses to renew their Historically Underutilized Business certification—then a few hours later sent another email basically saying “lol nevermind.” More than 15,000 women-, minority-, and veteran-owned small businesses were suddenly told they’re no longer welcome in a program [...]

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Texas Redistricting Drama: Carl Tepper Swears He Didn’t See Race, Just Pure, Old-Fashioned Partisan Greed

lubbock-sucks — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:51:22 +0000

Texas is once again in its favorite kind of chaos: election chaos. The U.S. Supreme Court has slammed the brakes on a lower court ruling that said the state’s brand-new congressional map was probably racist—because of course the timing is inconvenient, and nothing gets SCOTUS moving faster than a deadline for candidate filings. For now, [...]

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Texas Tech Crime Wave: Bikes Gone, Scooters Gone, Students Drunk, and a 2017 Hazing Case Wanders In Like It Just Woke Up

lubbock-sucks — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:37:54 +0000

Texas Tech Police had another banner week, which in Lubbock terms means: bikes disappeared at every residence hall with a bicycle rack, scooters evaporated like West Texas moisture, and Bledsoe kept its title as the undisputed heavyweight champion of Liquor Law Violations. Sprinkle in a few non-students wandering campus with drug paraphernalia and THC oil [...]

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A Year Later, Lubbock Still Can’t Explain How “No Threat” Became a Body Bag

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:18:41 +0000

It’s been nearly a year since 20-year-old Texas Tech student Erskin Charles Jenkins was shot and killed by a Lubbock County Sheriff’s deputy, and his family is still waiting for something resembling an explanation. What they’ve gotten instead is the full Lubbock Special: a grand jury no-bill, a “justifiable homicide” stamp, and a highlight-reel-style body [...]

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Lubbock Finally Remembers Native People Exist, Plans Powwow Like It’s 1491

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:59:32 +0000

In a rare moment of cultural self-awareness, Lubbock has discovered that Native people are, in fact, still here. Cyndi Slaughter, who founded Native American People of the Plains and Beyond, has spent years trying to educate West Texans that Indigenous culture didn’t just evaporate the moment Columbus tripped over the shoreline. Her nonprofit is now [...]

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Trick-or-Treat Crime Spree: Texas Tech’s Week of Burglaries, Booze, and Bad Decisions

lubbock-sucks — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:43:25 +0000

It was another banner week for the Texas Tech Police Department, who apparently decided Halloween season was the perfect time to run a full crime sampler pack. Between Oct. 26 and 31, officers investigated everything — car burglaries, stolen scooters, drug busts, dating violence, harassment, and a hate crime carved into a dorm door at [...]

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Sheriff’s Office Finally Drops the Tape—Months After Shooting Texas Tech Student

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:09:40 +0000

After months of stonewalling, the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office has finally released body cam footage of the November shooting of 20-year-old Texas Tech student Erskin Jenkins. Deputies were called to a “Friendsgiving” gone horribly wrong, where Jenkins—intoxicated and allegedly waving a gun—was shot five times by a deputy after refusing commands and raising his weapon. [...]

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County Plays Hide-and-Seek With Records After Deputy Kills Lubbock Student

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:25:59 +0000

Lubbock County has decided transparency is overrated. After 20-year-old Erskin Jenkins was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy last November, EverythingLubbock.com asked for the basics—body cam footage, a case report, even just whether the deputy’s back at work. The county’s response? A laundry list of excuses pulled straight from the “Texas Government Code Mad [...]

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Lubbock Man Posting as “FreeSpeechMaster” and “ShootThePope” Learns Free Speech Doesn’t Cover Holocaust Threats

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 23:08:00 +0000

The FBI arrested 51-year-old Francis Frederick Goltz in Lubbock after discovering his charming little hobby of spewing violent threats online. Court documents say Goltz, a Canadian living in the U.S. as a permanent resident, went full mask-off on far-right forums, calling for a “real holocaust” and fantasizing about throwing Jewish politicians “in an oven.” Goltz’s [...]

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West Texas Schools: Racism, Antisemitism, and a Whole Lot of Shrugging from Administrators

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:57:00 +0000

Parents across the Lubbock area are fed up with local schools treating racism and antisemitism like minor inconveniences. Four districts—Lubbock-Cooper, Slaton, Roosevelt, and Lubbock ISD—are now facing lawsuits, federal complaints, and community outrage after incidents ranging from racist bullying and Instagram hate accounts to a student literally passing around a petition calling for violence against [...]

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White Pride Flyers Hit Lubbock Driveways, Officials Suddenly Remember Racism Is Bad

lubbock-sucks — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 01:11:10 +0000

Overnight, someone scattered “white pride worldwide” flyers complete with a swastika across north and northwest Lubbock. Police were quick to clarify: handing out racist propaganda isn’t actually a crime here, but hey, if enough people feel grossed out, they’ll “look into it.” Mayor Dan Pope rushed out a statement condemning the flyers, saying they don’t [...]

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Welcome to Lubbock: Arrested, Handcuffed, and Then Oops, Our Bad

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:47:00 +0000

Hampton University women’s basketball coach Patricia Bibbs, her husband, and an assistant coach found themselves in the middle of a very Lubbock-style “oops.” Police accused them of running a con game called the “pigeon drop” after a woman claimed assistant coach Vanetta Kelso was the scammer. Handcuffs, jail time, humiliation—the whole nine yards. After hours [...]

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