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New Deal, Same Old Hypocrisy: Former Local Preacher Trades the Pulpit for a Mugshot

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:42:57 +0000

Welcome back to another depressing episode of “Rules for Thee but Not for Me,” West Texas edition. Today’s holy contestant is Brian Townsend, a 48-year-old former preacher who apparently thought his pastoral duties at New Deal First Baptist Church and the beautifully ironic “Come As You Are Fellowship” included things that are highly illegal. Townsend [...]

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Texas Burns $8.4 Million Fixing Holy Textbooks That Are Literally Falling Apart, Because Fiscal Responsibility Is For Losers

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:05:08 +0000

God bless the Lone Star State, where our righteous state leaders love to lecture local school districts about “reckless spending” and poor planning while casually setting $8.4 million of our taxpayer dollars on fire. The Texas Education Agency successfully developed a new elementary curriculum called “Bluebonnet Learning” that managed to rack up a whopping 4,200 [...]

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Texas Board of Education Proves Once Again That Reality Is Merely A Suggestion

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:55:52 +0000

The Texas State Board of Education just gave preliminary approval to a brand-new curriculum guaranteed to make our public schools the laughingstock of the modern world. Under the guise of “social studies and reading,” the board is pushing a new list that mandates Bible stories for children as young as six. Because nothing says “ready [...]

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Lubbock Mayor’s Endorsed Congressional Candidate Proves “Biblical Values” Usually Involve Grindr Receipts

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:50:00 +0000

Remember back in February when our freshly re-elected Mayor, Mark “No Pride Proclamations in My Town” McBrayer, proudly endorsed Abraham Enriquez for Congress? McBrayer praised the 31-year-old candidate for having the “courage and conviction” to uphold West Texas conservative values. Well, it turns out Enriquez has been holding onto those values real tight—right alongside his [...]

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Big Brother is Watching You Worship: Israel is Geofencing Lubbock Megachurches for Ad Clout

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:03:34 +0000

According to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) disclosures filed by a California firm called Show Faith by Works LLC , Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is dropping over $4 million on what the firm calls the “largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in U.S. history”. Run by conservative political consultant Chad Schnitger , the campaign’s explicit [...]

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Paxton Plays Hallway Monitor: LISD Investigated for Not Being “Churchy” Enough

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:07:23 +0000

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who knows a thing or two about being under investigation himself, has decided to spend his time auditing the interior decor of Lubbock ISD. Paxton is “investigating” whether our local schools are complying with Senate Bill 10, the high-priority law that ensures every child has a convenient stone-tablet [...]

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Texas SBOE Solves Literacy Crisis by Deleting Frederick Douglass and Doubling Down on Sunday School

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:46:25 +0000

In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has spent more than five minutes in this state, the Texas State Board of Education just gave preliminary approval to a mandatory reading list for 2030. Because if there’s one thing Texas schools are famous for, it’s our love of “mandatory” things—unless it’s masks, vaccines, or [...]

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Judge Rejects Churches’ Quest to Become Tax-Free PACs; Pastors Forced to Stick to Regular Sinning

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:37:48 +0000

In a shocking blow to everyone who thinks the Bible is just a very long, dusty voter guide, a federal judge in Tyler just told Texas churches they can’t have their communion wine and drink it, too. A bunch of Christian groups tried to sue their way out of the Johnson Amendment—the pesky 70-year-old law [...]

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From Pews to Prison Hits: Lubbock’s Most “Holy” Predator Tried to Crowdsource a Murder

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:45:38 +0000

Just when you thought the story of Luke Cunningham—our local youth-pastor-turned-convict—couldn’t get any more “West Texas Gothic,” the Lubbock DA’s office dropped a bombshell that makes his 40-year sentence look like a participation trophy. It turns out that while Luke was sitting in jail, he wasn’t exactly spending his time reflecting on his sins. Instead, [...]

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The Brick Trailer Park: An Autopsy of the Hub City’s Soul

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:04:48 +0000

If you have ever driven down Slide Road at 5:15 PM, dodging a lifted Ford F-250 that is currently occupying two lanes while emitting a cloud of unburnt diesel particulate that would make a Victorian chimney sweep cough, you have experienced the essence of Lubbock, Texas. We like to pretend we are a “metropolitan” area. [...]

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Jesus, Take the Red Pen: Texas Education Agency Finds 4,200 ‘Oopsies’ in Bible-Heavy Curriculum

lubbock-sucks — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:50:58 +0000

Well, folks, it turns out that when you’re busy trying to turn Texas elementary schools into Sunday schools, minor things like “facts,” “grammar,” and “not stealing copyrighted photos” tend to fall through the cracks. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) just admitted that their “Bluebonnet Learning” curriculum—the one the state practically bribed schools to adopt—is currently [...]

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TruFit, True Terror, and the ‘Pastor’ Who Forgot the Commandment About Restraint

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:04:39 +0000

Well, Lubbock, it’s 2026 and we finally have an update on the nightmare that happened back in June. You remember the story: a 17-year-old just trying to get a pump at the TruFit on 82nd Street ends up in a literal horror movie scenario. Apparently, our local fitness centers aren’t just for judgmentally staring at [...]

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Texas Tries to Re-Teach Civics by Taping the Ten Commandments to a Classroom Wall

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:58:48 +0000

Texas is back in court, this time arguing that public schools should be required to post large, donated posters of the Ten Commandments in every classroom—because nothing says “neutral government” like mandatory religious décor. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is now hearing arguments over Senate Bill 10, a 2025 law signed by Gov. [...]

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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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Local Faith Leaders Declare Empathy “Toxic,” Prompting Jesus to Wonder If He Missed a Memo

lubbock-sucks — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:06:03 +0000

According to Axios, a new theological turf war is raging within American Christianity, and the battleground isn’t over music styles, dress codes, or whether the pastor should say “y’all” during sermons. No, the hot new culture war is empathy. Yes—basic human compassion is now the thing conservative pastors, influencers, and Elon Musk (because of course) [...]

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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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Thou Shalt Not Teach the Constitution: Texas Fights to Hang the Ten Commandments in Every Classroom

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:19:04 +0000

In the latest episode of “Church Meets State, and State Brings a Hammer,” Texas is once again in federal court defending its law that forces public schools to hang giant Ten Commandments posters in every classroom. A federal judge already struck it down as blatantly unconstitutional—something about “favoring one religion over others”—but Attorney General Ken [...]

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“Missionary” or Madman? Ohio Preacher-Wannabe Indicted After Lubbock Kidnapping Van Tour

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:18:31 +0000

Christopher Martin, a 41-year-old from Sandusky, Ohio, has officially been indicted on federal kidnapping charges after what can only be described as a holy road trip gone to hell. Martin claimed to be a “disciple” traveling the country in his tricked-out van, raising money for churches — which in Lubbock apparently translates to “creepy gym [...]

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Lubbock’s “Coach of the Year” in Denial: New Charges, Same Old Story

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:37:00 +0000

In the latest round of “Are you kidding me?” news from Lubbock, former Lubbock High coach and youth pastor Jeremy Maxfield just picked up three more charges for indecency with a child—because apparently five felonies weren’t quite enough for his collection. The new charges date back to 2014 and involve yet another victim, adding to [...]

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Ken Paxton Resurrects in South Lubbock: Turning Point Rally Declares Charlie Kirk the New Jesus

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:28:32 +0000

Nothing says “civil discourse” quite like gathering a few hundred teenagers and homeschoolers in South Lubbock to celebrate the life and martyrdom of Charlie Kirk — who, if you didn’t know, apparently died for our sins. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (yes, that Ken Paxton — impeached, acquitted, and eternally persecuted by “evil”) headlined the [...]

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Ex-Youth Pastor Faces 16 Counts of Child Sex Abuse, Trial Set for December

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:04:39 +0000

Luke Cunningham, 42, a former Lubbock youth pastor, is staring down a December 1 trial date after being re-indicted on a staggering 16 counts of Sexual Assault of a Child and Bigamy. Prosecutors clarified the new charges don’t involve fresh victims but break down multiple incidents with two underage victims between September and December of [...]

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More Victims, More Charges: Ex-Coach’s Past Just Keeps Getting Worse

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:35:16 +0000

Former Lubbock ISD coach and teacher Jeremy Maxfield, 41, just had another charge slapped onto his already disgusting rap sheet after yet another victim came forward. Court records now show he faces a fourth charge of sexual assault of a child — because apparently three wasn’t enough. The latest victim told investigators she was just [...]

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West Texas Measles Outbreak Finally Slows, But the Lessons Are Peak Texas

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:00:28 +0000

Texas just lived through its biggest measles outbreak in decades—762 cases, two child deaths, and infections spreading to multiple states. All thanks to Gaines County’s rock-bottom vaccination rates and a whole lot of folks convinced that shots are scarier than the actual disease. Public health directors scrambled, Mennonite communities were hit hard, and the rest [...]

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“Faith-Based” Youth Advisor Found Guilty of Child Sexual Abuse

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:23:56 +0000

James Nathan Grassie, 49, a so-called faith-based youth advisor and co-founder of a program called “Trail Life,” was convicted Thursday on three counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child. The jury didn’t need long—less than two hours of deliberation—before handing down the guilty verdict. Grassie now faces up to life in prison. During the [...]

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Serial Trial: Lubbock’s “Youth Advisor” Heads Back to Court

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:00:14 +0000

Nathan Grassie, 49, is back in front of a Lubbock jury, facing multiple child sex abuse charges. He was first arrested in 2022, managed to snag a mistrial in 2023, and has spent the past couple of years bouncing between GPS monitoring, jail time for violating bond conditions, and then posting a cool $100,000 to [...]

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From Pulpit to Prison: Former Lubbock Youth Pastor Faces Potential Federal Sex Trafficking Charges

lubbock-sucks — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:54:56 +0000

Luke Cunningham, a former youth pastor who bounced between at least four Texas churches, is now staring down potential federal child sex trafficking charges. Prosecutors allege Cunningham groomed and abused kids not only at camps but also on out-of-state and international mission trips, including one in Guatemala. Yes, the FBI is involved, because apparently, Lubbock [...]

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Lubbock Aims to Ban Driving While Female

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:14:00 +0000

Because Texas apparently hasn’t made life hard enough, Lubbock County Commissioners are set to vote on whether it should be illegal to drive someone down a highway if that ride eventually ends with an abortion. Amarillo is also considering the same nonsense. The laws are modeled after the state’s already infamous “sue-your-neighbor” abortion ban, but [...]

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Lubbock Declares Itself a “Sanctuary City for the Unborn,” Gets Sued Because… Of Course It Did

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 19 May 2021 14:33:00 +0000

In the latest episode of “Lubbock makes national news for the worst reasons,” voters passed an ordinance banning abortion in the city and proudly slapped on the title Sanctuary City for the Unborn. With 62% of voters on board, the measure ignored the fact that both the city council and a hired law firm had [...]

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