Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
Investigative journalist, mainly sports. Wrote a couple books. PhD in Sports Studies. Dissertation on the Univ of Texas women's bball team in the 1970s. Tall. Tired. She/Her. Austin, TX https://www.jessicawluther.com/
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Jessica Luther
@jessicawluther.com
· Nov 22
Ok, there are so many new followers and I appreciate it, but you should know what you're getting into LOL so here are some things I've written or worked on to give you an idea of what I do, what I care about
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
UT beats A&M in the SF of the SEC volleyball tournament. Will play Kentucky in the final tomorrow. UT has only lost twice this season: to A&M and Kentucky. The revenge tour continues!
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
UT beats A&M in the SF of the SEC volleyball tournament. Will play Kentucky in the final tomorrow. UT has only lost twice this season: to A&M and Kentucky. The revenge tour continues!
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Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
I need the email of whoever at ESPN keeps deciding to show points in the volleyball matches from behind the serving line instead of from half court.
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I need the email of whoever at ESPN keeps deciding to show points in the volleyball matches from behind the serving line instead of from half court.
I see the discourse but no one can get me to not deeply love Rogue One! That’s my entire contribution. I love it and always will.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I see the discourse but no one can get me to not deeply love Rogue One! That’s my entire contribution. I love it and always will.
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According ESPN, Briles received a $15m settlement when he left Baylor, not to mention the $3m he was making annually. Why is anyone paying him to coach anywhere?
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
According ESPN, Briles received a $15m settlement when he left Baylor, not to mention the $3m he was making annually. Why is anyone paying him to coach anywhere?
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this was truly one of the most bizarre things i have ever witnessed, in a courtroom or anywhere else, just this bafflingly antagonistic testimony when he wasn’t even the one being sued
If you are interested in whether Briles has taken responsibility for the failures under his tenure at Baylor, consider that two years ago, during the only time he's been under oath, he lied about basic things like whether he wrote his own memoir: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Most Puzzling Moments From Art Briles’s Testimony in the Baylor Title IX Lawsuit
The former head football coach was called to testify on Thursday—and made some surprising assertions.
www.texasmonthly.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this was truly one of the most bizarre things i have ever witnessed, in a courtroom or anywhere else, just this bafflingly antagonistic testimony when he wasn’t even the one being sued
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
How Baylor Happened
WACO, Texas — There’s not much to recommend spending four years in Waco. Driving into town up Interstate 35 from the south, the endless stretch of Texas nothing fills out slowly. It’s flat in the way ...
web.archive.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Art Briles has been hired as the head football coach at a D2 school and so is back in the news. If you want to understand why this hire is upsetting for many, here's the long piece @dansolomon.com and I wrote back in 2019 about How Baylor Happened: web.archive.org/web/20190208...
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Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
The Salt Lake Tribune will drop its paywall next year, CEO tells donors at NewsMakers gala
After years of requiring people to pay for online news content, The Tribune announced an upcoming change during its 2025 annual NewsMakers Gala.
www.sltrib.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Remember last year when we said we would drop The Tribune's paywall if we raised enough money to support the transition to free? About that… 😁
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Art Briles reportedly remerging as head coach of D2's ENMU Greyhounds... the Pride of Portales.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
sure
Texas volleyball on absolute fire tonight in QF of SEC tourney. Best the team has looked in weeks.
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Texas volleyball on absolute fire tonight in QF of SEC tourney. Best the team has looked in weeks.
Is there a good piece about this Vanderbilt volleyball team?
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Is there a good piece about this Vanderbilt volleyball team?
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
I’ll dress up to fly as soon as I can fit my 6-ft-tall frame in a regular airline seat without eating my knees.
Duffy: "Trump talks about the golden age of transportation. But the golden age in transportation truly begins with you ... People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly ... so we want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season: Help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’ll dress up to fly as soon as I can fit my 6-ft-tall frame in a regular airline seat without eating my knees.
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Every generation needs its Nazi punching meme.
This is the spiritual successor punch to Richard Spencer's getting clocked
This is the spiritual successor punch to Richard Spencer's getting clocked
J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Every generation needs its Nazi punching meme.
This is the spiritual successor punch to Richard Spencer's getting clocked
This is the spiritual successor punch to Richard Spencer's getting clocked
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dystopian is too gentle to describe this…
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
dystopian is too gentle to describe this…
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Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Results are in for Iowa City’s two-year pilot of free public transit…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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man, shut the fuck up www.wired.com/story/the-cl...
The Climate Impact of Owning a Dog
My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway.
www.wired.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
man, shut the fuck up www.wired.com/story/the-cl...
Of course www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/t...
Supreme Court temporarily restores Texas’ new congressional map
The administrative ruling is a first step before the court decides whether to pause the use of the 2025 map, drawn to increase GOP seats in the U.S. House, for the rest of the legal battle.
www.texastribune.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Of course www.texastribune.org/2025/11/21/t...
There’s something particularly demoralizing about the way medical bills slowly roll in over time after a medical procedure or visit to the ER. You think you’re safe, you’ve paid it off, but then a new balance pops up like a jack-in-the-box. And there’s no way to know when it will end!
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
There’s something particularly demoralizing about the way medical bills slowly roll in over time after a medical procedure or visit to the ER. You think you’re safe, you’ve paid it off, but then a new balance pops up like a jack-in-the-box. And there’s no way to know when it will end!
In undergrad, before defending my senior thesis, my advisor told me to say “I don’t know” if I didn’t know the answer to a question, rather than painfully trying to bullshit my way through the answer. Thank you, Dr. Fulkerson for giving me some of the best, most useful advice I’ve ever gotten.
Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In undergrad, before defending my senior thesis, my advisor told me to say “I don’t know” if I didn’t know the answer to a question, rather than painfully trying to bullshit my way through the answer. Thank you, Dr. Fulkerson for giving me some of the best, most useful advice I’ve ever gotten.
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really enjoyed this @roughnotes.bsky.social dig into ‘project b’, the new tech and potentially saudi-backed global basketball league — especially the bit about using women athletes as test prototypes to ultimately launch a men’s league
Rough Notes: “Tell Me How To Feel About Project B”
I went digging into the new global league.
wnbaroughnotes.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
really enjoyed this @roughnotes.bsky.social dig into ‘project b’, the new tech and potentially saudi-backed global basketball league — especially the bit about using women athletes as test prototypes to ultimately launch a men’s league
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Get on your library board, folks. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
My trainer has me doing this challenging workout where I do a certain number of reps on the hexbar and then on the bench press. But the difficult part is I have to do them on the minute. So I have 60 seconds to do hexbar, then 60 seconds for bench. I do this 5 times each, 10 total minutes.
November 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My trainer has me doing this challenging workout where I do a certain number of reps on the hexbar and then on the bench press. But the difficult part is I have to do them on the minute. So I have 60 seconds to do hexbar, then 60 seconds for bench. I do this 5 times each, 10 total minutes.