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kevinfarner.bsky.social @kevinfarner.bsky.social · 7h

probably stating the incredibly obvious but this is my favorite cover of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIr...

Justin Townes Earle with Jason Isbell "Can't Hardly Wait"

YouTube video by KikiSchueler

www.youtube.com

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 7h

I bet you dollars to donuts that "Up With People" is tanned, rested, and ready to perform, too!

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 7h

gotta be a boon for our 'efforts' to attain AAU status, too!

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 7h

Some good work by the Texas Tribune about the erosion of academic freedom at Texas Tech. Hot on the heels of our incoming chancellor appearing at at TPUSA rally held in town recently. As they like to say, From Here It's Possible.

Texas Tech system’s vague guidelines on gender identity spur more questions than answers

Faculty have spent weeks seeking clarity on new restrictions, which have often been issued by word of mouth. A written Q&A was rescinded.

www.texastribune.org

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 8h

I just feel left out for not getting a post card or big ass mailer thing like others did.

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 8h

and why do you think it's ok to appear in public with that haircut?

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 8h

You know who should be in jail? Whoever gave Mike Johnson that haircut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 8h

the entire discipline?

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know much about this Bad Bunny fellow, but since Prince is dead, he seems like a fine selection to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. If Prince we still alive, he should own the halftime show.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 21h

Today morphed from an I call bullshit day to a fuck that shit day

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 1d

is there a floor?

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 1d

Damn...you really hate these guys!

Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

Portnoy eats pizza from what I can gather

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

Probably as a warning to locals?

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Ben Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 2d

This post is excellent, and the best coverage of the "compact" that I've seen so far. @fishkin.bsky.social is the only person I've read so far who understands that the most important part of the compact is this (final) paragraph, which is mostly ignored in the reporting & in the takes.

Adherence to this agreement shall be subject to review by the Department of Justice. Universities
found to have willfully or negligently violated this agreement shall lose access to the benefits of this
agreement for a period of no less than 1 year. Subsequent violations of this agreement shall result in a loss
of access to the benefits of this agreement for no less than 2 years. Further, upon determination of any
violations, all monies advanced by the U.S. government during the year of any violation shall be returned
to the U.S. government. Finally, any private contributions to the university during the year(s) in which such
violation occurred shall be returned to the grantor upon the request of the grantor.

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Tim Nokken @timnokken.bsky.social · 2d

I think they forgot the last part of his response: "What a dumb question. Of course I'm fucking profiling brown people."