The University of North Texas has changed course descriptions that mentioned race, gender, and equity in the College of Education graduate program, according to The Texas Tribune. Emails obtained by the outlet show administrators claiming the move would “protect faculty” from being targeted. Tribune reporters spoke with faculty who say the university has made at […]
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Y’all, It Sounds Like This Texas Dog Solved a Murder
Y’all, I think a Texas dog named Titan just solved a murder. The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office announced last week that a white labradoodle held the “keys” to the case after a woman was killed in Robinson, near Waco. On April 5, 2023, police in Robinson responded to what they thought was a brush […]
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Move Over Moo Deng — Texas Has Its Own Pygmy Hippo Now
Move over Moo Deng. Texas, meet Akobi, the newest, shiniest pygmy hippopotamus to ever live in Houston. This week, the Houston Zoo adorably announced the arrival of Akobi, which means “first born” in Yoruba, a West African language. The zoo says Akobi is a male 4 1/2-year-old pygmy hippo that recently moved to Texas from […]
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Look at These F*ckin’ Texas Houses (Celebrity Edition)
In 2020, Joe Rogan’s arrival in Austin made a splash when his purchase of a $14.4 million lakefront mansion became one of the most expensive homes sold in the area. He wasn’t the first famous Californian to relocate to the Lone Star State, but it feels right to blame him for what followed: an epidemic […]
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Does the Cruz Curse Count If He’s Not Even There? Maybe!
The Texas Longhorns lost their number one spot as the best college football team in the country this weekend. But fans aren’t blaming the Georgia Bulldogs — they’re blaming Sen. Ted Cruz (who never attended UT) and podcaster Joe Rogan. The Longhorns had a huge matchup Saturday against the number five ranked Georgia Bulldogs. Fox […]
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There’ve Been 93 Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Incidents in Texas Since 2022, Data Shows
Editor’s note: This story mentions threats of violence against the LGBTQIA+ community. Before dawn on a Sunday morning in April, the bars in Austin had just closed. Joshua Ybarra started walking to his Uber. Then he heard an anti-gay slur hurled at him from behind. Three men leapt on him, pinning Ybarra to the ground […]
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Paxton, Enemy of State Fair and Tiny Lizard, Files Suit Against Child Safety
The state attorney general, Ken Paxton, is on a roll. Lately he’s targeted endangered lizards, the State Fair of Texas, and transgender Texans of all ages — and this time he’s suing the Biden Administration to make sure there are no protections for LGBTQIA+ children in foster care (a group the Human Rights Campaign says […]
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Texas Maternal Mortality Rate Went Up 56% After Abortion Ban
Texas lawmakers fucked around, and now we’re all finding out. Since the state’s abortion ban passed in 2021, the state’s rate of maternal mortality cases rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationally, according to NBC News. The Gender Equity Policy Institute took a look at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
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Texas Football is Back. We Swear This Time.
University of Texas alum Gerald Goodridge was living in Oklahoma City in 2010 when disaster struck. During the undefeated Longhorns’ national title game against the University of Alabama, Texas quarterback Colt McCoy went down with an injury in the first quarter and never returned. It was a bad omen for the future. Texas lost the […]
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How Texas A&M’s 12th Man Ran Down the Best Player in College Football
We love a throwback. On Thursday, ESPN published a great retelling of “the most famous moment in the history of one of the most famous college football traditions” — the Texas A&M towel heist at the 1988 Cotton Bowl. Aggies are renowned for their traditions — and one of the biggest is the 12th Man. […]