.@ClayTravis is exactly right.
The fan experience for fans right now is disappointing.
Pay more and get less.
NFL and other major sports league fans are getting squeezed while trying to follow their favorite team for a season.
Vice President JD Vance put up a chicken coup outside the VP’s residence. A spokesperson tells me he will tend to the chickens. His kids already named the chicks. The coop was made by Carolina Coops, an American-owned small business which has been in business for 18 years. The owner Matt DuBoise pictured here after putting the coup up. #Chickens #FreshEggs #VP (pics courtesy Vice President Vance’s Office)
In one night, Braden Montgomery made his MLB debut and collected his:
- first hit
- first RBI
- first home run
- first walk-off
- first walk-off home run
Today we honor the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Allied forces faced impossible odds on the beaches of Normandy and changed the world. Aggies were among the brave who stormed those shores, their sacrifice forever woven into our university's legacy of selfless service. That legacy didn't end on the battlefield. It lives on in every Aggie who answers the call.
On June 6, 1944, James Earl Rudder '32 successfully led his men up the cliffs at Pointe Du Hoc as part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Rudder would later become the 16th President of @TAMU, laying the groundwork for its transformation from a small, all-male military school to the premier institution of higher education it is today.
Compare, for example, how much litigation to which the gun industry has been subjected as compared with the vaccine industry. Therein lies a measure of their respective power.
What Weston Moss did last night will be remembered by Aggies everywhere for a long, long time. An absolutely phenomenal performance in a huge spot.
Very happy for him!
Since I’m going to be hearing this for the next 6 months as a Texas voter, let me answer the question:
“You would vote for an adulterer over James Talarico? That’s not very Christian.”
Here’s the truth: I would rather vote for almost anyone else who is going to at least advocate for conservative *policies* over a literal heretic who wears my faith like a skin suit, advocates for policies that harm children, endorses immorality and generally harm society.
Ken Paxton has personal baggage. I don’t deny that. But Talarico has plenty too — and he openly mocks God’s law and treats Jesus as a political mascot all while pushing a radical far-left agenda that would be a disaster for my state.
You see, I’m an adult. I do not expect those who are seeking political office to be my moral superiors or even trustworthy. They are tools to be used to do the least amount of damage via policy.
I wish more pastors and men who live godly lives were running. I really do. But the options we get are what they are.
Paxton supports secure borders, law enforcement, lower taxes, unleashing American energy, the Second Amendment, just to name a few.
Talarico supports unlimited abortion, trans-ing children, higher taxes, government-run “healthcare,” and is incredibly comfortable blaspheming the word of God.
I’m not voting for a priest. I’m voting for an imperfect person to represent my interests. That’s how it works.
You’re not going to guilt trip Texans into supporting a looney tunes candidate like Talarico. Paxton will win by 5+.
It’s about policy, not personality.
We condemn our Nation's Founders for owning slaves but when this monster traffics his own daughter it's "complicated"
We need to stop judging historic figures by modern standards and start judging foreigners by them
NO VAX FOR HIV AFTER 40 YRS OF RESEARCH
NO VAX FOR CANCER AFTER MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF RESEARCH
NO VAX FOR THE COMMON COLD
YET A VIRUS MYSTERIOUSLY APPEARS & WITHIN 12 MONTHS A "VAX" IS FOUND BY 4 PHARMA COMPANIES ALL WITHIN 1 WEEK
BUT YEAH NOTHING WAS PLANNED
Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded.
In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year.
Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve.
Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads.
They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink.
The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week.
These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.