Keith Coates retweeted
"Donald Trump and his family are executing corruption at a scale never previously contemplated in the American experiment. If we are to ever graduate from this era of brazen graft, the first step is to notice." A service, from @MattWelch. reason.com/2026/07/09/the-mo…
Keith Coates retweeted
The UT-Austin football photo controversy, which has unmasked a really ugly identitarian subcurrent on the right, is deeply ironic. The right-leaning legal movement—conservatives and libertarians—spent decades fighting to defeat the principle that universities should admit students based on race. Texas was even an important battle in this war! In Fisher v. Texas, the right lost, and the Court let the university keep picking kids based on skin color, in 2013 and 2016.
Flashforward to 2023, and finally, the right wins: After SFFA v. Harvard, the Court says no more race-conscious admissions. Unfortunately for Bo French and his identitarian ilk, preventing universities from advantaging certain minorities does not only and always benefit white students. But this is what race-neutrality looks like: plenty of Asian and Indian overrepresentation.
At some point, if you're against progressive admissions officials privileging certain minorities, and you're also against race-blind policies under which other minorities do well, you are basically just outing your movement as white nationalist and shouldn't complain when you are denounced as such.
Keith Coates retweeted
First @ArionCarter was suspended for a $427 flight by the NCAA. An amount he paid back.
Now he is donating $427 for every tackle this season to cancer research. 😏😏😏
How he continues to give back in the best way possible. ⤵️⤵️⤵️
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Keith Coates retweeted
Bacon & Co. have partnered with Alumni Hall & the VolShop to offer the Wes Rucker Memorial T-Shirt
$20 | Youth & Adult sizes
In-store soon + online now: alumnihall.com/tennessee-vol…
All proceeds go directly to the Rucker Family. 🧡
Keith Coates retweeted
From @WSJopinion: Trump owes the Supreme Court an apology—to the Justices he smeared and the institution itself. He doubtless won’t offer one, but his rant in response to his tariff defeat at the Court was arguably the worst moment of his Presidency.
on.wsj.com/4cC6WiH
Keith Coates retweeted
The answer to the person who has saved more lives around the world in our lifetime is probably Pres George W Bush. His PEPFAR program which, starting in 2003, brought HIV treatment to Africa and over 50 countries, has saved more than 25 million lives. He won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize, but PEPFAR is more than worthy of one.
Keith Coates retweeted
The last time I checked, the University of Alabama had a President. So why does Congress need to step in? Instead, why doesn’t President Mohler strap on a backbone and just tell the AD they’d gone too far this time and they need to unwind the Bediako fiasco?
Problem solved.
NCAA statement on Charles Bediako: "These attempts to sidestep NCAA rules and recruit individuals who have finished their time in college or signed NBA contracts are taking away opportunities from high school students. A judge ordering the NCAA let a former NBA player take the court Saturday against actual college student-athletes is exactly why Congress must step in and empower college sports to enforce our eligibility rules."
Keith Coates retweeted
BREAKING:
The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating elected officials for criticizing the administration’s immigration enforcement operations. If this is the basis for the investigation, it is blatantly unconstitutional and intolerable in a free society. The right to condemn government action without fear of government punishment is the foundation of the First Amendment.
This would not be the first time the administration has used boundless, imaginary definitions of “obstruction” or “incitement” that have no basis in the law and run headlong into constitutional limits. The few exceptions to the First Amendment are defined by narrow, exacting standards for a reason: to prevent the government from wielding its power to squash dissent.
If criticism of government policy can be rebranded as a crime, then constitutional protections become meaningless and the government becomes unaccountable. That is precisely the danger the First Amendment is meant to prevent, and it is a line no administration may cross.
Keith Coates retweeted
The Pentagon’s actions are clear retaliation for something Sen. Kelly is entirely within his rights to say. America’s servicemembers already take an oath to uphold the Constitution, which includes not following illegal orders. The argument that the video’s message is sedition, or otherwise unprotected by the First Amendment, is flatly wrong.
Keith Coates retweeted
The ACC has the in-depth HQ Review thing that explains how and why a call is being made on the broadcast, while the SEC and everyone else trots out a rules expert roughly as accurate as a coin flip
Keith Coates retweeted
Will the SEC continue to just ruin games. @SEC @SECOfficiating cannot help but screw up a football game. They are an incompetent embarrassment to the athletes that perform. They deserve better. It’s every single week!!!
Ask Auburn!!!
Keith Coates retweeted
"When you argue that you have to fight fire with fire, not only does everything get burned, you let your opponents’ indefensible behavior become your new standard for defensible behavior." --@JonahDispatch
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Keith Coates retweeted
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” - Thomas Paine
Keith Coates retweeted
“You should be in no doubt that, patriotic conservative that I am, I detest the burning of the nation’s flag—and if I were king I would make it a crime. But as I understand the First Amendment, it guarantees the right to express contempt for the government, the Congress, the Supreme Court, even the nation and the nation’s flag.” - Justice Antonin Scalia
Trump signs executive order banning flag burning —warns those who desecrate flag will get a year in jail trib.al/jKEYcym
Keith Coates retweeted
Thank you sir. If there’s anyone I trust to get involved in the affairs of a private corporation, it’s definitely the federal government
Keith Coates retweeted
New study from Denmark 🇩🇰 of over 1.5 MILLION people who received an mRNA Covid vaccine
NO increased risk of 29 different adverse events
Filter out the noise. Look at real data.
mRNA vaccines are incredibly safe.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Keith Coates retweeted
This isn't even true. Of the 712 confirmed measles cases this year, RFK's CDC concedes that only 2% had the complete 2-dose MMR vaccine. And simply relying on the vaccine absolutely worked when we hit the 95% herd immunity minimum. We didn't have a measles death in 10 years!
RFK Jr. opened by stressing that we can’t rely on the measles vaccine alone to prevent outbreaks.
“We can't rely simply on the vaccine.”
“People get measles because they don't vaccinate and they get measles because the vaccine wanes.”
“The vaccines wanes about 4.8% percent per year.”
“It's a leaky vaccine and that problem is always gonna be around.”
“We need to also make sure that doctors know how to treat measles and how to treat the associated diseases.”
“Children shouldn't die of measles.”