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Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is caught in the firing line of gambling, college football, and mental health activism.

Even though Sorsby was apparently caught earlier this year gambling on NCAA games, he will still suit up for the Red Raiders this coming season.

'The NCAA strongly disagrees with the court's ruling in this case.'

Sorsby's gambling activity was unearthed in March, when he was found to have placed at least 40 bets on his team when he played for Indiana from 2022 to 2023. Not only did the quarterback wager approximately $90,000 over four years, per On3, he also allegedly used sportsbook accounts registered to friends and family members to do so.

The 22-year-old reportedly continued to gamble after transfers to Cincinnati for 2024 and 2025 and to Texas Tech, where he transferred in January.

Sorsby checked into gambling addiction rehab in April and has since been released with a diagnosis of gambling and anxiety disorder. Those issues, which Yahoo reported are officially recognized by the NCAA as mental health disorders, were not properly considered by the NCAA when the organization decided to rule him as ineligible, Sorsby's lawyers have argued.

Despite all this trouble, a judge ruled on Monday that Sorsby's college career will continue, for now.

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Ken Curry — a judge in Lubbock County, Texas, where Texas Tech is located — ruled that Sorsby shall continue to play for Texas Tech by way of injunction. According to Curry, Sorsby's attorneys were able to prove that he would "suffer a probable, imminent, and irreparable injury," monetarily speaking, if he was not allowed to play in the meantime.

The Athletic reported on Tuesday that the NCAA has filed an appeal, claiming that the court is corrupting college football's "integrity."

"The NCAA strongly disagrees with the court's ruling in this case and is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching, and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome — which undermines and corrupts the integrity of sports," the NCAA reportedly said in a statement.

The college body added, "The NCAA is committed to supporting student-athlete mental health but must continue to aggressively defend against actions that defraud college athletics and threaten competitive integrity, such as betting on one's own sport.”

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Although court filings reportedly showed that Sorsby admitted to betting with the caveat that he always bet on his teammates to succeed, his school's conference is apparently having talks about refusing to play against his team.

Kansas State Athletic Director Gene Taylor told Yahoo Sports that the Big 12 conference had "serious conversations" about the idea.

"It's f**king bulls**t," Taylor told the outlet on Monday. "I know the kid has a problem. Well, get well and focus on your problem. It is absolutely devastating for him to be able to play when every other sport, no matter the level, deems an athlete ineligible or they are punished severely for betting on their team."

A condition of the injunction requires Sorsby to sit out for the first two games of the season against Abilene Christian and Oregon State, neither of which are in the Big 12.

Sorsby would be eligible to return against the University of Houston, a Big 12 team, on September 18.

Other discussions about avoiding Texas Tech have reportedly taken place in conferences like the Big Ten and the SEC.

ESPN college football reporter Pete Thamel said on Monday night that Big Ten officials are expected to have a discussion about a possible conference refusal to play Texas Tech in any sport. He cited three unnamed Big Ten sources.

In the SEC, University of Georgia Athletic Director Josh Brooks issued an internal memo to coaches telling them not to schedule any contests against Texas Tech without approval, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

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Jimmy Kimmel mocked Trump with a manipulated visual image of a diaper after his tense NBC interview with Kristen Welker and criticized his NBA Finals appearance.

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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is facing scrutiny over his personal relationships after reports surfaced linking him to not one, but two former staffers during his time in the Texas Legislature.

“I’m very interested in the timeline here. Now, you know who’s not interested is the mainstream media,” Gonzales says.

“The legacy media, not interested in that at all because of course their entire existence is just to run cover for Democrats in any of these inappropriate workplace relationships,” she continues, before pointing out that there’s a deeper rabbit hole when it comes to Talarico’s workplace relationships.

“He seems to have a history of preying on young female staffers in the Texas Legislature. I’d like to introduce you to another Texas legislative staffer that he was in a relationship with, Irma Reyes,” she explains, showing a post on X from the former staffer.

Reyes did not deny a relationship with Talarico and instead simply requested “privacy.”

“Now I really have questions because the left has consistently told us through the Me Too movement that that kind of workplace imbalance of power is actually sexual harassment and that it doesn’t matter if the women consents because it’s just inherently wrong,” Gonzales says.

“It’s inherently abusive if the man is in a position of power over the woman. You’re not allowed to do that. That’s a no-no. That’s been their whole thing,” she continues, calling Talarico a “total weirdo.”

“And I think if the Democrats had any actual real principles or morals or values, they would be willing to call it out. But they don’t because they’re just evil ghouls,” she adds.

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A majority of Democrats view gender transition, as well as the murder of unborn children, as morally acceptable, a recent Gallup survey revealed.

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On June 9, 2026, President Trump's Department of Justice launched an investigation into Philadelphia Police over the possible reliance upon "vague, personal discretion" in cancelling some permits for concealed carry.

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Last September, President Trump issued a well-received proclamation intended to discourage the continued use and abuse of the now very well-known H-1B program. The policy, however, has hit a roadblock in the courts.

On Monday, a federal judge ruled that Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa sponsor fee is unlawful.

'They're hurting our country very badly.'

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, appointed by Obama in 2014, ruled that the $100,000 fee violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution.

Judge Sorokin of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts argued that the policy is effectively a tax, and Congress had not clearly delegated the prerogative of levying it to the president. The judge agreed with the states that "the substance and application of the $100,000 payment reveal that it is a tax."

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The lawsuit was brought in December by 20 states, many of which are led by Democrats and which draw heavily from the H-1B program.

“Every day, thousands of people with H-1B visas serve New Yorkers as doctors, teachers, and other skilled workers,” Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose state was among those who brought the suit, told CNBC.

“Today a court put an end to this administration’s illegal attempt to destroy this critical program and the many jobs it makes possible,” James said.

When asked for a response to the ruling, Trump told a reporter, “These federal judges are really giving us a hard time.”

“It’s really crazy what’s going on with the court system,” Trump added, according to CNBC. “They’re hurting our country very badly.”

The Trump administration intends to appeal the decision and expects it to be reversed.

In a statement to Reuters, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said, "President Trump has clear legal authority to restrict entry of any class of aliens he determines is not in America’s best interests, and that is ⁠exactly what he did."

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Technology. I’m not a “technology writer” by any stretch of the imagination, but I find myself writing about it a lot.

I don’t opine about the next breakthroughs in AI or the newest generation of iPads that are set to be released at the end of Q3. Are there new iPads coming out in Q3? I don’t know. I’m not a technology writer.

But it is the most viable and scalable path forward in a world oversaturated with digital technology.

But I do think a lot about the role of technology in our lives. About the way we live differently alongside it and how we are shaped in strange ways by it.

Same but different

In some ways, it’s a very 21st-century concern. Technology — digital technology in particular — has been advancing at an unparalleled rate in our century, and it doesn’t seem to show any signs of slowing.

But, of course, technology didn't begin with the digital. Cars are technology. The washing machine was once cutting-edge technology. Same for the printing press, the mechanical clock, and the wheel. Technology has been around, advancing, and disrupting for a long time.

We live in a post-assembly-line world. That term — the assembly line — isn’t even particularly interesting to us. Same with the Industrial Revolution. That’s just something boring we learned about (and then promptly forgot) in middle school.

But the Industrial Revolution and the assembly line were quite radical at one point. They changed the way people work, and they disrupted society. A fair share of the carnage of the 20th century is due, in part, to the disruptions of the Industrial Revolution.

The train changed the way we move, the printing press changed how we learn, the telephone made us closer even when we were farther, the radio made mass society possible, the television made books less relevant, and the invention of the washing machine — yes, the mundane washing machine — played some role in the social revolutions of the 1960s.

All-consuming

In this sense, the age of AI is no different from the steam age. In another sense, however, it is unlike any technological revolution we have ever experienced: far more immersive and all-consuming than anything that came before.

Because it is more possible than ever to always be connected to everyone on earth in a perpetual state of latent distraction and worry, our time presents unique challenges for all thinking people who want to live a decent life that might be be hard to recognize to those who came before us.

For a few, the answer is blowing it all up. For many more, the answer is embracing every single aspect of every new form of digital technology imaginable like a dog lapping up fresh water. Both are wrong. The extreme answers are often the most alluring because they only require addressing one decision point. This way or that way? Once you settle on which, you just scale it out the whole way and set the cruise control.

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Split the difference

Yes, as with most things, the middle path is the way forward. I know, it’s not sexy, and it’s not at all alluring. Moderation never is. But it is the most viable and scalable path forward in a world oversaturated with digital technology.

Intentional technology use — that’s what it is, and that’s what we will call it. That first word is the key word: intentional. Most of the drift into toxic technology consumption and brain rot is due to being less than intentional in terms of how one uses technology.

Defaulting to “just using the phone” or “just asking Grok” or “just scrolling” because you have some time to waste. Concluding that watching more, streaming more, scrolling more, and outsourcing more of your decision-making to technology because there isn’t anything inherently wrong or immoral about it.

That kind of unintentional approach to technology can quickly lead to surrendering all of your agency to the bots. As the gamers would put it, you go from being a player to one of those automatons the player meets along the way: a non-player character.

Best intentions

To use technology intentionally is to ask if we can do it ourselves before enlisting digital help. Intentional technology use is asking ourselves if we like ourselves when we use some product, app, or digital service — and, if the answer is no, changing course.

Intentional technology use is setting aside time apart from technology so we can remember what it means to be purely human. Intentional technology use is about balancing convenience and thoughtfulness. It’s about managing the speed of the modern world without losing the pace of organic human society.

Intentional technology use isn’t about making everyone’s choices regarding technology the exact same. People will decide differently. Everyone’s lives won’t be alike. That’s a feature, not a bug.

The key is that first word — intention. Without that, we're just floating down the stream, pushed wherever the currents of technological progress take us. The 21s century is unlikely to become less complicated. To thrive as humans in this most disruptive of times, we must keep asking ourselves the fundamental question: Who are we, and who do we want to be?

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday evening that his government will take major steps to crack down on illegal immigration, including the creation of an “Intelligent Population Register” that “contains biometric data for every person in the country.”

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