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Woman Faces Backlash After Sharing List of Things She Refuses to Do for Husband — But Says It Saved Their Marriage

"THIS ISN'T A MAN'S WORLD ANYMORE AND GETTING MARRIED SHOULDN'T BE A LABOR CONTRACT FOR A WOMAN," ONE TIKTOK CREATOR TELLS PEOPLE

"Number one: I don't do his laundry," April says in the video. "I used to do his laundry. We've been married for six years and in the first year of marriage, he would get frustrated if I didn't get to the laundry that week ... and I was like, 'Mmm, no. I'm not your mom. Do your own laundry.' "

April adds that she does not "follow up behind him and clean up after him," saying, "His nightstand has cups and stuff on it. That's his responsibility to get it to the sink."

"Number three: I do not clean his sink," April says. "We have separate bathroom sinks, I won't clean his ... Again: I'm not your mother. I am your wife. I'm not your mom. You are a big boy."


"People feel very strongly one way or another but the people who disagree have actually gone so far as to insult me, harass me, encourage my husband to cheat on me and divorce me and honestly that's wild," she says.

Texas Men's Basketball Presser

Notes from today's media availability:

Coach Rodney Terry
How do you see Jordan and Julian playing together, both as point guards, and how do they complement each other?

"Jordan is one of those guys that can score on and off the ball, a lot like the way Max did for us last season. Julian is more of a more traditional kind of point guard who can score a little bit as well, makes open shots, but makes other guys around him better. They can totally play together; we played those guys together in both of the last games at some point. We'll do that from time to time. They complement each other."

What do you think were some of the takeaways from the two scrimmages for your program?

"You know what, I think we had great effort, great energy. I thought we had great bench energy. We didn't have any guys moping around or pouting about playing time. I thought everybody was really connected together and locked in, in both of the scrimmages. I thought we did a better job in our second scrimmage taking care of the ball than we did in the first one, which is to be expected, especially early in the year just learning the value of taking care of the basketball, making simple plays and then at the end of the day just getting used to playing with each other. You can only assimilate so much in practice. When you get out there between the lines guys have to have a feel for what guys are capable of doing, what they're not capable of doing, what positions they're good at. All that comes into play in a game situation. I think early in the year one of the things we got better at from one game to the next was fouling. You can't put teams on the free throw line."

One of the things you emphasized heavily last season was taking shots early in the shot clock; might be the best shot you get in the possession. Is that still something you're emphasizing with this team this season?

"Yeah, if it's the right guy shooting it, right? We're not equal opportunity. If you're equal opportunity, you lose by 50, you know? We're not trying to do that. No, our guys know the green-light shooters, the guys that put the time in in the gym. If Tre Johnson is open down the side/up the floor, if Jordan Pope is open, that's a good shot for us. As the season goes along you really want to try to condition your guys to always put pressure on the basket."

You don't really see a lot of power conference teams agreeing to play each other this early; forget opening night, what compelled you to say yes to this matchup, to play [Ohio St] game 1?

"Can we change that? No… No, you know you get challenged right off the bat. Well coached team, Jake has done a great job with his program there. He's got some great returners. Thornton's back, Thornton is one of the best guards in the country. Again, you want to find out early who you are. We jump right in there playing well-coached teams, teams with older players. Again, what it does for you, it really helps you set the tone. For us in November it's going to be about our identity. Who are we going to be in November? Will we be a team every night that comes in and tries to guard really hard, are we going to be a team that values taking care of the basketball? We're going to get tested on all those things at an elite level right off the bat. We're on neutral court. I think it'll be great for us. It's great exposure, we're playing at a prime-time slot, there will be a lot of eyeballs around the country on Texas Basketball."

Do you experiment a whole lot, do you feel like you have a long bench?

"We're two deep at every spot. We've got eight starters on our team, you could say nine starters on the team. We've got different guys that on any given night could be our leading scorers. We are pretty deep and we have a number of different guys who are interchangeable and complement each other very well. With that we can play a lot of different lineups, we can play small, we can play big."

Last week Chendall said one of the most surprising things about Tre Johnson's game was his defense and the intensity he plays with; can you touch on that?

"He's really bought into that. Tre's a highly skilled player with size, real NBA size. But the one thing too, you've got to be able to put on both sides of the ball. The best guys in the world, the guys who make the most money, they're two-way players. They're efficient on offense, but they play really hard on defense and they take pride in their defense. I think he's really bought into that. Just like any young player, just like a lot of our players right now. We have to continue to play hard without fouling."

There's going to be a lot of people who come to games to watch y'all and to watch Tre. How do you think Tre is prepared for that?

"Tre's a team guy. Tre's about winning, it's not about him. He's been one of the best kids to recruit. Great smile, great personality. He's cut from the old cloth, he just wants to win. Whatever it takes to win, he'll do it. He's a great teammate, he's great with the guys, he's a super competitor in terms of really wanting to win. A lot of similarities in regards to when we had Kevin Durant here. Tre loves the ball."

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Jordan Pope
What do you think is the biggest strength of the team so far and what needs the most work?

"Our biggest strength is we have a lot of versatility at a lot of different positions, a lot of different skill sets that complement each other. I think we all play really well off each other. And I think our weakness right now is just, you know, still early-on in our playing days, so just learning each other a little better and getting to know each other better on the court in different situations."

You talk about building that chemistry, how do you think the TCU and Colorado scrimmages helped with that?

"I think it was good for us, it was finally a chance for us to compete against different people and see different lineups and different actions, see how we play with, you know, a real environment, real competition out there. It was good for us. There were some high moments, there were some low moments but it was a good showing."

You don't see a lot of power conference teams opting to play another power conference team on night one, and you don't see that on a neutral floor very often. How much of a challenge is this night one against Ohio State?

"Like you said, not really the first game to be thrown into the fire like that, but I think we're excited for the opportunity, you know, just a great night, to be able to go out there and show people what we have on our team and a great game that being against Ohio State, and I think it will be a good challenge for us and a good stepping stone for us moving in the right direction."

So, what would you say right now in your game, outside of scoring, are your best strengths?

"Playmaking. You know, I'm still a point guard so just getting guys their shots, making defense play on their heels and just creating opportunities for us to make winning plays."


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Julian Larry
How does it feel being back home. Everyone looking forward to seeing you in burnt orange?

"It's been a lot of fun being back home, seeing a bunch of people that I haven't seen in a long time. Getting to reconnect with them, it's just exciting to be back home and play in front of those people."

What do you make of this team, a lot of new faces and different experiences? How do you think you've gelled?

I think we've gelled really well, you know it started off the court, in the summer. And then you know, really just getting in, getting our fundamentals. Then just cranking it up once we got back here."

There's some similarities between you and Jordan, are y'all going to be on the court some together and how do you complement each other?

"That's not really a me question, but I would think we'll be on the court together. We've played together a lot in the summer and in the fall, so we really complement each other a lot, just with me being able to get downhill and create off action and being able to kick to him for an open shot, and him being able to do that for me as well. Being able to help each other get easier shots."

What do you think you learned from the two scrimmages?

"I've learned how to really just stay solid, because I've got a bunch of guys around me who are really good too, so I know if I stay solid and continue to do my job over and over and over again, it's all going to work out and get us to the goal that we want to be at."

What have you seen as the biggest strengths of this team?

"The strength of this team is, when we're running, when we're running we're really, really good. I would say how fast we are, how we are on the defensive end, we're really good on the defensive end, got a lot of guys that can guard, got a lot of length, and we've got some dudes that can clean up some stuff on the glass as well. So I really like us defensively and I really like us running up and down the floor."

Can you talk about what EBE means to you and everyone on the team?

"EBE means, everybody eats. So if everybody does their job at a high level, then everybody is going to eat. And what it means to me, you know, like I say, me doing my job is really how everyone else will eat because I'm really the one who gets it out to everybody, make sure everybody is good and ready to go."

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Won't any of you lefties stand up to the outrageous mischaracterizations of the left news media?

Trump called Liz Cheney a war hawk (she is) and made the point that while she is more than willing to send your sons and daughters in harms way she might feel differently if it was her that those rifles were pointing to. Put her out there with nine rifles pointing at her and see how she feels about it. News media promptly rush out of the woodwork to claim Trump said Cheney should be shot. Jeeze people.

Russia fines Google $20 decillion — 20 followed by 33 zeros

Sounds a bit extreme.

Texas WBB: Harmon and Booker in ESPN Top 10 List

ESPN released their list of Top 25 players in WBB this morning and 2 Longhorns made the Top 10. Southern Cal (#1 and 4) and LSU (#7 and 8) also have 2 players in the Top 10. Notre Dame has 3 of the Top 15 (#3, 13 and 14).

5. Madison Booker, Texas

Forward/guard | 6-foot-1 | sophomore
Stats:
16.5 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 5.0 APG

Booker assumed a larger role after guard Rori Harmon was lost for the season to a knee injury last December. Booker was co-Big 12 player of the year, the first time a freshman won the honor. Then she excelled in her first postseason, leading Texas to the Big 12 tournament title and the Elite Eight. Now she gets ready to take on the SEC.

9. Rori Harmon, Texas

Guard | 5-foot-6 | senior
Stats:
14.1 PPG, 7.8 APG, 3.1 SPG (12 games)

Arguably the best two-way guard in the country, Harmon was in the early player of the year conversation last fall prior to a December ACL tear. In a breakout performance before her injury, she recorded 27 points and 13 assists in Texas' win over UConn, plus held Bueckers to 13 points, prompting coach Geno Auriemma to call Harmon "the best player we've played against this year, by far." Harmon was fully cleared to return to the court earlier this month, and the Longhorns are itching to get her back on the floor -- and playing alongside a budding Madison Booker -- as they seek their first Final Four berth under coach Vic Schaefer.



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**Official TEXAS vs The fightin' Anderson Coopers thread of Robber Barons**

Last week sucked. That's all I'm going to say. So let's look forward and run the table. Like the sage wisdom of a John Mackovic speech after a loss-- "why don't jet fighters have rear view mirrors? Because they don't need to look behind them."
Fvcking moron.

This week's opponent is none other than the White Privileged king of Univeristies- Vanderbilt.
After the Civil war, Cornelius Vanderbilt- the RICHEST man in the world, was basically forced by his wife to give a million dollars to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nashville to start a school that could train minsters that could comfort southerners during the difficult years of the reconstruction period. Cornelius was like "fvck that. I want to start a school out in Staten Island." His 2nd wife, who's name was Frank (Google up some paintings of her-- she looks like a "Frank")-- basically told him if he didn't give the money to the church to fund this college, he'd basically be humping his pillow until the day he died. So, Cornelius scratched a check for 1 million clams and gave it to his wife, who gave it to her sister, who gave it to her husband, who ran that church. Fvcking nepotism.

If you don't know what an asshole Cornelius Vanderbilt was, do some research. One of his most famous quotes was "You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is to slow. I'll ruin you."
Bet this guy was a blast at parties.
This list of his transgressions as a Robber Baron (maybe THE Robber Baron) is long and distinguished.

The Vanderbilt mascot is the Commodores. The nickname is Mr. C. "Why a commodore, Clob?"

Glad you asked. When Cornelius was a kid, he scraped up money from odd jobs and bought a sh!tty little boat and he would ferry people and cargo back and forth between Manhattan and Staten Island. Because the kid never seemed to sleep, and because of his punctuality and shrewd business trades, people took to calling him The Commodore.

Vanderbilt is the Rice of Tennessee but with a much more distinguished list of alumni- especially in the field of medicine. Name any field of medicine and Vanderbilt has an alumni that has won an award of some sort in that particular practice. Hearts. Brains. Lungs. Eyes. Livers. Stomachs. And even tits. Yup..... fake tit surgery was perfected by a Vanderbilt doctor. He won an award for it too.
Norman Shumway was the first man to do a heart transplant. Vandy guy....

The President of Panama went to Vandy. So did the prime minister of Soith Korea. Everyone's favorite climate dickwad, Al Gore went there. Even our current Governor Greg Abbott attended Vandy.

Dinah Shore, Roseanne Cash and Amy Grant all went to Vandy. Vandy even has 2 Academy award winners-- Delbert Mann and Thomas Schulman (he wrote Dead Poets Society).
6 Nobel laureates went to Vandy. Of course Texas has had 13..... but still, that is pretty impressive.

If you didn't know, I'll tell you. Cornelius Vanderbilt spit out a few kids, who spit out some kids, who spit out some more kids, who spit out even more kids who finally spit out a gay kid named Anderson Cooper. Yup. Anderson is the great, great, great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The asshole apple didn't far fall from the tree. Unfortunately for Mr. Cooper, he's made his living in media, while shilling some facts mixed with mostly lies (especially the last 10 years).
For all his faults, Cornelius Vanderbilt had a few nuggets of wisdom-- one of them was "Honesty is the best policy, when there is money in it."

I don't think Anderson got that memo. Quite a shame.

Oh well. From my breakfast table trying to get this 10 month old to eat scrambled eggs, one fragmented bite at a time--

TEXAS!!!!
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