Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

How did we not get legalized gambling after that?

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• My highly compensated Liberally Lean Winter Weather Team has issued a prediction of the temperature dropping below freezing in Wise County at 7:10 p.m. on Friday and is projecting 4.7 inches of snow through Saturday.  Oh, and I asked ChatGPT to finally show you their faces, and I'm not quite sure about the result:
  
  
  
• Here is a Facebook video of the Wise County candidate forum which was held last week.
  
  
  
• To their shock?
  
  
  
• He ranted about windmills for at least five minutes during his speech, and that's the most sane thing he's said so far (which has been going on for over 50 minutes right now.)  Edit: He just said, "Until the last few days when I told them [NATO] about Iceland [he means Greenland], they loved me. They called me daddy." 
  

  
  
  
• Air Force One had to turn around last night due to a "minor" electrical malfunction last night.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump's hand-picked prosecutor -- who can't get a a grand jury to indict -- is gone.  
  
  
  
• Trump reposted someone who said NATO is the problem and not China or Russia. 
  
  
  
• Trump did an hour and half news conference yesterday. 
• I'm not sure the "Don't Tread on Me" and "Come and Take It Crowd" really understand what they have done.
  
  
  
• Link.
  
  
  
• Seems lopsided.
  
  
  
• So not only are lawyers getting in trouble for using AI, but courts are chewing out opposing counsel for not catching it. Opinion.
  
  
  
• Ted Cruz was spotted on a plane heading to Laguna Beach yesterday. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Texas AG Ken Paxton issued a non-binding opinion that everyone basically ignored. 

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• Latest from the National Weather Service:
  
  
  
• Everyone is freaking out about snow and ice projections, but the cold snap is definitely real.  My Liberally Lean Weather Team says that at this point they project Wise County will be below freezing for 90 hours: From Friday at 6:00 p.m. to Tuesday at 12:00 noon.  Delkus has the time frame less for the metroplex.
  
  
  
• Big Michigan pile-up.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• No motive for this shooting so far. 
  
  
  
  
• Texas AG Ken Paxton issued a non-binding opinion yesterday that everyone will probably ignore. (The fact that he called it a "landmark" is laughable.)  And that he issued it on MLK Day is not a coincidence. 
  
  
  
• The Fort Worth FD continues to take their photographer along for glamour shots.  This was from a house fire a couple of days ago. 
  
  
  
• Trump has lost his mind on Greenland. 
• He posted this in the middle of the night.
  
  
  
• And he's headed to Switzerland so hold your breath. 
  
  
  
  
• Those "Kavanaugh stops" by ICE agents haven't quite turned out quite like he thought. "ChongLy Thao, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen who goes by the name Scott, was returned home later on Sunday without explanation ‌or apology."
  

  

  Noem v. Perdomo __ U.S. __  (2025)(Kavanaugh J., concurring)

  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• Indiana won the national championship last night. Fun turnover fact: The Hoosiers lost one fumble all year and that was in the first quarter of their first game of the season. That didn't happen again for the rest of the year's final 1,047 offensive plays.

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The truck had just been serviced by Siddons-Martin Emergency Group in Denton, and the company was returning the vehicle to the fire station when the crash occurred. 

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• I-30 right below downtown Dallas was completely closed over the weekend for major construction. The photo below is from Saturday.  And they actually had it opened back up this morning.
  
  
  
• Remember the employee who was killed after he got off work at Flip's near Western Center boulevard? Police now say the shooters were the dead man's robbery victims 4 years ago when he made them strip naked and videoed it. 
  
  
  
• Have you visited the McDonald's in Springtown? "A teen has been arrested for charging McDonald's customers double in Springtown, police say. According to a press release, 19-year-old Giovanni Primo Blount of Poolville was arrested after discovering he allegedly was part of a scheme targeting customers who paid with credit or debit cards at the Springtown McDonald's [where the extra funds were transferred to his personal account.]"
  
  
  
• Lot of inter-family conflict these days. Story
  
  
  
• Texas politics: 
• In the senate race, Ken Paxton released an AI ad showing John Cornyn dancing with Jasmine Crockett.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Gov. Abbott filed his campaign finance report and it turned out to be over 10,000 pages long and showing that he had raised $22.7 million and has $105.7 million in the bank.  He has no Republican primary opponent. 
  
  
  
• Dan Patrick is hob-knobbing this week. .
  
  
  
• Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will decide two interesting cases:
• In a case near and dear to my heart, Roundup may be saved. 
  
  
  
• The decision to hear a geofence case out of Texas comes as somewhat of a surprise since Google no longer produces the data. 
  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the The Handmaid's Tale.
  
  
  
• In an insane move, Trump said he will impose tariffs on our most prominent NATO friends, and that the "Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Supreme Court is currently considering whether Trump can justify his imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.  So what's the emergency about the tariffs to obtain Greenland? Here was the Orwellian answer yesterday: 
  
  
  
• Minneapolis updates: 
• What would send shockwaves across the nation a few years ago is now hardly a blip on the radar: 
  
  
  
• This post by Homeland Security is 100% wrong.  You can be arrested only for probable cause. You can only de detained if there is just reasonable suspicion. 
  
  
  
• Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marched through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents and shouting at protestors.  Others have pointed out that his attire seemed a little familiar. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• In total, three people were pardoned in this scheme on Friday. But the lede was buried: The daughter of one of those pardoned "donated $2.5 million to a Trump-linked super PAC in 2024 while the felony indictment remained pending. She donated another $1 million in July 2025."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The First Amendment used not to work this way. 

• This story was weird even before this morning's news that Trump has invited, of all people, Vladimir Putin to join this board. 

• Trump bizarrely vowed to protect the Army-Navy football game this weekend: "I will soon sign a Historic Executive Order securing an EXCLUSIVE 4 hour Broadcast window, so this National Event stands above Commercial Postseason Games. No other Game or Team can violate this Time Slot!!!"