Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

A "fire occurred at Formosa Fun Coast, a water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Staff of an outdoor 'color powder party' sprayed clouds of corn starch towards the participants, which ignited. The fire lasted 40 seconds and burned 508 people, killing 15 and leaving 199 in critical condition." Video.

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•  Liberally Lean on official leave: Day 2 of 5.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

Hood County dueling marches faced off.

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• Liberally Lean on official leave: Day 1 of 5.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Katie Lang of Hood County (surprise) became the first county clerk to announce she would not issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

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•  Blog Alert:  This will be the last regular featured Random Thought for the next five work days. The hardest working man in show business is taking a break.  I will, however, have the "10 Years Ago" feature pre-loaded for each day.  Be strong. I'll return soon. 
• Incredible.  Life in prison isn't necessarily a bad deal for the State, but to do this without consulting the victims' families and then scheduling the plea to take place in court on Wednesday (as they scramble to get their), is beyond shocking.  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• This is real. The grift never ends. The corruption never stops. There is no bottom. (And he even made a commercial in his normal video setting making it all seem government sanctioned -- which I guess it is. Price: $199 for men's, $249 for women's.)
  
  
  
• Trump will visit the Everglades Concentration Camp today (and that's exactly what it is.)
  
   
  
  
  
• And this is a real post by the Department of Homeland Security. This country is in serious trouble.  
  
  
  
• ICE raided a Home Depot parking lot in Cypress Park, California yesterday, and this is an actual photo of them. 
  
  
  
• Speaking of no bottom. 
  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• This was not a note the prosecution wanted to see. 

  

  
  
• Elon does not like what the Big Beautiful Bill will do to the country and the deficit. And that last sentence is a banger. (In response, Trump threatened to cancel all of Elon's government contracts which would cause him to "close up shop and head back home to South Africa.")
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Trump had other things on his mind yesterday other than the BBB.
  
  
  
• Update about the big accident near Terrell.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• I haven't listened to it, but a true crime podcast has been released which is looking at the Wise County case of Lauren Whitener. 

Random Monday Morning Thoughts

I had forgotten the firestorm in Texas the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision stirred up. (More on that later this week.) But is started out calmly enough in Denton County. 

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• A horrible wreck in on I-20 in Terrell left five dead.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• But it's way too early for DPS to haul off and arrest a truck driver for "falling asleep." And it's going to take way more than that to turn an accident into "manslaughter" or "aggravated assault with a deadly weapon." 
  
  
  
  
  
  


• Elon is not happy with Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill.":
  
  
  
• Everyone from Dan Patrick to John Cornyn to Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker are calling on the Tarrant County Republican Party chairman to resign after he posted an online poll.  Side note: He's done a ton of more offensive things than that. What took them so long?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Hulen Mall caught fire Friday evening. Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Do not defy the Fuhrer on the Big Beautiful Bill, or anything else.
  
  
  
• Result the next day:
  
  
  
• Even the Israeli justice system jumps when Trump tells them to. On Saturday, Trump threatened to withhold aid to Israel unless it stops the prosecution of Netanyahu. 
  
  
  
• And then on Sunday: 
  
  
  
• Pam Bondi news
• More proof that it's over.
  
  
  
• She's dumb as a box of rocks. In a press conference after national injunctions were basically eliminated by the Supreme Court, she said that Birthright Citizenship will be "decided in October" (there is no case currently pending before Supreme Court with that issue), "unless it comes down in the next few minutes" (there weren't even any cases left for the court to decide this term)  And it's the next term of the Supreme Court, not the next session. Video.
  
  
  
• While the Senate debated passing a budget that would slash Medicaid and cause 12 million people to lose their healthcare, Jeff Bezos, the third wealthiest person in the world,  got married in three day star-studded affair in Venice. 
  
  
  
• I'm sorry, what?
  
  
  
• I had nothing to so with this on the Decatur square. (h/t Chris.)
  
  
  
• We'll see more and more of stuff like this. "The U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York has opened a federal investigation into free-agent guard Malik Beasley related to gambling, his lawyer, Steve Haney, confirmed to The Athletic on Sunday."



• I normally despise "fight videos", but it you haven't seen the brawl between the gals at the Star in Frisco, it's a must see.