5.23.2025

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




After one of the wettest Mays ever, Lake Bridgeport went from a shocking 23 feet low to full in just a matter of days. And it continued to rise past 836 feet, the conservation level, by week's end.

  • Kudos on the Wise County Messenger for calling out Rep. Andy Hopper in an opinion piece this week for ineptly handling the only piece of legislation that directly impacted Wise County - the creation of a Wise County water district.

  • The leader of the "small government" Republican Party continues to lose his mind. Now Trump wants to put "tariffs" on a single private American company.  From this morning:  


  • That's 27% of the private university's student body. And this is 100% authoritarian crap. 

  • This is weird. And scary. A guy shows up for immigration court in court in Dallas for possible deportation. (You know, trying to follow the law.)  Once there, the United States dismisses its case in open court, and then judge kicks him out of the public courtroom into the waiting arms of ICE agents who disappear with him.


    • And that exact same thing appears to have happened all across the country yesterday. Thread of related stories here. 
      Those aren't immigrants. Those are the ICE agents.

    • Edit at Friday at 10:30:  Ten people were rounded up by ICE in the same way this morning in Dallas per a Dallas Morning News reporter. (Photos.)
  • Follow-up to Trump's ambush of the the president of South Africa with claims of "genocide." Facts don't matter. Truth doesn't matter. Character doesn't matter.


  • Trump held a private dinner last night at his nearby golf course for the top 220 purchasers of his "$TRUMP coin.'  Corruption in plain site.


  • He's not leaving.
     

  • Look at all the stories above this bullet point. This is authoritarianism.  It's happening right before our eyes. It's over. 
  • Did Jared take this picture?

  • The sometimes topless District Attorney in West Texas sure has some hot opinions.  (She also dismissed a weed/THC case yesterday and publicized it.)

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 325 days.

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