- Fantastic drone footage of the flooding in Wise County last week.
- A Facebook post by the son of Roy Cooper is interesting.
- I started noticing a couple of motorcycle accidents happening in the metroplex on Saturday so I started to keep track of them. These are all from Saturday and Sunday:
- The White House says they are "looking into" suspending the right of habeas corpus, depending on whether courts do the "right thing", and it barely is a blip on the news radar. It's over.
- Qatar is going to give a $400 million luxury airliner to Trump? The key is that it would go to Trump "for his presidential library" after he leaves office. The deal has even been approved by AG Pan Bondi who just happened to have worked as a registered lobbyist on behalf of the Qatari government at a salary of $115,000 per month.
- If only there was a law dealing with this stuff.
- When you've lost crazy Laura Loomer:
- It's not hard to figure out who Trump thinks are "good" immigrants.
- The scandal in 2005 when Jeanine Pirro, Trump's pick for U.S. Attorney for D.C., was a DA in New York and tried to get the police commissioner of NYC to bug the family's boat in order to catch her husband having an affair.
- How's that Make America Healthy Again thing going?
- John Cornyn continues his transformation to a Trump sycophant as he faces a contested re-election.
- The new FEMA chief sounds like a maniac as a secret camera caught his first remarks to the troops. "I don't stop at yield signs . . . I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA."
- Ken Paxton took credit for this but he actually contracted the litigation out to the private firm of Norton Rose Fulbright who will be be paid in one of two ways: Its billable hours on the case times a multiplier of four, or a percentage of the total settlement (27%), whichever is less.
- Say what?
- Bill Belichick's girlfriend competed in the Miss Maine pageant this weekend. She got second runner-up.
- "The 2025 NFL season will begin with the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, Sept. 4, the league announced Monday."