Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

Do you remember the incident at the Culwell Center in Garland? It has its own Wikipedia entry.

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• I'm didn't know Wise County had an up-to-date web page dedicated to road closures because of the Trinity River currently overflowing.  
  
  
  
• Colleyville lightening strike of a home was caught on video yesterday. That's unnerving. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "McEuen is accused of shooting and killing his neighbor, Aaron Martinez, on Neal Road in Forney on May 1, 2023. Investigators said he shot 35-year-old Martinez multiple times . . . . "
  
  
  
• Newark airport has been a mess for over a week, and yesterday we learned one of the reasons why: At least five air traffic controllers took "trauma leave" after an incident a week ago where there was a complete communications blackout with all aircraft for 30 seconds.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It probably sank from the weight of  the self-importance onboard.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• So they think that an immigrant, who has seen you round people up and send them to an El Salvadorian prison, will trust you enough to enter their identifying information into a government app? And for just $1,000? To be paid after you have been returned?
  
  
  

  
  
  
• Trump thinks all immigrants are entitled to a full jury trial before deportation.  Due Process does not always equate to a jury trial.  For immigration purposes, due process requires notice and a hearing. Jury trials, like for criminal cases, are the "gold standard" of due process.  (Side note: The NFL Commissioner having to uncomfortably stand there while Trump held an impromptu press conference was unusually satisfying to me.)
  
  
  
• And that's how you begin to remake a military which will become Trump's own personal army.
  
  
  
• The grift never ends.
  
  
  
• Just Trump "directing" the Justice Department (who he thinks is his personal team of lawyers) to somehow free a person who was convicted by a state jury for a state crime and sits in a state prison. This is insane. 
  
  
  
• Bad legal takes. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. 
  
  
  
• I finally got around to watching all episodes of the Robert Durst documentary, The Jinx. Very good stuff. And I'm almost through with the Karen Read documentary A Body in the Snow. It's great, too. Both are on Max.