Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

It was actually a shot of Runaway Bay, but there was significant flooding in Bridgeport as well.

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• Dear Wise County Sheriff's Office: Your PDF of the current jail roster is not updating.
  
  
  
• This story involves a head-on crash around noon on Sunday that was allegedly caused by the guy passing in a no-passing zone on a country road near Anna. No drugs. No alcohol. And I think I found the spot on Google Map's streetview. Side note: His bond is $3 million which is way out of whack for an auto accident case under these circumstances. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Story. "When reached for comment, Delkus referred a reporter to the station’s news director." Oh, come on!
  
  
  
• Says a guy who wears a vest in 2025.
  
  
  
• There is no definitive word on why.
  
  
  
  
• Trump has just arrived at Capitol Hill to try to get the House to pass the "One Big Beautiful Bill." But, instead, he started ranting about immigrants from "the prisons in Congo" and "Biden's autopen."  
  
  
  
  
• In one her first official acts, the former Trump personal lawyer, Alina Habba, has charged a Democratic member of Congress with a crime.  Get ready for more of this. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ridiculous. 
  
  
  
• Stay with me here: Paramount owns CBS.  Last year, Paramount reached an $8 billion deal to sell itself to a third party, but the sale needed federal approval.  Trump then won the election and also sued CBS News on a silly claim against 60 Minutes.  CBS News wants to fight the lawsuit but Paramount, which calls the shots, still needs the federal approval for its sale so it is planning to settle (bribe) Trump's lawsuit for a reported $30 to $50 million.   The boss of 60 Minutes has already quit in disgust. Now the head of CBS News is out.   The free press is always crushed by an autocracy. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Going 0-23 probably had a lot to do with the decision. (By the way, the Madison Mallards "are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Madison, Wisconsin.")  
  
  
  
• Gift link. It's a long one, but it is newly published.  
  
   
  
  
  
• Legal nerdy stuff: The Texas House passed a bunch of "bond reform" bills yesterday, some of which will require voter approval, but there is no way they know what they are voting on. This story has the links to the bills if you are interested.