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.