Random Friday Morning Thoughts

A post like this made national news back then, but now it's just commonplace. 

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• Breaking: John Bolton's House Raided By FBI. This raid might be legit or it might be part of Trump's "retribution" promise. I'm guessing the latter, and to, expect more and more of these type of headlines.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Bondi, Patel, and Bongino, all who will follow Trumps orders without question, ran to Twitter this morning:  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Flashback to the September 2020 and the last months of the first Trump Administration.  And this was after Trump threated to "have bombs dropped" on Bolton because of the book. 
  
  
  
• A big Trump win in court in New York, kind of: The huge fine was overturned, but the fraud finding was affirmed.  From the best I can tell, the fine is now just wiped out. You would think they would have remanded the case to the trial court for a do-over on the fine, but I don't think that's what was ordered.  Side note prediction: Trump will have the New York AG, Leticia James, who brought this case, in handcuffs soon.
  
• The musician best know for his huge hit from 2018, “Old Town Road,” had quite the night in Los Angeles. Video of his walk through the streets.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Six dead in a strange incident in Colorado.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "The White House has increased its pressure on the Smithsonian on Thursday, calling out a list of exhibitions and materials mentioning race, slavery, transgender identity and immigration." The Nazis called museum pieces they didn't like "Degenerative Art" -- art that was considered to be an "insult to German feeling" and "un-German" -- and removed them.
  
  
  
• Microsoft sent a warning yesterday of how AI can become your confidante - with dire results.  I absolutely believe this will become a major mental health crisis if it is not already. For a great (yet long) New York Times article with example after example on this, see this gift link.
    
  

  

  

  
  

  

  
  
• The Business Second™: This company is taking over two huge industrial warehouses at Alliance in North Fort Worth.
  
  
  
• Gift link.
  
  
  
• Legal Stuff: The firm represented Dominion in its $787.5 million settlement agreement in 2023 in its defamation case against Fox News.
  
  
  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 49 days.