Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The bank robber was identified as Dylan Perry, 38, but I can't immediately find out whatever happened to him. 

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• Quite the one week history of this story.
•  On Monday:
  
  
  
• Then we have a tense arrest in Grapevine yesterday.
  
  
  

• And then . . . Oh, my. 
  
  
  
• Look, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but the podcaster turned FBI Director posting this pic while people were still bleeding at the Dallas ICE facility almost makes me want to be one.  "Anti-ICE" written on one unspent round after three detainees of ICE were hit, one fatally, and then the guy immediately commits suicide? They are begging for conspiracy folks to come out of the woodwork.
  
  
  
• And by noon the President, Vice President, and the Secretary of Homeland Security had all blamed the shooting on "the left." And then the paper of record for Trump runs with it today . . . 
  
  
  
  
• The upcoming indictment of former FBI Direct James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress five years ago is the surest sign yet of "It's Over." If it happens, here is what led up to it over the last few days: 
• Over the weekend, Trump fired the acting U.S. Attorney in Virginia for not indicting Leticia James. A shocking moment that would have any prior president impeached and convicted immediately. 
  
  
  
• Trump then tells AG Pam Bondi, in a post that almost reads like a direct message instead of a Twitter post, to get her underlings busy indicting his enemies including James Comey. Once again, a 100% authoritarian move.
  
  
  
• Trump then immediately names one of his former lawyers who has never served as a prosecutor to replace the fired U.S. Attorney in Virginia.
  
  
  
• And now we have the news yesterday that the she will try to indict James Comey with the the five year statute of limitations running next week.  It's a five alarm fire that can't be stopped. 
  

  

  
  
• We are ruled by a child.
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The sample ballot in California for voter approval of the new congressional district redrawing specifically refers to what just happened in Texas. 
  
  
  
• Updates on posts from yesterday:
• That statue didn't last long.
  
  
  
• "Ed Martin was ordered by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to retract the letter he sent to the FBI agent who responded to the Sandy Hook massacre, which Alex Jones was touting online." (Letter.)
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold  (which features a story of an Alvord teacher feeding a kitten to a snake in front of their class.)