11.21.2025

Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And the link is still alive. Still weird that it existed at all. 

  • Oh, my. Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle have been indicted for plotting to invade a Haitian island, kill its men, and enslave women and children.  Edit: Here's the U.S. Attorney's Press Release



  • That's a baller move to have one of your final requests be that those two wouldn't be at your funeral. 


  • So let's get this straight:
    • Six members of Congress, four senators and two House Representatives - all ex military, put out a video telling the military it's ok to not follow "unlawful orders."

    • That message was absolutely correct, and they should be lauded for it.  After all, the literal defense of the Nazis as Nuremburg was "I was just following orders."

    • But then Trump responded yesterday by saying those six members of Congress should be executed. Are we just numb to this craziness?


    • Then Trump's sycophants go completely Orwellian by changing the words of what the lawmakers actually said, claiming the lawmakers told the troops to disobey "lawful" orders.  This is truly right out of 1984.
      Video of Leavitt yesterday
      Mike Johnson's quote. Video


    • And we just sit back and think all of this normal? The government, through Trump, called for execution of his critics who members of Congress. And then the government changes the actual words of those critics to justify Trump calling for their death. In America. Or what's left of it. It's over. 

  • And this barely causes a wave. (Gift link.)

  • Other quick hit headlines straight from front pages:
    • Wall Street Journal:

    • Also from WSJ
    • Denton Record Chronicle
    • And, finally, from the Baylor Lariat.

       
  • Weird legal nerdy stuff: So a dissenting judge on the Fifth Circuit, on the issue of certification of a question to a state supreme court, just randomly, and out of nowhere, takes a shot at Bluesky
  • Say what? 6A Plano West has an enrollment of 4,914.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 140 days.