Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The video of Trump and eagle during a Time photo shoot was released. 

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• Shootings in the news.
• Outside of Hulen Mall on Saturday afternoon. .
  
  
  
• Police were called out to Pandora Men’s Club, 8700 South Freeway, at 4:20 a.m. (!) Sunday. 
  
  
  
• I always complain about how local newsrooms have been gutted. Case in point: I saw this great tease only to find out from the story that the incident occurred in 2021 and the case was disposed of in court in 2022.  Absolutely nothing new has happened since then. 
  
  
  
• The craziest thing about the video is that he could have high-fived the Amazon driver who was on the way back to his truck. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Political news this morning. Colin Allred drops out of a Senate run. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett  is expected to launch a Senate bid this afternoon.  
  
  
  
• You could teach constitutional law by just telling your students to know who was on the court when a case was decided. 
  
  
  
• I never understand headlines like this.   I read time and time again of judicial decisions demonstrating how qualified immunity is almost impossible to overcome, and then a city just gets out their checkbook anyway. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Wait a second.  Does the United States government just represent Elon Musk now?
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Lots of buses catching fire lately.  Video.
  
  
  
• Ken Paxton sued the developers of the "Islamic housing development" north of Dallas but the "radical plot" he cites to justify it sounds a lot like the business plan of  D.R. Horton. or any other land developer.
  
  
  
  
• Trump news. 
• He basically gave himself a Dundee on Friday.
  
  
  
• Good news! We'll all be driving tiny cars. 
  
  
  
• What are we doing here? 
  
  
  
• College football observations:
• North Texas missing out of the playoffs by losing to Tulane on Friday night might turn out to be a blessing in disguise once all is said and done.
• Texas Tech could actually win the National Championship because of that defense. 
• The path of the Aggies is a brutal one. 
  
  
  
• Notre Dame (10-2) , Iowa State (8-4), and Kansas State (6-6) have all decided not to play in any bowl game. That caused a domino effect yesterday evening causing the the last bowl on the totem poll to go searching for a team. Appalachian State finally came to the rescue. 
  
  
  
• DWI cases used to be training grounds for new prosecutors to gain trial experience in the big cities. That no longer occurs because of deferred adjudication probation becoming a plea bargain option in 2019.  The Tarrant County misdemeanor courts used to be constantly busy with DWI jury trials. Now they basically sit empty on trial days.