5.30.2025

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




I was all over the Waco Twin Peaks case back then. 

  • Meant to post this yesterday. The Tarrant County DA's office says it no longer thinks it can prove its case. In reality. it was a case that the DA's predecessor actually indicted and one which the current DA would not have.  Video of the shooting had previously released by police.


  • Now that's a headline. 

  • Texas Monthly's Top 50 BBQ Joints included one in Decatur:

  • There was a bee invasion on the courthouse square in Decatur yesterday. Some bee wranglers had to be brought in. 
  • I'd love to tell you more about this case, but it really makes no sense why the judge allegedly threatened a defendant with a case pending in his JP court to take a totally separate felony plea bargain offer in the district court. 

  • Get ready for construction costs to skyrocket. (Video of raid.)


  • In a ridiculous long rant last night, Trump further attacked the judiciary saying he will no longer listen to the conservative Federalist Society on his federal judge selections.  He also went after Leonard Leo, the darling of conservatives everywhere, who has guided Trump on those picks. You might remember this rendition of Leo in a painting owned by Dallas' Harlan Crowe, who is also in the painting along with Justice Clarence Thomas.

  • He will always be with us.  (Side note: The New York Times this morning has an article on Elon's drug use during the Trump campaign. Gift link.)

  • The new Trump selection: A 29 year old guy who has made social media posts urging Trump to declare martial law to (steal) the election, has praised the Confederate flag, and made posts praising Laura Loomer and one of the Tate Brothers, 



  • You can certainly tell Sen. John Cornyn is running for re-election. 

  • College Softball World Series: I love it.   OU's walk off homerun, when down by 2 runs and with 2 outs in the final inning, was fantastic yesterday. Video.  They play Texas tomorrow at 2:00 p.m..  And Tech won. They play UCLA at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 332 days.



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5.29.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts





After a long (two hours) but slow (10 mph) police chase, which had people gathering on bridges in the metroplex to watch it, cops finally got the vehicle stopped by ramming it with a SWAT vehicle followed by an army of officers jumping out. (Video.)

  • Everyone needs calm down with all these headlines. It will be appealed and/or ignored. And raise your hand if you've ever heard of the "U.S. Court of International Trade."

    • And what purpose does Stephen Miller have in spreading the identities of the judges other than to intimidate. Or worse. 

    • But do not ask Trump what he thinks about his nickname on Wall Street of "TACO" -- which stands for "Trump always chickens out" when it comes to imposing tariffs. 
      Mary Cassella of CNBC

  • Musk is gone from the Trump Administration ending a chapter to one of the most colossal missteps anyone has ever taken. 


  • A window blew out on the fifth floor of the Texas Capitol last night during a storm and almost fell down to the rotunda. That's so far up, I'm not sure the public is even allowed there. 

  • No word on why.  He was 56.

  • A very, very large home caught fire in Mira Vista in Fort Worth yesterday morning, but I certainly wouldn't call it destroyed.  Video.


  • Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick held a silly press conference yesterday where he displayed a bunch of THC products. It had a very Reefer Madness feel to it.  During it, he called a reporter "stupid" for asking if there was a way to do a ban "where grown adults still have access to the products." 

    • Gold.

  • More crazy pardons are coming. Side note: There's no way he watched the trial because (1) he doesn't have the attention span, and (2) it was in federal court which doesn't allow TV cameras.


  • Trump appointed one of his personal lawyers, and more importantly a sycophant, to the Third Court of Appeals. 

  • The Business Second™. Big news in Wichita Falls.

  • "After receiving a call of shots fired shortly after midnight, cops found Foster with multiple gunshot wounds inside a car and died at Delta Health Center 35 minutes later." Story.

  • Extremely legal nerdy stuff for criminal practitioners. The Court of Criminal Appeals ruled yesterday that a passenger has standing to challenge a vehicle search which occurs after an illegal prolonged detention under Rodriguez. (Honestly, I never really thought otherwise.) The case now goes back to the lower court to decide, presumably, if reasonable suspicion existed to prolong the traffic stop and, if so, can a detention for nearly an hour before a drug dog arrives be reasonable.
  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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5.28.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




I was wrong about that. And in two weeks Trump would come down the golden escalator with his Build the Wall campaign. 

  • We had an arrest in the Lake Grapevine case after the alleged driver of the jet ski was quickly identified. I'm surprised it took even that long with the clear picture we had of her. Plus, video emerged showing that the cops even had the license plate number of the car she drove away in. 


    • Ken Paxton was very excited to learn both of the arrestees were "illegal aliens" that he could barely contain himself.  (The theme of Ann Coulter's book, above, is still playing well to the crowds.) He also tried to personally take credit for the arrest in a press release.  

       
    • And Gov. Abbott then took to social media to render a verdict of the "death penalty" even though nothing about this incident makes it a capital crime. (I can't tell you how weird it is for a governor to weigh in at all in a criminal case.)

  • We had another SpaceX failure by Elon yesterday evening -- or as he calls it, "a rapid unscheduled disassembly."


  • Trump threatened Russia yesterday, and then the official Russian state media account openly mocked him in response. 

  • More pardons by Mr. Law and Order.
  • Everyone in the Trump Administration acts like the Secretary of State except the Secretary of State (Marco Rubio.)

  • He's not well.

  • Say what?

  • Wild: A guy who was featured 10 years ago for his participation in a veteran's court in San Francisco almost killed a woman last week during a burglary of a billionaire's home. 


  • We haven't heard much of an update on the Roy Cooper case (if there is a case), but hundreds turned out, including George Strait, for a memorial service for him at the Fort Worth Stockyards on Memorial Day. The Star-Telegram has a big spread on it.

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