Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The truck had just been serviced by Siddons-Martin Emergency Group in Denton, and the company was returning the vehicle to the fire station when the crash occurred. 

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• I-30 right below downtown Dallas was completely closed over the weekend for major construction. The photo below is from Saturday.  And they actually had it opened back up this morning.
  
  
  
• Remember the employee who was killed after he got off work at Flip's near Western Center boulevard? Police now say the shooters were the dead man's robbery victims 4 years ago when he made them strip naked and videoed it. 
  
  
  
• Have you visited the McDonald's in Springtown? "A teen has been arrested for charging McDonald's customers double in Springtown, police say. According to a press release, 19-year-old Giovanni Primo Blount of Poolville was arrested after discovering he allegedly was part of a scheme targeting customers who paid with credit or debit cards at the Springtown McDonald's [where the extra funds were transferred to his personal account.]"
  
  
  
• Lot of inter-family conflict these days. Story
  
  
  
• Texas politics: 
• In the senate race, Ken Paxton released an AI ad showing John Cornyn dancing with Jasmine Crockett.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Gov. Abbott filed his campaign finance report and it turned out to be over 10,000 pages long and showing that he had raised $22.7 million and has $105.7 million in the bank.  He has no Republican primary opponent. 
  
  
  
• Dan Patrick is hob-knobbing this week. .
  
  
  
• Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will decide two interesting cases:
• In a case near and dear to my heart, Roundup may be saved. 
  
  
  
• The decision to hear a geofence case out of Texas comes as somewhat of a surprise since Google no longer produces the data. 
  
  
  
  
• Welcome to the The Handmaid's Tale.
  
  
  
• In an insane move, Trump said he will impose tariffs on our most prominent NATO friends, and that the "Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Supreme Court is currently considering whether Trump can justify his imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.  So what's the emergency about the tariffs to obtain Greenland? Here was the Orwellian answer yesterday: 
  
  
  
• Minneapolis updates: 
• What would send shockwaves across the nation a few years ago is now hardly a blip on the radar: 
  
  
  
• This post by Homeland Security is 100% wrong.  You can be arrested only for probable cause. You can only de detained if there is just reasonable suspicion. 
  
  
  
• Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marched through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents and shouting at protestors.  Others have pointed out that his attire seemed a little familiar. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• In total, three people were pardoned in this scheme on Friday. But the lede was buried: The daughter of one of those pardoned "donated $2.5 million to a Trump-linked super PAC in 2024 while the felony indictment remained pending. She donated another $1 million in July 2025."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The First Amendment used not to work this way. 

• This story was weird even before this morning's news that Trump has invited, of all people, Vladimir Putin to join this board. 

• Trump bizarrely vowed to protect the Army-Navy football game this weekend: "I will soon sign a Historic Executive Order securing an EXCLUSIVE 4 hour Broadcast window, so this National Event stands above Commercial Postseason Games. No other Game or Team can violate this Time Slot!!!"