Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

And it wasn't. 

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• "A federal judge in Fort Worth declared a mistrial in the case of nine [Alvarado] ICE detention center shooting defendants Tuesday in response to an attorney's shirt emblazoned with a 'politically charged message.' The shirt — worn by Maricela Rueda's defense attorney MarQuetta Clayton — bore black and white images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm and other people and scenes from the civil rights movement."  Story (which has some more gold in it.)
  

  

  She had turned the shirt inside out at this point.

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. (Not that anything matters anymore.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I'm not real sure they should have been all excited about a random glove found two miles away anyway. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This seems significant. Tarrant County after the first day of early voting: 
  
  
  
• If case you missed the weird video of Robert F. Kennedy and Kid Rock working out together, here you go. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This occurred on the 1974 anniversary of someone stealing a military helicopter and landing it on the White House lawn, being shot at 300 times, and surviving. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I don't thing the Kalshi prediction market will take odds on which way she will vote.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I spoke too soon yesterday. 
  
  
  
• Imagine doing this in 2020 and, when you finally decide to run for Congress, have Trump endorse your opponent this week. 
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Warehouses are still hot.
  
  
  
• The head of MLB's player's union is out of a job for allegedly  having an affair with a union employee who just happened to be his sister-in-law.
  
  
  
• My always shaky retirement "plans" in Costa Rica aren't helped by an American getting murdered close to one of my favorite places there.