Random Monday Morning Thoughts

The first report that a retractable roof ballpark was possible "and sooner than you think."

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• The police shootings are certainly related, but I'm not sure you can call them happening at the "same scene."
  
  
  
  
• "AUSTIN, Texas — Three people were in custody following at least 10 random weekend shootings in Austin, Texas, that left four people injured, city officials said Sunday. Driving around the city in stolen vehicles, the suspects fired at two fire stations, apartment buildings and houses during a robbery and shooting spree from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said." Two of the three arrested are ages 15 and 17.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Ok, the Tarrant County DA (and no one else) has announced that the FBI has found the remains of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez and that the Tarrant County Medical Examiner has confirmed it via "dental records."   I'm surprised. 

• That exact same area which was searched in in 2023 when Everman police tore up the concrete porch to search underneath it:

• Two military jets crashed into each other at an air show yesterday, but somehow all four pilots were able to eject.  Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's over. 
  
  

  

  
  
• This seems concerning.
  
   
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I don't know anything about diving, but everyone seems to be freaking out that these folks were "deep inside a cave system about 160 feet underwater." The total death count was five.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Another day, another existential threat.  
  
  
• So somehow the Senate parliamentarian is apparently our only hope left for any type of Congressional pushback of Trump. 
  
  
  
  
• The Business Second™. Somehow it is not illegal for the president to hold and trade stocks. He just has to file public disclosures which Trump did this weekend.  
  
  
  
  
  
• Breaking moments ago: Trump just dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.    So is this rumored $1.88 billion slush fund for Insurrectionists and others going to happen?  (Legal nerdy stuff: Look at this footnote in their filed court "notice.")
  
  
  
• This story starts off with a bang. 
  
  
  
  
• Nope. You don't get to "up" the charges because you are pissed off a defendant successfully appealed. 
  
  
  
  
• I promise you that I flipped over and watched this playoff game beginning in the middle of the 7th because I wanted to see how in the heck Texas Tech softball was getting beat 8 to 0 with the pitcher that they have.   But with the Red Raiders down to their final out and final strike, they ended up winning.
  
  
  
• Evangelist James Robison has died.  He was a really big deal in DFW back in the day.