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

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Eyewitness footage captured the terrifying moment a young girl fell from the balcony ledge of an upper-floor apartment in London, England, as a neighbor and police officer waited to catch her below. https://t.co/4eTC1qSbJ7 pic.twitter.com/ezwYPoGFFY

— ABC News (@ABC) June 12, 2026

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You’ve heard of Hobby Horsing, now witness the new and competitive sport of Synchronized Walking. pic.twitter.com/oHDRyFftLn

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 9, 2026

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Kyle Clark asked Colorado GOP candidate for governor Victor Marx whether voters should believe he’s lived "one of the most extraordinary lives in human history," or whether he’s "a liar and a fraud."

John Oliver: “That might be the first event in history won by the moderator.” pic.twitter.com/caImnswyL2

— Blue Georgia (@BlueGeorgia) June 8, 2026

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts

The Pulse nightclub shooting.

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• Looks like a heck of a wreck on I-30 near downtown Fort Worth yesterday afternoon.
  

  

  
  
• The New York Post, of all publications, is going after a WFAA reporter.
  
  
  
• I've warned about police departments going off half-cocked and accusing someone of a crime in  social media posts. Now Fort Worth PD is doing some back-tracking. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Story.
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• I don't think Tech planned on this much controversy over a transfer quarterback (who might not be all that great) as they are getting. But releasing a 21 minute video yesterday (see bottom image), is not the way to go about handling it. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• This isn't your typical "extremist group."  The Wikipedia entry on it is really good.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• I thought the 15 year old founder "founder" out of Stephenville sounded familiar. Flashback: 
  
  
  
• Looks like things are going well in Frisco.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump goes from "wiping out a whole civilization" to "we've got a deal to be signed in two days" as often as the rest of us check our email. 
  
  
  
• Related: Choose your nightly new program: 
  
  
  
• As the most embarrassing event in the history of the U.S. takes place this weekend at the White House, also note that commercial sponsorships on government property abound -- even those declared as "woke" if their money is green.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Whoever attempted to create "8647" on the lawn clearly didn't use Round-Up™. 
  
  
  
• This guy pled guilty in federal court this week after the federal government took the death penalty off the table in exchange for a life sentence. There are still state charges pending, but Minnesota does not have the death penalty as an option for state crimes. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Texas Republican conviction is going on. 
• Good grief man, it's already illegal.  What else do you want to do? Bring back stoning? 
  
  
  
• In the GOP's list of priorities there is some legal stuff: 
  
  
  
• There was another Wise County criminal case decided on appeal yesterday. The opinion is here.
  
  
  
  
• There were no civil or criminal cases filed in Wise County yesterday.  
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 343 days.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

At Love Field, a man was threatening officers with “a rock in each hand,” and was shot after he made “a quick approach directly at the officer.”

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• The town of Trinidad just keeps on giving. With all due respect to the judge, the fact that the warrant was all based upon an allegation of a Facebook complaint about water quality should have been a red flag. 
  
  
• Now if they had run a non-fraudulent "psychic scheme," they would be on firm ground.  
  
  
  
• If you are smart enough to never look at any social media comments under any news story about this case, congratulations. 
  
  
  
• Oh, no. 
  
  
  
• If you want proof that ICE would enforce those one-sided 287(g) agreement against any police department which signed on, see this story from yesterday's Dallas Morning News.  ICE is serious about that "under the supervision and direction" language. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "The Texas Animal Health Commission has released an interactive map tracking cases of New World screwworm in Texas."
  
  
  
  
• We know know that the those behind the data center haven't contributed enough to Gov. Abbott. (Flashback and Compare: Abbott became a big fan of school vouchers once he received a one time $6 million campaign donation from voucher backer Jeff Yass.)
  
  
  
• Yep, he really said it.
  
   
  
  
  
• Overnight war updates. But, don't worry, "the talks are going very well." 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gift link. 
  
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

I don't think this Facebook feature in the print edition of the Messenger lasted very long. 

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• The Messenger has a good article recapping the Decatur City Council meeting on Monday regarding joining forces with ICE along with some great pictures. Here's one:
  
• From what I heard yesterday, the ICE proposal is dead and won't come up again. 
• But I refuse to believe the Chief of Police was behind all of this. He's too good of a guy, and too smart of a guy, for that.  But someone at City Hall thought it would be a good idea to try and steamroll this thing through by placing it on the agenda when anyone with half a brain would have known it would turn into a political cluster and a legal disaster. 
• And when the public input and open City Council discussion at the meeting began to turn south, it was a more than a little curious that the new mayor suddenly decided the council needed to go into executive session. 
• I really don't know what the defense strategy was in this case.  They had three choices (all which were amazingly submitted to the jury by the judge as options without any evidence to support them): Self defense, which would result in an acquittal, and two options which would have at least capped the possible sentence at 20 years: Manslaughter and "sudden passion" (submitted in the punishment charge). But the lawyers never really road any of those three horses. You have to pick one. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Oh, my. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• News alert: We are not, in fact, "close to a deal with Iran." It turns out that the Apache helicopter was taken down by an Iranian drone. In response, the U.S. struck Iran.  And then Iran retaliated against the region.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Uh, oh. We just got a numbers release on inflation. 
  
  
  
• She went crazy along the way and left Congress to run for governor in South Carolina. Last night she came in fifth.  
  
  
  
  
• He just wanted to live peacefully in retirement. 
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Good lord. They are going to do the UFC press conference and the weigh in at the Lincoln Memorial? 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's good that the Star-Telegram is still doing deep dives into stories like this. (Gift link.)
  
  
  
• New York takes its basketball very seriously. (And still manages to take a jab at the D.A.)
  
• Former Dallas Cowboys receive Lance Rentzel has died. He was forever tied to his arrest in 1970,