This occurred after reports that the Waco Twin Peaks Shootout had its origins in an assault that occurred at the Toy Run the year before.
- The local capital murder case looks like it will get lots of media coverage once the trial starts up in April. This was from yesterday:
- Lots of 17 year olds mentioned here: "A 17-year-old male was killed and another 17-year-old was injured; one 17-year-old suspect has been arrested and charged with capital murder." The story actually used the phrase "drug deal gone bad."
- Former Colleton County Clerk of Court Mary Rebecca "Becky" Hill pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, perjury and misconduct in office. She was sentenced to three years probation.
- We are never going to see the footage of the second strike, are we?
- Didn't President Biden get roasted for trying to influence social media companies?
- Tariff's are costing the U.S. taxpayer in more ways than one:
- The Secretary of Agriculture went full Orwellian yesterday afternoon.
- David Ellison's Paramount launched a hostile takeover of Warner in an effort to out deal Netflix's bid. Oh, and this little nugget seems big: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said. Trump has told people close to him that he wants new ownership of CNN as well as changes to CNN programming."
- As is this nugget: "Three Middle East sovereign-wealth funds and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are among the financial backers of Paramount’s bid."
- We are going full North Korean with a little racism thrown in. Story.
- Texas has a weird "resign to run law" which can get an officeholder kicked out of office if he announces that he is running for a different office with more than 1 year and 1 month left on his current term. But this is a bold move by the Lubbock County Judge to unilaterally decide a commissioner violated that law, and seems to be a stretch of whether the commissioner ran afoul of it at all.
- Legal nerdy stuff. If a Supreme Court justice asked you to name, off the top of your head, a case which got overruled after it had been on the books for 95 years or more, could you do it? Transcript from yesterday:
- Jasmine Crockett won't win, but that was a baller of an ad she fired off yesterday.
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The video of Trump and eagle during a Time photo shoot was released.
- Shootings in the news.
- Outside of Hulen Mall on Saturday afternoon. .
- Police were called out to Pandora Men’s Club, 8700 South Freeway, at 4:20 a.m. (!) Sunday.
- I always complain about how local newsrooms have been gutted. Case in point: I saw this great tease only to find out from the story that the incident occurred in 2021 and the case was disposed of in court in 2022. Absolutely nothing new has happened since then.
- The craziest thing about the video is that he could have high-fived the Amazon driver who was on the way back to his truck.
- Political news this morning. Colin Allred drops out of a Senate run. U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett is expected to launch a Senate bid this afternoon.
- You could teach constitutional law by just telling your students to know who was on the court when a case was decided.
- I never understand headlines like this. I read time and time again of judicial decisions demonstrating how qualified immunity is almost impossible to overcome, and then a city just gets out their checkbook anyway.
- Wait a second. Does the United States government just represent Elon Musk now?
- Lots of buses catching fire lately. Video.
- Ken Paxton sued the developers of the "Islamic housing development" north of Dallas but the "radical plot" he cites to justify it sounds a lot like the business plan of D.R. Horton. or any other land developer.
- Trump news.
- He basically gave himself a Dundee on Friday.
- Good news! We'll all be driving tiny cars.
- What are we doing here?
- College football observations:
- North Texas missing out of the playoffs by losing to Tulane on Friday night might turn out to be a blessing in disguise once all is said and done.
- Texas Tech could actually win the National Championship because of that defense.
- The path of the Aggies is a brutal one.
- Notre Dame (10-2) , Iowa State (8-4), and Kansas State (6-6) have all decided not to play in any bowl game. That caused a domino effect yesterday evening causing the the last bowl on the totem poll to go searching for a team. Appalachian State finally came to the rescue.
- DWI cases used to be training grounds for new prosecutors to gain trial experience in the big cities. That no longer occurs because of deferred adjudication probation becoming a plea bargain option in 2019. The Tarrant County misdemeanor courts used to be constantly busy with DWI jury trials. Now they basically sit empty on trial days.
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I looked up what happened with that case. The prosecutor accepted the case, a jury actually convicted the man, but the Michigan Supreme Court overturned it. The whole ordeal took five years.
- Say what? As usual, the story doesn't have any more facts than the headline.
- It was 6-3. Everyone should have seen this coming.
- Since when has the federal FOIA applied to state entities?
- A big Business Second™ this morning. Who would have ever thought a company that mailed DVDs would become this media behemoth. (But Trump might kill this deal, using antitrust grounds to do it, at the urging of his buddy who will be upset with this deal.)
- I'm not sure why it took the controversy over the Second Strike to call attention to the bombings in general. I think all of the 21 first strikes, and the 87 people who are dead because of them, is the problem. But the U.S. did it again yesterday.
- And you think the Administration is worried? Nope. The Secretary of Defense was doing a tap dance yesterday afternoon.
- In a news conference regarding the arrest in the the D.C. Pipe Bombs case yesterday, it was very short on facts but big on irony. I can't believe Kash Patel led with this:
- This happened yesterday. They truly are the gang that can't indict straight.
- Are you telling me he didn't think this through?
- Dallas D.A. news.
- Weekend read. (Gift link) The man who caused school vouchers to be ramrodded through Texas.
- Sports: The biggest game in UNT's history will be on ABC tonight.
- Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 155 days.
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