It was actually a "service van" which was supposed to be on the tarmac. Apparently, the driver had a medical issue.
- After being on the run for 12 days, he was captured less than two miles from the prison.
- His Wikipedia page is worth a read.
- Trophy Club making the news.
- He's got a very good point if the gummies were bought at a local smoke shop.
- California - So What Happened?
- After ICE raids on Friday which resulted in 44 arrests, there was a fairly mild protest on Saturday after ICE made arrests at a Home Depot. After one car was burned, any further confrontation was primarily limited to one street, and I found a live stream of it that night on YouTube. For four hours, just a fairly small group would yell at the guys below who would never really move but who would respond with tear gas about every 30 minutes. It was truly no big deal and kind of boring.
- But Trump, wanting a confrontation, announced he was sending in the National Guard even though California had not requested it.
- Then the Secretary of Defense even ramped things up by threating to bring in the Marines.
- The National Guard finally arrived the next morning when all was quiet.
- But with National Guard on the scene on Sunday, the protests became bigger that afternoon which, as always, gave rise to pockets of violence. Primarily, Waymo driverless EVs were set on fire in the downtown area, and cop cars were pelted from above after they parked and abandoned on the highway in front of a bridge.
- The governor of California summed it all up this way:
- Bottom line: Trump wants these confrontations because he knows, correctly, that he will win the PR war. Images of property violence with guys carrying Mexican flags will be all that people see. No amount of words can overcome that.
- Side note: Lost in all of this was Trump just creating imaginary laws on on the fly from Mar-a-Lago.
- ABC correspondent Terry Moran ranted against Stephen Miller on Twitter, the White House then called for him to be sanctioned, and ABC obliged. Good lord.
- Meanwhile, tanks are rolling into D.C. for this Saturday's birthday party for Trump Video
- They'll probably be written a check.
- Just the government threatening a private citizen that he better not support the other political party.
- But we did learn from The Washington Post as to how Elon got his black eye . (Gift link.)
- It goes on.
- Like I said, Trump will win the war of optics:
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- You know it's a wild day when a Twitter fight between Trump and his now former BFF makes the front page of both the Wall Street Journal and the major New York tabloid.
- The online breakup was harder and faster than anyone could imagine:
- Trump saying that he asked Musk to leave DOGE because his presence was "wearing thin", that he had now gone "crazy", and that he was just mad that the proposed Big Beautiful Bill didn't have tax credits for electric vehicles. To which Elon responded that such a claim was a "lie" and "so sad."
- Musk saying the only reason that Trump won the election was because of him.
- Musk saying the Epstein files had been released because they would implicate Trump, and posting an old video of Trump and Epstein at a party together.
- Musk: Trump's tariff's will cause a recession in the second half of this year.
- Trump threatening to cancel all of SpaceX's contracts.
- Musk calling for Trump to be impeached and replaced with J.D. Vance.
- Musk creating an online poll about creating a third political party.
- Oh, my!
- I don't know what my favorite Internet response to all of this was. It had to be either the re-posting, as a metaphor, of a photo from earlier this year of the car bomb outside of Trump Hotel in Vegas, or Musk's most recent baby momma entering the fray.
- In a wild development we learned that the former D.A. of Montague County, who had recently been convicted of embezzlement but was free on an appeal bond, has been in jail since Monday in Sulphur Springs. And she is still there this morning according to the jail records.
- Honestly, I don't know why in the world her appeal bond was revoked. And the docket entries for the case don't show a Motion being filed by the prosecutor before the judge just suddenly issued the order.
- Random funny: A faithful reader and local attorney sent along this picture of a sign posted at the entrance of Denton County courthouse.
- The good news is that no bodies were in any of them.
- A lawsuit involving a guy who got drunk at a Cancun hotel, and died as result of it, is in the midst of jury trial right now in the 17th Judicial District Court in Tarrant County. His widow is suing the hotel for over-serving him. (Sheesh.) Her lawyer is Wes Bearden out of Dallas. The defense lawyers are James Kuritzkes and Mike Burke out of Dallas with a firm named Cozen O'Connor. I'm predicting a defense verdict is coming.
- Pretty "interesting" opinion in a criminal appeal out of Wise County which was released late yesterday. From the beginning, you know that it is not your run-of-the-mill case:
- Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 339 days.
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- It's been a while since the Denton County Sheriff's Office has shot and killed someone. "The individual, identified as 58-year-old Kenneth Wayne Jones, reportedly pointed a handgun at deputies and failed to comply with commands."
- You knew this was coming. (PDF of lawsuit is here.)
- We had something wild happen in federal court yesterday that transpired so quickly that barely anyone had time to notice. Here's the headline, but there's more to it than that. Stay with me here.
- For over twenty years, Texas law has said that undocumented aliens who had been in the state for a set amount of time and had been accepted for enrollment by the University of Texas, would be assessed a tuition rate equal to that of Texas residents who were also U.S. citizens. Without the law, they would instead pay the "out-of-state" tuition rate.
- You don't like the law? Ok, you get the Texas legislature, controlled by Republicans then and now, to repeal it. But the current legislature just tried to do that but was unsuccessful.
- So what happened yesterday? Pam Bondi's Justice Department filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the Texas law was unconstitutional.
- But here's the shocker: Texas AG Ken Paxton, who took an oath to defend any Texas law in court, immediately agreed with the Justice Department.
- A judge would have every right to ask "What's going on here?" and make an independent ruling as to whether the law is really unconstitutional or whether this was just a sham lawsuit to kill a law by bypassing the legislature (which it is).
- But the judge didn't do it in this case! The Justice Department had filed the lawsuit in the Wichita Falls Division of the Northern District of Texas so that it would automatically be assigned to the Trump-friendly judge named Reed O'Connor. That judge amazingly immediately signed a Final Judgment - not just a temporary injunction - killing the law and declaring it unconstitutional. The whole case went from start to finish in under four hours!
- And look how Paxton insanely frames what happened in his press release:
- You may like the result, but that process should scare you to death. And we'll see more of it. It's yet another sign that "It's over."
- Speaking of. The last time this happened there were protests at airports. Now we just shrug.
- Elon's assault on Trump and his "Big Beautiful Bill" continues.
- And according to the Congressional Budget Office yesterday, Elon is right.
- ProPublica did a big piece on this guy last night, but I can't get over that John Belushi eyebrow.
- That's a big tree. Those are rescue worker in yellow.
- I noticed a Wise County Aggie baseball player has hit the transfer portal. But the beginning of that second sentence from Sports Illustrated is a doozy:
- In a bizarre moment last night in the collrhr softball world series, the Evil Empire was able to score the ultimate winning runs off an unhittable Texas Tech pitcher with a two run hit on the fourth pitch of an an intended intentional walk. Video.
- Messenger - Above the Fold
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