- The auto strike has now come to Arlington. That is over 5,000 workers.
- Wise County is right in the heart of this.
- Jenna Ellis issued a "tearful apology" in the Trump Georgia Election Scheme case yesterday as she pled guilty to a felony. "If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. . . . I relied on others, including lawyers with many more years of experience than I, to provide me with true and reliable information, especially since my role involved speaking to the media and to legislators in various states." Baloney. She knew that she was peddling a lie.
- She, along with everyone else involved in the Election Denial Scam, are grifters. Flashback from a little over a month ago:
- And the day kept getting worse for Trump in that later there was another development in the federal D.C. Insurrection case.
- Bad decision.
- House Cluster Continues.
- The Republicans went through five closed door votes yesterday in order to elect Tom Emmer as their nominee for the House Speaker. They only step left was to take it to the floor to see if he could get 217 votes. Less than two hours later, he withdrew his name. Even Fox News called it "chaos."
- Late last night they tried again to get another nominee and chose election denier Mike Johnson. Now we will see if he can get to 217.
- Wise County's troubled representative Ronny Jackson yesterday morning threw his support, the third different person he has given his "full support", to someone who can't even win the nomination behind closed doors.
- What's wrong with the B-52s? I'm withdrawing my Biden support!
- I think Baylor would have settled a long time ago for that amount.
- I posted this story yesterday, but this is a more accurate headline.
- Very legal nerdy stuff: The case originated out of Wichita Falls and just got affirmed with a dissent. It's the weird case of a stepparent prosecuted for emailing a photo to himself. He had found the nude picture on his stepdaughter's phone, but he and his wife, as part of a house rule, had full access to the phone including the password in order to monitor her activities. It doesn't matter why he emailed it to himself so long as he did it "with intent to invade [her] privacy." There seems to be a lot of legal issues which weren't addressed.
Lot's of nostalgia here. (1) Here's the story about the paintball event referred to, (2) That "Wise County Problems" account still exists but hasn't posted in years, and (3) Decatur and Bridgeport actually used to play each other -- Decatur won over the winless Bulls, 52-7 in 2013.
- Breaking moments ago: Jenna Ellis is pleading guilty in the Georgia attempted coup case. She is literally pleading guilty to spreading The Big Lie. That "Elite Strike Force" team of lawyers really turned out to be something.
- I present to you the 327 most civic-minded people in Wise County: Those who vote on the first day of early voting for constitutional amendments.
- Another day, another bad wreck in Wise County. This one last night around 6:30 on FM 730 just south of Boyd.
- A crazy158 car pileup in Louisiana yesterday new New Orleans.
- Oh, my. "An off-duty pilot who was in a jump seat in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines flight on Sunday was charged with more than 80 counts of attempted murder after he tried to cut fuel to the engines, prompting the plane to divert to Portland, Ore., the authorities said."
- He didn't give back the $3 million from the West Texas Oil Man PAC whose leader met with a neo-Nazi, but he did try this gesture. (No word yet whether the Decatur candidate who received $55,000 from them will give that money back. )
- There was a time when we all understood how dangerous words like this are. Heck, it would have disqualified you from any race. Video. And what exactly is "our religion" anyway?
- We've lost our minds. This is right out of the The Handsmaid's Tale.
- Random photo this weekend from the Walmart parking lot in Decatur. (Thanks, Tara.)
- This judge, who refuses to follow a clear Supreme Court decision, was featured in the Dallas Morning News this weekend. There was no mention that the County Judge over in Jack County tried the same stunt but his case was dismissed in federal district court. (He appealed to the Fifth Circuit but I don't think anything has happened on it.)
- Random photos/screenshots from last night's Rangers win:
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- Nerdy political news: Last night the Tarrant County Republican Party elected a chairman who once took a half million dollars from the West Texas Oilman PAC.
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The Obamacare website debuted with disastrous glitches keeping people from accessing it. But the other news was, during the apology speech, that the pregnant lady in the red dress almost fainted and the President had to help her. Video. But that event served as a sign of the conspiracy generation that was dawning . . .
- For those who use the Wise County Sheriff's Office database for case statuses and inmate information, it has been inaccessible for over 72 hours due to another "security certificate" issue. Here's a work-around: Go to it in incognito mode on your browser.
- I want to know more about this which occurred on Friday night.
- We still don't have a Speaker of the House. Jim Jordan failed again on Friday and now nine Republicans are vying for the job. What a cluster.
- We've had another plea of guilty in the Attempt To Overthrow The Georgia Election case on Friday by one of Trump's co-defendants.
- He's an odd guy. According to this profile in the New York Times this weekend, he (1) graduated from Harvard Law, (2) clerked for a district judge, (3) bypassed the typical big firm route and went into solo private practice, (4) had a "liberal" practice by assisting in Gore in the Bush v. Gore case, and assisted plaintiffs in the tobacco industry cases, (5) struck it rich in Bitcoin, divorced his wife, and then "acquired expensive homes in Boston and Manhattan, and a villa in Puerto Rico." No really knows how or why he then turned into a MAGA nutcase.
- Sir! (And he's a former assistant D.A.)
- Michigan State forgot to carefully screen a third party 15 minute trivia video, and ended up having to apologize for this image going viral.
- From the campaign trail
- I honestly don't know how they do it without getting depressed.
- Trump kept his campaigning to Truth Social. How can he lose when he has white Jesus by his side in court?
- I'm not sure what I think about the official organization responsible for the training of Texas municipal judges posting a Halloween stripper scene without comment.
- I don't like this. If a prosecutor thinks the evidence is lacking to even send a case to the grand jury, they routinely kill it without taking it to the grand jury. And just because a more provable case comes along doesn't make that past decision wrong. But heads are going to roll regardless.
- I told you on Friday that lawsuit didn't seem to be going well.
- That lady in the crown almost got hit in the face on that homerun last night. And she knew it after the fact. Video. But what you can't see is another lady ducking down to her right who did get hit. She got the ball, however, which she'll get to take back to her job as an kindergarten teacher in Keller.
- Game 7 at 7:03 p.m. CST.
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