Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

4.17.2025

It was just a sign from above to change their name.

After five failed attempts to pass school vouchers last session, including four specials sessions, the Texas House passed it last night by a vote of 85-63 with only two Republicans voting against it.

But "some rural conservatives" did not include Wise County's representative Andy Hopper who voted to sell out our public schools. But we knew that was coming ever since we found out his campaign was primarily funded by the West Texas Oilmen PAC.
Flashback: So why has Greg Abbott been so hell-bent on getting vouchers passed? Follow the money. $10 million to be exact.
Best proposed amendment that failed.
Two Republican lawmakers yuking it up during the school voucher debates late last night.

In the case where Trump rounded up 238 people, claimed they were gang members, bypassed the courts, and then flew them to the El Salvadorian prison, a judge is moving towards contempt proceedings.

But there's a big problem: The Justice Department is in charge of prosecuting criminal contempt and Trump controls the Justice Department. So when the DOJ declines to prosecute, the judge has the right to appoint an independent attorney to serve as the prosecutor. (But who wants that job?) And even if an independent prosecutor pursued the contempt and secured a conviction and prison sentence, it's the U.S. Marshals who have to execute that sentence and, guess what, they are part of the DOJ. And Trump would pardon whoever was convicted anyway. It's over.

In the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Trump's government tried to justify his wrongful deportation to the El Salvadorian concentration prison by releasing what little "bad" history he had, and by ramping up the rhetoric (and lies) against him. This is not normal. And so what? I don't care if he's Charles Manson. That's that whole point of having laws and rules which apply to everyone. It is at the very heart of due process.
More authoritarianism. It is here.
Oh, my.
"Pastor" Robert Jeffress is still at it.
Messenger - Above the Fold

The former New England Patriot would then be sentenced to life in prison without parole. He would kill himself in prison two years later.

Another school shooting.
Texas School Voucher update: It's on the House floor today. But there's a proposal floating around to let the voters decide on whether school vouchers should become law. I like that idea.
It's pretty clear if you haven't even asked the President of El Salvador to return the man that you aren't doing anything to "facilitate" his return. But we are all learning that courts have no power if the Executive Branch wishes to ignore them.

If everything would have been done correctly, the worst that could have happened to the man is that a judge would have ordered him to be deported. That is, ship him to another country and tell him to go live his life there. Instead, he was taken off the street, the courts were bypassed, and he was moved to a hard core prison. And the Trump Administration doesn't care.
That's him.
And if he had instead been a person who Trump deemed an "undesirable" American citizen, it would be him in that photograph and he would be in in the same legal hellhole. And that's coming. Maybe not to that particular prison, but it's coming.

Nothing like the beauty of Big Ben being accented with U.S. Troops.
Expect more and more and more of these type of prosecutions. "I am your retribution."

Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper has made the news.
You can tell Cornyn is running for re-election since he has joined this Islamophobia bandwagon about a community in Collin County that is only a patch of dirt right now.
Impressive.
I don't understand this controversy at all.
In Wise County, a framed copy of the Constitution fell off the wall over the weekend in one of the prosecutor's offices common areas.

I think the was my first reference ever to the $350,000 Man back when he was only the $183,000 Man.

The guy who allegedly torched the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania appeared before the cameras yesterday. He looks stable.

I was reminded that the Texas governor's mansion was almost burnt to the ground by an arsonist in 2008, and no one was ever caught.

The Texas legislature will vote on Wednesday as to whether to gut public schools by passing private vouchers -- sending your tax dollars to private schools instead. Tell Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper to vote no.
The accused teenager in the Frisco stabbing case "was released from the Collin County jail about 4:20 p.m. and put on house arrest with an ankle monitor. After an hourlong hearing at the county courthouse in McKinney on Monday morning, state District Judge Angela Tucker lowered Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,000."

Pretty funny social media feed regarding the "space" flight yesterday.
After the Supreme Court told Trump to "facilitate" the return of the man from the El Salvadorian prison who was deported inadvertently and without due process, Trump brought the President of El Salvador to the Oval Office to both say with a straight face, "There's nothing I can do." It's over. Fascism is here. I warned you.

The President of El Salvador actually said when asked if he will return the man: “How can I return him to the United States? How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” That makes no sense. It was like two guys being asked to move a couch and both saying, "I can't do that by myself!"
And Trump brought in all his yes men to help sell it all - including Stephen Miller, our modern day Joseph Goebbels, who lied in every sentence he uttered.
And in a shocking moment caught by an El Salvadorian government live stream, Trump said he wants to next send American citizens to the prison there.
It's only going to get worse. Start with deportations to horrible prisons of those no one cares about, and then move on to anyone who, in Trump's view, don't "deserve" to be an American. And remember I told you that there would be concentration camps? It might be a good time to remind you that Auschwitz wasn't located in Germany.

Trump again said yesterday that Ukraine started the was with Russia. We are living in Orwell's 1984.
Finally a school stands up to Trump's attempt to take them over.

And another. His sin was protesting Israel's committing genocide in Gaza on a college campus. For that, he will summarily be thrown out of the country. Both arrests like this and actions against universities like Harvard have one purpose: Silence dissent.
The University of Colorado is retiring two numbers of these guys who led the team to a record of 13-11 over two seasons.
Big news out of Cooke County late last week: A judge found that the current (and only) district court judge in the county, while she was DA, intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence in a 1997 capital murder case, and has recommended that the man go free. Order is here.