- Edit: Rodeo legend Roy Cooper dies in Decatur home fire.
- We now have a Virginia super PAC is trying to influence the Decatur School Board election (along with a select other elections in Texas.)
- Stopping on a Dime: A truck full of dimes reeked havoc in Alvord yesterday. The news is going national this morning. Fun fact: ChatGPT tells me that 8 million dimes would weigh 39,996 pounds and take up space equivalent to six refrigerators.
- Southlake sure has it's share of crime and its always on the main thoroughfare. "The victim told police he had arranged to meet with the suspect to sell an item, police said. During the transaction, the suspect drew a handgun and the victim fled into the jewelry store to call police." This was at 11:00 in the morning.
- In true capitalistic fashion, the Trump picked up the phone and called Jeff Bezos yesterday to stop Amazon from revealing how much hia tariffs will cost you each purchase. It worked.
- Trump's idea for the tariffs has always been to "bring manufacturing back to America." The Commerce Secretary said yesterday this will be great because you and your grandkids can work in the same factory for life. (Notice he says "you" and "your" not "our." ) Video.
- A new tool has gone into effect to round up undocumented immigrants. "In February, Department of Homeland Security officials announced they would create a registry for people who were in the U.S. illegally."
- Trump vs. The Supreme Court: In an interview yesterday with Terry Moran, Trump stunningly admitted that he could bring Abrego Garcia back from the El Salvadorian prison. Up until that moment, the Administration had said it was helpless and couldn't do anything to "facilitate" his return as the Supreme Court has ordered. Video.
- Meanwhile, at a 100 Day Rally in Michigan:
- Good lord. The fall of the free press is just another sign that It's Over. Gift link.
- This is out of Rusk County, and I don't think I had ever seen this story before. It all began with a traffic stop for running a stop sign. Full unedited video here.
- More Islamophobia in the Texas House. This makes absolutely no sense from Jeff Leach as he complains about a planned community which is Muslim friendly:
- Yesterday evening the Texas House passed, by a vote of 125-20, a bill banning anyone under 18 from using any social media. I think that's stunning. That's not conservative -- that's "big government." (Not to mention that would be impossible to enforce.) Wise County's Andy Hopper was one of the few to vote against it. I have no idea if the bill will actually pass the Senate.
- Trump just responded to the stock market falling.:
- Breaking economic news: "GDP growth slows to -0.3%, marking the first negative growth since Q1 2022."
Before there was George Floyd, there was Freddy Gray. Six officers would be indicted but none would ever be convicted.
- Lake Bridgeport is now over capacity, and Pete Delkus says we are in new "Flood Watch."
- Chaos in Southlake. Both officers will be all right, and the motorcycle cop is really lucky.
- A Justin Police Department officer shot and killed someone who was evading.
- A River Oaks policeman made a traffic stop ,and the driver then shot himself as the officer was at the driver's window.
- There has to be something going on between those two. Both guys were armed (the guy in red is now dead), but the man in the vehicle had an AR-15 style weapon. Video.
- A US official said initial reports from the scene indicated the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier made a "hard turn" to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard. Aircraft carriers can make hard turns?
- What's this mean?
- He's a child.
- It's the 50th anniversary of this photo and of the United States officially leaving Vietnam.
- Legal stuff: Do you think a law firm can get away with filing documents in federal court with this watermark on each page?: The answer is "no" with the federal judge writing: "Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon."
- At the first press briefing yesterday, the Fox News White House correspondent wanted to know if Trump influenced the NFL draft. But that question wasn't as bad as the very first question from the "new" type of press which sounded like it was right out of North Korea.
- Breaking: Amazon will start listing the "tariff tax" at checkout. At a just concluded briefing this morning, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon." Huh? It's just listing a tax that you refuse to call a tax.
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At the time, I couldn't believe he'd be dumb enough to fall for an Internet conspiracy theory.
- Yesterday in Wise County:
- Decatur made the cover of the Sunday edition of the Star-Telegram along with an inside photo-spread. (Both links are paywalled.)
- Everyone was abuzz on Friday night as ESPN/ABC showed UT quarterback Quinn Ewers awaiting NFL draft results from, of all places, Chico, Texas.
- Wise County Judge J.D. Clark posted some updated courthouse restoration photos
- This was in Saginaw this weekend? In Texas? Yes, that Saginaw. Link with a bunch of photos (also paywalled.).
- I can't say enough about the insane arrest by the FBI on Friday of the Wisconsin state misdemeanor judge. The complaint giving rise to the arrest is here, and you'll notice that she obstructed justice so severely that an ICE agent road down with the immigrant in a public elevator to the ground floor before they decided to effectuate the arrest.
- Judges don’t get arrested in a functioning democracy. It's over.
- The most Nazi thing about the arrest was the AG excitedly running to Fox News to announce that, as to judges like Dugan, ". . . we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
- Or maybe it was the FBI Director posting a picture of the judge's arrest.
- Trump and the Pope's funeral:
- The dress code was dark suit and black tie. Not a blue suit.
- There were all sorts of photos from the funeral, but I had never seen this old one of the Pope.
- Trump took time for a photo-and meeting with the Ukrainian president and, apparently, managed not to yell at him for not saying thank you.
- After the meeting and after learning of continued Russian air strikes, Trump wrote that he was beginning to think that maybe Putin "doesn't want to stop the war" at all. Really? You're just now coming to that realization?
- Putin didn't prove him wrong: "Ukraine reported 149 Russian drones launched into the country overnight into the early hours of Sunday, the barrage coming hours after President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Pope Francis' funeral in Vatican City."
- Immigrant round-up news:
- One was Colorado Springs. Video. According to AG Pam Bondi, it was a place "frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists." That's going to be a recurring theme over the next few months -- even when someone is arrested at Walmart.
- And Florida.
- And in a very bizarre move this morning, the White House has put up hundreds of posters on its lawn of those arrested. Video.
- Lake Bridgeport official hit 100% full this morning. And it continues to rise from last week's rains with more predicted this week. And the spillway gates are oddly closed.
- At the beginning of last week, the Secretary of Navy hired Kristina Wong from Breitbart News as his Communications Director. Over the weekend, he posted what's below. And there was another one that soon followed which also had the wrong date.
- "Landman" will be filming a funeral scene in Jacksboro today. The casting call for extras had asked for people 75 and older. The pay was $200.
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