From the barrel roll by the cop to pulling out his gun, the 2015 McKinney Pool Party incident has its own Wikipedia page. And here's video of it all.
- Overall, it was all calm in Los Angeles last night as Trump ramped up a federal response for some reason.
- . . . . Unless you consider "heckling" to be the equivalent of an insurrection.
- The governor of California continues to fire back at Trump.
- Wise County's state rep Andy Hopper got a not-so-friendly review yesterday in Texas Monthly as it reviewed the legislature's performance.
- Wise County's congressman, Brandon Gill, was throwing out some "it was better when the country seemed all white" vibes yesterday.
- By the way, his father-in-law was born in Mumbai and came to the United States as an exchange student.
- A weird case which will be the responsibility of the Tarrant County D.A.'s office.
- Although I would hope there is more evidence than this . . .
- A shooting on the Las Vegas strip on Sunday night was caught on video.
- Just a couple of hours ago: School shooting in Austria. Another report puts the death toll at 10.
- Trouble brewing. Instead of searching and clicking on a link to get an answer, now a search just gives you an answer in text at the top of the page.
- The Southern Baptist Convention is meeting in Dallas this week.
- A faithful reader caught this very strange sight in the hallway outside of a Wise County courtroom in Decatur yesterday.
- I'm still beginning to believe that Gov. Abbott will veto the THC Ban bill. But he has a deadline of June 22nd to do so or it will automatically become law.
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:
The victim survived and the guy ended up getting 45 years. But I posted it at the time because I thought the guy looked like Nick Saban Urban Meyer
- 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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