Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

9.18.2025

This was a rare Trophy Club raid which ultimately resulted in a federal prison sentence for the son of a "Southlake pastor."

After pressure from Trump's government, ABC pulled a comedian -- a comedian! -- off the air. . (Here's the video clip that prompted Trump's government's wrath. It's not about Charlie Kirk. It's about criticizing Trump.) We are in a five alarm fire of authoritarianism, and we all all just going to sit around and watch it burn

Just hours earlier, the FCC chief, while he was a guest on a far right wing podcast, threatened to come after ABC because of Kimmel's jokes calling them "sick" and "depraved":
Trump managed to post at 1:00 o'clock in the morning from England about ABC's action, and he revealed who is next on his hit list:
It's not just the actual retribution (like law firms and universities bending the knee to Trump or CBS settling the baseless 60 Minutes lawsuit), but its also about the fear of reprisal. For example, what's Saturday Night Live and NBC thinking right now about their upcoming season? Do they dare joke about Trump?
It's over, folks.

And he was there:
Also there was Sam Altman, the head of ChatGPT; Satya Nadella, the top dog at Microsoft: and Tim Cook, the head of Apple. Welcome to the Oligarchy.

Crazy criminal legal news relevant to nearby Cooke County in particular and all of us in general:

In April, we had the shocking story that a visiting judge found that the past Cooke County D.A. (who now was the county's only district judge) had withheld evidence while the prosecutor in the capital murder case of Michael Newberry. A new trial was ordered. Importantly, the current DA supported the decision.
Yesterday, however. the Court of Criminal Appeals said, "Not so fast my friends." This is the entire decision as they refused to go along with a new trial which means Newberry will remain in prison:

Gift link.
The shooter was in a cornfield. Story.
The grift never ends. Gift link.
Oddest photo from Windsor castle:
I wouldn't call that "wrangled" or "caught." She shot it dead. (But it was legal and actually occurred south of Houston.)
Messenger - Above the Fold

DeLoss Dodds was AD for 32 years. His successor lasted 22 months.

"Trooper Jerry Wayne Adamick Jr., 44, was driving on FM 945 South, responding to assist law enforcement partners with an emergency call around 9:15 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 15, when his vehicle went off the side of the road, struck a tree and caught fire. Trooper Adamick died at the scene."
"Upon arrival, officers found six children ranging in age from 2 months to 9 years old inside the unit. The other children were 2, 3, 5, and 7 years old, police said." There's not much of an explanation in any of the stories.
The video is repulsive, but that is the price we pay for free speech. Or it used to be that way. I'm at a loss to understand how a public university can kick you out of school for distasteful mockery or how an elected official, who knows better, can advocate for that punishment.
The forever war, which has been all one-sided for two years, continues.
But that "brawl" was only between two people. "At nearly 1,200 feet long and with a capacity for around 7,000 passengers and 2,000 crew members, the Royal Caribbean-operated Wonder of the Seas is one of the largest cruise ships in the world."
Oh, no. Trump got to ride in the King's carriage this morning as he made his was to Windsor Castle.

But there were shenanigans last night by some Brits as a video slide show, and a high quality one at that, was projected onto the castle.

For some reason, the prosecutor in the Charlie Kirk case revealed and read the text messages between the alleged shooter and his roommate.

There are a lot of people on the left and the right who think there's something not quite right with the text exchange. Hey, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'm right there with them. It simply doesn't sound like a text exchange between 22 year olds of today. Best theory I saw: The roommate had prior knowledge of the shooting and the text messages were a ruse to make it seem otherwise.
Legal nerdy stuff: Utah does not use grand juries. Even though the right to a grand jury is in the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court has said, a long time ago, that it does not apply to state prosecutions.

This is just on step in an ongoing plan for the current Administration to take control over elections so as to be able to invalidate the votes of blue states in future elections. It's over.
A huge tree on the White House lawn is being cut down to make way for Trump's ballroom.
But we ask juries to determine credibility very often with only an hour or two of a person's testimony.
Ted Cruz, being interviewed on CNN last night, went off the rails.

Trump campaigned in Dallas at the AAC.

Breaking celebrity death: Robert Redford.
A "hard landing" by this helicopter at the Decatur airport last night sent one to the hospital.
After pleading guilty and waiving a jury, a visiting judge in Wise County gave the absolute maximum sentence on every single case yesterday.
Wise County Judge J.D. Clark announced his bid for re-election this morning. If my math is right, that would be his fourth term.
The U.S. committed another extrajudicial killing thousands of miles from our shore.
I told you it would go national once they figured out an illegal immigrant was involved. .
Two absolutely idiotic things Attorney General Pam Bondi said within the last 24 hours which are 100% wrong.

Charlie Kirk was a free speech warrior. If you say differently, we will fire you.
By the time all is said done, this guy will have the killer of Charlie Kirk being a trans guy in a dress, holding a Biden sign made from mail-in ballots, and who was actually the guy who beat out Riley Gaines for a swimming medal -- all the while funded by George Soros and a mysterious cabal operating in the shadows:

In all seriousness, bad things are coming.
But, in the meantime, let's all show unity against violence in Tarrant County by having a march "together" in downtown. Oh, wait. Only "conservatives" are invited, and it will be sponsored by Patriot Mobile among others.

And the grift never ends. And no one cares. Gift link.
There's more ways to stifle free speech: File a new $15 billion lawsuit which has no chance of success. ( PDF. Just skim through it -- it's a wild ride.)
Random news magazine cover I saw yesterday which was published 50 years ago this week: Manson family member Squeaky Fromme immediately after she failed to assassinate President Gerald Ford because she forgot to chamber a round in the handgun.
The Atlanta Supreme Court just upheld the disqualification of Fani Willis in her cluster of a prosecution of Donald Trump.