Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

Flashback from the Messenger. That's current Atlanta Braves pitcher Bryce Elder on the far right.

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• Weight loss and criminal justice stories: 
• The man saw a need amongst him in the hallways and came up with a side-hustle.
  
  
• "Bedell was arrested in September 2025 and was charged with five felonies and one misdemeanor related to illegally selling weight loss drugs."
  
  
  
• This story out of Houston gets even weirder when you learn the restaurant was the very high-tone Bob's Steak and Chophouse.  (Full detailed Probable Cause Affidavit is here.) 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• We've crashed another one. (But this time one airman is still missing.)
  
  
• You don't see this very often:
  
  
  
• Trump yesterday: "By the way, on July 4th, it’s going to be approximately 107 degrees out, and I’m gonna go and I’m gonna make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything."
  
• Get ready for an increase in ICE raids this summer. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "A video appearing to show children at a church watching a skit in which boys or men in military uniforms pretend to fatally shoot someone. In the clip, adults and children repeatedly chant, 'Take him out! Blow him up!'"   Yep, it's real and comes to us from Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky.
  
  
  
• Speaking of electing socialists lately:
• From yesterday: 
  
  
  
• Ongoing: 
  
  
  
• Let's check in on Fox News this morning. 
  
  
  
• Lawyers in the news:  
• "Prosecutors say he has a history of similar behavior. In 2009, he was convicted in Illinois for unlawful window peeping."  Story.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Within 24 hours of his arrest in February, his employer at the time issued a brief statement: 'Gabriel Kabak is no longer an employee at the Harris County DA’s Office.'”  Now, months later, we have this . . . . 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

And not a small bribe either-- it was $200,000. But he surprisingly received three years probation out of federal court.

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• Gift link.  I don't want a landfill (or data center for that matter) in my backyard either, but they have to go somewhere, right?  
  
  
  
• Big revision to Dallas PD's "dress code" went live yesterday. 
  
  
  
  
• Love it or hate it, it probably will be a "circus."
  
  
  
• Millions breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when the Supreme Court (barely) decided that the law for the last 160 years is still the same law. 
  
  
  
  
• But Trump's main henchman, Stephen Miller, immediately went all in on The Handmaid's Tale about the court's decision.
  
  
  
• And Wise County's state representative fell right into the goose-step line. 
  
  
  
• Buried in the headlines yesterday was this news about this fall's term for the Supreme Court. They will strike all of the firearm bans down, but it's still noteworthy. 
  
  
  
• No wonder he spends so much time distracting us with craziness. 
  
  

  
  
  
          
  
  
• Speaking of grift, Trump is flying to North Dakota this morning in his gifted plane from Qatar.
  
  
   
• NPR ran with a pre-written "Justice Alito is resigning" story yesterday before quickly retracting it.  But the released message from the reporter which was sent to Alito to apologize is downright weird. 
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
• Trump will have the flags flying at half-staff by noon. 
  
  

  

  
  
• A socialist defeated a 15 term Congressman in Colorado last night. 

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

The origin of what would turn out to be one of my worst predictions of all time. 

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• The driver wasn't indicted for manslaughter or even criminally negligent homicide. Nope, it was the "hit and run" law.  
  
  
  
  
• But look at this curious paragraph from the CBS 11 story:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• You could definitely see it yesterday.
  
  
  
  
• Dallas Police doing bits while on the clock. 
  
  
  
• A law which allows the late counting of mail-in ballots so long as they are postmarked by the day of the election is OK. 
  
  
  
  
• Ken Paxton news:
• So we learned he was headed to Iceland with his girlfriend. 
  
  
  
  
• A new New York Times poll:
  
  
  
• But the polymarkets see it a differently. I think they are right.
  
  
  
• Speaking of doing bits. 
  
  
  
  
• What's he up to now?
  
  
  
• Hey, I thought that looked familiar. 
  
  
  
• Justice Clarence Thomas was seen roaming around the halls of Congress yesterday. Video.
  
  

  
  
  
  
• I don't think this is how a Capitalist talks:
  
  
  
• The network had access to Tech beginning bacj in January so this could actually be pretty good. 
  
  
  
• It's Birthright Citizenship decision time at 9:00 a.m. CST.