Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

"A Texas father who was accused of theft after he confiscated his 12-year-old daughter's cellphone over an inappropriate text has been acquitted of the misdemeanor charge. A judge in Dallas found Ronald Jackson not guilty Tuesday, citing insufficient evidence. Grand Prairie police arrested Jackson a few hours after he commandeered his daughter's cellphone and refused to return it. The 36-year-old father says a text he found on the phone was rude."

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•  Highway 114 in Roanoke was off to a rough start this morning. 
  
  
  
• A missing person case this week out of Breckenridge resulted in a body being found and now an arrest being made. Twenty-four year old Chyra Davis, who was originally from Mineral Wells, had been living in Breckenridge and had family in Graham. And that's about all we know.  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• "The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday at the elections warehouse of a Georgia county at the heart of right-wing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to challenge the narrative of his loss that year."  This has nothing to do with 2020.  It's about preparing propaganda for the theft of 2026 and 2028 elections. It's over. 
  
  
  
• Want proof? U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a complete nutcase, was there for the raid. 
  
  
  
  
  
• Of course. 
  
  
  
• That isn't going to help. 
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• Trump oddities.
• Nicki Minaj admitted to being an undocumented alien in 2026.  We are living in strange days.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Know your singers. 
  
  
  
• White House promoted film live from the NY Stock Exchange. 
  
• Trump fired off at least 48 posts in a 36 minute period last night. Here is just one. 
  
• Random Wikipedia entry.
  
  
  
• "Super drunk" is that state's term for allegedly allegedly having an alcohol concentration more than double the legal limit.
  
  
  
  
• Re:Texas law firm jet crash in Bangor. We still don't know the identities of two of the six victims, but we did learn more about one of them: 
  
  
  
• Messenger - Above the Fold: It is not available yet.  A link will be provided once it's out there.

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

They finally deflated the tires and drove out. 

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• Grace "Gracie" Brito, 16 years old.
  

• Senior Caden Nowicki.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The identities of those dead in the law firm jet crash in Bangor,  Maine have been slowly trickling in.   We've now learned the identity of the pilot (lower left) and another passenger (lower right) who was employed as a chef "for a luxury travel company owned by the [named partner Arnold] family."   There are two more still to be identified, one crew member and one passenger. 
  
  
  
  
• Photos of the three brothers who drowned in a pond in Bonham. "Cheyenne Hangaman said she and her children had been staying at a friend’s house across the street from the pond, and that she’d warned them to not go near it. But, she said, on Monday her youngest daughter ran to tell her that her brothers were in the water."
  
  
  
• Srayed with some brown liquid from a syringe. Video. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There is no bottom. 
  
  
  
• The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. 
• The "woman in the pink jacket" who filmed it from the sidewalk was on CNN last night.  She said that no one with the federal government had contacted her since the incident. 
  
  
  
  
• On gun rights. Video.
  
  
  
• "[W] get one person a little bit wrong."  Video
  
  
  
• She has 7.5 million followers.
  
  
  
  
  
• When even the Germans think you are a world threat.
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• The Business Second™. News yesterday about Amazon, UPS and Twin Peaks.
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
• Time flies.
  
  
  
  
• Very legal nerdy stuff: The Texas Supreme Court will routinely deny an agreed motion to continue an oral argument setting.  It happened again on Friday.  (PDF of Motion, and Order by postcard.)

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

He survived. 

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•  Sledding victim identified. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• There's little information, but we know it was three brothers who went to a pond off of "Recreational Road Three"
  
  
  
  
• There is still little information as well about the private jet crash in Maine which was registered to the Houston law firm of Arnold & Itkin. But we do know two of the victims are Tara Arnold, a lawyer in the firm and wife of the named partner, and Shawna Collins who is listed as an event planner. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Minneapolis developments:
• Bovino and Noem are no longer the face of ICE in Minneapolis.  But make no mistake about it, the policy hasn't changed. It's just that those two are bad at lying (and they also managed to rile up the Second Amendment folks.)
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• But putting this guy in charge is like sending gasoline to a fire.  
  
  
  
• And the press secretary didn't exactly do a great job on the Second Amendment front yesterday. I don't know where she came up with this: 
  
  
  
• Just two weeks ago Trump told us . . . 
  
  
  
• Can you imagine being a Minnesota congressman who cares so little that he even copies and pastes the part he's not supposed to copy and paste. 
  
  
  
• An under the radar move. 
  
  
  
• The grift never ends. 
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• Random old video of a Dallas official reminding you to pay your poll tax in 1963. (One minute video.)
  
  
  
• Press release yesterday. 
  
  
  
• Fun sports fact: "USC has had 26 QBs selected in the NFL Draft, the most of any school. Somehow, Sam Darnold will be the first one to start a Super Bowl."