- It looks like 60 to 80 homes were damaged in Jacksboro.
- Bridgeport PD has loaned two officers and two police cars to Jacksboro PD to get through the recovery phase.
- Abbott made the obligatory photo-op yesterday. And, yes, I would have dogged him if he didn't show up.
- The standings.
- And it's a crazy tornado season. New Orleans got hit pretty hard last night. The DallasTexasTV twitter account posted a handful of insane videos of it yesterday evening.
- Overnight, a car went off of highway 287 in Mansfield and slammed into a natural gas pipeline causing quite the commotion. Homes a mile around were evacuated until they could get the fire out.
- The family of the Paradise man who fell off the rooftop bar in Dallas has sued the restaurant. And we've got a father/daughter lawyer team out of Bridgeport involved.
- Horrible.
- In reading this tweet about the tornado damage in Montague County, my brain heard an abrupt record scratch sound effect after the first sentence.
- We shouldn't let the public complain to the governing body which provides almost all of the funding to the courts and the district attorney's office? They should be silenced? That's ridiculous.
- The confirmation hearing of Judge Jackson became predictably stupid yesterday:
- Lindsey Graham had to get the "Christian qualification" box checked.
- Ted Cruz will always embarrass us.
- It's the 1960s?
- The QAnon fascination with child porn and pedophilia made an appearance through the man who encouraged the January 6th Trump Insurrectionists.
- You know what it means if there is a $25 billion surplus? It means you were overtaxed. And $25 billion is almost the annual property tax bill on all single family homes combined -- a tax bill which is already ridiculously high.
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