11.21.2025

It's Friday -- Let's Get Out of Here

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Random Friday Morning Thoughts




And the link is still alive. Still weird that it existed at all. 
  • Oh, my. Gavin Rivers Weisenburg, 21, of Allen, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, of Argyle have been indicted for plotting to invade a Haitian island, kill its men, and enslave women and children.  Edit: Here's the U.S. Attorney's Press Release



  • That's a baller move to have one of your final requests be that those two wouldn't be at your funeral. 


  • So let's get this straight:
    • Six members of Congress, four senators and two House Representatives - all ex military, put out a video telling the military it's ok to not follow "unlawful orders."

    • That message was absolutely correct, and they should be lauded for it.  After all, the literal defense of the Nazis as Nuremburg was "I was just following orders."

    • But then Trump responded yesterday by saying those six members of Congress should be executed. Are we just numb to this craziness?


    • Then Trump's sycophants go completely Orwellian by changing the words of what the lawmakers actually said, claiming the lawmakers told the troops to disobey "lawful" orders.  This is truly right out of 1984.
      Video of Leavitt yesterday
      Mike Johnson's quote. Video. 


    • And we just sit back and think all of this normal? The government, through Trump, called for execution of his critics who members of Congress. And then the government changes the actual words of those critics to justify Trump calling for their death. In America. Or what's left of it. It's over. 

  • And this barely causes a wave. (Gift link.)

  • Other quick hit headlines straight from front pages:
    • Wall Street Journal:

    • Also from WSJ: 
    • Denton Record Chronicle: 
    • And, finally, from the Baylor Lariat.

       
  • Weird legal nerdy stuff: So a dissenting judge on the Fifth Circuit, on the issue of certification of a question to a state supreme court, just randomly, and out of nowhere, takes a shot at Bluesky? 
  • Say what? 6A Plano West has an enrollment of 4,914.

  • Lauren Whitener Clock: 6 years and 140 days.

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11.20.2025

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts




This was right around the time Abbott began to change. Or at least begin to reveal who he really is. 

  • Probably relevant to Wise County. (Gift link.)

  • Bridgeport's own announces his retirement as Chief of Police of the city of Lake Worth. 

  • Most of the public can't discern fact from fiction as it is. The death of newspapers will be one of the major causes of the fall of America. 

  • If you think all the Epstein files will be released, you will be sorely disappointed. This press conference yesterday by these three, which was beyond comical, almost assured that their Leader will be protected. .


  • And the story behind the famous picture: "Three days before he landed at Travis Air Force Base, he was handed what he described as a 'Dear John' letter from his wife."


  • If this is going to be in front of the cameras, I smell an ambush coming.  Or at least an attempted ambush because Mamdani can more than hold his own.  


  • Oh, good lord. 

  • I've been confused from the start as to why they are sealed.

  • So apparently this is controversial to MAGA? (And Trump, moments ago, said they should be "arrested and put on trial.")


  • Let's check in on Fox News. Well, I'll be: 

  • The Business Second™. Eye popping profits. s

  • Legal nerdy stuff: With regards to the 2-1 federal panel decision invalidating Texas' redistricting map, the dissent came out one day later (yesterday), and it might be one of the weirdest things I've ever read -- which was certainly foreshadowed by the way it started off:


  • Messenger - Above the Fold

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11.19.2025

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts




You don't see civil rights cases filed while the criminal cases are still in the hopper. But these guys were far more correct in their assessment of the situation than the prosecutor turned out to be. 

  • I would comment on the headlines below but it all seems like a waste of time until they are appeal and the Trump appointed judiciary overturns them.

  • We are going to end up being controlled by just a few high tech companies and AI.

  • We seem to forget that Russia is still lobbing bombs at Ukraine even when we aren't paying attention. And one drone crossed into NATO member Romaina's air space to get to their target.



  • Man, this moved fast yesterday.

    • The House voted to pass it 427-1.


    • And then, hours later, the Senate didn't even want to do an open debate about it. They just all said, "It's good with us."

    • Trump was then asked why didn't he just order the release of the Epstein files on his own instead of having to have, literally, an Act of Congress. (Video.)

  • Trump spent the day entertaining the Saudi Price Crown Price Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. 

    • Flashback to when a Washington Post columnist was cut up into pieces by 15 Saudi agents with a bonesaw: 

    • At the news conference later in the day, Trump intercepted a question to the crown prince by ABC New reporter Mary Bruce who asked: "Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist. Why should Americans trust you?"


    • And then last night he honored the crown prince with a state dinner (and even Elon Musk and Tim Cook were there.)

  • Let's check in on Fox News. This may be the funniest screenshot yet.

  • My search for front pages from across Texas to end with is getting harder and harder to find because they are so generic, dated, and downright strange.  Case in point is below:  I was wondering what the story was behind the Vernon High School band which prompted that headline. The answer? There is none because there was no story. At all. The headline just went with the picture and that's it. 

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