Random Friday Morning Thoughts

They still had that thing a couple of years ago, but it may be gone. 

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• Gene Hackman update: . It looks like his wife was found lying on the bathroom floor, and he was found in what appeared to be a mud room near the kitchen. But police don't seem to think the deaths were do to a carbon monoxide leak. Rank Speculation: She had a fatal medical issue, and the 92 year old Hackman fell after finding her? 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• After dramatically promising the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files on Fox News on Wednesday night, AG Pam Bondi released 200 pages of redacted information yesterday. .And, since everything is a show, she first released the pages in a binder to 15 right wing "influencers" at the White House.  The problem is that those documents had already been on the Internet for years. After extreme blowback from the base and conspiracy theorists everywhere, she blamed the FBI for not giving her everything, and wrote a sternly worded letter to FBI Director Kash Patel. It's a clown show.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Compare and contrast:

  

  Page from yesterday's release by Bondi.

  
  

  

  Same page that has been on the Internet for years

  
  
• Here's the story on these guys for those unfamiliar. I'm confused as to how those two meatheads became famous in the first place.   
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Florida Governor Ron DeSantis immediately got in front of the cameras and said the that he didn't want them in Florida. 
  
  
  
• Now Elon's in charge of hiring? 
  
  
  
• When you've lost the Barstool Sports guy . . . 
  
  
  
• One dead. Two arrested. All 15 years old.
  
  
  
• Update on the Southlake Town Square cartel hit that occurred in 2013.
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Dateline Cleveland. All 15 students got out safely of this bus on fire in a residential neighborhood. (The video is even wilder.) 
  
  
  
• Your lawmakers hard at work.
  
  
   
  
  
  
• These two posts came across my Twitter feed yesterday from the official account of the Texas District and County Attorney's Association. They might want to clarify that the guy in the photo is neither a drug user or child abuse defendant. He's the Collin County sheriff.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Extremely nerdy legal stuff: Yesterday the Fort Worth Court of Appeals reversed a criminal conviction -- a rarity these days -- and felt so bad about it that they basically apologized to the prosecutor and the judge (who were, in fact, the cause of the error). See footnote 55 on the last page.
• Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 240 days.