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Weather is like clockwork this time of year. (Technical note: The "X" in the graphic is because the tweet was embedded when I originally posted it. Elon has gone back and made sure that all old embedded posts now show an X instead of the blue Twitter bird which was originally seen. It's a little like changing history.)
- Speaking of, we have now moved into full Orwellian America. Trump just changes history time and time again and now he is doing it about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Video of these shocking comments from yesterday.
- And how is it that overnight we are more aligned with Russia than NATO and all of Europe? We are in red alert territory.
- The DOGE thing is going great:
- On its new "Wall of Receipts" section of the DOGE website, Elon claims that he has cancelled $16 billion in contracts. An error has already been spotted where a contract he claimed was worth $8 billion was only $8 million.
- Stellar job on this one.
- And somehow this guy's imminent confirmation, which should occur tomorrow, has flown under the radar. Yesterday the Senate cleared the way for him with a procedural vote. As I told you weeks ago, every Trump nominee will be confirmed because no one will stop him.
- Measles update.
- This is weird. After someone won the $80 million Texas lottery on Monday with a ticket purchased online through the Jackpot app, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, on the next day, played journalist by going to the lottery licensed storefront and conducting an interview. Jackpot owns that storefront and uses it to legally buy thousands of the lottery tickets that its users have ordered and purchased through the app. I'm not sure why Patrick is bent out of shape. Some private individual won the lottery on Tuesday by using an app instead of going to the 7-11 and handing a clerk a dollar bill. Who cares how Jackpot buys the lottery tickets for its users?
- So let's guess how this is going to come down: Will Ken Paxton side with the school board funded by voucher loving moneymen and Patriot Mobile, or will he side with the poor side of the district? Easy answer.
- Remember on Monday when I posted what I thought was a horrible closing argument by a prosecutor in the A$AP Rocky trial? Well, we have a verdict. And the reaction by the defendant is fantastic. Video.
- I saw the blurb below yesterday and thought those names sounded familiar. Yep. When Sellers threw himself a birthday party at the Fort Worth Zoo in 2021, he hired Pearl Jam and The Chainsmokers for the private entertainment. It got my attention in Random Thoughts. This will be the third time they have sold a company with a multi-billion dollar payday.
- You can go down a rabbit hole about a blogger who created a cult which is now involved in killings across the country.
- Legal nerdy stuff: Ouch. (PDF of two page order.)
- Legal non-nerdy stuff: There's a huge scandal in New Mexico where a defense lawyer and five cops conspired on DWI cases to have them dismissed with kickbacks. It's as crazy as it sounds.
- It's cold. Channel 11 (the local CBS news affiliate) posted a video the morning of the "steam" coming off of Lake Bridgeport at the Runaway Bay bridge.
- Breaking: The current Superintendent for Slidell ISD has been named the new Superintendent of Decatur ISD.
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