- It's going to take a while to know the full impact of this. But here's a video of a skyscraper under construction collapsing in Bangkok.
- Classes were cancelled for the day, in this Frisco elementary, and all of the students were sent home. (Once we get those Ten Commandments posted in schools, maybe they can stop the bullets.)
- Update.
- The executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate what he finds to be "improper." Talk about Orwellian. This would be done by the "Ministry of Truth" in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- The attack on law firms which might be willing to challenge Trump's unconstitutional actions continues:
- This firm was targeted last night because it "rewarded Robert Mueller and his colleagues — Aaron Zebley, Mueller’s 'top aide' and 'closest associate,' and James Quarles — by welcoming them to the firm after" the investigation of Trump and Russia. That is insane.
- And a shocking move by one of the largest law firms in America late yesterday when it bent the knee even before it was targeted . One of the keys to fighting autocracy is to not "obey in advance." You are watching democracy slip away in real time. Gift link.
- The official White House account on Twitter continues to get weirder and scarier.
- Capitalism and free markets without government intervention have always been a major hallmark of Conservatism.
- Oh, good grief.
- Just a South African billionaire buying American elections.
- Embattled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has yet another new tattoo as revealed in a new video. It features the Arabic word 'kafir,' which in the Quran means "disbeliever" or "infidel."
- The Business Second™.
- Get your guns up if you weren't awake at 11:43 p.m. to see the end of the game.
- Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 269 days.