- This is a little abbreviated today due to the wind storm causing a power outage, and then locking myself out of my office while collecting trash bins off the courthouse square.
- Trump has shockingly stopped all aid to Ukraine. Now we know why the staged blow-up happened in the Oval Office on Friday -- it was a pretext to do this all along.
- And "quick end to the war" means a Ukraine surrender.
- So what's it going to take to get Trump and Zelensky back together again? Trump says that he needs Zelensky to apologize. Sheesh. For what? And why does Trump sound like an ex-high school girlfriend?
- A 25% tariff went into effect at midnight on Canada and Mexico as well as an extra 20% tariff on China. Why? Who knows. If you complained about the price of groceries before, get ready.
- The Wall Street Journal's reaction:
- New this morning. This is pure fascism. And "illegal" is doing a lot of work in his post below. It will mean whatever Trump and MAGA doesn't like - First Amendment be damned. It's over.
- And something very similar is already starting locally involving Wise County's state representative:. Texas government is coming after if you dare say that genocide has been committed in Gaza (even if 50,000 are dead.)
- Elon Musk called social security a "Ponzi scheme."
- And his DOGE cuts via chainsaw may very well cause the current social security system to stop functioning even if nothing is cut.
- I meant to post these headlines about Gaza yesterday -- an area and subject which is being buried in all the other news. Maybe starving the people to death will facilitate Trump Tower Gaza construction:
- What in the world is up with Forest Hill?
- This happened yesterday morning in broad daylight:
- This from late February:
- And this was the next day:
- Do not forget that school vouchers have yet to be voted on in the House. Tell Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper that as a rural representative, he should not gut our hometown schools. Email him online or call (512) 463-0582 or find him on Twitter @RepHopper. And you might want to ask him to have a townhall and face the fire like one of his compadres did of Friday.