Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

I think the was my first reference ever to the $350,000 Man back when he was only the $183,000 Man.

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•  The guy who allegedly torched the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania appeared before the cameras yesterday. He looks stable.
  
  
  
• I was reminded that the Texas governor's mansion was almost burnt to the ground by an arsonist in 2008, and no one was ever caught. 
  
  
  
  
• The Texas legislature will vote on Wednesday as to whether to gut public schools by passing private vouchers -- sending your tax dollars to private schools instead. Tell Wise County Rep. Andy Hopper to vote no. 
  
  
  
• The accused teenager in the Frisco stabbing case "was released from the Collin County jail about 4:20 p.m. and put on house arrest with an ankle monitor. After an hourlong hearing at the county courthouse in McKinney on Monday morning, state District Judge Angela Tucker lowered Anthony’s bond from $1 million to $250,000."
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Twitter was handling the release well: 
  
  
  
• Pretty funny social media feed regarding the "space" flight yesterday. 
  
  
  
• After the Supreme Court told Trump to "facilitate" the return of the man from the El Salvadorian prison who was deported inadvertently and without due process, Trump brought the President of El Salvador to the Oval Office to both say with a straight face, "There's nothing I can do." It's over. Fascism is here. I warned you. 
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
• The President of El Salvador actually said when asked if he will return the man: “How can I return him to the United States? How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”  That makes no sense. It was like two guys being asked to move a couch and both saying, "I can't do that by myself!" 
  
  
  
• And Trump brought in all his yes men to help sell it all - including Stephen Miller, our modern day Joseph Goebbels, who lied in every sentence he uttered. 
  
  
  
  
• And in a shocking moment caught by an El Salvadorian government live stream, Trump said he wants to next send American citizens to the prison there.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• It's only going to get worse.  Start with deportations to horrible prisons of those no one cares about, and then move on to anyone who, in Trump's view, don't "deserve" to be an American.  And remember I told you that there would be concentration camps? It might be a good time to remind you that Auschwitz wasn't located in Germany. 
• Trump again said yesterday that Ukraine started the was with Russia. We are living in Orwell's 1984.
  
  
  
• Finally a school stands up to Trump's attempt to take them over.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump responded yesterday evening like a dictator would: 
  
  
  
• And another. His sin was protesting Israel's committing genocide in Gaza on a college campus. For that, he will summarily be thrown out of the country.   Both arrests like this and actions against universities like Harvard have one purpose: Silence dissent.
  
  
  
• The University of Colorado is retiring two numbers of these guys who led the team to a record of 13-11 over two seasons.
  
  
  
• Big news out of Cooke County late last week: A judge found that the current (and only) district court judge in the county, while she was DA, intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence in a 1997 capital murder case, and has recommended that the man go free. Order is here. 

Random Monday Morning Thougts

The guy got four months in prison for it. 

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• Katy Perry and others will board Jeff Bezo's rocket and fly to "space" and back for 11 minutes. Launch times is scheduled for right now at 8:30 CST.   Livestream here.
  

  
  
  
  
• A weird arson attack occurred on the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania on Saturday night. An arrest has been made. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Probably propane related. The home did not have natural gas. 
  
  
  

  

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• Ten students from the University of North Texas learned about lakes and high winds on Saturday.
  
  
  
•  A day after Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin to try to "end" the war with Ukraine, Russia launched two misses (10 minutes a part) at a populated area in Ukraine killing 34 and injured 117.  Trump called it just a "mistake" by Russia. 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Off the coast of Florida:
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump and his entourage went to a UFC fight in Miami on Saturday night. Even Ted Cruz got to tag along with Elon and others.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Just as I predicted, the Trump Administration is using the Supreme court facilitate/effectuate case to defy the federal district judge. The government made a filing on Saturday which said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is still alive, but that he's now the exclusive property of El Salvador. That's basically a "Not our problem," response.  Side note: The El Salvadorian president is in the White House today. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Trump got mad at 60 Minutes last night and said CBS should "lose their license" and wants his FCC chairman to “impose the maximum fines and punishment.” This is fascism. 
  
  
  
• On Friday, Trump declared a 60 foot wide strip of land on the border from the Pacific Ocean to El Paso as under the jurisdiction of the military. That seems ominous.
  
• "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." 
  
• Highland Park won its first ever soccer state championship, but somehow used an illegible player during the win.  They "discovered" the error right after the came, reported the issue to the UIL, and the UIL did the only thing the rules allow.
  
  
  
• Another lawyer providing fake court case citations to an appellate court, most likely the result of using AI. The Dallas Court of Appeals is not pleased.
  
  
  
• The Fort Worth Court of Appeals affirmed two criminal cases from Wise County late last week - one dealing with a DNA report which was disclosed during the trial.