Random Monday Morning Thoughts

After 10 cases of listeriosis, including 3 deaths,  Blue Bell issued a widespread recall of all its products due to the Listeria outbreak. 

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• The Pope died overnight only one day after meeting with J.D. Vance.
  
   
  
  
  
• A huge motorcycle crash on I-35W and Heritage Trace on Friday night. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Seems a little scant on the details here.  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Two more ugly incidents related to the Frisco Stabbing Case:
• "Dozens" attended a "Protect White Americans Rally" in Frisco on Saturday spearheaded by a  January 6th insurrectionist who was pardoned.  (And there was this shocking post from him after the fact.)
  
  
  
• There was another swatting call to a member of  the victim's family.  Video from one of them.
  
• That's not extremist. That's Fox News in prime time.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A wild Friday in the Trump vs. The Courts world. A quick synopsis:
• Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court implicitly gave Trump the right to use the Alien Enemies Act so long as those who are rounded up were given "reasonable" notice of a hearing to challenge their removal if they wished.
• And then on Friday, a bus of immigrants, declared as enemies under the Alien Enemies Acts, were loaded onto a bus in Anson, Texas for a journey to the airport to be sent, presumably, to the El Salvadorian prison.
• Had they received "reasonable" notice and a right to a hearing? Well, they had received only 24 hours notice - in English - that they would be deported, but the notice mentioned nothing about their right  to challenge their deportation at a hearing.
  
  
  
  
• The immigrant lawyers filed a writ of habeas corpus in Texas with Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas asking him to stop the deportation because, among other things, the notice above was insufficient and the deportations were imminent.
• In that hearing, the lawyer for Trump said they would not be deported that night (they were now off the bus). But he added "there are no plans to deport them tomorrow either" although he "reserved the right" to change that. So come midnight, the plans could change.
• But the district judge wouldn't rule. He sat on his hands. 
• The lawyers, frustrated, then took the exceptional step of filing the writ in the Fifth Circuit because they couldn't get an answer from the district judge.
• The Fifth Circuit refused to rule, too. 
• The lawyers then took the crazy next step of going to the Supreme Court and asking them to stop the deportation directly. 
• At a little before 1:00 a.m., the Supreme Court did just that -- it stopped the deportations. Two judges (Alito and Thomas dissented.) 
  
  
  
• In that other case: Just in case the Supreme Court needed more evidence that the Trump administration is not making good-faith efforts to comply with "facilitating" the return of the man wrongfully sent to the El Salvadorian prison without a hearing, we had the White House issue this -- which I couldn't believe was real.
  
  
  
• Using a photo-shopped image, Trump also mocked the man.  It's a propaganda machine.  
  
  
  
  
• The White House has now changed its COVID information page. Good lord. 
  
  
  
• A kid fainted/threw up in the Oval Office. Video. (I'm right there with you, girl.) 
  
  
  
• Measles update. We're doing great. 
  
  
  
• The Administration is one big grift.  The Secret Service is now promoting Lara Trump's new show on Fox by posting this on Twitter. 
  
  
  
• A couple of Israel-Gaza headlines (which might get me deported.) The second one only exists because they had been caught lying when a video was recently released. 
  

  

  

  
  
  
  
• And I don't even have time to mention the Secretary of Defense texted war plans to his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. (Gift link) . . .