Mede Nix

Formerly Senior Editor of News @dallasnews. Lover of political sport and just plain sports. Grand Prairie High, Howard Payne grad, ex-UPI, DTH, FWST.

[Phil Jankowski 🌟 @PhilJankowski]

New FEC filing for Ken Paxton fundraising committee Paxton Victory indicates $3.875M in donations, including $250,000 from Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Gives “helicopter parent” a whole new meaning.

[Rebekah Allen @rebekahallen]

One day before Ken Paxton threatened to sue the Big 12 over Brendan Sorsby eligibility saga, his campaign got $275K from Texas Tech Regents Chair Cody Campbell - a vocal Sorsby defender and huge Tech booster.

from @kaylaguo_

https://t.co/ys6PJQYeW4

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

EXCLUSIVE -- VP arranged for his elementary school son to be flown in a military helicopter -- for a golf lesson across town. @SecretService detail is getting "fed up" with Vance family entitled protection expectations and last minute travel
W @VaughnHillyard

https://t.co/AuoEMGXint

[Ryan Chandler @RyanChandlerTV]

Terrell County’s @SheriffThad, a Republican and outspoken supporter of President Trump and the administration’s border security measures, stands with @jamestalarico in Sanderson today.

He joined the campaign to speak against the plans for a border wall in Big Bend.

[Covie @covie_93]

Only in America can a story about ICE agents murdering someone be replaced by another story about ICE agents murdering someone.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Kentucky Republicans have tried to take away Governor Beshear’s ability to appoint Mitch McConnell’s replacement. Beshear says he’s considering ignoring the state legislature and appointing a Democrat to replace McConnell anyway.

He believes the law is unconstitutional, that Kentucky’s constitution gives him the authority, and that he’s prepared to test the GOP on it.

This is exactly how Democrats should be fighting.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

@PressHerald it appears there was a three year old girl (reportedly the victim's daughter) on the scene when the shooting took place, wearing Bluey pajamas

https://t.co/bj1Yiv2YVV

[RJ Ochoa @rjochoa]

Tony Romo on @PardonMyTake:

"I'm not a guy with big regrets, I guess you could say. The only regret I guess I would have is that... my job was to bring a Super Bowl to Dallas and I didn't do it. So that always sticks with me a little bit. Because you give your whole body, heart, soul, everything into it."

"And you just wanted that for... all the fans. The Joneses. For everybody that you're around. And so that one always sticks with me a little bit just because I had that opportunity and just wasn't able to do it. So that part of it kind of still... sits there."

"But at the end it was like... I could go somewhere else and do it. Because I was like, I gotta win a Super Bowl. It's literally what you play the game for. Nothing else matters."

"And it just was like... but would that be the same? If I went somewhere else and did it?"

"Because at that point I'd known the game at such a high level. My last 20, 25 games, we were pretty successful. When healthy. But I was getting injured more often. Body breaks down in some ways through the years."

"...I think just... it was as simple as it just wouldn't feel as... important... it would be important to me, but it was for the people I was around. All the fans that we had."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a better American than the people leading our country.

https://t.co/dbfvMpXTuq

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Kristol's framing here is worth sitting with directly because it inverts the argument this administration has spent a decade making. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the version of the American Dream Republicans claim to be defending. Thirty five years of work. A business that gave other men jobs. Three sons pushed through college specifically so they would not have to labor in the sun the way he did. He was in the process of legally regularizing his status, filling out paperwork, providing fingerprints, doing the thing every immigration hardliner insists people should do instead of staying undocumented.

He did the thing, and his own government shot him anyway, then went silent. More than six hundred open misconduct complaints are currently sitting with the DHS inspector general, a number large enough that this case is not an aberration inside that count, it is one more entry in a pattern the government's own watchdog office is already tracking. Kristol's line lands because it is not really about Lorenzo at all. It is about what it says when the people running the country cannot manage a fraction of the discipline, humility, or accountability that a construction worker who never wanted his own children to see him in pain managed for three decades without anyone asking him to.

[Mede Nix @medenix]

Luckily our hitters are picking up the bullpen!

[Mede Nix @medenix]

Martin's got to go.

[Mede Nix @medenix]

@CoxHerb @deevah007 Was he talking from London?

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.

There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's @JRogalskiKHOU found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.

Renee Good all over again.

[Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo]

ICE claimed that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo drove his van into one of their SUVs and later attempted to run an ICE agent over. The first thing our local media pointed out was the lack of damage on Araujo’s van. One of the best investigative journalists in Houston, Jeremy Rogalski, found surveillance camera footage showing ICE ramming the van minutes before shots were fired.

The ICE story is already falling apart.

https://t.co/46XvAN8KcT

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

@Carrasquillo on Lorenzo Araujo

https://t.co/72dz5Z6vVs

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Mitch McConnell talking to Scott Jennings today

[Mede Nix @medenix]

@gilebreton @Rangers Why is he still here? I don’t get it.

[Bud Kennedy / #ReadLocal @BudKennedy]

Lt Gov @DanPatrick promotes an evangelist and fake historian with a long history of blatantly false work.