Random News and Notes 1 February

Welcome to the month of purification. The name February comes from the Roman festival Februa, celebrated during this month to cleanse oneself and surroundings. The Romans regarded February as a time of spiritual washing and sacrifice. February was known in Old English as solmonað, meaning “mud month”.

Today in 1790 marks the start of the first session of the Supreme court. With Chief Justice John Jay presiding, the Court met at Royal Exchange Building on New York City’s Broad Street. John Rutledge of South Carolina, William Cushing of Massachusetts, John Blair of Virginia, Robert Harrison of Maryland, and James Wilson of Pennsylvania were appointed by President Washington to serve as associate justices.

Our first piece is something that I somehow missed when it first broke. On 29 January, a Bexar county Texas judge was indicted on a third-degree felony count of unlawful restraint by a judicial officer and a Class A misdemeanor for official oppression. Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez was charged for illegally handcuffing an attorney and locking him in a jury box. Allegedly.

The attorney had objected after the judge denied her request to speak briefly with her intellectually challenged client, prompting the judge’s contempt order and brief detention. The 60-year-old judge, Bexar County’s first openly gay elected judge since 2018, turned herself in, posted $20,000 bond, and remains on the bench while the State Commission on Judicial Conduct considers suspension; she faces a reelection challenge in March.

The ‘judge’ claims she is being targeted for being LGBTQ. Riiiight.

Nick Shirley, the guy who uncovered the Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota has taken his show on the road. He’s now investigating daycares and other health services in California.

Shirley filmed an unannounced visit to a San Diego residential daycare on Saturday. The provider insisted children were enrolled but grew agitated, demanding he leave amid no kids visible. Local records show similar issues with empty homes claiming high enrollments.

An anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles decided to FAFO. Well she found out.

Maria Santay, a “legal observer” with ICE Out of LA and Aflac employee, was detained Friday around 2 p.m. at a Chevron station after agents boxed in her vehicle. The incident followed a prior encounter where agents warned her for following them, leading to charges of resisting arrest after her release later that day.

I wonder how AFLAC feels about it? If and when she gets fired, I’ll let you know.

There was an incident at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport back in October. Recently released footage shows a man shoving his way through the checkpoint. Fabian Leon, 40, pushed his way through lane No. 6 at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s main checkpoint around 8:30 a.m., shoving passengers and injuring three TSA officers. Mark Thomas, waiting in line, tackled and body-slammed Leon before police arrived.

“I saw him knock over the first dude and then a TSA agent tried to grab him, and once he was going to get past me, I was just like, okay, I’ll just take over if I can,” Thomas recalled later

Leon admitted to drinking and using drugs beforehand; he faced charges for battery and interfering with security, plus a probation warrant.

In an update about a story from yesterday, there are reports that the commander of the IRGC Navy Commodore Alireza Tangsiri was eliminated. This is not confirmed at this time, but reporting indicates he was present at the building that went boom in Bandar Abbas yesterday.

The Regime is denying the claims, but hasn’t produced proof of life. If this is true, at least some of my guesses in yesterday’s RNN were likely correct.