What Lee says happened outside Whiskey J'sAccording to journalist Sarah Fields and local reporting, Sammie Lee of Longview says she was attacked on June 20 after leaving Whiskey J's, where she had been drinking. Lee said she was walking back to her car when three women she did not know jumped her. She later needed staples in her head, a neck brace, and treatment for a black eye and heavy bleeding. Lee also said the attackers shouted 'Free Karmelo!' and talked about finding 'the smallest white girl they could find.' If that account holds up, it is a grim example of how fast online rage can leave the screen and look for a face.https://twitter.com/SarahisCensored/status/2068762658124255363 Police arrests followed the assaultPolice say the case has moved quickly. Ciarrianne Fuller, 21, was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Gregg County Jail, while Dejae Brown and Alana Mumphrey, both 21, turned themselves in Thursday. CBS 19 reported that all three women were charged with assault causing bodily injury. That is the kind of charge label that sounds neat on paper, which is one of bureaucracy's favorite tricks. The paperwork gets tidy, even when the victim's head needs staples and the photo tells a far…

A House hearing turns into a migrant-child fightMarkwayne Mullin and Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro got into a heated exchange during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Homeland Security. DeLauro pressed Mullin about separated children and said 3,900 had been taken from their families. Mullin fired back with a much larger number, saying 450,000 children had been lost during the Biden years. That is the kind of number that should stop a hearing cold, but in Washington it mostly just starts a louder argument. The federal government seems able to track every other detail in American life, except the one that matters most when children are involved: where they actually are.Mullin says Democrats ignored the bigger problemMullin used the exchange to argue that Democrats are suddenly concerned only after the border crisis became too large to hide behind talking points. He said DeLauro never spoke up when the Biden administration lost hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and placed many with unvetted sponsors. Earlier this month, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said many of those children were sexually assaulted or abused, which is the part of this story that ought to make every office on Capitol Hill a little less…