Today’s Pure Opelka podcast
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1776 – France and Spain agree to provide arms to American rebels fighting the British
1885 – “Good Housekeeping” magazine started publishing
1918 – GM buys a Chevrolet — the entire company
1919 – Passenger air travel begins in the U.S.
1933 – Loch Ness “monster” allegedly spotted for the first time
1945 – German troops surrender to Allies in Italy and to the Russians in Berlin
1970 – Anti-war protests at Kent State University in Ohio bring the National Guard on campus (It got a lot worse two days later.)
2011 – Osama bin Laden killed by American forces in Pakistan
News and The Politics out of D.C.
‘BIDEN’S JUST A FRONT MAN’ – TULSI GABBARD CONNECTS THE DOTS BETWEEN OBAMA’S WANTS AND JOE’S ACTIONS
TRUMP RALLYS IN NEBRASKA, CALLS FOR BIDEN TO TAKE A COGNITIVE TEST
SO THIS IS WHY PELOSI SKIPPED THE WH CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER, SHE WAS HEADED TO KIEV
– FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN TO MEET UKRAINIAN REFUGEES IN EASTERN EUROPE
– ALSO UKRAINE — ‘THE GHOST OF KIEV’ NEVER EXISTED
PUTIN REPORTEDLY TO UNDERGO CANCER OPERATION
EVACUATIONS FROM UKRAINIAN STEEL PLANT BEGIN
FROM THEHILL.COM — THE FIVE BEST JOKES FROM THE NIGHT
LET’S GO BRANDON! JOE JOKES ABOUT HIS LOW APPROVAL RATING AT DC NERD PROM
BIDEN LAUGHS AS TREVOR NOAH JOKES ABOUT AMERICAN PEOPLE SUFFERING
TRUMP CALLS FOR RELEASE OF OBAMA’S CHIEF OF STAFF’S TEXTS RELATED TO 2016 ELECTION
A MAJORITY OF US BELIEVE GAS PRICES ARE BIDEN’S FAULT (NOT PUTIN’S)
FBI WARRANTLESS SEARCHES OF AMERICANS’ DATA MORE THAN DOUBLED FROM 2020 TO 2021
DINES D’SOUZA’S FILM – 2000 MULES – OPENS THIS WEEK — WILL IT FIND A NATIONAL AUDIENCE?
NEW NPR POLL HAS MORE BAD NEWS FOR DEMS
JILL BIDEN’S BIOGRAPHY SOLD 250 COPIES IN ITS FIRST WEEK…
IT MIGHT APPEAR THE NY TIMES & MSNBC ARE COLLUDING TO ATTACK TUCKER CARLSON
General News
WILLIAM SHATNER WANTS TO BE TWITTER’S NEW FACE — ELON RESPONDS WITH JUST 6 WORDS
SPEAKING OF ELON MUSK — HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS PLANS FOR TWITTER, SO FAR
MY PILLOW CEO MIKE LINDELL REJOINS TWITTER AND IS SUSPENDED AGAIN HOURS LATER
DR BIRX (‘THE SCARF’) IS WARNING AMERICA OF A SUMMER WAVE OF COVID AS IMMUNITY WANES
STUDY LINKS SPIKE IN EMERGENCY HEART EVENTS TO VACCINE ROLLOUT
HOW BAD ARE THINGS ON THE STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA? THESE VIDEOS ARE JAW-DROPPING
ITALY’S GOV’T IS LAUNCHING A SOCIAL CREDIT SCORING APP…
WOKE
NY TIMES COLUMNIST DENOUNCES FREE SPEECH AS A WHITE MAN’S “OBSESSION”
BILL MURRAY ADDRESSES ALLEGATIONS OF ‘INAPPROPRIATE” BEHAVIOR THAT SHUT DOWN HIS FILM
Other News Catching My Eye
REST-IN-PEACE NAOMI JUDD, GONE AT 76
THE JUDDS (AND RAY CHARLES) INDUCTED INTO COUN TRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME
DANICA PATRICK OPENS UP ON WHY SHE GOT BREAST IMPLANTS AND THEN HAD THEM REMOVED
THE ROYALS FLUSHED… MEGHAN AND HARRY’S PROJECTS GET BOOTED BY NETFLIX
OPTICAL ILLUSION TEST… CLICK THE LINK AND WHAT YOU SEE FIRST SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT YOU
