Wednesday – May 18, 2022

Today’s podcast will be posted at 2:30pm ET — Tracy Beanz & Mike on the Dark to Light podcast

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1860 – The upstart Republican party nominates Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency in the upcoming election

1933 – FDR signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act

1951 – The United Nations moved to NYC
1953 – TWA made the first transcontinental flight from Los Angeles to New York  

1974 – Indian explodes a nuke — the 6th nation to join the nuclear club

1980 – Mount Saint Helens erupts, killing 57 people.  (3 times in 24 hours)

2001 – China kills a million chickens to prevent an outbreak of bird flu

2012 – Facebook’s IPO raised $16B (a tech record at the time)

News and The Politics out of D.C.

MIDTERM PRIMARY NEWS — WHAT WE KNOW AS OF THIS MORNING
– PA IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL

– EVEN A TRUMP ENDORSEMENT COULDN’T SAVE MADISON CAWTHORN

BIDEN DEPLOYS EMPATHY CAPE, PLAYS ‘GRIEFMAN’ IN BUFFALO
ANOTHER BIDEN FIRST – GAS TOPS $4/GAL IN EVERY STATE

BIDEN’S BOTS? AUDIT OF TWITTER SHOWS OVER 49% OF JOE’S FOLLOWERS ARE BOTS

TUCKER CARLSON INVITED CHUCK SCHUMER ON HIS SHOW… CHUCK’S RESPONSE

ANTI-SEMITE SQUAD AOC, TKAIB, OMAR FILE BILL TO MARK THE ‘CATASTROPHIC’ CREATION OF ISRAEL

FORMER FED CHAIR RIPS BIDEN’S PLAN TO ‘REDISTRIBUTE’ STUDENT LOAN DEBT

OVER 120,000 HUNTER BIDEN EMAILS WERE UPLOADED LAST NIGHT

JUDGE STRIKES DOWN CALIFORNIA’S QUOTAS FOR WOMEN ON CORP BOARDS

WUHAN LAB FUNDER TOLD FAUCI’S OFFICE COVID WOULD END AT 20,000 CASES

MSNBC REGULAR DONNY DEUTSCH SAYS DEMS CAN WIN IF THEY BRAND EVERY REPUBLICAN A ‘RACIST’

DURHAM PROSECUTOR SUMS UP DAY ONE OF SUSSMAN TRIAL – ‘A LOOK, A LEAK AND A LIE’

BLM IRS FILING SHOWS IT WAS GOOD TO BE RELATED TO AND FRIENDS WITH THE FOUNDER, PATRICE CULLORS

1700 FT LONG DRUG SMUGGLING TUNNEL FROM MEXICO TO CALIFORNIA FOUND

General News
NATO CHIEF HAILS ‘HISTORIC’ MOMENT AS FINLAND & SWEDEN APPLY TO JOIN
UKRAINE HOPES TO SWAP RUSSIAN POWs FOR CAPTURES STEEL MILL FIGHTERS
ELON MUSK PUSHES BACK ON CORPORATE WOKENESS, WARNS ABOUT CHINA
ELON MUSK: I NEVER VOTED REPUBLICAN, NOW I WILL

GUTFELD CRUSHES IT – LATE NIGHT TV RATINGS SHOW AMERICA IS OVER WOKE 
HULU CANCELS HILLARY SHOW IN DEVELOPMENT FOR TWO YEARS
CLAPTON TESTS POSITIVE FOR COIVD, CANCELS SHOWS
JOY BEHAR’S ‘TUCKER DERANGEMENT SYNDROME’ IS GETTING WORSE

WOKE

MOM READS DAUGHTER’S ASSIGNMENT ALOUD AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING — HER MIC WAS CUT AS THE MATERIAL WAS TOO OBSCENE FOR ADULTS

DID YOU KNOW IT IS WHITE SUPREMACY FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO WATCH BLACK ATHLETES? THAT’S WHAT A DEADSPIN SENIOR WRITER BELIEVES

Other News Catching My Eye

REMEMBER JANUARY’S ERUPTION IN TONGA?  WE NOW KNOW IT WAS THE 4TH LARGEST EVER DOCUMENTED
CONGRESS HOLDS FIRST UFO HEARING IN DECADES – DID WE LEARN ANYTHING?ADAM SCHIFF (FOR BRAINS) COMMITS TO TRANSPARENCY ON UFOs/UAPs
CRAZY VIDEO OF SHARKS FEEDING ON THE CARCASS OF A DEAD WHALE
GERMAN TOWN GROUNDS CATS IN ORDER TO SAVE RARE BIRDS