Farmworker Appreciation Day, Root Beer Float Day
RADIO TODAY: I’M LIVE 9A-NOON EASTERN FOR CHRIS PLANTE ON WMAL
Meme Du Jour
PELOSI’S DREAM IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALITY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1890 – Auburn Prison in NY uses the electric chair to execute murderer William Klemmer
1945 – The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
1962 – Jamaica is independent (After 300 years of ties to England)
1965 – LBJ signs the Voter Rights Act – outlawing literacy tests in order to vote
1991 – Tim Berners-Lee published the first website — info.cern.ch (Not Al Gore?)
1997 – Microsoft invested $150 in a troubled Apple Computer company
News and The Politics out of D.C.
IRAQ AIR BASE HOUSE AMERICAN TROOPS COMES UNDER ROCKET ATTACK
– BIDEN ASKED IF ‘IRAN WILL STAND DOWN’ — RESPONSE — “I HOPE SO, I DON’T KNOW’
KAMALA TO ANNOUNCE VEEPSTAKES WINNER TODAY — COULD IT BE???
– HARRIS SET TO SPEAK IN PHILLY WITH HER NEWLY MINTED RUNNING MATE
– MEANWHILE IN GEORGIA, VOTERS CAN’T NAME ANY OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
FORMER SECRET SERVICE HEAD WANTED TO DESTROY WHITE HOUSE COCAINE EVIDENCE
SCOTUS REJECTS MOVE TO DELAY TRUMP’S SENTENCING IN NY CASE
THAT VIDEO OF JAMIE RASKIN SAYING DEMS WOULD BLOCK TRUMP IF HE WINS IS NOT NEW
TRUMP SPECULATES THAT CANADA’S JUSTIN TRUDEAU MIGHT BE FIDEL CASTRO’S SON
– HERE’S A LITTLE COMPARISON — WHAT SAY YOU?
PENTAGON ABANDONS ANOTHER MILITARY BASE, THIS TIME IN NIGER, AFRICA
‘COMICS FOR KAMALA’ ZOOM CALL WAS A THING LAST NIGHT
– SWALWELL AND CECILY TYSON PUT THIS TOGETHER AND DID JD VANCE JOKES
– BEN STILLER WITH HIS SERIOUS PITCH FOR KAMALA (THIS WAS COMICS, RIGHT???)
– NICK OFFERMAN SINGS A NOT-SAFE-FOR-AIR PARODY OF ‘GOD BLESS THE USA’
General News
HURRICANE DEBBY LEAVES AT LEAST FOUR DEAD IN STORM’S WAKE
– DEBBY WASHES A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE UP ON SHORE
TOUGH DAY ON WALL STREET – A TRILLION DOLLAR WIPEOUT
– AFTER A HORRIBLE DAY, JAPAN’S STOCK MARKET REBOUNDS 10% IN ONE DAY
– WALL STREET’S FEAR INDEX (THE VIX) IS AT ITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE THE PANDEMIC
GOOGLE LOSES HUGE ANTI-TRUST CASE
– ALPHABET SHARES TUMBLE AFTER RULING
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, TWO CHINESE NATIONALS WITH $250K IN GOLD BARS STOPPED IN TEXAS
OLYMPICS UPDATE
MEDALS COUNT — WE CAUGHT CHINA IN GOLD MEDALS, CAN WE GROW THAT?
US WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM FACES GERMANY IN SEMIS TODAY
DUDE, WE WON GOLD IN WOMEN’S SURFING!
SIMONE BILES WRAPS UP HER CAREER WITH A SILVER MEDAL IN FLOOR EXERCISES
SERENA WILLIAMS CALLS OUT A SWANKY PARIS HOTEL FOR DENYING HER ACCESS
H/T SUZYKOOL
Woke News
CatCon (A THING, REALLY) HAS CRAZY CAT LADIES ANGRY WITH JD VANCE
CALIFORNIA BANNED SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAGS AND IT CREATED A BIGGER PROBLEM
Other News Catching My Eye
STREAMING STAR GIFTS A TESLA CYBER TRUCK TO TRUMP (HE’LL NEVER DRIVE IT)
DES MOINES, IOWA’S ‘CHICKEN PARADE’ SPARKS CHANGES TO THE CITY REGS