CURMUDGEONS DAY!
National Puzzle Day
Chinese New Year
Freethinker’s Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1845 – NYC’s Evening Mirror publishes Poe’s ‘The Raven’
1861 – Kansas is admitted to the union, wearing #34
1892 – The Coca-Cola Company incorporates in Atlanta
1936 – Baseball’s Hall of Fame elects its first class (The original FIVE were.)1972 – Don McLean’s “American Pie” hits #1 on the pop charts
1979 – President Jimmy Carter commutes Patty Hearst’s sentence
1984 – President Reagan announced he’s running for a second term
2009 = President Obama signs his first bill, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– THE FIRST PRESS BRIEFING — COMING IN HOT
– ‘I COMMIT TO TELLING THE TRUTH EVERY DAY’ — PRESS SEC
– SEC LEAVITT IS ASKED HOW MANY DEPORTEES ARE CRIMINALS?
– PRESS SEC SHARES DETAILS ON SOME OF THE BAD GUYS BEING DEPORTED
– DETAILS ON WHAT’S AFFECTED BY THE FREEZE SPENDING
– WE WERE ABOUT TO SPEND $50 OF YOUR MONEY ON CONDOMS FOR GAZA
– DRONES? YEAH, WE GOT AN ANSWER A WEEK AFTER PRES TRUMP PROMISED IT
– LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE BACK AND FORTH WITH PRESS LIKE CNN’s COLLINS
– STEPHEN MILLER VS JAKE TAPPER (MY MONEY’S ON MILLER)
– RFK JR’s FORMER RUNNING MATE WILL PRIMARY SENATORS WHO OPPOSE HIM
– SOME CLASSIC RFK JR AUDIO ABOUT AUTISM CAUSES
– RFK Jr’s COUSIN CAROLINE IS NOT HAPPEN HE’S NOMINATED
– CAROLINE KENNEDY HAS HUGE TIES TO BIG PHARMA – HMMMM
– MSNBC AND TIM WALZ ARE STILL CLAIMING MUSK DID A ‘NAZI’ SALUTE
– CNN IS STILL OBSESSED WITH THIS FANTASY TOO
– DHS SEC NOEM ARRIVING AT HQ (FOR THE RECORD, I THINK THIS IS DUMB)
– GUTFELD EXPLAINS @RAPIDRESPONSE47 – THE FACT-CHECKING TWITTER ACCOUNT
– JIM ACOSTA’S FAREWELL FROM CNN
– ICYMI – PRESIDENT TRUMP DUNKED ON ACOSTA
– FLASHBACK TO A CLASSIC TRUMP / ACOSTA CONFRONTATION
More News From DC
– TRUMP OFFERS BUYOUT TO TWO MILLION FEDERAL WORKERS (8 MOS SEVERANCE)
– DID YOU KNOW THE PRESIDENT CAN NOW EMAIL EVERY FED EMPLOYEE AT ONCE?
– FEDERAL JUDGE PUTS TEMP INJUNCTION ON TRUMP’S FUNDING FREEZE
– NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER FROM TRUMP BANS SEXUAL MUTILATION OF CHILDREN
– DEMS ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS OVER TRUMP’S MOVE TO FREEZE SPENDING
– HEGSETH PULLS MILLEY’S SECURITY CLEARANCE, MAY ADD A DEMOTION
– DHS SEC PLANS ON JOINING MORE DEPORTATION RAIDS
– SUSPECTED TREN DE ARAGUA LEADER ARRESTED IN COLORADO
General News
– FL PASSES NEW IMMIGRATION LAW IN SUPPORT OF PRES TRUMP’S EFFORTS
– NYC MINORITY COMMUNITIES CHEER AS ICE ROUNDS UP CRIMINAL ILLEGALS
– EAGLES FAN DIES AFTER FALLING FROM LIGHT POLE DURING VICTORY CELEBRATION
– OH LOOK, MADONNA IS TRYING TO RELEVANT, MAKES AN ANTI-TRUMPN STATEMENT
– MAN CLAIMS HE PUT THE GOOGLY EYES ON PUBLIC ART IN PORTLAND
Other News Catching My Eye
– GOOGLE UPDATES ITS MAPS TO INCLUDE ‘GULF OF AMERICA’ AND ‘MOUNT McKINLEY’
– EWWWWW – TRAPPED MINERS RESORT TO CANNIBALISM TO SURVIVE
– MORBIDLY OBSESE WOMAN SUES LYFT AFTER DRIVER REJECTED HER DUE TO SIZE
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