Friday – May 16, 2025

National Barbecue Day

– National Mimosa Day

– National Pizza Party Day

Meme Du Jour

H/T – Townhall on Twitter/X

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1792 – Denmark abolished slave trade
1817 – Steamboat service begins on the Mississippi River
1860 – The Republican Convention selects Abraham Lincoln
1866 – Congress approved replacing the silver half-dime with the nickel
1868 – The Senate fails to impeach/remove Andrew Johnson by one vote
1876 – Hires Root Beer makes its debut at the Centennial Exposition in Philly
1903 – George Wyman leaves San Fran on a cross continent motorcycle trip
1920 – Joan of Arc gets an upgrade – she is canonized by Pope Benedict XV
1939 – The first food stamps are issued in the U.S. (in Buffalo, NY)
1965 – Franco-American Spaghetti-Os is introduced
2014 – Barbara Walters retires from ‘The View’ and broadcasting

OK, SURE…SURE…

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– EARLIER THIS MORNING: TRUMP ON TRADE DEALS 

– TRUMP: ‘AND, WE’RE LOOKING AT GAZA, WE GOTTA GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF’

– ASKED ABOUT PUTIN… ‘WE’RE GONNA GET IT DONE’

– IT’S TIME TO GO BACK HOME (AND SEE NEW GRANDBABY)

– TRUMP ON AF1 — I SHOOK MORE HANDS THAN ANY HUMAN BEING IS CAPABLE OF

– YEAH, THE ‘YMCA DANCE’ HAPPENED IN FRONT OF THE TROOPS

– ECONOMIC COUNCIL CHIEF KEVIN HASSETT SOUNDS UPDATE ON THE ‘O.B.B,B.’

    – SPEAKER JOHNSON DOESN’T SOUND VERY CONFIDENT(EVEN THOUGH HE SAYS HE IS)

– AYANNA PRESLEY IS DEMANDING REPARATIONS FOR BLACK PEOPLE

– SCHUMER CALLS TRUMP A DICTATOR WHO HATES OFFSHORE WIND FARMS

– ABOUT THE PLANE… CONVERSATIONS ABOUT GIVING IT TO THE U.S. STARTED UNDER BIDEN

– SCOTT JENNINGS CATCHES DEM SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD ON CNN

– I APPRECIATE HHS SEC’s PASSION ON FOOD DYE AND MAKING KIDS HEALTHY

– TULSI GABBARD ADDRESSES COMEY’S ‘8647’ POST

– DOCTOR GORKA DESTROYS POLITICO ON STAGE TO THEIR FACES

– BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SLAMS AMERICA WHILE PERFORMING OVERSEAS

– FRIDAY FLASHBACKS: 2023 – JEN SNARKY AND JOY REID COVER FOR BIDEN’S STAGE DIVE

    – ONE YEAR AGO: BIDEN. CHALLENGES TRUMP TO DEBATE — MAKE MY DAY

 – THE GRABIEN MONTAGE DECLARING BIDEN TO BE ‘SHARP’

More News Out of DC

– DON JR POINTS OUT JAMES COMEY CALLING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO BE KILLED

    – THIS STORY IS UNFOLDING… DNI GABBARD WEIGHS IN, FBI DIRECTOR IS AWARE

– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A GRANDFATHER — AGAIN! TIFFANY WELCOMES HER FIRST BABY

– HAVING SOLVED ALL OTHER PROBLEMS, DEMS INTRODUCE REPARATIONS RESOLUTION

– YESTERDAY’S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP HEARING? FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM THE HILL.COM

General News

– YIKES! PART OF DENVER AIRPORT CONTROL EXPERIENCES SILENCE

– LA CITY COUNCIL APPROVES $30/HR MINIMUM WAGE FOR 2028

– DRIVING A BIG FORD/LINCOLN SUV? 273,000 HAVE BEEN RECALLED (BREAKING ISSUE)

– DIDDY TRIAL UPDATE FROM LATEST TESTIMONY

 – BIEBER SAYS HE WAS NOT AMONG DIDDY’S VICTIMS

– AUDIBLE.COM TO REPLACE PEOPLE WITH A-I NARRATORS

– MONTANA JOINS THE LIST OF STATES BANNING LAB-GROWN MEAT

– PRO RASSLIN’ LEGEND JIM ROSS ANNOUNCES COLON CANCER DIAGNOSIS

Other News Catching My Eye

– MORE PROOF OF WHY DOGS ARE JUST AMAZING

– NAKED MAN RUNS FROM COPS, GETS TAZED, HIS ‘ASPHALT DIVE’ GOES VIRAL

– SLATE’S CHEAP EV PICKUP SHOWS STRONG PRE-ORDERS

– LOST IN THE CA MOUNTAINS, SHE SURVIVED THREE WEEKS IN AN UNLOCKED CABIN

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