Monday – August 11, 2025

National Panini Day!

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1874 – Harry Parmelee patents the sprinkler head
1934 – Federal prisoners land on Alcatraz Island
1973 – “American Graffiti” opened in theaters “Where were you in ’62?”
1984 – Ronald Reagan jokes about bombing Russia on a hot mic

1992 – The Mall of America opened in Minnesota
2014 – Robin Williams died

News and The Politics out of D.C.

HEADS UP – 10AM PRESSER – A BIG ONE

CLIPS

– NATO SEC GENERAL HAS MUCH LOVE FOR TRUMP

– LINDSEY GRAHAM SEES THE WAR IN UKRAINE ENDING ‘HONORABLY’

– THE VEEP ON UKRAINE/RUSSIA AND THE FUNDING

 – JD HAS BIG PROPS FOR TRUMP AND HIS PUSH FOR PEACE

– JD VANCE ON THE REDISTRICTING (IT’S NOT GOOD FOR DEMS)

– VP VANCE WANTS ELON MUSK TO RETURN TO THE FOLD

– IL GOV PRITZKER CALLED OUT ON GERRYMANDERING BY KRISTEN WELKER? (YES)

– NY. GOV HOCHUL – CLAIMS SHE FOLLOWED THE RULES, SHANNON BREAM DISAGREES

– HOLDER: GERRYMANDERING WILL KILL DEMOCRACY, SO WE MUST GERRYMANDER TO SAVE IT

– BETO IS A POTTY MOUTH – ‘FUCK THE RULES’ — ‘WE PUNCH FIRST’

– DANA BASH COULD BARELY CONTAIN HER FAN-GIRLING WITH BERNIE SANDERS

– BUT, BASH LOOKS UPSET WITH MATT WHITAKER OVER THE IDEA OF PEACE IN UKRAINE

– MICHAEL COHEN THINKS SCHIFF AND JAMES ‘WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE’

– COHEN ALSO SAID TRUMP WAS NEVER ON EPSTEIN’S ISLAND

– ABC NEW AND JOHN BOLTON CAN’T STAND TRUMP MAKING PEACE HAPPEN

– GEORGE WILL THINKS NYC NEEDS MAMDANI TO WIN FOR THIS REASON

– A FUN FLASHBACK MONTAGE: TRUMP SAYS ‘BING BING BING’

– HHS SEC HAS A MESSAGE FOR PEOPLE — HANG OUT AT A GYM

– A (SHORT) SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM ROSIE O’DONNELL

– HEADS UP, THE WEF IS ADVOCATING A TAX ON WATER TO PAY FOR THE CLIMATE SCAM

– DR PHIL WITH BILL MAHER – AND THE SYDNEY SWEENEY THING IS STILL A THING

– TRUMP’S TRUTH SOCIAL POST ON THE DC CLEANUP

– THERE WAS ALSO A WARNING TO THE HOMELESS IN DC — LEAVE, AND DO IT NOW

General News

– BAD NEWS FOR THE TEXAS DEMS, GOV ABBOTT IS NOT GIVING UP

– MAHER AND DR PHIL ON THE REDISTRICTING

– PEOPLE IN DC REACT TO THE ‘EXTRA POLICE PRESENCE’ IN THE CAPITOL

– NY GOV DOESN’T SOUND LIKE SHE’S ENDORSING MAMDANI THE COMMIE

– CRAZY FLOODING TRAPS PEOPLE AT THE WISCONSIN STATE FAIR

– NEW TREND IN DINING? TINY MEALS (FOR PEOPLE ON THE ‘FAT JAB’)

– MONEY LAUNDERING AT THE VATICAN? WHAT’S NEXT? GAMBLING IN CASABLANCA?

– THOSE NEW AI SPEED CAMERAS WILL PUNISH MORE THAN JUST SPEEDING

– CRAZY FINISH AT THE FEDEX / ST JUDES

– ICYMI – AMERICAN REILLY OPELKA DEFEATED WORLD #8 IN CINCINNATI YESTERDAY

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Other News Catching My Eye

– BRAVO ‘STAR’ SAYS TRUMP VOTERS CAN ONLY EAT IN CRACKER BARREL

– JIMMY KIMMEL SAYS HE GOT ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP — YA KNOW, JUST IN CASE

– MAYBE DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE MOVING TO ALBANIA???

– DO NOT CALL THIS BIOLOGICAL FEMALE A ‘LADY’ — SHE’S A ‘THEY-DEE’