Friday – May 1, 2026

National Space Day

– National No Pants Day

– Learn to ride a bike day (Is it true that you never forget how???)

– National School Bus Drivers Day

– National Purebred Dogs Day (We LOVE our mutts too)

– And, it’s that May Day thing too

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1786 – Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ premiered in Vienna
 (The Rabbit of Seville debuted in 1950)
1877 – Ten years after it started, Reconstruction ends in the South
1926 – Ford workers get a 40-hour work week
1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated
1941 – ‘Citizen Kane’ opens in NYC  
(It’s good, not great.)
1960 – An American U2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union
1961 – Castro announces there won’t be any more elections in Cuba
1967 – Elvis married Priscilla
 (How many couples can we identify using just one name for each?)

2011 – Osama bin Laden is killed

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED AN E-O TO MAKE RETIREMENT SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AVAILABLE TO THOSE WITHOUT ONE 

– TRUMP TELLS GRETA VON SUSTERN THAT ABC IS FACING GREAT JEOPARDY FOR NOT CANNING KIMMEL

– THEY ALSO DISCUSSED TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER

– THE PRESIDENT HAS LESS RESPECT FOR HAKEEM JEFFRIES THAN I DO (AND THAT’S NOT MUCH)

– FL GOV DeSANTIS HAS VERY LITTLE RESPECT FOR THE DEM HOUSE LEADER AS WELL

– JEFFRIES IS NOT HIDING IT – ‘EVERYTHING IS ON THE TABLE’ 

– REP SETH MOULTON WANTS PETE HEGSETH EXECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES

– FOX ASKED FETTERMAN, ‘WHY NOT RUN AS A REPUBLICAN?’ (MAYBE BECAUSE HE VOTES LIKE A DEM?)

– THE FISA AUTHORITY IS STILL ALIVE — THOMAS MASSIE IS TRYING TO END IT

– AFFORDABILITY CRISIS? PETER DOOCY REPORTS SOME TRUMP VS BIDEN NUMBERS

– DEM SENATOR SEEMS TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PETE HEGSETH’S FAITH

– WHCD SHOOTER CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF A DOG, BEFORE THE AGENTS

– ALAN DERSHOWITZ TORCHES ELZABETH WARREN — ‘THE NASTIEST PERSON IN THE SENATE’

–  DEN SENATE CANDIDATE WITH A NAZI TAT WANT TO ‘SHUT THIS WHITE HOUSE DOWN’

– CNN’s ABBY PHILLIP ASKED A GREAT QUESTION ABOUT THE CANDIDATE WITH A NAZI TATTOO

– OF COURSE, THE VIEW REACTED TO THE SCOTUS DECISION ON THE GERRYMANDERING

– SUNNY HAD TO HOP ON THE BANDWAGON TOO

– IS ‘THE VIEW’ ON THIN ICE WITH THE FEDS?

– THE LESSER CUOMO (H/T RICH ZEOLI) AND THE RECENTLY DECEASED BILL O’REILLY FACED OFF

    – THE GUTFELD DISCUSSION (THE LATE BILL O’REILLY KEPT CALLING GREG, ‘GUT-FIELD’)

– CANDACE OWENS SAYS LAURA LOOMER MAY HAVE BLACKMAIL MATERIAL ON TRUMP

More News From DC

– (NOT) GOOD WORK! NATIONAL DEBT EXCEEDS 100% OF GDP

– 75 DAY GOV’T SHUTDOWN ENDING – BILL MELUGIN BREAKS DOWN ‘WHO WON?’

– FISA POWERS TEMPORARILY EXTENDED

– PETE HEGSETH GRILLED BY THE SENATE — FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM THE HILL.COM

– GOP SENATE CANDIDATE FOR OKLAHOMA IS FOUND DEAD IN HIS TRUCK

– BIG JUMP IN THE MARKETS YESTERDAY — WAS IT DUE TO THE ECONOMIC NEWS?

General News

– POLYMARKET SAYS LOS ANGELES IS ABOUT TO ELECT THE ‘NEXT MAMDANI’ – A DEM SOCIALIST AS MAYOR

– CHICAGO IS BUSING STUDENTS TO ANTI-TRUMP, MAY DAY PROTESTS

– TWO DAYS AFTER THE FEDS RAIDED THE MN ‘LEARING CENTER’ – DEMS VOTED TO KEEP FUNDING IT

– SAN FRANCISCO USED TO BE A GREAT CITY — THIS VIDEO SHOWS WHAT THE DRUGS ARE DOING

– LOUISIANA PAUSES PRIMARIES TO REDRAW DISTRICTS IN THE WAKE OF SCOTUS RULING

– CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL HAVE A SAY ON VOTER ID AND THE NY TIMES IS NOT HAPPY

– WORLD’S BUSIEST TRADER JOE’S STORE IS CLOSING (NYC RESIDENTS HOPE ITS TEMPORARY)

– FRIDAY FLASHBACK – CANDACE OWENS MONTAGE OF MISPRONUNCIATIONS

– SAY A PRAYER FOR KEVIN SORBO

Other News Catching My Eye

– LEGO CROCS? AND THEY ONLY COST $149? WHERE DO I SIGN UP TO FEEL STUPID?

– AND YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE WILL FIGHT OVER THESE

– $9 BUCKS FOR A CUP OF STARBUCKS? THE CEO SAYS THINK OF IT AS AN ‘EXPERIENCE’

– JOYFUL VIDEO – KID GETS 25 SECONDS TO SINK FOUR SHOTS TO WIN $10,000

– DID YOU KNOW THERE’S A (REPLICA) LIBERTY BELL IN EVERY U.S. STATE?

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