Monday – May 4, 2026

STAR WARS DAY! (May the fourth be with you.)(Blame the UK lawmaker who wrote that pun in 1994.)

Intl Firefighters Day

Kent State Shootings Remembrance Day (1970 – Immortalized by CSNY’s “OHIO”)

Dave Brubeck Day (The ‘Take Five’ guy gets celebrated on the 4th?)

National Orange Juice Day

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1776 – Rhode Island is the first colony to renounce allegiance to King George III
1865 – President Lincoln is buried in Springfield, IL
1904 – The U.S. acquires the Panama Canal, official takes over the construction too
1932 – Al Capone goes to prison
1959 – The first Grammy Awards were handed out
 (Sinatra won one, the Chipmunks grabbed three.)

1970 – National Guard Shoots and kills four student protesters
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes England’s first female Prime Minister

1998 – A federal judge sentenced the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski to four consecutive life sentences

2023 – The WHO declares COVID is over as a global health emergency

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

– THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCING ‘PROJECT FREEDOM’ TO ESCORT SHIPS THRU THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

– WILL POTUS ORDER THE MILITARY TO STRIKE IRAN AGAIN?

– WHAT ABOUT IRAN’S REMAINING MILITARY MANUFACTURING? (TRUMP WOULD LIKE TO CRUSH THAT TOO)

– WHAT DOES TRUMP THINK ABOUT IRAN’S NEW PROPOSAL? (HE’LL READ IT ON THE PLANE)

– TRUMP AT THE VILLAGES — WITH SOME THOUGHTS ON ILHAN OMAR

– MELANIA (REPORTEDLY) HATES THE TRUMP DANCE — THE PRESIDENT DID IT AT THE VILLAGES

– DOES DR PHIL LIVE AT THE VILLAGES? (HE BROUGHT TRUMP OUT TO CELEBRATE NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY)

– IT SURE SOUNDS LIKE RON DeSANTIS MAY BE NOMINATED FOR A CABINET POST VERY SOON

– DEM HOUSE CANDIDATE MC MORROW WAS STILL VOTING IN CALIFORNIA TWO YEARS AFTER MOVING TO MICHIGAN

– ADAM SCHIFF IS MAD ABOUT DOJ INVESTIGATIONS HE DOESN’T LIKE

– US ATTNY JEANINE PIRRO ON WHICH BULLET HIT THE SECRET SERVICE AGENT (IT WAS THE ALLEGED SHOOTER’S)

– HAS ANYONE CHECKED ON GAVIN NEWSOM? THIS VIDEO SEEMS TO BE TROUBLING MANY PEOPLE

– BIDEN-MAYOR PETE- LIZ WARREN ALL WORKED TO KILL MERGER THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED SPIRIT AIR

– SCOTT BESSENT THROWS SHADE ON LIZ WARREN FOR KILLING SPIRIT AIR MERGER YEARS AGO

– ONE WOMAN SHARES THE STORY OF 170 PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE FLYING HOME TO OHIO

– OBAMA WINGMAN ERIC HOLDER WANTS DEMS/PROGRESSIVES TO START PLAYING HARDBALL

– DEM WITH HOPES TO WINNING FETTERMAN’S SEAT TURNS OUT TO BE A VIOLENT NUT

– HE ALSO HAD A ‘BE KIND’ PENNANT ON THE WAL BEHIND HIM

– SW AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT WANTS PRESIDENT TRUMP DEAD

– CHRIS MURPHY SAYS THE NAZI TATTOO ON THEIR DEM CANDIDATE IN MAINE IS JUST AN ‘INNOCENT MISTAKE’

– FORMER CNN STAR JIM ACOSTA SAYS SCOTT JENNINGS NEEDS TO BE FIRED

– SCOTT JENNINGS FACES OFF WITH KASEY HUNT (THIS MAY HAVE INSPIRED MR ACOSTA)

– IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS CARVILLE VIDEO, I THINK YOU CAN SEE HIS MOUTH AND THE FROTHING

– SUNNY HOSTIN IS WRONG AGAIN

– AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS JENNIFER WELCH IS TALKING TO HER STUNT DOUBLE?

More News From DC

– TRUMP ANNOUNCED ‘PROJECT FREEDOM’ TO ESCOT SHIPS THRU THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

– POLL: EVEN A MAORITY OF DEMOCRATS BELIEVE WE’RE WINNING THE WAR WITH IRAN

– KALSHI PREDICTION MARKETS SAYS 2028 LOOKS LIKE A TIE BETWEEN THESE THREE CANDIDATES

– KALSHI IS ALSO SEEING RISKS OF A RECESSION FALLING FROM 40% TO 17%

– RANDY FINE SAYS – NO DUAL CITIZENSHIPS SERVING IN CONGRESS (I’M OK WITH THIS)

– DEMS CLAIM VOTER FRAUD AIN’T HAPPENING – HOWEVER, WHEN THEY ARE THE ONES DOING IT, SO IT’S OK

– A SCOTUS DECISION WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT — CAN POLICE TRACK / SEARCH YOUR PHONE?

– IT SURE LOOKS LIKE MANUFACTURING IS MAKING A COMEBACK IN AMERICA — FOUR MONTHS OF GROWTH

– INVASION? 50 MIL MUSLIMS LIVE IN EUROPE NOW — IN 2000 THAT NUMBER WAS UNDER 500K

– RUDY GIULIANI REPORTED TO BE HOSPITALIZED IN CRITICAL CONDITION

General News

– CHICAGO F-O-P LEADER IS FED UP WITH THE ACTIONS OF HIS LOCAL AND STATE GOV’T

– CRAZY! PLANE FROM VENICE TO NEWARK, NJ CLIPS A LIGHT POLE AND A TRUCK

     – THE VIDEO

     – MANY OF US ARE SURPRISED THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN EVER DAMN DAY

– FL GOV DeSANTIS REVEALS HIS ‘CHEAT CODE’ FOR MAKING THE STATE SUCCESSFUL

– THIS IS BRUTAL — PHILLY STUDENT EXPOSES JUST HOW ILLITERATE HER CLASSMATES ARE

– UH-OH, GLP-1 DRUGS TIED TO HAIR LOSS AS WELL AS WEIGHT LOSS?

– SAY GOOD-BYE TO SELF-SERVE SODAS/DRINKS AT MC DONALDS

Other News Catching My Eye

– MARK CUBAN IS TRYING TO START SOME SHIT WITH ELON MUSK

– FLASHBACK: DONALD TRUMP AND MELANIA KNAUSS AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY IN 1999

– FAREWELL SPIRIT AIRLINES — MONTAGE MAY NEED A BEEP OR TWO FOR AIR

– HAS BIGFOOT MOVED TO OHIO?