National B-L-T Day
– National Mango Day
– Spoonerism Day! (It will likely be a Jeopardy! category tonight)
– National Penuche Fudge Day (wut?)
– Rat Catcher’s Day
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1376 – Legend says the Pied Piper got rid of the rats in Hamlin, Germany
1789 – Thomas Jefferson is the first Sec of Foreign Affairs
1862 – Lincoln tells his cabinet about the Emancipation Proclamation
1894 – The first automobile race — from Paris to Rouen
1933 – Wiley Post flies solo around the world
1937 – The Senate rejects FDR’s plan to expand the Supreme Court
1934 – The Feds killed John Dillinger outside a movie theater in Chicago
1944 – Soviet troops liberated a concentration camp in Majdanek (six months before Auschwitz)
1977 – Elvis Costello and the Attractions released their first lp, ‘My Aim Is True’
1991 – Serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer is caught
2003 – Saddam’s kids, Uday and Qusay are killed in a three-hour gunfight with US troops

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP ANNOUNCED BIG NEWS ON DRUG PRICES – THE LOWEST PRICES IN THE WORLD
– PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES NOT APPRECIATE ONE REPORTER’S QUESTION
– SEC OF STATE RUBIO IN THE PHILIPPINES — TALKING ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN
– more clips later as the Secretary is taling NOW
– HEGSETH TESTIFIES IN THE SENATE – IRAN IS IN A WEAK PLACE, BUUUUUT
– HEGSETH CALLS OUT HYPOCRISY OF FUNDING UKRAINE OVER THE U.S. MILITARY
– THE SEC AND A DEM SENATOR WENT TOE-TO-TOE OVER IRAN WAR
– DEM PETERS AND HEGSETH CONTINUED
– DEM SENATOR GILLIBRAND GETS CALLED OUT FOR ‘MAKING CAMPAIGN COMMERCIALS’
– SEN KENNEDY WANTS TO KNOW IF IRAN PUTS TOLLS ON THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
– SEC ROLLINS CALLED OUT GILLIBRAND FOR SWAPPING FARM LAND FOR SOLAR FIELDS
– SMITHSONIAN DIRECTOR HEARING
– BRANDON GILL ASKS THE DIRECTOR IF IT’S IMPORTANT TO BE POLITE
– TIM BURCHETT GRILLS THE DIRECTOR ON APPROPRIATENESS OF LGBTQ DISPLAY
– MAMDANI ADMITS HE CAN’T ARREST NETANYAHU – BUT STILL TRASHES HIM
– I’M GOING TO MISS THE STUPID SH*T JASMINE CROCKETT SAYS (LIKE THIS)
– MEGAN McCAIN HAS SAYS SURPRISING THINGS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP
– CNN IS ACTUALLY DEFENDING THE 6000+ FRAUDULENTLY REGISTERED VOTERS IN NJ
– SCOTT PRESSLEY IS PUSHING PRIMARY CHALLENGES TO GOP WHO BLOCK ‘SAVE AMERICA ACT’
More News From DC
– PICKAXE MOUNTAIN – WHAT IS IT? TRUMP’S TALKING ABOUT HITTING IT HARD
– MAMDANI ADMITS HE CAN’T ARREST NETANYAHU, STILL CALLS HIM A WAR CRIMINAL
– SEN CORNYN IS SCREWING TRUMP NOMINATIONS TO GET MORE USAID FUNDING
– HERE’S YOUR ELECTION CALENDAR IN EVERY SINGLE STATE

General News
– NJ AND VOTER FRAUD, PERFECT TOGETHER
– MAJOR CANDY MAKER IS LEAVING NJ (BUT THEY’RE MOVING TO CHICAGO)
– FORD RECALLS 388,000 VEHICLES WITH A MOVING SEAT PROBLEM
– GET READY FOR YOUR SAMSUNG ROBOT

Other News Catching My Eye
– LOOK AT THAT AXE! THREE WOMEN SET WORLD RECORDS AT LUMBERJACK COMPETITION
– WHO IS BETTER AT MULTI-TASKING, MEN OR WOMEN?
– MISSING YOUR MONKEY? MAYBE YOU LEFT IT IN A LAUNDRY BAG ON A BUS?