National Cream-Filled Donut Day (Do your patriotic duty.)
– National Sober Day
– National Coloring (Book) Day (Notice how many grown up colloring books are out there?)
– Feat of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
– Eat a Hoagie Day
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1716 – The first lighthouse in America is lighted on Little Brewster Island near Boston Harbor
1814 – Francis Scott Key writes the a poem called ‘The Star Spangled Banner’
1867 – Marx published ‘Das Kapital’ (He predicted Capitalism would destroy itself.)
1901 – President McKinley dies from gunshot wound (He was shot on Sept 6th.)
– Same day, duh, VP Teddy Roosevelt is sworn in as the 26th President
1939 – Sikorsky’s first practical helicopter takes flight in CT
1948 – The UN breaks ground in NYC for the building that would become its headquarters
1960 – Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia form OPEC
1964 – Kellogg’s launched it’s iconic ‘toaster pastry’ known as ‘Pop Tarts’
1975 – Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton (The first American-born saint)
1985 – NBC has a surprise instant hit with ‘The Golden Girls’
1994 – Due to the players strike, MLB cancels the playoffs and the World Series
2019 – A 227lb toilet made from 18k solid gold was stolen from Blengeim Castle, UK (The purloined potty was never recovered. That gold alone would be worth over $10mil today.)

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP SPOKE WITH PRESS AS HE WAS LEAVING IRELAND (ALMOST 10 MINS)
– THE PREZ INSISTS THE $5000 CHECKS ARE HAPPENING (UNLESS THE DEMS WIN)
– AN IRANIAN VESSEL WAS HIT, TRUMP ASKED IF THE U.S. DID IT?
– TRUMP ON AOC AND MAMDANI LAUGHING AT 9/11 EVENT IN NYC
– ON WHO MIGHT BE THE NEXT PRESS SEC
– THE PRESIDENT HAS AN OPINION ON THE LINDSEY CLANCY CASE TOO
– NO MORE TARIFFS ON IRISH WHISKEY
– WILL TRUMP BE BACKING JD VANCE IN 2028?
ON AF-1
– TRUMP ASKED, DO YOU USE A-I? (HE DOES, BUT WON’T SAY FOR WHAT)
– ‘CANADA IS THE WORST COUNTRY TO DEAL WITH… NOT THE PEOPLE, THE LEADERS
– THE PREZ ASKED ZELENSKYY TO STOP BOMBING RUSSIAN DIESEL PRODUCTION
– BORDER CZAR CONFIRMS ILHAN OMAR BEING INVESTIGATED FOR IMMIGRATION FRAUD
– HAKEEM JEFFRIES ASKED IF DEMS WILL BE IMPEACHING TRUMP ON DAY ONE
– MAYOR PETE IS SAYING THE GOP SUPPRESSES BLACK VOTES
– EL-SAYED KEEPS GETTING ASKED ABOUT HASAN PIKER — AND HE’S PUNCHING BACK
– POWERFUL AD AGAINST EL-SAYED — FROM THE BROTHER A 9/11 AIRLINE PILOT
– DEM REP GALLEGO IS OK WITH TEARING DOWN THE BALLROOM
– TALARICO WANTS TO RUN THE WORLD LIKE A KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOM
– TALARICO WITH KIMMEL — WWJD IN THE U.S. SENATE?
– IN 2021 TALARICO WAS STAUNCHLY ANTI-VOTER ID
– DEMOCRAT ANDREW LANG LIKES TRUMP $5K DIVIDEND IDEA
– ’60 MINS’ ACTUALLY HAD A STORY I NEEDED TO SEE LAST NIGHT — THE U.S PILOT
– ‘MY PARACHUTE WAS DAMAGED…SO, I PAUSED RIGHT THERE AND PRAYED‘
– DEMS ARE TRYING TO TELL YOU LYNCHINGS ARE ON THE RISE, THEY ARE NOT
– ADMIRAL COOPER SHUTS DOWN ’60 MINS’ PUSHING LACK OF AMMO STORY
– JOEY JONES IS NOT PLEASED THE BUFFALO BILLS PLAYED THE CANADIAN ANTHEM
– FLASHBACK: OPRAH WARNED WOMEN THAT TRUMP WOULD TAKE THEIR RIGHTS
– I CAN’T BE SURE — I THINK JON STEWART MIGHT BE ATTEMPTING IRONY HERE
More News From DC
– IF SEN McCONNELL SEES HIS SHADOW IN DC TODAY, SIX MORE WEEKS TIL MIDTERMS?
– TRUMP-APPOINTED DC JUDGE ISSUES RULING BLOCKING USPS CHANGES ON BALLOTS
– WI GOP CANDIDATE FOR GOV SURVIVES SMALL PLANE CRASH OVER THE WEEKEND
– ALMOST 80% OF THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT HUNTER BIDEN’S MEME COIN LOST MONEY
– CBS NEWS EXPOSES THE ABUSE OF CHINESE SURROGATE SCAM

General News
– ‘I AM A NON-PRACTICING WHITE’ — THIS PERSON NEEDS SERIOUS HELP
– CLANCY JUROR: ‘WE KNEW THIS WAS A TURNING POINT…TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR WOMEN’
– THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY’S WIFE IS POSTING SOME CURIOUS THINGS ON X.COM
– ILLEGAL FLEEING ICE CRASHES CAR INTO A CAR WITH NJ MAYOR’S WIFE IN IT
– LA MAYOR KAREN BASS IS TOO BUSY TO TESTIFY TO CONGRESS
– CHARLOTTE, NC COP SHOT BY A GUY WHO NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED
– FOOTBALL IS BACK! AND YOUR GAME DAY COSTS ARE OUTPACING INFLATION
– IS IT OK FOR A H.S. TO SUSPEND A STUDENT FOR BRINGING COFFEE TO CLASS?
– ANOTHER MEASLES-RELATED DEATH IN PA
– FAMILY-RUN PA BREWERY IS NAMED THE ‘BEST AMERICAN-MADE BEER’
– BEST RUN / WORST RUN CITIES IN AMERICA WORST RHYMES WITH ‘MAN-BRAN-BISCO’
– DID YOU SEE JAMES BOND AT THE U.S. OPEN? (THEY GET POINTS FOR BEING CLEVER)
– AFTER WINNING THE U.S. OPEN, ZVEREV’S LOVELY TRIBUTE TO HIS MOM
– RUNNER-UP, BEN SHAPIRO STARTS BY THANKING GOD IN HIS SPEECH

Other News Catching My Eye
– THINK YOU’RE SCROLLING TOO MUCH? (THERE ARE ACTUAL, PHYSICAL SIGNS)
– IS IT SAFE TO CUT THE MOLD OFF FRUIT AND CHEESE AND EAT THE REST? (1/3RD DO)
– COSTCO IS SELLING A 5.5LB CHOCOLATE FRANKENSTEIN HEAD FULL OF GUMMIES