Hawaiian Shirt Day
– Kool Aid Day
– National Senior Citizens Day (AKA – Salute the Senate Day)
– Poet’s Day (Our current Poet Laureate is Arthur Sze (Just appointed to a second term)
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1793 – Yellow Fever epidemic breaks out in Philly – 5000 would die from it
1858 – The first Lincoln-Douglas debate (for a senate race)
1897 – The Olds Motor Vehicle company is founded (Remember Oldsmobiles?)
1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th state
1968 – Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to tamp down rising liberal thinking
1971 – Anti-war protesters raid draft offices to destroy draft records
1980 – PETA is founded
2000 – Tiger Woods wins the PGA Champtionship — his 3rd MAJOR title that year
2004 – Michael Phelps wins 8th gold medal in Athens Olympics
2016 – SC police investigate reports of creepy clowns trying to lure kids into the woods

H/T Jen Ohman
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– THE FBI HAS STOPPED AN ISIS-INSPIRED TERROR PLOT IN NY
– MICHAEL COHEN AND DONALD TRUMP — TOGETHER AGAIN, ON RADIO
– JD VANCE INSISTS WE HAVE A ‘WAY BETTER SENATE’ TODAY — DO WE?
– SEC BESSENT IS NOT PLAYING — WARNS ANY COUNTRY HELPING IRAN ECONOMICALLY
– BESSENT ALSO CLARIFIES WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE TARIFF REFUND MONEY
– HAVE WE REACHED ‘PEAK DEFICIT?’ BESSENT SAYS THERE’S A CHANCE WE HAVE
– WAIT, JOHN THUNE IS NOW IN FAVOR OF THE SAVE ACT?
– SEN SCHUMER HAS SURRENDERED TO THE DSA AND THEIR CRAZY IDEAS
– EL-SAYED DOESN’T SHARE THE LOVE OF SCHUMER
– EL-SAYED IS PUSHING THE DEM’S FAV — WEALTH TAX
– NOT TOO LONG AGO, EL-SAYED WANTED CAMERAS TO AVOID SHOWING HIS KORANS
– GOP REP BRANDON GILL THINKS PUTTING TRUMP FRONT AND CENTER IS KEY FOR MIDTERMS
– MD DEM ED MARKEY IS ALL IN ON PROTECTING GENDER MUTILATION IN KIDS
– TODAY’S CRAZY CLIP FROM FL DEM CANDIDATE FOR SENATE ANGIE NIXON
– MN DEM SENATE CANDIDATE ON BOARD WITH THE DSA PRINCIPLES / TALKING POINTS
– NJ GOV CLAIMS IT’S EASIER TO GET AN AR-15 THAN AN ABORTION (NO, IT’S NOT)
– ROSIE’S ‘HIGHLIGHT’ FROM HER FINAL GUEST HOSTING ON KIMMEL’S SHOW
More News From DC
– IRAN RESPONDS TO TRUMP AND SCOTT BESSENT’S ECONOMIC THREATS
– IT COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A NICER GUY — SWALWELL HOME RAIDED, DIGITAL DEVICES GRABBED
– CATHERINE HERRIDGE EXPOSES MASSIVE FRAUD IN ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR KIDS
– JAMES O’KEEFE SHOWS HOW EASY IT IS TO CHEAT WHILE VOTING IN ALASKA

General News
– NJ MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO PRAY OUTSIDE OF AN ABORTION CLINIC (FIRST AMENDMENT???)
– CA PASSED THE ‘STOP NICK SHIRLEY ACT’ – IT HEADS TO NEWSOM’S DESK
– ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL — DEMS FLIP A KEY SCHOOL BOARD IN FLORIDA
– MICHIGAN DEMS APPEAR TO BE WAKING UP — PREACHER CALLS OUT DEARBORN MUSLIMS
– SCHADENFREUDE MOMENT – NY TIMES LOSES BIGLY IN COURT
– ‘NUDIFY’ APP IS A GROWING CONCERN FOR SCHOOLS
– PIZZA HUT IS TEMPORARILY CHANGING ITS NAME TO JUST ‘HUT’ — (UGH — ‘THE HUT’ IS BETTER)

Other News Catching My Eye
– IMAGINE HITTING YOUR FIRST MLB HOME RUN — AND YOUR DAD CATCHES IT!
– SCIENCE! TAYLOR SWIFT AND HARRY STYLES MUSIC TIED TO DEADLY CAR CRASHES
– FL WOMAN CHARGED WITH FRAUD CAUGHT HIDING $3200 IN CASH IN HER VA-JAY-JAY
– TERRIFIC LONGFORM ANIMATION EXPLAINER VIDEO — ‘GENERATION X’