Friday – August 21, 2026

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

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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

     – HOW NBC COVERED THIS EVENT

– 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

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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’

– HAVE YOU BEEN FLOCKED? CHECK YOUR OWN PLATE HERE