National Pokemon Day
– National Strawberry Day
– No Brainer Day
– Intl Polar Bear Day
– National Retro Day
Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1827 – The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in New Orleans
1860 – Matthew Brady takes photographs of Abraham Lincoln
1922 – The Supreme Court defends women’s voting rights
1935 – 6-yr-old Shirley Temple gets a special mini-Oscar
1949 – Chaim Weizmann becomes Israel’s first President
1960 – The US hockey team beats the Soviets in the semi-finals of Olympic Games, on the way to winning Gold
1980 – Buddy Holly’s glasses (lost since 1959) are found in a court clerk’s office
1996 – The first appearance of Pokemon in a video game

News and The Politics out of D.C
CLIPS
– THE VP FRAMES THE DEMS FOR WHAT THEY DID AT THE SOTU
– VANCE: ‘WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE YOU NOT SENDING US A BUNCH OF CRAZY DEMOCRATS IN DECEMBER’
– THE VICE PRESIDENT WONDERS WHY DEM GOVS ARE HIDING VOTER DATA AND SNAP DATA???
– JD VANCE SHARES WHAT THE STATE OF THE UNION WAS LIKE FROM HIS P-O-V
– GAVIN NEWSOM IS TRYING TO ATTACK RUBIO AND VANCE
– WESLEY HUNT DESTROYS GAVIN NEWSOM
– SEN KENNEDY HAS A GREAT TAKE ON MAYOR MAMDANI
– THE SENATE PASSES THE SAVE ACT — OH WAIT, NO THEY DID NOT. THEY HAD A DOG PARADE, THOUGH
– MAYBE WE SHOULD ASK MITCH McCONNELL ABOUT THE SAVE ACT?
– AYANA PRESSLEY: ‘IF THE KKK CANNOT BE REFORMED, ICE CERTAINLY CANNOT BE’
– WHY IS CHRIS CUOMO FANTASIZING ABOUT MEETING MEGYN KELLY
– BILL O’REILLY THINKS THE SECRET SERVICE SHOULD HAVE A TALK WITH ROBERT DE NIRO (I AGREE)
– I JUST CHECKED, JAMES CARVILLE IS STILL NOT DOING WELL AFTER THE SOTU
– STEPHEN A. SMITH BELIEVES HE CAN BE A 2028 CANDIDATE – THIS CLIP
– HILLARY CLINTON’S FULL STATEMENT AFTER THE TESTIMONY (THE SMUGNESS IS PALPABLE)
– HILLARY CLINTON WAS ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM THE PRESS AND THEN SUDDENLY STOPPED

More News From DC
– STILL NO SAVE ACT? APPARENTLY TRUMP CONSIDERS TAKING EXECUTIVE ACTION ON MANDATING IDs
– DATA REPUBLICAN HAS CONNECTED SOME VERY SUBSTANTIAL DOTS ON WHY THE GOP CAN’T PASS THIS
– IRAN TALKS? WE’RE HEARING THERE IS AN AGREEMENT
– ALSO BUBBLING — PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN APPEAR TO AT WAR
– AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WAS AMONG THOSE KILLED BY CUBAN MILITARY ON THE BOAT IN THEIR WATERS
– IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING, NANCY PELOSI IS NOT IN CONGRESS FOR THE MONEY – SHE SAID IT
– MEET THE ARMY RANGER WHO IS JUMPING INTO THE RACE FOR HARRIET HAGEMAN’S SEAT
General News
– NEVER FORGET HOW MAD TIM WALZ PRETENDED TO BE ABOUT THE FRAUD IN HIS STATE
– MN AUTISM PAYMENTS HAVE JUMPED 34,000% IN UST 9 YEARS (MOST OF THAT UNDER GOV WALZ)
– CONGRATS MINNESOTA — YOUR STUPIDITY HAS INSPIRED TARGET TO MOVE
– 27-YR-OLD ‘TEENAGER’ ARRESTED FOR THE NYC SNOWBALL FIGHT
– AND THEN, THE MANHATTAN DA DROPPED THE CHARGES
– MARYLAND SHERIFF HAS A FEW WORDS FOR THE DEMOCRATS RUINING HIS STATE
– CA LOOKING TO RELEASE A HORRIBLE MAN FROM PRISON WITH ‘ELDERLY PAROLE’ PROGRAM
– FRAUD IN CALIFORNIA? THE STATE IS ELIMINATING THE DEPT THAT INVESTIGATES FRAUD AND WASTE
– VIDEO PROOF OF NYC’s MONEY WASTING HABITS — 16 PEOPLE SHOVEL ONE STREET CORNER
– TEXAS REP WARNS HIS STATE IS BUILDING ‘MUSLIM ONLY COMMUNITIES’
– VIRGINIA’S NEW DEM-CONTROLLED GOV’T IS JUST TWO MONTHS OLD AND THE BUYER’S REMORSE IS MASSIVE
– A-I JUST KILLED 4,000 JOBS AT ONE COMPANY
– FINALLY! MEGAN RAPINOE (‘MEMBA HER?) HAS SHARED HER OPINION ON THE OLYMPIC HOCKEY STORY
– OH BOY — BURGER KING ‘UPDATES’ THE WHOPPER
Other News Catching My Eye
– MAN BANNED FROM MC DONALDS BECAUSE HE DROVE HIS HORSES AND BUGGY TO THE DRIVE THRU
– MEET THE PEOPLE ON THE LIST OF ATTENDEES AT THE ‘BOHEMIAN GROVE’
– TAMPA AIRPORT BANS SLEEPWEAR!
– THE ODD TREND OF PEOPLE PRETENDING TO BE ANIMALS HITS ARGENTINA
– THIS REPORT FROM A MICHIGAN COURT SEEMS TO BE MORE FOCUSED ON FASHION THAN JUSTICE
WOULD YOU FLY IN THE NEW UBER AIR TAXIS? (I SHOULD MENTION THAT THEY ARE ELECTRIC)