Friday – September 4, 2026

National Eat An Extra Dessert Day

– National Wildlife Day

– Macadamia Nut Day

– National Food Bank Day

– National Chiani Day  (What, no fava beans?)

Meme Du Jour

THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1781 – The settlement that became Los Angeles is established
1881 – Edison Electric Lighting kicked off with 85 paying customers
1886 – Geronimo surrenders to U.S. government troops
1888 – George Eastman patents the Kodak camera (a small, hand-held camera)

1951 – Truman makes the first transcontinental television broadcast

1957 – Ford introduced the Edsel

1967 – The last episode of ‘Gilligan’s Island’ aired
1972 – Mark Spitz is the first Olympian to win seven medals in a single Games

1998 – Two Stanford students (Brin and Page)

2002 – Kelly Clarkson, the first ‘Americana Idol’ is crowned — remember the runner-up?
2014 – Joan Rivers died at 81 
 (not long after her controversial comment about Michelle Obama)
2016 – Mother Theresa becomes a saint

EVERY SINGLE DAY THRU NEXT WEEK

News and The Politics out of D.C.

CLIPS

PRESS SEC VANCE — HIS WALK-OUT VIDEO

– VANCE OPENED WITH AN ‘AMAZING’ TRIBUTE TO KAROLINE LEAVITT

– ASKED IF MARIA BARTIROMO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESS SEC

– WHAT ABOUT TED CRUZ AND PETE HEGSETH AND 2028 RUMORS???

– ON JOHN THUNE’S FITNESS TO LEAD THE SENATE

– ON THE SIZE OF THE SUPREME COURT

– E-SAYED GOT SOME ATTENTION FROM THE VP

– ON THE MIDTERMS AND WHAT COULD GO WRONG IS DEMS GET POWER

– CAITLIN COLLINS TRIED TO CORNER THE VP USING A HEART-TUGGING QUESTION

     – COLLINS ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE WAR AGAINST IRAN AND WHEN IT WOULD END

– J.D. ON HANGING OUT WITH JOE BIDEN A WEEK FROM TODAY (9/11)

– I WONDER IF KAROLINE LEAVITT WOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED ABOUT WEIGHT LOSS?

– THE PRESIDENT UPDATES ON WHAT WE’VE DONE TO IRAN’S NUKE SITES

– TRUMP IS STILL AL-IN ON DATA CENTERS

– EL-SAYED WANTS A CONVERSATION ABOUT REPARATIONS

     – IN 2019, HE WAS IN JAPAN TALKING ABOUT RACISM AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

– MR EXCITEMENT, KEN PAXTON, RESPONDS TO COMMENTS ABOUT HIS WARDROBE

– HAVING FOUND HER INNER BADASS, SUSAN COLLINS WANTS TO DEBATE

– IS THIS THE BEST/WORST/CRINGIEST POLITICAL AD EVER? (EL-SAYED AD)

– JOE BIDEN SPOTTED IN MARYLAND, SLAMMING TRUMP

– THE DEMS HAVE DEPLOYED BILL CLINTON TO SLAM TRUMP TOO

– WHY ARE WE TRYING TO RESUSCITATE COLIN KAEPERNICK’S RELEVANCE

– TOUGH TALKING CANADIAN PM HAS WORDS FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN

More News From DC

– WAIT, MITCH McCONNELL IS STILL ALIVE? AND MAY RETURN TO WORK?

–  THE TRUMP ADMIN WANTS THE SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON MAIL-IN BALLOTS

– TRUMP PAC HAS OPENED AND IS SPENDING IN SENATE RACES IN TX AND MI

– BESSENT HAS ANNOUNCED THE EU IS JOINING OUR ECONOMIC SQUEEZE IN IRAN

– MISSOURI REDISTRICTING MAP TOSSED BY LOCAL COURT, HEADED TO SCOTUS

– JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN RESTRICTING BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

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General News

– THE JUDGE ADMONISHED THE JURY IN THE CLANCY TRIAL

– CLANCY’S LAWYER WALKED INTO COURT CARRYING A BOX OF HER FAN MAIL

     – AND THEN, IN THE COURT ROOM, HER LAWYER TEED OFF ON ONE JUROR 

     – THE LAWYER IS GONNA GO AFTER THIS JUROR AGAIN, IN THE MORNING

– TURLEY’S TAKE ON WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED IN THE JURY

– AND THEN, THE JUDGE SENT THE JURY HOME (AGAIN)

– THE WOMAN CHARGED WITH JURY INTIMIDATION LOST IT, CHASED THE PRESS

– MOM GETS JAIL TIME FOR LETTING HER SON WALK ALONE IN THEIR GATED COMMUNITY

– MORE MADNESS INVOLVING PARENTS AND KIDS AND A PLAYGROUND IN PA

– CRAZY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO CELEBRATE CHARLIE KIRK’S MURDER ANNIVERSARY

– ENES KANTOR FREEDOM HAS FILED A SUIT AGAINST THE CHICAGO WNBA TEAM

– MENTALLY ILL LEFTIST COLLEGE STUDENT ASSAULTS A GUY WHO MADE HER UPSET

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Other News Catching My Eye

– TIRED OF MUSHY VEGGIE BURGERS? THIS MAY BE THE FIX

– AIRLINE PILOT REFUSES TO FLY INTO A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM

– WHAT KIND OF BIKE IS THIS GUY RIDING?