National Fried Chicken Day
– Intl Kissing Day
– National Air Traffic Controllers Day
– Day One of the Running of the Bulls in Spain
Meme Du Jour

SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM AIN’T TROUBLED BY TRUMP USING HER POINTING IN A MEME HE POSTED
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1785 – Continental Congress sets the dollar as the official American currency
1933 – MLB plays the first All Star Game in Chicago at Comiskey Park
1942 – Anne Frank’s family goes into hiding in a warehouse in Amsterdam
1945 – ‘Operation Overcoat’ begins (Key German/Austrian scientists move to America.)
1957 – Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon title (The first Black woman to do so.)
1985 – Prince hit #1 with ‘Raspberry Beret’ (The kind you find in a second-hand store.)
1994 – ‘Forrest Gump’ opens in theaters (Hans would win a second Oscar for this role.)

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– ‘AMERICA WILL NEVER BE A COMMUNIST COUNTRY’ – TRUMP ON JULY 4TH
– THE PRESIDENT WANTS THE GOP TO NUKE THE FILIBUSTER
– SEN JOHNSON ON ENDING THE FILIBUSTER
– DAVE CHAPELLE TELLS CNN, ‘NOW I CAN SEE WHY TRUMP GETS MAD AT YOU ALL THE TIME’
– ANDERSON COOPER WITH HIS ‘FINAL THOUGHTS’ AS WE WERE ABOUT TO TURN 250
– PA GOV AND 2028 DEM CANDIDATE IS ON CNN SLAMMING TRUMP AND VANCE
– MD GOV (AND 2028 DEM HOPEFUL) ASKED ABOUT THE SOCIALIST UPRISING OF HIS PARTY
– INTERIOR SEC BURGUM EVISCERATES DANA BASH ON THE REFLECTING POOL VANDALISM
– SEC BURGUM THEN VISIT ABC NEWS AND EMBARRASSED GEORGE WHAT’S HIS NAME
– NETANYAHU IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ANTI-ISRAEL SENTIMENT DEVELOPING IN DEM PARTY
– DEM HOUSE NOMINEE WANTS TO BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF GENERAL FLYNN
– CHUCK TODD IS ANGRY AND FEELS BETRAYED — BUT DOESN’T EXPLAIN WHY
– SHARPTON POINTS OUT DEMS’ PLAN – NEVER MIND POLICIES, JUST RUN AGAINST TRUMP
– HUGH HEWITT DOESN’T FEEL BETRAYED AND GAVE TRUMP HIGH MARKS FOR HIS SPEECHES
– STEPHEN A. SMITH AGREES WITH RILEY GAINES ON MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS
– JASMINE CROCKETT JUST WON’T GO AWAY (SHE’S INTENT ON SEPARATING US BY COLOR)
– JAZZY ALSO WANTS YOU TO THANK AND CELEBRATE A BLACK WOMAN
– DON LEMON AND JOY REID (MOCKINGLY) SING ‘GOD BLESS THE USA’
– IN D.C. THIS WEEKEND — MEET THE ‘1ST AMENDMENT COMMUNICATION SQUAD’
– TWEET OF THE WEEK FROM KARLI BONNE (WELL, HEADLINE OF THE WEEK, ANYWAY)
– BILL MAHER ASKS, ‘CAN YOU BE GAY IN GAZA? (AND LIVE?)
– DEMS (BERNIE, AOC, MAMDANI) SORT OF EXPLAIN WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IS

More News From DC
– PAUL PELOSI FACING ‘HIT & RUN’ CHARGES
– MIDTERMS? THIS PREDICTION SHOWS HOPE FOR THE GOP
– THE PRESIDENT TROLLING HILLARY AND HER HAT FROM LAST WEEK
– NY TIMES’ NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: USA’s EXISTENCE ‘IS A CRIME’
– AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER IN HOT WATER FOR BEING HONEST WHILE PLAYING, ‘SHAG, MARRY, DATE’

General News
– HAITIAN ILLEGAL DRIVING A TRUCK KILLED A PA STATE TROOPER THIS WEEKEND
– MAYHEM ON THE CA BEACH — POLICE ON HORSEBACK NEEDED TO GET CONTROL ON THE 4TH
– CDC WARNING ABOUT A PARASITIC INFECTION HITTING MICHIGAN HARD (‘EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA’)
– DELTA FLIGHT LANDING IN CHICAGO IS REPORTEDLY HIT BY A FIREWORK
– INFLUENCER / STREAMER ‘SNEAKO’ DECLARES NYC ‘THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF NEW YORKISTAN’
– EVANSTON, IL’s JULY 4TH PARADE FEATURED MARCHERS CHANTING ‘FREE PALESTINE’
– NYPD EARLY RETIREE UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR JAW-DROPPING OVERTIME FRAUD
– NEA PRESIDENT IS LEADING CHEERS FOR A NEW INCOME TAX
– FLORIDA MAN COULD GET 10 YEARS FOR STEALING ‘SMOKEY BEAR’ SIGNS AND SELLING THEM
– 150 MILLION HOT DOGS WERE CONSUMED ON SATURDAY — DO WE CARE ABOUT THE RISKS?

Other News Catching My Eye
– ANOTHER VISITOR FELL IN LOVE WITH AMERICA — A GERMAN SOCCER FAN
– SUPER RICH ALICIA KEYS (NET WORTH 150 MIL) SAYS WOMEN IN AMERICA DON’T HAVE RIGHTS
– PILOT’S FLIGHT TRACED A BEAUTIFUL MESSAGE ON JULY 4TH
– SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SMOKING? BIRDS USE CIGGIE BUTTS TO BUILD NESTS
– PUTTING OUT POISON TO KILL MICE? THEY’RE LAUGHING AT YOU, THEY’RE IMMUNE TO IT