October 20, 2025 – Intl Chefs Day
National Brandied Fruit Day
Meme Du Jour
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1803 – The Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase
1818 – The US and UK establish the 49th parallel as the border between Canada and America
1927 – The first Ford Model A was produced (It finally sold on December 2nd.)
1944 – McArthur returns to the Philippines
1955 – Harry Belafonte records ‘The Banana Boat Song’
1967 – ‘Bigfoot’ is filmed in northern California (Or was he?)
1968 – Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onasis
1973 – The iconic Sydney Opera House opens
1977 – Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash in Mississippi
1998 – Richard Prior received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for Humor
2011 – Libyan dictator Qaddafi is captured and killed by rebel forces
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– ON FRIDAY, THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED, ‘SO THE SHUTDOWN CONTINUES’
– IS THE SHUTDOWN ABOUT ‘NO KINGS?’ — THE PRESIDENT HAS SOME THOUGHTS
– WHAT ABOUT THE RUSSIA / UKRAINE WAR? THE PRESIDENT – STOP AT THE BATTLE LINES NOW
– SPEAKING OF ‘NO KINGS DAY’ – THE PRESIDENT HAD SOME UNFILTERED THOUGHTS ON IT
– PRESIDENT TRUMP ON DEM MAYORS AND GOVS REJECTING HIS HELP (SF IS NEXT)
– THE PRESIDENT HAS SOME BAD FINANCIAL NEWS FOR CALIFORNIA
– TWO WEEKS TO GO IN NJ AND VA RACES – PRESIDENT TRUMP WAYS IN WITH ENDORSEMENTS
– TRUMP ALSO HAD SOME WORDS FOR MAMDANI AND HIS CLOSE COMRADES
– THE PRESIDENT DECLARES DEMS TO BE ‘KAMIKAZES’
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT PLAYING AROUND – SCHUMER’S PET PROJECT JUST GOT PULLED
– SEN TIM KAINE GOT CALLED OUT ON M-T-P OVER HIS 2019 PUSH TO RE-OPEN THEN NEGOTIATE
– VP VANCE TOLD THE MARINES THE PRESIDENT IS WORKING ON GETTING THEM PAID
– HOLY COW – ABC NEWS AGREES, DEMOCRATS VOTED TO SHUT DOWN THE GOV’T
– YESTERDAY WAS DAY 273 OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY — ABC NEWS IS COUNTING
– A TENSE WEEKEND IN THE MIDDLE EAST — HAMAS AND THE IDF HAVE EXCHANGED FIRE
NO KINGS DAY VARIETY SHOW
– MSNBC EARNS THE BIGGEST ‘FAKE NEWS’ AWARD FOR USING 2017 VIDEO FOOTAGE OF A CROWD
– NBC STATION WAS HONEST WITH THE AGE OF THE PROTESTERS — ‘Q-TIPS, AS WE CALL THEM’
– THEY WERE DANCING LIKE THEY WERE ON A WEIGHT LOSS DRUG
– WAS IT ‘NO KINGS’ OR HALLOWEEN? — DES MOINES, IA SEEMED CONFUSED
– MOST OF THE PROTESTERS WERE VERY PEACEFUL – NOT THIS GUY NEAR CHICAGO
– KELLYANNE CONWAY’S EX WAS MAKING A FOOL OF HIMSELF ON SATURDAY
– REP TIM BURCHETT CELEBRATED ‘NO KINGS DAY’ WITH A DELICIOUS WHOOPER FROM BK
– TASTELESS ACT BY A CHICAGO PROTESTER MOCKING CHARLIE KIRK’S MURDER
– SCOTT ADAMS’ TAKE ON ‘NO KINGS’ WAS SPOT ON
– WATCH CANADA’S LEADER SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO A KING
– DENIRO SAYS PEOPLE BELIEVE TRUMP BECAUSE THE MEDIA IS MISLEADING THEM (SAID ON MSNBC)
More News From DC
– WAIT, WAS THAT RFK JR AND HIS WIFE ON A COMMERCIAL FLIGHT, IN COACH??? (YES)
– ISRAEL CONFIRMS STRIKES INSIDE GAZA – BUT, WE HEAR THE CEASE-FIRE IS STILL ON
– FBI INVESTIGATES ‘HUNTING STAND’ FOUND IN TREE NEAR PALM BEACH AIRPORT
– SOME OF THE MOST ADVANCED AI CHIPS ARE NOW BEING MADE HERE IN THE U.S.A.
– CARGO PLANE SKIDS OFF RUNWAY IN HONG KONG AND ENDS UP IN THE SEA, KILLING TWO
General News
– THIEVES ON SCOOTERS ROBBED THE LOUVRE IN UNDER 10 MINS – GRABBING NAPOLEON’S JEWELS
– FORD IS RECALLING A BUNCH OF TRUCK OVER A PROBLEM WITH BACKUP CAMERAS
– THE #1 TRAVEL DESTINATION FOR 2026 IS IN THE U.S.
– COLLEGE OFFERS A DEGREE IN VINTAGE CARS
– TIKTOK REPORTEDLY CENSORS VIDEOS HONORING CHARLIE KIRK
There seems to be a clear winner here. Am I right?
Other News Catching My Eye
– 100,000 AMAZON TREES CUT DOWN TO BUILD A ROAD FOR CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE
– WHAT’S WORSE, THONGS WITH FAKE PUBIC HAIR OR THE FACT PEOPLE ARE BUYING THEM???
– DC WOMAN SUES POT-SMOKING NEIGHBOR OVER THE SMELL — AND, SHE WON
