National Cheeseball Day (Make your nominations)
National Malbec Day
National Crawfish Day
Meme Du Jour
We asked “What’s his prison nickname?” (Van Hollen Tunnel was the winner.)
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1790 – Ben Franklin passed away (he was 84)
1861 – Virginia secedes from the Union, the eighth state to do so
1875 – Sir Neville Chamberlain invents the game of Snooker
1907 – Ellis Island set a record – 11,747 immigrants were processed (5k was typical)
1937 – Daffy Duck makes his debut in ‘Porky’s Duck Hunt’
1964 – Ford debuts the Mustang at the World’s Fair
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy
1970 – Apollo 13 returned to earth — it almost did not
1979 – Absolut Vodka arrived in the U.S.
2002 – ‘General Hospital’ airs its 10,000th episode
2020 – Land-O-Lakes butter announces its removing the Native American woman from the box
News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP HOLY WEEK DINNER – ‘IT WILL ALWAYS BE IN GOD WE TRUST’
– FRANKLIN GRAHAM DELIVERED THE PRAYER AT THE HOLY WEEK DINNER
– THE PRESIDENT MEETS WITH PATTY MORIN (RACHEL’S MOM) IN THE OVAL OFFICE
– PATTY MORIN’S ENTIRE PRESENTATION IN THE PRESS ROOM (EVERY DEM SHOULD SEE)
– AT THE END, PATTY MORIN IMPLORES THE MEDIA TO ‘TELL THE TRUTH’
– MEANWHILE, MORIN’S SENATOR IS MAKING TRAVEL PROMO VIDEOS FOR EL SALVADOR
– REP JAMIE RASKIN IS ALSO SUPPORTING VAN HOLLEN’S ‘MISSION’
– BORDER CZAR HOMAN HAS SOME ADVICE FOR SEN VAN HOLLEN
– FACTS: VOTERS AREN’T RUNNING AWAY FROM OR REGRETTING THEIR TRUMP VOTE
– CNN PANEL APPEARS TO BE WAKING UP (A LITTLE) ON THE ‘MARYLAND MAN’
– SCOTT JENNINGS VS DEM REP GARCIA (IT WASN’T A FAIR FIGHT)
– THREAD: LINDA McMAHON SCHOOLS KASIE HUNT ON WHY NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS
– FLASHBACK TO NY AG LETITIA JAMES BEING SWORN IN
– YOU NEED TO SEE HOW JAMES RESPONDED TO HER POSSIBLE LEGAL PROBLEMS
– BIDEN ON HIS INTERACTION WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR — THEN AND NOW
More News Out of DC
– CHECK OUT THE CRIME REPORTS FILED BY THE WIFE OF THE ‘MARYLAND MAN’
– EL SALVADOR DENIES SEN VAN HOLLAND ACCESS TO PRISON / PRISONERS
– DOJ RELEASES DOSSIER ON THE GANG TIES OF THE ‘MARYLAND MAN’
– CARVILLE WANTS DEMS TO CONTINUE WITH THIS CRUSADE
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN TRADE DEAL TALKS WITH JAPAN
– NO COUNTRY HAS MADE A TRADE DEAL YET – WE’RE OFFERING A ‘FIRST MOVER’ INCENTIVE
– TRUMP SIGNED EXEC ORDER BARRING ILLEGALS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
– TREASURY SEC TO CEOS – STOP WORRYING
– SOOOO, HOW MUCH HAVE WE COLLECTED IN TARIFF MONEY???
– CHINA IS PAUSING BOOKING MASSIVE FREIGHT SHIPS
– DHS SEC CANCELS $2.7 MIL IN GRANTS TO HARVARD
– UK SUPREME COURT GETS IT RIGHT ON THE TRANS MAN ISSUE
General News
– GAYLE KING IS NOT PLEASED SHE’S BEING CALLED AN ‘ASTRO-NOT’
– KATY PERRY HAS THOUGHTS ON THIS ‘JOURNEY’
– THE STORY OF KARMELO ANTHONY’S ‘VICTIMHOOD’ MAY INFURIATE SOME
– FIREBALL LIGHTS UP THE NEW MEXICO SKY
– UK COPS FORCED TO ATTEND TRAINING ON HOW TO ACCEPT THEIR WHITE PRIVILEGE
Other News Catching My Eye
– WELL WELL WELL, WOMEN ACTUALLY WANT SORORITIES TO BE FREE OF MEN
– MASSIVE SQUID CAUGHT ON CAMERA (CAN YOU IMAGINE STUMBLING ON THIS THING?)
– MICHIGAN TOWN UNITES TO MOVE AN ENTIRE BOOKSTORE, ONE BOOK AT A TIME
