NATIONAL RADIO DAY (WHY ISN’T THIS A HOLIDAY?)
– National Bacon Lovers Day
– National Hawaiian Pizza Day (Some say putting pineapple on pizza is a hate crime.)
– World Mosquito Day
Meme Du Jour

Does anyone remember Lorena?
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1619 – The first ship of slaves arrived in Jamestown, VA
1667 – Milton publishes ‘Paradise Lost’ (We were supposed to read in high school. Did you?)
1866 – The ‘official’ end of the Civil War as President Johnson declares Texas insurrection over
1896 – The rotary dial telephone is patented (the what?)
1940 – Churchill’s iconic broadcast salute to the RAF, ‘Never was so much owed to so few…’
1974 – President Ford names Nelson Rockefeller as his VP (nobody voted for either guy)
1986 – The origin of ‘going postal’ — 14 killed by postal worker on a rampage in OK
1991 – Estonia declared its independence from the USSR (slow history day?)
1998 – U.S. launches cruise missile attacks on al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP ON TARIFFS AND TRADE WITH CANADA
– TRUMP ON DEALING WITH NOKO’s KIM JONG UN
– TWO MINS OF THE PRESIDENT RAILING ON INTEREST RATES
– THINGS I NEVER EXPECTED #79 — A TRUMP EXPLANATION OF THE LIFE OF GRASS
– HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW HELIPAD?
– IS THERE A DSA SURGE HAPPENING? HARRY ENTEN HAS THE NUMBERS
– LINDSEY GRAHAM’S SISTER IS IN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE (I DON’T THINK IT’S WORKING)
– NEW ADS FROM MIKE ROGERS FEATURE DEMS WHO WILL VOTE GOP NOT EL-SAYED
– EL-SAYED IS QUITE OPEN ABOUT ELIMINATING ALL PRIVATE HEALTH INS
– AND DID YOU KNOW HE’S ALSO AFRICAN?
– THE CRAZY WOMAN WHO BEAT VINDMAN WANTS ALL HAITIANS TO STAY HERE (BECAUSE, CULTURE)
– ANGIE NIXON ALSO DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO PAY FOR THIS SOCIALISM STUFF
– CAMPAIGNING IN A CHURCH AND QUOTING A CONVICTED COP KILLER
– GAVIN NEWSOM’S SHOCKING ANSWER TO QUESTION, ‘WOULD YOU BE A GOOD PRESIDENT?’
– NEWSOM ALSO DUCKS A QUESTION ON EDUCATION FAILURES, NO SATs
– JAKE TAPPER AND CNN ARE ALL BENT ABOUT HEGSETH USING THE TERM ‘TRANNIES’
– DSA CO-CHAIR BELIEVES CUBA HAS BETTER / MORE DEMOCRACY THAN AMERICA
– CHIEF OF STAFF OF CA STATE ASSEMBLY IS OBSESSED WITH NICK SHIRLEY’S PENIS SIZE
– LAST NIGHT’S ROSIE O’DONNELL CLIP (YEAH, SHE’S HOSTING KIMMEL’S BITCHFEST)

More News From DC
– WAIT, WE’RE $40 TRILLION IN DEBT? NO PROBLEM, RIGHT?
– TRUMP ANNOUNCES CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION ON IRAN (WHAT WERE WE DOING BEFORE?)
– ALINA HABBA SHUTS DOWN WHISPERS THAT SHE’S UP FOR THE PRESS SEC GIG
– JEWS IN MICHIGAN ARE ORGANIZING AGAINST EL-SAYED (NOT A MASSIVE VOTING BLOCK)
– DEMS FLIP A SEAT IN PA STATE HOUSE

General News
– SKIN CANCER VACCINE SHOWS PROGRESS IN LARGE TRIAL
– L.A.’S CAMPAIGN FUNDING MATCH SURE SOUNDS LIKE A SCAM TO ME
– HARVARD’S MEDICAL SCHOOL ENDOWMENT IS $53 MILLION LIGHTER AFTER SETTLEMENT
– IF YOU LOVE BLUEBERRIES, MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR A BREAK (TODAY’S E. COLI ALERT)
– MOST OBVIOUS SIDE EFFECT OF GLP-1s? MORE PEOPLE ARE SHACKING UP, GETTING HITCHED
– AMERICA’S GETTING A ‘FAITH LIFT’ AS CHRISTIANITY IS RISING
– WHAT’S THE WORLD’S MOST-ORDERED COCKTAIL?
– AMAZON IS EXPANDING ITS DRONE DELIVERIES
– OOPSY — AMAZON DRONE DELIVERY DROPS PACKAGE IN HOMEOWNER’S POOL
– DESIGNER MARC JACOBS OFFERS TO ‘STYLE’ KILLER LUIGI MANGIONE FOR COURT

Other News Catching My Eye
– AMERICA’S FAVORITE VEGETABLE (No, not Mitch McConnell) IS AT RISK DUE TO THE CA DROUGHT
– THIS IS BAD: AI TRAFFIC IS CREATING MORE THAN HUMANS ARE CREATING – AND IT’S COSTLY
– AMERICA WILL AGAIN BE FREE OF MEGHAN MARKLE (THE NON-ROYALS HEAD BACK TO THE UK)
– NOTHING LIKE A TRUCKLOAD OF SPILLED SQUID TO STINK UP A RHODE ISLAND SUMMER DAY
– BROOKE BALDWIN STILL THINKS WE NEED / WANT TO HEAR ABOUT HER SEX LIFE